作为视频游戏开发人员，灰色盒子请说，这是“流程瘾君子涅rvana”：Gentle Giant Studios，3D Systems的娱乐部门，刚刚拍摄了一个令人惊叹的“制作”视频，用于立体光刻的3D打印“ Singleton”机器人，这是新的实时策略视频游戏中的角色Grey Goo。
As most people who read 3DPI know (but it can be useful to repeat it occasionally) stereolithographic (SLA) technology has no inherent limit in size, as the laser which photo-activates the resin materials traces every single dot in the object’s layers (unlike DLP, which digitally projects an image and is thus bound by the projector’s resolution). In fact the largest of 3D Systems SLA production systems – the ProX 800 – can create resin-based objects as wide as one and a half meters.
这就是温柔的巨人工作室与辛格尔顿所做的。尽管不需要将机器人构建为一个单个物体，但七英尺高的所有组件是生命大小的Singleton复制品的所有组件，由工作室的工作室在几个月的时间内由工作室的工作室打印并组装。In total, over 70 pieces were created from the digital model provided by Grey Box and, because most of the detail on the game’s model were based on texture maps, Gentle Giant’s artists sculpted in all of the details “so that they would pop once 3D printed”.
The team re-topologized the entire surface area, merged parts, separated parts, and planned the final statue both for the real-size models and for the model of a second, quarter-scale collectible statuette (which is available for purchase). The full sized model components were printed on the iPro 8000 (which is now the ProX 800), while a ProJet 6000 – the smallest of 3D Systems production SLA 3D printers – was used for the 1:4 model. Each machine offers high resolution and detail. Furthermore the grey material that was used proved to be perfectly in line with the game’s “grey goo”.
After a “geometry optimization” post-process, the parts were molded in fiber-glass, reinforced with a steel structure and hand painted by Gentle Giant’s in-house artists. The Singleton character was not chosen casually: its careful character design, dreamt up by Stephen Lambert of Weta Workshop, has made it into one of the most iconic characters in the game.
它具有类似人类的结构，使灵魂的空间留给了灵魂，心脏明显空虚，并遵循一个，单身，嵌入式的指示：“其他人可以活着”。它的使命是战斗两个多世纪。在游戏中，辛格尔顿是战争的偶像。在现实生活中，他现在也可以成为3D Systems“制造未来”的咒语的偶像。
