Blender add-on

The Starst3r Blender add-on allows you to use Starst3r directly from the Blender interface.

Warning

The Blender add-on is still in development. Features and quality will improve over time.

Please SAVE YOUR WORK before using. The reconstruction process will freeze Blender for a while.

See Blender installation for installation instructions.

Reconstruction

Note

Reconstruction takes a while — up to a few minutes on a small computer. Make sure to save your work before starting the reconstruction, and be patient while it runs.

If you want to see ongoing progress, open a terminal.

Reconstruct a scene from images and import a point cloud.

Select the images directory, model weights file, and image resolution.

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Select the import mode.

  • Vertices: Unconnected point cloud, one vertex per point. Vertex colors are added, but Blender cannot render them on degenerate vertices.

  • DupliVerts: Add a small tetrahedron on each vertex to display vertex colors.

  • Point Cloud: Add a Point Cloud object. TODO: Not implemented yet. Point Cloud object is currently a Blender experimental feature.

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To use vertex colors in the shader, you can use the Attribute node:

_images/BlenderMaterial.jpg