Currently, a new movement or camera gets the proper name by default, unless you change it.

When you open the Movement Editor, the sequence is named "Movement_X". But as soon as you select which type of transformation, say a Translation, the name becomes "Translation_X". However, if you exit the editor with the saved sequence, the name remains "translation_X", even if you later change it to be a rotation.

The issue I raised is about that and the inclusion of parameters in the name. That's why it's a good habit to give your own name to sequences. Similar to what we should all do with the naming of Groups and Components in Sketchup.

What I can do anyway is to have a consistent numbering, so that the second translation created is named "Translation_2" by default.

Fredo

Eric,

There is no good solution for this problem because the Ruby API does not have control over the character size and pixel definition.

Unless you did it already, I would advise you have a look at this thread where the problem is discussed, with some generic solutions.

Fredo

Bonjour

Voici une petite mise a jour de ma notice ANIMATOR "pour les francophones"

Chri

ANIMATOR de Fredo6 01nov2016.rar

ANIMATOR de Fredo6 01nov2016.pdf

Cool! ☀
colorfun.jpg

Not working yet. Missing the whole UI.

But same idea as the sliders, that is you can play normal time, fast or put at any state via the slider, depending on the options you choose.

Fredo

Hello,

In the VRay render options (global switches), you can choose to override materials with the color of your choice. 😉

@fredo6 said:

Dave,

Yes I know. Visitor is just in draft mode.

Actually, I will allow the usage of views (same filtering as in the Editor).

I will also decouple the Camera, Style and Layer Visibility in the next version. View Camera will still have the possibility to carry style and layer visibility, but that will not be the default.

This will allow to control layers independently of view (in your case, the visibility of the water curtain is linked to the animation of the car, regardless of the view).

Sounds good to me.. 👍 👍 👍

Does Move/Copy... the "ribbons" is on the pipeline ?

PS How reuse the result of the explosion in the normal use of Sketchup?
I can't copy something of the animation when I press "Space bar" for a temporary return to Sketchup!

In fact I can but the animation itself is losted!

Here is a render of a car wash building done with Animator beta v1.1b and Twilight Render Pro version2.6.2.

I used the new tool to smooth out orbiting of the model using the new circular camera path (curved) in the latest version of Animator. I also used the latest version of Twilight Render Pro.

Yes, there are several things that are wrong with the model but this was a test of make sure I could get closer to where I want to go. I am will be working on a cleaner and better version of the model but wanted to let people see how you can use these two tools together. Just in cause you are interested, this particular render took 15:00:07.

@solo said:

Was SimFonIA Animation tools ever released beyond the trial?

yes, but it had a weird pricing structure and a limited usage system. Nice BVH support though.

Hopefully fbx or allembic will be in a future release.

Then we can send animated meshes.

I assume this what you are meaning and "it works for me".

Turning layers visibility off and on

I started the sequence with the spray layer off, then added a capture with it turned on and the finished with another capture where the layer is off again. This achieves what I was wanting. Still think it would be kind of cool if you could use the duration to turn it off and on but I can sure use it this way. I think this makes more sense and gives us a lot more flexibility than tying it to a view or camera because I can use the two independently.

Here is still another version that shows how changing the views during the sequence adds some flexibility as opposed to tying the layer visibility to views (again MHO).

Controlling layer visibility and adding views

I also saw that I can group the movement sequence along with the layer visibility captures and views as a group. Again, IMO, this could be very valuable for the future.

Thanks for this feature and being patient enough to help me understand how to use this capability a little better.

Now if you just come up with some miracle way to animate the spray texture I would be more excited than you want to imagine ❗ . 😎 👍 👍

True "Follow me"

@jql said:

As I broke my sequences (spacebar and line issue on other thread) and I couldn't retrieve it, I was experimenting on what I could do.

I ended up exploding the animated object wich made the timeline flow again though no object was moving.

Of course the sequences now weren't attached to any object... so I remembered to edit my sequences and try to find a way of assigning them to other objects.

Is there a way to do this?

Did you go back to the edit panel for the sequence then click on the select icon to select new objects? While I have messed this up a few times, I have also found that in fact, I could do it (at least I think I remember doing that).

I think that little orange guy lives in my laptop.

Thanks for sharing Fredo. 😎

😲

Already?!

Nice!

Sorry fluid, maybe I wasn't clear on that, but I don't own a copy of it though I think it's very cool!

I will definetelly consider it when I need something of the sorts though...