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[Plugin Beta] Animator - v4.4a - 01 Jun 25

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    MALAISE
    last edited by 9 Jun 2017, 07:15

    Hello Fredo

    Question: is it possible to insert a dummy sequence in time line that shifts all the following step ?
    This could be usefull when some not shown process is working.

    Friendly

    Pierre


    some WIP

    La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagée

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      fredo6
      last edited by 9 Jun 2017, 20:50

      The animation made me understand the XRay Analyzer. And Pilou was wrong, not to do with pastry!

      I'll do the dummy sequence. I was thinking of it anyway, at least for forcing an adjustable quiet period at the beginning or the end of the clip.

      Fredo

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        pilou
        last edited by 9 Jun 2017, 22:27

        I was not too far away! 💚

        http://blog.cerfdellier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/nebulacake.jpg

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

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          Schicks
          last edited by 15 Jun 2017, 11:26

          Hi Fredo,

          Is there a way to resize the controls? Using a Macbook Pro Retina, the controls are tiny and hard to read. Probably something to do with the screen resolution...

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            fredo6
            last edited by 9 Jul 2017, 22:58

            New Release: Animator - v1.7a - 09 Jul 17

            Requirement: LibFredo6 v7.7a

            Major release

            • bug fixing and cosmetic changes
            • introduction of Visual Target, which is a visual effect forcing the camera to point to a given point in the model (possibly moving)
            • Support of high-resolution screens

            See main post for RBZ files

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              tomaszdrgas
              last edited by 7 Aug 2017, 06:52

              "Fog" doesn't change smoothly between cameras, like "shadows" and "field of view" does. It just jumps to next style's value.

              "date" for shadows. If I have to cameras based on sceens with two different dates (june and october), it causes jumping creasy shadows. not often people would use that but that little thing to fix.

              As well when adding camera based on sceen, using styles, layers visibility and shadows connected to camera could be by default turned on (seems good to me).

              When using camera captured from current view, options for using shadows, layers and styles attached to camera are not greyed out.. Is it becuse you can attach them? When I clicked shadows on, than it stopped the animation at the end of duration of previous camera.. so seems like it lucked of informations.. OOKK that was becouse I didn't turn on shadows on when capturing the camera.. When I chose the camera and recaptured with new shadows it worked.. though would be good it there was something in memory even if I don't turned it on..

              There is nice smoothing of the path between the possitions of ongoing cameras. So the path of camera is a nice curve. (with bezzier) But speed is stil interpolated only between two consecutive cameras so there is no smooth change of sppeed in the point of camera's placement.. this one could be "eased" too... I was hoping for that ..

              Tomasz

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                tomaszdrgas
                last edited by 7 Aug 2017, 07:26

                To Fredo6 - Just very curious.. Are you a man or an institution.. Somehow can not fit it in my small head that someone having regular job, does all that work with plugins for free as a hobby in free time.. It seems not an easy thing to write it and you do a LOT..

                Big thanks... for all..

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                  fredo6
                  last edited by 7 Aug 2017, 12:35

                  @tomaszdrgas said:

                  To Fredo6 - Just very curious.. Are you a man or an institution.. Somehow can not fit it in my small head that someone having regular job, does all that work with plugins for free as a hobby in free time.. It seems not an easy thing to write it and you do a LOT..

                  Big thanks... for all..

                  I am alone, and does not even have lot of free time. So progress is slow!..., considering I wrote my plugins over 10 years now.

                  Fredo

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                    fredo6
                    last edited by 7 Aug 2017, 12:38

                    @tomaszdrgas said:

                    "Fog" doesn't change smoothly between cameras, like "shadows" and "field of view" does. It just jumps to next style's value.

                    Fog is not supported (yet) in Animator. So it does not do any interpolation

                    @tomaszdrgas said:

                    "date" for shadows. If I have to cameras based on sceens with two different dates (june and october), it causes jumping creasy shadows. not often people would use that but that little thing to fix.

                    Animator interpolates between the two dates. So, between June and October, you'll get many nights and days! What I think should be a nice add-on is to keep the day-time of the first day specified, and shows how the shadow becomes on the other days. I'll introduce this in a next version.

                    @tomaszdrgas said:

                    As well when adding camera based on sceen, using styles, layers visibility and shadows connected to camera could be by default turned on (seems good to me).
                    When using camera captured from current view, options for using shadows, layers and styles attached to camera are not greyed out.. Is it becuse you can attach them? When I clicked shadows on, than it stopped the animation at the end of duration of previous camera.. so seems like it lucked of informations.. OOKK that was becouse I didn't turn on shadows on when capturing the camera.. When I chose the camera and recaptured with new shadows it worked.. though would be good it there was something in memory even if I don't turned it on..

                    Views (and Scene) sequencesare always captured with all style elements. However, the style can be enabled or disabled for the elementsin the timeline. I could not make my mind about the default (currrently style is Off). I guess some users would use views just for the camera positioning and treat styles independently, via visual effects.

                    @tomaszdrgas said:

                    There is nice smoothing of the path between the possitions of ongoing cameras. So the path of camera is a nice curve. (with bezzier) But speed is stil interpolated only between two consecutive cameras so there is no smooth change of sppeed in the point of camera's placement.. this one could be "eased" too... I was hoping for that ..

                    I plan to introduce a Travelling camera, where there is a control over the speed of camera (constant or eased or dependent on curvature of the path).

