ROKURO Freeware

This Program makes Sculpted Prim textures as .tga files and Collada files for the the Mesh of Second Life. The shapes are similar to lathe products, a carved solid around a central axis.

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1) The screen shows the cross section of a solid like it might revolve on a lathe.

The center axis is a black line.
You can edit Object on Edit Pane draging control points.

2) Save .tga file

Save menu item outputs Sculpted Prim textures.
The size of the tga file is 64x64.

3) Save .dae file

Save menu item also outputs Collada file (.dae file) for Mesh of Secondlife.
Normal vectors are calculated automatically. UV map is the same as a sculpted prim.
The data is optimized to upload the Mesh of Secondlife.
If you select LoD option, you can save 3 levels of Level of Detail files.

4) Open tga file

You can open tga file which it saves.

Preview Pane

You can see the preview of your object.

You can drag an object and make it rotate.
A red point is the control point chosen.
An orange line is the section chosen.
You can stretch the object by x,y,z SpinEdit.

Disp Frame

You can check the maximum size of a sculpted prim.

Edit Pane

You can edit your object.

You can select a single control point or a range of points to move together. You can also lock the selected control points.
When you drag the edit pane while holding the SPACE key, you can move the view of the edit pane.
You can cange LOD edit level by Edit Level combobox on the left-bottom of edit pane. You can edit selected area by two edit modes. You can change it by Edit Mode combobox on the left-bottom of edit pane.

Normal Mode

The 9 control points for editing the selected area are displayed.
When you drag the 8 control points of selected area, the selected points are rotated or moved together.
When you rotate the selected control points with holding SHIFT key, the rotation angle is adsorbed by the grid.
The center control point of selected area is the center of the rotation.
When you drag the 8 control points of selected area with holding down the CTRL key, the selected control points are scaled from the center of the selected area.
When you drag the corner control points of selected area while holding down the SHIFT key and CTRL key, the selected control points are distorted.

Worp Mode

The 12 control points are displayed around the selected area.
When you drag the control points of the selected area, the selected control points are scaled from the center of the selected area.
When you release the selection, the selected control points are modified.
When you click the "o" button on the left-bottom of edit pane, the selected control points are modified.
*The stretching has limits;

File

New

You can choose only Sphere.
You can select the size of an object from 16, 32 (Default), and 64. Height and width are selected separately.

Open

Sculpted Prim Texture is loaded from a bitmap or original XML file format. The formats of the image which can be loaded are .tga .jpg .bmp .png .obj .txt.
* You can open the sculpt-map file of the size of 64x64/128x128/256x256/512x512.
* You can't open Collada file.

Save [FileName]

You can save the object file which is displayed currently without displaying a dialog box.

Save

A sculpted prim bitmap (.tga), .obj file, and XML file is specified and outputted.
* An output sculpted prim bitmap's size is 64x64/128x128. The .obj file can be used by Wings3D and Blender.
* The XML file has the information on the stretch of an object.
* When you upload multiple sculpted prims, please set their "Stitching Type" to plane.
* If you output multiple sculpted prims, you can output the prim position information used by TSUBO to a text file.
* You can save Collada file for the mesh feature of Second Life. The same UV map as the sculpted prim is outputted. Only High "Level of Detail"(LOD) is outputted.
When you select it, you can select following option.

Scale

You can set the scale of the object.

Hard Angle

You can specify the hard angle of normal vector.

The optimized vertices

The vertices are optimized. Almost the same UV map as the sculpted prim is outputted.

Save .dae and .obj file

The optimized OBJ file is outputted together. Because the Collada file and the OBJ file use the same texture file, you can use it with SOMATO.

Setup

Please check Setup Section.

Exit

The program is ended.

Edit

The Some of following "Edit" functions are also available from a right-click popup menu. When you don't select any control points, the popup menu is not enabled.

UNDO/REDO

There is a 256-step UNDO and REDO function.

Align

Horizontal Align

Chosen control points are lined up on the horizontal axis.

Vertical Align

Chosen control points are lined up on the vertical axis.

Rotate

Rotate+

A chosen control point turns counterclockwise around those centers of gravity of the chosen control point.

Rotate-

A chosen control point turns clockwise around the center of gravity of the chosen control point.

Equal Intervals

The interval of three or more selected control points is evenly arranged.

Equal Distance

The selected control point is rearranged at equal intervals on the line which connects them.

Twist+/Twist-

The object is twisted.

Maximize

An object is maximized.

Lock/Unlock

Lock

You can lock the selected control points so it may not move.

Unlock

You can unlock the selected control points so it may move.

Unlock All

You can unlock all the control points so it may move.

Reverse

The State of the lock of the control points interchanges.

Select

You can choose all the control points, or you can in verse selection.

Select All

All the control points currently displayed are chosen. When you choose more than one control point, using your mouse, draw a box around the points you want to control together, or select them individually while holding down the "Shift" button.

Grouping

You can make the selected control points one group. When you select the control point of a group, all the control points of the group are selected automatically.

