Top Ten Tips for Responding to CDP Cities: From the Experts
Join the CDP Cities team and responding organizations to learn tips and tricks for responding to CDP. This webinar will highlight the strategies that some of the companies and cities which respond to CDP use to construct their responses and build support internally and externally. There will also be an opportunity for participating cities to ask questions and trade ideas on reporting.
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Infrastructure Modeler has some very easy ability to create videos of fly throughs around your project. Today we're going to look at some techniques to make those videos even more interesting!
To create a camera path, you use the "ShowMotion" tools that are available from the on canvas toolbar:
The basic workflow is to do the following:
Be sure to choose a 'camera path' when creating the new path.
Here's an example of a flight around a model of a proposal solar cell field created by VTN Consulting.
A few folks have seen a video from me showing actual flight paths and airplane models generated in a video right out of Infrastructure Modeler. The question that I get is... "How the heck did you do that?" In a word... pipelines.
That's right, I've overloaded the pipelines data type to show really big pipes, way up in the air. Here's how I did this.
This is not a necessary step, but I got a little fancy and created a new model using a custom schema that has placeholders for my flight path and waypoints. You can download the schema by clicking the link in this paragraph or create your own by following an older blog post.
The new schema allows me to do things like toggle on and off the flight paths by themselves in the Model Explorer, while not affecting pipelines.
In my case, I chose to work with a model of Boston that we generate from some public domain data available from the Massachusetts GIS website.
I then cracked open AutoCAD Map 3D and created some simple GIS files (in my case I created shapefiles) with some custom attributes in the correct geographic area of my model. The structure of the files looked something like this:
You'll need to then draw the paths you want, create the points, and edit the data table to populate the values that you want to represent your paths. It takes some trial and error, but you'll get the hang of it.
Flight paths and waypoints in Map 3D
The next step is to add the GIS data to the model to create the visual representations of the flight path and waypoints, if desired.
For the flight path, just add the data file to the model and create it as a flight path, if you used the custom schema, or as a pipeline, if you did not. You'll use the start and end elevation attributes that you set in Map 3D as the start and end elevation of the flight path. Choose a style. Personally, I like to create a new style using one of the transparent textures to represent my flight path.
Note that you'll want to also set the X and Y size dimentions to something that will be visible way up in the air. I chose 100 ft.
Then you'll add the point file to the model and create the waypoints, or create them as city furniture objects if you didn't use the custom schema.
In this case, you need to switch to the Source tab in the configuration dialog and choose Set Elevation and the altitude field you created in Map 3D.
Don't forget to pick a 3D model for the waypoints. We've even got a 787 model in the Style Palette!
When you refresh these data layers, it may take a little while to generate them depending on how big they are.
OK... this is an important step. So that you can see your flightpaths from far away, make sure to set the Max LOD toggle in the Model Explorer.
Activate the ShowMotion tools and select the Import icon in the main toolbar.
Select the waypoints (in my case "CameraPoints") file and configure them by setting the name, tilt, and z value:
Note that I set the Z to be "Altitude + 100" becuase I want the camera to be slightly above the flight path. Otherwise I'm going down the center of the path and that's not so visually interesting.
I also changed the path duration up to 5 seconds because I don't want to go too fast. I left rotation alone in this example.
After accepting my changes, I see a new path in the ShowMotion toolbar:
Now, I push the Play button to see what happens!
There may be a little trial and error on your part, but if the stars are in alignment, you'll see something like this:
A couple of other tips:
I hope this was a useful tutorial!
Happy Holidays
to everyone!
Some people who have tried out the Labs projects have asked us when we are going to add Augmented Reality into the IPad viewer. Well... it's already there!
Simply hit the little button with the AR on it and then hit the little crosshairs icon next to it and you'll activate the GPS and turn on the camera.
Quick guide to the icons and layout of the IPad2 Project Galileo Online mobile application (Power station model shown from TurboSquid.com)
Then you should see something like this: (Click image to see the video of the Project Galileo Online AR capability in action.)
(Here's the direct link: http://bit.ly/uxEHvr)
As always with Labs projects, we're in the research phase... this isn't shipping product, so don't use it in production!
We're very interested in feedback. When would you use Augmented Reality capability?
One of Santa's special elven helpers, Lynda Sharkey, has helped create and deliver a virtual training program for Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler that we're making available to anyone who wants to take it.
Getting Started with Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 is available here.
Anyone can download the trial version of Infrastructure Modeler and use it to take the training.
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