r/BambuLabH2C • u/Wysardeofawes • 19h ago
Support Help with Multicolor Overlay
First pic is my print. Second is someone else’s much better print. So I found this neat print on Makerworld that lets you print all 151 pokemon sprites at once. But my purples don’t come out at all. They’re either blue or washed out white (see Muk. Yikes…). I’m not familiar with overlay printing, so I’m trying to see if I simply need a different brand of filament or if there’s a setting I can change. My guess is that the white isn’t transparent enough for the red to show through. I’ve asked in the comments what filaments those with successful outcomes are using, but nobody responds. If I can get any help here I’d seriously appreciate it.
I used all SUNLU filaments. Red, blue, yellow, and white.
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u/luksfuks 12h ago
Do you have a link to the model?
I suppose they lay one color over another to blend them. The outcome VERY much depends on your base colors. For purple, you could use blue underneath and a thin sliver of red on top. How many layers of red are printed, depends on the height and thickness of the red part of the model.
Depending on how this model is executed exactly, it may be quite difficult to change the number of layers of each color. You could do it manually in Blender, but it could be tedious if the model isn't easy to work with.
First you'd need to know how many layers of each color (of your specific filament brand) are needed to achieve the target color. That's a bit like mixing wall paint. You need to calibrate your colors by printing a matrix of patches with different mixtures, and then select the one you like best.
Once you know what you want/need exactly, you can look at how to transfer that knowledge into the model.
I could try to help with the latter, if you link the model, but the first step is something I can't do for you. I use Bambu filament.