Originality posted to the old site by [WaynePeters]
Hello folks.
Some of you will be old enough to remember an old web page I made where you could make Star Trek paper miniatures by dragging the separate components on to a figure at the top of the page. That site has long since become defunct and I finally expunged it from existence a while ago. Since then I have been working ■■■■■■■ a far superior replacement.
You can find the Marvellous Mechanical Star Trek Mini Maker 2.0 here:
It currently works in Chrome and Firefox. Apparently IE doesn’t support the unity web player, though Edge will. I’ve not tested it in Safari.
It can take up to about a minute and a half to load in but there is usually a loading bar to keep you appraised of progress.
It’s pretty self explanatory to use, I think.
FAQ
Q: Are you going to include…?
A: YES! Eventually.
Q: Where’s the bloody print function!?
A: There isn’t one, sorry. Neither is there a Load/Save function. I’m afraid that’s a tad out of my league just yet but I definitely want to include a print function as well as a save/load one at some point. I’m afraid for now you’ll have to use Print Screen or the Snips app in Windows and paste in to an art package of your choice.
Q: Why can’t I resize the screen?
A: The resolution is fixed so that the images when screen-capped are around 32mm tall at 300 dpi. That means you will need a monitor resolution large enough to view the work area - which I think most folk will. I’ll look into resizing options later on.
Q: Why are some parts of the uniforms grey instead of black.
A: I try to avoid colours that are too dark as they print even darker and can make the black outline indistinguishable, effectively turning the figure in to a silhouette. For this reason some colours are a little brighter than they should be too.
Hi folks, I just popped in to copy this over and I see Steve’s already done it. Cheers, Steve.
Also, a couple of people have asked recently if it’s still a going concern and I wanted to reassure you all that whilst there hasn’t been an update in a while, the app is still live and will definitely continue to be for the forseeable future.
I do plan on updating it at some point but time has been very very scarce of late so I’ve not been able to. I’ve actually got a whole bunch of Enterprise content that is currently half finished and sitting in PDFs on my HD so I hope to get that up at some point. I’m itching to do TOS Mirror universe too Ah, if only there were 48 hours in a day.
This app is so much fun… and my players love creating something that strikes them as what they envision their character to be (We’ve been using darker Denobulans for Klingons… at the size they are, it certainly works). But I would love to be able to do some adversaries like Romulans, et al.
Hello folks. Sorry it’s been a while. Are any of you still having issues getting it to load?
There have been several updates to Unity recently, one of them quite major so it might be that I need to rebuild the project.
Let me know.
Unfortunately, yes. Sometimes it works after a few reloads. I just checked it out again and noticed that, after about 3 seconds, the connection seems to break. I’m running Firefox on Linux, if that’s a concern.
Plus, while you’re reading here: Thanks for the great project, I love it! And if there’s any chance for some species-related updates, I’d love it even more!
And if there’s any way to contribute, I’d love that, too.
Unless that the application in question is an un-official piece of software designed to make printable/foldable miniatures with images of starfleet officers in uniforms and neither the scores of characters nor anything related to starships.
You’re talking about the wrong piece of software, mate.
I had to reload it because the first time it didn’t work. It showed me a half-naked Andorian the second time. But then I was able to clothe him.
Would love to see more species, and non-Federation garb! I had to hack Romulan and Klingon figures, and it would be fantastic to have Ferengi, Borg and Jem’Hadar. Happy to help!
Alright. If I get the chance in the next couple of weeks, I’ll blow the dust off of the project folder and do a new build in the latest version of Unity and see if that helps any.
Sorry, folks. I just caught this. A friend alerted me to the fact that the Mini Maker has stopped loading. My guess is that the build no longer works with current browser editions. I shall need to rebuild it. I’ll try and look into that over the weekend.
Alright. I’ve rebuilt the project and updated the web.config file and the Minimaker app appears to be working again.
There are no updates at the moment I am afraid. I’m too busy with other things.
Ah, if only there were 48 hours in a day.