I'm the dumb mom that decided to wade into cosplay for the first time two weeks before Halloween to make my son a monster hunter costume.... AND YOU ARE SAVING MY LIFE. Working off an etsy pattern using Pepakura... just learned what that was yesterday and only AFTER buying the pattern, and was utterly lost. Your videos were the only ones I found that broke everything down so clearly and simply and didn't presume I would at least know x or y... cuz i don't lol. wasn't dumbed down, just clear and comprehensive for us dummies/newbies. again, THANK YOU.
I'm gonna build Tracer's chronal accelerator and didn't know how or where to start and you just saved my life with this video. Definitely liked and subscribed! Thank you!!
You are now some kind of God to me xDDD I was so irritated because I didnt know how to fold foam that I was about to quit, but you saved my day. Thank you so much
I'm about to start using Pepakura and this video was soooo helpful. Thank you so much for the easy to understand explanations. I think $30.00 is reasonable so I think I'll get the paid version.
i just knew this software exists, wouldve helped me alot with my pyramid head helmet, wanted a nice replica from dbd's model lol wouldve taken like 2 weeks instead of a month to make
Really useful tutorial, thank you so much! I brought some files for a current project and downloaded the program but was feeling a little overwhelmed, this really helped explain it in a straight forward way!
Let's say I want this thing to fit me, but I don't have a poster printer so I have to use letter sized paper; can I separate the parts on more than one page and just piece them together or do I have to use a poster sized printer?
Hello, is there a setting where I can see the folding degrees? For example, one side is slanted 20 degrees, the other side is slanted 35 degrees, but when I put it on paper, it looks straight. Can the program tell me how many degrees I need to fold?
thamnk you for the insight i am looking forword to your next video i my self am working on a armor fomr multy defrent parts to make my own armor look one of a kind but please can you show us how to build some thing in the Pepakura designer please ? i want to build and not have to use other peoples ideas for i have some of my own ...
since this is a very old video of mine, i no longer use pepakura. i use armorsmith, its vastly superior over pepakura for cosplay usage. in armorsmith you can recreate your own body on your armorsmtih avatar and then proceed to stretch, resize and reshape the armor to fit your exact bodypart. check it out in one of my videos or check out the armored garage youtube channel
I have a question, when scaling should I scale the whole suit or piece by piece? For example, the arm piece, leg piece, chest plate, ect. I want to make an Iron Man suit. The templates were originally made for a 5'9 person but I'm 5'1
Just watched this and it answered a lot of my questions! But I do still have one more...(and it might be dumb) but I would be terrified of the foam breaking apart once the lines are cut to fold, and then not gluing back correctly (ending up in a lot of extra work) How is that fixed?
zombiekillingrl ehm I don't think I follow your question... Your worried your glued lines will rip apart? Contact glue is so strong that foam will rip first before the glued seam if done right 😁
I knew I wouldn't word it correctly lol. I'm used to working with the paper part of pep building and I know when I use my blade to lightly go over the fold lines, if I press a bit too hard, I will cut it all the way instead of perforating the edges to fold. What I am asking is that if I cut too deep on thin foam if that is what I use, and it cuts all the way through the foam, will the edges still glue together correctly and come out right, or is it all in the way the blade is pointed? Since I see that foam files still have the dash and dot/dash lines as well. I hope I said it right this time. haha. I've just never used foam for building.
ah like that, well when i first started with foam i had this problem and i bought a 45 degree angle blade, you could cut perfect 45 degree angels with is but also set it to cut only 2mm deep, for example i have 5mm foam, set blade to 2 mm. it had a little base where the blade handle would rest on the foam, i believe foamwerks sells those now, mine was from x-acto. right now im so used to it i just eyeball it with my hobby knife
never use STL files for pepakura, the STL is for 3dprinting so has a huge amount of polygons, way too much for a eva foam pepakura template. use low poly obj files (like models ripped from games) for pepakura.
My pepakura doesnt have all those features? I downloaded pepakura 4 for their site...did I do something wrong? I cant do any of the things this guy is doing in this video? I am trying to edit a foam pattern to card stock...SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!
@@drpeppero3 viewer is free, designer is sort of free, if you use designer for free you lack the ability to save your work. However before you buy anything, please consider buying "armorsmith" its way better as you can recreate your body as an avatar and then fit armor templates on it, I have videos on armorsmith aswell on this channel
Hey there! I'm new at the scene of making props and stuff and I was going to get started by doing a HEV suit (Chestplate) from Half Life series. I'm a having a little troble at trying to understand how to make that usable in templates for foam and I can't still figure out what to do. I know you can simplify the templates so they work out as foam templates, I simply can understand and how to do it. Is there anybody who can help with my problem? Thanks
Basically what you do is remove all pattern pieces that simulate thickness. As paper is flat, you need those "thickness" pieces, a unfold for foam is just that same pattern but those "thickness" pieces removed as you would use the thickness that foam already has
Oh, so it just unwraps the 3D model, like when someone is going to texture it. It's just a real life texture rather than digital. This is going to be easier now I think lol
Thanks a lot. Very good explanation. Can you help me with the link the tutorial to disconnect parts in pepakura? I couldn't find it in your videos list.
