I actually managed to extract the 3D assets from Star Craft 2 and print them, specifically the Baneling and the Ultralisk. I had to remesh them to make them manifold and subdivide to smooth the triangles, but they looked great in the end.
Comment on Does anyone know if these unreal assetts could be used for printing?
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Short answer: no
Long answer: game assets are absolutely possible to print but will look nothing like the model you see on screen.
Rendering techniques used for real time mean you want fewer polygons and will be faking a bunch of shit, like hair or thatched roofs for instance, and none of those faked parts will show up correctly on a print since they are actually just textures on planes.
anlumo@feddit.de 10 months ago
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As i said, it’s possible, but it’s not guaranteed to look anything like the original model. I’m unfamiliar with the baneling as a model but I’m assuming it’s probably not hairy, right?
anlumo@feddit.de 10 months ago
Star Craft 2 models aren’t hairy at all, because they’re really low poly. The engine has to be able to display hundreds of them on a single screen.
Some have some thorn-like protrusions, but I intentionally didn’t try to print them, since they’re way harder to get working.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah this is exactly the kind of model you would want to use to print, my take is that this is indeed possible but there are a lot of selection criteria for the models to work, which you can’t expect a newbie to catch and that will still require a lot of postprocessing before they’re actually printable.
thorbot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You were able to get them to work with extensive post processing. Models ripped from a game won’t print right unless they are reworked.
anlumo@feddit.de 10 months ago
That’s not extensive, that’s a five minute process in Blender. I didn’t have to touch a single vertex, it’s all global operations.
CaptainFlintlockFinn@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
10-4, thanks for the detailed response!
pennomi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In addition, many game assets aren’t manifold (watertight) meaning they are more akin to papercraft than 3D printable objects.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
True, I didn’t even think of that, buildings you’re not meant to walk into usually don’t even have a floor!