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Turn perspective photos into flat, game-ready textures — homography rectification, HL2-style.
Turn orthographic photos into a textured, game-ready low-poly model
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itch.io Community » General » Release Announcements · Created a new topic Modeler Forge — build a textured low-poly prop from orthographic reference photos
Hi all,
I've just released Modeler Forge, a small desktop tool for making low-poly props out of orthographic reference images. the way props were made for Half-Life 2 and the engines of that era.
You drop your reference sheet in, outline up to six views over it (by hand node by node, with a rectangle or a circle, or with the automatic silhouette tracer), and it builds a closed, textured mesh. The texture comes from your own photos: one atlas, one cell per view, and each face takes its colour from the view it actually faces. There's a UV tab for fixing whatever the automatic mapping gets wrong.
It exports OBJ + MTL, MD2, MD3, MDL (Quake 1) and SMD + QC for GoldSrc/Source, each with its texture in the format that engine expects. The dumpster in the screenshots is 150 triangles across five parts, built from a single reference sheet.
Windows installer and portable build, Linux AppImage and .deb. It runs entirely offline
https://forgetools.itch.io/modeler-forge/devlog/1649603/modeler-forge-100-from-r...
It's my first release. If you make props for these engines, I'd really like to hear what breaks.