MASTER MOBILE 3D SCANNING WITH KIRI ENGINE

3D scanning used to be reserved for studios with multi-thousand-dollar handheld scanners or high-end desktop rigs. KIRI Engine changes the landscape by bringing professional-grade 3D capture directly to iOS, Android, and web browsers. Whether you need game-ready assets, 3D printing files, or real-time spatial captures, KIRI Engine simplifies the process into a streamlined mobile workflow.

CORE SCANNING MODES

KIRI Engine offers a versatile too lset catering to various hardware capabilities and object types:

  • Photo Scan (Photogrammetry): The primary capture engine. By taking a series of overlapping photos around an object, cloud-based algorithms stitch feature points into clean, high-density 3D meshes.
  • LiDAR Scan: Designed for iOS Pro devices equipped with LiDAR sensors. It allows fast room scanning, spatial layout capturing, and quick mesh generation.
  • Featureless Object Scan: Solves photogrammetry's biggest limitation—reflective, dark, or featureless surfaces. Using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) technology, it processes tricky textures that traditionally fail.
  • 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS): Captures ultra-realistic radiance fields for visual assets, allowing high-fidelity lighting and specular reflections that traditional geometry cannot replicate easily.

BEST PRACTICES FOR OPTIMAL SCANS

  1. Lighting: Keep lighting soft, diffuse, and even. Avoid direct directional lights or harsh shadows, as static lighting gets baked into your object's diffuse texture map.
  2. Coverage & Overlap: Walk in concentric circles around the subject. Capture at least three height levels—top-down, eye-level, and bottom-up—ensuring a 60-70% overlap between adjacent photos.
  3. Subject Preparation: For highly glossy objects when not using the Featureless mode, consider applying a temporary matte scanning spray or chalk powder to give the photogrammetry engine trackable feature points.
  4. Camera Rigidity: Keep your focal distance constant. Do not change focal length or zoom mid-scan; let your physical movement regulate distance.

PRODUCTION & PIPELINE EXPORT

KIRI Engine stands out by delivering production-ready outputs:

  • Clean Topology: Includes options for automated Quad Mesh retopology and dynamic decimation to optimize polycounts for real-time engines.
  • PBR Material Generation: Automatically extracts Physically Based Rendering maps (Albedo, Normal, Roughness) alongside clean UV unwrapping.
  • Industry Export Formats: Export models straight to .OBJ, .FBX, .GLTF/.GLB, .STL (for 3D printing), and .USDZ.


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