Glad to fear you have it working. 👍

Hope my info about the difference in the way to use the tools was helpful as well.

You've bigger problems to sort first. Like the username....

我使用的SketchUp版本是2021.1.332;vray版本是5.2.3

Hmmm, it's the first we hear of this. The only way folders can get deleted from within ComponentFinder is if you specifically right click on a folder in one of the open tabs and then select to delete it. There will then be a warning, asking if you're sure.

Can you send me your log files located at: C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\F3d_FlexTools\logs

Please send as a zip through the contact form at: https://flextools.cc/contact

@lofossh said:

Hi, I am using SU8PRO and I was wondering if anyone have the release to Animator that works with SU8 .
I'm guessing that would be around 1.6/7?

fingers crossed!

I don't think there was, and anyway, Animator is not supporting Sketchup version prior to SU2017. You can use SU2017 Make, which is free.

Thanks Rich.
This is pretty much how I ended up solving it. I think the term individual had me thinking I had to do each prop individually, rather than selecting them all .

Sounds like a query for Vray Support. License holders get free support...

https://forums.chaos.com/forum/v-ray-for-sketchup-forums

so the animator is only for motion animation, not for physical formulas...(although I've worked in it a bit myself). Take a closer look at the MSPhysics plugin, that's where you can play with your movements to your heart's content))

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It looks like it is not rendered fully, or with low settings, can you post render settings ? Result is like it is saved at the beginning of progressive rendering or something like that. Try turning off interactive and progressive rendering, and set irradiance map + light cache under global illumination, CPU rendering.

Thanks for the idea, everything worked!

I think you can do that.........you can move clips around in the timeline so yes you should be able to get them all working at the same time.

Animator is a very good and powerful tool but it does take some practive to get it working the way you want to.

@ledisnomad said:

I don't render pool water very often, but every time I do, it takes me forever to figure out how to get the caustics to work. I go through all the settings, search for all the tutorials.

I just started another project with a pool and I'm going to want a rendering with awesome pool water caustics.

Here's what I'm doing:

Creating a plane that is the surface of the water and making it a component. Applying a water material to the component and to both faces of the plane. Adding a displacement geometry modifier to the component - I use the same noise map from the water Bump channel for the displacement. In the water material Refraction Advanced Settings, uncheck "Affect Shadows". In the render settings Global Illumination Advanced Settings, turn on "Photon Mapped Caustics".

What am I missing? You'll see in the image that the displacement is working at least.
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I think you also need to be in CPU mode for the caustics to work.

@stevelkk said:

Hi, When I make a copy of a model and modify some colours and place back to the same posiiton.
The animator video shows "Pivot reference invalida", how can I fix it? Rgds

Not sure I can answer this without getting the model.

I am having the exact same problem. Frustrating but happy to see its not just me. I too am using a Mac M1 Max. Watching this space for a solution...

Mainly for CPU or GPU rendering?
What i can say at first sight... a Xeon is not needed, normally overpriced and outdated. And 16GB RAM is definitively not enough. Without knowing the components, it's impossible to say much about this config. But i suppose that at this price everything besides the GPU is more on the cheaper side and the GPU is the most expensive part here.
Video cards are still very rare and absurdly expensive atm.. So if you're planning more for CPU rendering, a smaller card than a 3080 TI could be a better choice. There has been announced a 3070 TI with supposedly 16GB for the next months.
( https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-16gb )
On the other hand it's still possible that the offer isn't that bad, if this is a PC from a bigger manufacturer like Dell or HP and they are still getting GPUs at a lower price. But to say anything about it, we need to know the parts.

Here is a config that i would choose at the moment in this price range (for CPU rendering):

Ryzen 9 5950x - 64GB - 500GB+2TB SSD - RTX 3060 12GB
https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=WL-2345494

and the same with 3080 TI
Ryzen 9 5950x - 64GB - 500GB+2TB SSD - RTX 3080 TI 12GB
https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=WL-2345529

Both configurations with 16 cores, 64GB RAM, only SSDs (no mechanical drive), decent board and good CPU cooler, PSU and case. The only difference is the GPU.
(Not totally sure regarding the board, i would have to look deeper into it. But at least this one comes with 2x PCIe 4.0 16x (for potential GPU rendering upgrades in the future) and 2x M.2 PCIe 4.0 4x for a second fast M.2 SSD.)
For more CPU cores you would need to switch to Ryzen Threadripper, where everything is much more expensive.