Jamira's EU Collectibles

Sure. I did nothing to the drone. Same with the Predator Armour. But those figures look crappy.

The smoothing procedure takes something around 30 seconds. I can invest twice the time and make it better. This time WITH welding the faces before I start. That's at least the plan. I told OZtwo, that his little avatar will be kinda a laboratory rat ;-) He must be patient. Unfortunately you too :-(

 

Today, smoking at the loggia, an idea popped up. What if I could run Skyrim at the old Pentium 4? So I spent hours just to get the error message:
"Render mode 3 requiered. Your video card doesn't offer it." ... or something like that. Game didn't start, Too sad! Bad part is: I don't know if 3D Ripper DX will be able to grab 3d-scenes from Skyrim ... or even TESO or whatever. Ask for better hardware and try again? Dunno ... at least the Ulla from from Skyrim would be worth it.

 

I did it in safe mode already. The 3d-geometry is reduced in a strange way. The models do look shitty, believe me. So I use "very high" for avatars and items in EU. It works although old Kristin isn't really able to move or talk. That's the reason for me to be there as well as Jamira at the other computer. Just to be able to talk to customers.

But Skyrim doesn't start because it miss some capabilities ...

 

TBH final models shoud be printed with a layer thickness of <=0,1 mm. This would increase at the one hand the printing costs by factor two (wich is dramatically!) while the material costs are the same and at the other hand the quality is increased dramatically as well. It seems the best way is to print prototypes at 0,2 mm and the final version at 0,1 mm.

I need a break ...

 

Just a small test. I ran the smoothing at OZtwo two times. So I got the 3rd version. Very good to see what happened:

 

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by "render option". All my programs have a render option. All my screenshots are rendered pictures. The changes I did with the smoothing are not effects done by the renderer. The smoothing is real 3d-geometry. The model has been changed. This has nothing to do with a renderer.

 

And here are the first parts of the improved OZtwo:

1:8 scale was too small for me. I made the figure ~300 mm high (12 inch). The parts look pretty good to me. I will print one of them this night with layer thickness 0,1 mm. Estimated time: nearly 6,5 hours.

 

I show you the difference.
These models are rendered in 3D Studio in different modi. All the same 3d-model:

These are rendered in Rhino and ingame with textures. Still the same 3d-model:

What the smoothing does is this:

It changes the resolution and bends former flat faces toward the outside to make it more round. Something like this:

 

Sorry OZtwo, I offered your OpaloMan-model at a German 3D-print-forum:
http://www.3d-druck-community.de/thread-20385-post-135092.html#pid135092
I told you, that you would be the laboratory animal ...
I started a contest there about how to print your figure at 12 inch in the best way. These guys know a lot about 3d-prints and printers and what not. But I doubt seriously they can do it better than me. Let's see what will happen :-)

 

Looks pretty good so far. I made two parts (right leg) instead of only one:

 

Really? Didn't know that yet. How to do it? Slowly I become to old for all that. But what you have is MA's 3d-model. Have a look at my model
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wDjfDaug54PdFpRMSYJenOhQDA6JuZql

 

Haha cool! Got it. Thank you.

Usually I don't need such a viewer. I have so many different 3D-software that I don't think about how to open a 3d-model but what and how I want to see it and what to do with it. But this is for sure a very nice opportunity to share 3d-models with others. Especially to give them a chance to paint at the model and tell me wich changes they want. Really cool!