What about Sketchups own Advanced camera tools ? [image: TiGf_AC.PNG]

Hi Bitdefender started reporting false positives for SUbD last week. I've submitted a False Positive report to them, hoping they'll update their definitions soon. In regard to your recent post: can you check if C:/Users/Username/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2021/SketchUp/Plugins/TT_SUbD/libraries/2.1.7.0/2.7/win64/SUbD.so exists on your machine? If it does, and you still get this error, can you ZIP up the C:/Users/Username/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2021/SketchUp/Plugins/TT_SUbD folder and send it to me please? (False positives from AV software is such a pain to clean up.)

@narkosis said: Im curious about this as well. Loving the Animator plugin, but its a very slow process when my computer only uses my CPU (8c/16t) to render the frames as opposed to my RTX3070 For the time being, this is the only possible mechanism to generate the rendered video.

No one has this issue except of me? Thanks for reply. Best regards Andreas

If you delete objects (groups, components and their hierarchy) which are used by Animator, you will encounter problems. At best, Animator will detect it and reset parameters of the movement to their default.

I downloaded a new copy of FFmpeg from here https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows AND Maybe more importantly I just waited for the cmd windows to close by themselves. I think the slower your PC and the bigger the video the longer they will stay open. Just have some patience and let FFmpeg run and all good.

@tig said: What you are trying to do would probably be more easily achieved with another extension - like TrueBend or ShapeBender - manipulating a 3dText group... Thanks. Shape Bender was the solution. Not easy to use until you understand. But great when you know how.

посмотрите на плагин MSPhysics (free), изучив его более детально можно будет делать движущиеся объекты.

Well Fredo you can stamp Solved on this post. You mentioned trying to slow the speed down, and so I was experimenting to see if that worked. I inadvertently pushed the speed down until it went into the negatives ie: -90.00°/s, and that solved the problem, it switched from counterclockwise to clockwise. I didn't realize this, so chalk on up to inexperience. Thanks so much for you help. Dale

Yes, I posted it also on the Simlab forum, but they have to approve my post ...

@rshawiii said: more visual indication of the status would still be nice. Thanks for the quick response. When you are in no-inferencing mode, the vertex you move is circled in pink.

@rv1974 said: I see. Then put multiple skp files as groups (also, there are some plugins to organize layers properly) in one file, set up scenes properly and that's it. PS Also see tig xref manager- those skp groups could be xrefs Exactly what I'm doing, but each model has 8 different scenes, its taking a long time. I know it's possible to make a .bat file, I just don't know how

@berna117 said: It fails too often my complete animation is 2400 frames and every 50-150 frames it crashes in 2 different ways... Animator and even VRay4 are not designed to render such a big amount of frames, furthermore when using a rendering software like VRay. Too slow, and with VRay4, the API is not stable enough. @berna117 said: I am rendering different sections of the animation in different computers to speed up the process but I noticed that if sketchup UI is different animator makes the view different, even in the same computer if you close sketchup's side tray making the work area bigger animator changes the view. That's inherent to Sketchup. Images are captured from views, and views are based on viewport, which is itself impacted by the real-estate left on the screen by toolbars and trays.

Hi - if the desired animation doesn't need to be too sophisticated, a simple gif animation, equipped with some door positions like shown in your picture, might be sufficient? I´ll link an example, done this way with only 10 frames, running back and forth... https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=397&t=63826&p=659064&hilit=Bobby#p659064 (otherwise, Dave's animator suggestion above would be better)

Could you open the Ruby console while generating. This gives traces on the progression of the generation and possibly errors. Also open the directory where the images are generated to see if they are actually.

Seems to be working now. Not my imagination it was not before. Bizarre. I did not try to recreate the workflow I was doing exactly. It involves a large mesh (1M triangles) and creating splines at intersecting faces. sketchup and computer seems stressed with this. When I get back on it for real, If I have a problem, will let you know. Thanks for the fast response.