Ungroup

The selected group is dispersed.

Ungroup All

All the groups are dispersed.

Smooth

You can smooth disorderly selected control points by three methods.

Gauss Smooth

Moving Average

Horizontal Moving Average

Vertical Moving Average

Magnet

The selected control points are pulled and collected to a single point which can be moved. All the points gathered there will be moved together.

Shape

An object is transformed into a multiple pillar etc.

Crystallized

Control points are located only at vertices.

View

Zoom

You can expand the editing screen. You can also change magnification by using the wheel of the mouse.

Grid

You can display a grid. The control points will snap to the grid.

Disp Mesh

You can change a control point and the display of the chosed section.

Level of Detail

The level of detail is displayed in three distances: Near, Middle and Far.

Display Background/Load Background

You can place an image in the background of the editing screen.
The files types of the image which can be used are JPEG/PNG/BMP/PSD.

Rotation Degree / Twist Degree

You can set up Rotation Degree and Twist Degree.

Relocation to LOD

You can choose the way of rearranging control points according to Level of Detail. It is only for preview pane. Please use Edit Level on the left-bottom of the edit pane.

None

The control points aren't rearranged.

Linear

The control points are rearranged by linear.

Parent

The control points stick to the control point of the standard.

Subdivision

A control point is rearranged on the curve.

Shift Rotate Deg.

You can set up the degree when you turn the selected control point with Shift key.

TGA Save Size

You can set up the TGA size of file to save. 64x64 is the recommended size.

Auto Rename

When saving a file, you can change the name of a file automatically so that it may not be overwritten.

Simplified Display

The function for a more smooth edit. When you drag a mouse, the editing pane has a part omitted and is displayed at high speed.

Smooth Radius

You can set up the level of Gauss smoothing.

Copy Protection by transparent

When a Prim is modified, you can make it transparent to prevent the texture from being copied by screen capture.

Fixed to Axis

You can separate the upper and lower points from the center of rotation.

Auto Maximize

You maximize a sculpt-map file automatically and save it.

Maximize with Symmetry

You can maximize your object with symmetry by Maximize on Edit menu.

Move

If you push an arrow key, the selected control point is moved 1 pixel.
If you press an arrow key and the Shift key simultaneously, it will move 8 pixels.
If you are displaying the grid, control points are moved along the grid points. You can't use the Shift key.
*While you are displaying the Bitmap tab on another pane, the events of the keyboard are sent to a pane on the mouse cursor.

Stephen Zenith Says,"Rokuro(lathe) for win 1.0 works on Linux too, using wine." Thank you, Stephen Zenith!

You can download and modify them.

sample1 Download

sample2 Download

sample3 Download

sample4 Download

column sample

column sample(sharp)

You can download and modify them.

Cone

Cone_17 Download Cone_33 Download Cone_65 Download

Ball

Ball_17 Download Ball_33 Download Ball_65 Download

Cup

Cup_17 Download Cup_33 Download Cup_65 Download

Here is a list of tutorial programs that I recommend as very good as a result of my checking the contents.

• SL course on sculpted prims with KJ Georgette at Rockcliffe University
• Natalia Zelmanov's Second Life Diary Sculpted Prims Tutorial Part 3
• videocgaa1395 introduced tutorial video to the public in YouTube. Thank you, BenjaKepler!
  
• T2GO - Tutorial - Getting started with ROKURO by Lady Hathaway - you can buy it at her shop (L$500).
• Calla's Classes And Workshops - Calla teaches one hour workshops. Calla has also written tutorials in her shops at Calla's Mall.
• *How To Use Rokuro to Make Scupties Calla Cela - You can buy at Second Life Marketplace.
• Kanae_T_1.1.0 Creating Sculpts and Mesh with Rokuro - You can buy from SOMA Designers Guild at Boudoir Isle(L$300).
• Rokuro y Tokoroten (creación de Sculpts y Meshes) at Universo Creativo SL.

01/11/23

- The operating environment has been changed to Windows 10/11.

01/16/20

- The operating environment has been changed to Windows 8.1/10.

08/26/13 ROKURO 4.27

- CloseQuery Dialog was added.
- The mouse cursor management system was updated.

06/03/13 ROKURO 4.25

- The bug of repainting form on XP was fixed.
- Mac OS X Retina Display on preview pane was supported.
- Mac OS X Fullscreen mode was supported.

11/29/12 ROKURO 4.20

version 4 first beta

11/11/11 ROKURO 3.0.10

ROKURO 3.0 Web Page

07/10/09 ROKURO 2.00

ROKURO 2.0 Web Page

05/02/08 ROKURO 1.04

06/04/07 ROKURO 0.9

ROKURO 0.9 Mac OSX Web Page

05/16/07 ROKURO 0.1

- first release

Second Life

The Donate box at KANAE SHOP PhasicFoo/39/14/24.

PayPal

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Thanks to KJ Georgette for help with this Readme file.

Thanks to youwoth Jewell for checking this software.