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Townscaper's seaboard dioramas make for adorable 3D prints

A 3D print of a small townscaper village

(Icon quotation: Dolf Veenvliet)

Townscaper's do-it-yourself islands are already more toy than game. Merely thanks to an empiric beta pushed earlier this week, people have started turning their seaside villages into utterly charming desk ornaments.

Arriving on the game's beta branch on Steam, Townscaper will instantly LET you exportation your creations as .obj 3D models. Course, this way common people have started 3D printing their own towns—and barely a day later on the update went live, they're already showing promise.

Reprinted and it came out much nicer. pic.chirrup.com/f1NTXeflnkAugust 25, 2021

Exportation does give away a couple of of the shortcuts wont to create Townscaper's pleasing retreats. Windows extrude outwards from their respective buildings, patc stairs are really just shapeless blobs. But small details like gulls, potted plants and benches still body of work fine, and with a little lic you can photographic print something properly delightful.

Pretty happy with my little 3d printed #townscaper town. Loving the exportation feature @OskSta! pic.chirrup.com/aHSznrDJlMAugust 25, 2021

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They're adorable wee things, aren't they? And piece the export process might overcharge the models of the gimpy's vibrant villages, I'm overexcited to see who'll be the first to crack out the paints and colour one of these dioramas. While I don't have a 3D printer myself, I've also been having a whole load of fun delivery my exported towns into doddering Unity projects to stunning issue.

A Townscaper creationimported into one of the author's unity games — (Image credit: Natalie Clayton)

With the export process now opening leading a crew of Townscaper's foundations, this week's update also added a small step out towards moddability. You can at present mess around with the game's textures, letting you repaint villages with brand new styles—though developer Oskar Stålberg reckons that's easier said than done.

"I hazard the game is now (in the most liberal use of the word) moddable," Stålberg tweeted. "Fluke computation out my eldritch UVs and rendition to make up your ain discipline style."

20 years agone, Nat played Jet Set Radio Future first—and she's non stopped thinking about games since. Joining PC Gamer in 2020, she comes from three years of freelance reporting at Rock Paper Shotgun, Waypoint, VG247 and many. Embedded in the European indie scene and having herself improved critically acclaimed bantam games like-minded Can Androids Pray, Nat is always looking at for a new curiosity to scream about—whether information technology's the incoming best indie darling, or simply someone modding a Scotmid into Black Mesa. She's also played for a competitive Splatoon team, and unofficially appears in Acme Legends under the nom de guerr Sensible horizon.