Project Photofly

Klunk · Post by **Klunk** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:34 pm

from autodesk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vue8Qqk3 ... re=related

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/photo_scene_editor/

Adler1337 · Post by **Adler1337** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:39 pm

Meh. It's not that useful for games. Plus the modelling programs I already use can do the same thing with better results.

Klunk · Post by **Klunk** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:32 pm

why ? it's free, you may have a need to create 100 photo realistic heads. A simple script can match a generic low poly head mesh to the hi res geometry. render to texture will create diffuse & normal. jobs a good un.
results look pretty good to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cb9Suu8w3Y

and hand modeling these kind of creases well is tough even with apps like z brush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRLEIGDi ... re=related

of course hi res geometry has no practical usage in games

in fact for creating just surface normal & diffuse maps this kind of thing is perfect. Building rubble for example, find a suitable demolition site, lots of photos of a random rubble pile. Generate the hires mesh in photofly export to max, and render to texture to a flat plane. simples. You will create much more "depth" to the textures than using something like the nvidia normal map filter.

Adler1337 · Post by **Adler1337** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:15 pm

I'm not saying it's useless or not cool, just not practical for me at least. The major problem I have with things like that is the ridiculous amount of clean up those types of models usually need. It is usually almost easier to model from scratch than rework an extremely messy model. Also when I said that the modelling programs I use can do the same thing, I wasn't talking about hand modelling. I was talking about generating models from pictures.

why ? it's free

I didn't realize it was free. When I went to the site it asked to log in in order to download so I figured it wasn't free. Maybe I'll check it out to see how well it performs.

EDIT: I just played around with it for a little while and looked at some of the videos, and I stand by my "meh". It's not really anything I haven't seen before, and it requires a ton of pictures that you have to stitch together which practically takes as long to do as modelling something. Plus shiny and transparent object supposedly don't work which kind of sucks. IMO it is just a flashy novelty that gives people a cheap(cost of camera) 3d scanner.

Klunk · Post by **Klunk** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:50 am

you keep your blinkers on

first attempt, quick test, 20 mins, 15 photos, mostly waiting for them to upload

model was loaded into max and projection map to a plane and the rendertotexture, normal, lighting, diffuse and height

and to finish, a plane in max with a parallax shader (light map was re-rendered as an ambient occlusion map. 15 photos to this with no artistic intervention all procedural, you can meh all you like.

Klunk · Post by **Klunk** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:04 am

one final final image, re-render the normal map, with a gray scale diffuse as a bump map to give it some more hi frequency grain

loki1985 · Post by **loki1985** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:13 pm

respect. that looks really nice.

Klunk · Post by **Klunk** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:30 pm

thanks, can't see it being any use in games though

HerrAlmanack · Post by **HerrAlmanack** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:58 pm

that doesn't really look useful for a game model... looks like you will be packing in quite a few hundreds, or more, tris just for a few rocks that could be modelled for under 100..

still pretty cool.

only 3d printers made cheap is left!

Klunk · Post by **Klunk** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:24 pm

no i'm pushing 2 tris there.

HerrAlmanack · Post by **HerrAlmanack** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:25 pm

Klunk wrote:no i pushing 2 tri there.

2 triangles? so are the rest nurbs or something?

Klunk · Post by **Klunk** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:28 pm

Klunk · Post by **Klunk** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:57 pm

no nurbs, just 2 triangles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjnHA_pfWOY

Klunk · Post by **Klunk** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:30 pm

only 3d printers made cheap is left!

nope that's been done too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOErpOP5Xk

HerrAlmanack · Post by **HerrAlmanack** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:00 pm

Klunk wrote:
only 3d printers made cheap is left!
nope that's been done too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOErpOP5Xk

amazing