One for the pets
Pudgy
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Hey guys, is there any template or 3d product available to be used in daz3d or poser where you can use your own images to create a pet product in a 3d environment? It can be free or otherwise. Pouch, bag or box preferably. Thanks for looking and your suggestions.
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What? An image to make a pet? But the image is not actually an image but a bag or a box? I feel like I just inadvertendly stepped into someone's drug-fueled nightmare.
If you mean something in DAZ or Poser that takes an image and makes a 3D model from it... nope...
But... there is a thing called "Photogrammetry"... in that you take dozens (even up to a hundred or more) of photos of an object or item, from numerous angles and then enter those photos into special software that takes the camera data and turns it into a "point cloud" model and then you can convert that point cloud model into a mesh.
There are actually couple of models in the shop that were made that way, but mostly it's stuff that's too complex to create using standard methods... like a classic statue, mossy tree stump or shipwreck.
Maybe this will explain it better... I didn't really watch it, but it's pretty much the standard idea.
One thing to note... the models are generally "static" they don't conform or have moving parts... they come out as a still 3D "snapshot" of the item scanned.
I think the term pet is causing the confusion here.
The OP means bespoke not an animal you have as a companion.
one way to do this is billboards which means editing a photo adding a cutout opacity map so you can place it on a plane, this means using an image editor to erase the background (black) and fill the foreground with white.
Various tools can help with this, I use colour selection myself in conjunction with the eraser tool.
It helps enormously if your object is photographed against a uniform contrasting background like a blue or green screen.
A more advanced thing I do is roughly model the object then texture it with photographs, Sketchup uses this method to make buildings for Google Earth 3d view.
Zbrush Zprojection or Spotlight and polypaint in Zbrush makes this extremely easy but before I had Zbrush or learned to do this it was a matter of tracing a photo with polylines (in Carrara in my case) filling in and triangulating the Ngon polygon then refitting the UV shape to the image as a texture, adding thickness, Sounds confusing but in Carrara which I am very used to it was actually quite easy, in your modeller of choice which may include Blender and using camera projection for the UV mapping it might be easy too.
One does not have to be a very skilled modeller as just making a very lowpoly shape, the photograph mapped to it is what sells it.
Obviously one needs an evenly lit image.
nothing complex either
its a great method for background buildings, boxes and bags can use cubes
I'll admit I did think it had to do with pets, but I thought it was an object for a pet... now I'm totally confused... bespoke as in a custom made item? Tailored suit or custom handbag? Or is pet a slang term for something else?
maybe he is using the word pet as an adjective meaning favorite
"PET PRODUCT" as I have said in the same first post, "Pouch, bag or box" so I would think it would convey something you would normally purchase for your furchild. Whether it be treat, snack, food and so on.
Okay, so then I'm not crazy... okay, full disclosure... that's a lie, I am crazy, but I did get the request/question...
No, as far as I'm aware, there is no plug-in or product to create a quick model like that... if you want a fast three dimensional model of a product for a pooch, kitty or walrusie, photogrammetry is probably the easiest way to go without learning how to do traditional modeling.
What Wendy said about using SketchUp is actually a pretty good suggestion if all you want is a box of treats, like a box of Milk Bone snacks...
Actually, in my collection at ShareCG, I have a mapped cereal box which you could swap out the textures for other graphics to turn it into a box of pet treats... it's easy to do, but that would require a little experience with an image editing program like photoshop or gimp, but as long as the graphics were made to fit the same dimensions as the original, it should work just fine.
And technically you could similarly re-texture any sort of 3D food box or pouch to look like pet snacks.
Also apologies if that's not what you were looking for or you are aware of these solutions already.
Good luck.
In Daz Studio you can "Create > a new primitive" and select cube, then resize it to be a box. Or if you have Hexagon, you can make a box in there very easily and uvmap it [use the box uvmap. Use your image editor to make the desired texture. Put it all together in D/S and save it as a Figure/Prop file.
Turbosquid has quite a few dog/cat food items but can be rather pricey, esp. just for a box or pouch. They may have some free .obj to start with but we can't put links to their pages anymore.
you can also use the geometry editor to edit (delete faces) and create and assign surfaces to primitives
when creating them you can chose the number of faces you want
while you cannot change the UV mapping in D|S you can change the U and V offset and tiling to fit images