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Old Dec 17, 2007, 08:56 AM // 08:56   #41
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I saw that they were gonna do that for WoW and my first thought was...cool, I hope GW does that too!

So yes I'd love it.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 08:58 AM // 08:58   #42
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Wow, that would cement my nerdiness, but totally yes!
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 09:04 AM // 09:04   #43
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A statue of an Aatxe would be cool.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 09:10 AM // 09:10   #44
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Don't be fooled by the youtube video: that's a guy at cornell making a "3D printer you can build yourself", so it's opensource and..well, not very good: it uses open air conditions and gloopy plastic slow setting goop (which inevitably seeps a bit). But it doesn't need a cleanroom or several massive chest-freezer-sized cabinets.

Professional 3D printers use incredibly fine plastic power layed in a thin, thin layer and then specifically melt and fuse the powder in the desired shape for that "level" of the object using lasers, before laying another fine plastic powder layer on top and fusing that, over and over again. It takes about a day to make a model, but the accuracy is far, far higher. Of course, then you have to remove the model from the huge tub of unused powder and wash all the excess powder off it (you can see them doing this half way through the video where they show you GOOD 3D models), and of course "finely powdered plastic" isn't the best thing for your lungs, and so on: it's a not a 'desktop product'.


Anyway, lots of GW mesh aspects are on 'planes': 2D sheets with no depth. All the trims and frills of lots of ranger/necro/sin armour is like that. Since the printer system they use gets the modelling info direct from the rendering engine, this would be faithfully replicated and...wouldn't work. So I can't see it happening, realistically.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 02:23 PM // 14:23   #45
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i would pay anything up to £50 for my dude in real life. this is awesome!
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 02:38 PM // 14:38   #46
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Where it would be nice to be able to do it this way for figures, I would rather have high quality PVC figures like they do for anime characters and such.
Yeah, if I'm going to spend the money, I'd like to see some quality.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 02:51 PM // 14:51   #47
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Yeah, if I'm going to spend the money, I'd like to see some quality.
It'll be a few more years before you get the quality that you are seeking.

I watched that video, and it's very informative and neat to watch something like that be possible. You could quite literally make anything you desire for your own personal use or selling use.

It's very neat and would love to have that one day.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 02:52 PM // 14:52   #48
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We are going to have better graphics at GW2 so maybe in a near future, but not today =P
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 03:13 PM // 15:13   #49
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Considering it's a customized figure, it doesn't look that bad.

But, how much does it cost?
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 03:16 PM // 15:16   #50
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Yes. That would be great. I really want to see and hold my favorite character on my hand. That's awesome!
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 03:20 PM // 15:20   #51
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAt2xD1L8dw

This is one of the newer machines.


And for the cost, that WoW making one http://www.figureprints.com/Help/FAQ.aspx

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$99.95 plus $14.95 Shipping and Handling to any address in the US and Canada.

They probably have an older machine.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 03:47 PM // 15:47   #52
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That looks mad cool.

Even if the quality isn't that great, I'd still like one.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 04:39 PM // 16:39   #53
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I wonder if they have a license from Blizzard - after all, they are making money from Blizzard IP...

Edit: indeed they do...
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 04:42 PM // 16:42   #54
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Anyway, lots of GW mesh aspects are on 'planes': 2D sheets with no depth. All the trims and frills of lots of ranger/necro/sin armour is like that. Since the printer system they use gets the modelling info direct from the rendering engine, this would be faithfully replicated and...wouldn't work. So I can't see it happening, realistically.
Who would want to?

If i was paying for something like this, i'd want to base it off high polycount models, not in game models.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 04:47 PM // 16:47   #55
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It'll be a few more years before you get the quality that you are seeking.

I watched that video, and it's very informative and neat to watch something like that be possible. You could quite literally make anything you desire for your own personal use or selling use.

It's very neat and would love to have that one day.

Yeah, I've seen something like that before in the college courses I've taken and this sort of mass customization is sort of an emerging technology.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 05:53 PM // 17:53   #56
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Crazy.
I could one day actually make my own real GW adventures under my bed sheets at night.

And I can't believe it, but I'm hitting 'post' on this one.
Raziel Selisuur vs. The Power Rangers: Ultimate showdown!1!

Yeah now I'm sold.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 05:54 PM // 17:54   #57
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Hmmm... $115 seems to be just the threshold of what I would pay.

It would have to look better then the WoW figures, however (I can't tell if the "quality" issue is based more on the source material, or the production process... )



Snark Comment: For Guild Wars, they could probably just make a Warrior in full Primeval Armor and satisfy a majority of players!
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 05:54 PM // 17:54   #58
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I most defenitly would get one of my necro..that be so cool!
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 06:14 PM // 18:14   #59
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I would really like one. I have a few statues of comic book characters etc... It would be cool to add my Necro to the collection.
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Old Dec 17, 2007, 06:44 PM // 18:44   #60
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Snark Comment: For Guild Wars, they could probably just make a Warrior in full Primeval Armor and satisfy a majority of players!
Available in any colour, as long as it's black?
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