Hello everyone! I'm in the process of preparing some Fallout 4 models for printing (personal use, can't share) but I thought some people might be interested by the process.

Picture 1 is the final result, picture 2 is the low poly model subdivided, and picture 3 is the raw mesh.

I got the original mesh from the game sources, but it's really low-poly. So I got on a hunt for a method to restore it to a decent enough standard to send it to the printer. My method so far:

• import model in blender
• subdivide modifier, set to 5
• put the normal map through a program to transform it into a displacement map
• use a displacement modifier with the displacement map

There is some tweaking here and there, but so far it's pretty straightforward. The next step is a test print, to see how good it'll look and how well it takes paint, and figure out how to import the rig and animation th get cool poses out of him.

Hope you find it useful!

5 hour total turnaround and just in time to hand off to them. What a world we live in.

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Elegoo Mars 5

Elegoo ABS-like 3.0

Whatever Elegoo's Proprietary Software is Called

I have been trying to get this thing to work for WEEKS. I have tried "leveling" the build plate. I have changed FEP. I put in a brand new LCD. Today, my print looks like the attached picture. For Pete's Sake, please just tell me what settings I need to change to make it work. I am spending too much time and money on this stuff. Was I bamboozled? Was I scammed? Someone please help, and please understand that the technojargon is going to just confuse me more.

Hey guys, I've recently bought a used wash station with some minor cracks in it.

I had the inner wash tank full of ipa standing in my enclosure with the orange UV lid ontop. 3 days later I found it cracked all over like that. Could that be because of IPA fumes or something?

STL by Bulkamanser

Hi all, as seen on the pic below Chitubox has loaded my model with vertical lines that makes it seem like a dodecagon. The prints came out the same way as in the picture.

The original file was created to have a Cylinder there. My FDM printer loads the model as it should, however I need to print this in resin.

Printer is Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra 16k and all other models that i printed before were smooth and were excellent.

I tried to print this Bender with my printer... And the leg is printed wrong and some of the fingers have minor defects, and the body is a little deformed. It seems that the support wasn't printed. My resin is expired but i dont think thats the issue.

Pls help. I dont know what im doing wrong.

I have a mars pro. Abs like resin from elegoo(expired) and chitubox with predefined configs and i added supports manually but doesnt work

Hey so I bought an old peopoly phenom L thinking it just needed a firmware update, but I updated the firmware and it still says unrecognized file type when you press start on prints. What could be wrong with this?

Finally finished this. My favorite project yet although the skirt was a pain to paint. Purchased the file from "MyAnimate"

Enjoy…

Have a Mars 2pro. Recently when removing prints im noticing there seems to be the first layer is the whole footprint. Then it starts with the actual printed area. so there is a thin rectangle covering the whole print. I dont know why this is there doesnt seem to be a setting in Lychee to do this for a single layer and my prints are just minis so they start with the standard circles for supports. Any idea why it seems my first layer the whole screen is turning on?

Recently got a resin printer, and been slowly getting more and more to actually stay printed and not just look molten. Everything i print looks around the same, and after googling and messing with settings i have no clue what the reason could be. Any reason the supports print okay(ish at best) but besides one base kinda nothing ever sticks?

Im not sure whats wrong, I tested to see anything leaked through my FEP screen but nothing does. I keep getting failed prints on my saturn 4 ultra

So i have a model of Kane from the legacy of Kane series and the parts wont fit together which im aware is a tolerance issue. . Ive been looking around and alot of the answers I found kinda divulge into nonsense.

From my understanding is I either need to make whatever parts I need a bit smaller or to sand down the male connecting pieces and then go in and do some reain welding to fill whatever gap is left

Just looking to see if im going in the right direction

Hey all, any experienced resin printers here know what could cause this? I've been printing fdm for a long time but picked up a mars 5 ultra last month.

I've had mostly success, but I've noticed when chucking a bunch of stuff on the bed, prints one side of the bed (the front) are often failing.

Below is a pic of a plate of small helmets, you can see only the back ones succeeded. My gut tells me leveling but my understanding was the mars 5 ultra has self levelling... any help would be much appreciated

Mars 5 ultra

Chitubox sliced at 20um

Light supports used

Printing with elegoo absolutely style 2.0 resin

Temp is ambient 22degrees

Any tips what to change here? These are the absolute Basic Setting and i have no idea what to change what help generaly with better resaults

Me and my wife got an Elegoo Mars 5 ultra combo in May 2025 thinking we were going to make and paint minis for our DnD games. We also have an FDM printer.

In the past year we haven't used it as much as we thought we would. We've made like 20 minis in total and I guess we were just a bit too scared of the health risks that everyone talks about.

We live in a 2-bedroom apartment and we have it set up in our living room, it sits right next to a large window which was always open when printing.

Now this year around October we are expecting our first child and I'm finding it hard to justify keeping the printer in our living room. My wife is saying that she enjoys painting minis but just didn't get enough time for it this year.

With all this information, I'm curious what other people would do in my situation. Do I try to get a tent with a fan and vent the fumes outside for an extra layer of precaution or should I just sell the printer second hand somewhere and cut my losses?

(sorry if I wasn't entirely coherent, this is something that's been bothering me for a while and I still find it hard to put my thoughts in order on the subject)

For context I am new to printing and want to paint scale figures so I downloaded the stl files for the character with supports but the objects are falling off into the resin vat.

So far the right one, in the slicer, is printing fine and the left one has a disc fall off that I've just found in the vat + I can see upon editing this that some of my supports are not connectedto eachother/ snapped?. Also when the plate lifts up it makes a weird noise, I'm not sure how to describe it besides a deep subtle clunky noise.

I'm not sure on what steps to take but I set the z axis to be slower lifting as I had an issue just before with the base coming off the printing plate- this seemed to work for the base but not for the current issue.

Help would be greatly appreciated thank you !!