Walkthrough Issues

[videep]

Hello Everyone,

 

I just took a plan and started constructing in 3d. Now I have made all the rooms and they are all in separate files. They are textured and lit. Put lots of accessories.

 

Now I would like to make a walkthrough. I tried merging 3 rooms(3 files) together and the file size has cranked upto 300mb.

 

And as they had been already lit in a little different way, the problem after merging the file was that The Lighting had to be redone.

 

I am wondering, what the best way is to make a walkthrough as I have about 5+ rooms with bathroom and all... So how do I go about merging files so that the file size does not go up way too high.

 

Thankyou.

[Tommy L]

You can do it a few ways, but Why not try and render seperate camera clips, from each files and edit them together in post. That way you avoid the 'one long camera path' trap.

[videep]

Hey Tom,

Umm actually I thought that I would try that, but what happens is that once i enter the house, i need the passage and living room and then a little part of kitchen too. so its like i need atleast 3 rooms together.

 

Also what I wanted to ask you is that how do I go about Lighting. Is there a way where, if i make all the rooms in separate file, and do the lighting separately, once i merge them , I wont have to do any changes.

 

Or then should i just merge the rooms and do the lighting part.

[Tommy L]

You could x-ref or proxy the geometry and do all the lighting in one file.

[TomElcott]

Thats what i would do... X-Ref all the scenes into a new "Base" File, your base file with all the X-Refs will probably be under a meg... then do your lighting in the Base file... But also if you simply merge them together, yes your file size will increace, but your lighting shouldn't change that drastically, you should just have to edit a few lights at the entrance and exit's to the rooms... Depends on how you did the lighting really, but im assuming since its for an animation you want the rooms to have a similar feel with regards to the lighting...

[Tommy L]

Thats what i would do... X-Ref all the scenes into a new "Base" File, your base file with all the X-Refs will probably be under a meg... then do your lighting in the Base file... But also if you simply merge them together, yes your file size will increace, but your lighting shouldn't change that drastically, you should just have to edit a few lights at the entrance and exit's to the rooms... Depends on how you did the lighting really, but im assuming since its for an animation you want the rooms to have a similar feel with regards to the lighting...

 

To start, he could bring in the lights with the X-Ref and test those.

[TomElcott]

That would be first prize, But he did say he had to redo the lighting when he merged all the scenes together, and the X-Ref will do the same thing as a merge without the file size increasing, so he would still have to edit or redo the lighting...

 

But yes if he could use the existing lighting from each scene that would be first prize...

[videep]

Thankyou all for replying to this thread.

Well I used xref to make the scene lighter and now the problem that I am facing is that once i re-open the file, The x-refs fly in the air...