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Originally Posted by agnat
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I do like the idea of having her sit on something though.
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Sounds like you need to have a look at this thread on how to host pics:Quote:
Originally Posted by agnat
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...newpost&t=6515
I do like the idea of having her sit on something though.
Here's my latest drawing (thanks again to various fanart which I traced over for the hair and head, then played with the body template I've been using).
She won't be standing up like this, she'll be sitting on a table so her butt and thighs will be flat, but once I've got the front design sorted I'll do the sideways sitting design.
Since she will be sitting down, would there be any problems with the clothing? Would you have to cut a square on the back of her dress so that it doesn't interfere with the conponents?
Hmm yeah I'm not sure about that or not. I've almost completed the front and side views now, which is looking good I think, except the motherboard doesn't fit in her legs. For example the videocard sticks up out of her legs, hmm. The other parts all fit quite well, but I'll have to play around more tomorrow and see what to do. I imagine the motherboard is gonna go back into her main body, and bits may stick out of her back and she has to be made wider in the stomach.
I might still have to cut holes in the clothes anyways though yes, even just for cooling purposes.
How about using a riser card so that your graphics card sits parallel with the motherboard?
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-rc02.htm
This would cause the motherboard and the installed graphics card to be "thinner".
Ah, very interesting idea. Although I'd have to give up my sound card (onboard audio is great, but I do quite like the X-Fi sound). Never the less, it's something I'll certainly think about.
Now I've done the image here which shape wise, I think is complete. What do people think? Location of the parts wise, it's better than my last one where the parts stuck out of her leg, but still I have the un-avoidable problem of having to join her thighs together up to a certain point (if I want everything to be internal). Essensially she'll have a box for a butt / thighs yeah. But with a PCI-E riser card I could shape the top of her thighs still at least yeah. It's worth thinking about.
In the anime, lines go across her eyes when she's 'working'. I wonder if I could have something in her head that goes around and around all the time, so it scrolls behind her eyes. Like black card, with lines cut out of it, and some dark semi-transparent stuff in the holes. Then I could put the HDD access light in her head, and when it flashes, the light will come out of the semi-transparent strips as it scrolls past the eyes.
What do you think? It's just an idea I've been pondering a bit. Obviously I'd need a much much brighter HDD access light, and I assume it's possible to change the led, or add more? Or might there not be enough power going to it to power several lights?
Wait, is she going to have movable joints like a mannequin?
I don't know about that setup. For one, it looks like the PSU won't get enough air.
This is like a puzzle. I'll keep thinking about it.
Maybe yeah. At least the top of her arms need to be able to rotate up so I can put clothes on her easily (and her head detachable, cause it's huge), but the rest of her I'm not sure about. I can't see why her head shouldn't be able to rotate, but there's no need for her legs to be able to move.
What do you think?
A puzzle, exactly! I wonder if this will work... I'd have one or two fans on the side of her leg pulling the cool air in. Then on the other side is the exhaust from the videocard, and on her butt the exhaust from the cpu heatsink. Also just above the heatsink is the PSU with it's 12cm fan.
The DVD drive I also moved to come out her side, because the hair would get in the way if it comes out her back. Then finally in-between the PSU and DVD drive are the hard drives.
Then of course, there's the problem of the fact she's wearing clothes. Oh dear! Hmm.
Maybe put the hard drives inbetween the PSU and the motherboard? Because hard drives produce heat and need cooling too.
This box you have her sitting on... Maybe make it a chair?
Oh, I was thinking how you are going to access the pc parts? I thought of 2 ideas so far.
1) Lift her straight up and off the motherboard. The frame that holds the parts will have to be attached to the chair.
2) This is way more complicated and most likely unnecessary. But you could split her in "half". Not exactly in half. But you would have her knees bendable. You can have her locked in a standing up position while the back stays where it is. This might make it easy to put a dress/pants on her.
I really don't know... this is hard. And I'm not even doing the mod. lol
haha yeah I know what you mean about it being hard. Thanks so much for all your comments though!! Yep I'll move the hard drives between them, good thinking. I was going to have her sit on this table / cabinet next to the monitor, but mmm the idea of lifting her up and off the motherboard sounds very good, required almost. Maybe there's a way to combine both ideas.
Right now though I just ran into another problem, I've been putting pieces in so they fit with the front and side views, but forgetting she'll be round. The PSU unit pictured where it is in the last image for example won't fit, but everything should (I hope) fit in this new one.
I suppose water cooling is another option, but a bit expensive (I don't have a much of a job at the moment, I used to work for Lik-Sang.com if anyone knows them, the online videogame import store). So for now I've put in another air cooling design, of two fans on her bum (the clothing could be cut away there) which suck the cool air in and through the heatsink. The GPU is then all the way across the legs and it exhausts the air out the side. Above the CPU heatsink the hot air rises, then into the PSU and out her back. What do you think?
Possible Water Cooled version (with one fan in the back to provide cool air for the HDD & PSU):
