Crinkly prims after importing to SL

Hello there tutu;

Q: 'how to resize my prims in SL? And what shape should I use to save high quality?'

A1: You must take into account the size while modeling it, which means, Blender. In my previous comment I mentioned "Keep Center" while baking, meant by that it will let you to manage the size and the location of the model in its bounding box, allowing you to bake smaller sculpties. That will retain its LOD in relation to its bounding box size, however the smaller the sculpty the worse it will look, distorted, and the more tweaks it's gonna need. If you change the object origin's point location and 'Keep Center' you will notice the new map contains different rgb values. The smaller and further the mesh is in relation to its object origin's point the obscurer (to analize) the rgb map becomes.

A2: To keep quality == LOD it takes a correct modeling procedure, depending on the shape, the way you model is the way the model will look once you finish it and render it. If you modeled on a sphere in Blender use the SL sculptie sphere shape, except if you know what you're doing and want to try something else.

Looked to the last .png the nail looks neat. Plane or Sphere it's up to you, just use the one that makes you feel comfortable while modeling and fits what you need.

Q: 'I can't make all prims like this one?' I don't know, what's stopping you...? If you duplicate the one that works and tweak those duplicated it should work as the original did.

Last but not least, this is important, beyond 3d modeling, this is something not to follow, and I don't recommend it at all: 

"Though I'm afraid it still doesn't solve my problem entirely."

To hope someone else to solve our problems is basically waiting in vain, society doesn't work like that. There are some who tend to make people to believe it's viable, those fellows are known as "Politicians" or "Businessmen". Luckily they are not the 'society' but a tiny part of it.

Looking for guidance is acceptable and senseful, looking for somebody else to solve our problems is not a good idea.

I'm sure you are looking for a guide on this, however it worths to mention that over there.

Keep it up!

1. You got that right, you can do that while modeling or you can do that in-world, you choose your path, I tend to fix its size while modeling. All it takes is to know how much is a blender unit and its correlative in SL.

2. "but how I can manage size of my model? Just by switching "Keep Center" on?" Likely... I explained it to you earlier in my first comment to this post. I wrote: Remember you can change the object's origin point location and select 'Keep Center', if you don't change the origin point's location it won't work, obviously.

Try this:

1) Create a default sphere, hit TAB to get into Edit Mode.

2) G;Z; -2; Enter

3) S; -.3; Enter

4) Select 'Keep Center' and bake.

Now repeat the same process but select 'Keep Center' & 'Keep Scale'.

In case you didn't do it, try to read articles related to: object's origin point (blender) and bounding box. If you did/do so you should get the concept/idea of using 'Keep Center' with the plus of 'Keep Scale' clearly.

"But how do others do with their nails, tiny (sculpted) prims (e.g. jewellery) in SL then?" The advantage is: they know how, that's known as knowledge and only a few are willing to share it, even if it's something as silly and insignificant like this.

Yes, please, let's be more tolerant, lenient. The world we know could be a better place.

I'm glad you could sort it.

Keep it up and may the source be with you