Thank you so much for the answer. I did have Positioner 1 defined, but it must have had teh bad positions for some items captured. I used the option to capture the positions outside of Animator to "recapture" Positioner 1 with everything in the correct locations and the animation now works perfectly.

If you delete objects (groups, components and their hierarchy) which are used by Animator, you will encounter problems. At best, Animator will detect it and reset parameters of the movement to their default.

I love your creativity Alvis. It is always a pleasure to see your work. So talented. Thank you for all that you contribute to this site

Well Fredo you can stamp Solved on this post. You mentioned trying to slow the speed down, and so I was experimenting to see if that worked. I inadvertently pushed the speed down until it went into the negatives ie: -90.00°/s, and that solved the problem, it switched from counterclockwise to clockwise. I didn't realize this, so chalk on up to inexperience. Thanks so much for you help. Dale

@berna117 said: It fails too often my complete animation is 2400 frames and every 50-150 frames it crashes in 2 different ways... Animator and even VRay4 are not designed to render such a big amount of frames, furthermore when using a rendering software like VRay. Too slow, and with VRay4, the API is not stable enough. @berna117 said: I am rendering different sections of the animation in different computers to speed up the process but I noticed that if sketchup UI is different animator makes the view different, even in the same computer if you close sketchup's side tray making the work area bigger animator changes the view. That's inherent to Sketchup. Images are captured from views, and views are based on viewport, which is itself impacted by the real-estate left on the screen by toolbars and trays.

Hi - if the desired animation doesn't need to be too sophisticated, a simple gif animation, equipped with some door positions like shown in your picture, might be sufficient? I´ll link an example, done this way with only 10 frames, running back and forth... https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=397&t=63826&p=659064&hilit=Bobby#p659064 (otherwise, Dave's animator suggestion above would be better)

Could you open the Ruby console while generating. This gives traces on the progression of the generation and possibly errors. Also open the directory where the images are generated to see if they are actually.

@jhandgraaf said: Is it possible to send the render work from fredo6 animator to a cloud renderer/renderfarm? I don't think this is possible with Animator.

Thank you Fredo, the Layer Visibility worked perfectly. I can now work faster with some layers toggled OFF and just toggle them ON again right before compiling !

I will try to attach some pictures of the rendering I might have too many frames perhaps. There are 795 frames and on my first try it generated 108 frames but it glitched and stopped working it took 40 mins for each frame I believe. The issue has been even worse on other tries you can see from the pictures. Is there any other rendering software that you can recommend as this project was not meant to take this long. Thank you for your speedy reply and help.

@fredo6 said: @khulaifa said: I am fairly new to the Sketchup scene and I am now looking into making a video that is energy industry focused so need I to make it convey gases/water moving I thought I could do this by using section animations but not sure how to on animator. In Animator, section planes can be animated in the Movement Apparition. You may want to have a look at this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5_cxTxjG5w I really appreciate you reaching back out so quickly and amazing plugin even for a beginner such as myself.

You seem to have a wrong program assignment... For whatever reason, Animator is trying to open 7-zip instead of FFmpeg. Can you reinstall FFmpeg properly (following the instructions), that is extracting the FFmpeg.exe file. It looks like you have just renamed the zip file you downloaded as FFmpeg.exe.

Thanks to confirm it now works. The elapsed time is shown after a few frames so that there is a base for an empirical estimation. It is adjusted as the generation of frames goes on.

@ignaciocarreras said: So if the clip settings are not in the Clip Editor that means that I didn't save it? Or there is any way to find previous clips? Hopefully it's saved somewhere in a folder in my PC? All Animator information is saved within the model. So, if you retrieve a previous version or the last backup save (.skb), it should be there. This assumes however that you did save the animation at some point.

I think the problem is with Vray. there is a freeze when you exit the video mode and VRay is not properly stopped. I have the issue only with your model. So I am trying to find out the cause. Same for the change of view camera. I got it only for your model.

Hi Fredo, It works for me perfectly now. Thank you very much

Is your selection a group or component, with inside, other groups or components? In order to troubleshoot (since I cannot reproduce the problem), could you Leave the Ruby console when you work with Animator, in case there are errors post or PM me the model Many thanks Fredo

@ntxdave said: I think if you look on this forum and the Sketchup forum you can/will find that others have had a similar problem with VRAY but I did not look at the resolution since I do not use VRAY. You are 100% right, I did not look hard enough. Recent update to the Library fixes this issue. Thank you! https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=401&t=68154&p=662293&hilit=vray#p662293

Could you open the Ruby console before launching Animator, especially for the files where the animation does not work. There may be errors there, wroth reporting. Thanks Fredo

You can associate a positioner to a Film. Click on the Film name a dialog box will appear where you can associate the Positioner to the film [image: 66oU_Animator-Specifypositionerforfilm.png]