[Plugin] SketchUp Animation using mover.rb

Jim

ck a "base point" for a group or component about which the animation should happen (a door swinging on a hinge, etc.) It does a pretty good job, so far but it's a little quirky... the door sort of slides a bit into the wall, just like the prob. with Proper_Animation.rb ... but this one doesn't seem to do as bad a job with rotating door-type swings.

I noticed if the base point is the Origin of the Group/Component the rotation is good. It's when you rotate around another corner that the object moves off the axis of rotation.

Fletch

Thanks Jim,
That's a good place to start (either animating something, or trying to code a fix for it.)

pilou

Have you made an exportation animation "Avi" with Mover?
Not by the Twilight Render (this is working fine) , but from directly Sketchup Export ? (with no render)

pirun14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77uSe9qXVE

pilou

Cool tutorial
Seems you have not use scene 3 and don't make Update Scene

pirun14

@unknownuser said:

Cool tutorial
Seems you have not use scene 3 and don't make Update Scene

Thanks.sorry,i have over scene

skkor9y

year b4 i used this plugin, but it had a different name TRANSFORM.rb

Jim

@skkor9y said:

year b4 i used this plugin, but it had a different name TRANSFORM.rb

Didier Bur wrote one in 2005 - mover and proper animation use the same technique as Didier.

http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/transformer_beta.rb

Speaker

great plugin . It's a pity it doesn't work with v-ray

wyatt

Has anyone played with this plug-in more? I can set the scenes so that elements move properly between scenes, but when I export as avi nothing moves. Does the plug-in not support exporting, or is there something else I should be doing? Would a different animation plug-in work better?

pilou

@ Wyatt
I believe that you must record your screen with another prog during the Mover's animation

Pout

@unknownuser said:

Has anyone played with this plug-in more? I can set the scenes so that elements move properly between scenes, but when I export as avi nothing moves. Does the plug-in not support exporting, or is there something else I should be doing? Would a different animation plug-in work better?

This is a know problem with sketchup animation.
All none-sketchup scripts are neglected in the creation of the animation.

Oli3000

Hi all,

I wondered if you could help me solve a strange issue!

I am trying to animate a group of concentric cylinders that scale around their centre point. However, even with the scale definition fix I still get strange results.

If I use scale definition it doesn't change size, it just stays at the new scaled size the entire time. If I don't then it does the move animation, then jumps to the scaled size. There is no animation of the actual scaling.

What am I doing wrong? I looked at doing the make unique feature, but they are always greyed out.

Thanks in advance!

pilou

Seems like Proper animation by Morisdov

Seems a little more easy for select a position but you must go to the scene itself !

Else you can use the Set Transition Times by Morisdov with mover.rv

erdenebilegara

ara
it works, now i am gonna to make a cartoon, THANKS

glro

@oli3000 said:

Hi all,

I wondered if you could help me solve a strange issue!

I am trying to animate a group of concentric cylinders that scale around their centre point. However, even with the scale definition fix I still get strange results.

If I use scale definition it doesn't change size, it just stays at the new scaled size the entire time. If I don't then it does the move animation, then jumps to the scaled size. There is no animation of the actual scaling.

What am I doing wrong? I looked at doing the make unique feature, but they are always greyed out.

Thanks in advance!

i also noticed unwanted displacements of some components or groups; to avoid that, i group the component that moves strangely, with another one that doesn't.

if the movement comes from a scale, it is not possible, obviously...

anyway... as i use the plugin from time to time, i added 2 features:

packaged as a rbz file, so it is possible to avoid loading it it when you don't need it, through windows>extension> ... untick the box in front of "cmd_mover"
added a line in the right clic menu to save the current position of the selection, so you don't need to open the folding menu above the screen

I hope it will be usefulplugin mover

majid

This has been a great animation plugin and one of my favorite for a loong time.! thanks for update!

pilou

@unknownuser said:

the right clic menu to save the current position of the selection, so you don't need to open the folding menu above the screen

Time saver!