Check and fix flagged renders

Line up any render ArchviewVR isn’t sure about, then save the project.

After your folder is read, ArchviewVR lines each render up with the model. The check step shows anything it isn’t sure about, so you can fix it before saving.

What you see

• The summary at the top, for example 12 of 13 renders line up with the model.
• The render list on the left, with two tabs: Needs a look and All. Each render shows its level and a label: Lined up, Check, Not used, or for updates Replaced or Kept.
• The view on the right (above the list on phones), standing at the selected render with Model edges on. The edges are the outline of your proxy model drawn over the render.
• The heading bar across the top, for the selected render, and Model scale under the render list.

Fix a flagged render

A render marked Check matched best at a different heading from your other cameras.

1. Select it. It opens at that render with the model edges on top.
2. Compare the lines. Look at door frames and wall corners. Do the edges sit on them?
3. Pick a heading. Press Use shared to use the heading the other cameras share, or Keep to keep the one this render matched best. Each button shows its angle. If it already looks right, press Looks right.
4. Or adjust it yourself. Drag the Heading slider until the edges line up.

Once you decide, it moves on to the next flagged render.

Tip: drag in the view to look around. Check a few directions, not just one wall.

Model scale

ArchviewVR reads your model’s units from the size of the building, then checks them against the cameras, which should stand about eye height above a floor. If the model still comes in too big or too small (the floor rings look huge, or you seem to float above the floor), fix it under Model scale:

• Fit to cameras picks the units that put the cameras at eye height. Try this first.
• Model units says what units the model file was in: metres, centimetres, millimetres, kilometres, inches or feet.
• Fine-tune sets the scale from 1% to 1000% of those units, for a model that’s close but not quite right or was drawn at an odd scale.
• Cameras move with the model is on when your camera points are in the same units as the model, so the whole scene scales together. Turn it off when the cameras are right and only the model is wrong, for example camera points exported in metres.

Below the settings you can see the model’s size and how high the cameras stand above the floor. Around 1.5 m is right. Undo puts the scale back how it was.

Hotspots sit on the model, so they move with it when you save.

Renders marked Not used

These can’t go in the tour. The panel says why:

• There’s no camera called … in the points file. Rename the render to match its camera, or export the points again, then drop the folder again. See Camera names don’t match.
• The image couldn’t be read. Save the render again as a JPEG or PNG.

Come back later

You can open this step again any time after saving, without dropping the files again. On the project page press Adjust renders (or Check in the steps at the top of Set up tour). It opens the saved renders and model so you can change the model scale or a render’s heading, then Accept and save again. Rooms, the start view, hotspots and settings stay as they are.

Save

Press Accept and save. ArchviewVR uploads the renders and model, records the tour and takes you to the project page. Saving stops if the project would go over its storage limit (500 MB to start).

On a trial project, only the first 10 renders are saved. The summary tells you when that applies.

If you’re updating a saved project, you also see Remove the … saved renders not in this drop. See Replace or add renders later.

Warning: if the edges don’t line up with any heading, the render’s position may be wrong rather than its heading. See A render doesn’t line up.