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    • T Offline
      tfdesign
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      @thomthom said:

      The complexity of a plugin can not be determined unless you've seen the code for it. A plugin may appear very simple to the user, but be doing very complex things under the hood.

      Sure, but your missing the point.

      Just for the record, I think the UK is now catching up on Norway 😉 😲

      Open licence on private use? Sorry I didn't see that. 😳 Fair enough then! 😄

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      • jason_marantoJ Offline
        jason_maranto
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        This looks really great -- I can do almost all of that with Dynamic components (except export) in Sketchup Pro but for Free version users who want that functionality this plugin is truly a bargain at roughly $480 less.

        Best,
        Jason.

        I create video tutorial series about several 2D & 3D graphics programs.

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          tfdesign
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          I'm sure it is Jason 😉 😄

          My book "Let's SketchUp!" Download from here

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          • spenceS Offline
            spence
            last edited by

            This is a great plugin. Animation in SU is something that is so weak and this plugin will definitely help fill the gap in a big way. I see some great ways to use this plugin. Nice job!

            Spence

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            • kenK Offline
              ken
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              OK, attached are two illustrations. The illustration labeled "with", has Keyframe Animation 1.0 loaded. The illustration labeled "without" does not have Keyframe Animation 1.0 loaded. As shown in the two illustrations, Keyframe Animation greys out the bottom half of the context menu for workplane.

              I am not smart enough to know why, I just discovered it.

              Any help would be nice.


              Without.jpg


              With.jpg

              Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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              • R Offline
                Regular Polygon
                last edited by

                I installed Work Plane v2.3 to see what would happen. The menu isn't grayed out for me.

                With Keyframe Animation 1.0

                As I recall, the cause for grayed out menus was due to plugins that create UI::Command objects inside of context-menu handlers. If that is happening, it is not due to Keyframe Animation, because it does not create any UI::Command objects, and it doesn't even have any context-menus.

                Is this bug reproducible? If you remove KFA does it go away? If you reinstall KFA, does it come back?

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                • kenK Offline
                  ken
                  last edited by

                  @regular polygon said:

                  I installed Work Plane v2.3 to see what would happen. The menu isn't grayed out for me.

                  [attachment=0:1cscrbxh]<!-- ia0 -->workplane_context_menu.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1cscrbxh]

                  As I recall, the cause for grayed out menus was due to plugins that create UI::Command objects inside of context-menu handlers. If that is happening, it is not due to Keyframe Animation, because it does not create any UI::Command objects, and it doesn't even have any context-menus.

                  Is this bug reproducible? If you remove KFA does it go away? If you reinstall KFA, does it come back?

                  The two illustrations show KFA installed, the "with" illustration and KFA not installed the "without" illustration. There is no model, no other activity except, open Sketchup, make a workplane, and context menu select the workplane to arrive at the two illustrations. And yes this is repeatable.

                  Ken

                  Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
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                    I think this can occur if a user has an unusual high number of installed plugins. Possibly SketchUp has a limit to how many menu items it can manage.

                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                      ken
                      last edited by

                      @thomthom said:

                      I think this can occur if a user has an unusual high number of installed plugins. Possibly SketchUp has a limit to how many menu items it can manage.

                      Well, Thomthom, that would be me.

                      Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        So far, I think only some of Fredo's older plugins has been identified to leak UI::Command objects. If you updated all off these, and can verify that the number of Command objects isn't growing (using the utility in the threads that discussed this) then I think you may have run into a SketchUp limit that plugin authors can't do anything about. Until Google can address this I think the only thing you can do is be a bit more selective on the plugins you have enabled.

                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • mariochaM Offline
                          mariocha
                          last edited by

                          Very interesting.
                          That's an improvement. A toolbar would make me buy it.
                          The trouble with those "scene governed animation" is that nothing can be linked. So one has to move every bits and pieces every time.
                          I wish sub-groups will work in a future version. So a hand would follow the arm movement, added to it's own, for instance. 😄

                          %(#008000)[Mario C.
                          Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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                            Regular Polygon
                            last edited by

                            @mariocha said:

                            Very interesting.
                            That's an improvement. A toolbar would make me buy it.

                            Thanks for your feedback.

