JASS-2 (Just Another Sculptie Studio)
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PRO for XP/Vista/7 OSX-10.4-intel
Version Number: Jass-2.3.3-pro  FREE for WIN XP/Vista/7
Version Number: Jass-2.3.3-pub FREE for OSX-10.4-intel…
Version Number: Jass-2.1-OSX-pub |
What is JASS-2 ?
JASS-2 is an all inclusive one-stop software bundle ready customized for a sucessfull start of your career as a sculpted prims creator for Second Life and compatible virtual worlds. Jass-2 comes with an Installer (for Windows) and with an easy setup video tutorial for Mac-OS users. Below you find the complete list of what you will get with Jass-2:
- blender-2.49b
- python-2.6.5
- primstar-1.0.0 (contains some enhancement and bugfixes over the original primstar-distribution)
- Jass Library of Sculpts additional basic sculptie shapes
- Additional documentation in the blender Help Menu (Links to the machinimatrix videos)
- Additional blender Theme “Jass Theme”
- For the difference between FREE and PRO edition, see below
Intended Audience
Everybody who hesitates to go through the tedious installation process of blender, python and primstar.
What is the difference between PUB and PRO?
The FREE Jass-2.3 (PUB-Edition) contains a few technical bugfixes to primstar-1.0.0 and a few Add-Ons from us (The Machinimatrix).
- Enhanced support for multi user installs (maintains application Folder)
- Reset to factorySettings (quick script reinstall)
- Allows LOD patterns to be generated on the Fly
- Corrected spherical Sculptie shape
- GridAlign Tool
The PRO Jass-2.3 (PRO-edition) contains all enhancements of the FREE Jass-2.3 (PUB-Edition) plus some major enhancements over the Standard-Edition:
- Enhanced precision baking for Oblong sculpties
- Optimized Baker for multi sculptie exports
- Bugfix in sculptifyObjects
Documentation:
Jass-2 contains software from blender, Domino Designs and python. The official documentation of these tools is also valid for Jass-2. More detailed 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). Further information about sculpties can be found in the SL-wiki
Copyright note
- Copyright 2010 The Machinimatrix/Gaia.Clary
- This product also contains blender from the blender foundation(*).
- This product also contains python from the python comunity.
- This product also contains primstar-1.0.0 from Domino Designs(**).
Copyright 2009 Domino Designs Limited
(*) We have added some modifications for your convenience. All patches for primstar have been reported to Domino Designs. All patches for blender are available as a separate patch file.
(**) The Jass-2 Premium Edition contains modified scripts from Domino Design and some additional functions from The Machinimatrix.
Have fun…
The Machinimatrix
We need a linux distro of this tool set….Please!!!!!
That does not make too much sense to me. If you are working with linux, then i assume that you also have basic knowledge about how to install the necessary python script folders on your machine. We have already added a separate archive to Jass-2.3-PRO which only contains the modified primstar and our jass scripts. So all you need to do is:
install blender
install python
locate the blender home directory
navigate down to .blender/scripts
copy the “jass” and “primstar” folders just to that scripts directory
Note that you must place the folders into the scripts directory, not only their content!!!
We plan to also add the archive with the unmodified primstar and the jass folders to the free distribution. I cant tell at the moment when that will happen though.
Hi Gaia,
Many thanks for gathering such great resources together, but I’m having difficulties with Mac 10.4 installation. I’m running a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 10.5.8 OS. I’ve previously downloaded Blender 2.49b and have already set that up for other, specific, projects. I’ve downloaded your 10.4 bundle, installed it from the .tgz into my Applications and opened Blender but I can’t see Primstar in the scripts menu. I’ve used Houdini to try and find any hidden files or folders for Python, Primstar and the Jass Library on my system and none of them show as being installed. Is there something that I’m missing or do I need to try an install of the separate software?
Thanks for the help.
The Jass-installation for Mac is in fact a redistribution of the original blender package plus the primstar scipts and the jass scripts already placed at the correct locations. So when you have already another version of blender running on your system, you might now see 2 blender-icons in your Application folder. So maybe you only have opened the “wrong” version (your “already existing blender”) instead of the new version ?
I have no other idea what might have gone wrong. We have tested it on our apple notebook and there it works as expected. Still problems ? then IM me in SL. We will sort that out.
Gaia
Incompatible with 64-bit Windows. I had the same issues here as I did running the steps separately, so this isn’t your fault, I was just hoping you’d found a solution that I hadn’t tried.
