Keep up the good work!

If you use the square sculpt map, you can replicate the lower LOD level by making your mesh 4×4 with three levels of multires, but if you think about oblong tessellation, you’d have a size like… 2×8. And you can’t really have much of a 3D shape with only two faces.

As far as the .obj thing is concerned, if anyone’s said anything about being able to import .obj files, they were talking specifically about importing them into Blender. Not Second Life. SL doesn’t yet support mesh importing. The Primstar scripts do have a .obj-to-sculptie importer, but even that is designed to import meshes that were made TO BE sculpties. If the mesh was not made to be a sculptie there is a 99% chance that it CANNOT be a sculptie.

I got some grip on this thanks to your web …still getting familiar that there is a shortcut for everything instead of a button

However, I build a common 8point star from a sphere using the oblong tesselation 16×4, started at multires 1 with simple subdiv. Everything went fine, and as for the star it is ok. Just when i zoom out really far in SL (using the default rendervolumeLOD), the star becomes a circle (or a sphere probably). There is some improvement if i use the resolution trick, but it does not look fine when zoomed in. Is there something like multires 0, or it is just impossible to make it appear ok also from a real big distance? If my description is not clear enough, I can send you the blend file somewhere, but I really dont want to bother you too much.

I also googled around the import possibility. There is a way to import *.obj files, but the uv map is not what is possible to use for sl. I am trying to export from maya, which has the option to export an *.obj file and has also many other functions, which could be possibly used to convert the uv map the way it is neccesary, just i really dont know where to begin regarding the uv map.

Thanks for your time

Sometimes I’ll actually start modeling at multires level 2. Especially if I’m making furniture, which is a decent size and also people tend to prefer furniture that’s low-prim so they can put more on their land.

For precision sculpties, the grid floor size doesn’t matter that much. From x,y, and z plane views, the grid will extend indefinitely.

As for making normal meshes into sculpties, the prerequisite is that the objects must be build it sculptie format. Most conventional meshes do not fit the sculptie format. If the mesh wasn’t made to be a sculptie, chances are you won’t be able to use it.

So if I get it correct, the best way to do that is to create the object on a lower multires, then add another, finetune it a bit so that it does not affect the previous level too much. Since I suppose the final sculpt map image is done based on level 3. Which makes me actually wonder what if I dont add the multires 3, but well, I can do a test of this by myself as well

I am also trying to create precise sculpts (again based on your tutorial), but somehow I cannot get the grid big enough – it does not allow me to set more than 100 lines.

Last thing I would like to ask you if you know what prerequisite needs an object imported to Blender from other file formats (like eg. *.obj or *.max). I was unable to bake the texture (bake failed). I suspect it has something to do with the number of faces, or shapes of them, respectively a “perfect UV map”, which I am not sure I understand what is… although was trying to do a google research on it.

Sorry if my questions are too begginerlike, I hope it does not bother you too much

Thanks again.