Juntando Modelação 3D Manual e Procedimental

• Main Author: Rui Miguel Barros Gonçalves
• Publication Date: 2016
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/90392
• topic: Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática; Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

The domain of tridimensional modelling contains two major approaches: manual modelling and procedural modeling.In the first, the user models the object interacting directly with the result through virtual tools which, in some cases, work similarly to those utilized by modelers in real objects; thus allowing for direct and rigorous control over what is being produced. In procedural modelling, the objects are created automatically through several user-defined conditions, by textual rules in a dedicated language or data-flow graphs, allowing for quick and large-scale production of 3D content.On the other hand, interaction with these methods isn't always the most intuitive. In cases where it's necessary to introduce particular details, the procedural generation process becomes too taxing. For those situations, manual modelling would be the most adequate to perform corrections or small adjustments over details.So, it is important to find a medium which permits combining the advantages of manual modelling with those of procedural modelling, so that potential users may create tridimensional models with greater efficiency.This dissertation has as its objective the evaluation of possible integrations of the two main approaches of 3D modelling and the impact of the corresponding usage. To that purpose, a solution that aims to integrate the procedural modelling tool Construct in the manual modelling tool Blender was implemented and tested.