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360 spherical camera renders

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:06 am
by ak-sam
Hi Folks

Do you know how to render a scene as a spherical *360 degree) camera view from Sketchup?

Sketchup's camera is limited to 120 degree field of view.

Once I have that render, what's a good bit of software that can display the resulting file for showing to clients?

I don't need the camera to move at this stage.

I could render several shots and create a panorama using something like Arcsoft's free "360 panomaker"..but that's a pretty dumb workaround.
Thanks!

Re: 360 spherical camera renders

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:07 am
by Oscar J
Maybe you could just change it in Indigo standalone. It has a 360 cam.

Re: 360 spherical camera renders

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:39 am
by ak-sam
OK I found the settings for "Spherical Camera" located in Skindigo (camera type) and in Indigo (Camera properties). and it was surprisingly easy to get a good result! This is awesome!

So now I need to learn how to get this into a PDF...

Any tips?

Re: 360 spherical camera renders

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:41 am
by Oscar J
Tips on getting what into a PDF? :)

Re: 360 spherical camera renders

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:58 am
by ak-sam
Yeah - PDF ideally, or a web-based viewer. I guess either will be HTML5 or flash.
I have bluebeam review and adobe PDF Pro (Creative Suite) if that helps.
I'd be happy to pay a few $100s for a bit of software to do this nicely (but not $1000s).

Re: 360 spherical camera renders

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 12:28 pm
by burnin
viewers
Pano2VR
krpano
panellum
panotour
PTGui
pan0.net (web service)
& probably more :lol:

Re: 360 spherical camera renders

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:38 pm
by Nikolaj Knudsen
If you haven't tried it...

Save as PANO_something.jpg
Download ExifToolGUI and edit like my pic.
Upload in google streetview on iphone or android.
Put phone in Google cardboard.

It's fun :D