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    • fredo6F Offline
      fredo6
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      New Release: Animator - v2.4b - 12 Mar 19

      Requirement: LibFredo6 v8.7e

      Minor release

      • Extension of validity
      • Some bug fixes

      See plugin home page of Animator for Download of RBZ from the PluginStore.

      See Main Post of the Animator thread for more information.

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        Aaronyee
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        @fredo6 said:

        New Release: Animator - v2.4b - 12 Mar 19

        Requirement: LibFredo6 v8.7e

        Minor release

        • Extension of validity
        • Some bug fixes

        See plugin home page of Animator for Download of RBZ from the PluginStore.

        See Main Post of the Animator thread for more information.

        Hi, fredo. I want to realize how version of thea render can support v2.4b animator. Is the thea render v2.0 ok? Thank you for help me.

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        • fredo6F Offline
          fredo6
          last edited by

          @aaronyee said:

          Hi, fredo. I want to realize how version of thea render can support v2.4b animator. Is the thea render v2.0 ok? Thank you for help me.

          I did not test with this version of Thea 2.0. I only have v1.5 on my laptop.

          So if you have it already, please make a test on a simple animation, opening the Ruby Console to check if there are error messages (normally you should only see traces of the execution).

          For Thea, make sure you use a Presto method, not interactive, with a reasonable sample/px, typically 10 to 20. This keeps the rendering under a reasonable amount of time.

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          • fredo6F Offline
            fredo6
            last edited by

            New Release: Animator - v2.4c - 14 May 19

            Requirement: LibFredo6 v8.7f

            Minor release

            • Extension of validity

            See plugin home page of Animator for Download of RBZ from the PluginStore.

            See Main Post of the Animator thread for more information.

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            • M Offline
              meapiper
              last edited by

              Can I use this extension with Maxwell Render to create a rendered video? I believe I need to creates multiple scenes to bring into Maxwell.

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              • fredo6F Offline
                fredo6
                last edited by

                @meapiper said:

                Can I use this extension with Maxwell Render to create a rendered video? I believe I need to creates multiple scenes to bring into Maxwell.

                I have no API to Maxwell, so it is not supported in Direct mode by Animator.

                And I doubt that Maxwell support the reverse mode (as Thea does), because they would have contacted me.

                So short answer is NO.

                Fredo

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                • fredo6F Offline
                  fredo6
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                  New Release: Animator - v2.4d - 14 Jun 19

                  Requirement: LibFredo6 v8.7f

                  Minor release

                  • Added a permanent FFMeg button to be able to change the location of the FFmpeg executable
                    FFmpeg button reload.png
                  • Extension of validity

                  See plugin home page of Animator for Download of RBZ from the PluginStore.

                  See Main Post of the Animator thread for more information.

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                  • fredo6F Offline
                    fredo6
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                    New Release: Animator - v2.5a - 11 Sep 19

                    Requirement: LibFredo6 v9.1b

                    Minor release

                    • fixed some bug around video generation
                    • Extension of validity

                    See plugin home page of Animator for Download of RBZ from the PluginStore.

                    See Main Post of the Animator thread for more information.

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                      yonofun
                      last edited by

                      Any advice concerning ffmpeg video download. I followed the link and the FFmpeg.org pdf directions but didn't find the exact steps available and got into a baited ads trap and downloaded similarly labeled ffmpeg files that were unrelated. I successfully created an edit in animator and would love to get it to mp4.

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                      • fredo6F Offline
                        fredo6
                        last edited by

                        @yonofun said:

                        Any advice concerning ffmpeg video download. I followed the link and the FFmpeg.org pdf directions but didn't find the exact steps available and got into a baited ads trap and downloaded similarly labeled ffmpeg files that were unrelated. I successfully created an edit in animator and would love to get it to mp4.

                        For Mac, here is the download page.

                        Then I suggest you pick the latest build of FFmpeg for Mac (dated 3 Jan 2020).

                        https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/macos64/static/ffmpeg-20200102-81172b5-macos64-static.zip

                        Just extract the ffmpegexecutable in the ** bin**subfolder and put it in a known place where you will point to from Animator.

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                        • fredo6F Offline
                          fredo6
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                          New Release: Animator - v2.6a - 12 Jan 20

                          Requirement: LibFredo6 v9.5

                          Minor release

                          • New instructions for FFmpeg installation
                          • Extension of validity

                          See plugin home page of Animator for Download of RBZ from the PluginStore.

                          See Main Post of the Animator thread for more information.

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                            stopping
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                            Hi there,

                            thank you for this incredible plugin! I've been using it for about half a year now creating animation films and it's truly one of the greatest SU plugins out there.

                            However, since yesterday afternoon I'm experiencing a few bugs.

                            1. Animations aren't previewed in the editor
                            2. I can't select a specific time in my timeline any more. On mouseover it hovers in turquoise, however, nothing happens upon clicking. When I temporarily exit to SU and return to Animator it has then selected the moment I wasn't able to select previously. However, it doesn't show the animations that should have happened up to this point.
                            3. When I proceed to "Generate a Video for the Film" it does not show a pop up window. It just hides all menus and displays a red frame around the editor.

                            All these issues occured from one moment to the other. It was fine yesterday morning but started behaving like this in the afternoon. I tried to reinstall both the animator as well as the lib but it didn't help. I then proceeded to try the plugins in SU17 - same issues here.

