Can I use 3DF Zephyr Light for creating interiors

[lloyd709]

I have set myself the challenge of creating a number of Valve Destination interiors and have just bought RealityCapture for the job but was horrified at the cost so will probably only be keeping it for one month. I've now just discovered 3DF Zephyr which looks perfect and at a price that is affordable to me but I can't see any talk of using if for creating internal room 3D models. Do you think it will be able to do the job?

[Knu]

Hi lloyd,

it is absolutely possible, however interiors are very hard in general for photogrammetry techniques as they tend to be completetly textureless (blank, white, uniform walls of an apartment interior for example). Interiors are pretty much one of the hardest subjects and you will probably have to work a little bit in other software (i.e. blender) to clean the output.

However, if your interior has a lot of textures (and you can work a bit in the acquisition phase, for example by removing unnecessary objects or by setting a diffused lighting and using a tripod) that is absolutetly not a problem (for example church interiors tend to come out pretty well).

There are some tricks (for example using targets or projected patterns) but those are not very easy to deploy.

That said, feel free to check out our free trial on www.3dflow.net (free 14 days trial download and no registration required - the lite non steam and lite steam edition are absolutetly the same, in terms of features) and try feeding it some pictures!

We are always happy to help so if you need some advice in how to shoot pictures or on how to acquire a specific interior, feel free to ask!

[lloyd709]

Many thanks - will try it out.

[lloyd709]

Would have bought it if it was still included as part of the winter sale discount that the discount was advertised as and that should still be running.

[Knu]

Hey lloyd, yeah, that looks like an error on the steam announcement. I see you've already made another thread, so lets keep this one for interiors discussions =)

I'm sure we can work something out though, as vaderozzo mentioned :)