Not posted here in quite a while - Here's what I'm doing now

Paul Russam · 6 May 2022, 11:11

Whilst I haven't posted here in quite some time I'm still SU'ing it full time.
99% of my stuff is rendered using Enscape, I haven't used Layout in so long that I don't even have a link to it in my taskbar.

Below are links to some of my panorama tours, I've got over 40 of them done since Covid shut down show homes.
https://www.tours.blockcpm.studio/moira-one-1a/tour/
https://www.tours.blockcpm.studio/moira-one-5a/tour/
https://www.tours.blockcpm.studio/percyplace/tour/
https://www.tours.blockcpm.studio/belcarra-d/tour/
https://www.tours.blockcpm.studio/rockryan/tour/

Here are some Videos:
https://youtu.be/ZVZhKV8zlKY
https://youtu.be/NnZS5X4ABwI
https://youtu.be/srT82wIO1Bk
https://youtu.be/394JrQATiUQ

Primary Tools:
SU ..... Obviously
Enscape for rendering
3DVista for the pano tours
Davinci Resolve to edit the videos
Affinity Designer for the graphics in the tours/videos
Topaz GigaPixel AI to enarge images

Rich O Brien · 6 May 2022, 12:25

Very nice. What hardware are you using to capture 360?

Paul Russam · 6 May 2022, 12:51

Comp Spec:
i9-9900k
32Gb Ram
RTX2070 8gb

Enscape is a cracking renderer, I can knock out an 8k x 4k pano in about 4-5mins, 4k x 3k stills in about 2mins.
To do the anims I render 20-30 20sec 1920x1080 clips and mash them together in Resolve, I can do all of that in an afternoon.

Rich O Brien · 6 May 2022, 13:30

Enscape is pretty impressive. Except the glass shader.

Can you get better glass? is this a 'fast' glass shader?

tuna1957 · 6 May 2022, 16:25

Excellent work ! Glad to see you posting again.

dale · 6 May 2022, 17:03

Great work Paul!
I was under the impression that 3dVista was basically for real life environments. How are you combining it with SketchUp to do your interior panos?

Paul Russam · 6 May 2022, 19:30

I render the 360 panos using Enscape at which point they are just jpg’s like the photographed ones.
For most houses I’ll batch render render 20-30 panos. The initial 3DVista tour will take about an hour to setup and publish but after that I can re-render some or all of the panos, overwrite the existing jpg’s and republish the tour quite quickly.

Bryan K · 6 May 2022, 20:04

Stunning work!

Rich O Brien · 6 May 2022, 20:13

Is Enscape bringing in the Google Maps 3D layer? I noticed it in one of the projects environment.

These are yummy results though. Really impressive

Paul Russam · 6 May 2022, 20:25

Ha! No…. There’s a story to that one.
It’s a site in the centre of Dublin with full height windows so we knew from the start we’d need a photographic panorama taken with a drone (the building didn’t exist at this point).
The client said they could do that as “my sons got one of those” … well … it didn’t happen so… we found and booked a commercial drone biz to do it and they constantly “will do it next week when they’re in Dublin” … yea that didn’t happen either.
In the end I used the Google Earth desktop app to carefully grab a bunch of screenshots as I panned the camera around and then got them stitched together in PTGUI.

It’s not perfect but it’s good enough and certainly better than nothing at all.

Paul Russam · 6 May 2022, 20:34

A google street view of the real building with a billboard of my virtual images(s) which has a google earth background … Inception!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.335979,-6.2422138,3a,75y,92.1h,95.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxyFy57YMb6O0gHduWtl8Cw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

loco · 8 May 2022, 00:20

Top work mate

Mike Amos · 8 May 2022, 11:13

Sharp as, nicely done.

Paul Russam · 8 May 2022, 11:22

Thanks all for your comments
Here’s a bonus video, it was done for a client to post for xmas:

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rv1974 · 8 May 2022, 12:03

Paul, jumping from one panorama to to another via white circles on the floor.. In which program it was made?

Paul Russam · 8 May 2022, 12:08

3DVista https://www.3dvista.com/en/
It’s a lot more capable that I use it for.

boofredlay · 10 May 2022, 20:12

Great work. Glad to see you posting here again.

jo-ke · 11 May 2022, 19:12

Very nice work.

Bryan K · 11 May 2022, 23:22

Excellent camera movements and sharp render.

Mike Lucey · 12 May 2022, 18:30

Really great to have you back posting again Paul.

I enjoyed reading through the comments and your informative answers. This post is tantamount to a mini Master Class in how to get this sort of work done perfectly.

Maybe you might consider actually doing a Master Class video which could be hosted here? It would help many of our members out and at the same time promote your services.

Keep up the great work

Mike