Peppe,

You are hitting two issues here....

1) Muvizu has a limit of 65335 faces for any one model, although you will run into trouble over around 40000. When you export the Sketchup plug-in tells you how many you have. If it's over 40000 then don't bother trying to load into Muvizu. You will have to cut up the model and import it in pieces. You can then group the pieces together in Muvizu although you will not then be able to move this object.

2) There are some quite restrictive limits when loading large models into Muvizu. You need to position yourself in the middle of the "Muvizu dome" - i.e. the whole scene and then press "Q" for 1 second to move up. This will get you into the optimum position to load large objects. Although the object you are trying to load is nowhere near too big to fit in, Muvizu will still refuse to import anything that is bigger than about a large house. For your city scape you will have to chop it up into bits and import them separately. So each building in the city scape I made for this video - was imported separately.

I does get easier with practice.
I hope this helps.

you need to worry about collission and things try moving around also yes there is a limit on faces of about 75,000 per object but you would get a different message saying to many faces and giving the limit. This one is collission or size it does have a size limit as well but usually its the collision that is the issue.

ukBerty wrote:

Hi All. I've been having the same problem as Muvizupepe but have followed the advice given to him and it has fixed the problem of getting the model into Muvizu. However, when I get the downloaded model into Muvizu it has lost the lovely textures (the model is a tree) and replaced it with pink. How can I get the tree textures from the Sketchup model to replace the pink???? No texture comes with the model except the ones already on it?

Looks like the old toto.bmp problem.

You need a file called c:\ut3\toto.bmp which is a 256x256 pixel image which traditionally is a sickly pink.

I have uploaded mine here - http://www.rodneyandberty.com/downloads/toto.bmp

First off, the latest version of Sketchup is actually not a good place to start. Download the older version, Sketchup 8. (I found it (again) here : http://www.downloadcrew.co.uk/article/13205-google_sketchup )


Then have a look through this topic... http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3486-import.aspx ...which will get you started, and the plugin that works is here : http://www.rodneyandberty.co.uk/downloads/


Good luck out there

You can still download version 8 from their website
http://www.sketchup.com/download/all

this is the full version it was an ad for the hero and villains package.

stuff you are not seeing inside muvizu is created in something like sketchup for things
This is all lighting and video editing
he speeded up some scenes in the video editor afterwards

Not sure what else to say this is clips he made inside muvizu and imported into a video editor and edited together for effect
the fog and lighting is from inside muvizu fog under "effects" the lazer eyes are under the character menu "effects"

to learn the basics start here
http://muvizu.com/Tutorials

I made it.

I wanted to have a go at making a movie trailer style clip and the resulting video was used to promote the heroes and villains pack

The only effect added external to Muvizu was the increased playback speed as Urban said. Everything else was pure muvizu.

I did an interview for 3Dworld magazine online a couple of years ago explaining how the scene you're asking of was created. I don't know if the link is still active but have a look and you may be lucky.

Cheers
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