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This section covers a few of the more innovative tools and techniques that will help the designer better present digital images. Most of these tools will be available to the designer or to someone within each of the FLHD offices.
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This section covers methods for acquiring digital images and some basic tools for image manipulation and correction.
Natural light is usually best for shooting human subjects and natural...
Generally, the goal when determining what image resolution and compression (file type) to use for presentation images is to find the most appropriate balance between image quality, file size, and file type usability for the type of presentation planned. An image may look great, but be too large...
There are a large number and variety of third party resources available for design visualization modeling. There are libraries of texture maps, background photos, 3D models and procedural tools that produce content automatically. Models are available with animation already setup- such as walking...
Microstation and Geopak include several 3D modeling, surfacing, and modification tools. There are often several ways to construct a similar 3D object. A few of the basic objects and techniques are covered in this section.
Typically, a design file will be based upon existing plan and DTM data provided by others and the coordinate system and scale will already be determined by that data. One situation where problems may occur is with the insertion of model elements from another file, or third party content such as...
Effective presentations of a design can be made without using any applications but Microstation and Windows. This section covers some basic presentation techniques and utilities within Microstation.
The Image Display tool is...
Once a design has been surfaced, Geopak includes a tool for producing drive-thru animation along the 3D chain. Microstation also includes a simple 'fly-through' tool. The tool can be used to set up a camera that follows a path. The camera can be used to create still views or an animation.
...Simple materials and lighting definitions were discussed in Basic Materials and Lighting. This section will cover the use of texture maps with materials and more sophisticated lighting.