Animation with time overlay

dansphere · 10 Mar 2011, 15:46

Hey Y'all,
I want to animate a scene of moving shadows (changing scenes with different times and dates) with a text overlay of the current time and date somewhere in the scene.

This is so simple it would of have to be of done at some point. I guess a method that wouldn't take very long for short scenes would be to create text labels on certain layers, making the appropriate labels containing the time and date and associate with each scene.. However for the animation I'm doing there are loooaaads of scenes and a tidy shortcutting script would be preferable over stupendous numbers of layers..

Whachy'all reckon? Anything already in existence perhaps?

Bests,
Dan

TIG · 10 Mar 2011, 15:51

@dansphere said:

Hey Y'all,
I want to animate a scene of moving shadows (changing scenes with different times and dates) with a text overlay of the current time and date somewhere in the scene.

This is so simple it would of have to be of done at some point. I guess a method that wouldn't take very long for short scenes would be to create text labels on certain layers, making the appropriate labels containing the time and date and associate with each scene.. However for the animation I'm doing there are loooaaads of scenes and a tidy shortcutting script would be preferable over stupendous numbers of layers..

Whachy'all reckon? Anything already in existence perhaps?

Bests,
Dan

Have you not read any recent posts ?
This http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=35702 from this morning deals with this very topic...

dansphere · 11 Mar 2011, 13:23

Thanks, this smustard 'Time.rb' script doesn't work on Mac it seems.. Not SketchUp Mac version 8 or 7 I just tested it.
Only on windows it seems, anyone got a fix for this?

Dan