![]() Drag and drop that texture on to the corresponding component to color the Hero. Clicking on Bitmap, and browse for one of the TGA textures. This will bring up the Material/Map Browser. Click on a white sphere, and click on the box next to Diffuse. They should be all positioned correctly to form the hero. Once all the components are exported as an OBJ, import all of the OBJs into a single scene.Create a new scene after each export to clear the screen. The wire structures are bones, used for animating the Hero, and can be ignored. For each one of those fbx files, select the solid-looking mesh and export the selected as an OBJ.Each fbx file will contain a component of the Hero. Instead, find the fbx files in the models folder. If Valve provides an OBJ, it’s not really possible to use it since the MTL files produced will be incorrect (the texture mappings are wrong). To get the OBJ and MTL files, open up 3ds Max 2013.These will be the color of the printed Hero. Go into the materialsrc, and find _color TGA’s for each component. The other is models, which will contain the 3D models. One is materialsrc, which will contain the materials. After downloading the Hero and unzipping the model files, there’ll be two folders.The MTL file will tell Sculpteo what parts are colored what. The textures (Valve provides them as TGA files) will dictate the colors of the model. It can be used by itself to print ( like what I did with my Mini-Furion). ![]() The OBJ will dictate the 3D shape of the model. The model needs to be in an OBJ format, along with a MTL file, and the texture files. To get everything Sculpteo ready, the model needs to be packaged in a zip file.There’s a slew of other services available, as well as the possibility of using an at-home 3D printer, but I really like Sculpteo. My Faceless Void cost about $18, and measured 1.9 x 2.1 x 1.1 inches (price scales with size). They usually print super fast (almost 3-day turnaround) so my delay was probably a special case. With Sculpteo, shipping is $6 when the order is over $50. Once I packaged my model, I handled to them, and a few weeks later, they shipped me a tiny Faceless Void. ![]() I used Sculpteo to handle my 3D printing. My Faceless Void actually has a bit of alpha-mapped areas on the bottom of his loin cloth, but I figured he’d be ok. The alpha-mapped areas will just print black. Thin components are not printable, unless manually scaled up. ![]() Heroes that would not be too good for printing are those with thin components (like, Death Prophet’s trailing scarf) or those with clear alpha-mapped areas (like, Naga Siren’s earlobes).
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