HOWTO Manually Install Primstar on Windows

You're very welcome, but you are wrong! The knowledgeable 1 is Domino Marama, he knows a lot more than me, honestly. To make it even more clear, I have almost every single Blender related good book out there from modeling to rigging even game engine and endless hours of video-tutorials related to Blender (and different 3d packages) even like that he's always impressing me how much he knows.

Back to your question... Baking textures for SL sculpties isn't that hard at all, actually it's a really simple task, what's hard is to design textures, good ones... It takes a lot of knowledge like handling: materials; textures; maps; nodes; ambient occlusion; lamps; shades, all that comes to rendering. Gaining such knowledge takes more than a week, after you figure out all that information you have different texturing techniques like: texture painting (polypainting); projection painting, etc... Then you should be able to enhance them exporting/importing those textures to packages like GIMP; Photoshop; etc... As you notice it's a whole new world...

First try to absorve as much knowledge about how texturing using Blender works, there're many good tutorials on the web about it provided by Blender's community and companies dedicated to video-training.

Second here are a few links/sites that show/explain how to bake textures using Primstar:

1) BlenderSL by Keira Wells (I have seen some of the videos there, neat ones!)

2) Sculpt Blender by Murgy (I have read some of the articles, neat tricks he shares!)

3) Machinimatrix by Machinimatrix Team (I have seen some of the old videos, neat ones!) [They have packed a product known as Jass that holds Primstar, I haven't tried Jass since its early version 1 or 2 years ago, but I'm guessing the new video-tutorials should work for Primstar 1.0.0 since Jass contains Primstar plus some features they developed.]

That's a good start, those sites up there also cover modeling so you will be on your way for a while. And as mentioned earlier if you want to polish your texturing you will have to face the fact you have to handle a lot more than it's shown there, of course if you don't already!

Hope you work it out!

Hi, Jeff;

Usually that happens when you do not define the default scripts directory correctly, which means the path you have defined is not where the scripts and primstar folder are located. Another chance would be you defined the path correctly but you have forgotten to save the changes.

Check pngs 16 - 22.

I installed Blender and Primstar 1.0.0 using this method on a Windows 7 32bit a while ago, in my case didn't need administrator permission and worked straightforward exactly the same as in the images above. Remember Python should be installed as well, Primstar needs it.

If the problem persists would be interesting to know what the error says, to get the console error message you have to nagivate through the Command Prompt to blender.exe file's location and execute it via command (to run Blender from the Command Prompt the command is: blender). After you type blender hit Enter and Blender will open you will notice the console will display the error this time.