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  1. My 15 day demo of 3DF Zephyr 6.5 ran out yesterday. However I was having so much fun and really impressed with the support of their staff I decided to purchase it. Loving it so far...

    I did try Agisoft Metashape, Meshroom and Reality Capture. Meshroom was too slow and Reality Capture does not work well with turntable captures which I am using since I am shooting minatures and models and a stationary camera on a tripod. Metashape and Zephyr worked the best for me. Zephyr has an easier masking function and is a tad cheaper.

     

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  2. Based upon the events currently happening in Ukraine, I feel like a complete ASS posting this rant about wanting more hard surface tutorials.

    Andrew, 3D Coat is the last thing that should be on your mind. Not unless it is an healthy diversion for you.

    I can not imagine the HELL you and your family must be going through.

    Please take care of yourself and your family. 

    I am a bit perplexed how the west can sit idle and not come to the assistance of Ukraine, especially with Putin now recruiting thugs and terrorists from Syria.

    Surely Germany, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Romania, USA, Canada can see they can not trust Putin.

    Why is NATO content to be a witness to this carnage?

    God Bless you Andrew. Praying Ukraine and it's citizens can pull through this hellish onslaught.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Carlosan said:

    That's awesome. Hoping all stays well with Andrew, his family and the citizens of Ukraine.

    In my near 70 years of life I NEVER thought I would see something like this happen.

    I guess humanity has not learned much from the past.

     

  4. There are tons of sculpting videos for organic objects like characters, animals, etc. Recently there was an epic series on a rhino which I got bored of after watching the first three videos.

    Can we PLEASE have some videos on hard surface objects, specifically vehicles, cars, trucks, airplanes and even buildings? Spaceships seem to be the norm for hard surface tutorials in 3DC but not to be mean spirited ,IMHO of the hard surface objects spaceships are one of the easiest to do unlike a car, truck, etc.

    And I did purchase Anton Tenitsky excellent tutorial on sketching a car buggy in 3DC a few years ago and it was certainly well worth the cost. And I enjoyed it very much. But I was looking for something that was more in line with modeling a real to life car like a vintage Ford or Chevy, a modern day Porsche or Corvette, vintage WWII airplane (Mustang, Spitfire, Zero, Stuka ), etc.

    Thank kindly and I mean no insult to anyone. 

    Kenmo

  5. I brought the retop model into Blender to peek at. I retopo'd vis 3DC-instant Meshes with a target to 40,000  faces but ended up with 79,000 faces. I also used 3DC to uv map the retopo mesh. When I brought the retopo mesh into Metascape create the diffuse map, Metashape converted the quads to triangles upon export. If you look closely at the screen capture you will see Metashape put a diagonal line through all the quads, cutting the quads into two tris. Anyone know of a fix for this issue?

    Retopo Instand Meshes.PG.JPG

  6. I find one of the most difficult things in photogrammetry is getting the proper lighting. I have no photographer's diffuse  tent or umbrella so made do with the regular lighting in my computer room. The car had lots of reflections on the shiny paint, chrome plated parts and the windows. I did try a polarizing filter. And it helped somewhat.

    I am but a novice so if anyone has any recommendations on taking better photos for shiny objects, I'm all ears. However I do know about powder sprays but I am very reluctant to use these as over the 55 years plus I've been building and collecting car models I have damaged many trying to remove dust.

    So please do not recommend dust spray or similar products. Also I would like to shoot a photo of my own 60 Corvette and cars at local car shows. I know for a fact none of the classic car owners I know would approve of putting dust onto their prized autos.

     

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