Step Two: Converting Myself to Cyberspace
As this was my first time using Armorsmith, I went in with a lot of questions. I have used a few 3D modeling programs before, Fusion and Blender are the main ones, so I knew my way around well enough. The hardest part was getting accurate measurements to put into Armorsmith. Luckily my wonder wife lent me a hand and helped me get the measurements I couldn't reach. After putting everything in I looked funky. For instance, my belly was a bit larger than thought it was, but that might have just been my ego talking. Second, my thighs were a bit short. After making a second round of measurements I got the avatar looking pretty good.
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Unfortunately, I did not feel confident in my avatar because nearly all my parts where not needing any size adjustments, despite me being a solid four inches taller than what the original sizing was made for. Like I mentioned before, I am lanky, so the arms and shins I can believe, but the chest and thighs and hips was harder to trust. So I decided I would look into getting a 3D body scan that [USER=42090]KaeSpoon[/USER] wrote about in this tutorial. While at a convention a couple weeks ago there was one of those booths that will take your picture and make a little figurine of you in your cosplay. I asked them if they would just do one of me in my underwear for use in scaling armor, and after some strange looks and laughs, they said there wasn't anything wrong with it, and we walked their trailer outside that had the booth. While walking out I asked exactly how much it would be if I just wanted the file and did not need the figure printed, because I don't need a little mostly naked me. This is when they dropped the bomb on me. They wanted $100 just to send me the file. Their cheapest figurine was 3 inches tall and cost $110 before shipping. I don't know how they figured the cost of the file alone, but upon hearing that I back out and left. I kept searching and I found a local gym near me that had a machine and service by 3D Fit Scan. I was able to go in, take a scan in sixty seconds and had my scan sent to my email ready for download in ten minutes, all for the low price of $20. So with that done, behold, my very high poly count body.
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If this is inappropriate I will remove it, but seeing as KaeSpoon did it too, I imagine its alright.
With that out of the way, here I am wearing armor.
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Almost infuriatingly, most of my sizes were mostly fine. So if you were looking to use Armorsmith and can't get a 3D body scan, don't worry, its just fine to use the avatar that you made with your measurements. In the end I made the following changes. The original measurements that I had before I had the 3D scan are in parenthesis.
- Chest - +5% (+3%)
- Bicep - +2% (+1%)
- Forearm - +1% (0%)
- Belt - +4% (+3%)
- Thighs - +1% (0%)
- Shoulders - +10% (This is to make them Reach sized instead of Infinite sized, 0%)
With this I have begun printing test sizes, starting with the forearms because they are on the smaller end, and important to get right.
Reserved for Step Three
