Log - Photoscan to Game-Ready
This project was NOT created with AI tools
This project shows how I create optimized, game-ready meshes from photoscans with high-quality images shot in nature.
I found this log in a forest and thought it would be ideal for a photoscan, so I grabbed my phone camera and shot over 50 images of it from all different angles. At this point you don't know if you made a good job with catching all the detail on your photos. At home, I used a photogrammetry software to create a mesh from the images und went through the shown pipeline until I eventually ended up with a game-ready mesh, usable for environments in game engine with LODs and greypacked textures.
Enjoy!
Step 1: RAW images from nature
Step 2: Sparse cloud, point cloud, mesh, textured mesh generation
Step 3: Clean-Up of high-poly in Blender
Step 4: Creation of low-poly mesh and clean unwrap
Step 5: Baking high-poly color details
Step 6: Flattening color map - remove shadows, remove color artifacts
Step 7: Bending ground plane for better use in Engine
Step 8: Roughness, AO, Normal creation in Substance 3D Painter
Step 9: LOD creation, Greypacking textures - for performance
LOD 0 geometry and unwrap