LumenRT Issues

Hello Fellow LumenRTists

I have been doing a bit of work on LumenRT again lately and come across a few issues I have not been able to solve.  If anyone has any suggestions I would be delighted to hear them.

Issue 1 - Lighting Quality:

I exported a (very large) plant model from AECOSim Update 2 to LumenRT and created a fly-through animation.  Not without its problems, but it all worked in the end. The client then requested some still images of the plant.  I am used to doing rendered images in AECOSim or MicroStation, I don't think the image quality in LumenRT compares, so I created them in AECOSim, but it was a lot of duplication to get the model ready for images. Am I missing something about creating images in LumenRT?  I am able to do snapshots (photos) and can make them very large in terms of resolution, but they are never as crisp as the ones rendered in AECOSim.   Generally for outdoor scenes I use real-time lighting quality.   I have only found it necessary to update the lighting settings for indoor scenes when you use artificial lights. I wondered if it might be worth while updating the lighting settings to Standard or Full?  Will this improve the look of the model at all? I should also point out that I have not been able to update the lighting settings successfully - it crashes with an error message each time after about 3-5 hours (I did say it was a large model). I am not sure if I will see any improvement even if I do get the scene rendered.  Any thoughts anyone?

Issue 2 - Exporting a Live Cube:

Whenever I export a live cube to upload for streaming it crashes with an error message "Connection with remote server failed".  I presume this is the Connect server, I have entered my Bentley login and password - is that correct? Is this the best way to create a cube?  I am presuming it is better for file sharing...?

Issue 3 - Animation Settings

I have found it quite difficult to manage animated content in a longer video clip.  If I set the object on a loop it sometimes appears when I don't want it to and if I don't loop it, it sometimes re-starts at an inconvenient time. Ideally I would like to be able to make the object either stop or disappear after a certain time.  I have played with the settings, including the 'Start after' setting, can anyone enlighten me as to what the "Offset" setting does?  I am hoping this might be the answer to my prayers, but I am probably not doing it right...

Issue 4 - Hierarchy

Can anyone enlighten me as to what the function of the hierarchy is?  There's another window that pops up when you hover over this one but I wasn't able to snap it.

That about covers it, I hope some of you are able to shed some light on these problems and queries.

Thanks in advance

-W

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