Difference between revisions of "Tarsier tutorial: Simple fly-through"

Revision as of 13:27, 29 May 2009

Pre-requisites for this tutorial?

• Tarsier tutorial: Raster data
• Tarsier tutorial: Raster resampler - if you have a Geographic (lat/lon) raster, which would need to be converted to UTM before rendering
• Tarsier tutorial: Renderer

Placing cameras

1. Make sure the flight from the Renderer tutorial is open.
2. The Renderview window should be selected
   1. click on the cams tab
   2. on the usee control click the view button, an Agency editor window should come up
3. Select the Agency editor window
   1. click the Add button (lower left), a new list item gets created, click on the item
   2. select new camera from left window of Agency editor
      1. From Type drop-down menu choose AGENT_PROP_CAMERA_1
4. Select the Cam1 tab
   1. Click the Keys button (upper left)
   2. use flight controls to place camera in first/start position
      1. input easting and northing from render window into agency editor
         1. OR you can also enable auto add copy in the agency editor and send cursor3 (world tab)
         2. click cursor on render view and a copy of the camera is placed in agency editor with easting and northing
         3. if using auto add copy method don't forget to delete original camera
      2. click Rec cam button in render window (upper left)
   3. click + Add copy button (agency editor) OR click render view with cursor to create copy of camera
      1. change time (num or text) of your new copy
   4. Make sure you are still on Cam1 tab and keys button is selected
      1. highlight new copy in agency editor
      2. use flight control keys to place camera in second position
      3. click Rec cam button
         1. confirm easting and northing match between agency editor and render window (if not toggle between two cameras in agency window)
         2. manually change time (either num or text) in agency editor, change it to a time later than camera 1 position (change time in accordance to preferences in accordance with individual project/user)
5. Repeat steps 3 & 4 until final camera position has been set
6. To view progress of camera flight
   1. Select Time tab
   2. Click view from Usee control
   3. Drag playback window to appropriate place on screen
   4. Place cursor over playback control buttons to reveal function of individual button
      1. When playing back, make sure to select which camera you want to start from in Agency editor

Notes & Tips

• In Cams tab enable Auto in playpcak mode to update render view when selecting cameras in agency editor.
• Always confirm easting and northing match new camera view in render window
• New camera views will not update until time has been changed