F302G-Colour my world

[GateGirl86]

You will notice in this image, a monumental stuff up! The field of grass to the far right is below the surface. Other than that, and the fact I didn't texture the grass, I'm reasonably pleased with this.
I do however have to stress some issues with doing this. In the main, it seems to be and it is I guess connected to the low power of my computer; very difficult to render large area scenes. I did have another runway model which was 4k metres long; that was just impossible to render as Raylectron kept shutting down, or was on low memory and simply couldn't cope with it.

I intended this to show Michael what I wanted for my first real animation. After going through what I did just to create this image, I may have to think of something much smaller. What I don't know, as my mind doesn't work on small when it comes to doing something grand like making a video

My intentions were, a slow roll along the runway, before the take off. I have some great jet engine sounds to go with it. Then a steep climb before going virtually vertical. All with blinking lights (nav lights on the 302)

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[Support]

wow, this looks super awesome

ok, this should not be a problem for Raylectron to render. The grass below ground is if you out it that way in Sketchup. Sketchup doesn't show you the ground plane but it's there.

Let me ask, after loading your model in Raylectron, how many faces does it report at the bottom status bar? and also, how many lights does it repot at the bottom right?

[Support]

Here is the script I used for this animation...

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py := Accelerate(1, meters, 0, 20); // accelerate at 1 m/sec for 20 sec
Pitch(20, 7, 10);   // nose up 20 deg at 7 sec till 10 sec
Roll(90, 12, 18);   // roll 90 deg at 12 sec till 18 sec
Pitch(180, 20, 24); // turn back 180 deg at 20 sec till 24 sec
Roll(-90, 24, 30);  // roll back straight by 90 deg at 24 sec till 30 sec
Pitch(20, 24, 30);  // nose back strainght by 20 deg at 24 till 30 sec

[Support]

oh, download the latest rbz too...

https://raylectron.com/files/Raylectron.rbz

[Support]

I loaded the Asteroid asset and have 200 of them and set the following script to it...

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// my frame rate is 30 fps
// rotate 30 deg per sec in all axis...
rx := 1;
ry := 1;
rz := 1;

// move 30 inches per sec in the forward direction it's currently in...
px := 1;
py := 1;
pz := 1;

[GateGirl86]

absolutely amazing!

On my model, yes I screwed that up somehow (with the grass). In the rendering it's showing 5,467, 034 faces and 111 lights

[Support]

5 million faces? oh, you must have set the name "Grass" for that material so Raylectron will create grass blades for it. Just rename it to something that doesn't begin with "grass" so that Raylectron doesn't create grass blades automatically and the count should go WAY down!

[GateGirl86]

Okay, will do!

[GateGirl86]

Made some changes, deleted a LOT of unwanted do dads within the 302. So it is now a smaller file and runs quicker.

On the subject of grass, I made that surface just a plain colour and now I'm trying to make it look like grass. The 302 is only 300 feet above, so it really should look like grass at that height???

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[Support]

Yes it should but it also depends on how far the camera is from it. When you move the camera just a few meters away, do you see the grass blades?

[GateGirl86]

I'll check

nope

[Support]

Did you click Apply to generate the grass?

[GateGirl86]

ahahahhaha no I didn't

[GateGirl86]

and Raylectron shut down. Blade count exceeded! Now what do I do?

[Support]

Well, considering that you have a laptop that doesn't have much system memory. you'll have to skip the grass and maybe use a grass texture with more shades in it so it can look like grass from a distance?

[Support]

oh, better yet, use the grass from the Assets, duh! why didn't I think of that first! You can put as much grass as you want with the asset.

[Support]

Just open up the Assets and load the grass, then right click on your model's grass area to tell the Asset where to put it,\ and then set like 100,000 instances of the grass and click Apply.

[Support]

My intentions were, a slow roll along the runway, before the take off. I have some great jet engine sounds to go with it. Then a steep climb before going virtually vertical. All with blinking lights (nav lights on the 302)

Let me know when you're ready to do this.

[GateGirl86]

Unfortunately my little computer doesn't have the power to generate the grass asset. While creating the boundaries, then applying it, the memory message came up at 8%, then shut down completely. It's really disappointing and while I could do something much smaller, I had great hopes for this. It has knocked my confidence a lot. Anyway, at least it looks great for what it is. But you can see something is missing.

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[Support]

It looks so good just like that, I can imagine complete. But, when you start Raylectron, do you keep Sketchup open?

[GateGirl86]

No, I learnt long ago to shut SKP down when rendering. It's just that the surface area is so large. The first patch to the right, is 45m x 630m. I'm wondering if I did it in small patches, would that work?

[Support]

No, I learnt long ago to shut SKP down when rendering. It's just that the surface area is so large. The first patch to the right, is 45m x 630m. I'm wondering if I did it in small patches, would that work?

Making it smaller will not change the face count. If the grass area or the ground area is a huge rectangle, that's only 2 faces, big or small. But if you have a bit of elevations like small hills, then the face count will go much higher. To know where all the faces are concentrated in Sketchup, view your model in monochrome (View menu, Face style, Monochrome) then View menu, Hidden geometry.

[Support]

and don't forget to download the latest...

https://raylectron.com/Raylectron.rbz

[GateGirl86]

Making it smaller will not change the face count. If the grass area or the ground area is a huge rectangle, that's only 2 faces, big or small. But if you have a bit of elevations like small hills, then the face count will go much higher. To know where all the faces are concentrated in Sketchup, view your model in monochrome (View menu, Face style, Monochrome) then View menu, Hidden geometry.

How will that help? I don't really want to do something else at the moment as I've spent over a week trying to get this right.

[Support]

it won't help if you don't want to work on it anymore, but it will for the ones you will work on, to spot the heavy objects full of faces which is what takes memory.