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1. What's New in 1.3
2. MaxRez - Features and Limitations
3. MaxRez - Usage
4. Tiny Sculpts - New in 1.3
5. ALL (printer friendly)

Tiny Sculpts in Prim Composer

Tiny sculpties are a feature that was originally introduced in SculptGenMax RC3 (see the original announcement). The basic idea is to scale the color values inside of a sculptmap so that you can produce a sculpted prim that is smaller than the 1 centimeter minimum size that is imposed by Second Life.

Up until now, tiny sculpts could only be produced with SculptGenMax and they could not be exported via Prim Composer. If you created a tiny sculpt, you had to save the sculptmap to disk and then manually upload it to Second Life.

With 1.3, Prim Composer now has full support for tiny sculpts.

To create a tiny sculpt, simply create a sculpted prim and scale it so that it’s size is less than 0.01 meters. Then, export it in the usual way and upload it to Second Life via maxport.

That’s it!

However, it is important to know that a tiny sculpt will have less detail than the same sculptie at normal size. Once the size of a sculptie goes below 0.01m, it loses detail as it gets smaller. By default, the minimum size of a tiny sculpt in Prim Composer is 0.001m. At this minimum size, a sculpted prim will have only one tenth of the detail in each dimension that the same sculpt would have at a size of 0.01m. This is unavoidable.

Prim Defaults

In 1.3, Prim Composer adds a new setting to Preferences > Prim Defaults. Previously, you could set the maximum, minimum, and default prim sizes. With the introduction of tiny sculpts, a new option called minimum sculpt size was introduced.

Thus, you can now set the minimum prim size separately from the minimum sculpt size. By default, the min prim size is set to 0.01m, the same as Second Life. The min sculpt size is set to 0.001m. If a sculpt is scaled below the min prim size, it will automatically become a tiny sculpt.

If you want to turn off the tiny sculpt feature, then set the min sculpt size to be equal to the min prim size.

Conclusion

Well, that’s it for the big new features in 1.3. I’ll be producing a couple of new video tutorials on these soon. In the meantime, please direct any questions to the Prim Composer Support Forums. Enjoy!

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