About a year and a half ago, I decided to 3D print my Guild Wars 2 character because I kinda got into mini painting. I decided to document the process

How to print your Guild Wars 2 character (or any game, really)

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2024-11-27 10:30:10

About a year and a half ago, I decided to 3D print my Guild Wars 2 character because I kinda got into mini painting. I decided to document the process — especially since the reddit guides written by those who came before no longer worked (Guild Wars 2 switching from DX9 to DX11 made them obsolete). Since then, the original blog post has gotten some comments along the lines of “hey, nice tutorial” … which is kinda horrifying, as not only is the post not very tutorial-y, I also had single digit hours of Blender experience at the time (this was disclosed in the post).

I’ve 3D printed two more characters since, and my Blender experience is slightly better than it used to be. Better enough to warrant a rewrite. With my life story out of the way:

And some extra photos of my latest finished piece before we start digging into this. This has been my “work piece”, except that all the screenshots for this tutorial had to be re-created after the mini was printed and painted.