Eldritch Foundry: Create your Dream Miniature

Less bugs, more content!
over 4 years ago – Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 01:38:04 AM

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Make a mini, today :)
over 4 years ago – Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 01:05:08 AM

Hey folks,

So! It's been a wild week for us. The "soft" or "quiet" launch has been overall pretty good. We've been working hard to make sure that we can go forward and open the purchasing process, implement fixes for things that somehow got lost in the mail (change log after the break), as well as push a few more assets in. We've also switched out the scene material to look better, and implemented a metric tonne of back-end improvements. We're pretty confident we can have tails and horns implemented soon, as well as release Nathlings and Vantar (they look awesome in print, but we're not enthused about how they look in the creator right now). 

In other news, we're now open for orders! So you can go ahead and play around and make a mini and you can even order it and we'll get it over to you as soon as possible!

And just in case, here's a walkthrough on how to use your Kickstarter credits. Note: the conditional marker base only you guys get isn't in the system yet, since we're waiting on the rotating bit to come out of production. Once we have them in our warehouse, you'll be able to order a mini with them. So if you're waiting on it- don't order quite yet!

We've heard quite a bit on what you guys like, don't like, and what you'd like to see more. Some of this is already in the works (robes, "feminine" options, belts, horns, tails, more races, more armors in general). Some of it is new to us. Biggest one is the "over large" weapons on smaller races- we hear you and we'll change the way the system works, and scale things differently.

But we'd love to hear more if you have any other thoughts or ideas!

That's pretty much it guys,

Thank you,

Mat and the Eldritch Foundry team

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Change log:

• Removed the placeholder text- will be connected later to Patrick's amazing lore
• Changed model materials and lightning- more tweaks to come
• Added "Save draft" function- we know our naming is terrible, and we're open to suggestions.
• Fixed and revamped icons
• Revamped camera movement
• Improved load times
• Improved export speed- this will affect you later on
• Fixed various typos
• Migrated website and added various sections

We're live! Sort-of.
over 4 years ago – Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:59:59 PM

Hey guys,

Mat here with a small update.

We’re live! Sort of.

Live- you can just hit www.eldritch-foundry.com and start designing minis. Note- some assets are updating, and we're matching icons and such where needed. So... it could be smoother, but it could be worse. Human male faces are... all over the place. Don't change expressions.

And sort of- we’re not deploying the ability to order a mini right now. 

This sucks. I know. I’m not happy with this either. But we promised you the ability to play with the system, and we’ll get that done if it kills us. I know a good spot to hide the bodies (who said Snatch didn’t teach me anything, Mom?).

The reason, if you’re asking, is because that little issue from yesterday is a little more involved than we thought originally. We think it’s solved, but we must do a stronger QA sweep to be absolutely positive everything is kosher.

Here’s a breakdown of what we have ready to play with, and what we have ready, but we’re not pleased with its outcome yet. At the end- a bit of things to come.

Stuff that’s working:

1. Races: humans, elves & half-elves, dwarves, halflings, goblins and firbolgs. These are all green across the board.
2. Expressions: happy and angry (and combinations thereof)
3. Hair & beards
4. Armor sets and pieces
5. Weapons, shields and misc. items – single and dual wield 
6. Cyberpunk/steampunk weapons are ready, but will be released as a part of our steampunk drop later (armor design and misc. items still being worked on)
7. Basic posing
8. Base items
9. Skybox and character “material”- work, though we’re not in love. We’ll revisit in the coming days.
10. Actual miniature – breakage resistant (we’ve gone through several hundreds of them), “premium” material, dark tint (semitransparent if you hold them up to a light source).
11. End-to-end delivery and our special cases.
     

Stuff that needs more love:

1. Races:
    Tieflings- the horns and tails are modeled and designed, but not implemented.
    Goliaths- we have a bug with exporting this race specifically to print. 
2. Body types for all races: muscular and “softer” in addition to base body types. 
3. Eberron release: warforged almost ready, orcs (and half-orcs).
4. Side and back items
5. Helmets
6. Modular ears
7. Magical foci and effects
8. Two-handed weapon poses
9. Design saves (almost ready)
10. Lore is written and ready, front end feature is ready- the actual connection is not live yet.
11. Facial items- modeled but not implemented
12. Base options
13. Mounts- wolf, bear, owlbear, “swamp-panther”, spider- ready but not implemented (we don’t have the right size boxes for them)
14. Enlarged minis - ready but not implemented (we don’t have the right size boxes for them)
15. Store delivery- we’re working out logistical kinks (mostly related to making sure our in-store hardware is up to snuff) before we enable store delivery and order.
     

Future features we’re working on:

1. Free posing- we’ve always wanted to do this but preferred to launch with a “known” set of variables that look good. We’ve heard far too many requests for this feature. In retrospect, we should have probably led with this, and trust our users to make good use of the freedom they deserve.
2. Facial scanning – this is a longer-term development project, but we want to give you the ability to have your likeness (just the face for starters, though) on your miniatures.
3. We’ve got a few things we’re keeping under wraps, but once we’re closer, we’ll let you know.
    

Finally, thank you. Thank you for your support. Your understanding and forbearance. This has been our life and soul for over a year now, and we want to get you something downright awesome. You deserve it.

Until further updates,

Mat

GETTING CLOSER!!
over 4 years ago – Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:42:55 PM

HELLO EVERYONE! WE ARE UPLOADING EVERYTHING TO THE SITE NOW. REGARDLESS IF YOUR LINK IS WORKING PLEASE REFRAIN FROM GETTING ON THE CREATOR UNTIL WE GIVE THE OKAY.  

GIVE US ABOUT AN HOUR

WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

Launch is delayed... by a day. We're sorry.
over 4 years ago – Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:44:39 AM

We're sorry. We've found a critical bug, we think we've fixed it, but we need to be absolutely certain.

As such, we're delaying launch by a day.

Thank you for your understanding,

Mat & Joseph