Jul 25
Second Thoughts
I have been experimenting madly with Second Life’s new Sculpted Prim feature. These things are so great, opening up so many possibilities for builders. I feel like a newbie again, twisting tori on my First Land. :)
My experiments have led me to try modifying the sculpted prim shape using SL’s video features. Instead of using a single sculptmap image to define it’s shape, this sculpture uses a special movie. I created about a dozen distinct shapes, created sculptmaps for them, then created a video that blends them together to create the smooth transitions. There’s also some tricky scripting involved to increase the rate at which the shape updates.
You can see the sculpture in-world on my parcel in the Caledon Highlands.