Continious animation help.
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I am in need of doing an animation in Sketchup (normally I'd avoid it like a plague as it sucks) I have purchased the keyframe animation plugin and it works as described except for one issue. I have set my scene delays to 0 in the animation settings yet the item I need animated has to spin continuously and loop, what I did was set 4 scenes of 90 degrees which should work in my mind however there is a very slight pause at every 90 degrees, how can I avoid that? The animation is around the Y axis (if that is at all relevant)
I have checked the Keyframe settings and they are as I set them in SU animation settings.
How can I get a smooth rotation? I will be rendering this with Thea4SU once I can get it to work.
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Is it possible that you have the scenes running in the wrong order? If the animation has to reverse itself it can cause a tiny pause. If you look at a full 360 rotation animation it doesn't usually have 4 90s. The trick is to position the scenes so it continues in the right direction, it may only need 3 scenes.
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I think you the delay set wrong. You can definitely do constant rotations...
I did this not too long ago
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And one trick to remember, there is usually one frame too many at the scene transitions, so check the animation and drop any doubles.
This animation is two scenes with one frame removed.
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Has anyone got a sample file to share of a Key-frame animation of loop-able continuous rotation?
Scratch that, The issue is not my animation, as I just tweened it and it was smooth but rendering it causes the problem.
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Rich, there's no rotation to be seen.
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Maybe it doesn't export? Rotating here for me
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It does export, but you need to have keyframe installed for it to work. Without that it is just a cube, albeit one modeled with a unique finesse and delicate skill.
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@box said:
It does export, but you need to have keyframe installed for it to work. Without that it is just a cube, albeit one modeled with a unique finesse and delicate skill.
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Guys, it's seems there is an ease in and ease out within the animation, something that is not seen in Sketchup but when rendering it appears, see low quality gif below. I have Tomasz from Thea looking into it.
Straight animation render from above skp.
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I would use the free animation plugin (ProperAnimation) but it screws up axis and the rotation becomes a joke.
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Can you tell more on what you need animated?
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@rich o brien said:
Can you tell more on what you need animated?
Sure, I will send a PM, as I have an NDA.
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Have been hunting for this - so hard to animate wheels on a vehicle and render it. Simfonia animation does this loopable rotation but doesn't play nice with renderers.
Have we had any progress in this sphere since this thread began? I'm in need of loopable animation now.
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