Animator: Parametric Animation plugin - Discussion

pilou · Jul 9, 2016, 4:59 PM

It's in beta test Period! Ask Fredo or Rich O Brien...

ntxdave · Jul 9, 2016, 5:00 PM

This is so great and pushes SketchUp to an high level similar to Sketchy- and MSPhysics. The videos and tutorials show that impressive. Is there somewhere a link to download and to test the plugin?

If you are meaning the Animator plugin, see this thread If you are meaning the Twilight Render software, they have stated that they will be posting a link to their software sometime today. You will have to have the Pro version though (at least that is my understanding).

elfred · Jul 31, 2016, 11:34 AM

@thomthom said:

New round of donations for Fredo - anyone?

Could You send me info how to do that?
This many is treasure who earned our support.

wagoneer · Aug 1, 2016, 2:15 PM

I'm eagerly awaiting your newest plug-in Fredo. Having been tasked with creating some animations, SketchUp is where I wish to do it so your excellent tools help enormously.

One question, will Animate have a path tool so I could make my shapes/groups follow paths other than straight lines?

Kelly

cotty · Aug 1, 2016, 2:31 PM

@elfred said:

@thomthom said:

New round of donations for Fredo - anyone?

Could You send me info how to do that?
This many is treasure who earned our support.

One fast way...

Bob James · Aug 1, 2016, 4:44 PM

@ntxdave said:

If you are meaning the Animator plugin, see this thread

I get:
"You are not authorised to read this forum."

JohnDurnan · Oct 29, 2016, 3:31 PM

@thomthom said:

@fredo6 said:

But I don't know how to reach the others

PM me who you are looking for - I'll see what I can do. I have the ChaosGroup contacts for sure - but I should be able to obtain other as well.

Oh, that would be ideal. If this could work with Shaderlight renderer, my world would be complete. I'm currently using "Keyframe Animation", however, it will not work with Shaderlight. Therefore, I cannot complete my animations by rendering them. The still only look like cartoons. Thank you for all of your efforts with this!

fredo6 · Oct 31, 2016, 9:30 PM

@johndurnan said:

Oh, that would be ideal. If this could work with Shaderlight renderer, my world would be complete.

I need to find a contact there (which I don't have at the moment), in case they would be interested.

Fredo

whiterabbit · Dec 11, 2016, 8:50 PM

is there a newer version of the animator plugin, I was trying it out (great) but since upgrading to 2017 it says it has expired. I tried it back in 2016, same message. How might it be possible to get the latest version. Is it available for purchase?
Thanks

fredo6 · Dec 11, 2016, 10:03 PM

@whiterabbit said:

is there a newer version of the animator plugin, I was trying it out (great) but since upgrading to 2017 it says it has expired. I tried it back in 2016, same message. How might it be possible to get the latest version. Is it available for purchase?
Thanks

The latest version is now on the PluginStore

The discussion forum on Animator is also public.

Latest version is Animator v1.2h, which requires LibFredo6 7.2h.

Fredo

MALAISE · Dec 15, 2016, 11:08 AM

Hello Fredo

Small enhancement (if possible): could you replace red crosses against green slash
inside Maintenance of Animator Objects ?

The Help comment is confusing ( you delete a red cross !)

Pierre

fredo6 · Dec 15, 2016, 11:16 AM

These are ACTION buttons, not STATUS buttons.

So the red cross is to delete, the green check mark is to undelete, and the red color for the whole row indicates the status.

If you are better icons however, I am interested.

Fredo

MALAISE · Dec 15, 2016, 6:15 PM

Could such a picture fit the function ?

fredo6 · Dec 15, 2016, 6:43 PM

@malaise said:

Could such a picture fit the function ?

Very nice icons, but I would (and maybe will when appropriate) use them for MERGE and SPLIT.
However, if the single rectangle is replaced by a red bin, that would be perfect

Fredo

MALAISE · Dec 15, 2016, 7:46 PM

Like that ?

Cheers

Pierre

fredo6 · Dec 15, 2016, 9:01 PM

That's the idea. But then

could you replace the 3 parallelograms by one
could you make the arrow a little bit bigger and contrasted so that they are visible when the icons are of reduced size (i.e. fitting in the table).

Thanks

Fredo

MALAISE · Dec 16, 2016, 12:26 PM

Here, you'll find some material.

Cheers

Pierre

kostas_designer · Jan 20, 2017, 9:01 AM

Fredo, this is absolutely marvellous, the best plugin after Fredoscale imho.
Just got my hands on, i'll definitely dig more on the next days.
Here's a first attempt on a project I'm currently working on:

Very, very promising

Again, my best congrats to you.

kostas_designer · Jan 31, 2017, 9:06 AM

This is getting even more interesting...

pabloalonso · Feb 12, 2017, 7:26 PM

Dear Fredo6. I just discovered Animator and I think I will not be able to sleep in the next few days. It is an essential program and especially for those who use Thea as a rendering engine, for example.

I've been watching the tutorials for several hours and practicing. It is possible that the suggestions that I am going to give you are already implemented. If this is the case, I apologize to everyone.

First of all, thank you for all your plugins. All are admirable.

My suggestions are related to the use of Animator in architecture visualization.

It would be interesting to be able to link the animation and especially the activation / deactivation of layers with MS Project files or other project management programs. These programs indicate times and tasks. If the tasks are linked to objects and layers, the evolution of a construction could be shown. This is called 4D. There are some plug-ins for sketchup that do it but they are expensive and complex. On other platforms, Naviswork would be the benchmark. It is not far-fetched to think that many people who love sketchup have it very easy with Animator to do almost the same thing.
Facilitate the creation of exploded views. For this it would be good to have two utilities:

Be able to choose a center and the position of the axes that will define the directions of the explosion. Ideal for general movements of complete buildings. Separate the roof, walls and floor, for example.
To show the assembly of parts, facilitate the movement of screws and nuts indicating the thread pitch and the direction of the shaft. Thus the composition of linear movement and spin would be easier and natural to perform if it comes with an aid by part of Animator.
Create links between positions of parent objects and child objects so that the movement of some does not begin until a certain position of the others is reached.

Thanks for your attention and patience. I'm from Spain and I'm not fluent in english.

Pablo