Meshmixer

adam

Kudo to r13 for passing this one on to me.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzM9h1ByI5c&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

Meshmixer is a very peculiar bit of software. It makes it very easy to combine existing objects, but it does so in a unique and intuitive way.

Joshua Stubbles

That is...strange..and cool
Looks like it only works on fully triangulated meshes? Or does it work on quad stuff?

John Warner

fuckin ell! i love it.

rebb

Very cool.
Now if only it would come with a 3D Version of the *greatest Avatar ever* :poly108:

glib

That's really quite cool. Big wow moment for me was the car headlight hole on a hardsurface model. I'll have to play with this tonight.

pior

Tried it last night, crashed even on very clean triangulated models ...
Fail!

renderhjs

somewhat related, found this one yesterday:

ProFORMA: Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOmzjImsVc&feature=subtivity[/ame]

http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202/

Vrav

These are both really cool, definitely "neat," they're just so messy... I can see it being useful for generating reference for proportion and such, but not actual content generation at the moment... really neat, though. I wonder if meshmixer results are sculptable at all? could be cool to have a Spore-like array of parts, but basemeshes, and just piece together your character/creature before mudbox or something.

EzMeow

I guess I'll try it somehow, I'm really curious about the behavior of the uv coordinate.

rooster

oh man, thats a funny vid. lol

Flaringo

That's awesome.

pior

Vrav : retopo man, retopo. Surface triangulation dosent matter much nowadays, since it takes about a few minutes to retopo a mesh for decent sulcpting ...

Anyone managed to use it so far? It shows my .OBJ in the mesh library on the left just fine ... but instant crash on drag and drop.

bugo

I would love to think about where could I use that type of stuff in my daily production... just couldn't still, but I'm sure there is a way! Thanks for sharing.

jocose

I got it to work fine, kind of makes a mess with the triangulated models though. I don't know how useful it would actually be. I like being able to drag and drop models on there though, might good for placing small details.

Valandar

Hm... make it easier to make a "standard" ear or nose and drop 'em on a new model...

GoSsS

EzMeow wrote: »

I guess I'll try it somehow, I'm really curious about the behavior of the uv coordinate.

I don't think uv coordinates will be clean after that. I assume you have to play with it before doing any UVS. Maybe something like Hi/Retopo/Meshmixer (if needed, maybe your character (npc) will use 6 different heads, or different hands etc. Like that, you just have to "plug" these on your standard character) / UVs (if te topology of each heads are the same you can easily copy/paste the UVs too I think).
I really need to give it a try btw.

Junkie_XL

pior wrote: »

Tried it last night, crashed even on very clean triangulated models ...
Fail!

That's too bad. Oh well...tagged for future bug fixed versions.

Ben Apuna

A new version is out. Haven't tried it yet...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrvHhTa0SXg[/ame]

VPrime

Free AND has a mac version? I'm sold!