HD: Generating game geometry with simple photographs (Part 4) Joseph Drust

[seagoat8888]

This workflow is pretty amazing... It sounds like a lot of the interest for this is in games, but I'm in VFX and see a lot of use there.

I'd be extremely interested if you could take something like this and take an all-quads version into Mudbox, handle the spec/bump/etc. maps, and then get it into a real rendered scene. Please let me know if you ever do this. Thanks again!

[newsonomamashine]

This is very good but honestlly i can`t see a real and practical use for a REAL GAME, 1 k triangles is too much for a prop like that, something close to 500 or even 300 would be better, it`s not possible to get a proper low poly mesh form decimation master, manual work is unavoidable...and you don`t even have a normal map, it would look very odd as soon as you change the direction of the light, in the end this is just a photo projeted in to a mesh, great idea, but useful for a real game.

[maxkastle]

@newsonomamashine

Not entirely true. This is a cool method for getting a highres mesh and texture to start with. Yes you have to do some manual work and the tutorials don't go through creating normal maps and ways of creating a more efficient lowres mesh- but that's not the point- the point is that Photofly is awesome. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[newsonomamashine]

@maxkastle The name of the video is: generating GAME geometry with simple photographs, when in the end that final "low" geometry can`t be used as it is in a game...the coolness doesn`t make it practical nor efficient, of course you can use it as a starting point, but the video makes it seem just as taking some random photos, put them in to the program, and generate your geometry rdy to use in game, way far from true. It`s a great way to generate high poly geo from photos thou.

[595o]

But what if I want to combine parallax mapping for the things that "go inside" with simple normal mapping for the rest?

[noobdles]

excellent tut. very clever

[YTDekus]

Amazing.. Thank you for sharing!

[zurechtweiser]

That black dude seems to have lost his sense of humour.

[nickzucc]

Really nice tutorial. Thanks for showing this method!

[tyrone70]

Very good idea. Thanks for sharing

[AndyBurgerMan]

Awesome tutorials,  thanks.

[vadimggg]

thank you so very much!!!! fantastic tutorial!!

could you by any chance make an additional tut on baking normal map from high res to game model? thank you very much!!

[esepablo19]

badass!!