Garden Railway Forum

I've been experimenting a bit with the "Fuzzy Skin" setting in Cura, which might be a way to make layer lines less obvious on surfaces that are supposed to be rough. Here are a couple of A/B tests of the same models with and without fuzzy skin.
Right- facing side upright, with ironing, unpainted. Left- printed upside-down from shown orientation, fuzzy skin, painted. (Just the wooden frame; axle boxes are ironed on both examples.)

Left- fuzzy skin, right - normal skin. This is matte PLA which is also supposed to help hide layer lines.

I chose these models to test because I thought the fuzzy skin could pass for woodgrain or textile pattern. I'm not 100% satisfied because as far as I can tell there's no way to block parts of the model from becoming fuzzy, so the bolt heads and potatoes also become fuzzy. If those elements were applied by hand or printed separately it might be a useful effect for approximating a rough surface.

To my eyes the fuzzy sack looks much more realistic that the layer line version. Not sure about the effect on the spuds, the photo isn't really clear enough to see the difference.

drewzero1 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 6:51 am I'm not 100% satisfied because as far as I can tell there's no way to block parts of the model from becoming fuzzy, so the bolt heads and potatoes also become fuzzy. If those elements were applied by hand or printed separately it might be a useful effect for approximating a rough surface.

Really like the look that gives to the sack, but as Phil says the potatoes suffer.

Wood grain is a tricky issue. In reality very few weathered wooden parts get so deeply eroded that they can be printed accurately and a machine generated setting like 'fuzzy' may end up just looking wrong because it's not properly random enough as it's limited in it's feature length. Maybe something that's best left to nature and use a decent fine grained hardwood like beech for untreated wooden parts.

Here's a better comparison in sunlight. Need to check my retraction settings... Potatoes in both sacks have a lot of eyes!

I like the fuzzy ones.. - My take is we need to accentuate details like texture, to make up for the small size of the objects..

Fuzzy potato's, just have more 'dirt' left on them...

Phil.P