An impossible thing we might have seen one day

I've never done 3D printing, so I didn't realize the plastic was that sturdy. Printing anything as a "growing tree" is something I've seen in various demos, though, so it makes perfect sense to print the caped figure upside down. I know in one early demo they had to print a model airplane sideways since that's the only way it would fit into the printer, but that was just a space issue rather than one of connection.

Capes would need to be given some depth, but not much. Using a cloth simulator where parts of the cape can rest on the figure will help in supporting.

I have my eye set on using Shapeways as a printing option and the process they use would allow, I think, for a capes without much support at the bottom.

Come to think of it...

...we could possibly print those Ascension armor pieces... to wear...

See if you can get it UVR printed, the stereolithography style doesn't have a very good resolution.

Speaking of powered plastic, can you hand-paint layers on to the finished models? (Or, you know, fill in the pitting caused by inattentive acetone usage?) I remember a friend of mine was talking about a corn(?)-based plastic with a really, really low melting point...

All I know is that if you combo it with one of these, you can automate the smell of this complete breakfast.

But what I meant was, can you paint layers of plastic on to the model? That's something you can do with like greenstuff for other modelling.

Edit : Now I'm learning about glass transition temperatures! Friendship is science!

Edit 2 : The answer to my earlier question appears to be no (I'm not sure how you would hand-apply a semisolid with any kind of manageable tool), but I'm looking into resin bonding to those plastics. I don't see any obvious problems although it may also require primer.

I'm thinking specifically about adding surface detail in thicknesses (wanted to say 'granularity') below the threshhold of the extruder. You can do it with acrylic paint, but the tactile feel is weird and it tends to deform. You can do it with enamel, but it's a slow and frankly stupid process and the end result is brittle (and often surprisingly lumpy, in my experience). Craft resins or some sort of polymer putty or clay are typically used but I was thinking that, hey, you're already working with something that seems kind of like a resin, couldn't you just use more of it?

And no. You could, with a great deal of protective gear, paint on layers of PLA... but it would warp the model as you were doing so.

(I... may have been a wargamer. In a past life. I swear I've reformed.)

you could use them to make moulds and then cast them in resin I suppose.

Hmm, that way you could sculpt on all kinds of extra detail with greenstuff before casting.

What a completely awesome thread!

Thank you for sharing this with us Arcanaville! I've got access to a higher-res printer, and may have to try this.

Things to take away:

1: Arcanaville is amazing and awesome.
2: Demorecord, demorecord, demorecord!
3: Save your characters with the Sentinel+ tool so you can edit them into demorecords if you have to.
4: Arcanaville is amazing and awesome!

This is one of the most interesting and informative threads I've ever seen. Please, keep up the (awesome) work, everybody.

Make one of me! I never had a character in-game!

Hey, you can export the Singularity pet with demorecord, yeah?

Oh, but for the record, here's a (very, very) quick mock-up of how I think Pohsyb might've looked:

Close, but this was it

This reminds me of a project I started a few years ago. I'm a sculptor and I like to make miniatures. The friends I was playing with at the time had this supergroup where we all had characters with leadership and we only played when we could all play together. It was a lot of fun and gave me my first level 50 hero. At the time I decided i could make everybody miniatures of their characters to celebrate, ans then if that worked out, try to offer commisions. Unfortunaltly, due to Real Life, I only ever got one character finished.

No idea how to post images here, so here is a link:
http://pendix.deviantart.com/#/d5dyw60

Anyway, this whole 3D printing thing is awesome, many props to Arcana. I know a guy who works with some of these things, using this info I might try to got some of my characters printed, so, Thanks . (Although I'd probably have more fun sculpting them myself )

Hi, I just wanted to give a little idea of what can be done with models from the game. Now this is a bit questionable in the legal sense, but if it becomes the only way to to keep characters, well... Someone just please let me know if I'm out of line in bringing this up.

There is this program called Miku Miku Dance. You can import models into the program and use it to pose them, add scenery and props, and make videos of them.

I haven't attempted it myself yet as I am lacking some of the skills needed to do it, but it should be possible to extract a character's model, add rigging and textures and such, and then I know for certain there is a plugin for Blender to convert to .pmd files which is what MMD reads.

I know it's a bit off-topic, but besides being used to preserve models it could also be handy for making poses for future 3D printing of the models. Just a thought.

It's not working for me...

I put the OpenGL32.dll in the game directory.

I put the GliConfig.ini in the game directory, check that it's not .ini.txt after edition.

Made sure I got all the Program files to (x86).

I renamed the OGLE folder in the plugins and it's the bin, not the C++ source files.

I uncommented the commands at the bottom of the ini file and changed the line too, added the command in the CoH launcher.

The ini file is working, I changed the activation keys and the grab work in part, I get a Frame_<number> folder everytime I try, I get all the images of power icons, inspirations, etc... but no .obj


I suppose I missed something but it's 4am and my brain is starting to ooze by my ears....

Double check to make sure you are using the OGLE gliconfig.ini from the OGLE directory and not the one from the GLintercept. The correct one should have a section near the bottom for the OGLE plugin that should look something like this:

PluginData
{

  BaseDir = "C:\Program Files (x86)\GLIntercept0_5\Plugins";

  Plugins
  {

    //
    // Name of plugin   |  Plugin load location
    // {  Plugin specific options. (See the plugins' config.ini file for options) }

    OGLE = ("OGLE/OGLE.dll") 
    {
    // See Plugins/OGLE/config.ini or OGLE README for description of 
    // OGLE plugin config settings

    Scale = 1.0;
    FlipPolygonStrips = True;
    CaptureNormals = False;
        CaptureTextureCoords = False;
    LogFunctions = False;
    ObjFileName = "ogle";
    FilePerFrame = False;
    FileInFrameDir = True;

    TRIANGLES = True;
    TRIANGLE_STRIP = True;
    TRIANGLE_FAN = True;
    QUADS = True;
    QUAD_STRIP = True;
    POLYGON = True;
    }

Got it, I knew it was something simple...

the folder name is Program Files[very important space here](x86)

Thanks Aracanaville.