{"id":5366,"date":"2026-03-15T02:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:38:38","slug":"cranky-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2026\/03\/cranky-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranky 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am cranky due to issues with 3D files. A world of insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to import HHH into Unreal from TinkerCAD, still. .obj, .step, .stl, .fbx, it\u2019s a mess of different files doing the same (representing the 3D data and coordinates), using different ways for different purposes (architecture, game, 3D printing) so they\u2019re VERY complex to translate\/convert and \u201csave as\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It always seems so close or logically doable and then, no. The model is fucked up and non-editable in Unreal. <\/p>\n<p>I might have to model everything in it and, ugh. Doable but, ugh.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something interesting to say about all those free tools (Tinker, Blender, Unreal) that are either ultra rough in some areas (UI, import\/export options, stability) or designed to make you use other tools. Which are usually not free at all ($100\/month or more).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I have to go through this, so that\u2019s the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am cranky due to issues with 3D files. A world of insanity. Trying to import HHH into Unreal from TinkerCAD, still. .obj, .step, .stl, .fbx, it\u2019s a mess of different files doing the same (representing the 3D data and coordinates), using different ways for different purposes (architecture, game, 3D printing) so they\u2019re VERY complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}