VR presentation of apartment renovation

[Pixero]

Finally I've finished this project with a VR presentation of an apartment renovation with before and after for five rooms.
Modelling was made in SketchUp and is by far the heaviest SU project I've made.
The full Thea scene consisted of more than ten (several for each room) merged SU scenes of approx 250 MB each.
Very detailed models even if I optimized them and used components where I could.

Renders are 6000x3000 pixels with TR1 for all but the bathroom where I used BSD.
I also did the stitching of the photo panoramas, which you find under the "FÖRE" (before) button, even though they caused me a lot of problems since they wheren't photographed correctly which cased parallax errors.
Don't kill me for their (lack of) quality.
I also did the panorama GUI programming and linking.

If you have an Ipad it will also work, since there is both a flash and a html 5 version.
A cool thing is that it uses the Ipads gyro so that if you rotate the Ipad you rotate in the panoramas.

http://www.whiteclients.se/obo/vivalla/link.html

If the link above doesn't work (Firefox) use this instead: http://www.whiteclients.se/obo/vivalla/

[Rich O Brien]

That is impressive.

[iichiversii]

Works great on the iPhone4s, and rez is perfect on a small screen, how long did this take to create if you don't mind me asking?

[Pixero]

Works great on the iPhone4s, and rez is perfect on a small screen, how long did this take to create if you don't mind me asking?

The 3D part (render time not counted) was approx 90 hours spread out during a month.
The photo panoramas took more time than expected because the way they where photographed.

[thegreek87]

Really awesome!!

[pbacot]

Very impressive!

[tomsdesk]

Man, that's really cool!

[iichiversii]

Works great on the iPhone4s, and rez is perfect on a small screen, how long did this take to create if you don't mind me asking?

The 3D part (render time not counted) was approx 90 hours spread out during a month.
The photo panoramas took more time than expected because the way they where photographed.

Only a month, great results in such a short time, I applaued you on such a great result

[d12dozr]

Wow, work like this is what separates the men from the boys - that's one helluva pro job, Jan!

[iichiversii]

I hope sketchucation do a serious right up on this in next months catchup edition, well done

[Daniel]

Frickin awsome, Jan!

[iichiversii]

Iv a pair of these at home, I'll root them out tomorrow at some stage and test it out with this

http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_vr920.html

Only problem is the Rez would be very low with these on

[Bryan K]

That's... that's a MODEL?

[jo-ke]

That's great stuff!

I'm doing similar experiments at the moment.

Is that one model or did you decorate each room in a seperate file? I always have a problem with huge files.

[Pixero]

That's great stuff!

I'm doing similar experiments at the moment.

Is that one model or did you decorate each room in a seperate file? I always have a problem with huge files.

The final Thea render file contained more than ten merged SU files, so several for each room.

[Frederik]

:applause: (hhmmm - doesn't work...)
:standing ovation: (hhmmm - still doesn't work...)

Jan, this is really, really great to see...!

I also did the panorama GUI programming and linking.

How did you do this...?

[oganocali]

Real nice; I wish there had been a renderer that had the capability to render a model directly to a panorama(s), rather than taking individual renders and stitching afterwards (pardon my grammar). It would be really neat.

[Gaieus]

Thea (and Kerkythea and Twilight) can do that - and probably that's how Jan did it. When talking about stitching, he was mentioning the photos he was taking for the "before" shots.

[oganocali]

D'oh!

[jo-ke]

I'm rendering my panos directly with twilight.

camera tab: type of render: "spherical"

[iichiversii]

Ok iv being reading up a lot on this stuff lately since you posted this topic, how on earth do I even start to do this sort of thing?

[tonyc]

absolutely masterpiece

[Roger]

Clearly you are from Sweden. I recognize the navigation arrows on the house floor. They use the same scheme on the floor of my local IKEA store.

[Pixero]

Clearly you are from Sweden. I recognize the navigation arrows on the house floor. They use the same scheme on the floor of my local IKEA store.

Yeah, they're Swedish road signs.

[jo-ke]

What Software did you use for the presentation? I like the Floorplan.

[Mike Lucey]

Jo-ke,

Not sure what Pixero used exactly but you might have a look at Garden Gnome's Pano2VR, here, http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2vr.php

The video gives a good overview also their are some good samples on their forums of what others are producing.


Mike

[Pixero]

I used Pano2VR.

[cotty]

Real nice; I wish there had been a renderer that had the capability to render a model directly to a panorama(s), rather than taking individual renders and stitching afterwards (pardon my grammar). It would be really neat.

Indigo Renderer (>3.6.0) has a new spherical camera type for this, but some exporters need to be updated before everyone can use this...

[Pixero]

I rendered it in Thea with Spherical camera 6000x3000 pixels.
Then in pano2VR it gets converted to six "cube" images.

[novena]

fantastic work Pixero!!! nice workflow...
best
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