Prim Composer
Video Tutorials
last edited: 2009-04-03
Video tutorials about Prim Composer for 3ds Max. Please leave a message at the bottom of this page if you would like to suggest a topic for a future tutorial.
Installation Tutorials
- How to install Prim Composer in 3ds Max
- Watch the video to learn how to install Prim Composer.
- Created: 2009-01-20
- Running time: 6:00 minutes
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- Setting up 3ds Max for building
- After installing Prim Composer, you need to make a few changes to 3ds Max.
- Set your display units to metric/meters and your system units to 1.0 system unit = 1.0 inches. Also, turn off true color dithering in (Customize > Preferences > Rendering > Output Dithering > True Color).
- Watch the video for more information.
- Created: 2009-01-20
- Running time: 2:20 minutes
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- Creating a nurbs.max file for 3ds Max 7/8
- For users of 3ds Max 7 and 8 only. You do not need this if you have Max 9 or greater.
- In Max 7 and 8, NURBS objects in Prim Composer do not work completely using the standard installation. This tutorial shows how to fix this by replacing the nurbs.max file in Prim Composer.
- Created: 2009-01-15
- Running time: 9:06 minutes
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OpenSim Tutorials
- How to install OpenSim standalone with default settings
- This video shows how to download and install OpenSim on your home computer using the default settings in standalone mode with a SQLite database.
- Created: 2009-01-22
- Running time: 20:54 minutes
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- How to configure OpenSim standalone to work with MySQL
- This video shows how to install MySQL and then configure OpenSim to use MySQL in standalone mode. The video assumes that you’ve watched the previous video in the series “How to install OpenSim standalone with default settings” and that you have already performed the steps described there.
- Created: 2009-01-22
- Running time: 16:59 minutes
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Using Prim Composer
- Creating an Apple Pie Sculptie
- This is a two part video. Part 1 shows how to create a wedge-shaped sculptie using Prim Composer for 3ds Max. Part 2 shows how to texture the sculpted prim so that it looks like a piece of apple pie. Composite maps are used to bake multiple materials into a single texture for use in Second Life and OpenSim.
- Created: 2009-04-03
- Running time: Part 1 (16:04 minutes), Part 2 (25:29 minutes)
- Watch Part 1
- Watch Part 2
- Creating a Table Sculptie
- This is a two part video. Part 1 shows how to create a simple, four-legged table sculptie using Prim Composer for 3ds Max. Part 2 shows how to texture the table.
- Created: 2009-06-13
- Running time: Part 1 (20:10 minutes), Part 2 (coming soon)
- Watch Part 1
- Using Maxport to upload builds to OpenSim and Second Life
- This video shows how export a build out of 3ds Max and then upload it to Second Life or OpenSim using the Maxport command-line program.
- Created: 2009-01-23
- Running time: 20:04 minutes
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- Using Maxproxy to export builds from OpenSim and Second Life
- This video shows how export a build out of Second Life or OpenSim using Maxproxy and then import the build into 3ds Max. Once exported, the build can also be re-uploaded using Maxport to a different grid.
- Created: 2009-01-24
- Running time: 17:05 minutes
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- Tip: Fixing Problems with the Bend Modifier
- Someone noticed problems when using the bend and other procedural modifiers with sculpties. The original post is here.
It turns out that this is a side-effect of non-uniformly scaling the sculptie at the object level. This video tip shows how the problem arises and how to work around it.
Important: This is one of the reasons that you often read the advice: “do not scale meshes at the object level”. If you scale at the sub-object level (vertices and faces), then you avoid the problem completely.
- Created: 2009-02-02
- Running time: 10:08 minutes
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- Someone noticed problems when using the bend and other procedural modifiers with sculpties. The original post is here.
- Composite Sculpties in 1.2
- The most significant improvement in 1.2 was the introduction of Composite Sculpties.
- Create a composite object within 3ds Max that is comprised of several sculptie sub-object elements.
- Export the composite object as a collection of sculpted prims that connect seamlessly and appear to be a single larger mesh.
This video that shows how you can create a 40m long “tunnel” that looks like it is a single mesh, but is actually composed of eight sculpted prims.
