[Plugin Beta] Animator - v4.3d - 17 Mar 25

Treadshot A1 · 17 Mar 2017, 07:07

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!

ithil · 17 Mar 2017, 11:40

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.

ithil · 18 Mar 2017, 19:50

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

fredo6 · 18 Mar 2017, 22:36

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

Treadshot A1 · 20 Mar 2017, 11:49

@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.

ithil · 20 Mar 2017, 12:59

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.

alvis · 20 Mar 2017, 22:01

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

fredo6 · 21 Mar 2017, 05:45

@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

Alex37550 · 4 Apr 2017, 08:55

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

chri · 5 Apr 2017, 21:24

@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

fredo6 · 7 Apr 2017, 21:48

@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

ntxdave · 7 Apr 2017, 21:54

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

fredo6 · 7 Apr 2017, 22:21

@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

ntxdave · 7 Apr 2017, 22:22

@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..........

pilou · 8 Apr 2017, 01:51

Fredo President!

Alex37550 · 8 Apr 2017, 06:58

@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

adrihal · 15 Apr 2017, 08:22

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

fredo6 · 15 Apr 2017, 17:35

@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

adrihal · 16 Apr 2017, 13:32

@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
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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.

fredo6 · 16 Apr 2017, 18:00

@adrihal said:

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.

I arranged to increase the limit for video resolution above the screen resolution. I did not test what are the limits in FFMPEG, but in Sketchup it is in theory 16000x16000.

I have attached a short one in 6000x2000 (as a MOV file, since we cannot attach a MP4 in this forum)

Fredo

Film 4 - final path.mov