I'm Lluis, a computer engereering student, and an app and videogames programmer from Spain. My partner needed a free app to study anatomy, so we decided to use these models to create it. It is in the early stages of development, so there is a lot of room for improvement. I would appreciate your opinion and / or ideas to improve it.
It's made using Unity, so it can be exported to any platform. I don't know 3D modeling, so it's been difficult to optimize the mesh for mobile. I've reduced the polygons of the models to a 30% of the original size using the Decimate tool in Blender, but it's not enough to get a good performance in low-end devices. You can download the demo APK here:
It is very helpful if you tell me the performance and model of your mobile. *Note: Only tested on an Android high-end mobile. *Note 2: The colors of the elements are not strictly correct. They are temporary colors.
Thank you! :)
UAu! Es enorme!
Hablamos mejor mañana, pero ya te digo que estoy boé de impresionado!
MESHES
The file size has been a central question on the contribution made in the .blend, and it is still too heavy for many computer devices.
A solution could be to split the file into several chapters that could be loaded independently from each other (Bones+Muscular insertions+Ligaments/Bones+Vascular system/Bones+nervous system...).
The use of curves for all vessels reduces a lot the poly-count (and make it much easier and cleaner to edit)
Another important trick is to instance the symmetrical structures (Alt+D) in Blender, instead of duplicating them (Shift+D).
VISUAL
In the .blend, the default colors of Blender >2.8 have been used for both the file and the website. Background is 303030
Colored lights help give an overall warm look.
Although it is not photo-realistic, saturation is intentionally lowered to pacify the contrasts.
Some specular/metallic effect gives humidity to the materials, and some Subsurface scattering can be a good compromise between a plain diffuse and transparency.
In the .blend, the orthographic view is default because it seemed convenient to study the anatomy and avoid to get lost while navigating in the 3D view.
Your buttons and sliders for the cross-section planes are very ergonomic.
The system used to create a rim-like color (to get something that looks as a plane where the mesh gets visually opened by the cross-section plane) in the .blend passes through a system of nodes, made by Marcin Zielinsky; it is based on the BIM add-on system for architecture in Blender (but works directly). The principle is to give a full emission material to the inner surface of meshes.
FUNCTIONS
The ergonomy of your app is clearly what is needed to reach a greater public.
The .blend file heavily uses the collections system that appeared in Blender >2.8. This rhizomatic organization allows to reach any level of the hierarchy by pressing RMB when an object is selected. In order to keep a readible outliner, that reproduces the TA2 with only one occurrence of each anatomical structure; a bunch of hidden collections have been created, where they can appear several times. The downside is that the collections are duplicated (Eye; Eye') and that the ones without the ' do not include the content of their sub-collections.