http://blog.machinimatrix.org/video-tutorials

the black output at the end is maybe, because you have forgotten to select all vertices in edit mode before baking ?

another bad pitfall is: If you have deselected your object in object mode, then go to edit mode, blender does still edit the object, but the sculptie-scripts don’t find any active object, so they do nothing.

workaround: go to object mode, select your object then bake from there. that should work.

There are tons of potential other things that can lead to black output. I never managed to make a full troubleshooting document for this and often it takes me some time to understand, what a customer has done wrong. well, that’s life…

If you keep stuck, IM me, i will be back tomorrow night. Good luck so far

I figured most of the stuff out already… Wish I could go back and edit my previous posts to reflect that. And the tutorial is only lax in the fact it isn’t for a n00b such as myself, but this tutorial is just the kind of stuff I was looking to do.

Is there a list of all of the tutorials here? I managed to figure everything else out but the saving. All of my outputs ended up being just a black .png.

Gaia

“s SHIFT z” (scale everything but z)

you can also

“s SHIFT y”
“s SHIFT x”

which would scale x-z and y-z respecitvely.

I must admit, that this tutorial is a bit lax. I created it in a hurry, just wanting to show, how this can be done in principle. The focus lies on the “blender purist” so i thought, it is mostly interesting for the experienced blender user. Maybe you take another look at the blender primer (secnd tutorial in this series). We explained the basic scaling techniques there

From your explanation i do not understand exactly, what your problem is, but maybe i allready could help you ? If not, just call me, or send me an IM. i ususally do answer within 1 day.

Have fun
Gaia

Are you just scaling x and y? How do I tell blender to leave Z out of the equation?

3. replace the material colors with vertex colors and then proceed to the texture panel
4. Create a new texture and use the texture type, blend.
5. Now go back to the material panel and focus on the texture tab.

Is there a tutorial that explains these steps? If so could you link them in the text of the tutorials wiki like? That way those of use that feel like we’re a little kid in a grown up world can follow a little closer.

Click the ‘inside out’ checkbox below the sculpt image selection area.
Maybe everybody else had that figured out, but it was throwing me for a bit. Note- flipping the normals in blender had no evident effect on the texture bake.

But…theres always a but! Using Blender 2.46 & Dominos’ xclnt script when i import back into Blender (after your tutorial) a simple cube it is still affected by LOD.

And when i zero alternate vertices’s to create movable blocks for, say, a chair the results are terrible!

Am i missing something???

Thx for your help :O)

ROMSEY

Did you import the sculpt with “lossless” checked ?

You can double check, that your sculpt is broken, by installing the
import/export scripts from Domino Marama. Just follow the tutorial about
“Creating sculpties with blender”. Dominos scripts include a sculptie importer.
So you can check directly in blender, whether your sculpties are broken, or the upload to SL is broken. Maybe that helps to find out, whats going wrong with your installation. In general the approach shown in the video here works as expected. There is only this ugly detail, that plains have only one surface So if you look inside the glass, it appears “see through”. I am preparing an upgrade of this tutorial that also covers this problem.

I followed this tutorial to a T, but when I import the sculpt the ends look like they have a polygon on them that is warp and doesn’t light correctly, also the scult appears horizontally scewed and vertically flatted and doesn’t keep the original proportions.

Using blender 1.46

Thank you so much for your fast reply.
And thank you for your nice contents again!

I see.
The first way that you proposed in your comment may be better wayat present.
I think, when we want to make some complicated objects like collars, plane is better mesh to mold, but objects made from plane will have invisible faces…

To tell the truth, I had already made some collars in almost same way that you explane in this article.
But I could not make my object with all-visible faces…
Some objects has invisible face on side surface.
I tried to fix them. But the collar is little complicated model. So side face was no good…

So, I expected if I can make easily…(^^;

Anyway, thank you so much.
And I am waiting for your next contents!!!

planes do have only one surface in SL. and if you look close at any sculpty
cylinder, you will also see, that its inner side is invisible, hence transparent.
you have 2 options to get rid of this problem

option1: fold the mesh once, like you would fold a piece of paper, so that you cant look at the transparent side of the mesh. of course you will loose half of the resolution then.

option2: instead of one sculptie, make 2 and place them so that only the “outside” can be seen.

concerning the glass, i have been playing around with simple vertex movements. for instance i took the top most row of vertices, scaled it down to 0 and placed the “pole” deep inside the glass. Then i took the
next to top row, scaled it down a bit and placed it a bit over the pole.
so the inner side of the glass is now covered with visible faces. i did the
same with the bottom most row and thus got a nice glas at the end, which cna be viewed from any angle without problems. maybe i should make these steps also into the movie… hmm.

i hope, that helps a bit ?