Thanks a lot for you quick answer! I'll try and let you guys know! Thanks! *** EDIT *** That fixed the issue! Thanks again!

@imansafi90 For your problem of 'New Movement', could you open the Ruby console to check if it displays errors. For animating hundred of characters, I am not sure Animator is ideal for that, because you would have to create hundreds of individual movements (say 'Along Path'). A dedicated script would be more adapted.

Hello, It's been a while since you posted here, but maybe you'll find my response useful. Indeed, there is no inset tool designed for non-planar quads. Here's some workaround: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=39442&p=658977&hilit=inset#p658977 You can also take a look at Tools On Surface by Fredo. It has a tool called Offset On Surface. It will do half the job, but you'll still have to merge excess vertices manually.

@rich o brien said: What happens if you Flip QuadEdge? Does distortion resolve? Do you mean the Flip Triangulation Tool?

Yes it does that and it is annoying, I keep V-ray disabled because of it. Which naturally means I use it less and tend to use one that doesn't do this.

Thanks Pibuz! Actually I could have used this myself the other day too... but we haven't gotten to adding this feature yet. It is though way on the top of our list of features to add to ComponentFinder...

@box said: Here's a basic version to show it's just a matter of simple shapes, ... very good Box!

Thank you so much for the answer. I did have Positioner 1 defined, but it must have had teh bad positions for some items captured. I used the option to capture the positions outside of Animator to "recapture" Positioner 1 with everything in the correct locations and the animation now works perfectly.

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.

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

@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