To create sculpted prim with Blender, we need to install small script to Blender first.
This Blender’s Primstar script was created by Second Life resident Domino Marama. Thanks to him, for all other Second Life member can create sculpted prim with Blender easily.
This small sculptie script will insert functions to Blender and make it able to import, export and create sculpted prim for Second Life and Opensim.
** This Tutorial was update to latest version (Blender 2.49b with Primstar 1.0) Screenshot may be a bit different because I use default theme. **You need 3 Things to start create sculpted prim with Blender
1. Download Blender 2.49b if site are not available you can direct download from here.
2. Download Python 2.x to make Blender working with the primstar script only download version of python that match your Blender’s system.
Blender 2.49b for Windows 32bits/64bits require Python2.6
Blender 2.49b for Mac OS X (Power PC) require Python2.3
Blender 2.49b for Mac OS X (Intel) require Python2.3 or 2.5
Blender 2.49b for Linux x86-32/64 require Python2.5 or 2.6
3. Download Primstar Script 1.0 You may also want to read discussion and follow primstar development from Domino Marama post here.
After download finished, extract it you will get 4 files and 1 subfolder. Just copy ONLY subfolder name “PRIMSTAR” and paste inside /.BLENDER/SCRIPTS folder. If you install Blender into default location on Window system then copy PRIMSTAR folder to this location:
/Program Files/Blender Foundation/Blender/.blender/scripts
** NOICE: Since Blender have little wired behavior, it create subfolder /.BLENDER/SCRIPTS and put it somewhere on your harddisk depend upon which system are you using. If you have problem in finding /.BLENDER/SCRIPTS try follow this tutorial to locate your script folder.
**on Mac and Linux the folder .blender may be hidden you need to make it visible before you can copy.
3. Open Blender to test is Primstar script install correctly.From top left menu browse to File > Import You will see new option: Second Life Sculptie (.tga, .obj, .dae) available.
4. Also if you click on the top Render menu you will see new option Bake Sculpt Meshes as well.This mean that the script is installed successful and now we are ready to make Sculpted Prim!
hey, i just want to say:this script folder dont exist on my computer…so help me plz
my windows is xp nad this folder DONT EXIST
You need to show hidden file before you could see .BLENDER folder. Try this
1. On the Tools menu in Windows Explorer, click Folder Options.
2. Click the View tab.
3. Under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders.
If you still not see the .BLENDER folder try to re-download blender 2.49 again. Choose the ZIP version not installer version. Good luck :)
i will try thanks
The .blender folder is also not appearing (i used the zip file and the installer…niether have the folder). is there any other way to access the scripts?
Hi St. Thomas, What OS are you using? Make sure you enable show hidden file and folder in your system first.
im using windows xp professional, is there a hidden file/folder option somewhere else besides in explorer?
i figured it out….it looks like the newer version of blender doesnt have a .blender folder anymore. i did use the 2.44 version which works fine
just kidding. 2.46
Using Blender 2.49 on WinXP I found that missing script folder here:
c:\Documents and Settings\”user”\Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\
Thank you SO much! I was about ready to throw my pc.
the .blender folder is here : C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts
You have to create the folder if it doesn’t exist. Go ahead and open your program files/blender foundation folder, and make a new folder called “blender” and inside that, “.blender” and inside that, “scripts”. Then you can extract the files there.
Where your script folder is located, depends on the way you’ve setup Blender…
When installing Blender at one point you get the question: “Please specify where you wish to install Blender’s user data files.”
You have 3 options:
1 – Use de Application Data directory (Requires Windows 2000 or better)[you will find script folder @ c:\Documents and Settings\”user”\Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\ or in vista (i think) C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts]
2 – Use the installation directory (ie. Location chosen to install blender.exe).
