How do you visualize meshes

[Cenbylin]

Thank you so much for this awesome work!

I would like to ask how you visualize these meshes (without texture)?

I have tried open3d but the results are not as amazing as yours. It would be greatly appreciated if you can share the used code, or the light/mat settings. 🙏

[JiatengLiu]

@Cenbylin @Anttwo I have same question, have you solved it?

[2018cx]

same question

[Anttwo]

Hello guys,

Thank you for the nice words! Please excuse me for my late answer, I've been very busy with a recent deadline.

Indeed, open3D is super useful for many tasks, but if you're looking for beautiful renderings, you will need more sophisticated rendering engines.

The secret is to use the Cycle engine in Blender! Blender is entirely free and open-source. It's the perfect tool for making beautiful renderings of meshes or point clouds.

For these images, I did the following:

• I just used the default surface shader for all the materials in the scenes (the shader called Principled BSDF).
• I used a white color for texture.
• I follow some basic rules from photography for the lighting. I recommend checking for such basic but super useful practices in photography to obtain cool-looking renderings! For example, in almost all scenes, I used a 3-point lighting.
• I increased the radius of the lights to get smoother and more realistic shadows.

I hope this message will help you! Feel free to ask additional questions!