Product Proposal/Idea

ntxdave

I have been thinking about putting together some preliminary specs/rough design for a more comprehensive presentation product. I think LayOut is fine as a documentation product but very weak as a presentation product.

Yes, there are some good presentation products out there (i.e. PowerPoint and Keynote) but they do not allow me to include my SketchUp models and/or animations. I have also seen other products that do a good job of displaying 3D models but again they are a little weak as presentation products, at least from the aspect of being able to stand before an audience and present the company/organization, its objectives/goals, and the products/solutions they are bringing to their audience.

As an example, you want to tell your audience a little about your company/organization and at some point include your 3D model. In the case of SketchUp (I am not that familiar with the capabilities of other 3D modeling software) I would like to be able to manipulate the model during the presentation. In the case of LayOut, I am required to double-click the model to be able to orbit or pan it or to show scenes one at a time. Not the most professional approach.

In particular, I think it would be nice to be able to play the scenes automatically (or even better, some subset of the scenes in the model) without having them in a movie file.

Before I go off and start laying out a more detailed outline or design, I thought I would see if there was any interest. While I would like a full product that allowed the user to have a full 3D experience for all aspects of the presentation, I could also envision a plugin or player that could be used with other products (i.e. PowerPoint or Keynote) that would provide complete control over how the model is presented in the presentation (again, the ability to orbit or pan the model and the ability to take advantage of scenes in a model to provide some level of animation and control over the animation (not just a fixed animation that can not be controlled or manipulated inside the presentation.

It will be interesting to see what, if any, responses I get. I have a number of ideas "in my head" but have not taken the time to put together a design yet.

ntxdave

Interesting that I have not received any comments. Either

There is no interest in a more sophisticated presentation tool/product that contains a SketcUp model
I did not make it clear that I was wanting feedback/comments before proceeding
I should have put this in another forum
A mixture of the above

Richard

Mate I think it could be the case of all of the above! I think that how you present is based more on what you want to present and how.

If the presentation is a page type, or more a web interface.

Certainly LO has limits, and for client presentations other than fixed images it doesn't allow much by way of what you want to do! Sadly!