[you will find scripts folder @ c:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts]
3 – I have defined a %HOME% variable, please install files here
[In wich case you will have to find the scripts folder yur selfs, coz i aint got a clou what a %HOME% variable is or how you can define it.. :)~ ]
I’m on a Mac and no luck. I’ve shown hidden files and no .blender file exists. Anyone apple friendly know how to do this?
He is guessing about the mac, same problem here. Note he says ‘may’ be hidden. He hasnt tested it to find out on the mac platform. Another nightmare is python reccomendation for PPC is 2.3 and Apple ships 2.4 min with these machines so you are trying to persuade the system to take a step back. Why on earth they dont make PPC blender work with the installed python is beyond crazy. They could not make this app more difficult to use if they tried. If they want to see some top flight art to showcase the product it needs to be artist friendly.
OK solved it!
There are 2 reasons it is not being found….
1st, it is a hidden folder. There is a lot of misinformation on various threads stating that Mac hidden folders can be revealed with a simple keyboard combination. This is not true. Mac OSX makes it difficult to reveal these folders so you do not accidently delete a vital system file. You will need to download a program to do it, unless you really know what you are doing punching in code by hand. Go to version Tracker and get this file..
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/34132
There are other hidden folder reveal apps but several are not able to reveal blenders script folder, for reasons you will see below.
quit all apps and any additional tasks you have running in the task bar (I have connect 360 running there) now click the reveal hidden files app. This will now flick on all the hidden stuff for you while you use the finder to navigate.
Go to the main Blender folder, it should be called “blender-2.49.2-darwin-7.9.0-powerpc-py2.3″ click it to open, and you should see the Blender icon and around 9 other files.
Now we come to the 2nd reason nobody can find the script folder; it is hidden inside the app icon!
Right click or Apple click the main blender icon and this will reveal a pop up window, scroll down to the third item called ‘show package contents’ and click it.
In the new window, click the contents folder.
Now click the Mac OS folder.
Now click the .Blender folder.
Bingo, there is your script folder.
Drag the scripts out of the import sculptie folder into here.
Quit the hidden finder app, load up Blender and you should see the scripts in the import, export and render menus.
Thanks @Rob J for the tip. I don’t have mac so never have a chance to try it.
folder wasn’t EXACTLY where you said it was, but i found it ;p everything else was a piece of cake.
I followed what Rob J said for the Mac, since I use one, and It’s all how it’s supposed to be be under File > Import and then I see Second Sculpties, but there is no Bake Second Life Sculptie option under Render. Is there someting else you need to add?
you guys rock ty everyone i to could not find the scripts folder after showing hidden files but yep Artur was right its in that location for me and im on vista so cools ty ty ty
hi. i have been facing a problem with rendering for sl in blender 2.49b. when i finish my model and go to rendering, a small box apears which asks me lot of things like cylinder, circle. box n lot more. and then i showes error. i am really confiused. please help me.
thanks in advance
@yusha Normally you don’t have to change any setting in Sculptie Bake Option at all (the box appear after you click “Bake Second Life Sculpties”) just hit OK and you will get the texture.
You need to check the error came from incorrect installed primstar script or you have incorrect manipulated (remember you can’t add/delete any vertices while working with sculpted prim).
im trying to use the program, but its not creating a new script…can i get help with this, i may down load another version of blender
for some reason, i just cant get it to work right, either; it wont show up in blender anywhere…or its not installing correctly…could i get help with this…noobie
@Green to make it simple, you should download Blender in ZIP ARCHIVE version.
Download from here : http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
Extract ZIP file into folder and test by run Blender frorm that folder (it won’t need installation process).
Next, download Primstar Script 0.5.0 : http://www.masterprim.com/download/import_sculptie_rc_00.5.0.zip
Extract Primstar script and copy all file to Blender’s script folder. If you’re using Windows It should be locate here:
/blender-2.49b-windows/.blender/scripts
Now restart Blender it should be working.
When I try to use the bake script I get an error…After I press ok, it says Python script error, check console…I don’t understand? What should I do?
