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    [Plugin] CameraKeyMaker 1.0 (Update 2011-04-09)

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    • D Offline
      DesignChest
      last edited by

      Thanks Tig

      I knew it must be something i was not doing. Will follow your instructs and fingers crossed I'll be on my way. I have had a bit of headway with some of the installs now.

      Trying to get my animations up to scratch for a client whom I am hoping to design a great film set for. So used to hand drafting that the world of sketchup is just opening up to me, so bear with me - a little green still.


      http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/2785/953499.png

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      • V Offline
        Viztecture
        last edited by

        Great plugin! Couple of questions tho,

        How do you control the speed of the animation after turning it into scenes. I say this because on the model I have, I get only one very slow speed regardless of how many transition frames I use, i have used numbers from 1 to 999 and I see no difference.

        Also does this actually work with Vray? If so does anyone know how?

        Cheers

        http://www.viztecture.mfbiz.com

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        • V Offline
          Viztecture
          last edited by

          Ok I used scene transitions.rb and it works a treat now. New problem now lol. The animation is not smooth, im still getting jumps as the camera slows towards the next scene. Its fine on the preview however... any suggestions?

          http://www.viztecture.mfbiz.com

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          • V Offline
            Viztecture
            last edited by

            Ok think I got it, in preferences, SU scene transitions need to be longer than the actual keymaker transitions, i.e max 100 secs. This seems to smooth over the animation and stops SU taking over. Im still confused why i have to workaround this, guess im doing something wrong

            *EDIT . actually that hasn't worked 😒

            http://www.viztecture.mfbiz.com

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            • jcohen71J Offline
              jcohen71
              last edited by

              I tried to use CameraKeyMaker on a Mac running Sketchup 8, but ran in to the same problem others have mentioned: I cannot seem to find an equivilant key combination to Alt-Q used on Windows, and so I can't place any camera keys. (neither Opt-Q or Ctrl-Q work for me)

              If there's a simple fix for this I'd love to hear about it, otherwise I'll eagerly wait for the next version. This seems like a great tool that we could use on many projects.

              Best Regards,

              Joshua Cohen
              Fat Pencil Studio
              +1.503.465.4533
              info@fatpencilstudio.com

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              • D Offline
                driven
                last edited by

                @jcohen71 said:

                If there's a simple fix for this I'd love to hear about it,

                in camera_key_maker.rb
                I changed line 387 to read

                if key == 81 and $preview == false
                

                I then did a search and replace for the word Alt and replaced it with Shift,

                so Shift+ Q works on my mac...

                learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  I do not know this tool in any detail... but in passing... I see that there are $ global variables like '$preview' these are dangerous - especially if they have simplistic names [like 'preview'] as other authors might have used them [ill-advisedly] too, as globals works across all scripts in that session - better to use '@preview' as an instance variable, or '@@preview' as a class variable, to hold your data specifically for your own tool so such potential clashes are avoided... 🤓

                  TIG

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                  • M Offline
                    macgile
                    last edited by

                    @tig said:

                    I do not know this tool in any detail... but in passing... I see that there are $ global variables like '$preview' these are dangerous - especially if they have simplistic names [like 'preview'] as other authors might have used them [ill-advisedly] too, as globals works across all scripts in that session - better to use '@preview' as an instance variable, or '@@preview' as a class variable, to hold your data specifically for your own tool so such potential clashes are avoided... 🤓

                    Yes TIG

                    when I developed this plugin I had only one months experience the ruby language and API sketchup.
                    certainly you will find other errors of this type in the source, but I perfecting every day.
                    in the next release several beginner mistakes are corrected but it will remain.

                    best regard 😄

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                    • V Offline
                      vtrdo
                      last edited by

                      hi guys

                      i have here a bit strange behavior of the plug ..

                      I have set up simple fly-around with 10 camera Keys - previews look perfect , smooth and going exactly as we want... ... camera follows busier curve ...till this moment everything is nice and easy

                      problems are: ➡
                      1/after i press the ENTER even if i change the number for Frames between each key I always get 19 scenes .. is this correct?
                      2/ ❗ bigger one scenes which were produced change the Field of View and positions now it is in position is same as the key ...

                      What can i do to get result same as Preview ... or do i have to set up properly the Keys and forget what the preview is showing??

                      many thanks!!!!

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                      • majidM Offline
                        majid
                        last edited by

                        😞 I can't run it at all!!!! any conflict with other plugs?
                        where I must seek it? plugin menu? tools menu?
                        how can I activate it's toolbar (ui) please?


                        edit: thanks ... wow this is wonderful, thank you, I was seeking it in false place. 👍 👍
                        I just wondering how can I edit the path?

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                          theVonZipper
                          last edited by

                          Trying out CameraKeyMaker on a winXP. Doesn't behave like the video tutorial. (BTW, is there supposed to be audio with that video?)
                          Although Alt-Q does add a key frame, I cannot use the orbit tool to reposition the camera. The CameraKeyMaker feedback onscreen disappears & as far as I can tell the script ends.
                          What is available is a dotted sphere to mark position. I clicked on that & circled a cube. Hitting enter did send the key frames to scenes. But the scenes created this way do not orbit the cube.
                          Is there a new version available yet? (The version I am trying out does not iclude the 1.0 designation anywhere in its name or files).

