From the course: SynthEyes Essential Training (2015)

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Mesh creation

Mesh creation

- Besides adding geometry to your scene, sometimes you have uneven surfaces or odd-shaped objects that you need geometry for, and the meshing tools in SynthEyes can help in those situations. In this shot right here, you have a pretty uneven ground so a regular plane will not be a good representation of the ground. You can see here right in front of the business man how this all slants down, so what we want to do is add a whole bunch of trackers to the ground and use those trackers to make a mesh. So let's see how we can do that. The first thing we're going to do is use the "Add Many Trackers" but we only want some on the ground, so let's click and lasso around the ground like that so we only are going to get trackers here and then we're going to go up to the "Track, Add Many Trackers" and there's none available. That is because we must have cleared all the blips, so let's cancel out of this, go over to the Features panel, and all we need to do is blip all frames again. Okay, now let's…

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