3d scanner help and blender help

[NorthWolf]

In the interest of seeming vaguely helpful:

 

There is no magical technology that converts 2d images to 3d, and commercial devices that convert objects to digital models cost several thousand dollars, and would still require you have an extensive background working with 3d models. In order to "get new objects in" you use Blender to model the thing, which is, in the most simple terms I can muster, sort of like drawing the thing in 3d. Which really isn't what it's like at all, but if you're interested enough to do it, tutorials can give you the real description which largely involves tearing your hair out and hitting your face against the wall in rage whenever your favorite modeling software doesn't do what you want (YMMV; this was just my personal experience).

 

The reason you found a gun in the game that looks like a gun in real life is because someone sat down and made a model of that gun. A professional who made it out of polygons, not some highly sophisticated 3d mapping algorithm that may, at best, exist in a decade or two (if ever).

 

Now I'm going to go have my headache in peace. :psyduck:

[Ghogiel]

which 3d scanner would i use for moding

I could make use of pretty much any 3d scanner. I wish I had one.

[rickerhk]

We're through the looking glass here, people.

 

Gamebryo Metaphysics seems to be all the rage lately. :P