Tutorial
Sketch Up Walkthrough with Octane
1: Make Sketch Up with Scene’s. (Use sketchup animation to see if youre walkthrough is correct). Save it with a different name as backup
2: Use a sketch up plugin to make all the frames. ( i used keyframe-animation, the other 2 suggestions on the forum i couldnt get working on Sketch Up 8). Octane sees one scene in sketchup as one frame. If you want 25 fps you’ll have to generate 25 scenes per second.
3: Open the Octane exporter en press ‘render frame’. It will create an OBJ file and opens Octane and creates an ocs file. Save this file !!!! DONT CHANGE FILENAME !!!! This will be your main ocs file. In this file you can edit the materials. (dont know if other octane function work to like instancing)
4: When you are done editing the ocs file. Save it and go back to the Sketchup file and open the Octane exporter. Set your start and end frame, Set pixel samples. Press render animation and wait.
In my case it took 5 days to make 3300 frames. Rendering the frames was about 8 seconds a frame but loading the ocs file took almost 2 minutes. The OBJ was about 500 mb.
This is my project :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyktt8xR ... ture=g-upl (res: 920*720, Pixel sampeles: 80)
Its in dutch but its a shopping centre with its on trainstation and appartments for older people