[Tips] Animator Tips and Tricks

fredo6

I tried as many combinations as possible. All just zoom the model.

Kent

Can you at least scroll the timeline (mousewheel, no modifier) and scroll the tracks (Ctrl + mousewheel), [assuming you have enough tracks) ?

MANaboutTOOLS

I don't have enough tracks to test that. Will try tmrw.

MANaboutTOOLS

I changed a clip to make it longer so it brought up the scroll bars. I am unable to scroll the timeline with the mouse wheel. It always zooms the model window.

Kent

MANaboutTOOLS

Any keyboard shortcuts to zoom the timeline? Or any settings to key in a zoom value to get around this?

Thanks
Kent

fredo6

@manabouttools said:

Any keyboard shortcuts to zoom the timeline? Or any settings to key in a zoom value to get around this?

Thanks
Kent

Let's take things in order

without any modifier, putting the mouse cursor over the time, can you scroll the timeline?
with Option key pressed, and assuming you have enough tracks, can you scroll the tracks?
with Command key pressed, putting the mouse cursor over the time, what do you get?

MANaboutTOOLS

I can click-drag with the left button to scroll the time. I added enough tracks to test this.

No. Hovering the curser over the bar and gesturing with the magic mouse (scroll-wheel) zooms the model.
No. Zooms the model
With the mouse hovering over the scroll bar the time reads (for example) 25.5 s. If I press the command key the time then reads 25.50 s. And as above, mouse wheel gesture zooms model.

I hope this helps. Do you want a screen record?
Kent

MANaboutTOOLS

Here's a screenflow capture...

fredo6

Do you have a special mouse ?

MANaboutTOOLS

No, mouse came with the mac.

fredo6

Could you open the Ruby Console when you run Animator and scroll with the mousewheel.

Thanks

Fredo

MANaboutTOOLS

Yes,

I have Ruby open. No difference.

Kent

juju

@manabouttools said:

Yes,

I have Ruby open. No difference.

Kent

any messages in the ruby console when scrolling?

MANaboutTOOLS

No. Nothing

fredo6

@carloshmejia said:

First of all thank you for your amazing plugins.
I am learning to use Animator. For some reason my original position changed and now it not correspond to my model. Are there a way to reset or change the original position of my clip?

Probably not...

There is a Positioner facility in Animator (4th icon), allowing you save and restore the position of objects. It is a good idea to save the position of objects before you start building animations.

Fredo

carloshmejia

Fredo, first of all thank you for your amazing plugins.
Frequently the objects that I am animating lose its connection with the movements assign to them. Timeline seems OK, when you run the sequence it shows running except the objects don't move. What am I doing wrong?

itaipeter

@fredo6 said:

The picto is explicit

Hello Fredo, thanks for the extension it's amazing and simple to use.
I'm having difficulty using the appearance function. for some reason, it doesn't work as it should.
I've messed with it in this project and suddenly as working the function refused to work with disappearing components.i've made a short video to explain.
thanks

fredo6

@itaipeter said:

The picto is explicit

Your video cannot be accessed. Maybe it is private.

itaipeter

@fredo6 said:

@itaipeter said:

The picto is explicit

Your video cannot be accessed. Maybe it is private.

it should work now. thank you

fredo6

I am not sure I understand the problems from the video.

Maybe posting the model would help so that I can have a look.

Fredo

itaipeter

update:
I've created a new file for trying the disappear apparition option and it worked perfectly.
somehow it's my file that is not corresponding with the plugin. I tried to delete all layers and purge the file but it didn't help.

here is another video to show that. (in this one the animator doesn't even react)

thanks,
itay