This is also the thread to post other information about branching out into the online community.

Considering writing a program to help draw out, texture, and print papercraft designed this way, IF I get less lazy (havent gotten 20% done with tutorials yet) and bother looking up the specifics of GUI's and all that fun stuff.

What do y'all think?

Original:

The whole kit (a .rar), with .pdos and .pdfs (with and without lines) for each build is available for download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?unnu0qznmow

Probably going to work on my own version of the regular chaos emeralds next.

NOT DEAD.

On a not PC related note, the game is great, and does anyone have an extra Kratos Code? I really want one. :(

http://www.mediafire.com/?zfmtywnlqkw

Happy Halloween and enjoy your last minute pumpkin carving!

Dai said he did, so I'm making this thread to see if once its created we can see the darn thing.

(Just to let you know, we're using the wiki syntax, so the "Forum" code, or BBCode, that ImageShack provides won't work here. You still have the option of embedding a URL in an image, and you can also choose if you want the image's URL to open in a new window when clicked. I've edited your post to show both examples of how a URL can be embedded in a picture. To see the format I used just click the "+ options" button and click "edit." Consult http://www.wikidot.com/doc:wiki-syntax#toc23 for image linking and formatting instructions. Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks! ~FreebooterFox)

My wife and I are going to be in a position to build our dream home (well, minus the Batcave basement and the Jeffries tubes) within a couple of years. In the meantime, we're kicking around design ideas. But if you've ever worked with blueprints - or napkin sketches - you know that 2D is kinda limiting.

What I'm hoping to do is make a floorplan of my home design idea - then construct it as a scale papercraft which can be lifted off floor-by-floor (and perhaps even modular enough to remove rooms or sectors) to give a better impression of what's in my head. It seems straightforward enough, but I really want it to look good, with swinging doors and textured surfaces, right down to having the tub and shower and major furniture and whatnot be pop-up or actual fixtures. So I ask the following questions:

• How should I go about starting? Seems like a 3D modeling program might not really be what I'm after.
• Am I stupid for trying?
• Has anyone seen a craft like this - better yet, designed one?

I hope to finish it by tomorrow, maybe friday if I can't get the time to do it.

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/4673/modelmagiclifecounterva8.png

It's very simple, but what do you think of it /pw/?

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa170/SEBRET/xboxlogo.jpg

Edit: look in the side navigation bar, the link has been added there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zACwya3icRs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26zY6j8C0s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FleiMchhuGE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ObmsgVe4UQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEMx5lhRcg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlH3zrsmKPc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQnck6kAwm4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ65nKF_gmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USJoQ9zR3JM

friggin amazing, eh?

http://papercraft.wikidot.com/origami:mew - My Mew

http://papercraft.wikidot.com/origami:chikorita - My Chikorita

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie965YZgHmQ - Axojisan's Squirtle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SzzFvVcurA&feature=related - Axojisan's Palkia (need to watch his "Basic form of 4 cranes" video for the base)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u6Ium-oLRQ&feature=related - Axojisan's Dialga

There are more on Axojisan's homesite, which can be found in his videos.

Anyone else have any?

Only requirement is that you actually build it, not just design.

The contest will be judged on the 30th, and the contest winner will be rewarded on the 31st. Price is undetermined, but is most likely going to be cash. How much, I don't know, probably cheap. We can discuss terms. (I am doing this out of the good of my heart/wallet, after all).

I've got the model sheets designed and printed out.

Starting assembly.

My main question is, would this go under Papercraft tuts, or Other?

In the meantime, what I have done of the tut will go here, and I encourage others to join in the process and contribute their own tuts.

24 models

(I've got another model sheet (birds) but im not sure if this are actually being useful at all (doesn't seem like)
so… want? y/n? )

Prize=10 US DOLLARS!

(or equivalent in another currency)

redeemable by paypal, or if you don't have paypal, we'll discuss your options.

Entries are to be hosted on a free online site like photobucket, Flickr, etc., then posted here using the tag [[image (picture url)]] (made simply by the Insert Image button on the post editor), but it is HIGHLY recommended to keep a PSD of your file (if you made it in photoshop), so it can be re-colored later if the site's theme changes colors and such.

That, of course, means the colors don't have to match anything at the moment, but should PROBABLY match themselves. we don't want people to go blind ;D

I'll give this til the 15th before we close entry.

