Walkthrough

itsjustme

Is there any way to create a walk through and be able to play it so as to show someone else the building. i do know there is the animation tool that allows you to make different scenes. but is there any faster way to record a walk through? any suggestions will be great

brodie

@itsjustme said:

Is there any way to create a walk through and be able to play it so as to show someone else the building. i do know there is the animation tool that allows you to make different scenes. but is there any faster way to record a walk through? any suggestions will be great

Are you showing someone on your computer or sending them a file? What sort of quality are you looking for?

-Brodie

itsjustme

hopefully both

brodie

I don't think there are a lot of great options. Here are the one's I can think of.

Create the scenes in SU, send them the file, and let them play the animation right in SU. This is probably the fastest, easiest way. Disadvantage is that depending on your model this can make for a pretty jumpy animation plus they have to have SU installed and know how to play the animation.
Most user friendly would be to create scenes and do a file->export->animation and save it as an avi file or something that the other person can just click a button and play. Disadvantage is that this can take quite awhile to render the animation (turning shadows off will probably help significantly)
You could basically combine those by just running through the scenes in your SU model or even just manually panning around your model while running some sort of screen capture program. This might be the best/easiest solution but the quality may suffer quite a bit so that's the compromise. I also don't know much about the screen capturing software to be able to recommend a good free one.

Those are about the only options I can think of. Incidently what I do for animations is I export the animation as a series of .png files and then compile them with Adobe Premiere Elements ($99). Good quality but there's a little be of a learning curve to it if this is a one time thing. It also take a bit more time than just having SU compile everything for you and export it directly as an avi.

-Brodie