Displaying SketchUp 3D models on a website
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Hi Smiley,
Yes, YouTube reduces file size as well as converts the video into flash. The only solution is to create your video in flash already, with the same resolution as YouTube uses and carefully plan what compression you will use. This time YouTube "might" not resize your video and it may maintain its original quality.
Another solution is Google Video (you can even "combine" your YouTube account with Google Video account as I understand that Google has acquired YouTube or something). As I noticed, the compression in quality is not as bad as in YouTube - but I have surely not experimented too much with it to say something certain.
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Here is a sample page with an embedded 3D PDF.
You just drag the mouse across the embedded image to watch it spin.
Al Hart
IRender nXt from Render Plus -
Alan, I like your SWF idea, but I'm not keen to spend the amount of money being asked for Dreamweaver and other SWF editors I've found through web searches.
Can anyone suggest an alternative that they've actually used, and found to be capable and reliable.
I'm currently stuck with the old standby - animated GIFs.
Taff
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Rumor has it that this works.
To any youtube link, append &fmt=18 to get a higher quality version. I haven't tried it. I read it on another forum.
Todd
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I did try this Renderplus 3D pdf. It's working, but doesn't recognise sections - so for most of my work, I cannot use it.
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Todd, just gave that trick a go and i couldnt see any noticeable difference, perhaps mi just blind
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Here's another intresting way of viewing 3d model...
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@pagan said:
Here's another intresting way of viewing 3d model...
This uses a series of images to create the illusion of rotation.
We briefly discussed using this method, along with a free javascript program to animate 3d models in a web page as an educational community ruby project We could revive the project if anyone is interested.
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Just doing what Coen suggests and trying out the posting of the Space Marine swf directly.
I see it just attaches; I guess I was half expecting embedding, but that might be a bit dangerous as some people might post ones of several MB which would slow page-loading down enormously and have fairly hefty impact on bandwidth.
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Yeah, but this way a lot of people cannot see the file because they don't have a standalone flash viewer. I have one at home but haven't got it here in the office for instance.
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You should be able to associate it with your browser. I associated swf files with IE...even though I use Firefox...so when I click on the link it just opens an IE window (use Properties/General/Opens with). You get all the usually nannyish warnings about opening up ActiveX controls; and it displays virtually fullscreen, but at least you can see it.
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