OK, I was able to go back and save the model with everything in the right position to make the animation work correctly. Here is an updated copy of the modelJesus - Animator Animation.skp Now I need for someone to give me advice on how to save/create a camera position so that future developments will allow everything to show up in the right position(s). I know, this is not a complicated model and all of this should be very easy to accomplish. As I said before, this seems very much different than things I have done in the past because of the collective movement of objects. Once I have all of this worked out, I want to be able to assign a nice environment and try using Rayscaper to produce a rendered version of the final product.

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.

I would like to create an animation that looks like I am writing something or drawing something. Is there a way to do that with Animator?

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.

Bonjour Fredo, Merci pour ce super plugin. J'ai un problème lorsque je veux faire un rendu Vray sur le cloud avec Animator. Animator crée un fichier d'export .vrscene que j'uploade sur Chaos Cloud. Mais à chaque fois l'export fait disparaitre le relief des textures (le bump). Dans mon rendu il y a un plan d'eau avec un bump, et sur le rendu le relief de l'eau disparait, il n'y a plus qu'un miroir plat qui reflete le ciel. Merci beaucoup

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