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Old 5th November 2007, 12:12 PM   #1
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Default Exporting a spaced picket fence as sculptie

I tried duplicating (replicate) the sculpted cube base model, scaled to a thin board to create a picket fence with holes in between. I then grouped the entire thing as one mesh.

But, it looks like the export only shows 1 fence board... is it possible to get more than 1 fence board to show?
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Old 5th November 2007, 07:53 PM   #2
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Did you give each fence board a unique name? If they are named the same thing, they may be overwriting each other.
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Old 5th November 2007, 08:05 PM   #3
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hmm - is there a way to get all of the picket fence pieces exported in one sculpty map?

as i understand, naming each mesh something different would create as many maps as there are fence boards... i'm actually making these fences sculpty, trying to save prims ;-)
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Old 5th November 2007, 08:27 PM   #4
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Yes, although it depends on how your fence is made how well that will work.

What you need to do is merge all of the pieces into one object, and make sure that your UV map is spherically wrapped around *all* the pieces. If you look at the texture coordinates for the cube, you can see how I used corner cuts to confirm a spherical shape around a square object. The proverbial square peg in a round hole, so to speak: it's a little tricky, but the cube shows how it can be done. You'll most likely need to use a similar approach with your fence segments.
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Old 5th November 2007, 11:38 PM   #5
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that's where i'm lost - it looks like only one of the boards' uv is showing in the uv editor! i tried both merging and grouping the 5 objects together though...
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Old 9th November 2007, 03:44 AM   #6
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help help!

lol my 14 day trial is running out, and i need to see if ac3d makes making sculpties like this easier than modo...
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Old 9th November 2007, 03:48 AM   #7
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http://inacentaur.com/5%20picket%20fence%20boards.ac it's 5 fence boards in a group... but how do you combine the UV's? total ac3d n00b here...
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Hi... sorry for the slow reply, it's been a busy last few days.

Anyway, you need to merge the objects, then fit all the UVs to the same map. You then need to cut the edges so it wraps.

I did just the fronts of your fence as a quickie so you can see... you'd need to add an additional set of cuts to keep the backpanel from wrapping. (Or cheat with an alpha map )
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