                          If I could get it to work it would be a great feature.
                          Thanks,
                          -=Zip

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                          • simon le bonS Offline
                            simon le bon
                            last edited by

                            Hi macgile,

                            I'm using/learning your tool since few days. After a hard start, I now begin to tame it pretty well. I understand now how I can manage the bezier camera path. It is a cool tool 👍 😄 and the exported animations are nicely fluid 👍 👍
                            I begin to see some requests to ask for.
                            But the main thing I'm confronted in is a problem of angle of camera.

                            I just have finished a complex camera path with a complex model and have launched CameraMaker scenes maker. I realize something I hadn't noticed in my trainings: is that animation uses a fixed camera angle of 30° !! This is too short!
                            Standard angle in sketchup is 35° , I for my part have made the all camera path with a wider angle of 50°. Now my animation is to much cropped. 😒

                            I have tried to update the scenes one by one (the firsts of my 69 scenes!) with this 50° angle but it seems that some geometry don't display satisfactorily.

                            Do you think it is possible to do something ? or it is a big update of the code!

                            Cheers,
                            Simon.

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              Perhaps the line
                              @camera = @view.camera
                              could be followed by
                              @camera.fov = 50.0
                              or whatever fov-angle you'd like ?

                              TIG

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                              • simon le bonS Offline
                                simon le bon
                                last edited by

                                Hi Tig, 😄

                                Thanks for the advice. I shall try this tomorrow.

                                    • simon
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                                • simon le bonS Offline
                                  simon le bon
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi TIG,

                                  I've just tried what you were recommending

                                  @tig said:

                                  Perhaps the line
                                  @camera = @view.camera
                                  could be followed by
                                  @camera.fov = 50.0
                                  or whatever fov-angle you'd like ?

                                  Resulting to this change, the camera is set to 50° as soon as I activate CameraKeyMaker tool . But when my Alt+Q camera shots are done and I clic "Enter" to call the SET UP SCENES and "OK" , created scenes are still cropped back to camera 30°.
                                  I have made a search on "30°" into the ruby txt, but the specified string was not found. 😞

                                  Do you have any other idea?

                                  😕 simon

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    The screen size [width/height etc] is set in code later on - perhaps this is cropping the image ?
                                    I don't use this tool so I am winging it here 😕

                                    view.camera.set(eye, target, up)
                                    if @save_image
                                            keys = {
                                             ;filename => @fileName,
                                             ;width => 320,
                                             ;height => 240,
                                             ;antialias => true,
                                             ;compression => 0.9,
                                            ;transparent => true }
                                            view.write_image keys
                                           end
                                    

                                    have you tried changing those ?
                                    Trying changing the width/height proportions...

                                    Also perhaps add view.camera.fov=50.0 before 'keys' ???
                                    Also ' newCamera' is set perhaps you need to set newCamera.fov=50.0 too ?

                                    TIG

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                                    • simon le bonS Offline
                                      simon le bon
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi TIG,

                                      "crop" is probably a wrong word I have used. I tell this way to express that the 30° telephoto produces like a zooming into the field. (oups my english 😳 )

                                      @tig said:

                                      try changing those
                                      Also perhaps add view.camera.fov=50.0 before 'keys' ???
                                      Also ' newCamera' is set perhaps you need to set newCamera.fov=50.0 too ?

                                      They both don't change the 30° scenes output

                                      first try:

                                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/2012-01-08_220506.jpg

                                      second try:

                                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/2012-01-08_215157.jpg

                                      I believe in the second one because:

                                           generate_scene = true
                                      
                                            if generate_scene
                                      

                                      is the place where I'm searching to change the camera opening field. Is the way I have add the line is good?

                                      😕 s

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                                      • D Offline
                                        driven
                                        last edited by

                                        hi,

                                        Your output image dims ratio is 1.333, if the window isn't a same ratio it causes problems on mac's...

                                        or you could try running Martin's camera Stats, might show you what's happening.http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=27835

                                        john

                                        learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                                        • simon le bonS Offline
                                          simon le bon
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi John,

                                          Thank you for your cent.

                                          Y
                                          @unknownuser said:

                                          our output image dims ratio is 1.333, if the window isn't a same ratio it causes problems on mac's...

                                          I have tried a 16/9 format (ratio: 1.66 ) but I don't notice any different result ❓

                                           if @save_image
                                                  keys = {
                                                   ;filename => @fileName,
                                                   ;width => 1000,
                                                   ;height => 602,
                                          

                                          I have downloaded and used [Plugin] Camera Stats by MartinRinehart : it confirms my fields of view

                                          Cheers,
                                          simon

                                          PS: I just have sent a PM to macgile . wait and see. 😒

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                                          • R Offline
                                            RichardU
                                            last edited by

                                            I see there is a preview recently posted on YouTube for version 2.0 of this tool.

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