Tutorial3: How to create Sculpty Material in Blender 2.5

You have been using sculpty material for a while and you could wonder how this material has been created?

Well, This tutorial will teach you how to do that!

Follow instruction in this page to begin create sculpty material by your own. You can even save it to Blender’s setting so it become available everytime you open Blender by default.

Note: for beginner you won’t need to follow all these steps. Just skip this page to start read How to using Sculpty Material which already provided download file for you.

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Lest’s Start!

1. We’re using Blender 2.5 series. You can download Blender for free from Blender.org.

On Right screenshot is default layout of Blender2.53 beta.

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2. Open Blender2.5 then Right Click on a default cube to select object.

We need to select a cube mesh since material button only show up when mesh has active.

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3. Look at right bar in Blender layout, there’re small buttons listed in horizon row.

Left Click on the Material button which is look like a small red sphere. (oranger circle in right screenshot)

In case the Material button does not appear in the list. Just hover your mouse over buttons row and use wheel mouse to rotate it (or you can use Middle Click and drag to left side to rotate buttons). You should be able to see Material button by now.

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4. Left Click at the default “Material” (yellow circle) to select it.

To make it easy to use later you will give a unique name to this material by Left Click inside below text box (orange cycle) and type in any name you want and press key “Enter” to confirm rename.

From now on, I give my material name as “Sculpty Material”.

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5. Still in material panel, scroll down and find section Options (yellow circle).

Activate Vertex Color Paint only and disable everything else.

Follow what you see in the right screenshot.

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6. Go back to button row, find and click the Texture button (yellow circle).

This will change the whole panel to work with texture parameter.

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7. You’ll see there’s 1 texture in the list. It’s name ‘Tex’ assigned to our material but we need more two.

Left click on check-board icon (yellow circle) in the list and press ‘New’ button (orange circle).

Do this two times until you get 3 textures available inside the list. (see right below screenshot)

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8. Let’s rename those textures by Left Click on each one and then Left Click on below text box (yellow circle) and type in new name like this:

“001” for 1st texture
“002” for 2nd texture
“003” for 3rd texture

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9. From now you’ll have to work with all 3 textures in step 9-12.

First thing we need to set all texture’s to Blend type.

You can do this by Left click at each texture (yellow circle) one by one and Let Click below drop-down box and select Blend type.

Repeat doing this for all 3 textures.

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10. Scroll down and look for Mapping section (yellow circle).

In Mapping section, there’s an Coordinates parameter showing in default: X, Y ,Z (orange circle).

Make change for all 3 texture differently like this:

“001″ ==> Set X, none, none
“002″ ==> Set Y, none, none
“003″ ==> Set Z, none, none

Remember to swap working on each texture by scroll up and select each one from texture list.

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11. Scroll down again to find Influence section (yellow circle).

Change all 3 textures to Blend: Add (orange circle) using drop-down menu.

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12. Still working in Influence section, we need to change color setting for all 3 textures differently.

Start by Left Click on nearby Color Tab (yellow circle) a Color Picker will pop-up.

Pay attention on the bottom of Color Picker windows there’re 3 gauge: R, G, B with a value between 0.000-1.000 (orange circle).

Double Click inside each gauge and type number in like these:

“001″ ==> R 1.000, G 0.000, B 0.000
“002″ ==> R 0.000, G 1.000, B 0.000
“003″ ==> R 0.000, G 0.000, B 1.000

Check out 3 specific screenshot for each texture on the right bottom.

At this step we’re finished with texture setting but there’re stilll some options need to be done. Follow on to next step!

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13. Back to top button row again, this time Left Click on Render button (camera icon – see yellow circle).

Look inside Shading section (blue circle) and Disable Color Management (orange circle) by untick it.

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14. At Last, scroll down and find the Bake section and change Bake Mode to Textures (orange circle) using drop-down menu.

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15. Finished!! Go back to first Material panel let’s look inside Preview section. You should see a bit pink shading appear on preview sphere.

Your work here is done. You can start import any sculpt mesh you want and start using sculpty material to bake Second Life sculpted prim.

TIP: In case you want Sculpty Material to be available by default everytime you open Blender. Just press Ctrl+U key and click confirm ‘Save User Setting’. This command will save the current working scene, data and everything else into Blender’s default setting. Next time when you open Blender a sculpty material will ready to use immediately.

(Also if you want to revert back to default setting you can do by select ‘File >> Load Factory Settings’ from top left menu).