How to 3D Photoscan Easy and Free!

Just took this to new 'heights' with my latest video: Is it Possible to Photoscan a Mountain?! Watch Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84MwuupHKg

Here's some tips after trying and failing at this a dozen times: 1. Don't try to photo scan any furry, thin, or reflective materials. Any reflections will confuse the depth map of the software. 2. Have a clear path in your mind of where you are going to take pictures from. The basic shape of the camera angles should be a large dome that includes a lot of surroundings of the object (this layer makes it easier for the software to determine which side your closer angles are shooting from), a medium dome that centers the object and the object almost reaches the edges of the image frame (this gives the program most of the shapes), then a very small dome where you get close enough to see 1/4-1/8 of the object, to get more detail when texturing. 3. Any parts that jut out of the object should have their own additional domes of pictures that cover every angle. 4. The scan quality increases proportionally to the amount of pictures taken. I had to take 70-100 pictures to get a quality I was happy with. 5. Don't include blurry pictures or pictures taken at a weird angle. 6. A good way to know if your camera is good enough for photo-scanning is the size of the pictures it produces. At least 1.5MB is necessary and 2.5MB+ is optimal. 7. Only take outdoor pictures when it is cloudy and indoor pictures in places where the object does not receive direct lighting. I hope these takeaways help!

I was looking for 3d scanning stuff about three months back, stumbled upon this vid by chance. thanks for this since i know what i need to do for 3d scanning meshes.

I found this on Reddit. Such an awesome tutorial! I'm excited to try Meshroom and 3D print some 3D scans

Nice software, just a tip, switch to Cycles-render before importing then the materials node will be created automatically. Nice vid, thanks!

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You and blender guru are the reason I got into photogrammetry. I'm building my channel trying to generate interest in my social circle in this amazing new technology.

This tutorial is such excellent quality! You have everything down like production quality, keyboard shortcuts, and explaining exactly what you are doing so it is reproducible for newbies (ex node wrangler plugin as if you didn’t already have it) and all of this while keeping a relatively console video. Excellent job keep it up :D

I`m a blender user for a longer time and must say, you do a good job with the tuts. Not over compllicated and clearly narrated. In a good speed to follow easy...

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Thank you for the video! I've been using blender for about a year now, and I never knew how to photoscan. Ive spent hours going through free 3d models trying to find elements for my scenes, and now I can just create them with a camera! Gamechanger

This is fantastic. I've only seen 3D scan setups with about 100 cameras so far. If one can do something in a row with the appropriate software, it will be possible for everyone.

This video just got recommended to me and I loved it! Thanks for introducing this software to us.

Dude, I just found this video and I must say I'm highly impress with how you state your shortcut keys.

I learned more about 3D objects in this 34:49 than I have in the months of working on these programs on my own, and struggling immensely with understanding literally 3/4 of the settings. This was outstanding in every single sense of the word!

This is completely amazing, I think I will never end learning all this 3D stuff, thank you so much amazing video.👏👏👏👏👏

I am really happy to see this software getting more attention, it is really promising

I can't belive how easy this looks like! And on top of that I learned basics of cycles renderer + how to use particle system properly, wonderful. Also: Says meshroom subtitles:mushroom

You have done an amazing job of detailing this complex procedure. My first intro to blender; I hope that I made myself enough notes.

Can't tell you how grateful I am for this tutorial.