I recently purchased The Courtroom from this series. I need some help with assembling this courtroom set. How do i know which wall goes where? Do i need to increase the prop sizes? How do I keep it uniform? The ceiling appears to be upside down when i click on it. How is interior lighting used. I know I can go to Display and shut off all the shadows. Is it best to use drag and drop or should I push the arrow for characters and props? How do i animate the door to open/close. I can't find any tutorials to help me and I have searched through the Forum Discussion. Thanks for any help.

In answer to your questions:
1. Take a look at the pre-assembled Courtroom prop (double click to place it on the stage), it shows one way to assemble the props.  
2. To assemble each piece, double click the prop - it will be positioned on the stage - the result will be similar to the pre-assembled pro.
3. If you drag and drop, the you must move the prop to where you want it
4.  As far as the walls, you can make any of the walls right or left
5. You do not need to resize - it you want to be sure, add an Avatar to the scene to check
6. Create your own lighting - go to Create, then select Lighting, select Directional Light, Spotlight or Point light. (See the manual for more information)

Hope this helps...

PS - this is how I would tackle this.

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Sjonesdc, Thanks for your reply. I hope I can get through this because the content for this software is the best I have seen. I tried downloading images  of courtroom scenes, a virtual courtroom, and other techniques to no avail. I realize that to an experienced video editor this type of scene/prop design is almost a walk in the park but to the untrained and inexperienced novice it is a challenge. Is there a tutorial that goes into detail? I understand that we learn best by unraveling the project ourselves but I need guidance. Let me work on this some more and hopefully I'll report something positive. For now I'm leaving some walls and the roof off and I am trying to to set up a jury by placing the characters to sit in the 12 chairs. First I bring in the character and press the "F" key to be sure it's there then I press the "G" key and zoom out to be able to see the jury box. Using the "W" hot key I use the gizmo to move the character into place then dble. click the motion  for "idle to sit". It's a slow process.

What I would do (there is more than one way to do this), is to place each character into position, then add the "Sit" pose to each character (one for female, then one for male), unless you want them standing first. Another suggestion is to use some low poly characters, especially if you are NOT going to have closeups of the jury.  Start thinking about camera shots, angles, views  because sometimes you don't need to have everything on the stage if you are only showing one part of the scene, just showing the jury or the judge or just the defendant's table OR the witness in the witness stand.  The more you have on the stage, the harder the computer will work and it may crash...Think about what is shown to the audience in  scenes on tv shows and in the movies.


 



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Where is this completed and  assembled prop of the courtroom in my content. I have not found it under props. Is it complete with all walls and ceiling? This would help a lot.

Thanks,  Mark

I don't own the set, but looking at the product page it is possible that a completed room might be stored in your 3D Scene folder.
Click on the "Stage" icon and then have a look in the "3D Scene" folder:



Gerry

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The assembled courtroom, has everything already assembled except for the ceiling.  What wires suggested is logical but the assembled courtroom is a prop not a scene; so look under Prop, Filmset and Props, Courtroom. Please note that this is based on how my files are organized; I usually reorganize the original directory(ies) so that they make sense to me. 

 

Hope this helps!




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Thanks for posting an image of the courtroom prop. It is lacking the front wall and the right wall along with the ceiling. I'm assuming there is a front wall because the are four walls in  the prop list. I'm trying to figure out if the pivot point is correct for these props. It does appear that the props are off-kilter but using the edit pivot menu is complicated. Also understanding how world vs. local effects MTR. I've checked my settings in preferences >control  and I have the snap to grid and snap to model toggled on.  Have you tried assembling this prop? 

The walls are there, the trick is positioning of the camera(s) within the prop. 

Back Wall 


Right Wall - here rotated the Key light to show wall



With Ceiling


I would turn the Snap to Model (I've never used this feature) and Snap to Grid off, when you double click the model it will be placed at 0,0,0.  then you can position them anywhere on the grid.  The snap to grid only allows you to move the model according to the grid spacing on the xy axis. For example if the grid spacing is 100 cm by 100 cm, then the prop will move along the x or y axis every 100.00 cm exactly. However, with snap to grid off, the prop can be moved freely - 100.10 cm along the x and 23.50 cm along the y; you can determine the placement. 

I haven't tried assembling this particular prop, but I have assembled other scenes, turning off snap to grid allows more freedom of movement of the props along the xy axis.






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