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    • M Offline
      Mr S
      last edited by

      I have yet to try this software out.
      But it looks as though it can do what you require.
      It claims to work well with SketchUp files.

      Visit: http://www.antics3d.com/

      With regard to cars, you should also take a look here:

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      If you try it out please post back your results.

      Regards
      Mr S

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        juju
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        There is also this plugin called SU Animate over at SU Plugins website. $49.00.

        Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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          silver_shadow
          last edited by

          i also got sketchup animate but its also working in sheets and not really freely like physics.. hmm i really would like to see what you guys will come up with, lol

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            kwistenbiebel
            last edited by

            Hi Ho Silver,
            SU animate indeed works with scenes, but the results aren't too shabby. (not that I used it before).
            I just base it on the youtube footage that is around:

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              KENTUCKY
              last edited by

              silver_shadow,
              Here are some sample pure sketchup animations I had laying around from the old google forum.


              following a car


              car making a turn


              a bunch of blocks moving

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                anglaret
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                Mr S

                I tried Antics, but it is far complicated just to have a car go along a street, or somebody crossing a road.
                Instead of going to the soft by export, I would prefer the soft to come to SU.

                In fact we have made the choice of rendering and animating all projects, instead of only big ones, that is why podium is useful for us; one of us is brilliant with another renderer, he failed exporting OBJ with a 80Mo view in full hierarchy. It ended with Podium
                Marc

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                  silver_shadow
                  last edited by

                  %(#FF0000)[hi thanx for responding so soon guys, I kinda like kentucky's cars, nice idea. Its actually wierd no one has written a script that could do static scenes with simple animation on it and still be able to work on the drawing while the animation runs. hold thumbs lol.
                  Also maybe because no one is interrested in sketchup animation, like Biebel says...its just too shabby. Sketchup grew tremendiously from what it was made for in the beginning and so many people uses sketchup at them moment, just becasue it just the simplest thing on the world to use. I so hope in the furture pipeline someone,a developer, script writer or even google's guys themself look into this. Maybe Sketchup 7 will be ready for this, if they allow sketchup to work with higher poly models, uses multi processors, these things might do a worlds change in simple or even advanced modelling, and maaaaaaaybe lol............
                  maybe we will get animation going on this super cool application 😄]

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                    gcon
                    last edited by

                    Hi,

                    If you want to animate your SketchUp props then Antics really is the easiest way. Once you get over the fact it's a separate app, it's about as easy as animation can get. Like SketchUp, Antics is also available as a free download. You just import your SketchUp model straight into Antics, then use point and click to direct your model around.

                    Depending upon the model you are importing you may need to do some configuration (e.g. assign a speed to a car model). Then you can click on a point on the floor and the car will move there, or draw a path and have the car follow that. There are tutorials on the Antics forum which take you through the process, as Mr S mentioned. You can then direct your action and render it out as a video.

                    Disclaimer alert - I do work for Antics, but I would still say this even if I didn't!

                    I'm more than happy to answer any questions you may have. Either post up here or PM me.

                    Gary Conway
                    (Antics)

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                      kwistenbiebel
                      last edited by

                      Cinema4D is your best bet at the moment for what you want.
                      It is made for things like that.

                      I have the same hopes for SU7 to have all the things you mention, but I think that is beating on a dead horse...

                      Unless.... one of the notorious ruby coders could help out.

                      Eiter way, having an animation running while editing the model is way too CPU/GPU demanding.
                      I doubt any other package can manage that, not even Maya, C4D or Max.

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                        ScottPara
                        last edited by

                        Cinema 4D is a great program that can not only animate quite well, it can also render well too. It is a bit like max but I find it far easier to learn. I have not used it in a while (just have not needed it) but I would say it will work for what you are looking for and give far better results than any of the other recommendations. Granted it is a bit of change but I think in the long run it will be the right choice.

                        Scott

                        Love the fact that some HATE my avatar.....

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