Creating a Photo-realistic Fly-through Creating a Photo-realistic Fly-through of the Oregon Coast Range using of the Oregon Coast Range using

Visual Nature Studio 2Visual Nature Studio 2

8 December 2005

Keith Olsen

What am I talking about?

Starting from scratch

• Tutorials (ugg)• Loading a DEM• Loading stream vectors• Camera angles• Lighting (time of day)• Haze / fog / sky• Clouds / moon• Basic ground• Terraffectors / profile

Details, Details – Galleries and Textures

Adding vegetation

• Loading classified vegetation shapefiles

• Creating queries• Building ecosystems• Choosing symbols

Inside the Ecosystem Editor

Adding vegetation

• Loading classified vegetation shapefiles

• Creating queries• Choosing symbols• Building ecosystems• Overstory / Understory• Playing with textures• Customizing symbols

Building animation

• Creating key frames• Build quick sequence

Building animation

• Latitude• Longitude• Elevation• Heading• Pitch• Bank• Symbol height• Max slope• Haze range• Moon position

Rendering

• Render job options• Frame rate• Fractal depth maps• Render time.....• Render farms

(Super Conductor)

Assembling frames

• Image sequences• Quicktime Pro

Assembling frames

• Image sequences• Quicktime Pro• Macromedia Flash• Client software

requirements• File size• Web deployment

(MPEG-4)

Questions?Questions?