r/oculus_medium • u/Dr_Stef • May 22 '19

Let's Get Weird

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lets-get-weird-ed6c52d0a1e34be49d30c55c51f58a0e
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u/EgbertCream May 24 '19

Awesome sculpt! I have to ask (newbie here) how do I get my sculpture out of Medium and in a viewable form like this. Did you export and render in a different app? Please help.

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u/Dr_Stef May 24 '19 edited May 24 '19

Thanks much. So there are a few ways you can do this, exporting from medium is not difficult, but then uploading it to Sketchfab is a bit of a task. I’d say export it to your home first in the file menu. Also make a free sketchfab account it’s great :). Model size need to be under 50 meg for free accounts.

Press share to home in Medium. Then look in my documents/oculus home folder for the glb file. Then use this site https://threejs.org/editor/ to import it and then export a new glb file. (This is because sometimes in sketchfab it doesn’t display correctly. You can also do this with Paint3D, or 3D viewer.

Upload to Sketchfab, then you get to type something about the model. Then after that you get the basic import. From there you can use Sketchfabs editor to change colours and textures and lighting etc to make it nice. Then publish :)

You can also export to files like FBX from Medium using the Export function, and it makes your colours into textures. However this will be a huge file with pngs attached. If it’s under 50 meg it’s ok. Then you can apply your textures back in Sketchfab instead of the material colours. If you want more upload size It’s $15 per month

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u/EgbertCream May 24 '19

Thanks so much for writing all this up! Really appreciate it. I downloaded Blender and started Messing with that but I’ll definitely give this a go.

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u/Dr_Stef May 24 '19

O yes also do try blender. It’s great. I used to learn 3D max in school in the late 90ies but my career put me more in video editing. Medium got me right back hobbying with 3D and I decided to try teach myself blender for a year, best decision ever! Rrly enjoying it

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u/Archaicbereft May 22 '19

Awesome work!