@Rich-O-Brien said in Scene animation with Animator: @ntxdave said in Scene animation with Animator: If you knowledge level in SketchUp is low that is easy fix. Model, model and model. OK, I think I am learning and I keep working on learning more things. Now back to this subject. I am sharing the animator animation that has led me to all of this. This is the model that inspired me to get more involved with Animator. I hope you see it as a step forward. I know it is pretty basic but it where I want to start. Now I want to see if I can figure out a way to add two text scenes. One at the beginning that gives some insight to what the model/animation is all about and the second text scene will be to give some information about the model/animation. Here is the file for you to download/view to get some insight about where I am headed. Learning Animator Animation.skp Yes, I know I could have saved the movements as a clip but did not do it yet. I also thought there should have been an animator file but did not see it to download.

Does anyone know of a way to modify/control the transition from one clip to another. I have several clips but you just get a quick change from a clip to the next one. I would like to see some capability like fade out the current/ending clip and then starting the next clip.

Is it possible to start a new thread or category for asking "how to" questions for Animator. I think I have recently learned a lot of very useful information, but I still have a number of questions that I have not been able to find answers to. Yes, I can do a lot of testing but there are topics where other users might be able to provide good feedback/advice for.

That's called Camera Clipping. It occurs when parts of a 3D scene that fall outside the camera's visible region, known as the viewing frustum.

Hello, FFmpeg continues to generate 25 fps videos (mp4) 1920x1080 despite of selecting different framerates. please help

Yes, Rich Animator is great, but still much more complex to use than the animation tools of D5 render or Twinmotion. When I used it, I was able to render my animations with v-ray, but it was long, long

@fredo6 I got it working again with the latest Library, which was a later version than the animator plugin page linked to. Thanks for getting in touch.....keep up the good work, and glad to see you are charging money for your work.....finally!

@quenemary You have no license directory which suggests your SketchUp install is missing read/write permissions. You can fix this by running the SketchUp installer using Run as Administrator and choosing Repair when prompted.

As we have figured out the issue requires both Animator 4.5+ and Thea 4.0.1397+ update.

@Rich-O-Brien I am really sorry it was down to libfred06 being before v15.2

@Rich-O-Brien Thank you!

Use Sketchucation Tools to install updates https://sketchucation.com/plugin/696-sketchucationtools

Read the post before yours, it announces a update, which should fix this...

@FairhavenMatt Also remember that working on any program's files that reside away from your computer also risks losing data when saving - which is irretrievable. Always work on a version of the file on your computer, saving it there as you work. When that work is completed save a copy of the file over onto the 'remote' location. Having your version on your computer is no harm and a useful safety net if you get problems with the remote copy getting made. Making a remote copy of a file is far less likely to cause any issues, as the OS is very robust at doing this, whereas any ap saving remotely is more likely to have hiccups... In your case the remote location is not accessible, but if it had been you have the ever present risk of a glitch in the file's data - potentially making it unusable...

@Crimson Thanks! i really needed this, I'm rendering it again because it deleted all the images i already rendered

@Rich-O-Brien Thank you very much, i'll look into it.

@Just_us I had the same issues and found on the FFmpeg site that FFmpeg does not support apple silicone. See this page https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/apple-silicon-arm

@Just_us said in Can't save date in Animator: I have just successfully installed Lib Fredo 6 and Animator as well as FFMpeg on the PC. The animator save function works perfectly on the PC. But not on the mac. On the one hand I am happy because the students work on PCs at school. On the other hand I prefer to work on the mac in my private life. My question to Fredo is whether he could take another look at it? Thanks for all your help If you want to get his attention you could ask directly in this thread Or use the @ feature so he is notified @fredo6 Sharing more detail like the type of Mac, its OS and any ruby console errors