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

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    • spenceS Offline
      spence
      last edited by

      This is a very nice addition to SU, thanks Chris, your work outstanding. 😄

      Spence

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      • CadFatherC Offline
        CadFather
        last edited by

        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-parisP Offline
          plot-paris
          last edited by

          @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 FullmerC Offline
            Chris Fullmer
            last edited by

            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

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            • soloS Offline
              solo
              last edited by

              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 FullmerC Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                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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                • soloS Offline
                  solo
                  last edited by

                  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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                  • soloS Offline
                    solo
                    last edited by

                    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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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      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 FullmerC Offline
                        Chris Fullmer
                        last edited by

                        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

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                        • soloS Offline
                          solo
                          last edited by

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

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

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

                            TIG

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                            • E Offline
                              Ecuadorian
                              last edited by

                              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. 👍

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                              • X Offline
                                xrok1
                                last edited by

                                nice plug!

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

                                “There 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 FullmerC Offline
                                  Chris Fullmer
                                  last edited by

                                  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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                                  • P Offline
                                    Panga
                                    last edited by

                                    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 FullmerC Offline
                                      Chris Fullmer
                                      last edited by

                                      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.
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                                      • R Offline
                                        rod1233
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi Chris Fullmer
                                        There is a problem I have please help
                                        When I download clf_camera_recorder-v1.7
                                        Knowing that I've downloaded in advance and did a wonderful job, but not what happened Lardy
                                        A copy of the problem 😞 😞
                                        Note
                                        When I download clf_camera_recorder-v-1
                                        The device Ballowavqp it
                                        Please help in this problem
                                        rode


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                                        • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                          Chris Fullmer
                                          last edited by

                                          It looks like you do not have the files put in the correct locations. In the plugins folder, you should have a single file and a folder

                                          clf_camera_recorder_loader.rb
                                          clf_camera_recorder <---FOLDER

                                          And inside the folder you should have the file:

                                          clf_camera_recorder.rb

                                          along with all the icons.

                                          So check to see if that you have everything installed correctly and let me know if it works.

                                          Chris

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

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                                          • R Offline
                                            rod1233
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi Chris Fullmer
                                            Thank you for the attention
                                            And I would like to tell you in detail the problems of
                                            At first you download the files as explained and you are quite successful and after two days .. got this error after you have downloaded the Camera Recorder v1.0
                                            And succeeded in it and when I try to download Camera Recorder v1.7 the result is an error
                                            I do not know what is wrong please help

                                            I hope you send the file to my email
                                            rod1233@hotmail.com

                                            Thanks


                                            This image is when you download the Camera Recorder v1.0


                                            This image is when you download the Camera Recorder v1.7


                                            This image is when you download the Camera Recorder v1.7

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