SU Animation with Pipe-Flow Diagrams -- Suggestions??

Whiteowl77

Hi Guys,

I an interested in making an animation with Google SketchUp.
Style is WireFrame, with Flythrough Animation tour, and animated (pipe) flow diagrams. (very similar to the Link below)

http://www.youtube.com/user/EnvironmentAgencyTV#p/a/u/0/FbQkBycTY-0

Any suggestions to get this type of result?
IClone?, Flash + SketchUp, SketchYPhysics?

Thoughts and comments welcomed and appreciated.
Thanks
Andrew Telker
"SketchUp Lover"

brodie

My first thought would be using animated section planes to reveal the pipe in a downward motion. Aside from that it'd just be layers turning on/off and having a good Style setup.

-Brodie

driven

I'd try keeping it all in SketchUp and use LightUp animated textures
this is not the image you need but it shows the potential
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAthsAvTYA
john

DanYHKim

I used the Proper Animation plug in to simulate light beams in a photometer array. The "light" is made by telescoping a bunch of cylinders over each other.

They are textured translucent, and I probably should have done something to hide their edges and ends, but it worked pretty well. A bit of a pain to make, because I was not very well-versed in using Proper Animation.

Can see the animation at http://web.nmsu.edu/~dkim/MTEC/PhotometerFlash.html