Space Navigator - Save Scene

CadFather · 3 Feb 2008, 13:16

it's either ideas or lack of sleep..

i bought one of those space navigator as i have been asked for a fine fly-through of my sketchup model (have just been shooting around into hyperspace so far but i'll get there)

now as i roll about with the navigator, i imagine a script which keeps saving the camera view every 2 or 3 seconds so that i can then have my 64000 pages saved and later exported to ar renderer or other tricks... possible?

Gaieus · 3 Feb 2008, 13:21

@cadfather said:

...have just been shooting around into hyperspace so far but i'll get there...

the same here (although I've had it for a while).
The ruby idea is a good one though!

Jim · 3 Feb 2008, 13:28

There is a script out there (somewhere) that uses Observers to save an image every time the view is updated. There was a version for SU 5 also, which would need to be timer-based since it did not have Observers. I'll have to look for it.

CadFather · 3 Feb 2008, 14:53

thanks Jim - at least i know it is possible - i guess in the worst case i could press a shortcut with the other hand every 3.7 seconds..

Jim · 3 Feb 2008, 15:25

Ok I found them. These 2 scripts are exclusive - meaning they can not be installed at the same time because they share the same method names. They both do the same thing.

You need to create a folder named:

c;\su\images\

or modify the script to use another folder.

Usage : adds 'Start Recording' 'Stop Recording' to plugins menu

Select the start recording, then go about modeling as usual. SU will

record a jpg image everytime the view is refreshed, ie. whenever an entity added

or simply orbit,pan operation is done. You can collect the numbered images and make movie

using 'windows movie maker'.

limitations : Target folder is hard coded, something similar may be already outhere.

recorder.rb

recordersusix.rb

CadFather · 4 Feb 2008, 01:00

Thanks Jim - sounds a bit strange but will look into it

Jim · 7 Feb 2008, 22:16

@cadfather said:

Thanks Jim - sounds a bit strange but will look into it

CadFather,

Any luck?

CadFather · 7 Feb 2008, 22:53

not really Jim, thanks for asking, the saving procedure slows the system, making the space-navigation virtually useless (and that without shadows).

also not much use when i tried the walkthrough - it only recorded a few frames.

i guess i will end up the old way, walking about and pressing the keyboard shortcut to simulate camera movement. it is not a big deal, i was hoping for my best presentation yet but perhaps it's better not to loose too much sleep over it.

however - i will keep you posted on developments and if 'successful' i will post the result