Multi Channel Texture Capture?

Blackshore

Hi,
I wounder if shadermap can make a normal,occlusion and displacement maps based on 4 photos of a texture surface in order for it to get proper values?

lit from above
lit from the left
lit from below
lit from the right

Example reading:
http://www.zarria.net/nrmphoto/nrmphoto.html

RSI

Blackshore wrote:

Hi,
I wounder if shadermap can make a normal,occlusion and displacement maps based on 4 photos of a texture surface in order for it to get proper values?

It is not currently possible to create a map using 4 source images with left, right, down, up lighting.

I like the idea of adding this workflow to ShaderMap and will consider implementing this feature in SM3. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Blackshore

RSI wrote:

It is not currently possible to create a map using 4 source images with left, right, down, up lighting.

I like the idea of adding this workflow to ShaderMap and will consider implementing this feature in SM3. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Cool, I have been watching this app for some time now and it is very attractive. Thinking of buying this next week actually, do you think I should wait until version 3 comes out or would it be possible to upgrade from 2>3?

RSI

Blackshore wrote:

Cool, I have been watching this app for some time now and it is very attractive. Thinking of buying this next week actually, do you think I should wait until version 3 comes out or would it be possible to upgrade from 2>3?

All SM2 customers will get a discount when upgrading to SM3. For instance SM1 customers currently only pay $19.95 to upgrade to SM2.

There isn't a release date on SM3, it will be at least 5-6 months out. If I were you I'd buy SM2 now, help support development, then upgrade when SM3 comes out.

Blackshore

As you might have noticed, I have bought shadermap and I am very satisfied with the result.

I have recently built a homebrew texture skanner and the bloodything works as expected.
Quixel recently made a video where the texture looked real in the 4K image.

My scans them self are at 8K
With shadermap I can extract+combine maps to the proper PBR materials.
This also means that I can uninstall the quixel suite and only use substance painter from now on

I made a small article about it here:
http://www.blackshore.se/3d/pbr-texturskanner/

(The article in Swedish, sorry about that)

RSI

First, thanks for buying and using ShaderMap.

Second, thanks for sharing your tutorial. It's not your fault we don't all speak Swedish.

Luckily Google Translate works well enough.. Here is a link to the Auto Translated Tutorial in English: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://www.blackshore.se/3d/pbr-texturskanner/

Blackshore

Soo, I have improved the rig. Now it can extract absorbtion&scattering, separate reflection and diffuse.
I have made two fast render tests and it seems to hold quite alright.

One is Newplast plasticine and the second is Snow from my backyard.