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[Wonderdog]

1.8x scaleup:-

[Wonderdog]

I've split off the AC barrel and added UAC and gauss options, figured I may as well do it as they'll be more visible now at a bigger scale. Going to run off a print of the bigger torso later to see how it looks. Filled in the barrels as well, as they dont need to be hollow on a tabletop mini.

Edited by Wonderdog, 30 July 2015 - 02:16 AM.

[Vanish TV]

Lo!

I have been trying to make a King Crab png image with the claws open and im failing miserably, its intended use is going to be in black and white. any chance someone can get me an image made up <3

many thanks

[Wonderdog]

Scaled up the Orion - looks much better, printed better too. Might need to scale it down just a shade though - even beside the "small" atlas sculpt it feels a tad too big. Maybe drop to 3.2x instead of 3.6x.

[Solid Alexei]

So does anyone here has a Dropbox folder or something similar, containing all uptodate exported Mechs by any chance? Can anyone share the mechs here cause I simply cannot figure out how to export them, even using the tutorials:S

[Heffay]

Solid Alexei, on 30 July 2015 - 04:53 PM, said:

So does anyone here has a Dropbox folder or something similar, containing all uptodate exported Mechs by any chance? Can anyone share the mechs here cause I simply cannot figure out how to export them, even using the tutorials:S

This is a bad idea. Sharing of the files is probably crossing the line. Extracting the files on your own is ... I don't want to say supported but a blind eye is turned at this activity.

If you have issues with the extraction, let me know what the problems are. I'm more than happy to help you with any issues you run across.

[Wonderdog]

If anything, the process of getting the models into blender for art creation is a bit simpler now than in the original tutorial videos - as the blender import script now removes doubles and does the UV flip bits. The hard bit is what you do with them once its there!

@Heffay - any update on tweaking your (awesome) script to save doing the manual find/replace step, or are you waiting for the blender update to make it unnecessary? (not an issue for me - but as its not noted in the first post I suspect it will trip a few folk up).

#Wonderdog

[Heffay]

Wonderdog, on 31 July 2015 - 01:29 AM, said:

If anything, the process of getting the models into blender for art creation is a bit simpler now than in the original tutorial videos - as the blender import script now removes doubles and does the UV flip bits. The hard bit is what you do with them once its there!

@Heffay - any update on tweaking your (awesome) script to save doing the manual find/replace step, or are you waiting for the blender update to make it unnecessary? (not an issue for me - but as its not noted in the first post I suspect it will trip a few folk up).

#Wonderdog

It's almost done. I keep saying 1 more week, because I want to get the details working a little better. But I'm already using it myself as I test, and it's working great. I should just pick a release date... how about one week from today?

[Wonderdog]

Sounds good!

[Ovion]

Wonderdog, on 29 July 2015 - 03:34 AM, said:

Yeh, I just conferred with some of my tabeltop group for their input - and I'm going to use the IWM "Big" Atlas (mine pictured is the smallest one) as my tabletop reference point, and scale everything from there.

So a MWO Atlas will be the top end of my scale at 2.5" tip to toe, and the Orion will come in at about 2.25" - (1.8x bigger than it currently is, or 3.6x the MWO model export basic size - so you're pretty much bang on the money Ovion).

#Wonderdog

Found my IBS Atlas (didn't want to use the OLD original plastic sculpt).

The IBS Atlas stands roughly 52.5mm tall.

Using my initial rough estimate of 3.5x for straight MWO sizes to Tabletop (6mm, 1:285) sizes, (18M > 18mm*3.5) we get an Atlas that's 63mm tall.

If you drop it to 3x you'll 54mm, which is closer to 'actual' TT sizes, and should work quite nicely.

[Wonderdog]

I think I've settled on 3.2x - seems to give the right mix of heft without being too big. The IWM tabletop scale varies wildly tbh, and the plastics suffer badly from shrinkage, so neither is a perfect measure to go from I've found.

[Wonderdog]

Goldilocks and the three Orion Torso's! I'm pretty happy at 3.2x.

You can see I also split off the SRM and Ballistic mount to give me a nice flat base - which has reduced warping and print time to boot

I'm now going to print out the rest of the mech (which I've carved up to make easier to print - i.e. splitting the arms etc).

[Solid Alexei]

Heffay, on 30 July 2015 - 06:31 PM, said:

This is a bad idea. Sharing of the files is probably crossing the line. Extracting the files on your own is ... I don't want to say supported but a blind eye is turned at this activity.

If you have issues with the extraction, let me know what the problems are. I'm more than happy to help you with any issues you run across.

I understand what you are saying. Thanks for replying. I remember when last time I tried to export the models I got stuck on all the PowerShell scripting etc. I think I have to have another go at it and see just exactly where I get stuck if I do this time. Thanks a lot!

[Ovion]

Wonderdog, on 02 August 2015 - 07:26 AM, said:

I think I've settled on 3.2x - seems to give the right mix of heft without being too big. The IWM tabletop scale varies wildly tbh, and the plastics suffer badly from shrinkage, so neither is a perfect measure to go from I've found.

Aye, which is a damn shame.

It'd be nice if they all had a coherent scale, and set lore heights.

[Heffay]

Solid Alexei, on 02 August 2015 - 08:13 AM, said:

I understand what you are saying. Thanks for replying. I remember when last time I tried to export the models I got stuck on all the PowerShell scripting etc. I think I have to have another go at it and see just exactly where I get stuck if I do this time. Thanks a lot!

I'll be more than happy to help out if you run into problems. Just post up what's happening and I'll help get them sorted out!

[Solid Alexei]

Heffay, on 02 August 2015 - 07:01 PM, said:

I'll be more than happy to help out if you run into problems. Just post up what's happening and I'll help get them sorted out!

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it!

[Jacob Soloman]

Hi all,

I've just got around to looking at printing some of PGIs models for myself and I've got the process fairly well understood. The one thing I'm having issue with though is that not every model comes with a *mech*_scale.cgf. Those that do make it pretty much childs play.

I thought each model came with its own scale.cgf, so am I missing something or am I going to have to go the long way around of building each model part by part?

Any help would be grand

Cheers

Matt

[Heffay]

Jacob Soloman, on 06 August 2015 - 02:43 PM, said:

Hi all,

I've just got around to looking at printing some of PGIs models for myself and I've got the process fairly well understood. The one thing I'm having issue with though is that not every model comes with a *mech*_scale.cgf. Those that do make it pretty much childs play.

I thought each model came with its own scale.cgf, so am I missing something or am I going to have to go the long way around of building each model part by part?

Check out the 2nd and 2nd addendum video posted in the original post. It has information on using the Mech Importer script to grab all the parts and put them in the right place.

[mad kat]

Bit of teaser to something i'm trying to find the time to finish.

[M-Lee]

Special thanks to Heffay for help.
This my Clan of Ghost Bear.