Photogrammetry Inside Blender // My New 4.3 Addon

Purchased. Thanks for all your hard work! Can't wait to try this.

I'm absolutely love photogrammetry, thank you for a nice guide and the addon, gotta try it someday

Good idea to have photogrammetry directly inside Blender, but no textures and no camera poses/lens distortion makes it useless imho. Are you considering it?

Is the script opensource? I will contribute/buy if it is. Also you should mention Reality Capture it is not opensource but it a very powerful free for commercial use software

I'm wondering if the addon will support video input? You simply record moving around an entire single object, giant or small and use every frame from that video input feed into the addon to make photogrammetrized objects.

you can select all files, right click, change name, and it will do the same as that script

thanks!!

You didn't show the Rendered View

Awesome tool! Wishlist for this to be a more useful tool in my workshop would be allowing video input instead of photos. Not sure how difficult that would be to do.

this is weirdly exactly what I needed to know about right now given polycam's latest update and their refusal to let you share scans unless you upload it to their servers.

So you really aren't gonna show us the final tesult of that colmap eh

CG 'I'll sell you a meal but also give you the recipe for free' Matter

For the free option I think it's much better to use RealityCapture.
Because now there is a free version for individuals and small businesses that made less than $1 million USD in revenue in the past 12 months. Also the free version includes all RealityCapture features without any limitations.
And RealityCapture is much faster than Meshroom and COLMAP

Great add-on! However, I'm a bit confused about the meaning behind the video thumbnail. Also, could you consider adding some pauses in your future videos? The constant talking with no breaks makes it hard to stay focused. It's like I need to pause the video just to catch my breath! A little pacing would go a long way. Keep up the good work otherwise!

Can also recommend Reality Capture, much faster than Colmap and also free.

that mean i can use any model which created on sketchfab if i take enough screenshots lol

Reality Capture and Mesh room are free too

Insane dude. Auto MP4 to PNG sequence functionality? Eg, choosing every X number of frames to calculate the cameras to use?

Im INCREDIBLY thankful for you putting that free alternative in there. I'm just starting to do some stuff that require photogrammetry as freelance work, and currently I dont have the best money situation so... Basically I'll try the free method and whenever I get paid I'll get the chad addon of yours .. Merry christmas!

dam your using AI alot now

It would be epic if you added a render farm integration

Its great but if it doesn't do texture it doesn't have much use? Not to me anyway. I will happily buy if it did textures though.

Hey cool! I've been wanting to code photogrammetry from scratch for a while. I will check out more

I think I'll stick with RealityCapture by Epic. For those who haven't stayed up to date, it's now free to use. Maybe if they go paid again unexpectedly, I know where to come back to :)

If I take over 1000000000000 pictures of a perfect ball all sides will blender finally make a perfect ball

Brings back fun memories spending late nights with COLMAP for my PhD. Meshroom is also another alternative. COLMAP works well that it can be automated with scripting. MVS techniques with neural networks can be used for faster dense reconstruction, but you still require the sparse reconstruction, or need to use RTK GPS for known camera positions. Specular reconstructions are also possible once you go down far enough in the rabbit hole.

are you using an ai voice clone of yourself to get good mic quality??

Ummmm…what about textures?! No textured view? How does it looks textured?!

I really started disliking his videos lately...

So did you write your own dense reconstructor or did you use a different library than colmap for that stage?

hmm looks like its windows only so not useable

Cool addon! But how about texturing?

I instabought it the moment I saw! Thats great!

can't wait for you to turn Blender into a complete OS soon!
this is fkn insane!

I keep running into an issue after importing any number of photos in during the feature matching section. It's saying that I do not have enough GPU memory to match 13790 features, and to reduce the number of matches, which is weird because my GPU shows that it isn't going much over 50%. I'm running an AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT. I've tried reducing the number of photos(5-100), altering between low/med/high detail, removing sparse and dense meshes, but nothing seems to be changing anything to getting me to creating the stl. Running the non-CUDA version.

Would you recommend this above gaussian splatting?

Can this do photogrammetry for a 3D object inside Blender?

I have some good 3D models made in Blender that I've been thinking of reconstruct into 3D models.

Bro, your video's are great .... please don't ever stop.
lol

Wait are comments back on?
Like obviously they are cause I’m commenting but I thought they were off for the longest time

Hi, I just sent you a messege on Blender Market. I get a lot of errors running the addon. I need some help.

One question: can the dataset be obtained with a cell phone, trying to get the highest quality photos I can ? Thanks !!!

Did you ever try out drone Photos with GPS-Data for your photogrammetry - addon? For architectural reasons it could be a thing.

For everyone who handles large amounts of files (and let's face it, if you're here, you are doing exactly that) look into a program called Bulk Rename Utility - it's free and legitimately livesaving in particular instances, like renumbering a folder with a thousand frame captures lol

Or use Reality Capture

Is it possible to also get the cameras in position with the addon?

Would be super cool if equirectangular inputs were supported. Metashape seems to be the only one out there and its way out if budget