[Plugin] ImageAnimator 20130827

TIG

Update added with 2 new menu items Make_Unique and Clone - see here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293698#p293698

PS: The SUp 'timers' pre-v8 can be buggy and only work in whole seconds. Try various timer values to see what you get but you might find 'fine-tuning' of the frame timers only works well in v8.............

jason_maranto

Very cool stuff, and I like the videos too.

Best,
Jason.

rv1974

At last TIG started to add video explanations

ken

TIG

Since what I design is used in the ocean, I did this photo animation. I made the sea from the program MiniOcean.

Just wanted to see what the two would do together.

Ken

SeaTest.wmv

solo

Ken, thats pretty cool, can you show a SU screen shot so I can better understand what I just saw?

Oh, you are the winner, I have never seen so many toolbars , I'm not even sure I know half of them.

Frederik

@solo said:

Oh, you are the winner, I have never seen so many toolbars , I'm not even sure I know half of them.

+1

ken

[quote="solo"]Ken, thats pretty cool, can you show a SU screen shot so I can better understand what I just saw?

Oh, you are the winner, I have never seen so many toolbars , I'm not even sure I know half of them.[/quot

The video is a screen shot.

As for the toolbars. I only use one or two menus from each toolbar. I wish I could combined the tools into my personal toolbar, then I wouldn't have all the toolbars displayed.

Ken

Gaieus

That sea is pretty cool, indeed!

@unknownuser said:

As for the toolbars. I only use one or two menus from each toolbar. I wish I could combined the tools into my personal toolbar, then I wouldn't have all the toolbars displayed.

At least with (most of) the native SU toolbars you can do this with Jim's custom toolbar plugin:
http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2008/06/custom-toolbars-release-08-06-01.html

schnydix

Hi Tig
is there any chance to translate your plugins to other languages
i will to it for you if you like especial in german.

And thanks for your wonderfull work and time that you invest.
Big Respect to you Thanks again.

i also have some ideas for some plugs are you interest ?
I hope you can still read this simple code

TIG

@schnydix said:

Hi Tig
is there any chance to translate your plugins to other languages
i will to it for you if you like especial in german.
And thanks for your wonderfull work and time that you invest.
Big Respect to you Thanks again.
i also have some ideas for some plugs are you interest ?
I hope you can still read this simple code

At the moment my recent tools don't support my 'deBabelizer' lingvo translations...
However, I DO plan to update them soon... so... watch this space...

If you want to PM me with Plugins ideas please do...

TIG

Here's an update - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293698#p293698 - see link for download...
The Clone menu typo is fixed.

thomthom

Does it affect the undo stack?

TIG

The Image Animation is run inside a separate timer for each Image... so it shouldn't ?
BUT I think it might mess with the undo stack as it is changing the images properties!
It's over a year old... any ideas on this issue welcomed...

thomthom

@tig said:

It's over a year old... any ideas on this issue welcomed...

I was curious if you'd found some way to avoid the undo stack.

The only way I know to do changes to a model without affecting the undo stack is the .move! method. Been wanting some other means.

There is the transparency arguments of start_operation - but they are troublesome as well. I find while they make your operation transparent - they still affect the undo stack as in the name of the last operation is replaced.

And in your case - where it triggers by a timer - start_operation is not good as it would break any existing operations.

There are several times where I'd like an observer to do something - like just adding an attribute - without affecting the undo stack. But alas I've not found a safe an reliable method.

TIG

In the other thread where we have been discussing this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=379649#p379649 I expound on using 'save' to clear the undo-stack... but its 'mucho-clunkio'

Don-Quixote

I changed your .ico with this set.

ImageAnimatorIcons.rar

TIG

Here's an update: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
The SKMtools Temp folder that is needed to process Image files etc, is now made in the User's Temp folder [OS specific] rather that the ../Plugins/SKMtools folder, avoiding potential permission issues...