thanks much for your help vlad

“Veoh is no longer available in Brazil” <=== WHAT *cries loud*

Any chance you could put the videos on Youtube?

Lucilla: Oh, bummer. I wish these new media outlets would just get over the old regional restrictions and realize that the Web is Global.I will still be putting my vids on Blip.tv, uploading this new Sculpty Maker tutorial now. Can you view those? I don’t generally put my tutorial vids on YouTube because of length and file size restrictions.

Here’s a link to the video on Blip.tv
http://blip.tv/file/1161672

Are there different inputs for the ‘32, 33′ thing, like, for a torus? I heard you had to put in different numbers for a torus to come out better.

Legault: Yes, there are different settings that will match the in-world mesh for the differnet primitve types.

Torus, Sweep Profile (with thickness), Gear : 32×32
Plane: 33×33
Sphere and most others: 32×33

This has to do with the way that SL wraps the mesh to form the sculpty. The sphere wraps in one direction so 32×33. The torus wraps in two directions so 32×32. Plane does not wrap so 33×33.

The newest version of SculptyMaker (v2.5) is much more lenient about the specific mesh sizes, but I still prefer to work at the exact in-world resolutions.

Fantastic tip, Vlad, thanks for that!

My sculpty maker freezes when I hit make sculpty.

IneedHelp: hmmm. Well, the most common causes of SculptyMaker crashing:

Trying to convert an object that did not start as a zBrush primitive shape.

Trying to convert an object who geometry has changed via extraction or some other method that changes the construction of the mesh.

Trying to convert an object with too many faces.

You might want to try making a simple sphere object, go into edit more, press the MakePolyMesh3D button, then export that as a .obj and convert it. If that works then you know that the problem lies with the other object(s) you are trying to convert.

I was wondering if you could quickly explain how to put together the ‘Sculpty Rezzer’.
I am on the TeenGrid, so I don’t have a premade one.
I downloaded the scripts from the link at the top of this page, but I couldn’t get it to work right.

Any help?

To assemble the Sculpty Rezzer:

1. Create a regular prim sphere and name it ‘Sculpty Rezzer’ and drop the provided ‘Sculpty Rezzer’ script into the sphere.

2. Create a cube and name it ‘Section’ and drop the provided ‘Section’ script into it.

3. Drop the ‘Section’ cube into ‘Sculpty Rezzer’ sphere.

Then to use it you drop the sculptmap images created with Sculpty Maker into to the contents of the Rezzer, touch the Rezzer, and it’ll create the sculpted prim. It’ll also restore the orginal proportions of the object.

Awesome, thanks a million Vlad.
You’re tutorials are the best and most helpful I’ve seen, keep’m come’n.

How do you export multiple subtools using SM?

Ina: I have this topic planned for a future tutorial.

In the meantime, here are the basic steps:

1) create your objects in the normal way for use with Sculpty Maker.

2) Use the Subtools feature to assemble and align them all together

3) Use a plugin called SubTool Master to Merge all the separate objects into one object.

4) Export that merged object as a .obj file

5) Run that .obj through Sculpty Maker - you’ll get a sculptmap image for each of the original parts.

6) Upload all those sculptmaps and drop em into the Sculpty Rezzer, then click to rez and assemble the full object.

You can get the SubTool Master plugin here:
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=057154

Check out this two tutorial from Virrginia Tombola. She demonstrates the process of working with multiple objects and SubTools. The tutorial is aimed at animating a sculpty, but most of the same basic concepts apply

http://labicyclette.blogspot.com/2008/06/creating-animated-sculpts-with-zbrush.html

There’s a video on this page that shows the basics of how to use SubTools - and many other zBrush tools:

http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/

I’m not finding the multipart sculpt map’s in the folder where the obj is in… After clicking “make sculpty” I get the dialog: “multiple sculpt maps created and saved in the object’s folder” … but these sculpt maps are nowhere to be found o.O

it seems that i get the same dialog for all non-sphere zbrush primitives.

I’m wondering whether this might be due to Vista’s UAC (which I have turned off - everything is still marked as read-only, though, which i can’t seem to change.)

