3D Print Steps

[leeper48]

Hi guys. I'm around if you have questions in the process. I moved to a new house this past year so hadn't done any exports recently but just fired up CoH with the steps above and it still worked for me. If you look in the gallery link in my signature you'll see I have been able to add bump map textures which adds a lot more details but that is a several hour process. The raw export without texture is 10-15 mins once you have everything setup.

 

Drop a DM if need anything answered and good luck.

[kanga]

1 hour ago, Felderburg said:

Well now I don't feel so bad helping necro this thread. Is the OP still the best way to get characters ready to print? Or have their been advancements in the last year and a half?

I cannot get blender to do a correct job, on a basic character with no aura's or cape, when i open the model in cura, big chunks of it are missing. edit , also, Cura reports "Your model is not manifold. The highlighted areas indicate either missing or extraneous surfaces1

Edited February 5 by kanga

[kanga]

1 hour ago, leeper48 said:

Hi guys. I'm around if you have questions in the process. I moved to a new house this past year so hadn't done any exports recently but just fired up CoH with the steps above and it still worked for me. If you look in the gallery link in my signature you'll see I have been able to add bump map textures which adds a lot more details but that is a several hour process. The raw export without texture is 10-15 mins once you have everything setup.

 

Drop a DM if need anything answered and good luck.

Don't suppose you can tell me whats wrong?

 

[leeper48]

Here is a video of me going through the process as well as some steps that might help with the results with the funky geometry. I hope this helps others with the same situation.

 

 

[kanga]

first attempt after that video! 😄

[leeper48]

Here is an updated video. Kanga pointed out that some of my shortcut keys in the last video didn't line up with the default Blender setup, so I installed Blender fresh on a different computer without any aftermarket addons so the UI and shortcuts should look like the default.