Preview - Sketchup Floating Camera [Update 2011-03-19]]

rombout

how is the plugin coming?! has been a couple months already really want to try it

Phil Rader AIA

Any news on a release date?

bentleykfrog

Any news on a release date?

Hi Phil, you can try out the public beta at Floating Camera Public Beta 1.x Thread. I've updated the main post with a link to this too.

tspco

I think I missed something, I tried a test "float" everything was great and working real well until I ended up underneath my model, I could see that was going to happen. I see there is a toggle to maintain camera height, but I can't find a place to enter camera height. So far I like this plugin.

bentleykfrog

@tspco said:

I think I missed something, I tried a test "float" everything was great and working real well until I ended up underneath my model, I could see that was going to happen. I see there is a toggle to maintain camera height, but I can't find a place to enter camera height. So far I like this plugin.

Hi Ryan, I'm working on user input for camera height and field of view for the next version. In your case this would be an issue since camera height works by checking if there is any geometry below the camera position. Since you're underneath your model, there's no geometry, so there's no camera height, so you'll need to move the camera up until you're above the model. The default keys to move the camera up and down are shift and control respectively.

Also, you can modify or find out the keys for specific movement in Floating Camera by loading the controls dialog (click the icon in the toolbar that looks like a c-key).

Hope this helps.

-niall

tspco

After working with it again, I realized what happened I was over the model and as I was moving I was headed for the ground. Not sure how, I did a short video at a higher level, and other than I was not high enough to fly over my light poles and the camera bounced over them, it looked real good.
As I was flying I could not manage to make nice sweeping curves, but that may come with practice.

tspco

A short video using Floating Camera and Camera Recorder
http://youtu.be/9mDYQBtYC04

cmathisson

Hi I wonder if this plugin still is work in progress or it is placed on a shelf somewhere? i have tried it and it feels promising, but I'm missing some features and bugg fixes. I'm playing around whit my playstation 3 controller and a program called GamePad Companion 3.2 and it works nicely for emulating mouse and keyboard for diffrent controllers and I'm thinking of using that together with this plugin. Thanx for anything that could help

-Chris

Nostrathomas85

You know, this is a nice plugin to use with a xbox 360 controller.
The controller allows for a more natural feeling of moving the camera.

I use joy2key to map the keys to the controller, really works good using joysticks.
joy2key is free if anyone is interested just have to find it on google.

This is my first post and I hope it isn't seen as spam, I just wanted to suggest an
alternate way of controlling this plugin and to say thanks for the plugin.

derei

Ok SketchUp 2015 it doesn't want to load... giving me this error:

Error Loading File floating_camera.rb Error: #<SyntaxError: C:/Users/######/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/floating_camera/mixin/load_instructor.rb:239: invalid multibyte escape: /^\x89PNG/ invalid multibyte escape: /^\xff\xd8\xff\xe0\x00\x10JFIF/ invalid multibyte escape: /^\xff\xd8\xff\xe0/ invalid multibyte escape: /^\xff\xd8\xff\xe1(.*){2}Exif/ C:/Users/######/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/floating_camera/mixin/load_instructor.rb:366: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' when 1: puts "file failed (invalid t... ^ C:/Users/######/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/floating_camera/mixin/load_instructor.rb:367: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' when 2: puts "file failed (unknown):... ^> C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:inrequire'
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in require' C:/Users/######/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/floating_camera.rb:49:in class:CameraFloatTool'
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