day too night effect

[NOOXY]

I met this guy at my firm who showed me some renderings he did using maya. one of the most facinating things i was impressed with was that he can click selected places on a floor plan and the rendered image will then show up,,further more there was an option of seeing it a s a night scene or a day scene with the click just one mouse click.

 

My question is??? Can anyone give me a brief tutorial or link where u can create such an effect using cinema 4d if it's possible. So i can simulate how a room turns from a day scene to a night scene..and if possible clicking a plan to get differnt camera renderings???

 

 

i'm new to cinema 4d and working on my first model...this program is so much fun it just has me hooked..

 

NOOXY

 

I'VE ATTACHED MY FIRST MODEL I DID USING C4D(( WORK IN PROGRESS))....CRITIKS...DO UR THING??

[STRAT]

sounds like something specific he'd worked up. 3d apps wont do that by a single mouse click.

[Iain Denby]

Yeah, a carefully crafted piece of work, probably using several software applications, a lot of time to do it too.

 

Things like this don't just happen with a click of the mouse !

[NOOXY]

Well any ideas on what kind of application will do such a thing or how can u get that effect...the bad thing is the guy was visiting the island and only saw him for about 5 mins...have no idea how to reach him so just thought someone in here knew or has done this idea....it sounds cool foro a presentation to a client.

[STRAT]

well, something simple like a basic html ssript will allow that.

 

html is a doddle to learn, and is great for off-line pc presentations (ie, you dont need the internet to use html. and it can be written in ms notepad. i do it quite often)

[Michael-k]

You can do it with Macromedia Director. Where you can import a 3d scene, and in a 3d inviroment change anything in the scene incl. lights, textures, camera and so on.

 

But you have to learn a whole new script language, so you must have the time

 

Edit: html hmmm how would you do that

[LordRaven]

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but it can certainly be done in flash, in a few minutes (just an interpolation between the 2 renderings).

 

I know I did this kind of presentation once.

Hope this was helpful to you.

[STRAT]

 

Edit: html hmmm how would you do that

 

as if you were writing a simple web page with image links. simple if you know html. thats how i wrote my page.

[Michael-k]

Okay dont know if i missed the point in the qustion. I belive he was looking for at day to night changer. And not 2 links with a day light render and a night light render. Html is not dynamic. But after i wrote the thing about flash i belive you can do it in any script language, if you mean just a fade from one render to another.

 

But I maybe be wrong, my english is not the best

[mbr]

Just sounds like to me that what the guy was showing was misunderstood (or the guy showing it was pulling NOOXY's leg). No 3D program can generate renderings 'at the click of a floorplan'.

 

As mentioned...

 

HTML

Flash

Director

 

can all do this very easily. With Flash and Director there is no need to learn Actionscript or Lingo, just make little buttons, make the links, put in the renderings and you are done. HTML would be the easiest if you don't need the floorplan as buttons (this is my opinion - I think Flash is the easiest if you want custom button shapes), Flash the easiest if you want each room to be a button. You could learn how to do each in a few hours.

[NOOXY]

THANKS GUYS for all the replys. Ima ckeck out all your ideas and see which one turns out to be easier for me...but i think michael-k probably put it in a simpler way which might work for me..."a fade from one render to another" with a click of a button which i think could be done in flash..but then again i don't know much bout flash but heard its just take a couple of hours to learn...

 

thanks for all the ideas though..PS

 

ANY THOUGHTS ON MY FIRST RENDER IN C4D...C&C PLEASE ITS A WORK IN PROGRESS THOUGH..

[Michael-k]

Dont know much about flash, but I belive is just some opasity you have to change from 100% to 0% ad then the other picture in full opasity down under the other picture. It sounds easy actually

[Chris_T]

Lighting and texturing is pretty decent. The texture on one of the cushions/pillows looks unnaturally distorted, and the blanket is too uniform down its length, as though it's a simple extruded profile. Also, the overall composition, the way you've framed your rendering, could be better.

[ronaldgaite]

Hi there

 

have you heard INTERICAD? i dont use that but it was just demonstrated to me. it was a year ago and as i remember, the guy was just clicking any portion at the plan and the rendering just comes up...... but then again im not quite sure anymore but i guess you could check out on that in the internet

 

Ronski

[John Martin]

It can also be done quite easily in Autocad using hyperlinks and DWF. Import the rendered floor plan or use the Autocad floor plan, insert a hyperlink attached to an object in the plan and link to the rendering. publish out to DWF and voila, you are done. catch is that the hyperlink points to your rendering location, which if you want to do it the right way and the client has internet access, post the renderings to a url that is linked to the drawing. Works well. I like to use small arrows pointing in the direction of the rendering that you link the hyperlink to.

 

John

[richmondlu]

You could also make the image itself a button and have the day pic up and then with a roll over command have it swap images to show night, or have the intire screen an invisable button so when you click on the screen any where it will change over. Anything with flash is pretty easy all you need to do is download the 30 day trail and you can try it out. I am pretty good with it so if you have any questions just let me know. for the ease of it you could do the same thing with powerpoint.

[FlytE]

You should be able to do it in Imageready, which comes free with photoshop. You put the 2 images in a folder, go into imageready - file/import folder as frames, then set a fade between each one. Then export the image.

[quizzy]

if you want C&C on that image you better stick that in the..... C&C forum... yes we have one....

 

as to your main question:

 

I would do such a thing in HTML, and if you dont want to learn HTML but you have Microsoft Office xxx, you can do that in Frontpage (which is in MS Office??) That program was build so even 8 month old baby's can do HTML..

[Horhe]

Yep, all those plus powerpoint presentation.. but i seriously recomend flash, its quick easy, doesent take up that much space (if you make sure the images are at a lower quality, just enough to get away with it that is).

 

In a nutshell:

- Create flash document

- Import images to library (ctrl+r)

- Drag 1 image from library onto scene under layer one and the second under layer two (ctrl+l for library to open)

- Drag frames - depends on how long you want it to fade and on your frame rate per second

- Select frames and create motion tween - making sure that one set of frames has a key frame at the end that has an alpha effect set to 0% and the other set has the opposite i.e. first frame has alpha of 0%

- Insert a stop action at the begining of either frame in actions panel

- Crete a rectangle - press F8 and apply an button instance to it

- Make the button 0% alpha so that it doesnt cover your scene

- Under actions create a little scripting:

 

On release gotoandplay frame 2

 

- At the last frame insert stop action

- Last but not least - publish and preview

 

 

Easy peasy lemon squeezy