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[Plugin] Camera Recorder v1.7.2 UPDATED May 23, 2013

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    CadFather
    last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 15:15

    cool.. thanks Chris! πŸ˜„ πŸ‘

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      Chris Fullmer
      last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 15:55

      ok, the download files have been updated. And it includes the new icon set. Please redownload! Thanks for your patience,

      Chris

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        CadFather
        last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 16:20

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          spence
          last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 16:31

          This is a very nice addition to SU, thanks Chris, your work outstanding. πŸ˜„

          Spence

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            CadFather
            last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 16:52

            Chris, at some point it may be useful to add 'stop playing the animation'

            at any rate, this is a genius script.

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              plot-paris
              last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 16:54

              @cadfather said:

              Chris, at some point it may be useful to add 'stop playing the animation'

              is it possible to change the play button to show a stop button when the animation is running?

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                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 17:46

                Yeah, thats a good idea and I think its possible to do. I could do a play/stop button. If this plugin ever gets any editing capabilities, then forward and backwards 1 frame would be nice too.

                Chris

                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                  solo
                  last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 17:59

                  Now the inevitable question...

                  This plug-in will record raw SU output as a series of images, what will it take to get it to play nice with a render engine so that a rendered animation is possible?

                  Kinda like recording all the frames as camera scenes so that it can render them sequentially.

                  http://www.solos-art.com

                  If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                    Chris Fullmer
                    last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 18:29

                    Thats a good question. I'm not sure how render engines have implemented animation support. I would guess that it will be fairly simple to get it to work. Do they just need a scene for each frame?

                    I was also wondering about separate program like VUE. Do those softwares have a standard camera path file type that I could export this to? That would be itneresting also.

                    Chris

                    Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                      solo
                      last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 18:33

                      I'd think Vue would be able to use this if an exporter could be worked out, there is a script that Alex made which exports SU camera's into Vue.
                      Currently Vue is interchangeable with XSI, MAX and C4D as far as camera animations go.
                      Vue has a bezier type camera path creator.

                      http://www.solos-art.com

                      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                        solo
                        last edited by 13 Nov 2009, 18:34

                        Actually I thing that if you can make the path editable, I could use it in Vue as a camera path.

                        http://www.solos-art.com

                        If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by 14 Nov 2009, 12:14

                          In a rendered TwilightRender Animation it processes the Model's Scene Tabs and 'betweens' between them... so an additional option/button to 'Add Frames as Scene Tabs' which then adds the needed page (scene) tabs would be very useful too...

                          TIG

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                            Chris Fullmer
                            last edited by 14 Nov 2009, 15:19

                            Do we know how many scenes a model can have before it explodes? Its easy to make thousands of frames with this plugin. If I convert them all to scnes, is that going to do some massive damage? or is SketchUp ok with that?

                            Chrs

                            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                              solo
                              last edited by 14 Nov 2009, 15:51

                              I say try and see...what's the worste thing that can happen? Bugsplat? I get them often enough one more won't hurt.

                              http://www.solos-art.com

                              If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by 14 Nov 2009, 17:17

                                If your model dies with 1000 then set that as a limit ? πŸ’­

                                TIG

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                                  Ecuadorian
                                  last edited by 14 Nov 2009, 19:19

                                  Walkthroughs look best when the motion is slow and smooth, not jerky and with sudden changes. I've rendered SU animations with 50+ frames in-betweened between scene tabs, and they look good. I used only 18 tabs for a full minute of video. What matters is that the path must remain more or less smooth and not become too obviously polygonal. I used RickW's flightpath2 for that, and this Camera Recorder promises to be more intuitive. πŸ‘

                                  -Miguel Lescano
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                                    xrok1
                                    last edited by 14 Nov 2009, 19:32

                                    nice plug!

                                    how does SP send animation to the render engine? it doesn't make scene tabs!

                                    β€œThere are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

                                    http://www.Twilightrender.com try it!

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                                      Chris Fullmer
                                      last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 07:41

                                      all right, I've finally got this updated with some substantial help from Jim who had to explain to me how to escape backslashes in windows paths.

                                      This version I tweaked a few things that could work differently on a Mac. Please if any function does not work on a Mac (or PC too), let me know. I tried to test it all on my PC, but its possible some of the tweaks for the Mac might not have gotten worked out yet.

                                      So here's whats new:
                                      UPDATES v 1.7 Nov. 19, 2009

                                      • Added the ability to export frames to scenes
                                      • Script now remembers user settings from SketchUp session to session

                                      When you click the export icon, you get to choose scene or images. So you can export to images like before, or export each frame to a scene. I think that will help get this animation to export to renderers like twlight Podium, VRay, Kerky, etc. I'd be interested in seeing a quick rendered animation if someone gets one done. I was imagining you could record at 15 frames per second. Then export to scenes. Then set you SketchUp model animation transition time to 1/15, which is 0.067. And to get a value below zero in the animation transition time in the model info window, it has to start with a 0. So .1 does not work. 0.1 will. Maybe you don't even need to do that, I suppose I really don't know how the renderers are using scenes to export their animations.

                                      So anyhow, check out the new version. And of course let me know about bugs and problems, thanks!

                                      Chris

                                      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                      All my Plugins I've written

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                                        Panga
                                        last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 17:02

                                        Damn Chris !! This one rocks...It'll help me so much in my work in order to make quick preview of my animation path for my boss !!

                                        Just another time saver. Thanks.

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                                          Chris Fullmer
                                          last edited by 21 Nov 2009, 06:33

                                          Great, glad it worked!

                                          Anyone who renders have a chance to see if this new version helps make it work with renderers? Anyone?

                                          Chris

                                          Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                          All my Plugins I've written

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