Another Envisioneer – Realtime Collaboration
Hi Conrad,
Yes, export Envisioneer model as a skp (edited ‘not 3ds,) file, import it to Realtime, add camera path, add trees /plants , walking , sitting standing people, hit ‘create movie’. Realtime is ‘cheap’ , has tons of plants that I can import to Envisioneer as photo boards and generates videos relatively fast. I think about 5 minutes to generate this walkaround.
Things to note:
The ‘house model, house materials , windows doors , interior furniture, car, walks are all from Envisioneer.
The grass, trees, plants, bbq grill, are from Realtime. You MUST add bird baths, bird houses, flowers to get the Realtime birds / butterflies to activate.
When you add a camera path OR a walking person path, you just click on nodes, and your aim camera for each node, elevate as needed. Note guy ‘jumps’ up at front step. I just elevated the path node at that point.
You also change time of day at nodes and when camera gets to that node, the sun changes position.
You can do interiors too but lights only activate when sun goes down so sometimes interiors arent the greatest.
(thanks for comment Nick!)
Jack
zimmerdesign.com
Conrad,
I checked on how to save as a Realtime picture plant and then have it for use in Envisioneer.
In Realtime they have a photo editor, this is how you save as a bmp .
1 You select plants, then go into plant options. Here you want to switch from 3D plants to PICTURES.
2 I can’t show this but when you select a plant and right click, there is an option to open it “USING PICTURE EDITOR’
3 You can open any picture of any plant in the Picture Editor, then save as a bmp to a folder.
In Envisioneer you can add the picture to you material library , making sure you put check mark at make magenta invisible.
1 Create Envisioneer folder in materials. Right click in open area select ADD NEW…. find plant in you want to import and just keep ADDING NEW .
Now you have to assign the plant pictures to a PHOTO BOARD.
2 Go to INSERT > PHOTO BOARD on top bar of Envisioneer.
3 In the Photo Board material list on right, I just go to Plants / right click add new and start assigning the Realtime images saved in my newly created materials folder.
Make sure to check Make magenta color transparent when assigning the picture to the photo board.
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1 Save as .BMP , picture of plant from Realtime to a folder on your computer.
2 Import the .BMP pictures to a new folder in Envisioneer in Materials Library. (must be .bmp for transparent background)
3 Assign .bmp Picture of any plant to Photo Board library.
DONE
Jack
zimmerdesign.com