Ina: hmm…Wish I knew more about Vista. I have never even seen it let alone used it. I don’t think that 2k has ever really tested it on Vista, either. So when you convert a single sculpty object the map is saved in the proper place, but the merged Subtool objects are not saved properly?

Ina: Have you tried used the zSculpty plug-in to convert the merged Subtool object? It saves to a folder inside the zBrush plug-in folder. On an XP default install it would save here:

C:\Program Files\Pixologic\ZBrush3\ZStartup\ZPlugs\ZSculpty Maps

Worth a shot anyways.

Ah Zsculpty seems to have done the trick. Thanks!

THANK YOU !! U’re a Genius !!

well everything works fine apart from the part when its uploaded it goes Hollow as in the camera rotates around u see trough it anyone can help me with that cos everything is as explained using Zbrush 3.0 and tryed everything still i can see trough my object for som reason … ;//

lol im sry im dummy i updated my zbrush to 3.1 and worked just fine with the converter 2.5 tytytytytytytytyytytytyt!

Excellent Joe, glad that you got it working. I’ll keep that in mind next time someone has a similar problem.

OK, I am getting sick of nothing working with my computer. I’m on Vista. PLEASE tell me that I am doing something wrong and I’m not once again at a massive disadvantage with my peers due to my operating system.

I followed the turtorial. My object was 32 x 33 for the mesh, a 3D polymesh, I only used the basic edit tools, and finally exported it as a basic .OBJ file.

Whenever I try to make it into a sculpt, Sculpty Maker crashes. I have no idea what I’m doing wrong.

Zombie: hmm. My first guess would be that you pressed the MakePolymesh3D button more than once. This would destroy the UV map and SM could no longer convert the object.

Have you tried just converting a basic sphere? just create a sphere, go into edit mode, press the Make PolyMesh3D button then export as a .obj file. That should work every time. If it does then there is something wrong with your other steps. If it doesn’t then something else must be wrong.

Also, have you tried the zScultpy plugin rather than the Sculpty Maker program. zSculpty solved another Vista users problem. Make sure that you are using zBrush 3.1 and the newest version of Sculpty Maker (v 2.5).

I’ve also tried to zSculpty plugin. When I export the object, I can’t find it in the sculptmaps folder and I get an error saying that it’s missing a texture or something, AFTER it says “Finished”

If I make it a 3D Polymesh before doing so, the whole program crashes on me.

I can’t even convert a basic sphere. It crashed with both the plugin and Sculpty Maker.

Well, Zombie, I don’t know what else to suggest. Maybe another Vista user will come along with some further suggestions.

When I use the sculptmaps created in sculpty rezzer the maps seem to have a bit missing. When I create a prim and change the sculptmap to the one created the sculpty seems to be ok…..

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/1839/snapshot003qd7.png

They’re both 32 x 33 zbrush spheres. The one on the left was a sculpty created the “normal” way - open a prim, change type to sculpty, change default sculpty texture to the one created.
The one on the right was just put into the sculpty rezzer contents.

Does anyone have any ideas what I’m doing wrong/why the same sculptmap behaves diffently using the rezzer?

(btw I’ve noticed if you append a few unaltered zbrush prims together then merge in subtools you can sculpt on the merged object. It’s an alternative to sculpting objects seperately then merging them together (although smoothing does mess things up slightly at edges)…eg. you can merge two 180 degree half-spheres into one large sphere with more vertices then sculpt it, allowing you to sculpt on a large sphere with 32 x 33 x 2 vertices.)

Scratly: it sounds like the ‘Stitching’ type of your sculpts is not getting set correctly. In v1.20 and above of the SL viewer their is an option to choose from several sculpted prim types like Sphere, Plane, Cylinder and Torus. Try selecting SPhere from that list and your gap will dissapear. If you are using an older version of the viewer you will need to change the culpty type via script.

The newest version of Sculpty Maker (2.5) is not as picky about the number of faces in your objects. You are free to use other configurations beside that ones that match the in-world setup exactly. Just keep in mind that you can sculpt add more detail with a high rez mesh than will show up on a single sculpty.

I like the idea of merging several objects together and sculpted them as one, tho. It’s also possible to split those objects back up into their original pieces, at least it is when texturing. I am gonna have to give that a try! :D

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