Kalle Bowo Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Hey folks, remember this thread when I was asking "how do I extract the 3d models from your game files"? Well, after ordering online a ton of test prints produced with different printers using the same model as reference (by now I got the Hand of Nod like ... 8 times? ^^) I finally bought my own 3D printer, to be more specific, the Ultimaker 2+. And it's amazing! ^^ The base is growing I actually remodeled the Weapons Factory completely from scratch with Cinema 4D, since I just couldn't figure out why on earth the printer sometimes just didn't feel like printing certain parts. The rest was printed just as I extracted the files from the game. But this little modeling exercise helped me clearing up the issue for future project. Still it's a lot of tinkering on how detailed the models can be, how to get the model to stick nicely to the build plate and a ton of other issues. But for roughly 1 week of tinkering around I'm quite happy with the outcome and it's super fun! I keep you updated on the mini base cheers, Kalle Bowo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henk Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtractor Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Yep cool .I always wanted a SBH figurine could this be done with that ? can they be paint ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I love it! =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff kenz3001 Posted February 27, 2016 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted February 27, 2016 i whats them all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoundShades Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Yep cool .I always wanted a SBH figurine could this be done with that ? can they be paint ? Painting it "cloaked" would be the real trick. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff yosh56 Posted February 27, 2016 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted February 27, 2016 Take all my money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtractor Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Yep cool .I always wanted a SBH figurine could this be done with that ? can they be paint ? Painting it "cloaked" would be the real trick. :=D Already Have one like that ..but.. but.. I cant find it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Developers Havoc89 Posted February 27, 2016 Former Developers Share Posted February 27, 2016 I WANT THOSE!!! Planing on painting those pretties? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnyeNacho Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Damnit. Now I really want a 3D Printer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff DaKuja Posted February 27, 2016 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted February 27, 2016 Future Project : "Renegade X - Next Gen Tabletop Game!" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xuanne Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Nice! Sent from my GT-I9506 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff TK0104 Posted February 27, 2016 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted February 27, 2016 New Renegade X toy line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananas Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 We have discovered how to bring the devs to a thread. Shiny ren things. They look good though. I want them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryz Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Yep cool .I always wanted a SBH figurine could this be done with that ? can they be paint ? The SBH figure is in the middle of the GDI base he printed, can't you see it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDeadlyWolf Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 O'Dear, That's Amazing, Preorder collectors edition? Collectors Edition: All GDI buildings - Painted to the correct colours All Nod buildings - Painted to the correct colours Silo - You get the Picture Nod Logo GDI Logo A 3D model of each tank - Including Harvesters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Want!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD_ERROR_XD Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Future Project : "Renegade X - Next Gen Tabletop Game!" Just imagine playing Chess with Renegade characters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorAnubis Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 GDI King - Havok Queen - Sydney Rook - Gunner Bishop - Deadeye Knight - Patch Pawn - Engineer Nod King - Raveshaw Queen - Sakura Rook - Laser Chain Gunner Bishop - Black Hand Sniper Knight - Stealth Black Hand Pawn - Engineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoundShades Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Pawn - FreeInfantry (2 of each) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 I new you guys would like that kind of stuff printing a SBH is a nice idea, indeed. A normal 0$ Nod soldier as a little figurine is already on my list. But my next project will be a mammoth tank with the same scale as the old original Renegade merchandise. Right now I'm figuring out a way on how to print tank tracks already interlocked and movable. I keep you updated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Quinc3y Posted February 29, 2016 Moderator Share Posted February 29, 2016 This is awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j0g32 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Future Project : "Renegade X - Next Gen Tabletop Game!" exactly my thoughts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 I'm printing something bigger today, 3 more hours to go Had to model the Obelisk from scratch based on the one from Ren X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruud033 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff TK0104 Posted April 1, 2016 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted April 1, 2016 HUUUUUUGE OBBY. I want him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 Construction complete, 18cm tall And I'm already printing a 2nd one will be a birthday present for a good friend of mine. So if anyone really wants one, too, send me a pm. btw. do you know who of the Ren X team created the original 3D model? