

Initially, I used Sketch-up and Raylectron but the combo was not flexible enough as I had a fixed camera and had to rotate the model manually in 5-degree increments to render the images for further import into WebRotate 360 SpotEditor. Also more images meant more hotspot work in WebRotate 360 and there were lots of hotspots! For this project I decided to go with 72 images (i.e frames) for the entire animation as it felt like a good balance of smoothness, detail and performance. The next step was to model the house in 3D and render it as a sequence of 360-degree images. I started it with old school sketches and some planning on paper: Presenting the guidelines inside a 360-degree view using interactive call-outs was the perfect choice for this application and I picked WebRotate 360 for the implementation as the hotspot support there is very extensive. The app was designed as a graphical presentation for the Building and Planning permit guidelines and the goal was to visually explain various permit requirements using common architectural and environmental elements one would find in a typical Surf Coast house. Not long ago I have been involved in a great assignment with Surf Coast Shire Council within Digital Transformation team where among other projects I worked on an interactive 3D app.

To help decide what resolution would be appropriate for your target screen size, check out the the pixels per inch calculator in advanced mode.Īnother helpful hint: if you don't know how much time is left until your deadline, instead of setting Total render time, select your deadline in Finish time and leave the default value for Start time (the current time) unless you have a later starting time in mind.Hello everybody! I'm Avi Mandal and I'm a creative graphic artist in Melbourne, Australia. You can then use this value to adjust your render settings so that you can meet your target. The answer would be 19.2 minutes per frame. Specify the Total render time as 8 hrs.For this to be successful, use the 3D render calculator to determine what render time per frame will allow you to meet the deadline.įor example, if you have 50 frames, 2 machines, and you need to finish in 8 hours, follow these steps to calculate render time per frame:

For projects where both time and the number of machines is limited, or for previewing and editing scenes, you may decide to reduce the render quality (e.g., by lowering the resolution or reducing the number of samples) to shorten the render time per frame.
