Guild Wars 2

Hey all together!

In the last weeks I thought about a 3D-print of my character and was googleing quite some time. what i found was pretty much nothing!

no guides how to 3D-extract my character or how to make an easy 3D-sculpt.

What I did find was “ZBrush” – a programm which is perfect for the work i want to get done. My problem is, that i have no idea how this works and i do think there must be a much easier way.

question 1: does someone probably know a way how to get my character 3D-ripped out of the game?

question 2: is there someone on this forum who is a pro on ZBrush and likes to sculpt random things? probably you’d like to sculpt my warrior?

please excuse my english I am not a native-english-speaker.

thank you for reading – I am waiting for some answers!
CYA ingame

I haven’t done it myself (it’s on my “to do” list), but from what I’ve read the way to do it is using a directx ripper (won’t link to one but they’re easy to find) that basically grabs the 3D models and textures from the information the game sends to the video card to render, and outputs on a format that can be opened by 3D animation software like 3D Studio Max or Maya.

Check this reddit thread about it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2jrlzc/3d_printed_pink_quaggan/ , there’s one user there that shows off renders of his characters, you might contact him for some extra info.

I’ve seen some posts on this subject here (but unfortunately, the horrific search on this forum makes finding it troublesome). As I recall, the player was asking about using the 3rd party utility that came with their 3D printer and if it was “kosher” within the EULA.

I do not recall the utility they were using, but the response was that since it didn’t give any actual gameplay advantage, there should not be an issue using it in terms of EULA violation. As I recall, the question of Copyright infringement on ANet assets was never specifically answered, but I don’t recall ANet ever being overly aggressive about that issue, so I doubt there would be any legal problems. However, keep in mind that the EULA DOES specifically state that ALL visual aspects of ANY GW2 assets are COMPLETELY and WHOLLY owned by Anet (not the player)…..so if they wanted to push the issue, they would likely have the legal means to do so.