Flash Integration

spiralvista

has anyone managed to successfully integrate sketchup with flash?

Is there any examples out there?

Thanks

Gaieus

What do you mean by SU with Flash?

spiralvista

Thanks Gai,

for your incredible fast reply.

I suppose I was a bit guilty of jumping in without thorough research, I found the solution here:

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=36203

basically I will export my clients model 'walk through' into a MOV file and then build the flash framework around this.

It would be nice if the viewers of his site, can interact directly with a model using their mouse (3D inspection)
like this with 3dViewing:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e9277c1b21dc0bc0721a9ab7a48f0681 I quite like this! is it available for people to embed onto their websites? any examples?

Thanks, for your time. Spiralvista

spiralvista

for interested parties please see this video:

Gaieus

OK, better this way. The 3D Warehouse "Swivel" function (or the SketchUp Web Exporter) is not Flash based but JavaScript. You can already do it very easily even without any serious knowledge of programming or scripting - have a look at this article in "The Daily CatchUp" (and follow the link at the bottom to the SketchUpdate article).

There are a bunch of other ways to integrate a SU model (via different export options) into a web page - let them be "simple" movie files or even interactive walkthrough solutions (some of which indeed involves Flash but not necessarily). MOV files are not the "best" for (real) walkthroughs as they will provide a single viewport from where you can look around in a "virtual reality" panorama and maximum you can link several ones together to "jump" from one place to the other using hot spots.

Here is one I made (no hot spots though just a single panorama) built in SU and rendered in Kerkythea:
http://www.gaieus.hu/su/videos/Carmelite.mov

Then there are pdf versions like this one: http://www.gaieus.hu/su/VskR.pdf

Then another solution which needs a browser plugin called Hypercosm however: http://www.gaieus.hu/su/Vsk.html

And many more (some including really cool,"real" walkthroughs which are like FPS games but I'm still just experimenting with them)