As an up date to this, I have just made another test video from the same animation but just a 1.5 second clip with about 80 frames, and it saved ok in the correct output folder. The MOV and MP4 files have saved fine. (All the PNG files vanished again but thats not a problem if the video file has saved).

Hi changeplaces66, I am also new and am having the same problem. Did you find a solution? I just read in the documentation for animator: "...Animator is designed to support rendering for Animations (films, clips and sequences). Rendering software current supported are: VRay, v3.40.04 but NOT Vray 3.6: From Animator..." Do we think animator only supports version Vray v3.4?

Ah, I just spotted this in the documentation: "...Animator is designed to support rendering for Animations (films, clips and sequences). Rendering software current supported are: VRay, v3.40.04 but NOT Vray 3.6: From Animator..." Does animator only support version Vray v3.4?

It would be more helpful to attach the Skethcup file (.skp)....

@kennedyaz said: I'm just wondering if I'm saving as image sequence, can I control the format of the frames? I'm rendering with V-ray 5 on Sketchup 2020 and the result I'm getting is in .png and our preferred format is jpg. You cannot.... What is the problem to have PNG images?

Hello all, I'm having a similar issue for a folding table. In the case of the doors the animation works perfectly. What if one door on the left has to turn 90° and the second on the same side has to turn 60°? In my case I wasn't able to make it work. Do you have any idea? I'm not able to upload the file. It's more then 5Mb. Regards. Thanks!

Hi pcmoor, Thanks so much - you lifesaver! I'm new to the OnClick function as well as the Animator extension, but I've had a look at these files you kindly put together & it all makes sense I think - I can unpack this & apply it as I need to. Thanks a lot! Sorry to be a pain, but do you know if a similar function can be applied using the Animator extension from Fredo6? I've been tasked with two things essentially, and you've pretty much solved the second one, and with any luck you can help with the first as well? Firstly to create a more detailed animation of how a generic example of the system would work, ideally with camera sweeps & parts moving of their own accord rather than being clicked, to form an example video of how the system works Secondly to mirror the other dynamic components that I've put together to automatically create the other products in our range (for which this OnClick solution is perfect!) Thanks a lot for your help - it's really appreciated!

Great suggestion to make it progressively appear. There are a few other complicated ways to simulate this, but thank you for confirming it's not a feature I wasn't seeing! Cheers!

@iandefazio said: I've created various clips that i now need to put together into a final film, although when i click on 'More' while clicking clips, it only shows me films... i have no way of adding clips to the timeline now... What do i do!?! Can you try Animator v2.6a. I normally fixed the problem.

Update: After a bit more troubleshooting, I see that the Capture Rendering Style "mostly" works to activate/deactivate section cuts. I created a simple movie: Style1: Section cuts deactivated Style2: Section cuts activated Style3: Section cuts deactivated Initially, if I stopped the movie during Style2 and jumped back to Style1, Style1 did not deactivate the section cuts properly. The only way to get them to deactivate was to go to Style3. I then swapped the position of Style1 and Style3 which revealed that Style1 was not retaining the "start with section cuts deactivated" setting I had tried to save. It didn't work to deactivate section cuts after Style2. With Style1 positioned after Style2, I re-captured the "deactivated" style which appears to have resolved the issue, allowing the setting to be saved into Style1. Now Style1 and Style3 work in either position. In further testing, I have had trouble reproducing the "first style fails to save deactivated section cuts." I created the original Style1 before saving any "activated section cuts." I wonder if now that this file has an "activated" section cut style, that future styles will properly save "start deactivated" unlike my initial behavior. I'll let you know if I figure anything else out.

@xxxnova said: Hi Fredo, I've found some bugs, that annoy so much. I've only select one object that would be assigned with apparition movement, But other object with same shape who not selected are applied with this apparition too automatically, i just need this apparition only work on my selected object. Is this just occurred only on my Animator? Would be great if this problem was solved. It's probably because your object is a component instance which is itself embedded in another component instance which exist in several copies in the model. In Sketchup, can you modify your object manually, say add a line, and see what happens to the rest of the model. anyway, posting the model would help. Fredo

The settings seem correct - Please rerun the video generation with the Ruby Console. ...and check that you generate all frames till frame 201. Then you should get a a 'black' window for a few second (FFmpeg). You can also check in the folder of generation whether you have all the image files, numbered from 1 to 201. If you still get a truncated video, I would suggest you get the latest version of FFmpeg. See this post for instruction

@aero66 said: Is there a way to keep a 3D Figure parallel to the global Z-axis when moving along a spiral curve created as a Bezier curve? My figure rotates as it moves along the curve. In your model, you should create a Movement "Follow Path". Select the character Select the path Make sure that Reverse direction is checked (because your curve in going top to down) Object rotation is unchecked (to keep the guy upright) [image: 4xW0_AnimatorStair.gif]

Could you attach or PM me the model. I am not sure I understand the problem. Fredo

You need the Extension and the latest Fredo Lib both to be installed. Then you need to restart SketchUp completely, to ensure everything is properly synced. Also read the Extension's usage guidance - to make sure you understand how its menu is accessed, and also any Toolbar details etc...

Animator uses the FFmpeg executable with parameters on the command line. This is why, at least on Windows, you get a transient black window. I don't know for Mac.

Thanks a lot for your answer and another big thank for your great job .

@lasswt said: The strange thing is that it has worked before, but I can't remember what was different. May be your setting in VRay. Try to make the rendering not too heavy in calculation. You should test it before.

@lasswt said: What I really want to know is if you can pause the rendering process of an animation and continue later on? This is not supported for the time being, but with rendering, it makes a lot of sense as each frame can takes minutes or more to be generated. @lasswt said: Edit: I'm rendering with 60 frames per seconds. Is this too much? I would suggest you try with Natural rendering (e.g. NO rendering) and see which frame rate is appropriate. To me, a frame rate of 36 should be already quite good for human eyes. Note that you can also play with the speed of the movie.

Very good, can you share your model?