Free GURPS 3D Dungeons

[Highland_Piper]

Would anyone be interested? These would be free of course. With the release of the new Dungeon pdf's I thought I'd offer my services.

Creating these would not be that hard for me. I've played around with the idea of using your standard 1" Hex Dungeon and I'm more than confident that I can make them.

But would anyone bother to make and build them? I won't to be honest because I already have an extensive square paper dungeon.

Check out the Downloads at Dungeon Crawlers or my Paper Terrain section in the forums and just let me know if it is something the GURPS community would be interested in. I can do many skins on the dungeons, secret doors, traps, all in 3D.

[Kuroshima]

Well, I for one, would be interested. It's rather hard to find decent stuff with overlaid hex grids for gurps combat

[Charleson Mambo]

Would it be possible to print the floors of existing models on transparencies? (like the ones for overhead projectors) Then just place the paper models over a hex map.


Charleson Mambo

[Crakkerjakk]

I would definitely be interested.

[Ed the Coastie]

Originally Posted by Charleson Mambo

Would it be possible to print the floors of existing models on transparencies? (like the ones for overhead projectors) Then just place the paper models over a hex map.

I do it the other way around. I have the 1" hexes on transparency sheets, and draw the dungeon out on an underlying grid scaled at 1 square = 10 picas = 5 feet. That allows me to use pretty much any of my old AD&D dungeon maps.

[Highland_Piper]

Here is an idea of what I'm talking about

1" Hex 3D Dungeon

Other Link

Now this is just a prototype. I've made several 3D dungeons for grid style maps. The unique challenge of a Hex is your going to need more pieces for all the different possibilities.

The figure in the picture is roughly to scale of a normal 25mm figure.

So is that something the GURPS community would build and use?

[Highland_Piper]

Here is a pic of some of the individual pieces

So pretty much each wall piece is mounted on its own floor tile and you have blank floor tiles as well. I'm also working on stairs, raised platforms and possible a sewer system.

[Highland_Piper]

Originally Posted by Charleson Mambo

Would it be possible to print the floors of existing models on transparencies? (like the ones for overhead projectors) Then just place the paper models over a hex map.


Charleson Mambo

If I'm understanding you correctly you just want to put the walls on a preprinted map? Then yes but the walls stand better when glued to a hex. Each wall will have one hex glued under it. A wall that is three hexes long will have 3 hexes glued under it for support.

I just laid in a small supply of cardstock, I could whip up and example.

[demonsbane]

Highland_Piper:

Hey, I just saw your samples, and they are really cool!

I'm not sure about how this works in practice, but I really like it!

The style of your mini/token is very good, too. I was searching for a 3D approach months ago.

Hm... how is handled facing in tactical combat with these tokens?


PS: regarding the 3D aspect of this, is there any chance of you releasing these excellent 3D objects as building bocks for creating dungeons within some 3D sofware, like Maya, 3Dmax or the free Blender?

I'm very interested, and soon ready to experimentate a bit with Blender and some trials for getting the trick of designing & rendering 3D images for using them while roleplaying sessions. If you want to share or talk about 3D design, please PM me.

Cheers

EDIT: OK, I read and wrote this in a hurry. Now, I understand how it is: physical 3D dungeons, assembled from cardboards and glued. Minis: normal minis (not paper tokens), so normal facing. Anyway, the "virtual" 3D dungeon idea for online gaming is appealing for me.

[Highland_Piper]

I'd be more than happy to offer the 3D models in a .3DS file for those that want it when I'm finished. Or for those that want to lend a hand in the project.

More options with Hexes compared to you standard grid 3D dungeon. This is of course if you go by the rule that you must have a completely unobstructed hex or grid to place a figure. If your going to just place wall over an existing map then there are tons of commercial products that you can do that with or even my own free dungeons. I want to do a nice Hex 3D Dungeon.

My first hurdle came today with curved walls!

Look at this picture here. The small curved wall, takes up one hex, works fine. But doing a larger curved wall just does not look right. Now I could do it with a perfect curve, but it would not leave unobstructed hexes to move figures on. In the picture I settled for an angled version. But even that does not look right.

If you have a suggestion I would love to hear it.

I could also do "Thin" walls where its just a single pieces of thick card but it just does not look right for a dungeon. I like doing thin walls for buildings, just not dungeons.