The Town set should now be fully usable. This month we have Towne Square Doors. Like the prior towne releases, we've got the same sets of variations of stone and stucco. This also adds a new textured wood square door that can be used with any of the other square doors (dungeon s...
2019-03-29 18:25:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Cut-Stone corners are now configurable. With this, you can make a corner tile that has a single window, a window on both sides, a door, a door on both sides, or a door on one and a window on the other.
It's been a huge set of updates, but Cut-Stone wall on tile sets are now all converted to all the latest standards, over 550 stl files. This was the top voted set for march, and it's been work I've really wanted to get done.
On top of that, I've added in a bunch of models that didn't...
Next Step in a basic towne set: Corners. We've done these corners differently than we normally do. They are made up of two walls, and a pillar. We did this because when trying to create buildings, you will want more flexibility of being able to customize the corners. This ...
2019-03-08 17:02:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, the walls are up! I've rethought a lot about these, and part of where I went was in the combination of stucco and stone. For the 2x2 walls, there are 8 variations (so far), including 2 broken stucco walls like the one pictured, as well as 2 low walls. Getting this set out wa...
2019-02-27 16:29:40 +0000 UTC View PostThere I go, pulling the trigger too fast. Whoops. Here's the OpenLOCK Primary Floors, including the single piece prints.
Grab them on Thingiverse.
2019-02-25 21:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post
First release is here for the new Towne Series. Based on the feedback, I did a few more changes to the floors (they are thinner now), and printed and painted a bunch of them, and I think they are ready for release. The grain on these is much cleaner than the old floors, and I'm pretty...
2019-02-25 17:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Today Evan is introducing a new series for OpenForge called "Places of Power"! These will be large multi-purpose set pieces, designed and themed to various environments to plug-n-play in any RPG campaign, but also double as great throw-down items for wargaming.
This is the first release in ...
2019-02-18 17:04:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This was one of the top vote getters in the feb vote. I've been working on the pieces that will be needed for the tudor reboot, and wanted to get something else out, so since this had the second largest number of votes, it seemed a good release. What this is, is a way to make internal...
2019-02-15 22:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Should be last post on this today. Just finished printing one, and I happened to have a primed but unpainted copy of the old tudor floors for reasons. This photo does a good job of illustrating what I think the advantages are on the new approach.
As a side note, I also discover...
Here's an stl of the beta wood texture. I should have been more specific about what I was optimizing for, because I do still like the old wood texture as a model. The problem is that it prints terribly. With that detail on the X & Y, much of it is actually smaller than 0.4mm...
2019-02-08 21:17:07 +0000 UTC View Post
So I've started on the tudor rebuild process. First order of business was to create a new process for making wood planks. This is my first cut. Left is a square from the existing tudor tiles. Right is my first cut at a new wood style.
What do you all think?
One of the things I love doing is giving more exposure to other fantastic modelers in the Thingiverse community. If you have not seen the awesome miniatures published by Valandar you need to. He's been ...
2019-02-04 17:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first tile created using our new patron voting process. This month they voted for Dungeon Stone as a set, and Stairs as the tile. I've done stairs before, but I felt the prior designs lacked in ability to be usable for game play. If people want me to, I can still loo...
2019-01-31 13:47:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Evan has something a little different for us today! This is a set-piece for a cavern entrance, featuring the exterior with some large dilapidated pillars, a rune drawn placard and cave etching on the entrance, and rocky inside of the cave wall. This piece was designed with the intent of addition ...
2019-01-29 22:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a long time, and I really needed to finally close out the elemental shrines. Since I was using the wiccan model of 4 earthly elements spirit, this, the last shrine is the spirit shrine.
Realizing that the pentacle was a star surrounded by a circle, it seemed natural to make this r...
2019-01-25 19:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostMany of us need lots of 5mm sphere magnets. I know I burn through enough that some day there will be a neodymium mine in china that has a plaque dedicated in my honor (probably not). I just ran into a deal that's 1000 for $28. Shipping is in the $16 range, so when I bought 2000,...
2019-01-24 15:50:20 +0000 UTC View PostVoting for January is over. I'll start the vote for Feb the week before the start of Feb so that I know the result before the month starts instead of half way through it. It was a tight race for which set, but Dungeon stone came out on top. Inside dungeon stone, the most votes w...
2019-01-11 21:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a Dark Elf Sentry Tower! The tower is modular and can be stacked to any height. It's a smaller tower (2x2" pieces) designed to hold a single mini on each floor or top. There are 3 floor varieties: First floor w/ door, upper floor with lantern globes, and upper floor with windows. There's ...
2019-01-11 19:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This set adds alcoves. I've needed these tiles many times in my own games, so this release is born of my own GMing frustration. They let you add flair to a hallway or other rooms that can still be out of the way of gameplay.
This set adds alcoves, along with alcoves with windows and doors....
As promised, here is the floor release. This is all still very experimental, so please, try it, and give me your thoughts.
Grab the files on Thingiverse and let me know what you think in the comments!
2018-12-27 22:08:17 +0000 UTC
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This is first and foremost an experiment. For at least a year, I've been noodling on why I'm not a huge fan of the approach that has been taken generally towards caverns, and a big piece to me was that caverns needed to be able to go off in any direction. Well, that idea has been banging ar...
2018-12-27 22:06:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I couldn't help it, the pun had to happen. Lots of castles and dungeons features niches where you can find all manor of things. Small shrines, scrolls, swords, clues for a puzzle, statues? The possibilities are unlimited. Unlike a normal release where I'm doing a ton of file ...
2018-12-19 17:54:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Evan has created a beautiful new Openforge building. This OpenForge release includes everything required to make an oriental pagoda for all your martial combat, sage wisdom, or quiet meditation needs.
Included are:
Many people also gave feedback that the pillars were too perfectly uniform in size and shape. I figured out a way to change that as well. It's not visible in all the pictures, but this one shows it off pretty well - the basalt pillars are now also not uniform in shape and size.
2018-11-29 15:10:52 +0000 UTC View Post
After the release of the Volcanic Cavern floors and walls were released, I got a ton of useful feedback on them, and as most of you know, I polled you all to determine what direction the set should go in. Well, the poll came up exactly tied between medium and large pillars, so I decided to go ...
2018-11-29 15:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We're inching closer to completion of the base set of Dungeon Stone. This release, we have arched doors for curved tiles. We also tossed in some curved floors so that you can do holes like the center of the picture. A surprisingly large number of dungeons have that kind of feature,...
2018-11-22 19:24:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we have curved Dungeon Stone windows. We have the full gamut, from 2x2 all the way out to the huge 8x8 pieces. On top of that, we've extended the entire curved line by adding in curved concave floors, which let you do two different things. One, you can make your curved walls ...
2018-11-14 15:35:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Post releasing the first two pieces of the volcanic cavern set, I got a lot of feedback from people who have actually seen basalt pillars in person, and the single largest piece of feedback is that the pillars in scale are too small. I would judge that in scale, the pillars are about 9 inches ...
2018-11-01 15:12:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As mentioned in the prior release, here are the Volcanic Cavern Floors. Pictured is the more crystalline or ice paint scheme.
In case you want to see the inspiration for this, check out Fingal's Cave. ...