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

@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.

WoW! Some really great results here! Unfortunately I could not get a reference photo straight on from sideview but it seems you got great results from "eyeballing". I learned alot from this and will use your tutorials to improve Sub divide modelling. Thank you all for your effort ; )

@jhandgraaf said: Is it possible to send the render work from fredo6 animator to a cloud renderer/renderfarm? I don't think this is possible with Animator.

Thank you Fredo, the Layer Visibility worked perfectly. I can now work faster with some layers toggled OFF and just toggle them ON again right before compiling !

Have you tried to save a new template after a successful component update? Additionally, the current version is 5.00.03... [image: vMY1_vray_version.JPG]

@dave r said: Have you tried contacting customer support for Vray? Vray doesn't offer support for 3rd party plugins like Animator.

@fredo6 said: Also, set the thread to 10, not 512. THIS!! what a difference in time! thanks a lot!

That's a tricky one, because you animate 2 groups separately and then wants that they are animated together. So, it might not be obvious to manage, although I think it is possible (but probably not straightforward). I'll have a lookas soon as I can. Fredo

I will try to attach some pictures of the rendering I might have too many frames perhaps. There are 795 frames and on my first try it generated 108 frames but it glitched and stopped working it took 40 mins for each frame I believe. The issue has been even worse on other tries you can see from the pictures. Is there any other rendering software that you can recommend as this project was not meant to take this long. Thank you for your speedy reply and help.