I'm afraid that I don't have that capability right now. It's been on my list to do - but I've prioritised adding improvements to fixes so far. It's quite a bit of infrastructure work.

I worked out a way, cannot select individual materials but need to select the whole groups material then just replace in the respective channels. Not always easy to select the whole group material so can export as a proxy then can easily select group material from proxy.

Do you still have these errors occurring?

You need to be careful when drawing. I don't know another solution.

Thnx ('',)

@einstein said:

Right, this is how it works now. Toggling subdivision is quite fast with SubD, however it could be even faster if assigning a shortcut was possible. By the way, I am surprised I can't see "toggle subdivision on/off" in Prefs-Shortcuts list. Is this just my machine? I already saw some missing features in that list.

Take note of the name of the menu item.
2019-02-05_17h56_27.png

No - you where right to report this. It's a miss from my side. I don't think I personally adjusted VCB input before committing the initial mouse clicks. But my aim for my custom tools is to be similar and familiar with how SketchUp's native tool works.

(Once you start diving into custom tools you really start to appreciate how complex the native tools are - and how much attention to details has been done.)

check the intensity level of you emissive material

So this has happened a few times after first rendering a sequence and changing view to render another:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method include?' for nil:NilClass> c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:668:in format_html_all'
c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:649:in prepare_html' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:418:in dialog_create'
c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:361:in dialog_invoke' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe:2205:in movie_dialog'
c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe:2175:in movie_clip_generation' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorpalette.rbe:819:in block in palette_clip_name_duration_video'
c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:3963:in call' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:3963:in execute_button'
c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:3765:in onLButtonUp' c:/users/******/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/lib6palette.rbe:91:in onLButtonUp'
c:/users//appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2018/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe:1275:in `onLButtonUp'

https://i.ibb.co/jDpD82r/2018-12-19.png

Same as before; when I quit Sketchup the "Exit temporary to Sketchup" window have been hiding in the background.

I am not a FlexTool expert.
However, there might be a clue in your error message...

C;/Users/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2018/SketchUp/Plugins/f3d_flextools.rb;22;in `register_extension'

Is your normal Windows user-name 'Administrator' ?
Usually you'd choose something like 'Wenzhi' ?

Assuming it is your normal Windows user-name...
When you initially installed SketchUp did you do it in the proper way ?

Even if you [as a normal Windows user] have admin-powers you must install complex apps this way...
[Note that if SketchUp is already installed you should close it, then choose the Repair option offered...]
Find the SketchUp installer exe file - probably in your downloads folder ?
Select that exe file's icon.
Right-click > context-menu > "Run as administrator"
When prompted choose "Repair" and agree to all prompts thereafter...
[If it's a fresh install choose "Install" !]

Installing it in any other way - even if you have full admin-powers is not the same thing.
Double-clicking on the exe file's icon might 'Run' it, but NOT as 'the administrator'.

It's not recommended to run SketchUp while logged in as the full 'system-administrator' - but if you have another user-name called [confusingly] 'Administrator', probably with admin-powers that IS OK, BUT you will still need to use "Run as administrator"... as explained...

If you have really messed up permissions on the C:/Users/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp path then you might also need to fix then using Right-click > context-menu > Properties > Security > Edit and ensure that every entry has 'Full Control' set and that this permissions trickles down to apply to all subfolders and files in the tree...

Yes it has been said that V-Ray Next will support MaterialIDs in GPU mode.

Very good. I would suggest reporting it to the Vray folks. Maybe they should fix it.

Glad you got it sorted. The handful of triangles aren't that big a deal, just thought I'd mention them. It's actually a pretty nice model.

Actually, this is a side effect of some evolution concerning the mouse scrolling for Mac.

Animator v2.3b now support Parallel Projection.

Please advise if you still have the issue.

Fredo

Since animator is using ffmpeg to render each shot... i wonder if it would be possible to just open up the rendering command so we can use our own custom .cmd or even just a our own ffmpeg strings?

With something like this we would be able to pretty much render using any external rending utility i think (not 100% sure). But even if i had to create a custom autohotkey script to save a snapshot in lumion as the animation progresses it would essentially be the same.