Joseph Wu Origami

Origami Tessellations - Gallery and Instructions

Horribly bad origami jokes

Horribly worse jokes

Origami jokes from barf.cc? Well then you know they must be high quality stuff!

Richard Stallman: Origami fans could never play poker
Origlam: Why?
Richard Stallman: ..'cause they would always be folding

Nothing spectacular, but I wanted to kick this thread off so that we could all share.

You will notice the textureis not perfect but still, the model will come out all on 1 sheet and bout 5 or 6 cm each edge. Now unfolding will come around later. Right now, I'm gonna draw myself a better looking icon.

a webpage within a webpage!

end of page :C

Let me know what you think of the concept, as well as the tutorial piece thus far. If someone wants to give it a whack without instructions, feel free, tell me how it turns out ;D

Model available for test building!

PDO, PDF (w/ or w/o lines):
http://www.mediafire.com/?wklmgzygewt

Just the PDO:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mnylqxkcnlj

Just the PDF (w/ lines):
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rvn4qg5xotm

Just the PDF (w/o lines):
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yydozgygm5y

Not sure if this is what the Anon wanted, but it's what I've got for now. Comments are appreciated, of course.

Really easy to follow illustrations so language shouldn't be an issue.
Enjoy!

I always wanted to learn how to model things on 3D(even before I knew papercrafting, but now more than ever), but my experiences weren't very good (show Blender to a complete newbie and you'll know what I'm talking about).

So, any tips on how to start? Easy programs to handle modeling and/or textures, or even some tutorials would be very appreciated ^^'

starting up the high-detail life size battle droid.

Project page found Here

Curse the internet for not providing sources for these, and just the raw.

IF you happen to get an SD model of his, and no instructions, he almost always has a section about his build process in his blog.

Here's the blog page for his design and build of the HI-V Gundam SD

http://turbolaboblog.seesaa.net/category/4746094-1.html

I copy that link and past it into babelfish.yahoo.com to translate from japanese to english. Its not terribly precise, but its useful, and usually understandable.

He's got a LOT of SD's in here. I dont know if I have downloaded them all yet.

Click on a picture, you see the full size pic. (for pattern pics, its the pattern you save.)

Clicking on "seeing more" takes you to the blog post where he builds it.

Pretty awesome site.

http://gundamandrobotanime.blogspot.com/

This is where I found the links to a lot of the gundam related papercraft. The cool thing is, s/he tries to link to the original creators website as near as I can tell.

Daijitsu

I'm the one who started this whole site, though the original idea was brewing for a little while on /po/.

I'm a computer artists, specializing in many things, such as 3d modeling/texturing, 2d art (raster mostly), technical design, and other such nonsense.

I got into papercrafting because I found Chamoo232's site, specifically the Gravity gun model. I decided to try making a lifesize version, and everything took off from there.

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What About You?

Amazing step to step guide by Paper

Amazing step to step guide by Paper

I stumbled upon a japanese site that has some Touhou-related papercrafts. And one Haruhi and one Vocaloid-related one.
Only some of them are apparently available though, so if somebody who knows japanese can find out how to get the rest, that would be :awesome:.

Here's a link to the site: http://www.niseke.com/?dl Enjoy~

I personally like this stuff (not the exact brand, i use office depot brand, nonetheless effective). Its like that roll on white out, except it dispenses strong, instant bonding adhesive that will grip onto any kind of surface. also it dries instantly so no waiting around. there is a downside. You need to apply pressure for it to work so its not too good for doing things like attaching arms and legs (like on the ninjatoes Midna model, augh what a nightmare.) But general purpose glueing on larger tabs it works GREAT!

http://rapidshare.com/files/142158029/metaur2.pdo.html

also, here's my thread at nintendo papercraft

http://www.nintendopapercraft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=834

General Resources

• Google: Learn to use the internet
• Stencil Revolution: (Still down, sadly) Tutorials, Stencil/EPS/Art galleries, you name it
• Stencilry: Another community with good tutorials and a decent gallery.

Tutorials

• Onelegout:A relatively good all-encompassing tutorial. Check their forums for more help.

Images

• Stencil Archive: An international collection of stenciled art. Great for inspiration, quality on some limits reusability.
• Free Stencils: It's essentially a clip-art gallery, but that's useful sometimes.

