[Eric Lagman]

Is that your house??? I wounder what your wife thinks of your little toys.

I know, if I walk in a house and they have a setup like that in their living room............my first reaction would be: WTF!!!!

Well technically that room is my office, but it is close enough to the living space that I did get a WTF! from her. Quite a few times. This is the price of always trying to learn new things.

Herve I have not tried textures, but with David you can capture a texture with the camera with each rotation of the object. The trick is to have very diffuse lighting so you the object is evenly lit when you capture the textures. This avoids the highlights. Once I get the scanning part itself down, I will dive into that area.

[Hervé]

ah yes I am specialistof the ultra diffuse lighting... hehe.. I use lighting ballons.. nothing better..

http://www.airstar-light.com/

although I made the ones I have here for very cheap...

[Eric Lagman]

ah yes I am specialistof the ultra diffuse lighting... hehe.. I use lighting ballons.. nothing better..

http://www.airstar-light.com/

although I made the ones I have here for very cheap...

Wouldn't some foamcore boards with a large cutout and a sheet of rice paper or vellum that was backlit work? How easy is this to make the balloons you have?

[Hervé]

ha ha.. some $5 chinese paper lamps.. with adapted fixtures for 200 lightbulbs..

works like a charm ! I have 4 large ones..

[Eric Lagman]

ha ha.. some $5 chinese paper lamps.. with adapted fixtures for 200 lightbulbs..

works like a charm ! I have 4 large ones..

So simple its Genius! Ikea here I come! Wait a minute you modified to fit 200W lightbulbs. Is that not a potential fire hazard? Or are you using fluorescent?

[Hervé]

nahhh, ... just make sure you change the fixture.. to fit your new lightbulb.. I also changed the electric cable.. take the big ones, the paper is so far from the lightbulb, I sometimes left it ON for a few hours.. no problem at all.. just make sure the lightbulb is really centered in the midle of the lamp.. that's it..

ok, here I show you..

[johann.dugge]

...to fit 200W lightbulbs. Is that not a potential fire hazard?

nahhh, ... just make sure you change the fixture.. to fit your new lightbulb.. I also changed the electric cable.. take the big ones, the paper is so far from the lightbulb, I sometimes left it ON for a few hours.. no problem at all.. just make sure the lightbulb is really centered in the midle of the lamp.. that's it..

famous last words

[Hervé]

huh..? why Johann..?

[johann.dugge]

Well I'm not going out to party when your house has burnt down, am I?
I'm not! (Just in case you thought I might!)

[Hervé]

the house won't burn..full concrete house.. don't worry. AND, I never let it ON when I am out of the room.. besides 200w is not much, after 2 hours, the paper is still totally cold..

also the photo is posed for 2 seconds... I don't see it like that in reality.. much lower..

One could also use HMI cold light.. but at a cost..

[Eric Lagman]

Ok I have been away from using this scanning software for a while. I finally have time to get back into it. This is one of my first successful scans. Not all the detail is there from the real object because I had to back my webcam away from the object a certain distance to fit. It was 340mm tall. Still I am happy enough. I think I am getting the hang of it. I took the raw scan data and ran it through a free program called graphite to get a quad mesh with just a few clicks. I then took the quad mesh through 3d coat alpha 3.0 and added back detail with sculpting tools around the fins and eyes. I also took photos with my digital cam and projection painted the wood finish directly onto the model. The projection painting tools allow you to take a high res texture shot and paint it on very easily. The screenshots from David were just not good enough because of the quality of my quickcam 9000. After I painted the texture on I export to Cinema 4d and render with the maxwell plugin. So Lots of steps involved after the scanning process, but still faster than modelling from scratch

[Hervé]

hey Eric !... very cool Dolphin...

[tom]

Cool!

[-Adrian]

The wire looks very clean. Does it always come out that well given proper lighting and exposure, or is that highly dependent on the shape and complexity of the mesh.

[yolk]

no..that's because he remeshed it in graphite (alice)..a wonderfull beta app (free) but also very buggy and not feature complete