What can help me rapidly sketch scene ideas in 3D?

January 22, 2020 12:54 AM

I need to make scenes to make a memory palace. It doesn't need to be pretty. It doesn't need to respect copyright since I'm the only one using this. But it does need to be QUICK. Is there a Unity3D level design plugin to rapidly add objects from Thingiverse/GrabCAD/Google Poly? What can I use to do this?

Ideally, I would like to be able to view the result in Virtual Reality.

I have Gravity Sketch VR and this can import .obj files. If I could import into Gravity Sketch to view everything that would be great.

There is MunxVR for this but it's very awfully designed.
There's also RumiiVR but typing with a VR keyboard is very slow and it has a very low object limit.
There's also MozillaHubs but you need to type with a VR keyboard and cycle in and out of VR to get things done.

I have OSX, Oculus Quest and can rent more powerful Windows PCs if needed.

posted by jago25_98 to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Sketchup is quick and easy to use, has a free version, a library of objects made by others and a VR viewer that I have never used but might fit your purposes.
posted by Harald74 at 4:51 AM on January 22, 2020 [2 favorites]

Best answer: There's a unity add on that let's you browse and add things from poly: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/poly-toolkit-104464.

If you want to export from unity as an app, I would use whichever VRTK sample is closest to what you want and just modify the level.

I'm afraid it's Windows only, but the best app I know for throwing things together in VR is Sketchbox and it has a built in Poly search and import (I'm hoping they might do a quest native version, but no sign yet).
posted by samj at 5:51 AM on January 22, 2020