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As far as how to do pipes... easiest way is actually just to divide the existing cylinder and grabs the verts and rotate. There's an example horseshoe bend in this file. I bent half the arch, then mirrored it and mirrored the UVs to make it: http://www.independentdeveloper.com/...pted-prims.zip |
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18th April 2008, 07:49 PM | #2 | |
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Fist..When i do the divde i select the serface inbetween 2 sets of verts and click Surface---Divide. I then get the divide but it also adds alot of verts to the mix. Am I doing something wrong? Next...When you say mirror are you using the mirror function under Object? Next... How r u creating the hole on the middle? and last... can you give a script example of how you get the hole to show in SL? Thanks a ton! Last edited by glebreck; 18th April 2008 at 07:58 PM. |
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19th April 2008, 04:39 AM | #3 |
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Yeah I didn't know scripting was required. I don't script at all and don't even know where to start.
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19th April 2008, 10:16 AM | #4 |
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hey Pix...the scripting part i can handle if you can help actually make the shapes.
For some reason when i do the divide i get a ton of extra verts so i must be doing something wrong. Also if I export the files from AC3D that Lisa provided for us they look totally different then if I use the tga files she also provided. |
20th April 2008, 03:55 AM | #5 |
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Yes I also did that to see what would happen and got mixed results. I'm not sure why AC3D doesn't have an automatic system to map sculpties like some other plugins in other apps but i'm hoping they will come up with something soon. Using the UV Map seems like quick fix to making sculpties work but It's just not getting good results even on very simple shapes without a lot of editing. If nothing else there are some free apps like ROKURO that can get good results without all that extra UV map texture work. I kind of feel like maybe someday it will be looked at and a better way found but somehow I doubt sculpties is nothing more than a side line.
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22nd April 2008, 05:56 PM | #6 |
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Other apps rely on having exactly 1024 vertices. The AC3D plugin uses the UV map not as a shortcut, but rather as a means to be able to import existing models that otherwise could not be made into sculpties. i.e. The same reason Maya uses nurbs for sculpties, it is a parametric representation.
It would be trivial to implement the methods other programs are using if its desirable, but you would be far more limited in the types of shapes possible. |
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That's all good but it's confusing and the results are not easy to get right unless you know how to work it by knowing how the code works and as an artist I don't care about how the paint is made or all the ingredients in them I just want to know I will get results. I'm not a software person or technical users and that's the main reason I bought AC3D was because it's very intuitive and easy to learn but I baffled as why even simple shapes have holes that need to be removed in the UV Map and what is the best way to do this. I've done some pretty nice meshes that should be simple enough to export to sculpty but often with very crappy results after spending 3 times as much time on fixing the UV maps than I did making it and it's getting so when I think of making something in AC3D I often don't bother because I don't want to spend hours on something that won't work. As for limits the biggest limit is not getting anything to work at all. Last edited by Petite Pixie; 22nd April 2008 at 08:45 PM. Reason: adding to it |
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