HueForge: Using grayscale images to map filament layers

[@daymianhayes2493]

I learned more in this video about Hueforge than all of the other videos I've watched combined. Thanks 👍

[@losco]

Great work and excellent technique, especially the vectorization and color reduction, which greatly simplifies the work with Hueforge. Thank you very much.

[@traderz13]

Thanks Chipp, so well explained why its important to do, before explaining how to do it. Love that about your teaching style.

[@LookInto]

I had an idea that grayscale might be the way to go and then found your video and it confirmed it. Thank you for this!

[@god1aj]

He didn’t answer me but I was hoping maybe you know why my gray filter on the site didn’t act the same way and have drop down arrows on the layers

[@refugeesidhar]

Thank you for actually giving some insight into the process. Hueforge is great, but the pre-processing of images is a must for great results.

[@ChippWalters]

Glad it was helpful!

[@841577]

Awesome. Been struggling with this. Thank you!

[@proaudiorestore8926]

This is exactly how I thought to do it! Thanks for doing the hard work!

[@GeAsita]

God thank you so much for this. Finally exactly what I was looking for!

[@samgar3461]

This is awesome

[@mikehoutz7933]

Hey, first time watcher, my battle focused instructor/small group leader classes are on display here. appreciate the screens, can you try a magnify mouse? while pausing and zooming(old eyes) I had a nice tiny (steve nomenclature) epiphany moment at the 7:00 mark. "Use GrayScale, for bold poster-like images". hehehe you seem to have a super deluxe model, or I have not found the advanced tab yet. Strong work I'm always ready for concise data filled, visually supported tutorials

[@beutelteufelchen]

Thanks for the video. Could you make one about setting up an own material?

[@RioMa90]

big thanks !

[@looly7555]

Not sure if this helps: from PIL import Image # Load the image image_path = "/image-path.jpg" image = Image.open(image_path) # Convert the image to grayscale gray_image = image.convert("L") # Save the grayscale image gray_image_path = "/newImagePath_gray.jpg" gray_image.save(gray_image_path)

[@3iPhones1]

Vielen vielen dank ein tolles Video. ❤

[@ecruzpinto]

I have a problem with exported STL file from Hueforge. In Hueforge the file has 22 layers but when I open the stl file in Bambu it only has 12 layers. What is a possible solution for this dilemma?

[@ZhakRyuu]

You post this everywhere huh? Change layer height to 0.08 and first layer to 0.16

[@god1aj]

the vector AI makes you pay now, which i did pay for 1month just so I could try this out, but I am unable to get the gray layers where it seems to filter like yours. the drop down arrows on the gray layers never shows up for me.

[@god1aj]

of course i am trying to use a photo to try it out, not like yours, but the layers should still be filtered I would think.

[@YourBuddyDinec]

Yeah I tried it too and it was trying to charge me $10 a month to use it. That sucks

[@jsalonis]

This is great for simple images, but how would you apply this technique to a photo?

[@ChippWalters]

This technique is great for colorful flat graphic images but it won't work as well for continuous tone color photos.

[@deadrem]

The tool is awesome, but they make you pay $10 a month to download from it now sadly. Suppose if you use it often, that's fine, but a little disappointing they don't allow limited downloads for free users or anything. Thanks anyway, plenty of great advice here!

[@d4heinz]

"If you can do something very good, dont do it for free" hits again. It's a pity.