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[Tutorial] Animator Quick Start

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    fredo6
    last edited by 24 Feb 2019, 10:37

    @macho3001 said:

    having written this message on the forum but regretfully I could not locate any other way to contact you or get my message across to you.

    You can send me a Private message on the forum (use PM button) and tell me what it is about.

    This would avoid you showing your email address, which is not advised on a public forum (I suggess you edit your previous post and remove it).

    Fredo

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      ACWN
      last edited by 29 Apr 2019, 03:54

      Still no option for moving a camera along a path? Just checking to make sure I didnt miss something.

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        fredo6
        last edited by 30 Apr 2019, 08:24

        @acwn said:

        Still no option for moving a camera along a path? Just checking to make sure I didnt miss something.

        Not yet but planned....

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          ACWN
          last edited by 4 May 2019, 03:19

          Dangit. A'righty, thank you!

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            TonyAU
            last edited by 18 Jun 2019, 01:16

            Hi Fredo,
            Thank you for your efforts with this plug-in, it adds a whole new level of useability to the sketchup platform.. I have used it to create 3 animations now and the results are pretty impressive. I have a question, does the plug-in allow for transfer of the animation parts to other components, or the copying of the component with the animations attached. I have looked thru the forum for the answer and nothing has popped out at me. I am doing animations that require repetitive actions to components and I'm finding myself doing the same animated time after time,ie, move up 150mm, move right 150mm, move down 75mm, rotate 90. if I could just copy the component with the animation attached I could just stagger in the time line and that would save me huge amount of time. Once again thanks for your efforts with this extension..

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              fredo6
              last edited by 18 Jun 2019, 10:25

              @tonyau said:

              I have a question, does the plug-in allow for transfer of the animation parts to other components, or the copying of the component with the animations attached. I have looked thru the forum for the answer and nothing has popped out at me. I am doing animations that require repetitive actions to components and I'm finding myself doing the same animated time after time,ie, move up 150mm, move right 150mm, move down 75mm, rotate 90. if I could just copy the component with the animation attached I could just stagger in the time line and that would save me huge amount of time.

              In principle, you have the Clone Sequence button in the Sequence Editor for Movements

              Animator  - Clone Sequence.png

              But this works for sequences individually.

              Cloning a list of sequences for another object is something Animator should provide, but I have still to find a way to do this with the UI.

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                TonyAU
                last edited by 19 Jun 2019, 04:16

                Awesome..
                Thanks for the quick response, I'll have a play with it and see how it works..

                Cheers.

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                  ctrlaltf1
                  last edited by 14 Feb 2020, 01:06

                  Hello! I'm trying to animate a scene using STATIC SCENE (the ones created in SKP).
                  Here is the prob.
                  I add Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3....
                  and it ALWAYS forces a transition between them.

                  Whereas I want:
                  Scene 1. ...5 secs.
                  CUT to SCENE 2..... 5 secs.
                  CUT to SCENE 3.... 5 secs.

                  NO TRANSITIONS between scenes.

                  I'm getting a bald spot looking for a solution :S

                  Any comments appreciated.

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                    juju
                    last edited by 14 Feb 2020, 05:31

                    @ctrlaltf1 said:

                    Hello! I'm trying to animate a scene using STATIC SCENE (the ones created in SKP).
                    Here is the prob.
                    I add Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3....
                    and it ALWAYS forces a transition between them.

                    Whereas I want:
                    Scene 1. ...5 secs.
                    CUT to SCENE 2..... 5 secs.
                    CUT to SCENE 3.... 5 secs.

                    NO TRANSITIONS between scenes.

                    I'm getting a bald spot looking for a solution :S

                    Any comments appreciated.

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                    Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                      fredo6
                      last edited by 14 Feb 2020, 09:49

                      @ctrlaltf1 said:

                      NO TRANSITIONS between scenes.

                      When you click on each element for scenes in the timeline, you have a dialog box appearing in the corner.
                      Just click and disable the 'Fade out' (it's a toggle button)

                      Animator - View params.png

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                        fredo6
                        last edited by 6 Mar 2020, 10:42

                        @unknownuser said:

                        Hi, Is it possible to reuse the animated object in another sketchup file?

                        Not possible at the moment.

                        I am trying to think whether it could be possible and how to do it, but not obvious.

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                          fredo6
                          last edited by 9 Mar 2020, 11:08

                          @unknownuser said:

                          I did an APPARITION in animator to create a section cut effect of a particular object. However, after rendering, the section cut effect affected the whole scene instead of that object.

                          This is one known problem with rendering software. They don't seem to take section cuts into account.

                          Could you try to render a model with an active section cut using Ambient Occlusion Ex and tell me if you see it.

                          Thanks

                          fredo

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                            fredo6
                            last edited by 10 Mar 2020, 17:28

                            @unknownuser said:

                            Ambient occlusion does not render section cut correction when export via animation mode.

                            Section cut does work in Ambient occlusion in a static view.

                            Animator interacts with Ambient Occlusion Ex via an API. Maybe it caches the state of objects. Let me see if there is a way to force a refresh. I noticed the same behavior with Thea.

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                              Saumil12345
                              last edited by 10 May 2020, 17:30

                              Hi,
                              I have a question regarding explosion effect in animator, is there a way to control direction of elements that explodes, currently they are exploding in all the directions but i cannot control them as in which element should move in which direction.

                              This plug-in is super useful, thanks for making something that can convert your imaginations into something visual.

                              Regards,
                              Saumil

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                                fredo6
                                last edited by 10 May 2020, 19:51

                                @saumil12345 said:

                                I have a question regarding explosion effect in animator, is there a way to control direction of elements that explodes, currently they are exploding in all the directions but i cannot control them as in which element should move in which direction.

                                Currently Animator explodes away from the center of gravity of the object. There is unfortunately no way to customize it at the moment.

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                                  Saumil12345
                                  last edited by 11 May 2020, 19:33

                                  Greetings,
                                  Thank you for a quick reply.

                                  Check out this turn table animation I created using animator , v-ray for rendering and some post production.

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                                    juju
                                    last edited by 12 May 2020, 09:29

                                    @saumil12345 said:

                                    Greetings,
                                    Thank you for a quick reply.

                                    Check out this turn table animation I created using animator , v-ray for rendering and some post production.

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                                    nice one, loved the finger snap with accompanying disintegration at the end

                                    Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                                      Saumil12345
                                      last edited by 13 May 2020, 18:03

                                      Greetings,

                                      Can anyone suggest quick rendering plugin(other than V-ray) for basic rendering of the animation. It has nearly 2000 frames.

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                                        ntxdave
                                        last edited by 13 May 2020, 18:54

                                        Have you looked at Twilight Render? Animator also supports it.

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                                          Saumil12345
                                          last edited by 13 May 2020, 19:20

                                          Not yet, I'll go through it.
                                          Thank you

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