Sculpted prims Part II (link)

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abstract:The tutorial shows in easy steps, how to sharpen the edges of your model and how to create a very simple texture by using multiple materials. We assume, that you have basic knowledge about the blender user interface. But we still provide
enough background information, so that even blender newbies can follow the process.
The tutorial covers any recent blender-version from blender 2.49b and Jass-2 up to Blender 2.60 and Primstar-2.

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Sculpted prims Part I (link)

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abstract:The tutorial shows in easy steps:

how to create an object with blender and export it as a sculptie map (UV-texture) for usage in Second life. We assume, that you have basic knowledge about the blender user interface. But we still provide enough background information, so that even blender newbies can follow the process.

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Texturizing sculpties with multiple images (link)

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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.

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From NURBS to Sculptie (non scripted) (link)

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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. Please also take a look at our new page (plus video tutorial) about Gaia’s transformer script nurbs2sculptie

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Sculpted Prims for the blender purist (link)

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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. I hope, you like it. And , please, please send me feedback

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The blender Installation guide

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abstract:The tutorial shows how to install blender. It uncovers the secrets of the blender console and it explains how to verify that blender has been installed correctly.

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The blender node editor (Introduction) (link)

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 highly recommend to view the tutorial about surface textures for sculpties with blender, before you continue here! [...]

The blender trail (link)

abstract: 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. [...]

Precise Sculpties: “The Arch Example” (link)

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 [...]

Precise sculpties: “Level Of Detail” (link)

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. [...]

Texturizing Sculpties (link)

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abstract: Welcome to our secnd blender tutorial. 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 about “creating sculpted prims with blender” . Then come back here. And don’t miss the new companion video “Texturizing sculpties with multiple images” which shows a blender only solution ( our preferred method)

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Creating sculpted Prims with Blender (link)

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abstract:The tutorial shows in easy steps, how to create an object with blender and export it as a sculptie map (UV-texture) for usage in Second life. We assume, that you have basic knowledge about the blender user interface. But we still provide enough background information, so that even blender newbies can follow the process. The tutorial covers any recent blender-version up to release 2.49b. Note, that we not yet support blender release 2.5!

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