Mango Splash creates in-world sculptie generator
April 26, 2008 1:43 am
Sculpties…. or sculpted prims… they will always stay a no-go for me, I’m afraid. I understand how they work - a Sculpt Texture or Sculpt Map is a standard RGB texture where the R (red), G (green) and B (blue) channels are mapped onto X, Y, and Z space - but can’t create a good looking sculptie myself, I fear I think I think to much in 2D still.
But that I can’t build, should not stop me from learning and experimenting! *grins*
Thanks to Miss Kryptonia Paperdoll, I’ve discovered Mr. Mango Splash’s in-world sculpted prim generator. It’s an incredible thing that allows you to create sculpt maps in Second Life, without using external 3D software such as Maya, Blender, … . You do need some basic Second Life building skills to select prims, move them, …. .
The Second Life Sculpted Prim Generator Mr Splash build works as follows:
- The Sculptie Generator rezzes the basic shape for you: be it a cylinder or a sphere, and with a level of detail you can choose yourself. That basic shape exists of ‘nodes’ which are represented by little white spheres.
- By moving those white spheres, you change the shape of the sculptie. You can edit multiple spheres at the same time, by selecting them all and than using the resize tool. Handy if you want to work on something symmetric.
- Just to be safe, tell the Sculptie Generator to safe your work in a box.
- Then you tell the Sculpted Prim Generator to rezz a sculpt map - the texture you need for sculpties - based on the object you just created. It’s marvellous to see the Sculpt Map Generator do it’s work. It figures out the place of the white spheres, takes it coordinates and reverts that to a RGB value. In a minute’s time, you have a sculpt texture rezzed before you in Second Life.
- Allow the Sculptie Generator to lock your camera by sitting on it. Now you only need to snapshot the texture (made out of a whole lot of colour coded prims) and upload the snapshot.
- Rez a box, set it to sculptie and drag the snapshot you just took where the sculpt texture should go. Et voila: a very ugly mushroom. (See the ‘Vint can’t build’ disclaimer.)
Nifty, no? More demonstrating in this video:
And more detailed photographs of the Sculptie Generator on Miss Kryptonia Paperdoll’s blog.
15 Responses to “Mango Splash creates in-world sculptie generator”
Oh, very nice outfit Vint…. :)
It’s nice and hawt.
Awesome! Love the sculptie generator. Now only if we had that on the teen grid… :-o
WTG Vint!
I actually know of about 10 of these type of in-world generators, but this one was one of the first.
All of them have been in my wishlist on OnRez for a while, but I can’t pick which would be best for me… so still haven’t gotten one.
I too find sculpties still very tricky, getting them smooth enough without hurting the sculpie or distorting or whatever is the hard part.
I tried Blender, didn’t like using it, Maya is over my budget, Wings3D is too tricky since it works with a querty keyboard and I have an azerty one…
I kinda like SculptyPaint, but it’s not “the most suitable” for the type of sculpties I wanna make…
Lately there are some good and not too expensive sculptie packs for sale, I liked the sculpted alphabet from Marcthur Goosson and the sculptie packs from Cel Edman are really good basic sculpties.
Perhaps I’ll make up my mind soon on which in-world tool would be best for me and blog about me trying it out ;o)
*hugz*
I’ve been eyeballing this sculptie generator (and another more expensive one), but a quick question…
Exactly *how many prims* is the generator when used? And, if let’s say you had to use it in a sandbox, could you “take” a work in progress into your inventory and re-rezz it later with no problems/messing up any scripts?
QK Kuu, no idea. Just IM the creator - Mango Splash - and ask him about it? I found him to be a friendly person, answering all my questions and haven tons of patience with them.
Oooh I remember making something like that months and months ago, back when I was still on the Teen Grid.
Great for you Nexii. Sadly, if it’s on the teen grid, we can’t use it. Hmmm, only boast about achievements, if you can actually proof them, please. =)
Hey Nex! Can you send me it inworld? I’ll pay if necessary! :-O
P.S.: Vint, if Mr. Malthus agrees, I could set it up for LibSL-powered shipping when I get my software… ;-)
Well, I’m not sure if I believe he ever made it in the first place.
@Vint: He’s one of the best scripters we got. I know him personally! :-P He programmed a “non-natural” avatar with complete hand movements and “switching” like in those robots in those movies. (When the hand slides in and a weapon comes out?) SO, he can make stuff like that. :-P
Ok, I’ll take your word for it then. I quickly visited his link, and found he a bit to much ‘bragging’ and not much proof. If all proof is on the teen grid, this might explain why there is no on ours.
From his comment ‘when I was still on the teen grid’ I understand he has moved to the main grid now?
Now are there more videos of this generator because I want to see if smoother scuplties can be made with said generator. I think it will be a big advance for the building world once it comes into the main grid.
Is Mango a teen? I wish I had mad scripting skills like that! lol
Adia Clary
Adia, no Mango isn’t a teen. His sculptie generator is on the main grid. Nexii says he has build one too, on the teen grid.
As for videos, not as far as I know. You should IM mr Mango?
Anybody tell me where to buy this? I found one set up at ILC but I was under the impression that it could be purchased….
Barnie, try IM’ing the creator? ;)
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