La Romareda: Walk-throughs of houses (made with LightUp)
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Hi, everyone! Long time no post!
Lately I've been posting my stuff only on Facebook for friends to see. Here's a video I made for a local company. The full set consists of 6 videos.
[flash=853,505:12bfzmqy]http://www.youtube.com/v/xahq4CjVlTo&fs=1[/flash:12bfzmqy]
EDIT: I deleted the original video and posted a new, much improved one, so some of the comments below might no longer apply. -
Nice!
Realy good rendering
Only one problem (other than a couple of jaggies) is the kitchen sink is a little too reflective it messes with your eyes.
Very good though!Taylor,
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Hi Miguel,
Great to see you back! Thanks for sharing this
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Very cool,
I have some questions about lightup, I thinking about buying it. Did lightup create the video file for you or did it have to process a bunch of images or use any other software? Did it take a while to generate the video? How big is the video file? -
[Great video Ecuadorian!]
@jsteacy said:
Very cool,
I have some questions about lightup, I thinking about buying it. Did lightup create the video file for you or did it have to process a bunch of images or use any other software? Did it take a while to generate the video? How big is the video file?LightUp has a "Record movie" function which works in realtime. You start recording and can use preset Scenes and/or just fly/walk around the model recording your movie. Its then saved to disk as an uncompressed AVI file. The uncompressed part is good in that you get lossless quality which you can take into other packages. However, the AVI files are large so if you want to share with clients, you'll need to pass it through a codec to crunch it down (eg MPEG-4 / H.264)
Alternatively, you can export the entire model with lighting to a custom file for viewing using the free LightUp Player.
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Ecuadorian,
There is quite a bit of work here but also alot to be done. My comments are:
The video is agonizingly slow and the shallow camera angle makes it feel as though a person is creeping in a shoebox (really evident in the bathroom).
The textures need a good deal of work. I am not sure how Lightup handles textures though.
The furniture is not a very high quality. Fixing this alone could make for a HUGE improvement.
The AO settings are far too high. At the corners of the wall to the ceiling is way to dark.
I would spend the time to model the plates on the table.
I would get rid of the blue TV screen. Either make is black or add an image.
The artwork is the focal point and not the house.I do not mean to tear apart the video but I think we all owe it to eachother as artists to be honest and not say everything is good, great or fantastic.
Scott
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Thanks, Scott. I know this can improve a lot and I thank you for your suggestions. I made these new videos slow because my client got headaches from my older, faster videos made 5 years ago in Artlantis 4.5, but it seems I exaggerated. Most of the furniture was brought over from the original 5-year old ArchiCAD models. I've been trying to replace most of it with better stuff from the 3D warehouse, but time is limited. Same excuse for the rest.
Still, there's a couple weeks left until these videos will be shown to the general public, so I might have time to improve them if no other project fills my plate.jsteacy, I prefer to use the "image sequence" export function from LightUp. I then used VideoMach 4 and the XviD codec to convert this .tga sequence to a video small enough to upload to YouTube (around 300 MB, quantizer 2.00).
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