The Avatars from Scans feature allows you to easily generate an accurate, watertight, 3D registration to 3D scans. To achieve this, we fit the SMPL Model to the 3D scan point cloud.

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Overview

Input: 3D scan file in OBJ or PLY format

Output:

• 3D mesh with the standard SMPL mesh/vertex/poly distribution in OBJ or FBX format.
• [Optional] In FBX format you also receive the SMPL Model skeleton rig.
• [Optional] Body measurements can be downloaded in JSON format. For more details on the measurements available, see our Avatars from Measurements section.
• [Optional] The SMPL Model parameters be downloaded in our new .SMPL format that can be loaded into your 3D optimization environments using the SMPLcodec library. Note that the current version of SMPL Model used on Meshcapade Me is “SMPL-X”.

[Optimization Process used in the “Avatars from Scans” service at meshcapade.me](attachment:48d26290-7e51-4846-a609-1684d1f4488d:Alignment.mp4)

Optimization Process used in the “Avatars from Scans” service at meshcapade.me

Formats & mesh sizes

The platform accepts OBJ and PLY files as input. At the moment only static 3D scans can be processed, for 4D scans, please contact us at [email protected] with a small sample of your 4D data.

We limit the input mesh size to under 1million vertices so please make sure your input file does not have more than 1M vertices when you upload the scan.

Here you can find a sample input file to see the kind of data that is required and the output generated from such input: Link to Sample Files.