3D Modeling Characters for 3D Printer

[WJurasek]

Hey everyone, My dad and I when I was young used to play warcraft 2/3 together all the time so I have very fond memory from both games. I also just recently got a 3D printer so I thought it would be a great idea to print him an Orc Peon as a gift for his birthday. I was wondering if there was an easy way (if its even possible) to extract the model from WC3 or if there is already one out there I haven't been able to find. Any help to lead me in the right direction is appreciated, thanks!

 

[Stefan.K]

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[Kyrbi0]

Lol, I keep seeing myself pinged on these... Not quite sure why.

 

[pyf]

[...] I was wondering if there was an easy way (if its even possible) to extract the model from WC3 or if there is already one out there I haven't been able to find. [...]

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[Lordlycan]

Which 3d printer do you have?

First make sure you pose the peon in such a way that all the lose limbs are supported properly by the bottom half.
Extract wc3 models mpq's, convert them to .obj, open them up in either maya to check the model size (mm/mtr/ctr/inch) that it all works in a good size. Then opining them up in zbrush play around with the polycount since you can cheat around a bit with adding more polygons with subdivision levels if you intend to increase the quality of the shape. (like how you can make a highpoly model which you use to bake the normalmaps with, onto the low poly model). After that you'll like have to convert the model file into a filetype the printer can work with.

it's been a few years we did play around with this so there might be faster ways around these days.