Environment Art - Turning a Cliff into a vista prop using photogrammetry

#photogrammetry #scanning #drone #pbr #workflow #environmentArt

In this video I present a full photogrammetry workflow where I captured a cliff rock fromation and turned it into a vista prop using photogrammetry.

In details I am going to show:

- cliff rock formation capture with the Mavic 2 Pro drone
- an image postprocessing with a different to usual way for ambient shadow removal in PhotoLab 3
- a full 3D reconstruction in Agisoft Metashape using new reconstruction mode
- I will build a new low poly topology in ZBrush
- which I am going to UV map with the RizomUV
- I will bake textures with the Substance Designer
- next I am going to cover missing and fix broken areas in Substance Painter
- and finally I am going to compose a quick scene in Marmoset Toolbag to present the result

You can find this video with resources used in this video on my gumroad:

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Big thanks for your support,
Cheers!
Grzegorz Baran

[smallpoly]

At 16m31s, if you hit "no" when it asks you if you want to replace default model, it'll allow you to keep *both* your original high poly and your decimated mesh within the same chunk. This also works great with the new beta features that allow you to bake normals and AO.

[emrahozcicek]

Yes please need so much video like this....thanks in advance

[landocycle]

Great video! It got really Country at the end there haha.

[vrfxrealtime]

amazing, Thank you so much for sharing!

[justinhwharton]

Solid work. Thanks for the walk-through!

[kaal_bhairav_]

Really great tutorial Baran sir, specially for beginners like me 😍

[jz-xqvx]

thanks you so much!
for sharing such invaluable information to someone like me (a complete noob) interested in learning a solid workflow and tool set for making and baking high quality meshes from a person like you who has obviously distilled so much time and information, trial and error etc into your Photogrammetry process. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK

[quentingabriel]

Awesome work, really cool to see the process =)

[Barnyz]

Cool video, you are lucky to live near such awesome scenery? 😀😀😀

[peterallely]

Thanks for the video. I’m fairly new to photogrammetry, can I ask, why do you prefer to use Metshape over something like Reality Capture?

[rndvideo]

I usually run a script for DJI images to use the RelativeAltitude (what you see on the RC) instead of the level over the sea altitude (what is used from the EXIF data), this can speed up the alignment because the starting point is a bit more accurate

[DaveBrinda]

Thanks for another great tutorial! To confirm the DJI drone captures in .DNG raw correct...NOT jpg? That's how you can push the shadow removal so far?

Also thoughts on 3DZeyphr? I've had good luck with smaller project but wonder compared to Metashape.

[ChillieGaming]

But you cannot attach godox ar400 and the most important cross polarization filter mount on a drone.
So whats the solution??😢

[iamdylan]

Thank you so much, One last question please, Which is better Metashape 1.6.0 Or REALITYCAPTURE 2018 Version?

[RokasKontvainis]

Great Video. How much ram was used in this project ?

[deastman]

This walkthrough of your process was very helpful and informative! I haven’t gotten into drone photography yet... what app were you using to take the photos? And was that part automated with a preplanned flight path, or were you doing all of that manually?

[StrikeDigitalD]

Wow, this is a great video! I was wondering though, how much is Metashape limited by system RAM? At the moment I use Meshroom on a machine with 16GB of RAM and it struggles to generate meshes of over 2mil polys. I was wondering whether investing in metashape would allow me to get more detailed results from the amount of memory?

[iamdylan]

@Grzegorz Baran  Thank you Grzegorz, What do you think about Autodesk Recap, Is it better than both? As I told you I have money to buy any software, but I need help to choose from the photogrammetry Master himself !

[iamdylan]

Hi, Baran I have an important question, Since you are Master at Photogrammetry What is the best photogrammetry software money can buy(Especially for this type of stuff)? Considering I have money to buy any software. Waiting for answer. Thank you

[spex]

We used to use Kites for this before Drones arrived. I initially used a full frame Dslr but the weight needed a huge kite especially early in the mornings. I swapped to a Canon G9 when they came out and constructed a 2.4ghz transmitter that I could attach to it. A small screen mounted on my wrist could live view the output, cost around £5 total. I had obviously upgraded my 2GB hard drive.
Whilst watching screens you are not watching your Kite or your feet, and things can change rapidly in the air and under foot, so I rapidly gave up on the idea. Standing in one spot was not an option.
Add up the cost of the Drone plus licence, Phone and multiple software tools and a capable computer with huge hard drives, and it rapidly becomes an expensive hobby.

The big differences since 2007 that jump out are quality and choice of Software and reliability. i sense the number of failed shots is very low, as well as the number of total freezes of the Computer and Softwares. The total time taken must also be better. I can remember renders taking days and the computer was unuseable.

A great video to show how its done now and a good example of the quality that can be achieved.