Crossfade plugin

[dougald]

Hello,

I am trained as an architect and would like to know if anyone knows how/where a plugin for crossfading between saved scenes? I am showing a progression of building phases with a fixed camera location and a smooth appearing phase(next scene) would be much nicer than it just popping up.
I am new to this forum but have used sketchup from it's earliest release. this is a great forum and it has helped me out many times without my interaction, but I cannot find if there is a plugin that would "crossfade" between saved scene tabs. I am showing phases of construction to a client and it would be much easier if I could do this in SKP instead of importing images to powerpoint. thanks in advance...

[TIG]

You can manually change delay and transition times between scenes - see Model Info > Animation settings.
You can Ruby code these setting using - Sketchup.active_model.options["SlideshowOptions"]
giving say
["LoopSlideshow", true] ["SlideTime", 0.0]
and also Sketchup.active_model.options["PageOptions"]
giving say
["ShowTransition", true] ["TransitionTime", 3.0]

The transitions between scenes can also be adjusted...
First get a reference to the scene (aka page)
e.g. page=Sketchup.active_model.pages[0]
or do it by finding the page 'by name' etc...

The page.delay_time and page.delay_time= get/set that value, -1.0 says use the default value from options; another value, e.g. 10.0 is a 10 second delay.
The page.transition_time and page.transition_time= get/set that value, -1.0 says use the default value from options; another value, e.g. 10.0 is a 10 second transition.

There are also a few plugins to do this for you - search at Smustard.com...

Please don't 'double post' - I've removed one and merged the text which was essentially the same in both.

[dougald]

thanks TIG, I'll try those techniques.
sorry about the double somehow I got some text pasted into a code box and was trying to correct it so it would not be confusing.