@fredo6 said: The problems seems to be related to the name of the film, which contains a sign '&'. Just rename the film and this should work. I'll try to manage the exotic characters in a next version Fredo Thank you! That fixed it.

Unfortunately, Animator does not allow to coordinate the rotation and the translation, as they don't follow the same speed. For your case, I would recommend you give a try to MSPhysics, which has kinematic and physical constraints and can do this easily. Fredo

I guess throwing the model to UE and evenlearning it from zero would take considerably less time

the video would get generated in the same folder correct

The integration of Animator with Vray is not really official. Animator uses an API to render with VRay which I don't know if it officially supported. And VRay did not make the reverse integration where they import an Animtor animation and process it in batch (as available in Thea). Anyway, I don't know what is VRay Swarm and if there is no API, then I am afraid it cannot be supported. Fredo

@mko said: Pls a Fredo pop up is saying the animator 2.4d as expired. I tried updating through the link displayed but it won't pls what can I do? Unless you changed the clock on your PC, Animator v2.4d is valid till 14 Sep 19. Fredo

The File I posted first is bigger than necessary. Here is another example file. If the camera path were curved (between Camera 2 and 3) you would get to see on the box. But as you can see the interpolation is linear. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5jb15wjbhjytsm1/AACoB9-w5ZEhb1NiNo8Pmxj7a?dl=0

@tacsu said: I am trying to figure out how to do an apparition cut at 45degrees for a cutaway. I had somehow stumbled upon it in my previous attempts, then decided to start it over with a fresh animation. I have not been able to recreate it in Animator. Currently the section planes are parallel to the axes of the object group or component. So I guess you simply rotated the geometry content inside the object, so that you give the illusion that it is cut at an angle. I may develop an option to choose an arbitray plane for the section plane. Fredo

For reinstalling ffmpeg, try to locate a file ffmpeg.exe in either your Sketchup Plugin directory or a folder C:\FFmpeg In principle, you should know or remember where you did put the file. Otherwise do a Search file in Windows. When it is located, delete it get a fresh copy of FFmpeg.exe put it somewhere on your PC Animator will find it if you put it in C:\FFmpeg or in the Sketchup plugin directory, or will ask you to locate it again Now, if you still get an empty mp4, Do you see the MP4 button in Red in the result dialog of the video generation? Are you rendering, or jsut generating the 'Natural' mode (no rendering)? Can you open the Ruby console before generating the video and check if there are erros (there should be traces)

@mayoketchup said: I noticed it doesn't work with native lines only with freehand and arcs. I downloaded your bezier spline plugin and now it works perfect with these curves . To create a Sketchup curve out of a sequence of edges, you need a Plugin, as this is (still) not provided by SketchUp in native, even in 2019! The most popular plugin is TIG Weld. You have also some others: one by Eneroth3 and also Curvizard.

Anyway, Animator will not run with Sketchup 2015

So this has happened a few times after first rendering a sequence and changing view to render another: Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method include?' for nil:NilClass> c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:668:in format_html_all' c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:649:in prepare_html' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:418:in dialog_create' c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:361:in dialog_invoke' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe:2205:in movie_dialog' c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe:2175:in movie_clip_generation' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorpalette.rbe:819:in block in palette_clip_name_duration_video' c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:3963:in call' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:3963:in execute_button' c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:3765:in onLButtonUp' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/lib6palette.rbe:91:in onLButtonUp' c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe:1275:in `onLButtonUp' [image: 2018-12-19.png] Same as before; when I quit Sketchup the "Exit temporary to Sketchup" window have been hiding in the background.

Thnx ('',)

Actually, this is a side effect of some evolution concerning the mouse scrolling for Mac. Animator v2.3b now support Parallel Projection. Please advise if you still have the issue. Fredo

Normally Animator will not works with your version! You must load SU Make 2017 (free) here!

Bob, As you have a Mac, could you tell me if the MouseWheel over the timeline does a scrolling of the time? Also, if you enough track, would Option + MouseWheel scroll the tracks? Finally, would Command + MouseWheel (or Ctrl + MouseWheel) scale the timeline? This is relation with a Mac user who has a problem with MouseWheel. Many thanks Fredo

Thank you Fredo for the advice. I spend a lot of time but could not do that.let me try msphysics...

Quasi perfect! Maybe for the next release ? [image: h1HW_GIF_fredo_pliant.gif]

Je me disais qu'une animation faite d'un objet, il suffisait de la Copier / Coller/ Modifier...pour avoir un autre objet animé! So...? [image: omAM_Sothis.jpg]

@headsmess, A picture or the model would help to understand. Thanks Fredo