Panoramic rendering

- [Instructor] So there's one more type of rendering we can create with Cloud Rendering that I want to share with you here and that's a panoramic rendering. Now a panoramic render is a great way to give a more immersive experience to your audience. So let's click render in cloud here. And then I'll click continue. And in the rendering cloud dialogue under output type you will see that there are two panorama choices. Panorama and stereo panorama. So what's the difference? A panorama is intended to be an experience on screen in a web browser. You use your mouse to navigate. A stereo panorama is a panorama that can be loaded onto your mobile device. And then you can place your device in a Google Cardboard or another compatible VR device. And navigate around the scene interactively by just moving your head. So that gives you a much more immersive experience. Now it turns out that if you view a stereo panorama in your web browser, it behaves pretty much identically to a panorama. So you really could get away with only doing stereo panorama and you really don't need the panorama at all, but for this video I've actually created some of both to show you. But I just recommend going right to stereo panorama in most cases. Now I'm not going to actually generate this rendering. I'll cancel it because I've already done so and they're up in my render gallery so let me click the render gallery button right here. And that will take me out to my renderings. So here's my project. View project. You can see there are seven completed renderings here. And I'll click that. And those seven renderings are actually broken into two groups. Now the reason for that is because the original renderings here. And I've got five of them. Those are created from a camera that's in the corner of the room. So here is our original shot here and we're standing in the corner of the room so that we can get the widest angle shot of the entire space. And that makes for a really nice still rendering, but if you look here I've got a panorama rendering right here. And I've got a stereo panorama here. And it doesn't really matter which one I click 'cause as I said, the experience in the web browser will be similar. But when I'm standing there in the corner it's going to be difficult to see what's behind me. Let me show you how this works. All I have to do is click and drag in the browser window here. And I can interact with the view and kind of look around. So I could look outside the building here, or I can turn around and look down this corridor over there, and I can go and look up into the ceiling, and so on. But if I turn all the way around, notice that I'm just looking at a wall here, okay. This is what I was talking about in the two views a moment ago. So these five renderings were all rendered from this vantage point. And even though the panorama is interactive, you can't move, you can't change your vantage point. So you're kind of stuck in that stationary location where the rendering was generated from. So what I'm going to do is switch to that other view. And all I did with that other view was take the camera, make a copy of it, and just move the camera forward to about right here so it's in the middle of the space. So let me show you what that looks like. So you've got a couple ways you can switch here. You can use this arrow here to just go back or you can use this drop down to chose the specific view that you want. So under views, you could that this is my original 3D view that the five renderings in this screen were generated from. But then I made a copy that I call PANO and those other two were generated from that. I can jump right to that view just by clicking it off the list. Now here I did one of each again. So I do have a panorama and a stereo panorama. And you can tell the difference because the stereo has the little headset goggles icon there. I'm going to click that to load the stereo panorama. And show you what I meant a few moments ago when I said there really wasn't any difference in the web browser. Notice that the experience here is the same. I can click and I can drag and look around the entire space. Also notice that because my camera is now in the middle of the room, I get much better sense of the entire space and it's a little more comfortable when we look around in a full 360 degrees. So when you're generating your renderings, you want to think about that and perhaps do what I've done here and create an extra 3D view specifically for the panoramic renders and then use a different view for your still renders. So again we can look all the way around. We can look up at the ceiling. We can look down at the floor and at different objects that are available in the space, but we can't move or zoom. So we're stuck in this stationary location. That's just one of the limitations of this kind of render here in Cloud Rendering. Now one of the things that we can do here in the Cloud Render that we weren't able to do back in Revit is if you were to generate another one. And I'll just clock the panorama button right here to show you this. Is there's this environment option. And there's a drop down right here. Now you've got field, crossroads, boardwalk, riverbank, seaport. So this is kind of a full sort of sky bubble that you can use as a background. So if you recall the videos that we talked about putting background images in or using the built in sky feature. Those were an attempt to kind of put some sort of environment in the background of your images. Well since we're in a panoramic render and you can go a full 360 degrees, these environments are wrap around full 360 and make you model sit in a context somewhat. So that it doesn't feel like it's floating. So in this case I just rendered it with the field so that it just kind of looks like a grassy field off in the distance. And it's the most unobtrusive one, but you're welcome to try some of these others if you want to plant this building in a seaport for example you could do that. And then you know of course you can change the other settings. I'll just cancel this. I'm not going to actually render it again, but I just wanted you to see that environment setting because the only way you can get to that setting is here in the web browser version of rendering here in the render gallery. So this icon here is how you would share this panoramic rendering with your phone. So all you need to do is click that. And it will generate a QR code. And then you just scan that QR code with your mobile device. It will open this panoramic rendering up on your mobile device's web browser. And then you just drop it into a Google Cardboard or other VR device. And off you go. So if you're not familiar with Google Cardboard I've go the homepage for Google Cardboard opened up here. And there are other compatible devices so it doesn't have to be a Google Cardboard. But they call it Google Cardboard because some of them are literally made out of cardboard. So these are very cheap viewers that you can buy from a variety of online retailers. And they're just a couple dollars to more expensive versions like this one right here. But all you need to do is get one of those devices, you drop your mobile phone in. You can see that it's going to give you that split screen pano experience. And then you just sort of move your head around to navigate. So if you don't already have a Google Cardboard, pick one up and it's a great way to view your cloud based panoramic renderings. But it you don't have one, you can always just simply navigate it right here in the web browser, the way I've been showing you.