Download the JASS-2.0 Windows installer from the machinimatrix repository. Please check the “known issues” section at the bottom of this article!
ATTENTION: For Vista and Windows7 users!
Please install by right click the installer and then “run as administrator”
The brand new JASS-distribution is out. JASS-2 is the one stop open source solution for everybody, who wants to use blender to create sculpted prims for Second life (and other compatible virtual worlds). Note that we are in RC-mode (release candidate mode) at the moment, so we still face bugs. For current known bugs and bugfixes see the list below.
Just download, run the installer and go! No additional installations needed!!!
We have created a binary release for Windows containing a customized blender (based on blender-2.49b) and all necessary script add-ons ready for instant sculptie creation. This download is the simplest way to jumpstart. It is adressed to everybody who hesitates to go through the tedious installation of blender, python and primstar.
Please report back immediately if you run into any sort of trouble or if you find inconveniences of any kind. Further informations about how to use Jass for sculptie creations can be found in our video tutorial section (also available from the Help -> Tutorials Menu inside Jass)
If you like this distribution, then consider to donate …
Have fun, Gaia Clary (Second Life)
Content of the JASS-2 Distribution:
The following separately available distributions and scripts are bundled in Jass-2:
- blender-2.49b binary (also available for several other platforms )
- python-2.6.4 binary (also available for several other platforms)
- primstar-1.0.0 (python scripts distribution)
- Jass Library of Sculpts (python script distribution)
- In place Grid-align tool. (python script distribution, please read the documenation!)
For those who are interested, what we changed in blender, please download the diff file blender-mods-2.0-RC1.diff . Basically we added a section in the HELP menu and modified the splash screen and the blender icon to avoid problems with copyright issues. The blender core has not changed, hence Jass-2.0 should be 100% compatible with blender-2.49b
Further infos about Sculpted prims and blender can be found here:
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Sculpted_Prims:_FAQ
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
Copyright note
- Copyright 2010 The Machinimatrix/Gaia.Clary
- This product also contains blender from the blender foundation;
- This product also contains primstar-1.0.0 from Domino Designs;
Copyright 2009 Domino Designs Limited
Installation of the JASS-binary distribution
After you have downloaded the Jass-2.0 installer follow these steps:
- run the installer
On Vista and windows7: Right click the installer exe, then “Run as administrator”) - If you happen to have a full python-2.6.2 installed, you can skip installing Python-2.6.4
- After the installation is done, doubleclick on the Jass-2 Icon on your Desktop.
- Start sculpting… (You may go to Help -> Tutorials in order to find some links into the Web)
If you do not like the customized default screen, go to “File -> Load Factory Settings” and you are back to the blender defaults (all add-on scripts (primstar) will keep available)
Further information about the embedded primstar-product can be found at http://www.dominodesigns.info
Bug fixes/enhancements:
RC3(07-february-2010):
solved issues/enhancements:
- Installer now uses compression and saves 30% of download time
- Display does not update in 3D viewer when bake Sculptie LOD is called (Primstar bug)
- Changed the default theme back to the standard.
- Added a new Theme “Jass theme” to the list of available themes.
- Re-added the Library of sculpts to Jass-2 (planning to embed it into primstar)
- New Grid-align tool for quick quality checking use ALT-G in edit mode (works on selected vertices)
known issues:
- openAL is not supported (not sure if and where it is needed)
- installation problems on Vista. workaround: right-click on the installer, then “install as administrator” or install to a non system folder (e.g. to “d:\program files”)
RC2(01-february-2010):
solved issues:
- lib-tk not found
- uninstaller does not uninstall correctly
- The start menu does not contain all tools
known issues:
- Display does not update in 3D viewer when bake Sculptie LOD is called
- openAL is not supported (not sure if and where it is needed)
- installation problems on Vista. workaround: install as “administrator” or install to a non system folder (e.g. to “d:\program files”)
RC1 (30-january-2010):
known issues:
- lib-tk not found
- uninstaller does not uninstall correctly
- The start menu does not contain all tools
I use windows 7 and I don’t see “run as administrator” when I right click the file on the site. I’ve tried downloading it without and using ctrl shift buttons which also runs from administrator. It doesn’t make any difference. Every time it gives me an error message saying
“Error opening file for writing:
C:\ProgramFile(x86)\Jass-2.0.0/BlenderQuickStart.pdf
Click to Abort the installation,
Retry to try again,or ignore to skip this file.
I can only click the “Abort” option. Do you have any advice?
Thanks for your help Gaia!
after using the grid allign tool i see in blender the arch deformed like in sl.
Its not so easy to fix it becouse looks like a stake.
So what you can suggest to deform a cylinder into an arch, like the one used for the bridge’s stand?
I was looking on some blender tutorial and i was thinking at using the bones to deform it or the lattice modifier…not sure that can be work better of the wrap funciton.
best regards ^_^
Hello, your tool is great! But i need an help. i’m trying to make some arch to make main bridge structure or building….like that for example http://picasaweb.google.com/johnkeith.k/BilbaoKeith#5328583084056908018
so i start whit a cylinder 16×64: i close the two tips whit the s-0 then i use the proportional edit fallof and the warp to bend it.
when i make the bake and i import the sculpties into sl the surface is not smoth but all wrinkled.
Where i’m wrong?
You probably fall into the spatial resolution trap. There is only a limitted number of possible location in SL for each vertex. You can see to which vertex locations your sculptie will eventually be shifted as follows:
1.) go to edit mode
2.) select all vertices
3.) Press ALT “g” (the alt-key AND the “g”-key on the keyboard)
Now all selected vertices on your model will be relocated to exactly the positions where they also will end up in SL. You can use this grid-align tool to see in advance where your object gets mangled. And sometimes the tool helps you to find vertex locations which reduce or even avoid this degradation. See more in my post about this post: http://blog.machinimatrix.org/2010/02/07/sculptie-grid-align/ Please note: The grid-align tool is ready installed in Jass2. If you wanted to use it with a regular blender, you have to install it. See the mentioned post for more informations about it.
Yea this is nice and all except there is no button “bake second life sculpties” under render like it used to be in the video. Yea so not much help.
Yes, the videos start getting outdated. But you are not lost. The documentation says that Jass-2 contains primstar-1.0.0. So you could take a look at their documentation or you can even find a lot on this blog, see the bake mesh docu for example.. There you will see that the function name has changed to:
“Render -> Bake Sculpt Meshes”
There are some other new features available and we are creating new video tutorials as fast as we can (Which currently is not very fast)
I hope that helps.
Could we get a scripts distribution instead of a windows installer? I run on mac you see and it makes things a tad difficult
Hi, Istauri.
Thank you for the hint. I have added the links to the separate distributions right into the content list of the Jass-2 bundle (see in the Post above).
Will this program work with w-7 64
So I installed JASS-2, hoping it would fix my troubles with blender and python….
but your included scripts for some reason cant find the Tk toolkit… in your included python.
I’m using Windows 7 64bit.
without python installed this error happens when i try to use the sculpty plugins:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
File “G:\Program Files (x86)\Jass-2.0.0\.blender\scripts\primstar\add_mesh_scu
lpt_mesh.py”, line 50, in
from Tkinter import *
ImportError: No module named Tkinter
Thank you, for your comment. We have found the problem and have fixed it in RC2. I just release RC2 and now JASS-2 finds the tk toolkit.
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