|
Post by verminking on Oct 14, 2019 7:38:37 GMT -5
Depends on what scale you want the figure to be in
|
|
|
Post by dafrca on Oct 14, 2019 9:03:49 GMT -5
Depends on what scale you want the figure to be in I was hoping to make my stuff scale with the stuff I picked up from Okum but if he is using more than one scale then I am even more lost then I thought. Thanks
|
|
|
Post by verminking on Oct 14, 2019 20:15:12 GMT -5
To be in line with Dave's (roughly), I generally scale to 1 inch from the base of the feet to halfway up the neck.
|
|
|
Post by dafrca on Oct 14, 2019 22:46:09 GMT -5
To be in line with Dave's (roughly), I generally scale to 1 inch from the base of the feet to halfway up the neck. So a human figure would be about 340 to 360 pixels tall? (pose impacting that as well) I will draw a few stick figure dolls and see how they print out. I will admit I am struggling with GIMP. Some things just seem to be counter intuitive in that program. Thanks
|
|
|
Post by verminking on Oct 15, 2019 7:53:06 GMT -5
Is there a particular figure you want to scale to fit in with OkumArts figures?
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 15, 2019 12:57:06 GMT -5
I am struggling with scaling. If I am in GIMP and have set the new sheet to 300 pixels per inch, about how many pixels tall would a normal human figure be? I have played around and I am not be getting the math right for sure. No need: When you scale the image, you can set the size in millimetres (or inches, cm or what ever) The button which says "pixels" has a drop-down menu. Click that for a list of different units to use. One tip though: Set the resolution first, then change the size. Sometime the size changes automatically when you change the resolution.
|
|
|
Post by dafrca on Oct 15, 2019 13:38:58 GMT -5
Is there a particular figure you want to scale to fit in with OkumArts figures? Right now I was just planning to make a template sheet. When I was doing my old 15mm guys I had "workers" with pose templates and parts like the guns etc. This allowed me to help keep a look. So if I am going to play at doing some of my own 28mm to 30mm fantasy figures I wanted to set up my first template sheet. So I figure if I start close to the size/scale I want I will not have to worry about loss when I adjust them. That is all I was thinking.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 15, 2019 14:05:58 GMT -5
OK, I get what you mean. Personally, if I want to mod a figure, I will take a screenshot of it at 200% or even 400% zoom. Then, when I'm done, I will do a rectangular select around the figure, then while pressing the Ctrl key, click in the white space around the figure in the selected area with Fuzzy select to end up with just the figure selected. Then, I select scale and, for example, if I'm doing a 15 mm human, I change the units to millimetres and enter the height as, say 17 mm. Click "OK" and the figure becomes the correct size.
When I made my own original figures, I used LibreOffice Draw. For that I worked at 100%, but always used mm as physical dimensions such as metres, millimetres, feet and inches are more familiar to me than pixels & dpi.
|
|
|
Post by David Okum on Oct 15, 2019 19:23:48 GMT -5
OK, I get what you mean. Personally, if I want to mod a figure, I will take a screenshot of it at 200% or even 400% zoom. Then, when I'm done, I will do a rectangular select around the figure, then while pressing the Ctrl key, click in the white space around the figure in the selected area with Fuzzy select to end up with just the figure selected. Then, I select scale and, for example, if I'm doing a 15 mm human, I change the units to millimetres and enter the height as, say 17 mm. Click "OK" and the figure becomes the correct size. When I made my own original figures, I used LibreOffice Draw. For that I worked at 100%, but always used mm as physical dimensions such as metres, millimetres, feet and inches are more familiar to me than pixels & dpi. There was a point when my scaling was just the pits. Now I hope, the most recent sets have been better (more consistently) scaled. I'm trying to be better that way. I admit that my scale is much more... HEROIC in nature (maybe akin to some Heroclix?) Right now, I'm using the fighter from the DFCF set 0 set as the baseline for my minis. Here are some comparative scales. The fighter I mentioned is highlighted with the red arrow.
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 16, 2019 11:20:37 GMT -5
I admit that my scale is much more... HEROIC in nature Yeeeeah, I noticed ;) Virtually every figure set I have printed, regardless of publisher, seems to be a different size, despite being stated as "32 mm" - just like plastic and metal miniatures, in fact But to be honest, even the printer and application you use can affect the final print-out. So now, before I print up a set of figures, I print a draft, grey-scale copy to assess the print size, physically measure it and then print high quality, colour figures.
|
|
|
Post by dafrca on Oct 16, 2019 12:08:23 GMT -5
Isn't that the truth. I can show you some crazy figure sizes. In GWs case even from the same company you have figures that are very different scales (and no, I don't mean the resent move from heroic 30mm to heroic 38mm LOL) This is why I have restricted myself to only a few sources so they look close enough for table use. But there are a few I liked the look but they print large or small or without black outline etc. I just don't seem to have the skill to "fix" the figures to fit into my collection. LOL
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 16, 2019 12:29:08 GMT -5
I just don't seem to have the skill to "fix" the figures to fit into my collection. I would leave them as there are, but print at a different scale - for example, to match the "28 mm" scale figures for Gun Crawl by Ebbles, I printed my Retro SciFi figures (by Dave, here), at 73 %.
|
|
|
Post by dafrca on Oct 16, 2019 13:45:44 GMT -5
I just don't seem to have the skill to "fix" the figures to fit into my collection. I would leave them as there are, but print at a different scale - for example, to match the "28 mm" scale figures for Gun Crawl by Ebbles, I printed my Retro SciFi figures (by Dave, here), at 73 %. But when you print them at 73% don't they start to look too skinny? Doesn't it impact their overall look?
|
|
|
Post by verminking on Oct 17, 2019 9:06:21 GMT -5
They shouldn't look skinny. As long as your print scaling is the same in both directions
|
|
|
Post by alloydog on Oct 17, 2019 10:36:07 GMT -5
I would leave them as there are, but print at a different scale - for example, to match the "28 mm" scale figures for Gun Crawl by Ebbles, I printed my Retro SciFi figures (by Dave, here), at 73 %. But when you print them at 73% don't they start to look too skinny? Doesn't it impact their overall look? Not at all - You can the results in my thread Darkfast Dungeons build blog.... Scroll down to the photo under where it says "DARKFAST DUNGEONEERS ASSEMBLE!". All figures there are scaled to 73%.
|
|