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    [Plugin] Animator - v4.5a - 22 Jul 25

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    • fredo6F Offline
      fredo6
      last edited by

      Actually, there is a problem with Thea which does not always notify Animator when it has finished rendering a frame.

      Other users are encountering similar problems, even on SU2017. See this thread.

      Fredo

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        Treadshot A1
        last edited by

        @fredo6 said:

        Actually, there is a problem with Thea which does not always notify Animator when it has finished rendering a frame.

        Other users are encountering similar problems, even on SU2017. See this thread.

        Fredo

        Ah, I see. My apologies Fredo, I was not aware of that thread before. You are correct, starting animation from Thea does indeed work, frames are coming out smoothly. Tested on SU8Free, Win 10. Will show the results when done.

        As always, thank you very much Fredo! 😄

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        • ithilI Offline
          ithil
          last edited by

          Good day, Fredo!
          Thanks again for the great plugin.
          I wanted to ask, can you add the option - "save as default" forMovement?
          I'm doing an assembly diagram and all the movements have to be said for three seconds and the Easing is the same. Now I have to constantly monitor this.

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          • ithilI Offline
            ithil
            last edited by

            One more question.
            Can you add the option "start numbering from 0 seconds"?
            I use the Images Sequence to save the animation. My video has more than 2500 frames. And it's rendered for a long time.
            If I need to fix just a few seconds of this movie I'm trying to use "Start at:" and "End at:" options.
            But as a result I get files with numberings like this "Image0001"
            It would be better if it was possible to call the file not from scratch but from the current position. E.g. Image1551

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            • fredo6F Offline
              fredo6
              last edited by

              Ithil,

              You are right. Because rendering and video generation are long, it is a good idea to find a way to have partial re-generation.

              I need to think about it.

              Fredo

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                Treadshot A1
                last edited by

                @ithil said:

                One more question.
                Can you add the option "start numbering from 0 seconds"?
                I use the Images Sequence to save the animation. My video has more than 2500 frames. And it's rendered for a long time.
                If I need to fix just a few seconds of this movie I'm trying to use "Start at:" and "End at:" options.
                But as a result I get files with numberings like this "Image0001"
                It would be better if it was possible to call the file not from scratch but from the current position. E.g. Image1551

                Just out of interest, what renderer are you using? When I'm rendering with Thea, I call the animation from Thea, which lets me choose what frames to render. When I was rendering my Jaguar model, if I wanted to redo frames jaguar_0100 to jaguar_0120, I can just go into Thea and set it to render frames 100 to 120, which it correctly names. I've not tried messing with Animator's built in "Start at:" and "End at:" options, but that's mainly because I find a frame range to be more precise for what I'm testing now.

                That said, I agree that such an option would be useful natively in Animator.

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                • ithilI Offline
                  ithil
                  last edited by

                  I use direct save from sketchup to sequencing .png files.
                  But it's still quite long. Approximately 40-50 minutes.
                  For a part of 100-150 frames, I do not want to lose these minutes.

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                  • alvisA Offline
                    alvis
                    last edited by

                    Hi Fredo. I have difficulty with the camera. I want the camera to move around the object. Now around the headboard camera moves irregularly. Maybe there is a way to clone Sketchup cameras from scenes ?
                    Sketchup scenes
                    Animator scenes

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                    • fredo6F Offline
                      fredo6
                      last edited by

                      @alvis said:

                      Hi Fredo. I have difficulty with the camera. I want the camera to move around the object. Now around the headboard camera moves irregularly. Maybe there is a way to clone Sketchup cameras from scenes ?
                      Sketchup scenes
                      Animator scenes

                      Animator offers two modes of transition between views (called fadeout)

                      • Linear, which is is more for step by step camera animation
                      • circular, which is closer to what Sketchup does between scenes
                        I suggest you try with both

                      Fredo

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                        Alex37550
                        last edited by

                        Bonjour,

                        j'ai découvert en début d'année ce formidable Plugin Animator! Merci Fredo. 👍

                        Je n'avais pas eu de souci sur mes 1ères animations, mais là, j'ai travaillé à partir d'une photo adaptée et l'image adaptée est déformée (coupée en 2 avec des zooms différents apparemment).
                        J'ai d'abord pensé que je n'avais peut-être pas fait les mises à jour.
                        J'ai chargé Animator 1.5b
                        j'avais déjà LibFredo 7.5b
                        mais c'est pareil
                        je joins une image extrait du Test image. la vidéo est pareille.
                        j'ai fait un essai avec une autre photo, une nouvelle animation, un autre ordinateur, même résultat. et parfois ça revient comme il faut.

                        Est ce un bug? quelqu'un a t il le même problème?

                        Je profite de cette question pour savoir si on peut définir un chemin à suivre pour un mouvement (enchainement, ligne droite, courbe...), je n'ai pas vu si cela existait?

                        Merci d'avance


                        Fredo6_videoman_test_image0.png

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                        • chriC Offline
                          chri
                          last edited by

                          @alex37550 said:

                          Je profite de cette question pour savoir si on peut définir un chemin à suivre pour un mouvement (enchainement, ligne droite, courbe...)

