Pathways Tasks

Create a sequence of images which alters the entrance to the Banrock Station Wine and Wetland Centre from the car park in order to improve the experience for visitors.

The formZ model contains a series of viewpoints with corresponding background images from the entry to the wine centre from the carpark.

  1. Open the zip file pathways.zip.You can download it from here.
  2. Extract it into an appropriate folder on your F:/ drive.
  3. Open formZ and open the pathways.fmz file that you unzipped from the pathways.zip file. It contains:
    • a ground plane
    • 8 preset viewpoints,
    • 8 corresponding background images and a kit of parts in the pathways.zlb
      symbol library that is loaded.
  4. You will need to place pieces from the kit of parts onto the ground plane within the 8 preset viewpoints provided. When you change your viewpoint you will need to select the new preset viewpoint in the “views” palette and change the background image by going to the underlay options window. You can find it in the windows menu by following Windows: Underlay (Ctrl + U) and then clicking on the button that says “select underlay file” and choosing the appropriate background image for your new viewpoint (eg. Use “background2.jpg” with “Viewpoint 2”).
  5. You can place objects from the symbol library onto the groundplane by using the “Symbol Place” tool with face snapping switched on.
  6. Before you can render your images in Renderzone, you need to change the background image in the “Renderzone Options” window. You can find it under the Display menu by following:
    Display: Display Options: Renderzone Options.
    Change the background image by clicking on the options button, next to image, in the background frame of the “Renderzone Options” window.
  7. Render an image of your design from each of the 8 viewpoints provided, with the corresponding background image to express how your design develops the process of entry. Save them into a directory with the entry.html file.
  8. All renderings should be saved in JPEG format at 320 x 240 and have the following names: entry1.jpg, entry2.jpg, entry3.jpg, entry4.jpg, entry5.jpg, entry6.jpg, entry7.jpg and entry8.jpg
  9. Use the entry.html template and display you work in the vGallery.