This video tutorial shows a method to create textures out of multiple images for sculpted prims in Second Life. We use blender-2.47 for this demonstration. No further software is needed here. Although this tutorial is self contained, you may also check our first texturizing tutorial, which may help for better understanding.
Texturizing sculpties with multiple images
Posted in blender, texturing with tags blender, sculpted prims, sculpties, Second Life, texturing, texturizing, tutorial on September 1, 2008 by GaiaThe blender primer
Posted in blender, creation with tags 3D Tools, blender, tutorial, video tutorials on August 24, 2008 by GaiaRecently we have decided to create an absolute beginners tutorial, because so many people hesitate to at least try out blender due to rumours about complex GUI and non intuitive behaviour …
So, here it is… The blender beginners tutorial is published.
cocoon 2.2 installation tutorial
Posted in programming tools with tags apache, cocoon, programming tools, tutorial, XML on August 17, 2008 by Hussaynabstract: cocoon is a free open source product for XML based content creation. This video tutorial shows, how to install the software and it shows some first easy to understand steps to configure it to your needs.
Please note, that cocoon has nothing to do with 3D content creation (although it could… be used also in that context). So this trail is completely unrelated to the blender trail, which is also published on this blog.
cocoon can be found at http://cocoon.apache.org
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From NURBS to Sculptie
Posted in blender, creation with tags 3D Tools, blender, NURBS, sculpted prims, sculpties, sculpty, Second Life, tutorial, video tutorials on August 10, 2008 by Gaiaabstract: The tutorial describes a reasonable way to convert NURBS surfaces to sculpted prims. We recommend that you install the sculptie import/export scripts from Domino Marama, but we also show a way to create sculpties with blender’s built in node editor and without any script usage
Sculpted Prims for the blender purist
Posted in blender, creation with tags 3D Tools, blender, sculpted prims, sculpties, sculpty, Second Life, tutorial, video tutorials on July 14, 2008 by Gaiaabstract: The tutorial is a 6 minutes life demonstration, how to create a whine glass sculptie with blender, from scratch and without any(!) help of scripts. I only use the blender internal functions and show a very easy going way. This tutorial is dedicated to Amanda Levitzki and Domino Marama, who have given me all the hints i needed to eventually find the demonstrated workflow. I hope, you like it. And , please, please send me feedback 
The blender Installation guide
Posted in 48 hour film project with tags blender, installation, sculpted prims, sculptie tools, sculpties, Second Life, tutorial on July 12, 2008 by GaiaAbstract:The tutorial shows how to install blender. It explains the various options for the application data locations. And it shows, how you can customize blender to find your personal scripts location folder.
The blender node editor (Part 1: Introduction)
Posted in 48 hour film project with tags blender, node editor, sculpted prims, sculptie tools, sculpties, Second Life, tutorial on July 9, 2008 by Hussaynabstract: We introduce the basic functionality of the blender node editor. We use a previously created second life sculptie object as demonstration example and show, how texturizing can be setup in an easy and reproducible way. We highly recommend to view the tutorial about surface textures for sculpties with blender, before you continue here!
The blender trail …
Posted in 48 hour film project with tags blender, sculpted prims, sculptie tools, sculpties, sculpties tools, Second Life, tutorial, video tutorials on July 2, 2008 by Hussaynabstract: A collection of videos for the creation of sculpted prims with blender, an open source tool for advanced 3D content creation. Each tutorial also contains a transcription of the spoken text. For newbies we recommend to watch the tutorials in the order given below.
The blender trail:
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Blender installation guide ( 11-July-2008 ) abstract:The tutorial shows how to install blender. It explains the various options for the application data locations. And it shows, how you can customize blender to find your personal scripts location folder. |
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The blender primer( 20-August-2008 )
abstract: This tutorial gives an introduction into the usage of the blender interface. It covers the most basic functions for creating and modifying mesh objects. The tutorial mainly adresses people, who are totally new to 3D content creation tools in general and blender in particular. After you have studied the tutorial you should be able to follow our subsequent tutorials about using blender for creation of sculpted prims. |
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Sculpted Prims with Blender ( 27-June-2008 ) abstract:The tutorial shows in easy steps, how to create |
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Surface Textures for Sculpties with Blender ( 30-June-2008 )
abstract:We will now create a surface texture for a sculpted prim helmet. If you want to get more basic informations about how we created this helmet, please go and fetch the video “Creating Sculpted Prims with Blender” (see above) . Then come back here. We will use blender 2.46 for our demonstration |
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The blender node editor (Part I: Introduction) ( 09-July-2008 )
abstract:We introduce the basic functionality of the blender node editor. We use a previously created second life sculptie object as demonstration example and show, how texturizing can be setup in an easy and reproducible way. We will use blender 2.46 for our demonstration |
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Precise Sculpties: “Level Of Detail” ( 4-June-2008 ) abstract:We show you, how you can use blender to create sculpted prims with high precision. This tutorial will cover the basics of LOD (Level of detail) and show you how to avoid the most common pitfall in sculptie creation. We used blender 2.46 for all demonstration sequences |
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Precise Sculpties: “The Arch Example” ( 30-June-2008 )
abstract:We show you, how you can use blender to create sculpted prims with high precision. This tutorial will show you some techniques for building high precision sculpted prims. We used blender 2.46 for all demonstration sequences. As an example we have choosen the construction of a sculpted window frame for a casino window front |
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Sculpted Prims for the blender purist ( 14-July-2008 ) abstract: The tutorial is a 6 minutes life demonstration, how to create a whine glass sculptie with blender, from scratch and without any(!) help of scripts. I only use the blender internal functions and show a very easy going way. This tutorial is dedicated to Amanda Levitzki and Domino Marama, who have given me all the hints i needed to eventually find the demonstrated workflow. read more … |
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From NURBS to Sculptie ( 10-August-2008 ) abstract: The tutorial describes a reasonable way to convert NURBS surfaces to sculpted prims. We recommend that you install the sculptie import/export scripts from Domino Marama, but we also show a way to create sculpties with blender’s built in node editor and without any script usage read more … |
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Precise Sculpted Prims: “The Arch Example”
Posted in precision with tags blender, precise sculpties, sculpted prims, sculpties, secondlife, tutorial, video tutorial on June 16, 2008 by Gaiaabstract: We show you, how you can use blender to create sculpted prims with high precision. This tutorial will show you some techniques for building high precision sculpted prims. We used blender 2.46 for all demonstration sequences. As an example we have choosen the construction of a sculpted window frame for a casino window front. Read more »
Precise sculpted prims: “Level Of Detail”)
Posted in lod with tags blender, Level Of Detail, lod, precise sculpties, sculpted prims, sculptie tools, sculpties, Second Life, tutorial on June 4, 2008 by Hussaynabstract: We show you, how you can use blender to create sculpted prims with high precision. This tutorial will cover the basics of LOD (Level of detail) and show you how to avoid the most common pitfall in sculptie creation. We used blender 2.46 for all demonstration sequences. Read more »
