Animating change over time
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I want to model the changes in my town and nearby military installation over about a 180 year period, showing roughly 100 buildings as they come and go over the years. Is there a nifty way to do this? I'm thinking of having one layer per year but this would involve lots of duplication: a building that exists for 50 years would be repeated on 50 separate layers. I obviously wouldn't have to do every single year but there would still be a lot of layers and duplicates. Is there a better way?
Also, I'd like to have a slider that shows the years from 1840 to present, and let the user slide it to animate the way the town changed over the years, or select a specific year to see the town at that time. Make sense? Is that possible?
Thanks
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You wouldn't need a layer for each year, just each year a building is created. Scenes would save layer combinations, turning on layers as years go by. If a building is demolished, then you'll need to create layers that say last 1920-1965, then turn that layer off after 1965 scene. You could export scenes to a video and let user change timeline on video. If posted on youtube, you can get HTML links that specify start time in video. Then create a webpage with embedded video player and buttons to pick start time.
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@dan19936 your post is some interesting information:
- Is there some place where I can read up on this?
- Is it possible to do this (specify timeline to play( if I am hosting the file?
- Can I specify both the start and stop frame/time?
It would also be interesting if there was a way to do this with the SU viewer on a web page and if the SU Viewer had a link to play an animation without having to got through all of the steps like now >View >Animation> Play. I would like to see just a Play button in the toolbar if there were scenes set up as an animation. Again, it would be really cool if you could use the viewer to play an animation on a web page (perhaps without the viewer not even having to download the viewer - just click a link and have if launch).
For now though, my real emphasis is on understanding how to play part/parts of a video file from a web page. I have done entire videos before but honestly was not aware of the ability to specify a starting point and perhaps an ending point. I can really see some use for this especially if I can host the video on a web server.
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