SaltyFennel's 3d Printable Models

[royal dock]

Most of the models came from Mentor's Armory which I then took into blender and tried to increasse the poly count without turning the models into blobs. More succesful with some models than others but keeping it low poly isnt an option becuase it looks terrible when printed

[thorny grove]

Question: About how good is the quality on the B-01, would you say? Like, if you were to compare the models to the Galactic Armory files, would they be roughtly the same or completely different? (asking this because I was planning on buying the Galactic Armory files tomorrow)

[royal dock]

They definitely aren't as good as galactic armory, I haven't tried printing the armour yet but I have made a couple helmets that look pretty darn good after a bit of work

This is the light gunner helmet I made

[thorny grove]

I just mean the general 3D models, because the prints could be buffed out pretty easily

[thorny grove]

looks good

[royal dock]

I think the galactic armory stuff is objectively better, my models are more meant to fill the 'good enough' category

Because mine are based on rips from the game whereas I believe GA makes theirs from scratch using the game models as a reference

[thorny grove]

Ah, gotcha

[violet pewter]

They look a little gummy and lack of some sharp edges but good work for working with rips

[thorny grove]

I'm probably just gonna get the GA files cause I already saved the money for them, but I'll definitley point some friends towards you if they want to do a HD2 cosplay of their own

[royal dock]

The hard part is increasing the poly count without turning it into a blob

[thorny grove]

yeah lol

hard to do while keeping the sharp edges you'd want in certain places

[royal dock]

I have a new respect for how shader engines make these models look so seamless

Also trying to give the parts volume is kinda tricky going from 2d mesh to 3d object

Tbh I got so mad seeing people online selling blatantly ripped files for 20 bucks, I taught myself how to use blender just so I could make them for free to spite those people

[bronze arch]

looks sooo cool. definitely gonna save up money for galactic armoury's ones, but tysm for creating these, ill use them as practice while im saving up :)

[buoyant otter]

This is beautiful! Thank you so much!

[bronze arch]

i might try to sharpen some of the corners if they need them, would be good for me to learn how

[violet pewter]

So many game rips are stolen and sold it is depressing

[royal dock]

Update, just uploaded a bunch of weapon models including the liberator, defender and breaker shotgun

[violet pewter]

having them fully textured is a bit misleading ngl cause it shows detail thats not there

[buoyant otter]

https://tenor.com/view/iamproudofyou-my-hero-gif-18489622

doing god's work himself

[thorny grove]

Just got the GA files and it's almost 800Mb of stuff 💀

Thought it'd be like, 200mb or smth

[violet pewter]

His stuff is high poly very nice

Although my computer says otherwise during slicing

[royal dock]

Are they obj files?

When you import an obj into a sliver it looks smooth cuz of shaders or normals or smth but when you slice it the polygons reveal themselves

[thorny grove]

They're STL's (so they're actually smooth)

[violet pewter]

Nah they are actually smooth, and .stl I have tons of experience with his files

[silver ore]

Halfway thru a GA build right now, the topo is clean. Well worth

[bronze arch]

@royal dock i dont know how much experience u have with blender (i have basically none lol) but i asked on reddit if i could make ur files sharper and less blown up if u know what i mean, and this guy was pretty helpful. dont know if youve already tried this, but if u havent it might be worth trying

ill prob try it too

[royal dock]

Yeah I'm not good enough at blender to know what this guy is talking abt

It makes about 50% sense to me

Gonna need help from someone who knows what they are doing

[bronze arch]

ive figured out how to do the "support loops" thing, now time to see how to "reopologize" it lol

[candid skiff]

Pretty much saying your topology needs to be in quads and not tri's. If you go into edit mode and have face select on, select all the faces and right click and select Tris to Quads and that will clean up a lot. There is also another way to take the normal or displacement map (I don't remember off the top of my head) that the game file comes with in the shader and use that as a texture displacement and get the details back on the helmet as mesh.

[royal dock]

just finished the drone master helmet (with proper topology)

[bronze arch]

i gave up btw, dont have time and ur stuff is rlly good anyways :)

[bronze arch]

niiiiice good topology = good stuff

[buoyant otter]

https://tenor.com/view/wolf-gif-24607072

[coarse fern]

Can we have the thingiverse link?

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[coarse fern]

Thanks!

[proper forum]

Gotchu

I also have a some 3D printable models fixed & uploaded to makerworld, but I'm waiting to finish a few more before making a thread here

[coarse fern]

The liberator file is corrupted

Yes this is tinkercad

I had this problem in my slicer too

I currently don’t have my slicer at hand, so tinkercad will work

Oh wait

I pinged the wrong person didn’t i