Le Mont Saint Michel

01 Oct 2018

Mont Saint Michel project page

Mont Saint Michel - Microsoft page

“The Mont Saint-Michel: Digital perspectives on the model” a HoloLens experience celebrating French culture and innovation: The goal of the exhibit is to use mixed reality technology in a way that empowers the Musée des Plans-Reliefs to unlock a more vital kind of storytelling.

Here you can find the 3 official Microsoft Today in Technology episodes.

The biggest challenge on this project was to find a way to display a 3d scanned object of 13,5 million polygons inside a Hololens application In order, the textures were gorgeous and completely non-optimized (21 Texture of 16Kx16K resolution)

This challenge has been accomplished using a combination of Maya, ZBrush, Sympligon and Turtle Bake Renderer
I’m proud of this job because it was originally estimated on 4 weeks of full work for one man. The original idea was to model everything in low poly(crazy). Thanks to this workflow I reduced the modeling time in 2 days and 3 other days were used to unwrap properly the UVs

I will write a more detailed article in the next days, on how to face this type of problem.

As always I have been responsible for:

• Performance check, be sure that the application runs at 60 fps
• Management of stage assistant, and be sure his work was properly integrated into the application
• Instruct the UI designer and Motion designer of a proper workflow to reduce production time
• Creation of Unity utilities, to leave freedom to the artist on the artistic side of the project
• Integration of custom FX like the Point Cloud Renderer