With exterior orthogonal walls for the large curved set, structurally, the set is now complete. You can create nearly any tile with walls inside and outside, using doors or windows, which should give you the ability to create nearly any structure that uses a 12 or 16 square diameter curved surface.
With all the interior orthogonal wa...
2020-02-19 22:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm continuing to try and make understanding the tile sets easier. Now all the normal tile sets have their own tile trees with their progress in the tree marked off. Hopefully this makes the status of each tile set much clearer. I still need to do the same thing for thick wall (caverns, etc) sets, but there's less to go from on...
2020-02-04 15:03:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Next up in the OpenForge "Places of Power" series, we bring you the Well of Souls! Places of Power is a series Evan is doing to create LARGE, central set-pieces for RPG or skirmish/war games.
The Well of Souls is an elvish structure built over the top of a deep, cylindrical chasm extending down into the earth. Though it's thousands of year...
2020-01-30 20:09:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the next in the 3d printing take on Black Magic Craft's 5 starter projects. This time around I'm doing my take on the Boss Door. We have 3 different doors here, along with...
2020-01-30 17:29:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Cut-Stone was the first set I did stairs with, but the old stair set was not really optimized for play, it was optimized for look. Well, since then I've gotten both Dungeon Stone and Towne stairs out using the more playable standard that also gives you access to risers for having boards with different heights. It was time to come bac...
2020-01-28 16:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: for some reason Thingiverse deleted all but a few of the files. I've re-uploaded to thingiverse in zip files. Sorry for the problem.
First release this month took a fair bit of time, which is why it's so late in the month. We've got the towne separate wall doors, which was this month's top voted ite...
2020-01-22 16:59:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I've done a lot of rework on the voting form. First off to get it all to align to the OpenForge Tile Tree, but also to simplify a number of things.
Secondarily, this is a time to check in and see what all people are using. This is mostly curiosity, as the vote directs me to what's most important to people, but I would like to g...
2020-01-04 18:41:56 +0000 UTC View Post2024/02/14 - Refreshed Dropbox link
The old link was allowing editing and as a result a patron deleted some files out of the dropbox. No harm was done, and I've restored the files, but I did generate new links: 2020-01-02 19:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post
After the last set of pillars, people started asking me for some Dungeon Stone ones as well. Like that set, this was inspired initially by Black Magic Craft's 5 starter projects vid...
2019-12-31 22:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This set includes walls and low walls for cut stone in the following format:
This set ...
2019-12-27 16:15:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been debating with myself for months now how to produce tiles for traps, and earlier this month, I realized, I already have an approach, at least for walls, that makes swapping the wall out easy - secret doors. So I set about building some fun traps usin...
2019-12-19 19:07:03 +0000 UTC View Post
New from Evan, we have an ancient sword statue! This relic has stood embedded in the ground for ages untold. Was it part of a huge now-buried statue? A weapon of an ancient construct? Or something else entirely.
He intentionally left this model with limited detail around the base - it has some rocky terrain, but I wanted to be able to add ...
2019-12-13 19:41:42 +0000 UTC View Post
First two comments were wanting to see how the votes translated into choices. It's actually linked in the spreadsheet that is linked in the top of the form. The very last tab of the spreadsheet is "2019 votes", which breaks down all the votes from every month. Finished items get crossed off, and the month they got finished is h...
2019-12-02 18:46:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I've continued to rework the voting a little. I've now entirely separated the standard tile sets (dungeon stone, cut stone, ruined stone, tudor, city streets) from the thick wall (mainly underground) tile sets (cavern sets, dwarven halls, sewer when we get there). Most months, I'll take the top vote getter from both and ...
2019-12-02 18:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I just banged out a new painting tutorial. This one covers the mine doors, which will show you the paint scheme for the red-brown stone used in the mine tiles, as well as my current wood grain approach.
2019-12-01 18:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
With this release, the mine (as well as the conglomerate caves) should be pretty functional as a set. We now have doors, embedded in wooden walls.
Grab the files on Thingiverse and let us know what you think!
2019-11-30 23:24:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This release we've got a new set of doors for Dungeon Stone. The timber framed rectangle doors have finally been ported to the set. This was one of the top vote getters this month. Traps beat it by one vote, but that set is going to take more design time, so I though I would knock off the next one down. I won't be traveli...
2019-11-29 17:56:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Looks like today is a release day :-) Evan made a fantastic new model in the Places of Power series: Bells of Daybreak! Places of Power is a series he's doing to create LARGE, central set-pieces for RPG or skirmish/war games.
The Bells of Daybreak is a huge wooden and steel structure full of bells of various sizes and shape. No...
2019-11-21 19:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a long time since I did some real pillars. Not the small ones on tiles that are really just an internal corner, but real pillars. The last time I did some was in 2013. Well, I was recently watching Black Magic Craft about 2019-11-21 17:21:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's that time again, voting for November.
A couple of notes.
This is one of those tiles that I've been meaning to get released for dungeon stone. We have arrow slit walls, but also segments for modular dungeon stone corners.
Grab the files on Thingiverse and let us know what you think!
2019-10-31 19:51:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Now we've got the next part of mines: mine floors. I've also reworked the paint scheme, and I'm much happier with it. I'll try and release a tutorial soon.
Grab the files on Thingiverse and let us know what you think!
2019-10-29 18:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The vote was pretty overwhelming this month, you all wanted to see more caves, but wanted a new set. The winning set was mine tiles. This is the first in this set. We've got mine walls, both with and without support beams, and corners. The support beams I think really add a great visual dimension to this set. They a...
2019-10-25 20:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
New from OpenForge today Evan brings you a highly effective, time tested siege weapon design - the Trojan Bunny! Lull your enemies into complacency with this amazing piece of art! They will be so excited they will throw a huge revelry and drink themselves into a stupor! Then leap out and slaughter everybody in sight! (assum...
2019-10-14 23:05:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Some changes made to the tile voting this month. I pulled together the cave voting, and made the options simpler. I've also added reference photos of each tile type. Voting will close next monday.
NEW NOTE PLEASE READ:
I have reduced the number of things that can be voted on. Instead, I'm reflecting the proces...
2019-09-30 23:26:11 +0000 UTC View Post
To finish getting the Dry Cave set bootstrapped, we've now got the basics for the conglomerate texture. This set has a few new pieces for the limestone texture as well.
We've got:
Top vote this month was to get Rough/Ruined Wall on Tile sets all updated to current. I've gone through everything in the set and tweaked it, added tiles, resized, etc to get the rough and ruined set updated to current.
They are now in dropbox (in all three sizes), and have been updated on Thingiverse.
Grab the files on Thingiv...
2019-09-27 18:13:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month, as you know, I published the Cave Entrance. I got lots of positive feedback, and decided to start working on some caves to go behind it. Rather than do my normal release approach of walls, floors and corners are different releases, I'm inst...
2019-09-20 20:24:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The giant dragon skull is embedded in the ice, with room for some minis on the ice shelf in front. The stairs descend into nothingness below. This item prints in 1 piece and is 100% support-less and VERY quick/easy to slap a few colors of paint on and get a good result. A nice coat of gloss varnish makes the ice shine really well!
Evan is ...
2019-09-12 23:14:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I've removed necromancer's lair, because I'm already working on it from last month. I've also added dry cave, because I got positive feedback on the idea that the cave entrance should be the starting point for a new tile set.
Voting will remain open until next weds.
2019-09-04 19:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post