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Post by Administrator on Oct 9, 2008 22:13:00 GMT 2
Just found this site: www.david-laserscanner.com/most interestering topic, expecially as I have some 1:18 diecast car models at hand ;D Already had a webcam and got me a line laser for 20 EUR; software is for free... now I'll go for checking how well this works. Looks easy enough |
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Post by bdford on Oct 10, 2008 10:06:07 GMT 2
yes indeed this is the next big thing in 3D modeling and CGI. A lot of what you see in movies, and of late in games, was scanned. You didn't think a little army of mouse jockeys sat there and made all that stuff by hand, like we do with our cars, pushing points around a screen, did you? Of course you CAN still make things that way and sometimes they do, but scanning is used more and more. Its interesting to see it becoming more affordable.
Let me know how this goes, I'm fantastically interested, dude.
Bubba
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Post by ksheppard on Oct 11, 2008 2:46:59 GMT 2
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Post by Administrator on Oct 11, 2008 8:20:14 GMT 2
That would be awesome for some testing  The results with that laser scanning method so far are rather... unsatisfying. It works, but lacks the required smoothness |
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Post by Harding Jr on Oct 11, 2008 11:40:56 GMT 2
That would be awesome for some testing The results with that laser scanning method so far are rather... unsatisfying. It works, but lacks the required smoothness I don't know much about modeling in itself but I am curious, you say it is unsatisfying thus far, would that mean easier to start from scratch or compared to what you where exspecting? |
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Post by Administrator on Oct 11, 2008 12:54:59 GMT 2
Something in between... The mesh you get is very high-poly, but lacks precision/ smoothness. Probably digicam res and laser line width are the parameters that would need to get enhanced - 640x480 res on my digicam. But maybe I just have not got the trick how to do it right yet  The scanning is great to get the positioning right anyway - on any car photo that is used for blueprint you'll have angular dislocation effects, that can manually corrected with using a scanned 3D model to get relations right. For now it's just some nifty tool to help on modeling manually |
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Post by sucahyo on Oct 14, 2008 3:49:14 GMT 2
I am interested  ! |
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Post by gaz1943 on Oct 16, 2008 8:34:44 GMT 2
hi: ksheppard : I'd be interested in getting a copy of the dsculptor program . Let me know how to get it please
my e-mail is Gaz1943@yahoo.com
Thanks in advance
Stan
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Post by ksheppard on Oct 16, 2008 14:40:04 GMT 2
I'll get a rar file put together from the install cd directory and either email or post a link...send me a pm with email details |
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