misseuro chau
Member
Hey,
I have been scultping a belt for SL using blender which looked ok to me.
But then I had to make a texture for it, so i baked one in blender to get the shades and then modified it in photoshop to how i wanted it to look.
But here is the problem, when i apply it to the sculpt it looks stretched which is not acceptable.
How can i make the texture so it even looks good nomatter how different the faces of the sculpt are.
Thanks in advance
Unfortunately, the BEST answer is "make your faces as uniform as possible." Because of the way UV mapping works on sculpties, if you have some faces that are much larger than others, there is always going to be some distortion, either by stretching or by changes in texture quality.
If you're not too concerned about changes in texture quality, you can try a method that lets you paint textures via a more traditional UV map, then convert that texture to the SL format.
I've been meaning to write up a tutorial on how to do it, but I keep getting side-tracked, however, Machinimatrix has a video tutorial on it, if you can stand to listen to the robot voices for that long. xD
http://blog.machinimatrix.org/2008/05/12/blender-surface-textures/
misseuro chau
Member
hey!
Is there a rule of thumb to calculate the best texture size for your sculpties?
or is it just the ratio of the sculptmap that you have to take into account?
like for say a oblong of 4x64 sculptmap, what would be the best texture dimensions? 1/16 ratio also meaning 64x1024? or does it have nothing to do with it?
I hope i am making myself clear ^.^
thanks in advance
It has to do with a combination of the size of your sculpt map and how stretched the faces of your mesh are. If your mesh faces are mostly square, then yeah, the texture size should be the same ratio as the sculpt map. If the texture is stretched a lot, the texture size should account for that.
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