Animating retractable lightsaber
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Hi,
Like the topic said, I want to try and achieve this (I hope rather simple) animation. The idea is to render it with SUPodium when finished. Since this uses scenes for rendering, I found out that Fredo6's animation plugin wouldn't be the right one. Any other plugins I can use?
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How about sketchup scenes? Different lengths of 'blade' on different layers, switch off all but the one you want for each 'frame'.
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Could one use the section animation for this. Two scenes with different section cuts. Wouldn't SU animate the transition?
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Technically, a lightsaber beam is about 3ft so from off to fully extended it would take 3.0501e-9 or 10 to the 9 nanoseconds. An animation is what 30 frames per second? so it would take way less than a single frame to extend, no need for animation, render it off then on, there is no visible transition.
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Well, I've decided to ditch animating it all together and just make a simple render. Will post it in a few!
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