Bandwagon's Drones Thread
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got thru the initial repass- just have 20 pictures now that are uncalibrated from the ~55 before initial ortho shows significantly less blank spots, but i am still going to refly it.
removed the brace from the epoxied swingarm for the camera that broke- it looks like it is all fixed- arm moves freely, no gaps et until i fire the drone up i won't know- batteries getting ordered today.
removed the brace from the epoxied swingarm for the camera that broke- it looks like it is all fixed- arm moves freely, no gaps et until i fire the drone up i won't know- batteries getting ordered today.
outside landscape meshes - adjustable sizes - no need for models, just need the ground data. then the devs can "refine" the landscape with their textures and models.
tyen
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Ya, single would take me like 1hr. Multiplayer a few hrs but then I'd start replacing a zone and adding spawns that you can kill and shit, lol.
Ya, I've wanted to do it a few different ways so far. If you want to slang it as a service, it can be sure as shit an opportunity for YOU to make it a business, imo.
Mantle Unity Asset(haven't purchased $550, data by openstreetmap): Asset Store
MapBox Unity SDK (im in beta, vector3 tiles, data by openstreetmap): Announcing the Mapbox Unity SDK | Mapbox
Drone footage from you (I assume you use pix4d?)
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tyen
I meant selling it as a web service. Like sketchfab or propeller aero.
The 3d files don't look great. Even the high res one i just sent you isn't great, and its a large area and might look worse than the first one. I wish we could get the full cloud in there.
Looking forward to seeing the 2nd one though.
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Nah, the altitude isn't really the issue. I'd say 95% of it is the export quality of the 3D files from Pix4d and the other 5% is the camera quality/overlap/altitude/general flight planning stuff. I'm planning on upgrading to the SODA camera soon, just because I think it will help make better surfaces on asphalt.
I don't remember if Agisoft Photoscan can export fbx, but I would be curious to see the quality comparison. I saw someone do a side by side between 4 processing programs (Photoscan, Pix4d, Bentley and I never heard of the 4th). Pix4d was the best for matching and ortho quality, and also the worst for 3D texture files.
I guess I could clean up the point cloud a lot before making the texture....but I did that for a grain elevator last year and it suuuuuucks.
What else can you import for environments?
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I can import: FBX, Collada, 3DS, Blender, and OBJ.
Obj would be my second preferred.
With CAD, it's not recommend to import anything from AutoCad directly into unity. AutoCad uses vector while Unity uses poly, meaning unity has to convert the file on import. And it does not take a whole lot for an object in AutoCad to have millions of polys, which Unity might crash on trying to do.
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Yea, those files look shitty when I zoom in pix4d, too. I wish there was a better way to improve the mesh texture automatically. The only way I know how to do it is really time consuming and still doesn't produce fantastic results.
Also, here is a full color 3d print that should be arriving tomorrow. I'm really excited to see it.....the color in this picture is WAY better than I was hoping for.
Also, here is a full color 3d print that should be arriving tomorrow. I'm really excited to see it.....the color in this picture is WAY better than I was hoping for.
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