B.Ob. Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Talking nasty with Tim Sweeney "Question 3: Are there any good "3D capture" technologies available, e.g. a camera that can take a photo and triangulate it and upload it to 3D studio, for example? Do you envision such products ever (next decade or so) make a major impact in the game development world? Tim: We looked into several off-the-shelf 3D capture solutions, and didn't find anything that was worth using. The polygon data they output is so rough that it typically requires more effort to clean-up the data than to create similar data from scratch using a modeling program. However, we just looked at the $5K-$20K solutions. There are $100K 3D laser scanners that might be better, but that's not necessarily a better solution that a modeling program. Here, I ought to mention ZBrush, a modeling program that is truly a godsend in the new era of high-polygon modeling and normal-maping. If that didn't exist, we might bite the bullet and work more with the 3D capture tools." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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