Simple animation

GarryD

Hi All
Is it possible to do simple animation in SU. I know you can use Proper Animate to move objects. I am looking for a way to make an object "grow" say, in length. My application needs to show underground tunnels being developed in many directions.

pilou

You can without plugin with the technique of animation section!

[flash=420,315:2pos30q4]http://www.youtube.com/v/-sQ-7dt95yw[/flash:2pos30q4]

Another cool plugin of animation (not for your case) : mover2 by Jim Foltz

You can also for a real change of size of your components make something like
use the LSS Matrix by Kyrill2008
and put each object in a page!

Move your components or anything you want any time you want
Use this tricky plug by Rick Wilson Addpages

At the end you have a page by components

Take a look at my recent thread about that

For all problems of groups: components
by Chris Fullmer : loose geometry to groups

Must be written as only "one line" in the ruby console!!!
by TIG Transforme a selection in composants!

m=Sketchup.active_model;
m.start_operation("Faces>Compos");
n=m.active_entities;m.selection.to_a.each{|e|(g=n.add_group(e.all_connected);
g.to_component.definition.name="FaceSet#1")if e.valid? and e.parent==n.parent and e.class==Sketchup;;Face};
m.commit_operation

All faces selected in components by TIG


m=Sketchup.active_model;
n=m.active_entities;
m.selection.to_a.each{|e|(g=n.add_group(e);
g.to_component.definition.name="Face#1")if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

All faces selected in components by TIG
(except yet existing groups & components)

m=Sketchup.active_model;n=m.active_entities;m.selection.to_a.each{|e|n.add_group(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

GarryD

Thanks for the response Pilou. I soldiered on and made use of the section planes and scenes to create a suitable animation. Couple of new problems. the timing of scenes/frames. I would like different timing for different frames. And secondly, when I export the video the quality is very poor. I loaded Keyframe Animation (trial version) but now I have an error message regarding Javascript. So if you have any advice regarding video quality I would appreciate it. Regards

pilou

@unknownuser said:

I would like different timing for different frames.

Use different file for each frame set timing!

If that you see at your screen is sufficient quality
maybe you can grab the screen as video with BBFlashbackExpress ? (free)

Else use Twillight
I believe that its works with some plugins animation
Works fine with Proper animation and Mover (tested)
But seems kill the Section animation by Plane!

(SketchUp's Section Cuts are not rendered automatically in Twilight.
However, plugin ruby scripts like “Zorro2” by Whaat are available which can be
used to modify a model quickly for rendering a section perspective.
So a little painful : maybe in the next version ?

Here the explanation of the video follow
But don't know yet how the pilars grow!
[flash=560,315:3l8itosg]http://www.youtube.com/v/JKLp1q4b3YU[/flash:3l8itosg]

pilou

I had confirmation by Fletch himself the author of the animation above
With Mover or Proper animation

@unknownuser said:

So the columns are just moving from below ground to above ground.

@unknownuser said:

In Twilight v.2.0 rendering of animation of section planes will be a nice new feature.
You will even be able to render an animation of an object moving while the animated section cut is moving.

So the V2 will be very very cool!