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Vitruvian Studio 1.0 - Interactive (Web 3D) Walk-through -

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:56:21 GMT

Vitruvian Studio 1.0 is a professional and easy to use tool in the field of Realtime 3D. It improves (one click process) the VRML generated by ArchiCAD (Graphisoft) and transforms AC 3D scenes in optimum interactive Web 3D walk-throughs within minutes.
Examples and demo version are available at http://www.vitruvian-studio.com

VRML is designed to be used on the Internet, intranets, and local client systems. VRML is also intended to be a universal interchange format for integrated 3D graphics and multimedia.
VRML models can be used for collaboration, model checking, work process integration, electronic design review, sales, and marketing with architects, owners, engineers, detailers, fabricators, erectors, contractors, designers.

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 (Interactive Walk-through)

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:24:56 GMT

good !!

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 (Interactive Walk-through)

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:09:12 GMT

Giovanni wrote:
Vitruvian Studio 1.0 is a professional and easy to use tool in the field of Realtime 3D, which improves (one click process) the VRML generated by ArchiCAD (Graphisoft) and transforms AC 3D scenes in optimum interactive Web 3D walk-throughs within minutes.
Examples and demo version are available at http://www.vitruvian-studio.com

Very cool. I'm impressed with the file size reduction in the examples I looked at - key for email or internet.

The navigation was a bit jerky on my computer - mouse sputtered across the screen (3GHz Pentium 4) - will be curious is someone comments on a faster (or dual proc) computer).

I was impressed with the 3D guy standing in front of the animated big screen TV in the very small example called Pavillon:
http://www.vitruvian-studio.com/examples_b.html
Is he an RPC object?

Is a Mac version planned?

You might also want to post a message in the 'Ads' forum ...

Karl

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 (Interactive Walk-through)

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:22:00 GMT

Karl wrote:
I was impressed with the 3D guy standing in front of the animated big screen TV in the very small example called Pavillon:
http://www.vitruvian-studio.com/examples_b.html
Is he an RPC object?

No he is not an RPC object, it is a real 3D model in vrml format (90 kb + 15 kb of textures), added into the scene as external object.

Karl wrote:
Is a Mac version planned?

Vitruvian Studio uses Cortona Technology (from Parallelgraphics), and at the moment this technology does not work on Mac.
This is due to the fact that very great part of internet users run on Windows.
Anyway the VRML generated by ArchiCAD is the same (same code) on both O.S. (Win and Mac) and VS can optimize the Mac VRML as well. Also there are vrml-viewer for Mac, but they are much less developed (the quality of the real-time viewing is not so good).

Giovanni

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 - Interactive (Web 3D) Walk-through

Brett Brown — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:38:20 GMT

Can anyone who is using this program advise me of pros and cons they have come across.
The examples are all I need, and I have used one of my projects in the demo.
The interior wall colours don't seem to match what I imported and is very bright.
Any user comments would be appreciated Thanks

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 (Interactive Walk-through)

Rex Maximilian — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:22:46 GMT

Giovanni wrote:
Vitruvian Studio uses Cortona Technology (from Parallelgraphics), and at the moment this technology does not work on Mac.
This is due to the fact that very great part of internet users run on Windows.
Anyway the VRML generated by ArchiCAD is the same (same code) on both O.S. (Win and Mac) and VS can optimize the Mac VRML as well. Also there are vrml-viewer for Mac, but they are much less developed (the quality of the real-time viewing is not so good).

Giovanni

No Mac version? A software marketed to another software userbase (ArchiCAD) with a huge installed Mac base and it isn't offered in that platform?

Thanks for stopping by the booth Vitruvian Studio.

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 - Interactive (Web 3D) Walk-through

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:45:19 GMT

has anyone on the board purchased this??
anyone on the board used it??

thanks in advance Cary

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 - Interactive (Web 3D) Walk-through

Brett Brown — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:42:31 GMT

I purchased it even after not getting any answers to my questions above and emailing there support. It does what is shown on there web site. For me it is quicker to make a fly-walk through of your project than the VR object. And is better for the client as they can explore where they want to go. Try the examples on the web site, explains it best.

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 - Interactive (Web 3D) Walk-through

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:23:43 GMT

Brett.....thanks so much for the response.

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 - Interactive (Web 3D) Walk-through

stefan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:23:26 GMT

I use the Cortona VRML client on my Powerbook in Safari on OSX. There are also standalone VRML viewers for MAC (e.g. FreeWRL) which work OK.

The situation is better on PC, but it is at least usable.

Even though the VRML format is old, it is still a standard. How the viewer will render it is up to the software. It would be nice to have a VRML viewer using current shader technology to display realtime shadows, reflections and environment mapping. Some extensions on top of VRML exist for Blaxxun Contact and for Cortona, but both of them incompatible with eachother.

But full graphics quality on the level of current games is probably not available in any VRML viewer at the moment.

Re: Vitruvian Studio 1.0 - Interactive (Web 3D) Walk-through

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:47:28 GMT

I've been using Vitruvian for a few weeks now, here are my thoughts so far...

I've found a few problems, one was the textures weren't scaling properly. I sent an email to Vitruvian support and they fixed the problem the following week.

The other thing is that the PICTURE command in GDL doesn't export properly to VRML , at least in AC11. So the Picture 11 object or Carpet 11 object won't export the correct texture. I made a workaround by modifying the Picture 11 object to use material and texture commands instead of picture to map the texture.

The lighting is good, but there are no shadows as was mentioned before. The output is definitely better than the Archicad 3D window though.

The navigation is kind of tricky, it would be cooler to have an FPS game-type navigation like the AC 3D explore window. It is still usable though.

Everything else works as advertised.

If anyone has any specific questions feel free to ask.

cheers!