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Started 1 year ago by Amerisun
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Amerisun
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I have tried to find some documentation on Warping, and also some video tutorials which show some pretty cool stuff you can do with warping. I think it can get me closer to the shape I want to finally get to without having to do so much work.

My question is the warping always seems to happen on one axis, how do you make it warp on a different axis? I used warp to give my box a little curve downward (a lip) but now I want to warp the length to make it kind of wrap around an object but it will only warp in one direction.

Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
Murgy
Geek Master

Well, the warp tool is a little bit quirky. It isn't limited to just one axis. In fact, its not limited to warping along ANY axis at all. The way it warps is determined by your current camera angle.

So if you're looking at your mesh from the top, it will warp around the Z axis. If you look at it from the front, it will warp around the Y axis, and if you move your camera to some arbitrary angle, it will warp around the camera's arbitrary angle.

The only other things to know about the warp tool is that it also always wraps around your cursor, and it tends to like for the mesh to be above the cursor, rather than below it. For some reason if the mesh is below, Warping will reverse the mesh and turn your normals inside out. <_<

Posted 1 year ago #
Amerisun
Member

Sweet man, yeah I see now, I have to rotate the object into the view I need to warp it to my will.. thanks a lot.

Posted 1 year ago #
Murgy
Geek Master

No problem.

Posted 1 year ago #
misseuro chau
Member

hmm that warp tool deforms my sculpts, when i try to make a belt I started with a cylinder, turned that into a rectangle, then warped it around the cursor and in blender it shows a perfect belt, but when i upload to SL, the circle is still like it should but the belt itself differs in thicknes so it looks bumpy, the straight part i used for the gasp was still perfect.
changed the stitching types to whatever was available, but nothing made the problem disapear.
tonight i will try with curves, see if that gives me a better belt ^.^

Posted 1 year ago #
Murgy
Geek Master

I doubt that has anything to do with the warp tool. If the belt you got looked perfect in Blender, then the warp tool is doing its job, and something else is to blame for the bumpiness. Possibly an issue with the sculpty grid.

If you post a screenshot or two of the mesh in Blender, I might be able to tell you what's going on.

Posted 1 year ago #
misseuro chau
Member

hey x)

I have taken a picture from blender and one on how it looks in SL

I did nothave the old file anymore so i quickly put this together and have the same results in SL

Posted 1 year ago #
Murgy
Geek Master

Yeah. That's because... you've read the precision tutorial right? You know that there are only 256 possible location values per axis? Because you have that piece hanging down like that, you've made it so there are less locations available to the loop.

Not that I think it looks that bad. If it was something that I was doing for an avatar of mine, I'd say its more than passable, but if you're concerned about getting it perfect, then you'll need to read up on precision sculpting, then either split the shape into two sculpties, or place the offending vertices on the sculptie grid by hand.

The other option is to realize that 99% of people on SL won't even notice it and the other 1% won't really care. Decent texture work will even make it completely unnoticeable.

Posted 1 year ago #
misseuro chau
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hey ! x)

yesh i did read that tutorial, but read it again and played around a bit with it

this is how it looks in blender which i find quite acceptable., except.. the buckle does scale to nano with the LSL export, but looks jaggy...so...i was thinking... when i upload i have to decrease the contrast more to be able to scale it thinner, but as the tutorial suggested, you should alter your grid like your alter your desaturation. but how can i upload a LSL if i have to make the parts with different grids?, for that boot picture you used in the stitching tutorial, the white belt, that looks so tiny, did you make the whole little white belt in a different grid so it was a completely nano sculpt belt? i think i may be overlooking something here ^.^, the belt like you suggested to use the precision grid helps a lot, but those tinier pieces...argh..giving me a headache x)

or... do i sculpt the parts in different files...using different grids..hmm...which should be weird as i do not see the whole creation together that way..
i will try to use a 155 grid to see how that goes

i know...i am asking a lot here but i have been using blender for like a month and it still does not show up in sl like i want it to ^.^
in a bit i will have no hair left to pull when things go wrong ^.^

oh btw nm the bad texturing... was just to see how resolution changed its appearance, still playing around with that..

when i compare my belt (actually a collar) to yours lol i am quite ashamed but i am trying to get it to look better, it just seems like that desaturation trick is very tricky to use, which i believe there is no other way to decrease a sculpty right?

friendly regards, annoying me xp

Posted 1 year ago #
misseuro chau
Member

hmm i just asked around about the precision grid, seems i can alter it anyway i like as it is only a vissual aid for each individual part.so i might just put each part next to eachother, alter the grid to each parts RGB values, then just put it manually together in sl..
but will have to try that tomorrow since it is way past bedtime ^.^

Posted 1 year ago #
Murgy
Geek Master

Heheh. I'm afraid I've never been as technical as all that. For something like a belt buckle, I simply decrease the sculpt contrast along the thin axis, and no-where else.

Like, if the thinnest width of the buckle is along Y, I will decrease the green contrast, but leave the red and blue. The thin axis usually doesn't need as many location values as the others anyway, so it works out rather well.

Posted 1 year ago #
misseuro chau
Member

okies that fixed it lol
thank you x)
big hug

Posted 1 year ago #

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