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    thomthom
    last edited by 4 Feb 2016, 08:38

    @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 Brien Moderator
      last edited by 4 Feb 2016, 09:25

      Will the easing have types?

      anim-fredo.png

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        pilou
        last edited by 4 Feb 2016, 09:42

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

        http://sketchucation.com/forums/download/file.php?id=136656

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          majid
          last edited by 5 Feb 2016, 16:49

          @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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            thomthom
            last edited by 5 Feb 2016, 16:59

            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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              fredo6
              last edited by 5 Feb 2016, 22:01

              @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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                thomthom
                last edited by 6 Feb 2016, 07:25

                Time to start another donation round for Fredo!

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                  Anton_S
                  last edited by 6 Feb 2016, 19:26

                  Nice work fredo!

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                    JClements
                    last edited by 9 Feb 2016, 16:55

                    What about exporting the animation to movie formats? Would that be left to the native SU export options or would there be other means for MP#, Avi, etc., formats?

                    John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                      fredo6
                      last edited by 9 Feb 2016, 20:18

                      @jclements said:

                      What about exporting the animation to movie formats? Would that be left to the native SU export options or would there be other means for MP4, Avi, etc., formats?

                      Unfortunately, the Sketchup API does not expose a method for generating videos, even if there seems to be an embedded video module in Sketchup for Scene animation.

                      So I test with an external tool, so that Animator can generate videos at a specified frame rate and dimension. My current tests are with MP4 (as the animation of Car Wash posted by ntxdave), but I think it can generate other formats like AVI or animated GIF. I'll check when I have time. I'll need a Mac user to validate it also works on OSX.

                      I also hope that rendering software have a way to generate videos.

                      Anyway, this is an area where more exploration is needed. By default, Animator can generate a sequence of images.

                      Fredo

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                        solo
                        last edited by 9 Feb 2016, 20:22

                        @unknownuser said:

                        Anyway, this is an area where more exploration is needed. By default, Animator can generate a sequence of images.

                        IMO the best way to do animation πŸ‘

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                          otb designworks
                          last edited by 10 Feb 2016, 13:22

                          I agree completely that image sequences is the best and most desirable way to export animations from any software.

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                            JQL
                            last edited by 11 Feb 2016, 12:47

                            What about animating textures?

                            Animating backgrounds and foregrounds with clouds and rain.

                            Animating leafs on trees.

                            Animating TV or PC screens.

                            Integrate with render engines to animate channels like displacement, bump, transparency, reflection, emittance, etc...

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                              fredo6
                              last edited by 11 Feb 2016, 15:02

                              @jql said:

                              Animating leafs on trees.

                              oaks in winter are supported πŸ˜„
                              Working on animating snow on the top of Fujiyama.

                              Fredo

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                                JQL
                                last edited by 11 Feb 2016, 16:33

                                @fredo6 said:

                                @jql said:

                                Animating leafs on trees.

                                oaks in winter are supported πŸ˜„
                                Working on animating snow on the top of Fujiyama.

                                Fredo

                                Bah! You didn't do that! Animating textures? Nah! It was me that remembered that first!

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                                  Pixero
                                  last edited by 11 Feb 2016, 18:17

                                  Animating leaves got me thinking. Would it be possible to have vertex animation with a small sinus curve to animate leaves and branches like in many games?

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                                    JQL
                                    last edited by 11 Feb 2016, 18:32

                                    Damn Pixero! I was coming here to post that! Vertex animation would simply...

                                    Well...

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                                      Humpmetwice
                                      last edited by 4 Mar 2016, 00:18

                                      Is this something available now or something in the works?
                                      Either way nice work and I can't wait, been looking for something like this for sketch-up awhile now...

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                                        ntxdave
                                        last edited by 4 Mar 2016, 00:43

                                        @humpmetwice said:

                                        Is this something available now or something in the works?
                                        Either way nice work and I can't wait, been looking for something like this for sketch-up awhile now...

                                        WIP by Fredo6 ❗

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                                          solo
                                          last edited by 4 Mar 2016, 01:08

                                          http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2006/12/simpsonhomerdrool.jpg

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