[Tips] Animator Tips and Tricks

fredo6 · 1 Nov 2018, 21:32

@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 · 1 Nov 2018, 22:04

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 · 1 Nov 2018, 22:26

Here's a screenflow capture...

fredo6 · 2 Nov 2018, 08:25

Do you have a special mouse ?

MANaboutTOOLS · 2 Nov 2018, 12:30

No, mouse came with the mac.

fredo6 · 2 Nov 2018, 17:14

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

Thanks

Fredo

MANaboutTOOLS · 3 Nov 2018, 00:27

Yes,

I have Ruby open. No difference.

Kent

juju · 3 Nov 2018, 08:36

@manabouttools said:

Yes,

I have Ruby open. No difference.

Kent

any messages in the ruby console when scrolling?

MANaboutTOOLS · 3 Nov 2018, 13:07

No. Nothing

fredo6 · 19 Aug 2019, 11:29

@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 · 19 Aug 2019, 17:31

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 · 26 Mar 2020, 15:13

@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 · 26 Mar 2020, 15:20

@itaipeter said:

The picto is explicit

Your video cannot be accessed. Maybe it is private.

itaipeter · 26 Mar 2020, 15:59

@fredo6 said:

@itaipeter said:

The picto is explicit

Your video cannot be accessed. Maybe it is private.

it should work now. thank you

fredo6 · 26 Mar 2020, 20:36

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 · 28 Mar 2020, 13:30

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

dennis1313 · 25 Mar 2021, 07:45

Can I create a custom easing curve? Dennis

dennis1313 · 25 Mar 2021, 13:59

Let's start with this - Your Animator product is awesome.....

I do have a question - can the user create their own custome "easing" timeline? I have a need for a custom timeline for a project i am working on. Have you thought about an "easing" timeline that doesn't go from 0-to-1 but from 0 to some other value. I am thinking of something like a two cycle sinewave or a path that starts at zero and damps out at the end to .5 Think of the things you could move around with that - the possibilities are almost endless. You can do almost anything with the tools you have provided but a custom easing would allow MANY things to be done in one step that now take many steps.
dennis1313

fredo6 · 26 Mar 2021, 11:13

@dennis1313 said:

Let's start with this - Your Animator product is awesome.....
Thanks for the positive appreciation.

@dennis1313 said:

I do have a question - can the user create their own custom "easing" timeline?

This is in my plan, and more generally, to provide a framework to vary all variables through time. I mainly need to build a GUI for that.

Are you interested in custom easing for movement or for cameras?

jani151 · 2 Jun 2021, 11:58

@fredo6 said:

@wanniya said:

Is there any way to work with section plane animation?

This is coming in a new release tomorrow.

Fredo

[attachment=1:3ljdz6fn]Animator - Apparition.gif[/attachment:3ljdz6fn]

[attachment=0:3ljdz6fn]Animator - Apparition 2.gif[/attachment:3ljdz6fn]

Hi Guys, Can you guide me to create the animation using section plane along with the path in different SketchUp styles [i.e x-ray, hidden line, wireframe, etc]. Actually, I want to create an animation of water flow through the pipe in sketchup[similar to blender].

Jani