                            @unknownuser said:

                            The trouble with those "scene governed animation" is that nothing can be linked. So one has to move every bits and pieces every time.
                            I wish sub-groups will work in a future version. So a hand would follow the arm movement, added to it's own, for instance. 😄

                            I am not sure I follow you. 😕 This plugin supports nested animated groups. So, if the hand is a subgroup of the arm, it will move with the arm. You can add additional movement to the hand also. Just open the arm group for editing, position the hand group, close the arm group, and save the component positions.

                            You don't have to stop there. The hand group could have finger subgroups. The nesting can be arbitrarily deep.

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                            • mariochaM Offline
                              mariocha
                              last edited by

                              Oh, I try that, did not work. The arm went bezerk.
                              I will make a more serious attempt.
                              This is indeed interesting.

                              %(#008000)[Mario C.
                              Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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                              • mariochaM Offline
                                mariocha
                                last edited by

                                Ok, I finaly got it.
                                I was thinking one had to record the position of the inner group right after it was moved, i.e. while editing the main group. !! Wrong idea !!
                                So I succeded once I recorded all the positions while no group was being edited.
                                Maybe this could be indicated in the User Manual.
                                Thanks.

                                %(#008000)[Mario C.
                                Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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                                  Regular Polygon
                                  last edited by

                                  Thanks for your persistence, mariocha. That is a good point. The group can't be open for editing when you record all the positions. When a group is open, all the positions are measured relative to the group's origin, not the model's origin, which screws everything up.

                                  I updated the script so it warns the user, if a group or component is in edit mode, and prevents this mistake from happening. The update is version 1.0.3.

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                                  • mariochaM Offline
                                    mariocha
                                    last edited by

                                    Very good idea !
                                    Btw, I noticed this on your site
                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    Mac OS X (10.4+) should work, but hasn’t been tested.

                                    Well I guess now it has, (on Mac OS 10.6.5).
                                    Although I could not use "Restore original Keyframes" yet. It stayed greyed out.

                                    %(#008000)[Mario C.
                                    Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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                                      Regular Polygon
                                      last edited by

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      Although I could not use "Restore original Keyframes" yet. It stayed greyed out.

                                      That is normal, if you're in the Keyframe model. That menu item is only enabled in the Tweens model.

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                                        diego castro
                                        last edited by

                                        descargue el plugin y funciona muy bien, es un gran trabajo.

                                        solo le falta una cosa importante para comprarlo sin dudar, y esto es que sea compatible con el renderizador vray, a cientos de personas les interesaría esta opción estoy seguro,
                                        si logras ésto venderás mucho tu plugin

                                        Machine traslator:

                                        download the plugin and it works great, is a big job.

                                        only lacks one important thing to buy it without hesitation, and this is compatible with the VRay renderer, hundreds of people would be interested in this option I am sure
                                        If they do so will sell very much for your plugin

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                                          Regular Polygon
                                          last edited by

                                          @diego castro said:

                                          download the plugin and it works great, is a big job.

                                          Glad to to hear it. 👍

                                          @unknownuser said:

                                          Only lacks one important thing to buy it without hesitation, and this is compatible with the VRay renderer,

                                          I am nearly certain that the animation is compatible with the VRay renderer. But, I don't own VRay, so I haven't tested it. Maybe someone who owns VRay could verify this, and post their results here.

                                          The steps to export the animation are pretty simple. First you create the animation using key frames. Then you convert the key frames to ordinary SketchUp scenes, which I call "Tweens" because they contain the animation between the key frames. This is complicated for the script, but easy for you; just select the menu item, Plugins » Keyframe Animation » Create Tweens. The scenes created should be compatible with the VRay renderer, since they are ordinary SketchUp scenes. You can control how many scenes/tweens are created between key frames by adjusting the Frame Rate first.

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                                            Fletch
                                            last edited by

                                            Just so that people are aware, Keyframe Animation renders well (in initial testing) with Twilight Render Plugin for Google SketchUp. 👍
                                            Keep up the good work, RPolygon.


                                            KeyframeAnimation-TwilightRender-bedassembly.avi


                                            keyframeanimation-TwilightRender-thumb.jpg

                                            Fletch
                                            Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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