annexbot

Introduction This is a compact home virtual production stage — a scaled-down version of the LED wall setups used in film and broadcast. Built from a mix of consumer and prosumer gear, it’s designed to test multi-display routing, keying, and monitoring workflows without the footprint (or price tag) of a full studio volume. Goals & Features Some of the goals I had when putting this stage…

Unreal Worldbuilding Fellowship 2022

Working on some pi camera programming tonight. Just a simple interface that uses the gpio buttons on the adafruit screen I’ve got. Not a huge jump, but a little progress.

https://eleccelerator.com/pi-handheld-3d-scanner/

There is the idea;

Going to try and document the process as I try it,

Starting from here; https://eleccelerator.com/wiki/index.php?title=Raspbian_Buster_ROS_RealSense

Now that I’ve managed to gather most of the parts, its time to start

It mentioned starting from a fresh Buster image, https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/buster-the-new-v…

Decided that I’m not likely ever going to finish this knight as a knight and I’d rather display it as an old abandoned work in progress, so I made some scaffolding support out of laser cut scraps, and gave him a quick paint job. #Kitbash #terrain I like scaffolding.

Here is a Mek’s workshop, built from a looted mechanicus factory. Inside is a scale model of a mega gargant the Mek boss is using to guide his apprentice meks from. The walls and ceiling have been punched through to make rook as its grown. On the roof is “da bitz bin” a large tank of spare parts waiting to be pressed into use, and they have rigged a crane and Traktor beam to pull parts from it……

Blender guru tutorial Doughnut result

Spruins I’ve got some paint on these now, just the main materials blocked out, which was pretty easy since its all going to be metal. I started with three shades of primer; grey black and white to get some variation and break up shapes while tying it all together with a bit of pre-shading. Then I sponged on a bunch of #stuartsemple silver paint, to get some reflective shine in areas, using a…

I’ve been combining bottles, sprue, laser cut scraps, 3d print supports, random curft, a bunch of resin cast greeblies and a few broken up plaster ones, and a GW set to make this refinery set. I cut a sheet of hardboard to the size of a ikea billy shelf, for the overall footprint, to ensure it will be easy to display. Then I cut that board up for each of the modular parts so that it would be…

Sorted out the missing and co flucting plugins and got the scene running in vr again. The VN is still inside out.

Opened up the nav boundaries out

Imported a heavy LOADR, but the texture seems off. It’s a fused fbx file, and looks correct in blender…

Had a but of painting time over the weekend, so I started experimenting a bit on the new #Gigalion from #kingdomdeath I’m going for a subtle monochrome treatment using a little #black2.0 from @culturehustle

Ue 4.24.2 vr starter proj

I added the mesh editing plugins and a few others along the way. I figured out alt middle mouse to move the pivot of a model, to make my scans in arbitrary positions easier to deal with,

How have I taken it for granted so long?

but now my level wont deploy to VR. I tried removing the plugins still no go.

Almost seems like its failing to build…

Maybe I’m just tired.

Doing some experiments in Unreal for VR on an Oculus go. I started with GearVR.

Some scale model photogrammetry

I wish I knew a way to adjust manipulators inside UE.

Navigating with the controller works via teleportation using Tom Looman’s blueprint for VR.(www.tomlooman.com)

The only thing that seems odd about it now, is that ever since UE 2.24.2 the trigger and D-pad both cast the…

Looking at pano/latlong/cubemaps in Ue4 for VR

I spent the weekend trying to set up a pipeline for myself to go from some panos I shot into a VR scene. Its trickier than I anticipated.

Stitch pano in PTgui – export equirectangular – hugin/panotools export cube faces – stitch as .DDS in photoshop with nvidia plugin – import to Ue – convert texture to material, unlit, 2 sided, with emissive texture…

#Leto2 has been on the workbench forever now, asking for paint, how could I say no? Just base colors now, sloppy washes to warm up the skin tone #dune #miniature

#paleoparadoxia cast in #ultracal pretty nice casts, you can see the texture of the #3dprint Ive cast up fifteen of them, now to clean up and paint