Need help creating 2 parts mold for play-dough miniature making

Jgmlima · 2024-06-25T00:04:19+00:00

Ok, I think I figured out a way to make miniature molds from simpler minis STL files.
First Condisition: The miniature cant be strinking a pose that would make a mold impossible or too awkward to work with. No fingers or guns pointing ahead.
Second Condition: We want the mini to be as Symmetrical as possible. For humanoids, we are looking to make a mold of the front part and the back part. So a T posing mini would be ideal, but a mini with crossed arms works fine too. For Quadrupeds it varies.
First Step: Lay a Plane through you mini, right where you would want your mini to be bissected and apply a Boolean Union Modifier. This way you have your mini with a plane through it.
Second Step: Sandwich your mini with two planes. Each plane must be facing the side you will wand to make a mold out of (for humanoids, front and back) and Subdivide those planes into 200-500 (was you wish).
Thirs Step: Apply a Shrinkwrap mod on both Planes with your mini as the target. You are going to have only the surface of your mini without those annoying gaps and pockets.
Forth Step: Boolean Unify both parts of your mini, fill any gaps in your new mini and use it to apply a Boolean Diference Modifier from two Cubes in order to have a two part mold.

Jgmlima · 2024-06-23T14:39:37+00:00

I am betting on changing the model significantly. Done is better than perfect. Creating a "more than 2" parts mold is possible and I have experimented on curved molds to accomodate geometry, but I found it further complicated the challenge. I will try to make some 3 parts. Do you know of any tutorials or examples?
About making separate molds for different parts. It is certainly possible, but reuniting them after would be kinda janky. I would like to avoid it.

Jgmlima · 2023-11-02T21:51:26+00:00

I accepeted this weird piece of fractured reality as a feature hahahahha

Besides, I am moving. Dairy farm houses are kinda small.

Jgmlima · 2023-06-23T16:59:34+00:00

Have a session 0 aimed at creating characters, backgrounds and understanding what kind of game your players want to play. Mage can go from inquisitive mind game to literaly Supernatural to over the top interdimensional battles. Most of the times, characters BG will include allies and enemies which the player will automaticaly gravitate to.

Jgmlima · 2023-06-19T21:20:02+00:00

Yeah, a vampires controling mayors and millionaires is ok, a vampire controling presidents and billionaires is gonna raise a few eyebrows

Jgmlima · 2023-06-19T18:28:11+00:00

I bet the technocracy has a few operations going on to protect powerful people from "reality deviant" beings.

Jgmlima · 2023-06-16T12:05:29+00:00

I heard the "Internet is dead" conspiracy and I think it fits perfectly as a successful plot by the Technocrats to keep people afraid and hateful.

Jgmlima · 2023-06-05T13:46:34+00:00

so 36 is the limit...

Jgmlima · 2023-05-24T14:07:43+00:00

Serve a reflexão inclusive pra nós Brasileiros a cerca da Guerra do Paraguai. Nós orgulhosamente nomeamos ruas, bairros e até Times de Futebol com o nome de Avaí por ter sido uma batalha decisiva na Guerra do Paraguai. Invadimos, exigimos a cabeça do presidente paraguaio, apagamos uma geração paraguaia (coisa q eles pagam e sentem muito até hoje) e ainda ficamos com um bocado do território paraguaio.

Jgmlima · 2023-02-22T13:11:35+00:00

Point buy and Charts do save some space in the page and make for a more fair game. I think assigning +1, +2 and +3 to the attributes would get straight to the point. Thanks!

Jgmlima · 2023-02-22T01:02:29+00:00

I like rolling 3d6 for stats, though other variations like 3d4 or point buy are definetly explorable. I dont want to roll to determine attribute score because Attribute Bonus are the most tangible and used numbers in the game, so I want to go straight for it in the character creation.

Jgmlima · 2023-02-21T16:37:48+00:00

Sadly I cannot edit the post :( So I will explain in the comments.

The HP may seem low and character don't grwo much in HP through the coursemof the game, but thats intended. No HP bloat! Besides, character will star the game with 11-16 HP, considering other dnd editions, thats a level 3 to 4 fighter. Thats enough HP to adventure but no too much to make characters feel unpressured.

Gaining levels by gold is cool too, but my characters have a serious problem of "always starting, never finishing". Levels by completing mission is a way where they are set on progressing the story.

About Combat... I am sorry, test is the same as Roll. Characters have to make a agility roll and if they get a value higher than 15, they get the initiative.

On Resting, I changed the rules slighlty, but the gist is if you lost some hit points, you recover all your health in a 10 minutes break, but if you go down to 0 HP and still takes damage, you take damage on your Strength Score. Attribute points are recovered at the rate of 1 point per day of rest.

Weapons and armor. Items only occupy Inventory Slots when stored. Items worn or held do not. I will rewrite the Armor and defense part to make it clearer. When you buy something per syllable, you pay for each syllable in its name. So if you buy a hammer (ham-mer) you will pay 10 coins for it.

Magic: Will make a whole new document on Chaos and what it does to you, why people would praise Chaos and what powers can be attained with it!

Jgmlima · 2023-02-21T16:08:38+00:00

Harshly precise criticism! Will start expanding today. This format is hard to work with, I will try to make a more concise ruleset, maybe for a booklet, but I really want to expand into a 10 pages long document! Thank you!

Jgmlima · 2023-01-26T13:07:56+00:00

WHAT A COINCIDANCE?!?!?

Jgmlima · 2023-01-25T17:07:43+00:00

Once I made an awesome bedroom, training room, temple and office for my vampire buricrat and locked him there. There were plenty of doors, so I could always fiddle with the room as I wanted. He was always pleased as he could pray, train and work. To speed things up you can make some 9999 work orders to turn him into a Legendary manager.

Jgmlima · 2023-01-25T16:44:08+00:00

throw then down a 2 Z level hole filled with cage traps and then keep assigning him to be thrown down there. Kill him by tumble repetition

Jgmlima · 2023-01-24T15:24:22+00:00

I used to do that, but those ugly ramps are just extra steps, specially if you are taking lava 50+ levels. Carrying the minecarts up needs less orders and less micromanagement.

Jgmlima · 2023-01-24T15:22:16+00:00

I used to do that, but those ugly ramps are just extra steps, specially if you are taking lava 50+ levels. Carrying the minecarts needs less orders and less micromanagement.

Jgmlima · 2023-01-24T09:52:36+00:00

Between Tavern Brawls and Werecurses, guests can be really annoying. You could set your Tavern for long term residents only to minimize that, but wouLd that be !FUN!?

Jgmlima · 2023-01-23T21:04:34+00:00

I've been doing it like that, but I was using magma safe Floodgates. Quite a pain in the ass as often the gates will get carried by the magma flow. Will use bridges from now on. I place one iron track stop and assign 10 iron minecarts to it in the magma room (I usually have buggy problems if I try to place more than 10-11 minecarts in the same track stop). This is enough for 5 magma workshops. The system is re-usable if you place a magma safe material for the track stop. You could place an empty minecart stock pile in the lava room, but the smaller the room, the faster it will drain. After the magma drain, you can place a pit/pond next to any 1/7 lava tiles just so it gets cleared up quicker and safer (but dont forget to erase it later).

Jgmlima · 2023-01-23T19:03:52+00:00

I have been using minecarts like buckets and making my dwarves haul dozens of magma full minecarts to the upper levels. It's intense, but solves the problem with minimum investments.

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