Animation with STM Resolution

RE: Animation with STM Resolution

Jovan_Djukanovic — Thu, 14 May 2015 02:31:13 GMT

Thanks for the solution Mathieu. Considering that I am trying to portray bathymetric data, my logic was to have the camera at sea level but I suppose this idea wont work.

RE: Animation with STM Resolution

Mathieu St-pierre — Wed, 13 May 2015 12:13:30 GMT

Hi Jovan,

Ok it seems that the problem is that the height of the camera path creates some mathematical problem with the resolution selection algorithm.

The solution is to move up a bit the camera path.

Thanks,

Mathieu

RE: Animation with STM Resolution

Mathieu St-pierre — Tue, 12 May 2015 19:50:02 GMT

Hi Jovan,

Thanks for the dataset, I am able to reproduce the problem.

Unfortunately I have been quite busy today but hopefully I can give you more information about the problem (and hopefully a workaround) by the end of the week.

Thanks,

Mathieu

RE: Animation with STM Resolution

Jovan_Djukanovic — Tue, 12 May 2015 01:43:15 GMT

Thanks for the responses guys.

Mathieu,

- The screen shot above is actually from the animation preview. The animation itself appears the same when recorded.

- I have shadows ticked off in my Thematic Height Display style.

- I have supplied my dataset via ftp incoming\Jovan_STM_Animation_20150512.zip

Jerry,

- I have tried to use both "Smooth" & "Luxology" render modes in the animation recording options and they both produce the same result.

Jovan.

RE: Animation with STM Resolution

Mathieu St-pierre — Mon, 11 May 2015 19:54:54 GMT

Hi Jovan,

Jerry's post made me think about a limitation that might cause your problem. STM isn't working properly when Display Shadows is turned on.

HTH,

Mathieu

RE: Animation with STM Resolution

Jerry Flynn — Mon, 11 May 2015 18:05:21 GMT

Are you saving animation using shading and not Luxology? The reason I ask is Luxology is not going to know anything about a scalable terrain it might get it right on the first frame but unless you create a new scene per frame I don't know how this could work.

You can try turning off ignore open elements and text which will force an LXO per frame. Your best be would probably be from view smooth.

Jerry

RE: Animation with STM Resolution

Mathieu St-pierre — Mon, 11 May 2015 17:15:09 GMT

Hi Jovan,

Hmm looks pretty strange. Even at the lowest resolution of the STM there should be some bumps appearing, but what you are showing is completely flat.

Are you seeing a flat STM with the Animation Preview?

Could you send us your dataset so that we could check what is going on?

Thanks,

Mathieu