Nov 26
Paint On Your Sculpties for Free
in Second Life

I was sloggin’ through the SL Forums a couple of days ago and came upon a question about free ways to paint textures directly onto a sculpted prim. It sort of jogged my memory and I looked up a program I remember hearing about a few months ago called Blacksmith3D. I’m glad that I looked it up again, because it turns out there is a free version of the 3D painting application that you can use to paint directly onto your sculpted prims.

This free program is a ‘lite’ version of their regular 3D painting app, but it’s is fully functional and there’s no time limit. There are no modeling functions in this version, but you could look into other free options like WIngs3D or Blender to round out your free sculpty creation workshop. Definitely worth a look if you are looking for free sculpty texturing options.

2 Responses to “Paint On Your Sculpties for Free”
 

Thanks for the link!
Been trying to use blender for my textures going back and forth between that and gimp but this is alot easier and I can import the textures into gimp to tighten them up.

Snowy Hoobinoo wrote on November 30th, 2008 at 9:46 am

 

It really is nice to be able to paint directly on an object, rather than jumping back and forth between paint and 3D. One of the reasons I love zBrush so much. I can certainly see using thie Blacksmith 3D for a first draft of a sculpty’s texture, then a trip to a more full featured paint program for some finishing touches.

Add in the Albatross3D prgram with Rael’s plugin that I posted about yesterday and you’ll have yourself a fair approximation of a lot of ZBrush’s functionality - for free. :D

Vlad Bjornson wrote on November 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

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