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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: tk on Sun, 05 February 2017, 23:38:41
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tl;dr: I built a Pok3r Keyboard in C4D (https://tee-kay.github.io/KeyCapTester/), complete with Xpresso to make texturing and trying different combinations a breeze. You can download and use it for free. (http://gen.rs/JQqy)
After lurking for a while, the beauty and simplicity of the 60% layout was too much. I broke down and bought a Pok3r to replace my beloved Mac keyboard with numpad (yes, the chiclet one and yes, I still kind of miss how thin it is but I'm adjusting).
But those caps — oh the caps. And the lack of available caps, at least cap sets that I like. That mixed with my impatience on waiting for the perfect first set to show up (*just* missed Mito's Canvas set), I started looking into PimpMyKeyboard's custom DSA options. I'm a visual person though, and wanted to see what the full board would look like given the limited options. So I built a model in C4D, then got ambitious and decided to rig it with some Xpresso. The model isn't perfect, but I was more concerned with those sexy keys so it's close enough for now. I may revisit the model one of these days. Included are materials (estimates based on their images) for all the available PMK PBT colors for custom DSA keys.
Check it out here(https://tee-kay.github.io/KeyCapTester/), and download the .C4D scene and textures here - dropbox(https://www.dropbox.com/s/385s720wiz2yvkr/KeycapsRig.c4d?dl=0) or for the genero.us(http://gen.rs/JQqy) among you. Hope you enjoy and would love to see what comes out of it.
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Excellent!
Thanks for sharing :)
Did you know there's a GH CAD Resources Hub (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=47744.0) thread? Perhaps you could post the links there too.
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I'll post this there as well. thanks for the heads up!
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An ideal sounds great!