Bandicoot Imaging - Partners, Features and Compatibility

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Keep your workflow. We're compatible.

Create digital fabrics, download and start working in any of the below tools, and many more.

Browzwear (Service Partner)

With Browzwear, apparel companies are moving to true-to-life digital samples that remove productivity barriers, speed up time to market, and enhance sustainability.

CLO3D

CLO3D is changing the world with virtual garments. Create and alter true-to-life 3D garments so you can perfect your ideas before they go into production.

Style3D

Style3D® stitches an ecosystem of software and services that enables fashion designers and enterprises to work with real time 3D simulation, surpassing their productivity, sustainability and creativity.

Optitex

Optitex takes responsibility for the full product lifecycle and brings retailers and suppliers closer together – by forging the path for designers to connect to the production end.

Utopia 360 Studio

A premium 3D visualization studio specializing in the furniture, and home living industry. Crafts photorealistic digital twins of products, lifestyle imagery, 360° views and animations to help brands showcase their collections in the best light.

Revobit Versekit

Break down the barriers between the physical and digital worlds for material supply and sales, truly restore the texture of various fabrics, leathers and synthetic materials, allow complete information and complete categories to be displayed in real state at any time, and successfully applied to design.

Swatchbook

Intuitive, intelligently designed apps for material sourcing and management, exploration, design and visualization combined with real-time analytics that are fundamentally changing the way brands collaborate with their supply chain - anywhere, anytime, on any device.

DMIx

DMIx helps you get product colors right, simplify your digital workflows and keep everything running smoothly. From design to delivery in coordination and exchange with your teams or your tier chain.

Material Exchange

Marketplace for the responsible sourcing of materials and components for footwear and apparel. More flexibility and transparency, less complexity.

Adobe Substance

Adobe Substance 3D brings you an ecosystem of apps and content that empower you to design 3D. Texture assets and render your scenes intuitively.

Blender

Blender is a free, open-source 3D creation suite for modelling, texturing, rendering and animation. Use your digital fabrics in its material editor to create realistic product visuals and lifestyle renders.

Autodesk 3ds Max

3ds Max® professional 3D modeling, rendering, and animation software enables you to create expansive worlds and premium designs.

Chaos V-Ray

V-Ray is a production renderer for 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp, Rhino and more. Use your digital fabrics in V-Ray materials for photorealistic product, interior and lifestyle renders.

Marvelous Designer

Marvelous Designer is a 3D garment tool used across digital fashion, games and film, simulating realistic cloth from real sewing patterns. Apply your digital fabrics for true-to-life texture and drape.

KeyShot

KeyShot is a fast, easy 3D rendering tool for product visuals, popular with furniture and industrial designers. Use your digital fabrics for photorealistic product shots, configurators and animations.

Virtual Touch

A digital fashion organisation with expertise in the manufacturing & 3D space helping brands & creators land unique collections in the metaverse.

Unreal Engine

With Unreal Engine, you can bring amazing real-time experiences to life using the world’s most advanced real-time 3D creation tool.

Unity

The world’s leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Empowering creators. Across industries and around the world.

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Bandicoot's Chief Technology Officer

Technical Specifications

A general overview of more technical things that are good to know before scanning

Compatible materials

A wide variety of glossy and matte materials are supported, including cotton, silk, velvet, satin, denim, leather, fabric prints, foil prints, lurex thread, lace and mesh

Incompatible materials

Avoid materials with long and thin features like fur, or mirror-like gloss such as sequins

Scan area

Single scan:
- From 150 x 85 millimetres
- Up to 0.9 x 0.5 metres

Stitched scans:
- Up to 3 x 3 metres

Scan resolution

120 - 640 DPI
(30 Mpx camera, depending on scan area)

Material thickness

Flat or largely flat materials

Software platform

Web app with cloud processing

Output Specifications

Details about what's coming out after your scan

Output PBR Textures

OpenPBR maps including: base colour, normals, height, roughness, metallic, alpha

Texture size

Up to 6K (6144 x 3594 px)

Colour space

sRGB D65

Output File Formats

ZIP, GLTF or U3M containing 8-bit PNG texture images

Input Specifications

Details about what needs to go into your scanning

Equipment required

24+ Mpx mirrorless or DSLR camera, prime lens, external on-camera flash, Bandicoot frame

Photography skills

Requires professional photography skills, incl. setting of manual exposure. Training is provided by Bandicoot

Shooting format

RAW

Photos required

9 per scan (plain fabrics e.g. denim)

25 per scan (general fabrics)

Time required/scan

About 1 minute per scan with 9 photos, and about 4 minutes per scan with 25 photos (after training)

Shimmer View Specifications

Supported technologies, download size, and embedding

Supported browsers

All modern browsers

Browser technologies

JavaScript and WebGL

Supported devices

PC, Mac, iOS, Android

Viewer download size

5 - 10 MB per shimmer (2K resolution)

Shimmer file formats

3 x JPEG images and 1 x OBJ mesh

Embedding

JavaScript or React snippet (shimmer hosted by Bandicoot)

JavaScript or React module + Shimmer View files (self-hosted)