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In contrast to what I usually do on the job (architecture visuals) I have found the time to test some photogrammetry app on my smartphone and I'm surprised about what it can do (I pay annual 27 Simoleons for the pro version though). The app made me take 70 photographs of a little trinket on my cluttered desk and then produced a nicely quadrified mesh of the object, including PBR textures: diffuse, normal map, a displacement map and a roughness map.
It gave back various file formats (I chose .fbx) which included a material that was easily replaceable by a VrayMat in 3ds max. I set up a scene and rendered a little animation of the thing which I'd like to show you.
Notice how the texture is a bit lowres, I found out that I generated the thing with 50% texture resolution. Meaning that It could look even better if remade, but I'd rather move on to another object
The displacement also helps with the lowres bitmap, makes it very haptic and natural.
My original plan was to scan a few stones, so I can create a realistic pavement using Railclone and maybe some scattered leaves on top. I chose this trinket for a test because it was more complex (and fun) than pavement stones.
If you want to know what app I used, I can tell you. But I think there's hundreds of photogrammetry apps these days that are equally capable, so I don't think it's relevant which one I used. You just have to find one that handles mesh well and gives good results.
It gave back various file formats (I chose .fbx) which included a material that was easily replaceable by a VrayMat in 3ds max. I set up a scene and rendered a little animation of the thing which I'd like to show you.
Notice how the texture is a bit lowres, I found out that I generated the thing with 50% texture resolution. Meaning that It could look even better if remade, but I'd rather move on to another object
The displacement also helps with the lowres bitmap, makes it very haptic and natural.
My original plan was to scan a few stones, so I can create a realistic pavement using Railclone and maybe some scattered leaves on top. I chose this trinket for a test because it was more complex (and fun) than pavement stones.
If you want to know what app I used, I can tell you. But I think there's hundreds of photogrammetry apps these days that are equally capable, so I don't think it's relevant which one I used. You just have to find one that handles mesh well and gives good results.
