Meshroom VS armortools

Take a look at Meshroom from https://alicevision.org/

It's a pretty decent tool, although not sure if videos work well.

I once tried to build a mesh from an aerial video by extracting certain frames and the result was ok-ish

You'll need to get some practice with photogrammetry or other 3D scanning to get the appropriate shapes for each animal, this should be more or less something the right size with adequate straps and padding - https://alicevision.org is a good place to learn about photogrammetry.

Have you tried Alice Vision? https://alicevision.org

Huh. https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/issues/1650 suggests you can get the camera positions into blender, and then putting pyramids views in, and then get the interested area.

Another alternative for ptgui is https://alicevision.org and it is free

A new version of Meshroom released last month, so I decided to compare the performance and results of the two with the same dataset and mostly the same settings.

Photogrametrie https://alicevision.org/

I am glad people are working on it!!

Have you seen Kha by any chance? It has similar goals. I find it quite awesome, but it won't gain mass adoption for a bunch of reasons. https://github.com/Kode/Kha

Someone built an immediate mode renderer on top https://github.com/armory3d/zui, which is utilised by ArmorPaint https://armorpaint.org. I also use Zui for my own bespoke 2D game engine.

I find this tech and tooling really quite amazing (just look at how little source code Zui has) given just how small the ecosystem around it is. I think Kha really illustrates what can be achievable if the lower levels have robust but simple APIs, just exposing the bare minimum as a standard for others to build upon.

For the kind of project I work on (mostly 2d games), I think it would really awesome if your framework also supported low level audio, and a variety of inputs such as keyboard, mice, and gamepads. If it also had decent text rendering support it would basically be my dream library/framework.

A lot of people use Substance Painter (or other tools - thinking of trying out Armor Paint at some point) to make the textures separately after making the mesh and UVs in Blender. It's definitely possible to do texturing and so on within Blender as well, but I personally haven't found a good workflow for this yet for producing high-quality results.

This is the first large piece of (GUI) desktop software I've seen written in Haxe. Not that I've seen all software ever of course, just thought it was interesting.

Source: https://github.com/armory3d/armortools

May I suggest Armory Painter (https://armorpaint.org)

One of the best examples of this is Armorpaint an open source texture painting tool.

ArmorPaint - haven't used that one, but it looks promissing