Post Your 3D Printed Galactic Civilizations III Ships

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One of the new features in the 1.2 update was the ability to 3D print ships you have designed in the ship designer. You can either print it yourself if you have a 3D printer, or order one in-game from Sculpteo.

One of our developers ordered a ship that he created, and I wanted to share. If you have printed or ordered a GalCiv III ship, please post the image so we can see what you created.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Cool and 1st!

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I tried to use that service but I got an error about needing stardock to approve design or something like that?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

macrossVFX222,

You shouldn't need any approval for the designs.  Where did you see the error message?  What ship design did you try to upload?  Any information you could provide would be very helpful!

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

It had an error that said 'Stardock needs to approve' so I ignored this whole ship printing excercise until a few nights ago when i tried again......

This time I registered an account and exported the ship to local and updated manually and its working fine (but a 89.99 sticker price for my battleship is a bit much for me)

I will try to upload directly from game tonight and see if I see a the approval status again

 

Honestly I don't think this is a game problem... My guess is a registration issue on their side which they probably fixed :)

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Is there any way to get to the ship designer without being in a game? If not, is there a way to unlock the technology limits? I lost all my data in a hard drive crash, and I'd like to create ships without having to play a game for hours and hours to get the required techs. I have a good friend with a 3d printer, and I'm itching to get some designs printed!

 

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting macrossVFX222, reply 4

It had an error that said 'Stardock needs to approve' so I ignored this whole ship printing excercise until a few nights ago when i tried again......

This time I registered an account and exported the ship to local and updated manually and its working fine (but a 89.99 sticker price for my battleship is a bit much for me)

I will try to upload directly from game tonight and see if I see a the approval status again

 

Honestly I don't think this is a game problem... My guess is a registration issue on their side which they probably fixed :)

Have you tried changing the type of material at checkout? Or if you can decrease the size of the ship?

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting OldnCrusty, reply 5

Is there any way to get to the ship designer without being in a game? If not, is there a way to unlock the technology limits? I lost all my data in a hard drive crash, and I'd like to create ships without having to play a game for hours and hours to get the required techs. I have a good friend with a 3d printer, and I'm itching to get some designs printed!

 

 

No, currently you have to start a game to use the designer.  You can unlock all tech using the console and typing in 'unlock'.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Put in my first order with Sculpteo... I've worked with them before. Printing medium ships at 1.5 inches long, with Resin... I'll be interested to see the result.

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Its definitely the size..... will try something smaller and see what happens :)

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Anybody else got any luck in getting 3D printed ships? I would like to see more, especially before and after painting! 

Reply #11 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Mine all break the boundaries of what they can do lol

 

Reply #12 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Did you get yours Gauntlet?

 

Reply #13 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

No, they cancelled the order as they were too complicated... I haven't had the heart/time to try again.

 

Reply #14 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

We probably need to stick to the motto: "Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away"

Reply #15 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

How do you bring up the console?

Reply #16 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Achronous, reply 14

We probably need to stick to the motto: "Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away"

 

and yet, "Quantity, has a quality, all its own."

Reply #17 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'll try to put mine in and see...  I think some of my models are less complicated than Gauntlet's :)

If I post pictures next week then you know they did it :)

Reply #18 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

and complicated = good  (if you guys haven't seen Gauntlet's ships.... check it out)