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

mariocha

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din_wiesel

Hello

Proper Animation is such a cool and easy PluIn to animate things in Sketchup.

But I got a problem with my objects.
I have a package with numbers of wood piece. In the first position it should lie on the ground.
In the second position is a 90 degree rotation of the first position.
But the objects get their own life, you will see it in the video.
The objects in this animation are Components and Groups

See the video

Has anyone a solution for this problem.

mariocha

I has a similar problem. It was due to not having put the axes of the components at the right spot. Groups are also hard to control, I find, cause they do not have axes that can be set at a specific spot at will. So I make every object to be animated a component and set the axes to the pivot point of the desired rotation.

KXI System

Thank you, I have found a great deal of uses for this plugin, and glitches...

Actually, Sometimes the things I animate when I play then, they disappear! Is this a glitch?

mariocha

@unknownuser said:

Well, this happens when I forget to close group/component before play or switchin

Well, this happens when I forget to close group/component before play or switching scene.

KXI System

@mariocha said:

Well, this happens when I forget to close group/component before play or switching scene.

But all my groups are closed, but the easy way for me to fix this is to turn on shadows. But then when I play it the shadows don't move along!

Help! Help! And Help!

mariocha

Is it the shadow thing I talk about in my post on page 7 ?

KarinaGM

Mariocha
how do you set the axes to the desired position?

KXI System

Found a strange glitch when I was trying to animate labica model, here you see:
Glitch.skp

KXI System

Hey-hey, an update!

Bradley1234

so i tried the plug in and it works. noticed that, using Sketchup v7.1 making the animation frames i needed to set the frames up, stop then restart the plugin for the frames to sync with the regular animation frames.

ok so it works; but i exported it to animation with the .AVI extension then tried to import into windows movie maker and it got an error saying the Codec is not found? then could not open it.

so Sketchup made an animation but im not able to edit it. Is there a codec that needs to be downloaded?

mariocha

@karinagm said:

Mariocha
how do you set the axes to the desired position?

Right-click on component, Changes axes, then you need to click 3 points ; first the new origin, then 2 along the desired red axis, or first on red and second on green axis.

morisdov

Hello Bradley,

As noted in the documentation and previous posts on this thread, Sketchup can not export the animations in the "standard" way.
You have two options:

quick and dirty - hide the axes and use a screen capture utility while playing the animations
slow and pretty - use a renderer to save each animation frame and chain those together into a movie - read previous posts - Kerkythea, Twilight ...

Jim

morisdov,

It's also possible to write an image for each frame from the FrameChangeObserver. You would end up with a series of images that can be compiled into an animation using some other software.

boothy

@jim said:

It's also possible to write an image for each frame from the FrameChangeObserver

Hi
what is and where is the framechangeobserver ?

Thanks
Boothy

thomthom

@boothy said:

@jim said:

It's also possible to write an image for each frame from the FrameChangeObserver

Hi
what is and where is the framechangeobserver ?

Thanks
Boothy

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/pages.html#add_frame_change_observer

SouzaRM

@morisdov said:

Hello Bradley,

As noted in the documentation and previous posts on this thread, Sketchup can not export the animations in the "standard" way.
You have two options:

quick and dirty - hide the axes and use a screen capture utility while playing the animations

slow and pretty - use a renderer to save each animation frame and chain those together into a movie - read previous posts - Kerkythea, Twilight ...

Remember:

01. The PlugIn SmoothStepAnim.rb is very good (not render) for save picture in picture of the [Proper Animation] and group the images for video (http://groups.google.it/group/Sketchup-Pro/browse_thread/thread/ea575d1bce3d1c97)

02. Post SketchUCation: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=10946&hilit=Re%3A+Plugin]+proper+animation+for+SketchUp+6+free%2Fpro&start=75#p142979

Re: [Plugin] proper animation - for SketchUp 6 free/pro
PostBy Ecuadorian on Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:55 am

03. Post SketchUCation: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=10946&hilit=Re%3A+[Plugin]+proper+animation+for+SketchUp+6+free%2Fpro&start=90#p181444

Re: [Plugin] proper animation - for SketchUp 6 free/pro
PostBy mariocha on Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:53 am

bnem

Hello,

On advice from the forums I've animated a scene usng "PROPER ANIMATION" and as expected can't export it. I'm using a "SMOOTHSTEP ANIMATION" plug-in to break the scene up into jpgs but how then can I re-assemble the step-by-step images into a movie file? Is there no ruby that lets me export a proper animation?

any help would be appreciated

tks

/ben

Gaieus

Hi Ben,

Rendering applications very often only export the frames as still images. Later you can assemble these images into an animation using several (free or cheap or expensive) 3rd party programs like VirtualDub for instance. This will also allow you better control over your video quality than if you exported them from SU.

pilou

Seems Twilight can render the animations of plugin like Proper Animation