Could you open the Ruby console before launching Animator, especially for the files where the animation does not work. There may be errors there, wroth reporting. Thanks Fredo

Tim I have a three scaling option Toolbar. Opt #1, Scale-up by 25%, scale down by 80%. Notice the upscale and the downscale are different. As an example, if you scale up an object that is 100 inches long by 25%, your object is now 125 inches long. Now to get back to the exact size, you need to scale down by only 80% of the new size of the model. However, to scale up by 100% you only need to scale up by 2. And to recover your old size scale down by 50% or .5000 Opt #2 up by 100% down by 50%, to return to the original size. Opt #3 up by 1.001% down by .999000999. Now, this is exact enough for what I do, however after a while, you will notice the inaccuracies of the up and downscaling. trans=Geom::Transformation.scaling(center, 1.001) trans=Geom::Transformation.scaling(center, 0.999000999) When plugins where much easier to make, I could modify the plugins for my use. However, I can't or won't give out the plugins as they have been modified, and the original are not my creation. I just wanted to show you that your perception of scaling won't work. "A simple way around this would be a one-button plug-in that scales the model x1000 and centres it in the viewport. Then, after doing the modelling, clicking the button would scale the model by 0.001 and centre it in the viewport."

You can associate a positioner to a Film. Click on the Film name a dialog box will appear where you can associate the Positioner to the film [image: 66oU_Animator-Specifypositionerforfilm.png]

@MOTARD1980 To fix the ERROR_A0C you need to update your SketchUcationTools and reset your licensing cache. Update the SketchUcationTools: https://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download You can refer to the following instructions for installing plugins, in case you need help: https://antonsynytsia.github.io/manuals/ClothWorks/installation.pdf Reset your cache by following the steps in ClothWorks licensing manual, Known Issue section, #3 if using Mac OS X or #4 if using Windows: https://antonsynytsia.github.io/manuals/ClothWorks/license.pdf Thanks, Anton

@ikehegwus23 said: Hello Fredo, I'm using Vray Next 4.20 on Sketchup 2019 with Animator with Animator v3.6a on a LibFredo6 v12.5a. I have an issue rendering an animation with your animator plugins (which I believe are the latest versions at the moment) the rendering always stops at 20-30%...ALWAYS. Its been really confusing because it renders a normal box well with Vray but when I want to render my project which is like 6mb in size or less it freezes at that 20% range. Please what could be the issue? PS I had the same problem on Vray 4.1 also. Looking forward to your reply. Cheers Rendering of long animation has always been a problem with VRay, because it requires a lot of resources. What is average time to generate a frame when rendered by VRay?

bump? anyone have this issue?

@gd3design said: They recently added the search function to top of asset editor for this reason. You can search both the preset material library and materials in scene. I would like to see more organization for materials, such as grouping. But until then, the search function makes life a lot easier. Thank you GD3Design for your answer. Yes that group function would be a lot of help. Cheers

Hi rspierenburg, Thanks for your comment. This is the plugin I am using at the moment. I was wondering if there might be something else less glitchy. Billie

Only result is important!

As an up date to this, I have just made another test video from the same animation but just a 1.5 second clip with about 80 frames, and it saved ok in the correct output folder. The MOV and MP4 files have saved fine. (All the PNG files vanished again but thats not a problem if the video file has saved).

Thanks to confirm it now works. The elapsed time is shown after a few frames so that there is a base for an empirical estimation. It is adjusted as the generation of frames goes on.

First, there's no point in opening .rbz files when you download them. Use Install Extension in SketchUp's Extension Manager window to install them. Better yet, download the SketchuCation Extension Store tool from Resources at the top of this page and install it using Install Extension. Then use the Extension Store tool to find and install extensions for you. Doing it that way will help you keep the extensions up to date and any extensions you install with it get saved into a bundle which makes them easier to install on another machine or in a new version when you upgrade.

You will have to learn more about how Vray works. Like here mentioned first try with Chaos YT channel and go through their Sketchup tutorials, you will learn a lot. This one I find great for beginners, https://youtu.be/IicE5MZPLkk

@box said: Many tools in sketchup will repeat the last action by using a double click. Thanks!