What can ArtEngine do?

ArtEngine is a solution primarily made for artists working in scan-based workflows

From a high-level perspective of a texture-based photogrammetry workflow, these are the main steps: 

1. Capture
2. Calculation of the photos into a mesh
3. Cleaning of the mesh
4. Baking the mesh into PBR maps
5. Post-processing of the materials

ArtEngine comes into play starting after the fourth step when the user has a set of PBR maps that need further processing to be used in production (seams, defects, scaling etc...).
The main aspects that we cover can be split in two ways: 

• Scan post-processing
• PBR map generation

Scan post-processing

If you are working with photogrammetry assets, ArtEngine can help you clean up your textures by removing faulty or blurry areas and replace unwanted features by using in-painting. Following that, ArtEngine can automatically make your materials seamless across all maps, and from there generate infinite seamless variations. 

In this area, the relevant nodes are: 

• Seam Removal (old)
• Mutation (old)
• Mutation (Pattern)
• Content Aware Fill
• Color match
• Mask painter (to guide the process of the previously mentioned nodes)
• Up-res nodes (to increase the resolution using neural networks, remove blurry areas, etc.)

We then have a series of adjustment and transform nodes that enable you to tweak your materials even further. 

PBR maps generation

Starting from a single diffuse/colour map, ArtEngine can generate high quality normal, height, AO and roughness map.

In this area, the relevant nodes are: 

• Material generation: users also have access to individual nodes for each PBR map type
• Blend and blend (normal)
• Color match
• Up-res (old) nodes (to increase the resolution using neural networks, remove blurry areas, etc.)