Nov 03
Introduction to Sculpted Prims

How to Use Sculpted Prims in Second Life

I am planning a series of video tutorials showing how to use some of the free tools that are available to create Sculpted Prims in SL. Before I do that I thought it would be a good idea to show exactly how you configure and use sculpties in-world. I realized recently that many people are confused by the somewhat arcane process of using a 2D image file to represent the 3D sculted prims. It’s a bit difficult to grasp at first, but this video demonstration clearly demonstrates the procedure of applying a sculptmap image file to a sculpted prim in-world.

You can also download this video as a higher quality, iPod compatible file. (112 MB .m4v)

 
13 Responses to “Introduction to Sculpted Prims”
 

Great video, I get a lot of basic questions about how to use sculpties, and now I can redirect to this tutorial.

Little note though, for the best results; currently it`s best to resize your created sculptmap to 128*128 (nearest neabour) before uploading them, due to a bug in the current sl-clients 1.18.3 & 1.18.4. A bug that should-be/is fixed in a future release of the sl-client.
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2968

When I joined SL as a newbie in may this year, I learned a lot from the noob-be-gone video`s, and as creator of sculptypaint will be watching this space :)

Cel Edman wrote on November 9th, 2007 at 11:48 am

 

Hello Cel, Thanks for you comments and info! Also – thanks for SCulpty Paint! It’s a great sort of ’swiss army knife’ of sculpted prim tools . :)

I plan on featuring SculptyPaint in my next video that overviews free sculpty software, and I hope to create a more in-depth tutorial for it as well…

Vlad Bjornson wrote on November 9th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

 

Thanks very much for this tutorial Vlad. I am new to building, and I just picked up a box of free sculptmaps to play with – your tutorial saved me a bunch of tinkering to figure out how to use them!

Madhu Maruti wrote on January 7th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

 

You’re welcome, Madhu. I’m glad that you found this useful. Have fun experimenting!

Vlad Bjornson wrote on January 14th, 2008 at 12:21 am

 

Awesome! Thanks! Although I’ve been in game for awhile, I’ve only recently taken the time to play around with creating. It’s fun and the sculptie things were confusing for me, but thanks to you, I can play with that too!
Great Job!

Dizze Hartunian wrote on January 19th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

 

Thanks for the video! I am a 3D Animator and Developer and have started playing around with sculpted prims. I have a 3D related website called http://www.pangea3d.com and we offer free 3D models and textures. I’d love to soon offer sculpted prims to our users. Come on over and check it out…the site is new but growing everyday!

http://www.pangea3d.com

Alex wrote on February 20th, 2008 at 7:01 am

 

You, sir, have been bookmarked.

Rickeh Tepper wrote on April 30th, 2008 at 10:47 pm

 

A very nice well explained tutorial on sculpty basics, I learned a lot from it, thank you!(And I bookmarked it too!) I found this site through Builder’s exchange in-world

Tweed Woodget wrote on August 10th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

 

Excellent, glad that you enjoyed the tutorial. Always great to hear some positive feedback. :)

Vlad Bjornson wrote on August 10th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

 

Excellent, well done, ty very much for your work.

Bradley Carlberg wrote on October 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm

 

Thanks, was good, it’s my first intro to them, very clear.

Meri wrote on April 20th, 2009 at 7:33 am

 

Thank you for the intro to sculpted prims. I had no idea what they were but had the impression I would need to know how to use them in order to build low prim objects and other complex items. At least I know what they are. It was very clear.

Laurien wrote on April 23rd, 2009 at 3:55 pm

 

Very, very helpful – I was so lost. Thanks! Now to learn how to make sculpty maps …

Carmsie Melodie wrote on September 29th, 2009 at 12:10 am

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