- Created: 2009-02-20
- Running time: 7:06 minutes
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- The most significant improvement in 1.2 was the introduction of Composite Sculpties.
- Sculptmap Generation Algorithms in 1.2
- Prim Composer 1.2 introduced some new algorithms for generating sculptmaps. This video describes how to use them.
- Created: 2009-02-20
- Running time: 13:05 minutes
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- Working with Size Limits
- Prim Composer 1.2 introduced the ability to turn off/on the prim size limits. This video describes how size limits work and how to turn them off if they are causing problems.
Turning off size limits can be useful when working at the sub-object level because size limits can cause the editor to randomly pop out of sub-object mode. See this forum thread for a more information of the sub-object editing problem.
- Created: 2009-02-20
- Running time: 14:00 minutes
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- Prim Composer 1.2 introduced the ability to turn off/on the prim size limits. This video describes how size limits work and how to turn them off if they are causing problems.
- Using the Symmetry Modifier
- In 3ds Max, the Symmetry modifier allows you to mirror a mesh about an X, Y, or Z plane.
This video describes how to use symmetry with sculpties and the tricks that are needed to make it work.
- Created: 2009-03-06
- Running time: 10:51 minutes
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- In 3ds Max, the Symmetry modifier allows you to mirror a mesh about an X, Y, or Z plane.
See also: Prim Composer – Support.
The video tutorials are clear and useful.
Videos made it very easy to set up my stand alone sim…thanks
Would like to see more about setting up a grid and setting up for users.
Great I hope it comes any soon video-tutos so helpful both topics; prim composer & setting up opensim.
I’m willing to watch Creating a Table Sculptie “part 2″. Hope it comes any soon.
Thanks for the amazing video-tutorials.
I tried OpenSIM 0.6.6 Windows Installer (Post-fixes version r9993) in a xp pro sp3 32bits it worked just fine as standalone with default settings, now when I tried to migrate to mysql first I encountered the OpenSim.ini doesn’t mention at all the asset_plugin and so on, however following my instincts I thought it could be done through the standalone.ini, standalonecommon.ini and configuring cenomecache.ini but I never got the asset migration to mysql as you did in the video. Any idea? All seems to migrate to mysql except the assets, I go back all my steps and tried this http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Opensim.ini_example1 ini file and didn’t work either and that’s is not cool =’(
The procedure that I show in the video doesn’t migrate assets from sqlite to mysql. It simply changes the storage mechanism to mysql. The procedure is best when you are starting with a new installation.
I think if you want to migrate assets, then you will need to move the existing data from the sqlite database to the mysql database. OpenSim won’t do that for you automatically. There have been a couple of posts about this in the opensim-dev and/or opensim-users mailing lists. See this post, for example.
Thanks for the quick answer, Shack, I will analyze my options.
ok I’ve got my opensim 0.6.6 Windows Installer (Post-fixes version r9993) running on mysql/guitools charmly, there was after I finished a little issue with the inventory but fixed it just adding the standalonecommon.ini configured and in my case I chose FlotsamCache.ini.
Freedom happy customer!
The table tut was very helpful. I wasn’t aware you should stay away from the standard poly editing tools so much. I’m not sure if it’s a problem with the download but the video only went about two thirds of the way through and then kept stopping. I managed to get the legs positioned but when I upload to opensim, the bottom of the legs are a tiny bit deformed. In fact, the fourth leg ends in a point and you have to set it into the floor.
Thanks for the advice
hello i have a problem about the maxproxy. i following the instruction of the video and document but when i open the Secondlife. nothing happened, and also can’t save my object to disk, my system is vista Chinese version. i used to try to install secondlife and mayport folder under C disk useless, and also close the untivious software and the firewall. still useless. and even run as administrator. still useless. so confused . by the way your software is awesome. love it. i always use the sculpie tool. thanks
I tryed many times to see MAXPORT video tutorial online here:
So, I can’t see what in the next part of this tutorial.
http://liferain.com/downloads/primcomposer/tutorials/
, but on 8:20 min. it’s broken
Especially interested in a command line instructions. Very hard to study without this part.
Can anybody give me alternare link for this theme? Thank you.