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General Category - V.16 and Earlier => V12 - V16 Looking for Help? => Topic started by: JBme on January 03, 2013, 08:33:45 PM

Title: walk up stairs
Post by: JBme on January 03, 2013, 08:33:45 PM
Hi, I'm new to Turbofloorplan, and I'm trying to work out how to walk up stairs when walking through my created home. Is that possible? It's a much more realistic walk through if I can go up stairs, and open doors and windows.

Also I find that plants (particularly palms) look very pixelated when I walk through, so I'm sure I don't understand the rendering. I tried rendering. but this seems to be for a still image, not for everything when walking around. Is there any way to improve the appearance of plants, or are they always very pixelated?
Title: Re: walk up stairs
Post by: Abhann on January 03, 2013, 10:25:22 PM
If you're useing Pro you can set up an animation that will move up the stairs.  As far as I know there is no easy way to do it when just walking around in 3D mode. "walk around" moves in the horizontal plane, "slide" moves vertical, "fly" or "look" move the house not you.

Abhann
Title: Re: walk up stairs
Post by: Allan Chesney on January 04, 2013, 10:22:55 AM
Hi JB - Welcome to the forum!

As Abhann said there is no way to change from walking, to moving vertically and back to walking again in 3D mode without switching between the modes and the resulting pause.  The Animation will allow you to set a path up stairs but this actually creates a movie which uses a lot of memory and takes a long time to generate if you do it in high resolution and obviously the route you take is fixed..

Many of the plants and trees are a low resolution and hence pixelated in 3D view.  They look a little better when rendered as still images or movies but the only way to really improve them is to import higher resolution images. These can be created from your own photos or obtained from various websites but the better ones can be expensive to buy.

Good plant results can be obtained in TFP if good plant and tree images are used - see the attached examples. The ones I have used in these images came from http://www.envirographic.com/index.htm (http://www.envirographic.com/index.htm)

Allan