WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Hello, I hope you've been enjoying your introduction and Navisworks course here at VDCI. 00:05.000 --> 00:10.000 I'm interrupting your course just briefly to discuss the midterm submission. 00:10.000 --> 00:15.000 We've historically submitted our Navisworks files in the midterm and final submissions, 00:15.000 --> 00:18.000 but we're changing that up for this course. 00:18.000 --> 00:22.000 We have already created one animation file in lesson one, 00:22.000 --> 00:26.000 and this was the Medogate section animation. 00:26.000 --> 00:30.000 We will be submitting this file as half of our midterm. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.000 We will also be submitting another type of animation for this course, 00:34.000 --> 00:38.000 and this is going to be based on the animation we have been recently working on 00:38.000 --> 00:40.000 with the scripter and animator. 00:40.000 --> 00:42.000 This is in lesson three, 00:42.000 --> 00:45.000 and I'm using the BIM361 complete file, 00:45.000 --> 00:47.000 and you can see I have it open here. 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 The first thing I want to do is uncheck the Enable Scripts button 00:51.000 --> 00:53.000 so that I can focus on the animation, 00:53.000 --> 00:57.000 and I'll go over here to the Animator tab. 00:57.000 --> 01:00.000 We can see that I have my Approach Animation, 01:00.000 --> 01:03.000 and if I select the word Approach here, I can hit Play, 01:03.000 --> 01:09.000 and we can see that this is the animation that we're going to submit as the second half of our midterm. 01:09.000 --> 01:13.000 We approach the doors, the doors open because of our proximity, 01:13.000 --> 01:18.000 and we end up in the middle of the room seeing all of our interior space. 01:18.000 --> 01:23.000 I would like to export this animation not as an AVI file, 01:23.000 --> 01:26.000 but instead as a series of still images. 01:26.000 --> 01:28.000 So let's go ahead and do this together. 01:28.000 --> 01:31.000 I'll go to Export Animation. 01:31.000 --> 01:34.000 I'm going to choose the Current Animator Scene, 01:34.000 --> 01:37.000 and that will export my Approach Scene. 01:37.000 --> 01:39.000 I'm going to render the viewport. 01:39.000 --> 01:42.000 My format will be PNG. 01:42.000 --> 01:47.000 We mentioned earlier in the course that the AVI produces a video, 01:47.000 --> 01:55.000 but it is a low quality, and it's not necessarily the video type that's used in today's construction world. 01:55.000 --> 01:58.000 So instead we're going to use PNG. 01:58.000 --> 02:04.000 I'm going to keep this as explicit, but I'm going to change this to 1920 and 1080. 02:04.000 --> 02:07.000 And you may have noticed that I already changed these, 02:07.000 --> 02:11.000 but please make sure that you can update your settings to match what I have here. 02:11.000 --> 02:17.000 You'll also notice that I have changed my FPS that's frames per second to two. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 This is because for this submission, 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 we want to be able to see your images, 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 but we don't need too-too-many images. 02:23.000 --> 02:27.000 If you were exporting this to convert into a video in another software, 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 I'd suggest more frames. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 But this is all we need for now. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 I'll hit OK. 02:33.000 --> 02:36.000 And you'll see that it popped me out in my Lesson 3 folder. 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 Again, if you need to find your Lesson 3 folder, 02:39.000 --> 02:43.000 go to where it's saved, I've saved mine here, and then Lesson 3. 02:43.000 --> 02:48.000 And here, bin361 complete dash animator 001. 02:48.000 --> 02:51.000 This will save a series of frames, 02:51.000 --> 02:56.000 and they'll be named 001, 002, and so on for the whole animation. 02:56.000 --> 03:02.000 I'll hit save, and Navisworks will start generating those images. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 If I open back my file explorer, 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 we will see those images starting to be generated. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 Now, it will seem like a ton of images, 03:12.000 --> 03:17.000 but again, if we chose two frames per second, we should be OK. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 I'll open up the first one while the rest are being generated, 03:22.000 --> 03:27.000 and I'll slowly slide through them with my right mouse button, 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 and we can see that this is a basic representation of our animation. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 If I hold the right mouse button on my keyboard, 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 the Windows photo viewer will show the animation. 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 It's kind of choppy, but it works pretty well. 03:41.000 --> 03:45.000 We could bring this into another software like Photoshop in the future, 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 and turn this back into a movie, 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 but for now we can submit just the images. 03:50.000 --> 03:54.000 You can see it generated a total of 36 images for me. 03:54.000 --> 03:59.000 So what I'm going to do here in File Explorer is select the 36 images 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 by holding Shift and clicking the first one and the last one. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 So I have 36 items selected. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 Then I'll right-click, 04:08.000 --> 04:13.000 Send to Compressed Zipped Folder. 04:13.000 --> 04:17.000 It will zip all of those items up into one zipped folder, 04:17.000 --> 04:22.000 and here where it says Animator-00, whatever number you have, 04:22.000 --> 04:26.000 replace that with your name. 04:26.000 --> 04:33.000 Then 361-complete-yourname-png-animation. 04:33.000 --> 04:37.000 Then 361-complete-yourname-animation. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.000 Okay, that'll create a zipped file. 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 It's a single file of all of the images. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 Now when you go to submit your midterm, 04:45.000 --> 04:50.000 please upload your AVI file from Lesson 1, 04:50.000 --> 04:58.000 and your Lesson 3 zipped file containing all of your images. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 Alright, I hope you've been enjoying this course, 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 and I hope you enjoy the second half.