Any plugin that can create circular scenes around a circle?

hgdn · 12 Mar 2011, 17:28

hgdn,

What is the product you want to render?

Are you going to use HDRi for lighting?

24 renders might be too few for a smooth result, I'd say at the very least 60 is needed.

Thearender is what I am interested in now but I don't know enough it yet, specially animation!

Yes, using HDRi for scene render

To render 1 scene takes at least 1hr or more depending on what size....as you said to be good smooth quality outcome required at least 60 renders...take up a couple days to finish, breathless omg!

Chris Fullmer · 12 Mar 2011, 17:36

A couple of days is unfortunately not uncommon. Rendering does take a bit of time, and if you multiple frames to render, then it really gets crazy.

solo · 12 Mar 2011, 17:55

Nah, you can run it BSD, I just completed a 12 minute animation in less than 4 hours. For what you are doing (product rotation) I'm sure you can set it up to render fast.

Want to share the model and I will take a look and give a better idea?

hgdn · 12 Mar 2011, 18:12

@chris fullmer said:

A couple of days is unfortunately not uncommon. Rendering does take a bit of time, and if you multiple frames to render, then it really gets crazy.

Yes really crazy as the file getting bigger and longer required a massive effort and patience. Thumbs up for all amazing 3d design render movies done and posted on youtube!

solo · 12 Mar 2011, 18:16

Let me set a quick scene up and render 120 frames, give me an hour or so and I will show you.

I cannot exhibit my clients project so I'll use one of my cartoon characters instead.

solo · 12 Mar 2011, 19:31

Okay, done.

Here is the final low resolution animation as well as a video of the making of it.

Hope it helps.

[flash=700,400:10bk5u4x]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=20959197[/flash:10bk5u4x]

Making of:

[flash=700,400:10bk5u4x]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=20959296[/flash:10bk5u4x]

notareal · 12 Mar 2011, 20:16

solo that a great tutorial. Another option in Thea would be rotating camera around the target, but it's up to scene if this is a viable alternative to turn table. Rotating the camera does allow cache reuse and even faster rendering, as only camera is changed (not the scene, like with the turn table).

Bob James · 12 Mar 2011, 20:20

Pete/hgdn,

I am really, really interested in this because I have just been commissioned to do a big project to provide virtual tours and "fly-over/around" scenes. Since I've never done that before I had to get smart really quick on software and techniques (nothing like pressure to motivate learning )

Since I'll be using both SU models and photo panoramas, for virtual tours I've settled on the following:

For SU models:
John Wehby's cubicpanout.rb
Thearender
GoCubic

For photo panoramas:
object2vr
pano2vr
PTgui

For SU models I'm using cubicpanout.rb, then Thea and, finally, GoCubic. I tried using pano2vr for the cubicpanout output, but have not yet figured out what settings to use for a "non-overlapping" set of pictures. But GoCubic works fine.
The big deal here is that nige generously clued me into Kerkythea scripts that allow me to do "automatic" BSD rendering of multiple scenes from cubicpanout.rb in Thea. You just run the script and walk away and let Thea do its thing for however long - but you don't have to be there while it does it (e.g., overnight).
I then put the rendered scenes into GoCubic.

For fly-around/overs
I was going to use flightpath.rb and the follow the same workflow in Thea, but...
Pete, I know you asked me months ago if I'd be doing any animation in Thea. At the time I didn't foresee what I'm doing now. Now I'm very interested in learning how
Anything you would care to share on how that's done would certainly be appreciated.

solo · 12 Mar 2011, 20:21

I never thought about the cache reuse, yeah, makes a lot of sense, the above rendered at 8 seconds per frame BSD (that's uber fast)

solo · 12 Mar 2011, 20:25

Bob, You may just be in luck.

Somebody (no names mentioned) is right now as we speak creating a script that will allow you to take your SU animation into Thea...ssshh!

Happy days are here soon.

hgdn · 12 Mar 2011, 20:34

Peter makes people smiling today, great sharing !!!

Bob James · 12 Mar 2011, 21:05

@solo said:

Bob, You may just be in luck.

Somebody (no names mentioned) is right now as we speak creating a script that will allow you to take your SU animation into Thea...ssshh!

Happy days are here soon.

Also, thank you for the tutorial - that really helps For some reason I didn't see it as I went through the first time

One showing notareal's suggestion of the camera being rotated would be nice too

hgdn · 12 Mar 2011, 21:06

That is exactly what I am mentioning. I got the idea how it is done in Thea now after watching your vid tut instruction. This rotation application can be used for showing a big building layout with smaller rotation scene angle to get a better quality, isn't it?

Thanks so much for spending time to help as you are busy with your own too!

I've tried to embed my flash movie now but it is a bit tricky task!

kaas · 4 Dec 2014, 11:10

I'm looking for some software to create panorama's (made from LightUp images- can be cubic, panorama, single strip) that my clients can view in a web browser (swf / html5 / whatever). Before I go buy something like http://ggnome.com/pano2vr, anyone has a good suggestion for a program you used recently for this?

erikB · 4 Dec 2014, 16:16

@solo said:

Bob, You may just be in luck.

Somebody (no names mentioned) is right now as we speak creating a script that will allow you to take your SU animation into Thea...ssshh!

Happy days are here soon.

That is great news Pete, haven't seen that mentioned over on the Thea forum.
Look forward to it.
ErikB

Box · 4 Dec 2014, 16:24

Erik, i hope you realise that post is from March 2011.

erikB · 4 Dec 2014, 16:30

Yeah, just noticed it myself.
stupid mistake. Must be because I never made some rendered animations in Thea and reading this it seemed to be real easy. Perhaps it is so I look in to it.
ErikB

driven · 4 Dec 2014, 21:52

@kaas said:

... (made from LightUp images- can be cubic, panorama, single strip) that my clients can view in a web browser...

why not the lightup player?
john

kaas · 10 Dec 2014, 09:25

@driven said:

why not the lightup player?

Most of my clients don't have powerful / modern computers. If they don't have the proper openGL version, most of the nice effects are gone in the Lightup viewer. That's why I was thinking using a panorama (all the nice effects will be baked into a simple image).
For stand-alone viewing of panorama's I'm testing now http://www.fsoft.it/panorama/FSPViewer.htm