For most meshes I do in Zbrush, I have to import the dae into Blender and immediately export in order for SL to accept them not changing anything.
In SL, I get a message like parsing error or not a part of the reference model most of the time.
Simple meshes seem to work ok using just ZSculpty.
Id love love love to stay in Zbrush all the way. Not doing any rigging.
Any ideas?
This only works on the simplest of models. I get about 1 in 10 to upload but if I export as an OBJ and just resave it to a DAE in Blender i get 8 out of 10 to upload.
I will take a look at updating this ASAP.
Wow that would be awesome. Just hate using Blender. I did do a side by side comparison of the DAE files each creates and Blender adds a bit more for some reason.
Hiā¦ havenāt used the zsculpty plugin in a bit but have use for it now. Is there a version after the 2010 or was this the final? I tried exporting the sculpt map but itās just a flat green texture.
I havenāt used the sculpty part of that script in a very long time, however I just gave it a test and it still works fine for me.
Make sure you are starting with a primitive and after going into edit mode try using the āmake polymeshā button from within the plug-in to create the proper uvs you need for the sculpt map set up. Iām not absolutely sure if this is necessary, but this is what I did and it worked.
Perhaps with the current sculpt youāve already worked on you can flatten the UVs to see if they are seated properly with the UV space. If they are overlapping the boundary a bit then you might get the result you are describing, Iām not exactly sure.
Thereās also a āscale uvāsā button which might help you out. Try it on a copy of your mesh and see what happens.
Not sure why itās not working on my end then lol. I followed the directions but I still get a green texture sculpt map. Just to check I tried with a fresh primitive and it came out okay, but it had a black vertical streak in the map. I was able to fix it with the scale UV.
I imported one of the sculpties into Blender as a .obj then UV unwrapped (Follow Active Quads) and it came out 99% normal. The one glitch is the endpoints are fused and thereās a hole going through the object sadly. Maybe I did something wrong :o
Hopefully I donāt have to redo everything completely but if I have to, is there a way to preserve the Polypaint and apply it to the new primitive?
Thanks
Yes, if you take a 2nd primitive and append as a sub-tool to the original (first test the new primitive to be sure it gives you a sculpty map), you can use āProject All Toolā and a message will ask if you would like to also project polypaint which, of course you would answer yes.
Select the new mesh in the sub tool palette and have the one you want to project from visible and press project all. You may have to play a bit with the Projection Shell slider a bit as well as using the ZProject Brush to pick up any little details which donāt get picked up. It can be tricky to get these settings exactly how you need them, but itās worthwhile to learn how to use the projection feature since itās such a handy feature of Zbrush.
Itās also possible to just use the Zproject brush to capture and transfer the polypaint data from one mesh to another. Again, append the copy that will be receiving the polypaint as a sub tool and select it in the sub tool palette. Make sure the two objects are lined up in the same space as accurately as possible, select the sub tool you wish to transfer data to, turn off Zadd, turn on RGB and paint.
On other thought. To get a really well defined texture from polypaint you need to add many subdivisions to your mesh since the paint data is stored per vertex (or something like that :p). After transferring the polypaint data to an actual texture file, you them need to bring your mesh down to its initial low subdivision level and delete the higher levels. Iām sure you know this already, but itās easy to forget this step and possibly itās causing the problem with your map.
Again when transferring the data from one mesh to another you need the same density of mesh, so remember to add those subdivisions for purpose of getting a really detailed textured and then remove them before exporting the sculpty.
Figured it out! Thank you for the help Nancyan 
I tested the sculpt map first then tried making the new primitive hug the original as best as I could before projecting but when I went to export the sculpt map it was still green. Guess what the problem wasā¦ the primitive as way too small! I scaled it up bigger then Scaled the UVs. Worked perfectly. Now the only challenge is scaling all 20 prims exactly, haha.
You are very welcome and thanks for reporting back the solution you uncovered. Iāve never run into a scale issue before so itās helpful that you documented your fix here.
Is the source for this plugin available anywhere?
Iād like to make some modifications to it for exporting models directly from ZBrush to FaceRig.
It imports via Collada data too, but also needs some shader information in the file.
marcus would you be able to update this plugin to work with 4r7?
itās utility is far more than just for sl but for the entire open metaverse.
i hope itās not asking too much, but it is really needed by anyone who creates for open simulator.
thanks in any case.
on another note, it would be outstanding if zbrush established their own ZGrid so members can display their sculptures live in 3d. opensim allows for way more verts than sl so high detail sculpture can be displayed and shared. along with material maps
Edit: i just realized it works for 4r7 32 bit, but not for 64 bit.
Iāll try and do the 64 bit version as soon as I have time.
on another note, it would be outstanding if zbrush established their own ZGrid so members can display their sculptures live in 3d. opensim allows for way more verts than sl so high detail sculpture can be displayed and shared. along with material maps
AWESOME IDEA!
I have a 11x11 region sized VarRegion (the equivalent of 121 sims in SL) that runs flawlessly on my laptop, if I can do that on a laptop, I would love to see what the lot of us could come up with.
I think it would be amazing!
If I had a better internet connection I would host it myself starting years ago.
I think having it on OsGrid would make sense, theres a lot of good people on there, and its a great place to add to.
Just a thoughtā¦ it could go anywhere and I would be thrilled.
Also I am getting an error in the 64bit version, Im about to try the 32bit version, it looks like most of my plugins are having problems in the 64Bit one thoughā¦
I did download and fail canāt found file on txt please give me new version so I can find download. I am use ZBrush 4r7 P3 and I am wait for you reply me back.
Any chance this will be updated to work with latest release 64 bit?
please, please.
thanks.
Is this plugin compatible with zbrush 4R7? Its not loading with the latest versionā¦ Can you please let me know how to make this work with 4R7?
Thank You.
Here is a version for ZBrush 4R7. It will work with either 64 bit or 32 bit.
To install:
For instructions on how to use, see the first post of this thread.
Download here: ZSculptyTools_4R7_05.zip (259 KB)ZSculptyTools_4R7_05.zip (259 KB)
SL Mesh has changed how it is uploaded with there new viewers. We found this out when we upgraded to the new FIrestorm viewer which included the latest SL build for uploading Mesh. It turns out (good news, more than 8 faces can be supported, supposedly there is no limit now) that they now require a separate material for each unique face. I was able to modify the dae file (in a text editor) by counting how many ātriangles material=ā entries and and by adding a new <material ā¦ /> for each face. it turns out that SL loads the faces in alphabetic order, so all i really did was put an āaā in front of the material you put in and then new ones were the same except for using āb,c,d,e ā¦ā on the new ones and changing the name on the triangle material, in order found in the file to have the a, b,c ā¦ in front of their name.
So the question is can you make these changes in your tool? My Business partner has relied on ZSculpty for a very long time now and really appreciates that you took the time to write it.