Image Tools

• GIMP: Don't have Photoshop? Freeware works just as well.
• strix.org.uk: An online generator. Good for quick and dirty jobs.

(Content coming soon. Want a new section or a link added? Reply/PM and I'll put it up.)

Recently an SD Gundam X model was released. (not by Turbolabo)

I downloaded it, and built it about 50%… then stopped. I didn't really like the way it was turning out. Too much SD, and not enough Gundam X.

So, I took a couple of Turbolabo's designs (the F91 and the RX-93-2) and used them as the basis for the pattern I'm developing. I'm now in test build phase.

Here's the Head

The finished model is only slighty modified from this, fixing a couple small things I found wrong while putting this together.

Now onto the chest.

paperworks.wikidot.com

THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL /po/ REGULARS

To sum up what has happened thus far:
•/b/ raids got some of us thinking of escaping
•convenience of /po/ too convenient to truly leave
•several of us decided to create a "Satellite" forum that will exist, which is free for /po/eple to join

And so, "the Paperworks", AKA "/pw/" is born.

/pw/ is meant to be a more robust and in-depth forum allowing people to:
• post in sections to keep things organized
• create user profiles with links to all of their work
• Communicate privately with eachother.
• act as a DEDICATED community.

Nothing will be auto-deleted just because it's been spammed off the edge of the earth (though archiving will still be carried out for sake of keeping free space). IN FACT, spamming and general idiocy will be at a minimum, given several factors-
• /b/ doesn't have a direct link to it at the top of the website at all times
• registration requires that you have a wikidot profile with unique VALID information, PLUS you need to register at the paperworks itself. Spammers will get bored of re-registering using new e-mails and contact info every time they get banned, and spambots can't make their way through the maze of registration.

News on topics relevant to everyone's interests will be available through an RSS feed, as will ALL forum categories, threads, and even user activity. Just click a button and you'll be notified via your RSS reader of choice when new topics arise, someone comments on your work, or when that creator you love makes a new project.

We will continue development of the board to accompany any and all needs of the users, and we will ALWAYS keep our roots with /po/.

I'm sure a few of you might not have caught this, or didn't know of a few of the features. Here ya go.

FIND IT HERE

FIND IT HERE

Post yours and I will add to OP.

Amazing step to step guide by Paper

Start with standard origami paper, standard square, no shaping nessacary.

Fold in half, into a right angle triangle. The colour on the outside will be the colour of most of the hat, the colour on the inside will be the trim, keep this in mind with single sided papers.

Fold each corner to the bottom as shown.

Fold both tips to the bottom.

Fold bottom tips to the CENTRE AS SHOWN (This confuses most people so don't worry if you get it wrong). Do this for both sides.

Fold top to below centre of entire paper, you can change this considering how high you would like your "crest". Fold over your excess paper and this will form the trim of the hat.

Flip over, and fold remaining paper into the helmet (Neatly) and Voila! Your Japanese paper Kabuto is ready!

Thanks to Dai's quick thinking, we (read:he) found a quick tutorial on getting a forum up and running. I know it's a little simple now, and between working full-time and spending time with people, I'm gonna' try to get this thing looking as sexy as possible. I don't think it's too bad, considering it's my first time playing around with Wikidot, but generally speaking it's not much different than Invisionfree, which I've worked with quite a bit.

Also, as admin I'm going to be lording over the forums with Dai here. Unfortunately, the aforementioned full-time job keeps me from papercrafting like I wish I could, so I won't be contributing as much as I'd like to. Regardless, I/we will be overseeing things, keeping out the trolls, and making sure everything runs reasonably smooth. We'll keep you nice and safe.

Now, if you guys have any major suggestions on layouts, witty board descriptions, etc., just drop a line here and I'll see what I can do.

Alright, so after reading around, my list of things to fix/add are…

• WIP category. We can make different boards for Papercraft, Origami, etc. I'm thinking that once a project is finished, we can just move it over to it's respective board. The OP can fix up their post accordingly as they see fit.

• Cleaning, dusting, body-removal. You know, the usual.

Alright guys, give me some suggestions. I want to make this board awesometacular, but I need your help!

This is where we will be discussing how a Creator Profile should be made, what it should include, what it shouldn't include and how to make your profile a winrar.

all current info has been transferred to the CPFAQ

Anything else?

I am giving everyone an opportunity to display yourself and your work in a much more organized and customized way than even I had hoped.

