Character models

[Kaizen]

I know someone who has character, npc and object models for this game.
I'm considering 3D printing both versions of the tachikoma. Both the friendly and enemy types.
Has anyone else done this before?

[GGbro]

I'll buy your printings!

[Channel 3 Budget Broadcast]

Like how everyone is just "shut up and take my money" mode

[Loco]

We did this at work when we got a 3d printer in our area. We occasionally got to try the thing out (a.k.a. goofed off with it when the boss wasn't around), did a few characters, one of which was a tachikoma.

It's cool to see it being made but in my opinion you're better off buying the model kits and putting them together or the various premade figures.

[ShunTheWitch]

Really miss the different tachikoma parts they had, sure only one set of different parts but they looked unique, thats honestly what I miss the most was my tachikoma.

[Kaizen]

So it's been almost a year since I started and I'm happy to say I managed to get working files for classic and FAO tachikoma, as well as the enemy version.

I've been working on stripping down the individual parts to make them printable, I'll find somewhere to post pictures of the process at some point.

[GiantPipeWrench]

any chance you were able to rip the models of the enemy players? I thought some of those were cool and might like to keep them around for projects

[GuRu Asaki]

as well as the enemy version.

That probably means yes... But i'm just guessing

[Seven]

i want to buy 3d model pls

[Kaizen]

Quick update:

I have the models for all the characters, including some outfit variants.
This includes enemy skins too. Currently, they're unrigged, so they're unposable, but I'm working on that.

Unfortunately, life has found many ways of getting in the way of this project, but I'm still working on it in my free time.

[Raider1]

Originally posted by Kaizen:

Quick update:

I have the models for all the characters, including some outfit variants.
This includes enemy skins too. Currently, they're unrigged, so they're unposable, but I'm working on that.

Unfortunately, life has found many ways of getting in the way of this project, but I'm still working on it in my free time.

Is a 3d-printed action figure of Major possible at all?

[Kaizen]

Originally posted by Raider1:

Is a 3d-printed action figure of Major possible at all?

It is. I will experiment with layouts starting with her standard model.

I will try to separate the figure into sections so it can be printed in different base colour groups.
It should help with improving the detail too. It might take me a while though, so bear with me.

[Raider1]

Originally posted by Kaizen:

Originally posted by Raider1:

Is a 3d-printed action figure of Major possible at all?

It is. I will experiment with layouts starting with her standard model.

I will try to separate the figure into sections so it can be printed in different base colour groups.
It should help with improving the detail too. It might take me a while though, so bear with me.

That's great! I'd want to print one for myself! I have two industrial-grade Formlabs Form 2 SLA 3D printers, so if I tried printing the figure, it would be really well made.

By the way, could you explain the color thing a bit more? I'm not a model-painting person, so that sentence made me a bit curious (I'm not good at painting models, and I have that kind of mindset of "it's gotta be perfect"). I don't really understand what it means. Does that mean each part will be printed in a different color filament, and painting won't be necessary?

EDIT: Will the files be free, or will I need to pay for them? I'd assume the first one, as someone else made the original models.

[Kaizen]

I'm jealous. I only have a single extruder pla printer with a medium print volume.
The tallest figures I can print in one go can't be any bigger than 140mm, and it's best resolution is 0.05mm. No where near as good as an sla, much slower too.

With those limitations in mind, I try to split models into pieces so I can print them larger. This also helps with hiding the layer lines.

While I'm doing this, I find which parts should be a similar colour, and try to break the model into sections and make groups of colours.

For example, if you took the standard motoko model, she has purple for hair, flesh for her face and neck, and mostly grey for her body. So I would break her down into those groups, and as you deduced, these would be printed in different colour filaments.

Doing it this way, I can assemble the model afterwards and with a small amount of effort, I can add some shading with an airbrush and details with a paint brush.

If it's pre-posed, fixed figures. I don't mind posing them and uploading them to somewhere like thingiverse for people to download free.

But with the tachikoma, I have to almost completely rebuild that to make it printable. Lots of floating, and intersecting parts which are impossible to print correctly.

So far, I have spent 50+ hours cleaning, separating and modifying the model. I'm not entirely sure it's going to be feasable.

I'll get you that motoko figure though, on the condition that you post pics. It will no doubt look amazing printed on sla.

[Raider1]

Originally posted by Kaizen:

I'm jealous. I only have a single extruder pla printer with a medium print volume.
The tallest figures I can print in one go can't be any bigger than 140mm, and it's best resolution is 0.05mm. No where near as good as an sla, much slower too.

With those limitations in mind, I try to split models into pieces so I can print them larger. This also helps with hiding the layer lines.

While I'm doing this, I find which parts should be a similar colour, and try to break the model into sections and make groups of colours.

For example, if you took the standard motoko model, she has purple for hair, flesh for her face and neck, and mostly grey for her body. So I would break her down into those groups, and as you deduced, these would be printed in different colour filaments.

Doing it this way, I can assemble the model afterwards and with a small amount of effort, I can add some shading with an airbrush and details with a paint brush.

If it's pre-posed, fixed figures. I don't mind posing them and uploading them to somewhere like thingiverse for people to download free.

But with the tachikoma, I have to almost completely rebuild that to make it printable. Lots of floating, and intersecting parts which are impossible to print correctly.

So far, I have spent 50+ hours cleaning, separating and modifying the model. I'm not entirely sure it's going to be feasable.

I'll get you that motoko figure though, on the condition that you post pics. It will no doubt look amazing printed on sla.

I’d try my best to get it printed ASAP when you’re done with the files. Can’t promise that it would happen in the same week though.

And also, in relation to your answer my earlier question: how would individual colors work with, let’s say, the face (eyes, mouth, nose, etc.)? Would the eyes (whites & pupil) be individual parts? I said earlier that I’m bad at painting, and I meant to put lots emphasis on “bad”

[Kaizen]

Originally posted by Raider1:

I’d try my best to get it printed ASAP when you’re done with the files. Can’t promise that it would happen in the same week though.

And also, in relation to your answer my earlier question: how would individual colors work with, let’s say, the face (eyes, mouth, nose, etc.)? Would the eyes (whites & pupil) be individual parts? I said earlier that I’m bad at painting, and I meant to put lots emphasis on “bad”

Normally I would paint those, so they would be part of the head. Eyes are quite often small, and even printing separately, would still require painting for the iris and pupil. Breaking them down further for the separate parts of the eye would result in many small parts. So the most I could break it down to would be a part that contains both eyes.

In short, due to the complexity of model editing required, I don't usually do it.

However, after the main work is done, I will have a look at making separate parts for the eyes. There is a solution I have been meaning to test, so I'll give it a try.

I might also try resculpting the eyes so the parts have physical grooves for the different coloured sections of the eye. This might help with painting.