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Originally Posted by HeatherB I drew this map up for my D&D campaign. A town haunted by many angry spirits after it was destroyed by a battle between 2 dragons! More often then not I'm scouring the internet trying to find a map I can borrow for when my players run through low priority towns, but this time I had a couple of specific requirements that I wasn't going to find in someone else's creative works.
In my last entry I mentioned that Meshroom had been released. I had to borrow a friends machine with an nVidia card on it that would handle CUDA as the program will not run without it. The computations required to generate the 3D mesh from the photos are quite intense and with many photos it takes a lot of time. CUDA is the graphics card support which allows the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to handle that complex graphics based math instead of the normal CPU. Since GPUs are custom built for this ...
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I have a lot to do. A map ......, I draw a map. It is difficult to translate Japanese into English. For me. Ah! Why did I choose confusing words? Ahh, I should complete the map before I translate. ウェレツェンポーフの西の果て世界！ メイグリド大半島！ My current activity ...
Time marches on and developers have been busy. There are some new photogrammetry apps out there and one looks particularly good. Released (recently) in Aug 2018 a project my the name of Meshroom has frozen a build for release for both Windows and Linux. If you head over to AliceVision website there are some links there to download the software as prebuilt binaries: https://alicevision.github.io/#meshroom Before you do however you should ...
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