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Texturing Sculpty with Blender in 3D and 2D view.

How to Create Sculpted Prim with Blender.

Painting Sculptie with Vertex Paint.

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September 13th, 2009

Prepare Your Mesh for Vertex Paint1. For Second Life user, all sculpted prim that use with these technique must unwrapped their UV first. If you add sculpt mesh from Primstar script then you are ready to go just skip to read step 2. (Read how to install primstar script from here.) Read this tutorial..

September 13th, 2009

Paint your Sculptie Mesh with Vertex PaintWhile you are painting your sculpted prim you can use all the selection tools in Blender. Here is some basic selection tools you could use. Right Click – select individual vertex face. Hold Shift + Right Click – select more than one face. Press “B” – Rectangle select tool. Click and drag to form rectangle shape. Read this tutorial..

September 13th, 2009

Create Image for Texture BakingAfter finished texturing we need to setup blank image for baking texture. Click on the mode option and switch back to Edit Mode. Then move your cursor over your sculptie and press “A” to select all faces on model. Your Blender screen should look like picture on the right. Read this tutorial..

September 13th, 2009

Setup Material Option and Bake TextureImage has been prepared, you need to setup some Material option to make Blender ready to bake texture. On the bottom part, Click on Grey Sphere Icon to change to Shade Panel (Left Orange Circle). You’ll notice there’re 5 more buttons available in the bar. Read this tutorial..

September 13th, 2009

Upload and Preview Texture in Second LifeUpload texture normally and put in the texture tab in Second Life. Texture will map on the sculpted prim surface exactly the same as you see in Blender. Read this tutorial..

June 19th, 2008

Install Python Script into BlenderTo create sculpted prim with Blender, we need to install small script to Blender first. This Blender 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 sculpty script will insert functions to Blender and make it able to import, export and create sculpted prim for Second Life. Read this tutorial..