I think they will do just fine if the people who don’t want to make a real print of the model decide to stop posting new models, and they will have more satisfied users and have less complaints from people getting angry over wasting their money trying to print an unprintable model.
I don’t think anybody is interested in funding your hobby, they just want good prints.
Ome more point, i just printed a 48 part print that I BOUGHT. I would NOT have paid money for the model if i had not seen multiple people post their makes. And BTW, maker had to rework 2 parts that didnt correctly fit together. And he reprinted himself after altering. 26 total hours, and only 300grams of filament.
I like the rule as it is. Maybe some are capable to predict everything that could happen and have always perfect matching tolerances, but at least in my case sometimes printing shows issues I haven’t thought about or gives further ideas for improvements before other start printing it.
Of course there are sometimes models where you can be like 100% sure that it will print fine, but it would turn into a huge chaos if some models would require a print picture and some not. To some degree it’s also like a filter stopping people from flooding the site with too many print files in a short period of time like we’ve sometimes seen in the past.
thats actually not true. Only a requirement if you posted a print profile.
There is a requirement to provide photo evidence of a successful print for both the model and the profile.
Please upload at least one actual print image of the model, otherwise your model may be removed.
Well, for what it’s worth, one of the models in the top 3 for the Spring contest didn’t seem to have actual photos of the printed model until others uploaded them after printing.
Take a look at the images supplied by the designer, and it’s clear that they are all renderings. The model is pretty, don’t misunderstand, but the images are clearly not photos of the print.
They just added that recently. This is why started this tread. It was not there as of my last upload.
So I think this makes my point exactly. Thank you for adding this to the conversation. If that can win then if you make a rule where it will be taken down without a picture of it printed then effectively we are depriving the community of this file.
I’m not sure I’d use the phrase “depriving the community of this file”.
I do however think that unless there is a printed image, the file should not be featured and should not be eligible for any kind of contest.
I’d think that not having an actual image of the printed model should lead to something similar to what we see on YouTube or other platforms. There they refer to it as “Demonetizing” the content. Yes you can find it, but you better be searching for exactly that thing. Otherwise it bumps it down in the ranking.
How we determine whether a picture is actually real vs. a rendering is another story, as AI generation of photos and videos is getting more and more sophisticated. Perhaps require that the model is held by an actual hand in one, but even that could technically be faked.
It’s been there a while now.
Which one as each one has one or more photos.
The third place one has a few renders, but, a couple of the images are photos.
Okay maybe those words are quite right. But if I’m not allowed to post it then no one can create it other than me. Thats all I’m saying. Not being able to post it is the problem. But if thats how Bambu wants to do it then thats up to them. It’s their product.
I think I’d be fine with “demonetizing” so to speak until a printed picture is produced but thats probably hard on Bambu to enforce. Its probably hard for them to enforce any sort of “proof” that its been printed.
Im pretty sure it wasn’t there on 4/16 my last uploaded model.
It’s been commented on in this forum for weeks now,
Third place is entirely renders.
There are no actual photos. The shadows are the giveaway on it.
The only one that MIGHT be a photo is the one with the poop in the vase, and if so they printed that at like .08 layer height on the vase.
When I see things like vases floating above a table (look at the shadows, that’s not how shadows work), it makes me question everything else.
Only two of the images are fake. The other 3 are real.
The two that are renders are pretty poor quality. The images aren’t super great either, which probably is what lends to the feeling that they aren’t right, especially next to such obvious renders. In the single flower in particular, you can see the designer’s hand holding the stem at the bottom of the picture.
This is exactly what I saw, I just didn’t annotate it because, I’m a bit lazy!
Sorry, that first one is a render. The shadows are off, or they photoshopped the image into another location. Personally, I don’t feel renders should be permitted at all, unless it is the render comes straight from Orca or Bambu Studio that makes it very clear it is a render.
It should exist, I never said it shouldn’t. I did state that it should be “demonetized” if the images aren’t of actual prints and only of renders. On closer inspection, I’ll admit that is likely printed, but I still question the scenario given the background of the picture. We’ve seen other “prints” in the past that were very obviously renders as the seams were different from picture to picture on the same object. Layer lines don’t mean much, given how good some of the renders have become.
