Amazing free tool lets you make 3D models from any photos. New gaming tool?

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WoW. Great model of a pub!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDsk8NdPVKs

stove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmM0WX0ha_A

Car modelled from photos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jfvx54czBU

Building

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIVL_jDXZ1Q

A building, made from photos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUgjunLrqS8

Room with furniture made with this tool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qij3d...eature=related

Little girl lying down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J23gW...eature=related

Arch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzEbfsksnoQ

others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ZEo...feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-IDNbPmKo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixkQumdlQ-0

There are videos on Youtube showing how to reduce poly count and convert the models for use in 3D editors so that it would be possible for them to be used in games.

Sorry for posting so many links. But it is such a striking tool with so many possible uses.

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Another nice building model

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnixiqnEwk

One of the intersting things is that you can make models using old (WWII) photos, as long as you have different angles of view!!

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Very nice video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HXkD7mCtjE

[KG26_Alpha]

Well its ok for a bit of presentation or fun with your photo albums etc....

Photo Strata 3D on Mac has been out a while now.

A complete shadow free stable 3D render would be impossible from photos in an outside environment,
buildings and general landscaping so any importing would look strange with any in game modelling unless they were used in low level LOD's
that might save some time in object creation.

Looks like fun.



Just found this from M$

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjhx...eature=related

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I think it's more than just a toy.
It simplifies model making. Or will do in the future when it has been refined.

Ammo box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCeqkAjZlA

[Letum]

The models created by these kind of programs are far too "messy" for use in games.

Modelling real time assets requires a certain kind of 'style' in the way the shapes are made that computers are currently quite bad at.
Computers don't currently understand what parts of a shape are important, where symmetry should be or how to align contours.
These things are important when modelling for games, but require an imagination and understanding that computers currently lack.

These technologies are far more useful in video or film.

[SiThSpAwN]

Originally Posted by Letum

The models created by these kind of programs are far too "messy" for use in games.

Modelling real time assets requires a certain kind of 'style' in the way the shapes are made that computers are currently quite bad at.
Computers don't currently understand what parts of a shape are important, where symmetry should be or how to align contours.
These things are important when modelling for games, but require an imagination and understanding that computers currently lack.

These technologies are far more useful in video or film.

I'd be interested in taking, say, part of a model (revell, etc) and trying to just render that part and then adding it to a model you are working on, if you know what I mean....

Might help with complex shapes, or for parts that are time consuming... dunno, I will give it a try at some point I am sure....

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The messyness of the moddels would depend on how well the photographic images were, and on how well they were taken.
The benefit is that with enough good photos the model-making is automatically done. Even lighting on the subject is preferable, but lots of models we see in games have less than perfect skins.

I'm sure this kind of technology will be of use to the gaming world before too long.

Natural lighting doesn't have to be a problem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzGxVdlyuPM