ShapeShop - freeware and VERY easy for sculpt

I found this on the web. Its REALLY easy (watch the youtube movie on their page and will be surprised!)

http://www.shapeshop3d.com/

"ShapeShop is a new 3D modeling and design tool with a fun, easy-to-learn interface. Sketch-based shape creation and editing tools make it simple to quickly translate your ideas into a 3D shape, and drag-and-drop decal compositing makes texturing simple. Best of all, ShapeShop is free!"

Im testing it and its wornderfull for begginers and people that want to easily make some 3D stuff.

Im not making SPAM, since i have no connection with developers or the product, just sharing something that i found and i guess could be very usefull to a lot of SL users.

Enjoy!!

Thanks for the link this looks like it could be a great tool i have downloaded it and will have a play over the weekend.

It's neat looking, if imprecise, but does it actually allow for any form of export that can be used to generate a sculpt texture?

Seems pretty cool, course, now I have to learn how to draw! LOL. Seriously, tho, thanks for sharing, it might be useful for making sculpties, and if not, its definitely fun to play with.

Wow. I have to check this out. Procedural modeling (ala' SPORE)...this could be fun. Me thinks it's not as easy as the video shows... Naturally.

"ShapeShop currently exports meshes in the ubiquitous OBJ format, which can be loaded directly into many standard tools. Try using ShapeShop to create a base surfaces, and then load it into ZBrush to paint geometric detail, or Maya and 3DSMax for rendering. You've got nothing to lose - ShapeShop is free!"

OMG!! Thank you.. that looks great... downloading it now... I've really been bugging to make some sculpties, but can't get my head around the more advanced programs..

Ok, I was trying to avoid being Mr. Negativity, but I downloaded it to check it out.

It doesn't produce anything useful for SL. Not all .objs are created equal - the ones this thing creates don't work for the obj>sculpt converter. They don't have a proper UV map. If you force a program to generate a sculpt map from them - say, with the Maya export script - all you get is a black square. Now you could import it into Maya or Blender and build a UV map... but honestly thats about as difficult as making a shape in Maya or Blender to begin with, so why bother?

Really??? Hmmm.. what if we import the shape into maya etc. and ask it to generate a scluptie? Does that work, without a proper UV map? Most of the objects I want will work with a single, plain texture anyway.

Already answered...



The UV map isn't just the texture, it's also how most programs generate the sculpty.

You've really only got two options, neither good:

1) Use Maya, Wings3D, Blender, or some other program to painstakingly remap the UV map into something usable. Depending on the shape, this may not even be possible to any acceptable extent.

2) Get a sculpt map by one of the other abstract shape "tricks"... like Chip's wrap-object method for 3DSMax.

The only thing is, if you can do either of these two things, you can use the (far better) software to generate a sculpty, with a tiny fraction of the effort you would spend fixing something this program makes.