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So I have been able to create some groovy little sculpts by importing a pre existing sculpt map and pushing it about.  Awesome, very useful.  But sometimes I want to create my own mesh.  In fact I would prefer to create my own mesh.  I followed Chip's tut on arbitrary meshes and it works like a champ for organic objects with little to no protrusions.  Which is great but I create architecture and set pieces and props for RP environments and weapons.  Lots of corners and sticky pointy bits.

I have a good deal of 3D Max experience and familiar with basic use of the Unwrap UVW modifier.  I know that to create a sculpt map the UV's have got to be perfectly squared to the grid.  The question is, can someone detail that process for me?  I have never had to use that tool in that way before and mapping faces to a given texture plate is a whole different process that isn't giving me much of a clue.

Good job on Prim Composer, by the way.  It is a great tool.

Well I am of two minds about the true mesh concept.  The 3D community has a massive amount of piracy as it is.  I can only imagine what would happen if you could dump 3DS or OBJ meshes into SL.  I mean you have ages and ages of free content just from Renderosity or 3D Commune.  It's a daunting concept really.

Ok so then how do I go about making use of prim composer to help turn my own mesh into a sculpty?  There must be a way to do it, right?

Well when I learned to model it was at a time when the you had the 3D art community who didn't really care how high their polygon count was and you had the game design community which was all about low poly modeling.  These days it seems like those two are getting closer and closer togther.  I model pretty low poly and tend to rely on texture to help bring out detail inthe mesh via texture baking and what not.  I will keep digging though, thanks Shack.