Export to scenes instead of new files

floric

Hello,
I searched now a longer time and it seems to be possible to export in scenes in one file. Am I right?
I found the option to save in different SKP's. But I want to save the scenes as frames in one file, for Kerkythea.
It would be great if you can help me.
All in all, great work you have done!
Florian

floric

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I would great if someone can answer if it's possible to save the frames in scenes in one SKP-File.
Maybe there is a plugin for it? Or is it possible to join the skp-files to one file with scenes automatically?
regards, Florian

TIG

If you want to 'export' a SKP's scene-tabs' settings to a file and then import them from that file into another SKP then look to Smustard.com where there are some Page [a.k.a. Scene] import/export tools.

If however you want to export you scene-tabs as individual image files [frames?] then Smustard.com also have some batch image exporter tools...

Can you perhaps clarify what you want to do... your original post is not so clear

floric

Ok. Thanks for your answer.
I simply want to export an Sketchyphysics-animation to Kerkythea, but Kerkythea official doesn't support Sketchyphysics.
So I exported the frames to these many SKP-files. Now it would be great if I could join these many files in one file.
Each SKP-file should be one scene-tab as a frame. Then I can export these tabs to Kerkythea.
Now I will look at Smustard. Thanks for your link.

EDIT: OK, PageExIm also isn't what I was looking for. This also can't import SKP-Files as Scenes.
The only option seems to be that Sketchyphysics natively supports exporting to tab-scenes.

CPhillips

I cant really save each frame in a scene. As far as I know that would involve creating new geometry each frame and then hiding it as the frame moved on. Its just too much data.

The best I could do would be give you a script that would save the simulation each frame. Would that do what you need?

floric

I`m not sure if this will help us but I'm interested in this file. It would be great.
Thanks for your response.

CPhillips

First create a directory called

c;\temp

That is where the exported frames will wind up.

Then put this in the scripted field of ONLY ONE OBJECT.

ontick{
   Sketchup.active_model.save("c;/temp/frame_%06d.skp" % frame)
}

Run the simulation and you should have a bunch of skp files in c:\temp

ExportFrameExample.skp

floric

I will try it when I have a little bit more freetime. Thanks.