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

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    • T Offline
      tomaszdrgas
      last edited by

      I guess easiest would be interpolating date and hour seperately.

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      • fredo6F Offline
        fredo6
        last edited by

        @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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          vailly
          last edited by

          Nice job again Fredo6.
          Is it possible to animate the "sun" to see the shadow of a building moving from early in the morning through the night?
          Thanks,
          François

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          • fredo6F Offline
            fredo6
            last edited by

            @vailly said:

            Is it possible to animate the "sun" to see the shadow of a building moving from early in the morning through the night?

            This is possible with the Visual Effect "Shadow"

            In the timeline,

            • put a first one with the date/time of early morning
            • put a second one with the date/time of late evening at the end (based on your video duration)

            Shadow is a visual effect. So it can be combined with object and camera movements and with other visual effects (zoom, etc...).

            Note that if the two date/time are separated with more than 24h, then you'll get a Season shadow animation. This is how you can simulate the shadow across several days, months or years.

            Fredo

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            • fredo6F Offline
              fredo6
              last edited by

              New Release: Animator - v1.8a - 02 Nov 17

              Requirement: LibFredo6 v7.9a

              Minor release

              • bug fixing
              • First batch of Performance improvement for large models

              See main post for RBZ files

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                Mike598601
                last edited by

                Hey Fredo, you are genius 😄 I love animator
                I tried rendering a clip in Twilight V2 pro, only 2 second duration (51 frames) - 30 hours in it had rendered 14 clips, so I decided to purchase V-Ray and upgraded LibFredo6 to 7.9 and animator to 1.8 as it says Vray is supported. Tried to render the same animation and it only took 1.5 hours - an amazing improvement!! I saw every frame rendering, However, the resulting movie, both MP4 and MOV were both only 1 frame long 😞 - Have I missed something? Can you advise me please?

                Keep up the brilliant work!!!

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                • fredo6F Offline
                  fredo6
                  last edited by

                  @mike598601 said:

                  I tried rendering a clip in Twilight V2 pro, only 2 second duration (51 frames) - 30 hours in it had rendered 14 clips, so I decided to purchase V-Ray and upgraded LibFredo6 to 7.9 and animator to 1.8 as it says Vray is supported. Tried to render the same animation and it only took 1.5 hours - an amazing improvement!! I saw every frame rendering, However, the resulting movie, both MP4 and MOV were both only 1 frame long 😞 - Have I missed something? Can you advise me please?

                  For animation, I don't think you need super-rendering. If you have only 51 frames, with a rendering of 10 s, you should keep it under 10 minutes, whether Twilight or VRay.

                  Could you post or PM your model, so that I see how it renders with Vray and Twilight.

                  Fredo

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                    mast1987
                    last edited by

                    First: Big Thanks to FREDO for this Genius plugin.

                    Theres just 1 Thing I got a Problem with: Camera Fade out.

                    If I use more than 2 views/cameras the Animation stops at the second view/camera and doesnt fade to the third one.

                    what did I wrong?

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                    • fredo6F Offline
                      fredo6
                      last edited by

                      @mast1987 said:

                      If I use more than 2 views/cameras the Animation stops at the second view/camera and doesnt fade to the third one.

                      what did I wrong?

                      Could you please post or PM your model so that I have a look.
                      Maybe you simply disable fadeout for the second camera.

                      Fredo

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                      • M Offline
                        mast1987
                        last edited by

                        ok I got a solution:

                        when i set the camera Position with the eye tool it doesnt works.
                        when I set it with the Orbit and Hand tool it works fine.....

                        thanks for the quick answer btw

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                        • fredo6F Offline
                          fredo6
                          last edited by

                          Glad to see it works.

                          Still, I don't see why you have a difference, since Animator does not really care HOW you set a view: it just capture the camera when it is set.

                          Fredo

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                          • fredo6F Offline
                            fredo6
                            last edited by

                            New Release: Animator - v1.8b - 19 Nov 17

                            Requirement: LibFredo6 v8.0b

                            Maintenance release

                            • bug fixing
                            • Handling of cases where scenes which are part of an animation are deleted in Sketchup.
                            • improvement in circular camera interpolation (fadeout) if you also install LibFredo6 8.0b

                            See main post for RBZ files

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                              Mike598601
                              last edited by

                              Just upgraded VRay to 3.6 but it no longer appears in the 'Render with' options in animator - is this version of Vray supported by animator in SU 2018?

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                              • fredo6F Offline
                                fredo6
                                last edited by

                                Is Vray 3.6 installed in SU2018?

                                I will investigate on my side

                                Fredo

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                                • soloS Offline
                                  solo
                                  last edited by

                                  Go home Thea, you're drunk!

                                  Why is Thea acting like a drunk uncle? see the animation in SU, this is what I want to render in Thea:

                                  right.gif

                                  However, when I choose to render the animation I get this:

                                  wrong.gif

                                  Is there a way to fix this? reset Thea in some way?

                                  http://www.solos-art.com

                                  If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                  • ntxdaveN Offline
                                    ntxdave
                                    last edited by

                                    I am assuming that when you went to create the animation using the Animator plugin you clicked the Thea button. I have not seen anything like that happen but I have not used Animator for a while

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                                    • soloS Offline
                                      solo
                                      last edited by

                                      @ntxdave said:

                                      I am assuming that when you went to create the animation using the Animator plugin you clicked the Thea button. I have not seen anything like that happen but I have not used Animator for a while

                                      If I did not press the Thea button then it would not have rendered with Thea, I did what I always do, use Thea animation with the Animator plugin selected.

                                      Besides Thea, does Animator support other renderers? may be time to move on.

                                      http://www.solos-art.com

                                      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                      • ntxdaveN Offline
                                        ntxdave
                                        last edited by

                                        I remember for sure that it also supports Twilight Pro and Ambient Occlusion. Not sure which others.

                                        Yes, I thought that is what you did (clicked). I guess I was "grasping at a straw" for an explanation but I know you are much more of a sage that that. Dumb remark/question on my pattern. 😳

                                        Hope you get this sorted out.

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                                        • fredo6F Offline
                                          fredo6
                                          last edited by

                                          Solo,

                                          Did you generate the rendered animation from within Animator, or from Thea animation ?

                                          I guess the best to understand what could be going on is to send me the model.

                                          Fredo

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                                          • soloS Offline
                                            solo
                                            last edited by

                                            @fredo6 said:

                                            Solo,

                                            Did you generate the rendered animation from within Animator, or from Thea animation ?

                                            I guess the best to understand what could be going on is to send me the model.

                                            Fredo

                                            I tried with Animator but for some reason that failed to do anything, I interrupted after 10 minutes only to find an empty folder, no images were saved so I then rendered within the Thea window and got the messed up result.

                                            Here is the basic model with animation set up.

                                            sorril t.skp

                                            http://www.solos-art.com

                                            If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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