[Plugin] Proper Animation V1.08 Beta(Updated 14/11/10)

[Tim Danaher]

Like I say... I set the four positions for the lift car (all in the same scene), save, quit, re-open SU, turn on Animation Observer, play the scene animation... The lift car doesn't move.

I can make it move within the same scene by choosing 'Get Position - X', it's just when I play the scene animations, there's no movement.

I still must not be understanding something.

[pilou]

Maybe it's the Mac!
Have you explode the first level of objects as I said?

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[Tim Danaher]

OK, right, once the component is exploded, it works... but the lift car moves in one scene, then stops while the scene changes, then moves again, then stops...

Any way to get continuous movement across changing scenes?

p.s. "I have just exploded" = "Je viens de faire exploser", "I just exploded" = "j'ai simplement fait exploser", d'oú, peut-être ma confusion...

[pilou]

I don't believe you can
You can reduce time between scene transition (Menu View / Animation/ Settings)

Or in this particular project : Use just 2 Scenes! So no need beetween's levels floors

[Tim Danaher]

Yes, that's what I figured...

Is there, I wonder, a Ruby that allows you to vary the time transition between scenes? In combination with Proper Animation, that would be really cool.

[pilou]

That 's existing!
And it's for the Proper animation!
Look here made also by Morisdov

@unknownuser said:

Ruby script plugin Controlling Animation Scenes Transition Times

N°4 Set_Transition_time.rb
Tell me if it's good for you

[Tim Danaher]

Fabbo...

Blimey, I'll be able to get a whole othter article out of this... !

[pilou]

@Tim
Just now see you Blog!
Funny because I had known your crazy modelings and animations on youtube for a while and was astonishing by the complexity of the structures!
Happy that I can help you

[Tim Danaher]

  Fame at last!!!!

[pilou]

As seems you love schizophrenic structures take a look to TopMod
Free Standalone + Accept Import OBJ format (Ngons !) and export OBJ format (save as! )

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[morisdov]

Thanks for the support guys
To Clarify usage below are some details

Each Position number X, corrsponds to the X'th sketchup Scene/Page
Position 1 will be for the FIRST scene tab
Position 3 will correspond to the THIRD tab etc

1) to begin with Set position number X, and Get position number X, you dont care about scenes or number of them. just make object selections, and Set their positions, move them and set additional positions, Get positions manually to see how things paly out
2) after you finished Setting the positions of various objects you may add scenes/pages as many as positions as you have or more

3) only now you should START the ANIMATION OBSERVER
this will make all objects that have position 2 set, to ANIMATE (move) to position 2 when you clickon the SECOND scene tab.
click FOURTH tab, objects with position 4 will animate to position 4

4) STARTing Animation Observer automates the objects animation by using scene tabs instead of manual right click command GET position X - via corresponding click on SCENE X in the order of scenes

5) to modify object positions and scene view angles youd want to STOP ANIMATION OBSERVER, otherwise the objects keep on moving disturbing your adjustments of new positions etc
so STOP ANIMATION OBSERVER, make adjustments
START ANIMATION OBSERVER again to use scenes tab clicks instead of GET position X

6) not all objects need to have all position numbers set, just those few you want to move on X'th scenes tab click
7) you can select multiple objects and SET their position X in one command click
8) to "enable" the command of "GET to position X" those objects currently selected should have "Position X" set or otherwise - the right click menu command "GET position X" will be grayed out ("disabled")
this way you can find out if an object has position X set or not, or groups of selected objects have position X set or not

[pilou]

Thx for precisions

[Tim Danaher]

Cheers Moris...

And thanks for the link, Pilou -- that's some crazy sh1t!

[skyscraper100]

hi

if ive made an animation with this plugin, can i export and render it in kerkythea?

thanks

[Ecuadorian]

You can "render" it inside SketchUp if you install Whaat's "Smooth Animation" plug-in and use the "export smooth animation" command.

BTW, Thank you very much, Morisdov.

[Chris-69]

Most of the time i can solve most of the problems by reading the forums... (Thanks for that)
But i have a problem by using the "scenes transition times". I have more than 27 scenes.
I can't see more scenes when i want to set the times in this plug-in. Using the "tab", i can "blind" set the times, but i can't see it. Is there a solution?
Thanks!

[thomthom]

@chris-69 said:

Most of the time i can solve most of the problems by reading the forums... (Thanks for that)
But i have a problem by using the "scenes transition times". I have more than 27 scenes.
I can't see more scenes when i want to set the times in this plug-in. Using the "tab", i can "blind" set the times, but i can't see it. Is there a solution?
Thanks!

Use the Scene manager window?

[pilou]

Yes you right, there is a little problem
We must send a PM to Morrisdov!
Done Wait and see

Till that you can move your sketchup window to the bottom screen and call the Scene transition, with that you can see 38 scenes

[morisdov]

quick solution is to use the following line in the ruby console to set the current selected scene -

Sketchup.active_model.pages.selected_page.transition_time = 4

[pilou]

One tricky solution indeed