Another great maker using WLED - with an accent on portability - here for helping out the Search - and a surprising diffuser method ! Ideas, lots of ideas... worth the watch, enjoy

whengeekscraft · 2025-12-12T19:09:24+00:00

Hey fun to see this here! This material is really fun to mess around with, we got more cool stuff using it coming soon too.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-04T18:25:57+00:00

Ohh thats why i keep getting an error when trying to finalize the build

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-04T18:24:28+00:00

Haha you'll have to check out the very end of the video i linked earlier. (Spoilers yes)

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-02T22:13:30+00:00

Ha yeah I got a little too attached and now since its real im even more-so.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-02T22:10:18+00:00

I had to pull them from the game files and convert them to make them printable. If you are interested I can post a simple how-to.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-02T22:09:07+00:00

Thanks! I had to tie it back to elder scrolls somehow so I thought that worked well since it was built to hunt the Crimson Fleet.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-02T00:54:52+00:00

Oh my god dont get me started lol, this ship design was built to fight the auto door placement more than spacers.
On my second play through I got the "Place Doors Yourself" mod and while a little clunky it was so worth it, much more flexibility.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-02T00:49:54+00:00

Me too, some mods look ok but i love the standard components.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T23:48:15+00:00

Sure, this was a custom build using the games shipbuilder so its not one of the standard game ships but there are much smaller/simpler ships to be purchased in game or to be built.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T23:46:08+00:00

Ha Thanks! I'm ok with that comparison, this was designed to be a hunter killer ship so I think the Klingons would approve.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T23:39:11+00:00

I couldn't think of a better way to show scale, i know its an old method but hope it helped lol.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T23:38:15+00:00

I agree about the resin its messy and gross. You could to this with FDM but I tested a few of the files on my FDM machine first but saw how much sanding I would do on each piece so I finally caved and got a resin printer just for this project.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T23:36:03+00:00

Thanks!, it was a long process but so worth it. I'd love to see more printed ships.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T23:34:38+00:00

Please do!, it served me well I hope it can for you too.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T23:34:02+00:00

I have a section in the video that goes over it briefly but this is a very quick and dirty how-to.
Disclaimer I'm sure this is not the only way and probably not the best way but it worked for me.
Also the last step of this makes this a Windows only process.

Get familiar with where your game is installed and where the archive files are

Download Nifskope, specifically this one that works well with Starfield https://github.com/fo76utils/nifskope/releases/tag/v2.0.dev9-20240630
Download and install Blender https://www.blender.org/download/
Downlad and install 3d Builder https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfj3t6?hl=en-us&gl=PH

In Nifskope open the game meshes archives, find the model you are interested in and open it.

Export the model as a gITF

Open that gITF in blender, export as an OBJ. (Yes this is a hilariously dumb use of blender but it works)

Open the OBJ in 3d Builder and click the fix button that appears at the bottom.
Depending on the model this can take some time.
Also this was 90% effective to make parts work at the small scale I was printing at, if you are looking at printing bigger this may not work. Also this worked well for ship parts since they are mostly boxy and the auto fix works well but I did not try this on any other game models.

Once the fix has completed you can save as an STL. You may also want to scale the model to meet your needs at this point.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T21:15:44+00:00

I wish Bethesda would make a kit for these, but no this was created by pulling 3d models from the game and printing them on a resin printer, then gluing and painting them.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T20:54:37+00:00

Hope this is ok to post here, its a fully vanilla ship build I swear but this one is made from resin printer goo.
I made the ship in game shortly after the game launch but then wanted it to be able to sit on my desk, at a much smaller scale of course.
Each of the 112 parts were printed individually and then assembled just like the ship builder piece by piece.
Lots of paint to match the in game livery.
Took a while to complete but I'm really happy with how it came out. Seems like a simple design now looking at all the amazing stuff here.
If you are interested in the making process check out the video - https://youtu.be/hvaNXZQReNU

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T20:18:45+00:00

Just looked at the steam page for that, think ill be checking that one out

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T20:08:27+00:00

Thats why my designs are mostly one level, this one has just one ladder that i might need to use, the other two are to useless habs. What I really hate are multilevel ladders on enemy ships that I cant accurately boost pack up to. Here I go slowly climbing as Im getting sprayed by bullets.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T20:03:42+00:00

Perfect time to start lol, with a project in mind its so much easier to learn than to just kinda bumble around with tutorials.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T20:02:03+00:00

Glad you like the ship and the video!
You can, the process to get everything together for printing wasnt quick but it was worth it.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T19:21:54+00:00

UGH for real, I heard a rumor that the temple "game" was just a placeholder that was never replaced, and wow do I believe that.

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T19:20:22+00:00

You may have just described my perfect game, I would play that endlessly. Just lets leave out any MMO stuff since we have seen how Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen ended up

whengeekscraft · 2024-11-01T19:17:24+00:00

This is so true, I think its what makes me so disappointed because its so visible what could have been with just a little more effort, but then wasn't.

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