                            I'm using Win 10 Pro 64 Bit, SU19.2.222, Lib 9.5g, Animator 2.6a

                            Here are the lines from the Ruby Console upon opening the animator:

                            Error; #<ArgumentError; wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 3)>
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6spline.rbe;46;in `evaluate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;291;in `bezier'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;260;in `call'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;260;in `double'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;246;in `block in standard_function_calculate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;254;in `standard_function_calculate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;214;in `standard_interpolate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;61;in `interpolate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;988;in `animal_apply_easing_oscillation'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;920;in `animal_calculate_ratio'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;852;in `block in animal_animate_contribution'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;845;in `each'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;845;in `animal_animate_contribution'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;638;in `animal_animate_processing'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;574;in `animal_animate_film'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe;1356;in `clip_animate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe;1534;in `notify_from_clip_animation'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6animationengine.rbe;239;in `call'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6animationengine.rbe;239;in `notify_event'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6animationengine.rbe;447;in `perform'
                            ...
                            

                            And this is what I get when I try to select a specific time from the timeline:

                            Error; #<ArgumentError; wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 3)>
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6spline.rbe;46;in `evaluate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;291;in `bezier'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;260;in `call'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;260;in `double'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;246;in `block in standard_function_calculate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;58;in `interpolate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;988;in `animal_apply_easing_oscillation'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;927;in `animal_calculate_ratio'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;852;in `block in animal_animate_contribution'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;845;in `each'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;845;in `animal_animate_contribution'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;638;in `animal_animate_processing'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;574;in `animal_animate_film'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe;1356;in `clip_animate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe;1534;in `notify_from_clip_animation'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6animationengine.rbe;239;in `call'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6animationengine.rbe;239;in `notify_event'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6animationengine.rbe;447;in `perform'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6animationengine.rbe;317;in `rewind'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6animationengine.rbe;466;in `goto_time'
                            ...
                            

                            This is the result from selecting "Generate a Video for the Film":

                            RENDERING INIT
                            Status natural = {}
                            Status thea = ;not_supported
                            Status ambient_occlusion = ;not_supported
                            Status sketchFX = ;not_supported
                            Status twilight = ;not_supported
                            
                            VRAY Init
                            Status vray = ;not_supported
                            Error; #<ArgumentError; wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 3)>
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6spline.rbe;46;in `evaluate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;291;in `bezier'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;260;in `call'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;260;in `double'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;246;in `block in standard_function_calculate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6oscillation.rbe;58;in `interpolate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;988;in `animal_apply_easing_oscillation'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;920;in `animal_calculate_ratio'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;852;in `block in animal_animate_contribution'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;845;in `each'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;845;in `animal_animate_contribution'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;638;in `animal_animate_processing'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe;574;in `animal_animate_film'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe;1356;in `clip_animate'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe;1340;in `clip_animate_rewind'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe;582;in `assign_clip'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe;559;in `build_list_clips'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe;363;in `dialog_invoke'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe;2206;in `movie_dialog'
                            c;/users/steff/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2019/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe;2176;in `movie_clip_generation'
                            ...
                            
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                            • fredo6F Offline
                              fredo6
                              last edited by

                              Thanks for signaling.

                              It should normally be fixed with LibFredo6 9.5h, just published.

                              Fredo

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                                stopping
                                last edited by

                                @fredo6 said:

                                Thanks for signaling.

                                It should normally be fixed with LibFredo6 9.5h, just published.

                                Fredo

                                Excellent, Thanks for the quick reply! That actually solved it!

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                                  Emersonvip
                                  last edited by

                                  any chance to work with Enscape?

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                                  • fredo6F Offline
                                    fredo6
                                    last edited by

                                    @emersonvip said:

                                    any chance to work with Enscape?

                                    No for the time being. I would need to liaise with the Enscape developers to see if something can be done.

                                    Fredo

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                                      Emersonvip
                                      last edited by

                                      That would be wonderful.

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                                      • MechaHercM Offline
                                        MechaHerc
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi guys, i got problem with new version, am i missing something here?

                                        the exploded filter not working in vray rendered..


                                        Vray Rendered


                                        Sketchup Animation

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                                        • C Offline
                                          Chelle
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi,

                                          I love the animator and it works great for creating spinning camera angles of my building designs however I've found an issue when rendering animations involving movement and kinetics of doors.

                                          The animation works fine within Sketchup and in Animator. It also shows on the interactive render within Vray.
                                          However when it comes to creating the MP4, it is only rendering the first image of the closed doors on repeat and not creating an animation.

                                          This is the video which I am trying to render using Vray Next (working when just using Sketchup):

                                          This is an example of the videos I have been creating where it has worked fine and rendered in Vray:

                                          Please help as I am loving the software so far and would like the animated door videos to match the showcasing of the model.

                                          Versions I am using:
                                          Sketchup - Sketchup Pro 2020
                                          Vray - Vray Next 4.20.01 Feb 18 2020
                                          Fredo6 Animator - 2.6c - 19 Mar 20

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                                          • fredo6F Offline
                                            fredo6
                                            last edited by

                                            Could you post or PM the model.

                                            Difficult to find out without.

                                            Also, when you run the video generation, could you leave the Ruby Console open. There are traces showing the processing of frames. And there may be errors as well.

                                            Thanks

                                            Fredo

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