@unknownuser said: Error: #<Errno::EACCES: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - C:/Users/Rick/AppData/Local/Temp/SCF/SketchUcation_Usage.log> The SketchUcation toolset writes a log file used in our own debugging. It does it silently as you use its tools. Fortunately the error is quite clearly explained in the error message [often it can be somewhat arcane !] SketchUp is unable to open the log file to write into it - this suggests a folder/file permissions limitation which was probably created by initially installing SketchUp incorrectly [i.e. not using ...right-click installer's exe > "Run as administrator"]... subsequent corrections of the installation - perhaps using 'Repair' - didn't reset that particular permission as it's outside the main 'SketchUp' domain... A simple fix would be to exit SketchUp and use Windows Explorer to open the Temp folder C:/Users/Rick/AppData/Local/Temp Then delete its SCF subfolder. This will delete the subfolder and its contents [i.e. SketchUcation_Usage.log], if any. When you restart SketchUp and the SketchUcation toolset loads it will not find the subfolder or log file and recreate both of them, this time using the correct permissions as were reset by any 'Repair' you might have done to the main SketchUp installation... If you get error-message problems with the other SCF files [not in Temp], then deleting those might help too... C:\Users\Rick\AppData\Local\SCF

Thank you Fredo, the Layer Visibility worked perfectly. I can now work faster with some layers toggled OFF and just toggle them ON again right before compiling !

Further to recent update, this extension now works as expected in SU 2021. Just what I needed; thanks for efforts of Steve Baumgartner and John McClenahan and thanks for your assistance TIG.

@tig said: The one on EW is v1.3 - I suspect that Fredo has left it on there as a placeholder, linking to the PluginStore, all of his extensions are now hosted in our PluginStore... The latest version listed in that Plugin's tread is v1.3a I recommend getting the version from our PluginStore... As it's packaged with v4.0 of FredoTools you get lots of extra goodies too... Thanks TIG & JuJu, I did indeed find it and successfully download FredoTools today - Thanks again!

Have you tried to save a new template after a successful component update? Additionally, the current version is 5.00.03... [image: vMY1_vray_version.JPG]

@dave r said: Have you tried contacting customer support for Vray? Vray doesn't offer support for 3rd party plugins like Animator.

@fredo6 said: Also, set the thread to 10, not 512. THIS!! what a difference in time! thanks a lot!

Unfortunately since SketchUp 2021 is out, you will no longer be able to get a license to SU 2020. Keep in mind it is also subscription now, so you're going to keep on paying for the latest version of Sketchup every year. Stop paying and you lose access to your SketchUp work. Your files from SU2015 will open and work just fine in the latest version of Sketchup. You will have to update your plugins / extensions to ones that are compatible with the latest version of SU.

Yup. It just doesn't work. I had similar problems a couple of years ago, and was told that 'linux users are rarer than hen's teeth' (I liked that line). Other side effects are that anything that's licensed via sketchucation is, well, not licensed. I get around it by running SU in a windows VM, and have always meant to investigate and debug the ruby... but I've not done that yet. Perhaps someday... Oh, there are also some extensions that are reliant on the browser that won't work. One that comes to mind is cutlist. Oh, and souvenir crashes pretty hard on certain ops.

That's a tricky one, because you animate 2 groups separately and then wants that they are animated together. So, it might not be obvious to manage, although I think it is possible (but probably not straightforward). I'll have a lookas soon as I can. Fredo

I will try to attach some pictures of the rendering I might have too many frames perhaps. There are 795 frames and on my first try it generated 108 frames but it glitched and stopped working it took 40 mins for each frame I believe. The issue has been even worse on other tries you can see from the pictures. Is there any other rendering software that you can recommend as this project was not meant to take this long. Thank you for your speedy reply and help.

@fredo6 said: @khulaifa said: I am fairly new to the Sketchup scene and I am now looking into making a video that is energy industry focused so need I to make it convey gases/water moving I thought I could do this by using section animations but not sure how to on animator. In Animator, section planes can be animated in the Movement Apparition. You may want to have a look at this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5_cxTxjG5w I really appreciate you reaching back out so quickly and amazing plugin even for a beginner such as myself.

You seem to have a wrong program assignment... For whatever reason, Animator is trying to open 7-zip instead of FFmpeg. Can you reinstall FFmpeg properly (following the instructions), that is extracting the FFmpeg.exe file. It looks like you have just renamed the zip file you downloaded as FFmpeg.exe.

@rspierenburg said: One thing to check would be if the Pebble face is grouped or not. I believe VRray Displacement in Sketchup only works on grouped faces. Thanks! That worked. I applied material to a group and displacement showed up!

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Box, Thank you for your response. Yes it does need to come to a point. Your solution looks like it could save me some time though.