Yeah, MagicaCSG is still in a very initial stage, but the PLY export has made it a very interesting tool for basemeshes.

I'm maintaining a big wishlist at my MagicaCSG Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicaCSG/comments/niik52/share_your_magicacsg_feature_suggestions/gz1x9j1/

MagicaCSG and the Denoiser (that you must install it's the same than Magicavoxel !)
https://github.com/ephtracy/ephtracy.github.io/releases/tag/0.01

So result in no time!

Nice!

My little MagicaVoxel gallery for inspiration : just ScrollDown!
https://www.deviantart.com/frenchy-pilou/gallery/78418688/magicavox

Free MagicaCSG

I really hope spline objects will soon be added to MagicaCSG. Until then, organic character modeling is a lot of work in MagicaCSG.

Hi Metin,

are you sure that a CSG modeler can use spline objects?

I always thought that they can only use primitives.

Regards
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

SDF modelers can basically use any shape the developer adds to the engine. If you look at Clayxels and Mudbun...

https://andrea-intg.itch.io/clayxels

http://longbunnylabs.com/mudbun/

... those have splines, and in Cinema 4D's SDF implementation you can also use splines and any other shape that's available.

Regards!

Hi Metin,

thanks for the info.

I was confused by the term CSG in the name of the software.

Regards
Stefan

Indeed! Another world to explore! :)

Yeah, I really like Mudbun and Clayxels. I'd love to use them, but they both need Unity, and I don't like Unity's UI / UX. It feels dated and bloated, and Unreal Engine's renderer is better.

Collector! By Chipp! ;)
https://filedn.com/lLMW4jXsJqxXkRYjd1UCoKL/3d/Create3DLikeASuperhero.pdf

Nvidia Studio Canvas : beta released https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/06/23/studio-canvas-app/ (free)

but need big cards!
Fortunately can be works "Online" named Gaugan! :
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/ai-playground/

my little Gaugan try! :)

The 2300 others! :)

I just gave the on-line GauGAN a try after seeing Frenchy's posting. After 30 minutes I have this old road in the hills:



Same input drawing, but this output below mimics the style of an unrelated reference image - with just the click of a button! Notice the bright sun highlights the hill in the background as well as the rocks & vegetation in the foreground.



After 1 hour of practice - a river & some mountains & some foggy mist: Welcome to Washington State ! Using Affinity Photo, I made a curves adjustment and added a gradient to bring some blue into the sky. Warning: This program is addictive :)

The original output showed two clouds on the right, as per my drawing. When I selected a reference drawing to mimic, the clouds were gone. My input drawing becomes a recommendation and the AI decides what is best :)

Me: Add two clouds on the right, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Ed. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Me: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is, just as well as I do.



I'm modeling a car in MoI and have a specific background plate in mind for rendering.

After this little experiment I'm encouraged to practice more. This program along with some post editing in Affinity Photo may get me what I want.

Ed Ferguson

How fun is it, and incredible, is not it! :)

PS Have you seen that you can imput your own paintings or some masterpieces over something yet made ? :)

See next post! :)

And have you seen that you can add any painting on your landscape!

Here i added the Joconda from Leonado da Vinci :)
Seems i have distressed the IA! :)