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      otb designworks
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      Re beta test team: Pick Me Pick Me!!!

      I am more excited for this plugin than anything I have seen come out of the official team since they gave us Layout!

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        @fredo6 said:

        But I don't know how to reach the others

        PM me who you are looking for - I'll see what I can do. I have the ChaosGroup contacts for sure - but I should be able to obtain other as well.

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        • soloS Offline
          solo
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          I have had so many issues in the past with the available tools/plugins, that is why this is a huge thing.

          See video below, a recent attempt to use SU and Thea, It failed and i needed to finally go into Thea studio to complete animation. I also needed to have layers animate, so I could show and hide panels, will it be possible with this plugin?

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          • fredo6F Offline
            fredo6
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            @solo said:

            I also needed to have layers animate, so I could show and hide panels, will it be possible with this plugin?

            Animator should normally support layer visibility, either attached to views or independently of views.

            Below a short example. Watch the green cylinder and red cube, and layers panel.

            [attachment=0:1ubxfxj3]<!-- ia0 -->Animator%20Layer%20visibility%20simple.gif<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1ubxfxj3]

            Fredo


            Animator Layer visibility simple.gif

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            • JQLJ Offline
              JQL
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              Fredo and what about animating stuff by cycling through scenes as usual, is it also possible?

              I mean it's so advanced in it's own that I can't understand if that is a possibility as it's what a basic animation plugin for SU does...

              If it is, can we do it without showing UI? In fullscreen mode, to present stuff live to an audience?

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              • fredo6F Offline
                fredo6
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                @jql said:

                Fredo and what about animating stuff by cycling through scenes as usual, is it also possible?

                I mean it's so advanced in it's own that I can't understand if that is a possibility as it's what a basic animation plugin for SU does...

                If it is, can we do it without showing UI? In fullscreen mode, to present stuff live to an audience?

                Animator is not based on the native Scene animation mechanism of Sketchup. You can actually position the animation at any given time. Indeed, it is possible to develop a small GUI to make short cuts to specified time.

                Also, there is a Player mode, with a much smaller palette. I plan to make the option to hide it when playing animation.

                Animator Player mode.gif

                Fredo

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                  pilou
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                  Seems very promising! 😎

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                    JQL
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                    • fredo6F Offline
                      fredo6
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                      @jql said:

                      We will find something you didn't think of! πŸ˜„

                      That's why the thread was started πŸ˜„

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                      • PixeroP Offline
                        Pixero
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                        What about how hierarchies are created?
                        Can that be made separate from how objects are grouped?
                        And what about inverse kinematic?

                        I'm also very interested in ways to fine tune camera animation paths and speed.

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                        • fredo6F Offline
                          fredo6
                          last edited by

                          @pixero said:

                          What about how hierarchies are created?
                          Can that be made separate from how objects are grouped?
                          And what about inverse kinematic?

                          I am not clear about what is "Reverse kinematic" and "hierarchies".

                          Could you illustrate ?

                          Fredo

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                          • PixeroP Offline
                            Pixero
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                            Forward kinematics. You rotate a shoulder and the arm and hand follows.
                            Inverse kinematics. You move the hand and the arm and shoulder rotates to match the hands movement.

                            I think it would be great to have a way of creating the hierarchy independent of how objects are grouped.
                            Something like bones in other software where you create a structure that you bind geometry to.
                            How you model and group geometry doesn't always match how you want to animate them.

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                            • Rich O BrienR Offline
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
                              last edited by

                              How do you control the motion of an object over time? Is it linear interpolation?

                              If an object moves along X at 2m/s can you control the acceleration from 0 to 2m/s in some way?

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                                fredo6
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                                @rich o brien said:

                                How do you control the motion of an object over time? Is it linear interpolation?

                                If an object moves along X at 2m/s can you control the acceleration from 0 to 2m/s in some way?

                                This should be addressed with Easing, which is supported in the Animator engine (in the initial video, you can see that the explosion of Homer is accelerated).

                                But I still need to build the GUI for custom easing.

                                By the way, I don't know if the appropriate term in English would be 'Easing' or 'Pacing'.

                                Fredo

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
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                                  @fredo6 said:

                                  By the way, I don't know if the appropriate term in English would be 'Easing' or 'Pacing'.

                                  Easing.

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                                  • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                    Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                    Will the easing have types?

                                    anim-fredo.png

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                                      pilou
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                                      Will be cool for animate gears! 😎 (a new gear plugin by Caermalo)

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                                        majid
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                                        @rich o brien said:

                                        Will the easing have types?

                                        [attachment=0:1tzh4w5t]<!-- ia0 -->anim-fredo.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1tzh4w5t]

                                        Mover plugin had some easing as I remember
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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
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                                          There is a nice lib on GitHub for easing in Ruby:
                                          https://github.com/munshkr/easing-ruby

                                          And nice visualisations here:
                                          http://easings.net/

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                                          • fredo6F Offline
                                            fredo6
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                                            @thomthom and Majid,

                                            Animator should support predefined easing and custom easing. Simply, I need to build the GUI for custom easing.

                                            Animator also supports oscillations (i.e. cyclic movement back and forth), either libnear or smooth as sinusoidal curves.

                                            Fredo

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