Detail of Equipment

[Colby]

To what existent of detail does your company go into for Equipment Modeling?

[dave]

hmm, good question - here is a render I did a while back - probably standard for us

http://www.davetyner.com/images/autoplant/4.jpg

[Colby]

was there any layers turned off?

[dave]

Yeah I hid some of that building, I didn't get to turn it all off though. The file takes 3 hours to open, and 3 more to render so I don't get to many chances. :)

[Colby]

Oh man I understang what you mean

[Bingo]

how you render the module's picture?using Explorer(AutoPLANT) or other software? :?: :!:

[Colby]

I am probaly guessing Autodesk's Viz Studio.

That is the way I used to do it.

[dave]

Yeah accually using 3D studio max. I am finding however that if I take the model and then build the plant again using 3ds max's native geometry that it reduces the files size by 1/5 or it's imported size and render times by about the same.

[Colby]

wow that is a good reduction in file size. How are you doing Animations?
Are you encoding to native AVI or are you using a specific codec?

[dave]

No animations yet, if I do though I will render out to AVI (HUGE) then use Vegas or Premiere for compression. I would use DivX cept most people (clients) don't have it installed I'm sure. ;) What do you use?

[Colby]

we would write out the raw AVI then we would re-code it to wmv file
for our clients

[dave]

cool, what did you use to render it out? Viz?

[Colby]

depending on how much time we had It was VIZ or Explorer.