                    Fredo

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                      tomaszdrgas
                      last edited by 8 Aug 2017, 03:07

                      So I opened the same file today and animation again stopped on the end of duration of sceen camera before the "capture view" camera with attached shadow.. I thought maybe I haven't saved something yesterday. So I recaptured the view with changed shadow, saved inside animator and after going out of it.. Don't remember on which save I had notification " C file 5 exception ...bla bla bla" These are only worlds I remember. I didn't knew whats that about.. sKetchup was still working all looked fine..
                      I opened new file to again reopen my test animation and then I found test.skp is gone.. I saved twice so I could just use skb without problems but that was strange.. And happened second time this week just before I didn't connect it with another test file missing.. I'll show you the message if it happens again..

                      test2 MP4.skp

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                        fredo6
                        last edited by 8 Aug 2017, 07:03

                        Tomasz,

                        There is a small bug in the interpolation of shadows. Something weird, since apparently a shadow may not have a time defined ( shadow["ShadowTime_time_t"] is nil).
                        I fixed it and will republished.

                        I doubt however that this can provoke a "C File5 exception", but it creates a problem in the animation of view.

                        Also, Animator just saves the animation data in the model, but cannot erase the skp file itself.

                        Fredo

                        PS: I noticed that you also lost the spinning of the wheels. I re-established it in the attached skp.


                        tomasz - test2 MP4.skp

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                          tomaszdrgas
                          last edited by 9 Aug 2017, 00:48

                          I was looking for a way to remove some objects from the movement and adding others without deleting and creating another movement.. though I was uneable to do so.. probably some luck of click somewhere.. I haven't noticed it in tutorial..
                          I could go into edition of movement and select some but green arrow with dot for saving changes would stay greyed out.. When I deselected all (using arrow with x sign provided in animator) and selected what I wanted then green was green but all stopped spinning. I was going to look for that myself not to bother pros with such a littlies.. but I tried and no more ideas..
                          And the wheels spin opposite way than the arrow shows even though angle is possitive. When I change to negative (-795) they spin opposite direction but arrow aswell changed to opposite so it is always pointing wrong..

                          I'm actually childish proud of myself that I have actually foud a bag.. I mean you did, but... I helped..

                          I don't know who did it, but the file did dissapear. And in place of it was another file 1.skb . With same (about) time of creation like the time of dissapearing. And with date for a day ealier when simillar thing happend I have 0.skb file. So deffiniatelly something strange.

                          Tomasz

                          For a guy with no much time you answer with a light speed.. hollidays?

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                            fredo6
                            last edited by 9 Aug 2017, 08:01

                            Tomasz

                            Here is the model with all wheels spinning correctly.
                            I also enclosed the movement (Transalation and spinnings) into a clip, so you can reuse it in the animation, changing the distance and direction (via dimming factor).

                            tomasz - test2 MP4.skp

                            Film 1.mov

                            In a next version, I'll do something to make the cloning of elements and sequences easier to manage.

                            For the question of 1.skp, I guess this is not related directly to Animator. If you look at Forum, you'll see that this happens in various situations.

                            Fredo

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                              tomaszdrgas
                              last edited by 9 Aug 2017, 08:19

                              Sorry for trouble but I know how to meke the spin.. in corect speed.. What I ment was..

                              I have made rotate movement for 4 wheels. So 2 of them were moving opposite direction cos they were scaled *-1. I wanted without deliting movement itself remove two wheels from it.. Couldn't do it so..

                              Only way I know is deliting the movement for 4 wheels and meke new one for 2 wheels on one side and another for other side.
                              Editing values - Works. Editing selection - Don't know if possible.

                              Thanks again..

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                                jgb
                                last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 16:05

                                Fredo6, a favor please.

                                I just discovered your animation plugin, and went through this thread (quickly). It's installed but I have not yet played with it.

                                In the lead thread there is your usual documentation section and I well understand you have not (yet?) produced a .PDF guide. Instead you have references to 3 tutorials.

                                Could you please convert those references into clickable links?

                                Thanks
                                jgb


                                jgb

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                                  fredo6
                                  last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 20:35

                                  @jgb said:

                                  Could you please convert those references into clickable links?

                                  Just fixed the link (polluted by an old bug in the forum, adding http: in URL).

                                  Note that many videos are based on an older version of the GUI, but I guess you'll find your way with the updated GUI.

                                  Fredo

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                                    jgb
                                    last edited by 11 Aug 2017, 21:07

                                    Thank you.
                                    This old dog has difficulty learning new tricks.
                                    I've tried many SU based animators over the years starting with SketchyPhysics (almost got the hang of it). Others left me wanting, others way too complex or plain unusable. I need a simple animator without the physics complications, so I hope, based on the quality and functions of your stuff, most of which I use daily (Curviloft in particular), this rendition of an SU animator will do the trick.


                                    jgb

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                                      fredo6
                                      last edited by 16 Aug 2017, 17:49

                                      New Release: Animator - v1.7c - 16 Aug 17

                                      Requirement: LibFredo6 v7.7c

                                      Minor release

                                      • bug fixing
                                      • First support of VRay (v3.40.04) for rendering of animations

                                      See main post for RBZ files

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                                        tomaszdrgas
                                        last edited by 21 Aug 2017, 05:30

                                        I guess easiest would be interpolating date and hour seperately.

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                                          fredo6
                                          last edited by 21 Aug 2017, 09:36

                                          @tomaszdrgas said:

                                          I guess easiest would be interpolating date and hour seperately.

                                          Definitely.

                                          If the two dates are separated by less than 24 hours, then interpolate the dates

                                          Otherwise, interpolate the days, but keeping the same hour.

                                          Fredo

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