» Thu May 19, 2011 3:43 am
3D scanners can only scan 3D objects, they use lasers to map the object in 3 dimensions. There are no scanners that can scan a flat 2D page from a book and extrapolate that to a 3D model. At all, There are none. To extrapolate from 2D to 3D takes a human imagination aided by modeling software.
The only way to create items for Fallout 3 and NV is to build it yourself the hard way. Make the spine, apply the meshes and then the textures. Then you have to apply effects and then the stats that govern those effects.That's it. No other way for the foreseeable future, like at least a few years.
Sorry to disappoint but it just don't work the way you are thinking. It would be nice if it did, but it doesn't.
Creating 3D computer models and animations is still fairly hard and tedious work. It will be this way for some time to come.
Creating a talking toaster with an AI, well now that something we should all be working towards before 2D to 3D scanning.