Present and capture
The application offers various tools to make presentation of your environment easy.
You may access the presentation tools through the toolbar
Screenshots and screen recording
You can record the screen or take a screenshot using the screen recording tools or the screenshot tool. Once your screen recording or screenshot is done, you will be prompted to save the file at the location of your choice.
The screenshot tool allows you to take a transparent screenshot. The user interface won't be visible in the screenshot. This way you get a clean capture of your environment to share with collaborators.
Note that taking a transparent screenshot while in orthographic mode will show a reference scale in the bottom right of the screenshot.
The quality and resolution of the recording can be adjusted in the application settings.
Using the screen recording tool might affect the performances of the application.
Video path recording
You can create a video, by pre-defining a path made of waypoints. Each waypoint represents a point of view you want the camera to pass through. The path recording tool may be accessed from the presentation menu in the toolbar.
To add a waypoint, go to the desired point of view and press space. This will create a waypoint at that position, and a line will be drawn between the previous waypoint and the new one to indicate the path that the camera will follow.
Once your path is completed, you can generate a video that travels smoothly along it.
If you want to edit the path, you can click on a waypoint and modify its position and rotation, or add new waypoints.
Multiple settings can be adjusted in the path settings tab. These include the frame rate, the resolution of the output video, and the speed at which the camera moves along the path. You can customize these settings to your liking.
- Closed loop : Helps to make a perfect loop.
- Rotation smoothing : Dampening of the camera rotation.
- Speed : Speed at which the camera moves through the path.
- Curvature : Smooths the angle between the waypoints.
- FPS : Target framerate of the video.
- Low : 24fps.
- Medium : 30fps.
- High : 60fps.
- Quality : Output resolution of the video.
The render time is highly impacted by the FPS and Quality presets.
To further customize your video path you can also specify some options for individual segments of the path, to do this you need to click on the settings icon of the starting waypoint of the segment you want to customize, once there you will be able to set custom values for that segment.
The segment settings still depend on the path settings. For example, if you set the speed multiplier to 2x with a base speed of 2m/s, that segment will move at 4m/s. However, if you modify the base speed again to 1m/s, the segment will not remain at 4m/s. Instead, it will become 2m/s to reflect the new base speed.
- Speed multiplier : Multiplier applied to base speed. Ranges from 0.01x to 1000x.
- Ease-in, ease-out : Toggles the ease-in, ease-out speed curve, which allows for a smooth transition between the speed of the current segment and the speed of the next segment.
- Curvature multiplier : Makes the curve more or less pronounced for this segment.