Rendering & animation - what to use?

[conks01]

Hi,

I'm completely new to SU and have started to use it this week.

I have created a barn and applied 15 scenes to it so that it animates around the perimeter of the building. (see avi. file attached).

I have downloaded Maxwell Render and whilst this (free version) does a pretty good job at rendering the scenes I do not beleive that it can allow animation.

I was wondering which product out there can both render, and allow animation of the scenes.

Thanks.

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The Coach House - 3D Model.avi

[Mistro11]

Though it may not be the best for animation (so I've heard) you can try Kerkythea. It's an excellent free render program with animation features (you can render way beyond the 800x600 limitation too). I use Kerkythea all the time but I never tried an animation yet so cannot say good or bad for your needs.

[pilou]

All that is very hard!
Better to try this one, learning curve is 1 / 100 than Kerkythea!

For me the more funny and easy is Lumion but in free Max (1280 x 720p) and a very little logo watermarked
it has a crazzy terrain Modeler, ocean, skyes... and accept any sort of file!
Direct file from SU + material with DAE format

Just export your model (not the scenes because you remake them directly inside the prog !)
[flash=560,315:2tpejvpz]http://www.youtube.com/v/pYHVVtdeCas[/flash:2tpejvpz]

http://vimeo.com/18531558

[Al Hart]

@conks01 said:

Hi,

I was wondering which product out there can both render, and allow animation of the scenes.

Thanks.

IRender nXt does a nice animation using the SketchUp scenes and timings.

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[Ecuadorian]

@conks01 said:

Hi,
I'm completely new to SU and have started to use it this week.

Focus on modeling techniques and texturing. If your model is good enough and well-textured, it doesn't really matter what you use to render it. It will always look good.

[andybot]

I would suggest Twilight - it's an integrated plugin, very simple to use, and best of all, renders animations very well.