@Garett Did you add sculpt mesh from menu in Tutorial2? Bake function only work with those sculpt mesh.
I have the latest version of Blender, python and primstar. I don’t know where to put the primstar scripts because there is no scripts folder in the Blender folder, even when I enabled “show hidden folders”. I have Windows Vista. Could someone help me?
Nevermind. Finally got it.
I found the directory script referred to on Application Data folder in my pc. When I unzip the zip (with the option, of course, sub-active) seems to go ok but then got the message on the console:
“Compiled with Python uersion 2.6.2.
Checking for installed Pyth0n… got it!
Traceback (must recent call last):
File “(string)”. line 1. in (mudule)
File “C:\Documents and Settings\mionome\Dati applicazioni\Blender Foundati0n\Blender\.blender\scripts\primstar_1.0.0\primstar\import_sculptie.py”
from primstar import sculpty
ImportError: No module named primstar”
Some ideas?
Thanks
DAnte
(blender 2.49b)
@Dante I have 2 ideas.
1. You are using Primstar 1.0 but this tutorial using old version 0.5.0 so be prepare some function may not exactly look like this tutorial.
2. To fix error you should try copy all *.py extension to \Blender Foundati0n\Blender\.blender\scripts\ not just copy the whole folder.
It doesn’t work with blender 2.5.x?
@Ohai In this tutorial I use Primstar 0.5.0 which support Blender 2.4x. The latest version on Domino website (www.dominodesigns.info) right now is v.1.0 which support only Blender2.49 too.
So it’s not work with Blender 2.5.
it`s easier than that, when you find the text in `Blender`telling the location of the scripts folder just `copy` and paste into your windows `search` bar in programs, shot straight to it and copied the text files, 20 secs done!!! good luck.
it isn’t working! i did what the tutorials said and nothing worked!
If you need help better describe what went wrong so anybody can help you out.
I am runnig Window 7. C:\Program Files (x86)\Blender Foundation\Blender\Scripts is where my old version of python script files are in. They work fine. However, when I extract primstar I can not create a C:\Program Files (x86)\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\Scripts path as instructed. \.blender can not be used as a file name so, I am force to use the old path
C:\Program Files (x86)\Blender Foundation\Blender\Scripts
and I do not get the panel displayed in the Jass 2 tutorials.
What am I doing wrong?
@technodandy Just remind you this tutorial is for Primstar 0.5.0 not Jass script.
what you’re asking about the location of /script maybe this tutorial can help.
it wont let me copy it into the scripts folder
nvm forgot to extract
THANKS So much!!!!!!!! I’ve been trying to ask people how to do this for such a long time and you’re the only person who laid it out nice and simple. THANKS AGAIN!!!!
There are no blender downloads that work with the python downloads that they have out.. it says “compatible with Python 2.5″ and they only have python 2.7 and 3.1.2 available for downloading! D:
@scarlett
Blender latest (stable) version is 2.49b you can dowload here
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
If you’re using “Blender2.49b for Windows” it will require Python 2.6 which can be found here:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.5
In case you need Python 2.5:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.5
If you need to work with older version of Blender or Python follow these links:
Python: http://www.python.org/download/releases/
Blender: http://download.blender.org/release/
I’m on windows vista and i did everything that i needed to do up until i need to make the folder “.blender” in the blender folder in my roaming appdata. but when i tried to name it “.blender” a window pops up saying i need to give a file name. just simply wont let my put the “.” into the begining of the name. i’ve been looking for things to fix my “no python scripts” problem for days and still no luck what-so-ever. can someone please help me?
@RickJo To find .blender folder I think you may try this tutorial. Normally you don’t need to create folder .blender by yourself. Blender will create that folder for you but to find where it is that tutorial can help you. (this problem happen because blender put folder in different location in each windows system) Since /script folder are inside /.blender too you should find it together.
About the python script I’m not sure neither. Normally I just install correct version the support Blender and it just work.