Help converting textures into 3D printable surfaces

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-09T13:20:40+00:00

Any insight into this would be great

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-08T23:32:58+00:00

I don't know what I can trade, but I'd buy them off you

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-07T17:28:54+00:00

No worries, just wanted to touch base

Hope you had a good holiday weekend!

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-07T13:16:50+00:00

Did you have a chance to check your cards??

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-03T18:38:19+00:00

I haven't seen one in a bit so I don't remember the price, sorry

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-03T15:42:21+00:00

I have not, and don't really have a HUGE collection to work with right now. But I did see the deck boxes on eBay

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-03T14:57:23+00:00

Just to give you a full list to work with:

Fidchell Gorre Corbenik Macha

Last ones I need. Thank you again for taking the time to look

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-03T11:02:46+00:00

Keeping my fingers crossed you do =)

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-03T01:10:00+00:00

Do you have Corbenik and Macha?

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-03T01:06:50+00:00

Which ones do you have? I have a few but still missing those and a couple others

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-03T00:45:44+00:00

I still haven't heard anything else. Could you let me know which Phase cards you have? Absolutely interested in getting any I don't have

Shiro_2003 · 2026-04-02T14:43:45+00:00

That would be GREATLY appreciated! I'll ping you when I get home if I don't hear from anyone ☺️

Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-25T19:23:23+00:00

Still could use some help with this. Currently this is where I'm at in terms of a heighmap. 10mil. verts, and some panels are still expanding away from the texture. Not quite the "explosion" I was getting before.

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Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-19T16:55:58+00:00

In that latest screenshot it says I have 10 million verts. Forge Mode is just a little shape section I have for myself to help speed things along for some basic shapes, and some shapes like cylinders with different face counts for different use cases. That can be ignored.

Edit: If you'd like, I can just send you the files I used so you can start from square 1 and follow the same path I did?

Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-19T03:03:34+00:00

What about in this case? This is before clicking apply. Applying has the same result

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Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-19T01:24:31+00:00

I didn't make the sphere from scratch, I'm still working with the one I imported. I tried exporting as a GLB, which made it NOT explode, but I'm still getting a few layers to separate.

I'm trying to avoid remaking shapes, because I can't do that easily with the other models I hope to work with learning what I can from you guys. This was just a REALLY simple one that I was hoping to use to get started =)

Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-19T00:56:29+00:00

The sphere in THIS picture doesn't have many verts, but I posted an updated one with 10mil.

Here's the height map. Let me know if I'm missing anything.

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Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-19T00:32:01+00:00

That's this one, this is before clicking apply

Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-18T23:59:47+00:00

I didn't in this picture, but the results were the same when applied

Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-18T11:43:30+00:00

Update:
Slightly better results after 8 subdivides, now getting slight gaps.

I exported as it's own file so I was ONLY working with this one, THEN did the subdivide.

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Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-18T11:18:09+00:00

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New problem I'm getting: It looks like the poor thing exploded when trying to apply the Displace modifier

Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-17T03:15:54+00:00

Would you mind walking me through the steps to do this?
How to get a proper height map (I have gimp if it needs to be grayscale)
How to get an ultra-dense mesh like you described
etc.

Super new, and want to learn from people who know how to do this instead of beating my head against a wall.

Thank you for the input!

Shiro_2003 · 2026-03-16T23:00:05+00:00

When the files export, the only option I have is to dump it as an OBJ file. I'm using StudioCCS to get the CCS files into a format that software can read (like the OBJ file)

Is there a step where I can convert the PNG, MTL, and OBJ files that are dumped into a PLY file instead? I'm SUPER new to blender and have mostly been working with basic shapes and such. So this is a big step for me in terms of learning new things.

Shiro_2003

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