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Author Topic: panoramic-renders  (Read 10001 times)

karate5662

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panoramic-renders
« on: July 27, 2009, 06:38:09 pm »
I tried expirmenting with stitching together a series of anim8or renders to create a panorama effect.

 

I made a basic scene in anim8or and created a series of keyframes to get images spaced evenly around the room. then I stitched then together in photoshop.

my first attemp didn't do so well. Because 3D renders have no lense distortion, I had straight lines that would bend at the edge of images.

I tried again, artificially adding a fisheye lense effect before stitching the images.

this time it actually looked like a panoramic picture. there's corners in all hte right places, and none where there shouldn't be.


 

right now I'm working on a more complex scene with materials. I'll try to make a panorama viewer with flash to show it off with.
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Re: panoramic-renders
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2009, 07:47:11 pm »
great  idea  karate thanks for sharing that!
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Re: panoramic-renders
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2009, 08:34:09 pm »
here's the viewer. Since it's in flash, I can add clickable doorways and such to navigate the scene:
http://upd.animatorhost.org/karate5662/flashpanopvn3.swf
« Last Edit: July 27, 2009, 08:41:45 pm by karate5662 »
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Re: panoramic-renders
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2009, 09:40:59 pm »
That's pretty cool!  I like how you stitched it together.  I believe another way to possibly do it could be creating four cameras creating something of a box, or all centralized around a single point.
I like the flash viewer!  Well done with that.
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Re: panoramic-renders
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 09:42:53 pm »
Wow! That Flash was neat, the way it moved and the dark colors it's felt very un-nerving. I think you should make a whole bunch of those types of renders going around an old house and make a horror point-and-click.
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Re: panoramic-renders
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2009, 12:00:45 am »
Dude, that's great! A lot of possiprobities I see, yup yup!
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Re: panoramic-renders
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2009, 07:48:13 pm »
Quote from: hihosilver on July 27, 2009, 09:40:59 pm
That's pretty cool!  I like how you stitched it together.  I believe another way to possibly do it could be creating four cameras creating something of a box, or all centralized around a single point.
I like the flash viewer!  Well done with that.

Having the angles keyframed makes it much easier to render because I can render the movie to .jpg files instead of having to do each camera one by one.

Quote from: Suppastar on July 27, 2009, 09:42:53 pm
Wow! That Flash was neat, the way it moved and the dark colors it's felt very un-nerving. I think you should make a whole bunch of those types of renders going around an old house and make a horror point-and-click.

I'm actually working on a horror scene, not a game mind you, but kind of like a self guided tour.

here's a preview, this room has tile walls for easy cleaning.
« Last Edit: July 28, 2009, 07:54:09 pm by karate5662 »
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