Never mind a point release I want one of these:

[RErender]

https://www.nextengine.com costs about $2500

[dapeter]

As long as it's not made my Next Limit...

[tammo]

my personal experience with 3d scanners is that they suck.

the resulting mesh is ugly and hard to render.

the only time i used a 3d scanned model was a sport-shoe that was hard to model and was shown only 1/3 PAL size.

[RErender]

heh, did you look at their examples?

if those are the true output it's quite nice.

And for only $2500 quite a bargain, imagine all the sweet props, vases, knick-knacks ...

[Da_elf]

ooooooo

[rpc212]

daPeter that is funny!

If it was made by Next Limit it would only scan things that aren't glass or have bumps and require 3 days to scan a anything bigger than 1 cm by 1cm. But you'd get a cool material editor that no one wants, no support from Next Limit, and the constant promise of, "We're going to release a firmware update next week that will alow you to scan bumpy things and glass things and everything else plus all the other stuff we put on our website!", that gave you the confidence in Next Limit to buy their product. Oh, and don't forget the no refund policy if the scanner sucks and doesn't do anything the website said it would do when you bought it!



My joke for the day!

[studioDIM]

it looks clever, and cheap.
Only problem i can see is that it would be inpractical to furnish a room with scanned objects, for instance...

You'd need some tool to reduce polys and/or do a nurbs/polycage conversion... (CySlice, for example...)

All in all looks a nice toy, though...

Lele

[jujubee]

It appears they also sell a ray-gun for miniaturizing typical household items.