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    [Plugin] Camera Recorder v1.7.2 UPDATED May 23, 2013

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    • J Offline
      Jim
      last edited by

      What's wrong with gsub, and how is tr safer and easier?

      Hi

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        in that example you do save a few characters. And you avoid the overhead of rexex processing. if it is simple text or character replacement it is faster to do plain text replace than invoking regex.

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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        • Chris FullmerC Offline
          Chris Fullmer
          last edited by

          I was not aware of the .tr method. I had only seen gsub, and I was able to get it to work. But I like the way .tr works. It looks much simpler. It took me hours and hours to wrap my head around how slashes work and escaping characters with lots of help. I'm sure I don't understand it all yet. But just having it work made me happy.

          So the problem in this script that I was fixing is that I was storing forward slashes into the Windows registry. It seems to work fine on most computers. But not Rod's. His Vista won't handle forward slashes at all. Anyone know what might be making his system work like that?

          Chris

          PS I still don't know if these tweaks fixed it for Rod - I sure hope it did. Because I'm about out of ideas otherwise.....

          Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
          All my Plugins I've written

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            The .tr is somewhat different though. But can be used in this case.

            .gsub can also be used without using regex for pattern.

            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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            • Chris FullmerC Offline
              Chris Fullmer
              last edited by

              Oh yeah, I also meant to ask:

              What is regex?

              Chris

              Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
              All my Plugins I've written

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                Something which turns my brain into liquid goo.

                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  Generic Regex info: http://www.regular-expressions.info/index.html

                  Ruby related: http://www.regular-expressions.info/ruby.html

                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • R Offline
                    rod1233
                    last edited by

                    Chris
                    This is the result :
                    Error Loading File clf_camera_recorder.rb
                    private method gsub 'called for nil: NilClassprivate method gsub!' called for nil: NilClassError Loading File clf_camera_recorder_loader.rb
                    private method `gsub! ' called for nil: NilClass

                    I am very sad because I did that I had that tool

                    Note: In this strange problem I succeeded for the first time and then I got this problem.

                    rod

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                    • K Offline
                      KXI System
                      last edited by

                      Can you have anyway for this plugin to export as a movie file too?
                      If you can thanks! but I know its gonna be hard.

                      Getting the perfect sig is hard...

                      Google it!

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                      • Chris FullmerC Offline
                        Chris Fullmer
                        last edited by

                        @Rod - ok, I think I know a surefire way to fix your problem. I'll try to get a script out tonight or tomorrow. But I am going to disable the script's ability to remember a location to save the image files, since that is what seems to be causing the problems.

                        @KXI - I agree that would be cool. If I implement it will probably cost something.

                        Anyone out there know a free ruby library that compiles sequence images into a video? Would I be able to do it with the command line mplayer? Or doies imagemagik support anything beyond animated .gifs?

                        Chris

                        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                        All my Plugins I've written

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                        • R Offline
                          rod1233
                          last edited by

                          Chris
                          I am waiting for what will be the solution
                          And thank you

                          rod

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                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                            Chris Fullmer
                            last edited by

                            OK Rod, try this one now. overwrite the clf_camera_recorder.rb file that is inside the clf_camera_recoreder folder.

                            Also, it should pop up a little message while loading. I would like to know what it says on your system. Thanks!

                            Chris

                            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                            All my Plugins I've written

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                            • K Offline
                              KXI System
                              last edited by

                              ok, but Chris can you at least tell me a free program that acts like Quick time pro (the feature that this plugin uses)?

                              Getting the perfect sig is hard...

                              Google it!

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                              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                Chris Fullmer
                                last edited by

                                Yes, a few pages ( http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=23517&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=60#p208742 ) back Charly mentioned a free program. I meant to ad it to the first post, and never did. It is called Imagen:

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                                (gromada.com)

                                Try that one!

                                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                All my Plugins I've written

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                                • R Offline
                                  rod1233
                                  last edited by

                                  Chris
                                  We have succeeded, my friend
                                  Thank you for all the efforts 😍 😍
                                  You are truly wonderful
                                  Thank you again

                                  rod

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                                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                    Chris Fullmer
                                    last edited by

                                    Great, now I need to clean up the scripts for you again so they stop popping up windows everytime you open SketchUp with messages to relay back to me.

                                    Also, what does the pop up window say in it?

                                    And check back here hopefully today for an update on the scripts for you

                                    Chris

                                    Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                    All my Plugins I've written

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                                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                      Chris Fullmer
                                      last edited by

                                      OK, well I cleaned it up very quickly and here are the 2 new scripts. There should both work on your system. And you should get no more pop up windows. Thanks for being patient with me as I de-bugged this for you. I am going to go back and remove all other test files I uploaded now too since I don't need other people to download them. But I will leave these up in case someone in the future has a system with your same needs.

                                      Chris


                                      clf_camera_recorder_loader.rb


                                      clf_camera_recorder.rb

                                      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                                      • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                        Chris Fullmer
                                        last edited by

                                        @pixero said:

                                        Chris, have you tried LightUp? Could you implement a flyaround mode with inertia like in LightUp?
                                        It would be so great to fly around smoothly and record scenes and then use that for both SU lines and LightUp.
                                        Pleeeeaaase? 😄

                                        I need to look into this. I do not have LightUp. If his flythrough is just a flythrough tool, then you should be able to activate the camera recorder, then use his flythrough and then stop recording when done. Maybe?

                                        Chris

                                        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                        All my Plugins I've written

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                                        • PixeroP Offline
                                          Pixero
                                          last edited by

                                          I've tried that way but it would be much easier to do it in Su's ordinary view and then use that as a animation in LightUp to get a perfect match between SU lines and LightUps render.

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                                          • K Offline
                                            KXI System
                                            last edited by

                                            I would like to ask a very interesting question.

                                            For renderer's like Twilight that can be used in SU simple scene animation, can your plugin tool adapt too?
                                            This would benefit me before I decide to get a renderer.

                                            Thanks,
                                            KXI System

                                            Getting the perfect sig is hard...

                                            Google it!

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