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalaXion24 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Can you put up the files? I might be able to get some printed for myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvN91 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 do you own a 3D printer? what are the prices of purchasing one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted April 6, 2016 Author Share Posted April 6, 2016 I took 2 new photos of the beauty ^^ btw my friend was delighted as he received the package for his birthday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Developers Havoc89 Posted April 7, 2016 Former Developers Share Posted April 7, 2016 OMG! Thats way too much awesome for me to handle! I think I'm going to pass out now... Amazing work Kalle Bowo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNUKE1945 Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 I want one but i cant send you a pm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted April 7, 2016 Author Share Posted April 7, 2016 I want one but i cant send you a pm... I've sent you a test message. Did you get it, can you reply? OMG! Thats way too much awesome for me to handle! I think I'm going to pass out now...Amazing work Kalle Bowo! Ohh noo, I made him pass out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 It really pays off to check the 3D files and remodel certain parts to optimize it for the printing process. The Nod Refinery v 2.0 turned out to look waaay nicer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Developers Havoc89 Posted April 21, 2016 Former Developers Share Posted April 21, 2016 That's friggin awesome! Do these printers also print with colour? Would be nice to see the textures on these things as well. Otherwise its all about hand painting them afterwards. I'd love to have a model of some of the characters in colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmitzenbergh Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 WANT C&C tabletop game in the making ;p Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska-Ara Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 @ Kalle just for information.. how much cost your 3d printer.. how much cost the material.. and can you tell whats the cost of one of this prints ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD_ERROR_XD Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 @ Kallejust for information.. how much cost your 3d printer.. how much cost the material.. and can you tell whats the cost of one of this prints ? A decent 3D printer costs way too much for the average person currently. It's only worth buying if you have big plans with them, otherwise just wait another 5 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted April 21, 2016 Author Share Posted April 21, 2016 @ Havoc89: Well, I can load another filament in the printer and print the whole thing completely in red or blue or glow-in-the-dark or whatever, there's way too much stuff out there already. But I can't print texture on it. But that's why I also bought a used quite professional air brush set (pistol, compressor, a bunch of colors) from a friend of friend of mine. Both are in a model making club, so they know their stuff, and they say it's good stuff. I can't tell, I didn't find the time and patience to try it out yet. But yes, long-term-plan is to paint all the stuff, of course @ Schmitzenbergh: Do you know that I actually developed a Command & Conquer boardgame during my studies? ^^ it's really fun to play, people love it. And that's actually a nice opportunity to make some real 3D figurines for that. But the ones I'm making right now won't fit to the game, I need to design new ones for that. But remodeling all the RenX buildings and optimizing them for the printing process helps me a lot gettig some experience. So yes, that's another long-term-goal of mine ^^ @ Ska-Ara: I bought my Ultimaker 2+ for about 2300€, added a new print bed for 50€, material costs something in between 20-40€ per kg. When taking orders (which I haven't so far) I calculated that charging 5€ per printing hour is a fair price. Why? because when you go to 3dhubs.com (a site where people are offering their personal printers as a service), the people there charge even more. How do I know? Before I settled for the Ultimaker 2+ I ordered a couple of test prints, everytime the same model to be able to compare the quality. In Short by now I got the HON 8 times on my desk and on average one of these HON's costed 20€. I could print such a HON in roughly 3 hours, so technically I could charge even more money because the others do so, too, but I won't, because I'm such a nice guy @ all: I will tell you when the whole GDI and Nod base are ready. I simply want the models/prints to reach a certain quality level so that I can honestly say "yes, it's ok to charge money for that". You know, I'm quite a perfectionist and when I'm not happy with the quality I wouldn't feel well selling the stuff, simple as that. To be honest, when I bought the printer I really didn't think of printing stuff to sell it. I just wanted to have that machine soooo badly for years, so I can finally print all that fancy merchandise that I either can't buy at all (like a CnC mini base) or that is simply too expensive (I mean, honestly ... 