Going to our favourite bars to have a few drinks with friends have become a kind of a myth at this point due to the Coronavirus-led lockdowns in place. However, Tristan Cross, a resident of the UK has been missing going to his favourite bar, the Skehan’s, after work so badly that he created a 3D version of it to experience the environment in virtual reality (VR) without needing to break the lockdown rules.
Cross, as he said in his story, got his hands on the blueprint of the pub as Bryan Fitzsimons, the current owner of the pub, was “kind enough” to send him that along with some reference photographs of the pub. After getting his hands on the resources, Cross downloaded Archipack, which is an add-on for the open-source 3D software, Blender and went off to create the base structure of the pub.
This gave Tristan the confidence to create the whole pub in VR with every detail and he spent the next few weeks creating a 3D VR version of his favourite pub. You can check out the run through of the final 3D model in the video below.
Now, to give his 3D pub the realistic touch, Cross used Quixel’s Megascans library of textures which are scanned from real objects to achieve the feat. For the people, he used a software that takes pictures of people and creates a 3D version of it. So, there are some familiar faces in the VR pub like Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp and Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger! Image: via Inputmag
