Not long ago Second Life introduced sculpted prims. These are intended to enable residents to make more organic shapes than those possible with the fairly crude built-in modelling tools.

Sculpted prims work by taking a texture and using it as a shape map. This makes them pretty unintuitive to use. Now there is a free tool that aims to make the process considerably easier.

The makers of Plopp, modelling software designed for children have released PloppSL, which “allows you to create intriguing Sculpted Prims for SecondLife™ easily. Both texture and model are created in one step. Simply paint the front and back side of your model and it will be converted to a Sculpted Prim by PloppSL.”

This looks interesting!