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

thomthom

in that example you do save a few characters. And you avoid the overhead of rexex processing. if it is simple text or character replacement it is faster to do plain text replace than invoking regex.

Chris Fullmer

I was not aware of the .tr method. I had only seen gsub, and I was able to get it to work. But I like the way .tr works. It looks much simpler. It took me hours and hours to wrap my head around how slashes work and escaping characters with lots of help. I'm sure I don't understand it all yet. But just having it work made me happy.

So the problem in this script that I was fixing is that I was storing forward slashes into the Windows registry. It seems to work fine on most computers. But not Rod's. His Vista won't handle forward slashes at all. Anyone know what might be making his system work like that?

Chris

PS I still don't know if these tweaks fixed it for Rod - I sure hope it did. Because I'm about out of ideas otherwise.....

thomthom

The .tr is somewhat different though. But can be used in this case.

.gsub can also be used without using regex for pattern.

Chris Fullmer

Oh yeah, I also meant to ask:

What is regex?

Chris

thomthom

Something which turns my brain into liquid goo.

thomthom

Generic Regex info: http://www.regular-expressions.info/index.html

Ruby related: http://www.regular-expressions.info/ruby.html

rod1233

Chris
This is the result :
Error Loading File clf_camera_recorder.rb
private method gsub 'called for nil: NilClassprivate method gsub!' called for nil: NilClassError Loading File clf_camera_recorder_loader.rb
private method `gsub! ' called for nil: NilClass

I am very sad because I did that I had that tool

Note: In this strange problem I succeeded for the first time and then I got this problem.

rod

KXI System

Can you have anyway for this plugin to export as a movie file too?
If you can thanks! but I know its gonna be hard.

Chris Fullmer

@Rod - ok, I think I know a surefire way to fix your problem. I'll try to get a script out tonight or tomorrow. But I am going to disable the script's ability to remember a location to save the image files, since that is what seems to be causing the problems.

@KXI - I agree that would be cool. If I implement it will probably cost something.

Anyone out there know a free ruby library that compiles sequence images into a video? Would I be able to do it with the command line mplayer? Or doies imagemagik support anything beyond animated .gifs?

Chris

rod1233

Chris
I am waiting for what will be the solution
And thank you

rod

Chris Fullmer

OK Rod, try this one now. overwrite the clf_camera_recorder.rb file that is inside the clf_camera_recoreder folder.

Also, it should pop up a little message while loading. I would like to know what it says on your system. Thanks!

Chris

KXI System

ok, but Chris can you at least tell me a free program that acts like Quick time pro (the feature that this plugin uses)?

Chris Fullmer

Yes, a few pages ( http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=23517&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=60#p208742 ) back Charly mentioned a free program. I meant to ad it to the first post, and never did. It is called Imagen:

http://gromada.com/download.html

Try that one!

rod1233

Chris
We have succeeded, my friend
Thank you for all the efforts
You are truly wonderful
Thank you again

rod

Chris Fullmer

Great, now I need to clean up the scripts for you again so they stop popping up windows everytime you open SketchUp with messages to relay back to me.

Also, what does the pop up window say in it?

And check back here hopefully today for an update on the scripts for you

Chris

Chris Fullmer

OK, well I cleaned it up very quickly and here are the 2 new scripts. There should both work on your system. And you should get no more pop up windows. Thanks for being patient with me as I de-bugged this for you. I am going to go back and remove all other test files I uploaded now too since I don't need other people to download them. But I will leave these up in case someone in the future has a system with your same needs.

Chris

clf_camera_recorder_loader.rb

clf_camera_recorder.rb

Chris Fullmer

@pixero said:

Chris, have you tried LightUp? Could you implement a flyaround mode with inertia like in LightUp?
It would be so great to fly around smoothly and record scenes and then use that for both SU lines and LightUp.
Pleeeeaaase?

I need to look into this. I do not have LightUp. If his flythrough is just a flythrough tool, then you should be able to activate the camera recorder, then use his flythrough and then stop recording when done. Maybe?

Chris

Pixero

I've tried that way but it would be much easier to do it in Su's ordinary view and then use that as a animation in LightUp to get a perfect match between SU lines and LightUps render.

KXI System

I would like to ask a very interesting question.

For renderer's like Twilight that can be used in SU simple scene animation, can your plugin tool adapt too?
This would benefit me before I decide to get a renderer.

Thanks,
KXI System

Chris Fullmer

I'm not quite sure I follow. Are you asking if outside renderer's can use the flightpath created by this plugin?

If so, I think the answer is yes, since my flightpath can be exported as a series of scenes - 1 scene per frame of camera path. So as long as a renderer can be set to render one frame per SU scene, then it should be able to take advantage of the camera recorder path.

I asked if anyone would be interested in testing this back a while ago when I released the most recent version, so far no one has tested it to see if it works though....

Chris