strange issue with sculpties

jarv · 21st November 2008, 06:44 PM

Hi. I uploaded in SL a complex object, made of 3 parts, but when I reassemble them, each part is like glass; what happens?

lisa · 22nd November 2008, 05:21 PM

Can you post an image?

jarv · 22nd November 2008, 06:47 PM

Ok; hope this helps. Thanks.

Wile I'm here asking, I would ask, why there is not an option to choose the size of the outputted .tga, and why when I rez the sculpties they aren't rezzed in the right scale with which I made 'em in AC3D?

lisa · 22nd November 2008, 08:09 PM

Hmmm. I'm having a hard time telling from the picture, but do you mean that the sculpties look "inside out" ? i.e. As you rotate it, you're always seeing the inside instead of the outside. If so, what you need to do is flip your surface normals in AC3D (Surface > Flip Normals) and then in the UV map, flip the map horizontally. (There's a button in the TCE.) That should fix it.

As to size: Sculpties always come in at 1x1x1... as to why, that's a question for Linden Labs, although in practicality I'm sure the answer is because there's no way to embed scale information in most bitmap formats. (PNG and TGA allow extended information in the header, but a lot of the other file formats don't.)

jarv · 23rd November 2008, 08:15 AM

Thank you Lisa, it was a precious help (anyway, I didn't need to flip the uv also; it was just enough to flip the uv).

lisa · 23rd November 2008, 02:30 PM

Anytime! ..

21st November 2008, 06:44 PM	#1
jarv Junior Member Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 24	strange issue with sculpties Hi. I uploaded in SL a complex object, made of 3 parts, but when I reassemble them, each part is like glass; what happens?

22nd November 2008, 05:21 PM	#2
lisa Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 917	Re: strange issue with sculpties Can you post an image?

22nd November 2008, 06:47 PM	#3
jarv Junior Member Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 24	Re: strange issue with sculpties Ok; hope this helps. Thanks. Wile I'm here asking, I would ask, why there is not an option to choose the size of the outputted .tga, and why when I rez the sculpties they aren't rezzed in the right scale with which I made 'em in AC3D? Attached Images Last edited by jarv; 22nd November 2008 at 07:00 PM.

22nd November 2008, 08:09 PM	#4
lisa Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 917	Re: strange issue with sculpties Hmmm. I'm having a hard time telling from the picture, but do you mean that the sculpties look "inside out" ? i.e. As you rotate it, you're always seeing the inside instead of the outside. If so, what you need to do is flip your surface normals in AC3D (Surface > Flip Normals) and then in the UV map, flip the map horizontally. (There's a button in the TCE.) That should fix it. As to size: Sculpties always come in at 1x1x1... as to why, that's a question for Linden Labs, although in practicality I'm sure the answer is because there's no way to embed scale information in most bitmap formats. (PNG and TGA allow extended information in the header, but a lot of the other file formats don't.)

23rd November 2008, 08:15 AM	#5
jarv Junior Member Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 24	Re: strange issue with sculpties Thank you Lisa, it was a precious help (anyway, I didn't need to flip the uv also; it was just enough to flip the uv).

23rd November 2008, 02:30 PM	#6
lisa Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 917	Re: strange issue with sculpties Anytime! ..