I have tweeted the probable solution a while ago on twitter: Hint For 64 bit users only: If blender/JASS crashes with error 0xc0150002 then install VC++ 2008 from http://bit.ly/bQz3WY
Sadly, as I am running Ubuntu 10.04, I cannot install this
I was using it on Windows 7 and it was a great program.
I’d love to use it again; is there any way I can get it on Ubuntu?
install blender-2.49b on your ubuntu system. Then go back to your windows-7 edition and locate the blender system script folder inside the Jass-2 installation. There you find two directories named “jass” and “primstar”. Take these folders and copy them to the equivalent location within blender on your ubuntu system. That should be all you need.
I no longer use Windows 7.
Can I get the same files elsewhere?
you could download the MAC-OSX version, untar the sources, search for the folder “jass” and “primstar” in the unpacked directory tree. move these folders over to your blender and you are done.
Great, thanks
thanks again
I’ve installed Blender, Python & Primstar manually until now, but thought I’d give your own JASS product a try due to all the good things I hear about it. I’m sad to report that I’m unable to use it because you set the global PYTHONPATH system variable to %JASSROOT%\python-2.6.4. Unfortunately this means every Python script on my system tries to use libraries in the JASS/Python directory – even if those scripts are executed using the pythonw.exe belonging to an older or newer version of Python installed on my system. This nearly always results in syntax errors.
Many organisations, including Google, seem reluctant to roll forward from Python 2.5.x right now, which makes it difficult to develop for Google App Engine when JASS is installed, for example. I have also been studying Python 3.x at Uni, so maybe the way you’ve configured Python will cause problems for others too? I don’t know. I hope this feedback is helpful to you anyway. All the best, Gaia, and major props to you for your brilliant work here.
No sooner did I comment than I came up with a workaround. I deleted the PYTHONPATH environment variable, and created a bat file to launch JASS.
set PYTHONPATH=%JASSROOT%\python-2.6.4;%JASSROOT%\python-2.6.4\DLLs;%JASSROOT%\python-2.6.4\lib;%JASSROOT%\python-2.6.4\lib\lib-tk;
"%JASSROOT%\blender.exe"
Other Python scripts on my system are now working again, and JASS seems to work OK when launched with the bat file.
The newest version of JASS-2.3.1 no longer needs this workaround. We now use the environment variable PYTHONHOME which is only used by blender-2.4 as far as i have been told. You might want to verify that this is correct though.
Are there Blender tutorials specifically for Mac users? I’m having trouble following along with the Windows OS directions…
thanks
We currently have no MAC specific tutorial besides the installation video. But can you provide a little detail about what trouble you have ? So maybe we can take care of this in future tutorials…
Thank you so much for Jass-2. I just discovered it today and getting primstar into my Blender scripts had proven impossible for me. Do you think you will create a Jass for Blender 2.5?
Thx
Domino has stated that he won’t do anything before the 2.5 API is established and this can take yet another half of a year. We probably will not take the first step either as we think, Domino is the better person to do it.
But as soon as a primstar or equivalent for blender 2.5 is available, we will probably jump in and make a jass-3 for it.
Hello, I upgraded to the new Jass 2.0.. and I’m having an issue with importing sculpt maps. When I import a sculpt map it comes in with a gap going through the sculpt. Not the two gaps that are in all sculpts made in the program.. but a open gap going from each of the two original openings.
When I was using the older Jass/Blender I didn’t have this issue. Can you help please.. tell me what I may have done wrong.. or how I can fix this issue. Thank you.
Hi.
This behaviour is known since long time and i believe that Domino has stopped putting effort into the original import tool in favor of a more convenient method:
- go to the UV-image editor.
- open the sculptmap as an image.
- then when the sculptmap is loaded into the UV-editor: Image -> Import as sculptie
This has never failed for me. And in any case where i have seen the gap you reported when importing with the File -> import -> SL Scvulptie, this gap was gone after using the alternative import method.
YES! That worked, thanks Gaia.. you’re the bestest. And many thanks to you and your great tutorials I have gotten quite good at sculpting for a beginner.
Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to put together the Mac Primstar distribution. I installed it and went through the Sculpted Prims tutorials part 1,2,3. Everything worked very well on my 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 mac running 10.6.3.
I had been trying to import sculpts with blender since second life first implemented the feature. You and your team finally made it possible. The tutorials are fantastic for learning blender and sculptie workflow to second life.
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