Forum: Carrara

Subject: My QTVR Tutorial

Nebula-SNS opened this issue on May 20, 2001 ยท 6 posts

Nebula-SNS posted Sun, 20 May 2001 at 4:51 PM

Attached Link: http://supernovastudios.virtualave.net/qtvrtutorial.zip

Since no one could help me when I need help on making QTVR objects, and the QD3DtoQTVR was crap, I made a template scene file, batch queue list, and tutorial file. I got pretty good at QTVRs and I have some on my site. The attached link is the zip file containing the scene, list, and .txt file. Enjoy! Nebula [Supernova Studios](http://supernovastudios.virtualave.net)

AzChip posted Mon, 21 May 2001 at 10:19 AM

Thanks! I'll be checking it out shortly. That's one of the things I love about this forum -- if there's something missing, often someone will step up and fill the void. Thanks for sharing your time, Nebula!

willf posted Wed, 23 May 2001 at 10:57 PM

Thanks for the info. I've used the free Apple QD3D/QTVR utilities & they work very well. The problem is with the models that are exported from Carrara. They are much too big and there is really no control over the export feature (even though there is a slider to adjust fidelity upon save that dosn't "do" anything). I've created a couple simple things in Pixels3D (nurbs/splines), exported as subdivided polys as VRML with texture maps applied and the file sizes are only around 144 - 250k. The beauty is that you can open them up in Quicktime player or Simpletext & start rotating them without any other conversions.

Nebula-SNS posted Thu, 24 May 2001 at 9:58 AM

Well, thats what this tutorial is for - I tried doing some QD3D, but it added ugly red and blue lights to the scene, and any file > 5 mb would not work. But if you import objects into this scene file, just run the Batch Queue, and you should have all of your movies, ready to put in QTVR Studio or QTVR Edit Object. Or, if the Queue doesnt work, simply render a movie from each camera, fast antialiasing, and 0 compression. Hopefully this will work better for you. Isn't QTVR great? Nebula Supernova Studios

willf posted Thu, 24 May 2001 at 10:46 PM

I agree, the QTVR/3DMF/QDPanos are great tools. I had taken several photos from my last vacation with the intent to make some 360dg panorama movies. problem is, it takes a lot of time to stitch them all together. I correct my previous post, the files I did were 3DMF & were only 44k.

doozy posted Sun, 27 May 2001 at 7:11 AM

Attached Link: http://members.theglobe.com/PhiloD/thinker/index.html

I couldn't get the link to your tutorial to work, but I am curious. This link shows a QTVR that I rendered using Poser.