poly to voxels?

willy-wilson · Oct 2010

im looking for something to convert models to voxels or the like just a bunch or square blocks. anything out there, i use maya btw.

divi · Oct 2010

zbrush's unified skin with smoothing set to 0 and a low resolution will convert it to even sized blocks. not voxels, but a bunch of square blocks.

ScoobyDoofus · Oct 2010

3D Coat will do the job for ya. Give the demo a whirl.

http://www.3dcoat.com

pior · Oct 2010

Yeah, it really depends on what kind of voxels youre looking for. 3DCoat will give you a voxel mass akin to 3d 'clay', everything continuous. Zbush remesh at 0 smooth gives little cubes, but also, a continuous meshing.

I am very interested in a "voxelize" script for 3dsMax, converting a shape to a cloud of individual cubes. Does this exist ?

cryrid · Oct 2010

There's an ICE compound for Softimage:
http://streaker.thetastudio.pl/xsi/generate_objects_by_volume.mov

Probably works for Modtool as well. Should be very easy to pipe the result over to Maya (though it might already have its own script/whatever to achieve a similar result)

bugo · Oct 2010

no better solution than 3dcoat really. You will still be able to voxelize and retopologize the mesh after that. EASELY!

renderhjs · Oct 2010

what if he wants super low res voxels, like how voxels used to be?

There is Qubicle

http://www.minddesk.com/?page_id=243
Which has a 3d voxel editor and maya plugin / script to convert texturized meshes into 3d voxel objects. A bit crazy expensive but certainly interesting to check out.

I wrote one script myself to do that in Max with support for texture and UV maps. And script sites for maya might have the same for free for maya.

EzMeow · Oct 2010

Link to one of the Maya voxel script as Renderhjs stated :

http://www.creativecrash.com/downloads/voxelizer/feature_requests/470

pior · Oct 2010

Render, any chance to try out your Max script somehow ?

poly to voxels?

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