k I think all the links are finally working, sorry for the confusion but I was trying to link something with better quality - veoh didn't turn out to be much better than youtube either, despite going pro.

Anyway it looks better on my computer, you'll have to take my word

@kwistenbiebel said:

Great one Prince!
The wood material shows nicely.
You will agree with me that SU needs better ways to move the camera. I am struggling to make more realistic camera motion myself using the limited SU camera tools.
Vray is a good partner for animations. Too bad it doesn't take geometry changes per frame into account , making object animation a no-go unfortunately.

Neat stuff you're producing here. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks very much! Yup I agree about the camera in su alright. Your animations are totally flowing now though - maybe I should invest in animate (though can't really justify it) - I think i'll sit it out till whaat's plugin arrives Vray is really a great rendering package as well - I highly recommend it personally. Saw your thread on the agvis forum too, indeed it is a shame object animation is not taken into account with vray. I'm not finding it so easy to find the right HDRI's either, none of them really seem appropriate to spherical environmental mapping. Evermotion's free skies are the only images that I have gotten to look good so far. But i'll keep messin around anyway!

After seeing kwistenbiebel's nice animation the other day I had to give it a go. Got too carried away and pressed render too soon though. The end result could have been nicer but it's just a test
Please watch in high quality: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v15833271GYtT5T7B

[flash=640,480:1mb4gtv4]http://nl.youtube.com/v/njLdsPBylb4[/flash:1mb4gtv4]

p.s. Could one of the mods please replace my youtube flash with the veoh one, can't figure out how to embed it ..

Fantastic once again. Interesting the way you change the shadows during the animation.. is it merely a matter of changing the sun position when creating each new scene tab? And a somewhat off topic, but is it possible to scale the size of the HDRI background or is it only possible to scale the model to suit the HDRI? Thanks for the great animations

Very nice work, lighting and detail is good

Interesting I especially like the fish for some reason

That was on the verge of being totally realistic. The animation was much smoother than usual as well, how many fps? The combination of the HDRI and the ease of setting up the scale model look is very effective indeed. How long did it take to render in total, looks pretty long. great job anyway

Nice strong images that show off the architecture well. good work

Nothing special but my 1st successful attempt using a HDRI image in vray for su. Had tried before but the images always came out black. It turned out I needed to change the multiplier from the default 1 to 20000. Just nice to have a proper sky in sketchup and could compliment clay renders nicely due to the speed of output

[flash=425,344:pdqzja36]http://nl.youtube.com/v/bMPcJ22t4nU[/flash:pdqzja36]

Thank you solo

Very nice! Especially like the 2nd and 3rd images. The populated last image I'm not feeling entirely - the green sketchup bushes and figures detract from the realism imo. Great work overall

Wow, amazing! Looking forward to the day this plugin is released!

Thanks again guys . The swimming 'man glue' is not my own unfortunately, it's an added segment I found on youtube and is credited at the end. I wonder what they used though..

Excellent! Su animate makes a big difference indeed. Do you know if su animate and vray work together?

@kwistenbiebel said:

Hi Princedragoncock (what's in a name ),

That animation looks very good.
The zooming in on the teapot is even kind of scary.
One would expect zooming in even further and discovering a fantastic microscopic life in there .

Very decent vid. You scored points .

Regards,
Kwistenbiebel

Thank you kwistenbiebel but now that you mention it, I did find something in there..
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=C5KFMFJz4yE

mmm still didn't manage to embed.. will try again tomorrow.

@ely862me said:

the animation is made in vray?
if yes,please,tell me where i can set the animation!
THX!

Elisei

Yes - go to output under options. Then select the animate checkbox. Then select frames per second. Then select output destination and save as jpeg. Render

@richard said:

Oh I somehow expected the displacement was going to be animated!!!

Nice job though! Do you mind me asking how long it took to render out each frame from Vray???

Yeah ideally i wanted to do that actually, but because I couldn't really get my head around how to achieve that, I decided to go down the more basic route instead. maybe next week..
It took 10mins to render each frame btw - set primary engine to irradiance map - speeds things up

Really taking sketchup to the next level. Not to cause offense to anyone at all, but if kwistenbiebel wasn't posting stuff like this, i'd have left for 3dsmax a long time ago.

Thanks remus, yeh the texture mapping messed up on the handle cause it's projected. I wanted to do a 360 of the teapot but it just wasn't possible. I still feel the image could have been displaced better, it still resembles a normal texture too much (but thats my fault for choosing the wrong texture). Still can't embed the video unfortunately..
[flash=widthxheight]http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=xQWBCS3XtBE[/flash]

An attempt at a displacement animation. Critic and comment welcome. Watch in high quality.. and ps. can anyone tell me how to embed a youtube video here?

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=xQWBCS3XtBE

And here is a still:

Great thread plot-paris, very interesting indeed and really appreciate the thought you're putting into this.

@kwistenbiebel said:

Wanna know how ?

Kwistenbiebel.. omg how?

@remus said:

600pics/3 hours=200 pics per hour= approx 1 pic every twenty seconds. Im no expert, but id say tis a bit ambitious to do that for 3 hours straight

well if all he wants is a stickman with no background then i'd say it's pretty doable, but then again i'm no expert either, nor do i feel like proving it

Do it old fashion style on a piece a paper, frame by frame - try for 10 frames per second. Then put them all into windows movie maker and set at 0.125 sec per frame - you will have an animation. 1 minute will take 600 pictures, about 3hrs work - probably less than a renderer imo

Fair play Remus!