Rigged a laser scanned person

[donied]

I have to create a character of a person wearing specilist equipment. I was thinking of laser scanning or use 123d catch to capture the person instead of modelling from scratch the person and equipment.

Has anybody succesfully modelled and riged a laser scan or 123D catch character.

[3dMastermind · Accepted solution]

Hello.

You can go ahead and use these technologies, however the mesh will be highly tessellated and will also be very heavy.

Since rigging/skinning works on the vertices, this will work as is, however depending on what you want to do, the mesh may need to be optimized.

In a gaming environment, (because the mesh is quite reduced)

you may want to retopologise the mesh in Mudbox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpVCvgvzR_I

You then extract a normal map from the high res to the low if you want to keep the high res details when rendered or previewed in real time.

[donied]

Thanks for your feedback. Thats brillient. I never considered mudbox. I suppose I could also bake out the map from the scanned model and apply it to a populate character.

[3dMastermind]

Retopologize has an option to transfer the paint Layers to the reduced mesh.