Intel RealSense 3D scanning Importing Into Unity

April 06, 2015

Intel RealSense 3D scanning Importing Into Unity

The latest SDK for the Intel® RealSense™ F200 camera now contains 3D scanning. It is really an awesome feature and can allow developers and digital designers to scan in real-world objects to use in their projects. One use situation is to scan inside a real-world object and use in Unity. It is a 2 part series which will take you step-by-step through the procedure.

Within last step I'll explain to you how-to import your scanned object into Unity

Listed here are all the steps in this series. This post will cover the step 4. Follow links to the other previous steps

Importing for use in Unity

Step 4 of 4:

Following the last step you should have a .FBX model along with a UVTexture Map.

Open Unity (Unity 5 is free to download)

Create a new project and scene
Go to the Assets Menu and select Import new asset. Select the .FBX Model you had exported from Blender.
When the object imports it is possible and likely that it did not import its texture and you will see a grayish white version of your mesh. That is OK. We are going to add in the texture map next
Select the Materials Folder and then right click and select Import Asset. Select the PNG file you had saved in Blender then import.
You will now see the texture map along side a greyish white material. Right click on the grey white ball shaped material that has the same name as your mesh and delete that material.
Go back to your Assets folder and right click on the Mesh you Imported. Select Reimport
After it reimports it will now create the material properly and texture your mesh
If the model looks pink in the object preview, simply select another object like the camera then select your mesh again. It should refresh
Now you are ready to use. Drag your object to the scene. You can make it bigger and mess around with the camera perspective to get it in view.
When you play you should see your object rendered properly in Unity
Lastly if you want to adjust the texture. If you want to make more or less shiny or metallic. Go to the materials folder and select the round shaped version of your texture. In the Inspector window you can adjust metallic or smoothness of the texture to get the right look