[Plugin] Animator - v4.5a - 22 Jul 25
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@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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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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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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@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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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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@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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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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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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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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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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Is Vray 3.6 installed in SU2018?
I will investigate on my side
Fredo
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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:
However, when I choose to render the animation I get this:
Is there a way to fix this? reset Thea in some way?
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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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@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.
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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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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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@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.
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It has been a while since I tried anything with Thea but so far all I am getting is a black screen. No content!!
I am rendering it with Twilight though. I will share that when I am done rendering it (going pretty fast).
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@ntxdave said:
It has been a while since I tried anything with Thea but so far all I am getting is a black screen. No content!!
I am rendering it with Twilight though. I will share that when I am done rendering it (going pretty fast).
You are getting a black screen because you do not have an HDRi in the illumination slot, the sun is switched off.
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Still working on it Pete. Creating an MP4 with Thea did not work correctly and I had a problem trying to create a GIF. In the process again.........
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