Class Listing
Class 1: Basic Workflow
A dive inside the RealityCapture interface, including coverage of all the basic steps to be able to create our first photogrammetry from scratch. UI and layout are covered, as well as preferences, navigation, and how RealityCapture is organised. You will learn how to use the photos to obtain the correct photogrammetry mesh reconstruction.
Class 2: Draft, Normal, High mesh with Texture
One of our requirements is the need to create different LOD ( Level-Of-Details) to adapt our outputs for Maya, Blender or Unreal. An exploration of how important the "con" window is to understand each step of the photogrammetry process, adjusting cameras and image size in the “3D” window, how to orient and adapt the bounding box, and how to export the model and texture to your 3D software of choice.
Class 3: Control Points and Measurement
In some cases, your photos will not be aligned perfectly on one single component in RealityCapture and you will need to add manual control points to link all your components together to create a single object. In this class, you will learn how to add control points and help Reality Capture create a single mesh with all pictures on a single component. Also, based on measurement, you will learn how to scale the mesh with the Create Distance tool.
Class 4: Mesh clean up and ZBrush
Once you are satisfied with your mesh, you will likely find some residual geometry around. You will learn how to fix this with RealityCapture's smart tools to clean up, delete triangles, and simplify the geometry. For our human example where topology is very important, we will use Zbrush to see how easy is it to re-create a topology with the ZRemesher tool.
Class 5: High Resolution Street Facade
Armed with a basic understand as to how RealityCapture works, we go deeper into the alignment and reconstruction settings. With the “con” window, we explore each step of the process to get a very high mesh density with 86 million triangles
Class 6: Street Facade and Texture Quality Level
Based on our mesh and texture, we will see if we require only one UV tile or UDIMs for the texture quality in Maya, Blender or Unreal. An exploration of settings for texture resolution and how many UDIMs we require in the end.
Class 7: Merging photos and a LIDAR scan
In our next example, we go through the methodology to merge two components. One will be traditional photogrammetry with photos and the other a LIDAR scan. An explanation of how to export and import “rcalign” files and how to merge them into a single RealityCapture project.
Class 8: Georeferences
Most drones save GPS information as EXIF data in the files. RealityCapture offers an amazing tool to read that data and geolocalise each picture in 3D space. The Wizard Tool is also covered, which provides the opportunity to create multiple maps and geometry optimizations based on different settings.
Class 9: CLI Scripting, Part 1
Another interesting aspect of RealityCapture is the ability to create scripts with the CLI, containing all the steps as a simple “bat” file on Windows. Instead of doing everything manually, we will create a script and learn how to look for each command in the documentation to do everything for us in the background when the script is running.
Class 10: CLI Scripting, Part 2
Improving the script and exploring how can we can get even more steps, mesh definitions, and how save our file into different folders or projects based upon variables.