View > Advanced: Save Video
Use this option to capture movement between various viewpoints in your project. You may use automatic or custom viewpoints you previously saved in View – Camera movement. Choose video format size, frame rate and codec. Enter file name and select the folder you want to use. After the video is saved use buttons at the […]
View > Advanced: Save Panorama
Use this menu to create panorama pictures of your projects. To create panoramas with different lighting enable option Inside light and sunlight. You may choose between 3D, Photo Tuning and Turbo Tuning rendering engine. When using Photo Tuning or Turbo Tuning click button Tune for further settings. You may choose between three quality settings: low […]
View > Advanced: Rendering Style
Click button Rendering Style to choose one of five possible styles. Besides normal or standard you may use sketch, drawing, grayscale and sepia. You may move the camera or select any viewpoint or animation when using rendering styles. You can also save pictures with different rendering styles. Some styles have additional settings, like line structure […]
View > Light > Lights: Properties
Common Settings Drop shadow: enable or disable casting a shadow by this light source. Use temperature: set warmer or colder light color. Global illumination source: enables color bleeding from this light source. The light of this light source will be dispersed and reflected in the vicinity. Use a recessed light source: turn this off to […]
View > Advanced
Use this menu for saving pictures, panoramas and videos. For the purpose of presentation of your projects animation can be used. Select viewpoints you want to see in the animation. If you stored your custom viewpoints you can select them too. It’s best to start the animation from a viewpoint inside the room (like center […]
View > Material > Simple
Click on the surface you wish to change. The preview of a selected surface appears in the selection window. Any changes of settings are immediately visible in 3D view. Selection: preview of a selected surface Open Material Library Save to Library: Save custom material to library. Setup mapping: Set size and rotation of selected material. […]
View > Light
Use this menu to adjust lighting in your project. Sometimes you will want to make your project or part of it brighter or darker. Besides that you can simulate ambient light effects. By using sunlight and portal lights you may show how light is entering through windows. ViSoft Premium uses four different types of lights: […]
View > Camera
Use this menu to see your project in 3D view. Click on one of the automatic viewpoints to see the room from different sides (front, left, back, top…). Note the position of currently selected viewpoint represented with a red dot in the navigation panel in the right lower corner of the screen. You can also […]
Using Light Templates
The Light Templates function calculates automatically a lighting plan for the room. It places Fill- and Focus lights. In the menu View | Light you select Light templates…. On the left side of the screen, a few example templates will appear that you can choose. You can also create your own template with the Create […]
Global Illumination settings
Global Illumination (GI) is one of the visualization effects that you can control. The exposure in your project should improve a lot just by turning on this feature. GI refers to a scene where the lighting is reflected around and on objects (indirect lighting). This feature provides secondary light beams, creating a pleasant and balanced […]
Sharing a 360-Panorama on Facebook
If you want to share a Visoft 360 panorama on Facebook, you need to edit the (Efix) metadata of the image so it gets recognized as a 360-photo. You can check the Facebook 360 documentation here. Step 1 Use Phototuning to render an image; set the resolution to 2:1 (e.g. 6000×3000) and enable the option […]
Creating videos, photos and panoramas
Use menu View | Advanced for creating photos, videos, and panoramas of your project. For the presentation of your project, you could use the animation. Select viewpoints you would like to use. If you used the navigation panel to save custom viewpoints, these will appear for use as well. Best to start in the middle […]
Light settings
Use the submenu Light to adjust lighting in your project. Sometimes you will want to make your project or part of it brighter or darker. Besides that you can simulate ambient light effects. By using sunlight lighting mode you may show how portal light is entering through windows. You can also simulate sunrise and sunset. […]
Fast consulting mode
Fast consulting mode is perfect when you are advising customers and don’t want to see all the menus and functions. You work from the side browser only. Start this mode with CTRL + F11 and exit with Escape. You can adjust settings for the side browser in the ViSoft preferences. Set shortcuts and choose which […]
Change materials
In menu View| Material you can easily edit the materials of walls, murals, objects and other surfaces. Select the surface or object you want to change. A preview appears in the right menu. Open the Material library to select and place material. It’s also a possibility to import custom material based on an image, use for […]
Background project: sky, image or 360-photo
In ViSoft it is possible to change the surrounding of the project to a cloudy sky, a photo, or even a 360-spherical image. Go to menu View | Light | Sun and sky. Look under Sky properties to change the style of the background. Disable sky (same as inside lights). Use the dropdown menu from […]
Submenu Camera: navigating in 3D-view and working with viewpoints
Change the viewpoint with one mouse-click in menu View | Camera. Use the explorer (viewpoints) in the left-browser (binoculars), or change the viewpoint using the buttons in the right menu. Top, back, left, center, right and front are all automatic viewpoints. In the explorer, you will find some more automatic viewpoints as best corner, from […]