                          Bonjour Alex

                          Peut-etre ce POST peut-il t'aider
                          http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=401%26amp;t=65237

                          Chri

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                          • fredo6F Offline
                            fredo6
                            last edited by

                            @alex37550 said:

                            Bonjour,

                            j'ai découvert en début d'année ce formidable Plugin Animator! Merci Fredo. 👍

                            Je n'avais pas eu de souci sur mes 1ères animations, mais là, j'ai travaillé à partir d'une photo adaptée et l'image adaptée est déformée (coupée en 2 avec des zooms différents apparemment).
                            J'ai d'abord pensé que je n'avais peut-être pas fait les mises à jour.
                            J'ai chargé Animator 1.5b
                            j'avais déjà LibFredo 7.5b
                            mais c'est pareil
                            je joins une image extrait du Test image. la vidéo est pareille.
                            j'ai fait un essai avec une autre photo, une nouvelle animation, un autre ordinateur, même résultat. et parfois ça revient comme il faut.

                            Est ce un bug? quelqu'un a t il le même problème?

                            Je profite de cette question pour savoir si on peut définir un chemin à suivre pour un mouvement (enchainement, ligne droite, courbe...), je n'ai pas vu si cela existait?

                            Merci d'avance

                            Je ne comprends pas bien le probleme. Est ce que les images servent simplement de fond.
                            Dans tous les cas, Animator travaillant seulement sur des groupes et components, il est prudent de mettre les images dans un groupe.

                            Fredo

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                            • ntxdaveN Offline
                              ntxdave
                              last edited by

                              Just curious: Are any new updates planned for the near future?

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                              • fredo6F Offline
                                fredo6
                                last edited by

                                @ntxdave said:

                                Just curious: Are any new updates planned for the near future?

                                Next update in one week, with Scale and a preliminary version of Follow Path.

                                Fredo

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                                • ntxdaveN Offline
                                  ntxdave
                                  last edited by

                                  @fredo6 said:

                                  @ntxdave said:

                                  Just curious: Are any new updates planned for the near future?

                                  Next update in one week, with Scale and a preliminary version of Follow Path.

                                  Fredo

                                  YAHOO!!!! 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

                                  Now if you could work with Enscape, that would be absolutely awesome..........

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    Fredo President! 😉

                                    Frenchy Pilou
                                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                    My Little site :)

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                                      Alex37550
                                      last edited by

                                      @alex37550 said:

                                      problème d'image déformée sur une animation

                                      @fredo6 said:

                                      Je ne comprends pas bien le probleme. Est ce que les images servent simplement de fond.
                                      Dans tous les cas, Animator travaillant seulement sur des groupes et components, il est prudent de mettre les images dans un groupe.

                                      Fredo

                                      Bonjour,

                                      J'utilise une image que j'ai importé pour l'adapter qui me sert donc de fond. (je ne fais donc pas bouger la caméra sinon elle ne serait plus visible, mais ce n'est pas grave.)
                                      L'image que j'ai jointe est ce que j'obtiens en aperçu avant de faire la vidéo. Si je fais le montage, la vidéo ressemble à cette image.
                                      Le problème est que ce "bug" n'est pas systématique, donc je ne sais pas dire dans quelle condition il se produit. On a réussi finalement à avoir une image non déformée, mais sans savoir ce qui a été efficace. On a essayé par exemple de déplacer les axes du dessin ou de la photo adaptée.

                                      Avez vous déjà essayé animator avec une photo adaptée? quand on utilise le zoom, c'est bizarre, la photo est figée mais on retrouve l'échelle, on récupérant la position de départ sauvegardée. (Donc pas grave, même si la 1ère fois, on pense avoir perdu l'échelle par rapport à la photo)

                                      Alexandre, fan des plug in de Fredo! Merci Fredo

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                                        adrihal
                                        last edited by

                                        While working with the plugin, several problems arose.
                                        There is no way to make a render of any size - just the size of the screen.
                                        Can not record the reverse playback.

                                        There is a wish - I would like to receive lines on which the assembly is disassembled.
                                        As if the circuit for assembling complex structures.
                                        The effect is the damping for the pendulum and the rebound with the damping for the ball.
                                        These inserts revitalized the videos

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                                        • fredo6F Offline
                                          fredo6
                                          last edited by

                                          @adrihal said:

                                          While working with the plugin, several problems arose.
                                          There is no way to make a render of any size - just the size of the screen.
                                          Can not record the reverse playback.

                                          There is a wish - I would like to receive lines on which the assembly is disassembled.
                                          As if the circuit for assembling complex structures.
                                          The effect is the damping for the pendulum and the rebound with the damping for the ball.
                                          These inserts revitalized the videos

                                          You are right. The reversed_play option does not work. I fixed it. Thanks for signaling.

                                          For the dimensions, you have predefined options but you can freely defined custom dimensions. Simply, dimensions cannot be bigger than the viewport resolution.

                                          Fredo

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                                            adrihal
                                            last edited by

                                            @fredo6 said:

                                            For the dimensions, you have predefined options but you can freely defined custom dimensions. Simply, dimensions cannot be bigger than the viewport resolution.
                                            Fredo
                                            [/quote]

                                            The quality of the video with the screen size is poor. It can not be used for further work. Why the renderer in Sketchup allows you to set the picture size to 2500 or more.
                                            The animator can greatly improve the presentation of the model. But for this we need a large picture resolution without additional programs.

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