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    • jcdbJ Offline
      jcdb
      last edited by

      How do you set all scene delays to 0.0 seconds? 😕

      http://www.acustombuilder.com

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      • spenceS Offline
        spence
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        jcdb,

        Go to Model Info, under window, and then Animation, scene delay.

        Spence

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        • PixeroP Offline
          Pixero
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          Thanks for a great script. 😄

          Would it be possible to add an attribute to all the existing scenes in the model that they are "keyframes" and then add scenes for every frame in the animation with an attibute that they are "inbetweens" and add scene transition times according to your smoothstep script.
          The script should then be able to delete all the "inbetweens" if you want to change the animation but leave the "keyframes" intact.
          I believe this would make it work with external renderers.
          What do you think, is it doable?

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          • jcdbJ Offline
            jcdb
            last edited by

            @spence said:

            jcdb,

            Go to Model Info, under window, and then Animation, scene delay.

            Thanks spence 👍

            http://www.acustombuilder.com

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              Whaat
              last edited by

              @pixero said:

              Thanks for a great script. 😄

              Would it be possible to add an attribute to all the existing scenes in the model that they are "keyframes" and then add scenes for every frame in the animation with an attibute that they are "inbetweens" and add scene transition times according to your smoothstep script.
              The script should then be able to delete all the "inbetweens" if you want to change the animation but leave the "keyframes" intact.
              I believe this would make it work with external renderers.
              What do you think, is it doable?

              That's a cool idea and definitely doable! 👍 I'll do some experimenting.

              SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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              • J Offline
                Jon
                last edited by

                Thanks again, Whaat!

                Jon
                KT Team member

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                • R Offline
                  RickW
                  last edited by

                  @whaat said:

                  @pixero said:

                  Thanks for a great script. 😄

                  Would it be possible to add an attribute to all the existing scenes in the model that they are "keyframes" and then add scenes for every frame in the animation with an attibute that they are "inbetweens" and add scene transition times according to your smoothstep script.
                  The script should then be able to delete all the "inbetweens" if you want to change the animation but leave the "keyframes" intact.
                  I believe this would make it work with external renderers.
                  What do you think, is it doable?

                  That's a cool idea and definitely doable! 👍 I'll do some experimenting.

                  Unfortunately, there's currently no way to delete pages/scenes in ruby... 😞

                  RickW
                  [www.smustard.com](http://www.smustard.com)

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                  • PixeroP Offline
                    Pixero
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                    Here's what Todd said at the Google Group:

                    @unknownuser said:

                    Sketchup.active_model.entities.erase_entities(page) should work, but
                    it hangs SketchUp. It's a known and reported bug.

                    To get around this bug, do this:

                    First, make the page you want to delete the active page. Then, issue
                    this from Ruby:

                    Sketchup.send_action "pageDelete:"

                    That means it can be done even if its a work around.

                    If not we could save the model prior to using the script and then saving it after, under another name or with a "_anim" after.
                    Not the best way but it would still mean we could render a smooth animation.

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                    • erikBE Offline
                      erikB
                      last edited by

                      Thanks from me to Whaat, very much needed script !
                      greetings erikB

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                      • K Offline
                        kwistenbiebel
                        last edited by

                        Thank you Whaat!
                        I hope you get the 'to scene tabs' method working, so we can use external render software on the animation.

                        Great job! 👍

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                          Matt666
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                          @pixero said:

                          Sketchup.send_action "pageDelete:"

                          A confirmation message box opens every attempt to delete a scene...

                          Frenglish at its best !
                          My scripts

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                            Pixero
                            last edited by

                            Well...lets hope Whaat finds a trick to fool SU to delete the scenes without SU knowing what happened... 😒

                            Is

                            entities.clear!
                            

                            not working either?

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                              kwistenbiebel
                              last edited by

                              Hi Whaat,

                              Would it be a sh*tload of work for you to have this plugin make default scene tabs after smoothing the animation ? (needed for render engines)
                              The current method (cameralines.rb,F-Spline bezier,Flightpath (or SU-animate) is kind of tedious.
                              Your smoothstep animation ruby would be an easier 'out of the box solution' when it can create a scene tab animation.

                              If it is a lot of work...maybe commercial?

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                                Whaat
                                last edited by

                                @kwistenbiebel said:

                                Hi Whaat,

                                Would it be a sh*tload of work for you to have this plugin make default scene tabs after smoothing the animation ? (needed for render engines)
                                The current method (cameralines.rb,F-Spline bezier,Flightpath (or SU-animate) is kind of tedious.
                                Your smoothstep animation ruby would be an easier 'out of the box solution' when it can create a scene tab animation.

                                If it is a lot of work...maybe commercial?

                                I am curious. Which render engines are able to automatically render all scene tabs? I assume you are not manually rendering each scene tab when you are creating these types of animations.

                                SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                                • K Offline
                                  kwistenbiebel
                                  last edited by

                                  Vray and Fryrender can render a scene tab animation.
                                  For instance, if you have 1 scene tab per animation frame, you set the SU transition time to 1 second.
                                  In the Vray/Fry panel, you set 1 fps.
                                  That way, Vray/Fry will render each scene tab automatically when hitting the render button.

                                  I thought Skindigo can do this as well? (confused)

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                                    steelers05
                                    last edited by

                                    yeah im with biebel on this one.. that would be great if you could make something like that

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                                    • D Offline
                                      Dan
                                      last edited by

                                      Thanks for yet another great plugin, Whaat!
                                      Me too I did a very quick test and all seems to be ok.
                                      I have to ask you a little change to the script, if possible: can you make it to number the exported bitmaps like "name00001.jpg", "name00002.jpg", instead of "name0.jpg", "name1.jpg", etc. to make the conversion to avi program to read them in the right order?

                                      Thanks again!

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                                        Fletch
                                        last edited by

                                        I second KB and Steeler's request, Whaat... you still thinking about this?

                                        Fletch
                                        Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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                                          zeal
                                          last edited by

                                          Thank you for sharing 😍

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                                          • K Offline
                                            kwistenbiebel
                                            last edited by

                                            @whaat said:

                                            @kwistenbiebel said:

                                            Hi Whaat,

                                            Would it be a sh*tload of work for you to have this plugin make default scene tabs after smoothing the animation ? (needed for render engines)
                                            The current method (cameralines.rb,F-Spline bezier,Flightpath (or SU-animate) is kind of tedious.
                                            Your smoothstep animation ruby would be an easier 'out of the box solution' when it can create a scene tab animation.

                                            If it is a lot of work...maybe commercial?

                                            I am curious. Which render engines are able to automatically render all scene tabs? I assume you are not manually rendering each scene tab when you are creating these types of animations.

                                            I needed to add that in a lot of cases an animation spread over X scene tabs according to X animation frames (1 scene tab per animation frame) can be an advantage.

                                            For instance, when you have 'face me' components. Both Vray and current Skindigo won't render the face me components correctly (they will not face the camera), unless the animation consists of as many scenes as there are animation frames.

                                            I think if someone of the ruby masters would be able to make a decent and easy to use smooth animation plugin like that, we don't need to learn the dinosaurs apps to get some decent PR animations.

                                            Currently I use the combo of rubies described above and it works , but it is too tedious to do in a daily workflow.

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