300€ for ---> THAT THING ?!?!?). But yeah, it seems as if there are more crazy people out there that would love to own that kind of super geeky stuff, so why not Which models would I consider as final? - GDI Warfactory - GDI/Nod Refinery - Nod Airstrip - Nod Obelisk Which models need further improvement? - GDI Barracks - GDI/Nod Power Plant Which models am I working on at the moment? - Nod Turret Which models didn't I print at all so far? - GDI Advanced Guard Tower - Tiberium Silo - Hand of Nod (obviously because I got too many of them ) Which models do I want to add, modeled completely from scratch? - GDI/Nod Radar - Nod Samsite - Temple of Nod - GDI Guard Tower - walls, sandbags - basically most of the Tiberian Dawn stuff, inspired by Renegade About the attachement: The first photo shows my (currently final) board game prototype, developed already 5 years ago. On the second one you can see the different HON's I ordered online, printed out with different machines. This really helped me to find out which printer is capable of delivering the kind of quality I had in mind. I settled for the no6, counted from the left, which was the Ultimnaker 2 cheers, Kalle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voltex Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Have you considered vehicles too? I would gladly pay for a mammoth tank, especially one with rotating turret and adjustable cannons if that's possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser739 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 The board game looks absolutely awesome! How is it meant to be played? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicelite Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Paint that shit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Paint that shit! I will! Patience, young Padawan. The board game looks absolutely awesome! How is it meant to be played? At the moment it's designed to be a 2 player game with 2 dfferent game modes. One mode takes between 20min and 1 hour and the other lasts between 1 and 3 hours. Each player goes through different phases like building, moving units and attacking. Then it's the other player's turn. It's not a table top where you have to carefully measure out distances and all that sophisticated stuff. I rather tried to capture the essence of CnC and build abstract, simplified rules, so that the overall gameplay FEELS like CnC. And oh boy, it does ^^ there are so many moments that feel like CnC. Like killing the enemy's harvester over and over and watch how he loses all his money and grows more and more desperate ^^ or crippling his economy by destroying his powerplants. Driving over his soldiers with tanks and harvesters. Playing airstrikes. Landing with paratroopers in his base, then capturing his warfactory, building a powerplant next to it and start prodiucing tanks inside his own base. Let's just hope EA develops a new CnC at some point in the future so I can continue with the negotiations. I really want to see this baby on the market. I am 100% sure you will like it. Have you considered vehicles too? I would gladly pay for a mammoth tank, especially one with rotating turret and adjustable cannons if that's possible. I am working on exactly that rotating turret and adjustable canons. I want to use the hatch on the top of the turret as a rotating button which translates via some gears on the inside to the canons moving up and down. But since this will be my most sophisticated 3d project so far, it will take some time. But it is coming, i assure you that Cheers guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted April 27, 2016 Author Share Posted April 27, 2016 Double post! GDI Barracks 2.0! Hooraay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted May 8, 2016 Author Share Posted May 8, 2016 Triple post! "Silos needed!" The whole thing is based on the Ren X Tiberium Silo. But I made a few adjustments. Fore example there are more pipes on my silo, but I got rid of the chimneys (so you call them chimneys?). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Mammoth Tank ready! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherno Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Cute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSeriousOak Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 That's too much for me. *goes on 30 second hunt for 3D printers only to find they are more expensive than the computer I own* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 This is absolutely gorgeous. I prefer the larger models, especially the Obelisk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle Bowo Posted July 8, 2016 Author Share Posted July 8, 2016 Hey, I finally managed to take some decent pictures with my Canon, yay ^^ and I think you haven't seen the airstrip yet, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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