mophs

(via Condensor Tower - 3D model by mophs (@mophs))

A little workflow I’m trying out,

Here is my lowpoly mesh with no edge splits, totally smooth shaded.

Here is the same mesh I duplicated-linked (ALT-D) which I put on a second layer. It’s in its own object but uses the same mesh data as the first one. You can put modifiers on this second one, here it is with an edge split.

I named the first mesh with the _low prefix on the object and exported it as wrench_low (its made of 3 parts, each their own mesh and object). I named the second wrench_high (e.g wrench_body_high is the object name) and exported that group as wrench_high.

In Painter I made sure to set match to by mesh name.

Out comes a nice bake with no intersection between parts and I didn’t even have to model and maintain a highpoly. This means I can really quickly change the low and it auto updates the _high mesh because they share a mesh block.

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Sound is a bit loud! Careful!

3DF Zephyr (Free) - 3DF has some nice tools and functionality. I especially like its align to plane tools. I think it had some issues with the side wall, carrying over textures or warping them from somewhere else. I definitely appreciate that they have a free offering, it seems like a good choice for hobby 3d printing. The 50 image limit is an okay constraint given the lack of price tag.

I ran the mask photoset through the auto workflow in RC. I’m really impressed by the quality of Reality Capture’s meshing algorithm. Areas like the mouth really don’t work well with poisson surface reconstruction in meshlab, so I’m interested in how RC solves this.