drkfetyshnyghts opened this issue on Apr 06, 2007 · 10 posts
drkfetyshnyghts posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 4:31 AM
I am totally new to 3d so please excuse my ignorance.
Is it possible to take a picture of an object.. say for instance.. a car... load that into a 3D programme to turn it into a 3D object for rendering, altering etc? If so, which 3d programes do i need to be looking at? Maybe Cheetah for Mac?
Any direction would be good
Stefi xxx
Gongyla posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 5:52 AM
There are special 3D scanners that can scan real life (3D ) objects, but these are extremely expensive, and used in the creation of movies like Lord of the Rings.
3D applications are different. You can create objects (or buy them, like for Poser) with the help of meshes, a mesh being a number of points in 3D space (your monitor plus imaginary depth) that are corner points of triangles, quadrangles or even n-gons (more angles). These you can "rig", meaning that you can, for example, make an arm move, animate, add textures and render. Rendering means creating a still, pixel-based image of your mesh. A sequence of these images can become an animation.
So in short: no, you cannot scan a picture of a car to become a 3D object, but if you have the application and the money, you can buy 3D cars that you can pose and render.
drkfetyshnyghts posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 6:49 AM
Mmmm thank you Gongyla... i guess the only question left o ask is.. which is the best 3d app for projects like cars. Not neccsarily interested in animation.
Anyone know anything about Cheetah for the Mac? Or do i have to go high-end?
Gongyla posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 7:01 AM
The best? I guess it's always best by starting with something like Wings3D for example.
if you like it, you can either get something from chez DAZ like Bryce or Hexagon, or, depending on what you want to invest, go "high end".
I personally use Cinema4D because it's the easiest ( www. maxon.de ) of the higher end packages. For what you want to do, you can start with the basic module. But even that is an investment of over 800Euros.
drkfetyshnyghts posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 7:19 AM
ahhhh decisions decisions.. i think i'll wait see how i get on with Poser7 first... if i get some good results, and they inspire me... i will for sure go further.
Thanks again
Stefi xxx
kuroyume0161 posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 1:48 PM
Actually, there is! Look up ImageModeler by RealViz. You take a set of photos and, with some work, can get a 3D model of the object(s) textured from the photos. This area of 3D is called photogrammetry.
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drkfetyshnyghts posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 2:29 PM
ohh cool.. i must check it out thank you :)
Stefi xxx
Quote - Actually, there is! Look up ImageModeler by RealViz. You take a set of photos and, with some work, can get a 3D model of the object(s) textured from the photos. This area of 3D is called photogrammetry.
Miss Nancy posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 2:33 PM
I tried cheetah, but I prefer carrara. however, I tried cheetah 2.x, hence 3.6 may be alot better.
drkfetyshnyghts posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 3:07 PM
Hmmmm i said Cheetah because its a nice cheapy to begin on i guess:)
RorrKonn posted Sat, 07 April 2007 at 2:26 AM
Blender is free also,Gimp a free 2D app.
I use C4D and BP
Links to a few app's.
http://www.atomic-3d.com/RK_Link/RK_Link_1A_3D_Software.htm
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