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    • KaletheQuickK Offline
      KaletheQuick
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      The best part is that these are all 3D printed in universe.

      You must deceive the enemy, sometimes your allies, but you must always deceive yourself!

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        Tripod
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        Look amazing. well done. If i had money, I would buy them off you

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          ELCroisidh
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          Hello all,

          I am very new to FAF, and also somewhat new to printing, but I enjoy both. I have not tried to paint anything yet, but suspect I will soon.

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          I found a few models available online, but I prefer to make my own. As you may be able to tell, I am quite amateur in the 3D modeling hobby, but I thought the people here may enjoy a time lapse of creating this model. (I have never tried video hosting before, so hopefully this works correctly). I have since begun adding some detail that is only only rendered in skins, I am planning to continue work on the model for photo-realism. Hopefully at the end of the current semester I will have time to make more videos of that detailing and will post progress photos here if people enjoy. Let me know what you think!

          Aeon ACU Blender Timelapse Video

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            FunkOff
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            This aeon acu looks great. Can you also add color?

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              ELCroisidh
              last edited by ELCroisidh

              Hey, thanks for checking it out. I will definitely try painting at some point. As for adding color on the 3D model and rendering, I don't think I will do much, but I could if people are interested in seeing it.
              I think that once I am able to finish detailing the ACU model I will probably try to model a photorealistic GC.
              Latest screenshot of the ACU detailing.
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              • JipJ Offline
                Jip
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                Quite enjoyable to see that progress! 😄 Are you aware that you can export and edit models from the game? They're not as HQ as your current version, but it may help with the baseline.

                A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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                  ELCroisidh @Jip
                  last edited by ELCroisidh

                  @Jip I was not aware, thanks for mentioning that. 🙂 Like I said, I am very new to FAF, but I will see if I can figure it out.

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                    ELCroisidh
                    last edited by ELCroisidh

                    Done with the details on the armor and external plating. The body details are generally less specific and don't seem to be consistent, so I may just apply effects to see if I can find something that most accurately imitates the look. Debating if I want to try and print this beast, or mess around with the rest of the details before printing.
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                    In other news, I messed around a bit trying to export the models from the game, but have not figured it out yet. If anyone has words of wisdom on getting those, I would appreciate it.

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                      Auriko
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                      /24 "Rhiza : GLORIOUS !"

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                        Jip @ELCroisidh
                        last edited by

                        @ELCroisidh There is some general information here:

                        • https://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=17065

                        All the assets are stored in the gamedata folder, that resides in the installation folder. Inside are .scd files that stands for Supreme Commander Data. These are just renamed zip files: change the extension to .zip and unpack them. The relevant SCD file would be units.scd.

                        I'm not that knowledgeable about the Blender plugin - it may be this:

                        • https://github.com/Oygron/SupCom_Import_Export_Blender

                        But I think there is a more recent version - @MadMax can you shed some light on this?

                        A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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                        • DeribusD Offline
                          Deribus Global Moderator
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                          That Blender plugin does work, but only for Blender 2.7. I'm unaware of an updated version

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                          • RoweyR Offline
                            Rowey
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                            no thier is a Blender 2.8 version of the pugin
                            https://github.com/Exotic-Retard/SupCom_Import_Export_Blender/tree/Blender2.80

                            "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" - Spock

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                              ELCroisidh @Jip
                              last edited by ELCroisidh

                              @Jip Interesting, clearly I still have much to learn. Regardless, thank you and all for the info. Someday I may figure it out.

                              For now I am going to continue to detail this Aeon Com before attempting another print. I did just get some new filament and paint in today, but I have a few other current projects to get through.
                              Thanks again!

                              Update:

                              Finally located the game data files, plugin worked like a charm, thank you @Rowey.

                              All in all I'd say I was pretty close.... Interesting some details in the upper arms that I never picked up on.
                              ACU Comparison.png

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                                Betelgeuse-
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                                @ELCroisidh great job dude! you made it from the skratch! if you need me to extract game files, do not hesitate to ask!

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                                  Betelgeuse- @Betelgeuse-
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                                  Summit battleship
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                                    tatsu
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                                    that summit!!!!!

                                    wow! just wow!

                                    I love it so much!

                                    How to setup FAF on linux

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                                      FunkOff
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                                      Can the cannons rotate on the summit? Could you edit the model so they could? (Make the cannons separate pieces then attach them after printing)

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                                        Betelgeuse-
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                                        yes they can rotate

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                                          ELCroisidh
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                                          That summit is pretty awesome. Looks like you had to do several of the turrets and radar towers as separate pieces? Either way, nice job getting them all straight, and nice job on the model in general.
                                          Do you use vapor baths in your post processing? I haven't tried it, but I was considering trying it for smoothing.

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                                            Jip
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                                            Everyone's on about that summit, but what about that Fatboy!

                                            And the only real question is: can the summit float? 🤔

                                            A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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