The Creators section (found in the sidebar to your left, the Members bar up top, and right here, is quick-reference table of users who are literally forging this community.
The list includes:

• your name and/or profile picture
• what you're best at here at /pw/
• links to your "Creator's profile" and/or website.

I'm thinking of making everything editable by regular users to avoid the whole "user power level" thing, since right now it's just regular users and moderators. I'd have to make a subset somehow for special access, and that's just not happening.

SO, you will (presumably) be able to add yourself to the list, as well as create your own profile page via the "Add New Page" widget on the left sidebar.

(someone let me know if you can do this already, please)

all is well.

Anyway, this is going to be the base of operations for my FAMAS G2 model that I'm currently working on. I haven't gotten much further than last night as I still can only see my background image in the camera viewpoint, where the image is garbled up a bit and of course it can't serve it's purpose as reference if the object I'm trying to use it for isn't at the exact same angle.

First few pics:

This was the very first render made of the model, so as you can see it's more of a carved out block of iron. The lighting doesn't show it but I've already cut out the area where you can theoretically insert magazines in later.

So there ya have it, the first project posted on /pw/. I feel so proud of the child of my labor that he was able to take such a significant step for his kind!

Now Chamoo, get your ass and your D0g over here this instant!

Above all else, this place is to remain clean. Trolling and spamming will be culled to a minimum just by having this place separated from 4chan, but this still means we have to behave ourselves and create a community that will be inviting to newcomers who aren't hardened by the abuse 4chan has put us through.

that means:

• No Flaming. We're here to be part of a community, not to be two sides of a riot. Posts that are demeaning in nature will be warned, threats and violence gets you in some trouble. Moderators don't have to do anything about you, the general public can rate you as an abusive member and you'll dig your own grave.

• No "extreme" language. Common cursing and swearing are acceptable (to a degree, of course), but some of the stuff that rotates commonly about 4chan is going to be a bannable offense, mostly on grounds of flaming. Hopefully soon we can implement a word filter to avoid problems in the future.

• No shock images. This includes (but is not limited to) sexually explicit images of ALL depictions, pictures depicting death or masochistic acts, Shock-Site Classics (not saying anything, you know what they are), and so on. If you want this stuff, just go back to 4chan, there's no shortage of supply.

-list will be updated as I get to it.-

I'm putting this here to offer you some suggestions, and to let the other members post ideas as they come in.

1. Your little tags idea, showing what each post is about? THAT would be a cool feature to impliment. I don't know much about this specific program (read: nothing) but it should be a simple matter to add the button selection process to your CREATE THREAD page. Then, in the FORUM, there's usually a tag showing the post "status" (ie. HOT, BUSY, Slow, etc) you could just replace the lines of code that tell the main forum software to display this icon with your custom icon.

2. A General discussion section, maybe in the ANNOUNCEMENTS forum, so we can have non-post specific topics. This should help absorb some of the cross chat that would otherwise be bound to pop up in most of the threads. Ya, we haven't been too active in /po/ but maybe now that we have a home, we'll start seeing multilingual visitors.

3. Maybe an IRC channel as well, or a "chatbox" style plugin. (you can see a chatbox in action on the e-107 forum main site @ www.e107.com) Again, its a place for members to blow off steam (and spam) without spamming up the forums. (think of it as a /po/st without pics) THIS HAS BEEN ACHIEVED THANKS TO YOU! ~Paper

4. File Uploads: I see that images are allowed, what about different filetypes. PDF of course, but what about .zip .rar .7z or other archive files. The only thing to watch out for is 1. file size. Some of these things are bound to get huge. and 2. VIRUS or TROJAN. That's why the files uploaded are limited. Also I'm not sure what kind of coding (html, php, etc) can be entered into the post area's. You might consider disabling some of these. My webforum got hacked up pretty bad and it took me 3 weeks to fix it because some member loaded a PHP file he thought was cool, and turned out it had an embedded hijack tool in it, that invaded the site, and turned it into a porn site for 24 hours. (try explaining that to you 14 year old nephew when he comes to see the site you're running… not fun)

Other than those 4, that's all I can think of at the moment.

If you need any help, give a holler. I have a few years of Forum Ownership/Admin/Moderator status on other forums(www.evamade.net is mine), so if you need to bounce ideas off someone, don't hesitate.