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

TIG · 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...

Chris Fullmer · 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

solo · 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.

TIG · 14 Nov 2009, 17:17

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

Ecuadorian · 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.

xrok1 · 14 Nov 2009, 19:32

nice plug!

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

Chris Fullmer · 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

Panga · 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.

Chris Fullmer · 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

rod1233 · 1 Dec 2009, 16:39

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

Chris Fullmer · 1 Dec 2009, 17:44

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

rod1233 · 2 Dec 2009, 20:24

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

rod1233 · 2 Dec 2009, 20:44

Hi Chris
I think the problem in the size of the file in the image
clf_camera_recorder. employer
Because I do I replace the file Shahu Camera Recorder v1.0
The success
Please help

Chris Fullmer · 2 Dec 2009, 21:25

You should delete all camera recorder files. Then re-dnwload and re-install. See if that helps. I think that mighty do the trick. let me know how it goes,

Chris

PS What is your native language?

rod1233 · 2 Dec 2009, 22:16

hi Chris
I have deleted all the files and the files you have to re-descend again, and I encountered the same problem
I do not know if the file size minus
I repeat, when I put the files for the first time the result was quite successful, but know what happened to get that error

I speak the Russian language

Chris Fullmer · 2 Dec 2009, 23:04

Hi Rod, I still don't see what the error is. The files are where they should be, their sizes are correct. They are very small files. The size discrepency is normal and it is due to how Windows stores files tot he disk.

Is SketchUp giving you an error? You have not posted any actual SketchUp error. If so, what does it say?

rod1233 · 3 Dec 2009, 21:10

hi Chris
I can not succeed in this. I'm very sad for that
And thank you for the efforts made by me
I do not know where the problem
Perhaps there may be settings in the program led to this error

Thank you

Chris Fullmer · 3 Dec 2009, 21:29

Rod, what is not working? Is it not appearing in SketchUp?

Maybe it just needs to be enabled. Go to Window > Preferences > Extensions and make sure that Camera Recorder is enabled.

See if that helps. Then let me know.

Chris

Rhettsmiller · 4 Dec 2009, 22:41

@plot-paris said:

hey Chris. I am afraid, the buttons of the toolbar end up blank.

the zip file, you posted contains a ruby file called 'clf_center_on_origin.rb' and a folder with the Camera Recorder files.
within this folder there is the camera recorder ruby, several images and an empty folder called 'images'.
but no matter, where I placed the images (within the images folder. or the images folder directly in the plugins folder) it doesn't seem to be working

How was this resolved?

Rhett

Chris Fullmer · 4 Dec 2009, 23:17

arg, I responded to this, and then lost connection or something and it lost my reponse....oh well. I'll try again (plus the pm's we've been sending back and forth).

Essentially the problem they saw here was caused by something else, I forgot a file.

I just asked in my PM if you have podium installed (its another plugin that apparenetly can cause problems with plugin installation locations?). Lets take the onversation out of the PM area and here, just in case others can chime in with some Mac expertise.

Anyhow, you might need to upload a screenshot of your plugins floder so I can see what's going on.

Chris