Anonymous at Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:35:39 UTC No. 872286

>>872284
shoulda bought a resin printer for these purposes

Anonymous at Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:40:23 UTC No. 872288

>>872286
Where do I get models to print?

Anonymous at Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:52:17 UTC No. 872292

>clueless morons buy 3D printer without doing even bare minimum of research

Anonymous at Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:15:23 UTC No. 872371

>>872284
>Plastic filament printer for characters printing
NGMI

Anonymous at Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:17:47 UTC No. 872372

>>872284
Expect the quality of the right print

Anonymous at Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:30:35 UTC No. 872381

>fdm printer for character models
lol enjoy your shit detail and printer lines.

Anonymous at Mon, 27 Dec 2021 21:08:00 UTC No. 872385

>>872372
>that one painted nipple in the back

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Dec 2021 01:55:59 UTC No. 872431

>>872372
what was used to print the left?

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Dec 2021 05:22:02 UTC No. 872455

>>872431
resin printer

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:55:15 UTC No. 872503

>>872372
Filament printing can give some pretty great results similar to the left. I can tell from a mile away the right titcow was printed using shitty filament.

If you want to print tiny figurines for painting then resin is the way to go. If you want to print functional models or large toys then filament is the way to go. Filament looks like shit when painted but there are a ton of color options to choose from.

You can print with filament anything you can print with resin but you have to scale it up to twice its size at least for miniatures.

Filament takes longer to print but the build-plate is larger and the cost for material is cheaper. Resin giver quicker prints but have tiny build-plates because the cost of resin will easily exceed the cost of the printer in a few months.

Resin printers requires a lot of trial-and-error before you get going but once you figure everything out you're all set. Filament printers are ready-to-go straight from the box but you'll find that sometimes prints fail for no real discernable reason.

For about 500$ you can get both.

There are a lot of top-tier free models on Cults: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/a-spartan-action-figure

>>872284
>I'm looking for Bloodborne/Dark Souls STL files desu do I have to import the models into blender clean up and then use it as a test if I can't find a solution?

All I need to know you're not only new to 3D printing but also new to 3D. Bro, you can't 3D-print normal maps. And you can't really sell print-ready STL's of copyrighted characters therefore nobody bothers with popular IP's (unless it's some cartoony shit cause those are easy to sculpt).

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:32:38 UTC No. 872527

>>872455
I don't have a resin printer for now I think. So if I had a resin printer, it'd come out looking like the right?

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:55:06 UTC No. 872542

>>872527
you think? surely you know what printer you have

Anonymous at Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:36:00 UTC No. 872608

>>872527
Both resin and filament printers print layer by layer. In both cases these layers are visible to the naked eye. However due to how filament is laid down the layers become more visible. It's due to the curved edge of the layers which captures light better i.e. they have stronger shadows. In the case of resin the edges of the layers are more or less straight which means they have weaker shadows but they're still visible under strong light.

TL;DR
Filament layers have AO whereas resin layers don't.aj0rh

Anonymous at Wed, 29 Dec 2021 04:47:19 UTC No. 872625

>>872292
This. So many times this.
>YOU CAN DO SO MUCH WITH A 3D PRINTER!
>BUY ONE! BUY ONE!! BUY ONE!!!
So, large numbers of no-skills buy expensive oversized paperweights.
Did they make sure to have Win10, and not an Apple computer, or running Linux?
Did they buy a fine resolution FDM or Stereolithography?
Did they spend the last few years developing modeling skills, or at least learn how to download, extract, and convert, meshes?
Nope.
>I-i-i buyz da thwee dee pwinta an now i gotz ta beggin fo sumwun ta halp me
An armless man does not buy an axe for himself. A blind man does not go to flight school. A NEET doesn't go to mixers.
How many of these awful "i bought 3d printer" threads have happened on /3/?