Multiple animated groups with one click

Dave R

According to your profile, you have SketchUp Make. Dynamic Components might work for what you want but you have to have SketchUp Pro to create them.

phyte

I didn't update my profile. I use Pro version but from what I know dynamic components are not necessary for functions and animations. They work also only with groups.

Dave R

The functions Help page you linked to is for Dynamic Components.

Dynamic Components work with Components. They aren't called Dynamic Groups.

For animations like you are referring to, you don't have to use Dynamic Components. You can use an extension like Animator but either way you'll have to learn how to use whatever you choose. Or you can hire someone to do the work for you.

phyte

I mean that the same functions can be used for components and groups.

Dave R

Yes. When making Dynamic Components those functions can be used.

You should get on with doing it. You'd have had it done before now if you'd gotten down to it.

pcmoor

You could upload a model with some commentary on how it should work

phyte

@dave r said:

When making Dynamic Components those functions can be used.
I mean that those functions can be used also for pure groups (without components).
Anyway, I want for example:

one click on the object (left) causes rotation of each subgroup (right)
first click on the object causes rotation of the object on one axis, second click causes rotation on the second axis, third click causes scaling

Is this possible to do in SU without plugins?

pilou

Surely in Dynamic components (with Pro Version of SU)
But you must make a light coding!

ntxdave

Perhaps you should take a look at SimLab Composer.

They have a free version and you can click on objects to animate them.

pcmoor

using onclick formula with groups

rotation with cumulative angle
multi movement with a timeline called num

example1.skp

pilou

Impossible to load this above exemple1 (too recent version)

pcmoor

should have known better......
version 8

pilou

Better loading for a more large audiance!!

So Dynamic Components I presume?

phyte

Thanks for these models, I've tried to figure it out and implement it to my idea, but still I don't get it. Can you just make that for me?:

3 subgroups with different sizes, same axis

first click: red, blue rotates by 45, 90, green no change
second click: going back to start positions (0, 0)

2 subgroups with different sizes, same axis

first click: red changes its size (2)
second click: whole group rotates by 90 (3)
third click: red gets original size (4)
fourth click: back to start/rotation -90 (1)

2 subgroups with different sizes, same axis

first click: red changes its size (2)
second click: red changes its size (3)
third click: back to start/red changes its size (1)

pcmoor

examples 2.skp

phyte

Thank you, I still can't recreate the same objects having same values.
ad 1: error in

=-Group!switch*90

ad 2: error in

=choose(Group!switch,180,180-15*Group!counter,30,30+15*Group!counter)

Also, one more animation:
4. 2 subgroups

first click [right]: bigger subgroup rotates holding to smaller one, whole group moves to stick with wall object (independent object)
second click [left]: goes back to 90 rotation and sticks to the wall

pcmoor

Without the file, I can't be sure, but is the child label "group" as well as the parent? if so then there is a reference to the same. Double click one of the labels and change the name

the next
example3.skp

phyte

Ok, I fixed it and did what I wanted to do (more or less), thanks again.