I'll add one more note to this, though I imagine it may be common knowledge. Just covering bases for anyone else who comes across this post. Regarding extremely long processing times, make sure you enable OpenCL in the preferences tab. You'll need to set cores used to one less than total so that your GPU can be used. This…
80 photos is too much for this model imo, I would take a photo every 15° and then another batch higher up every 30° which should net you around 36 photos. I'm guessing what happened was your computer ran out of memory and started using the pagefile which is going to really slow things down. You point cloud should be more…
Issue: Taking over a day to create a simple model. Every tutorial I have seen has taken 40 minutes to an hour. Either their computers are from the year 4825 or I'm doing something wrong. It's most likely he latter. Granted my resolutions higher but my bake is taking over 24 hours. That's beyond disproportional. I admit I…