Any plugin that can create circular scenes around a circle?

Bob James

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

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

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

Peter makes people smiling today, great sharing !!!

Bob James

@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

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

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

@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

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

erikB

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

@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

@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