Animator: Parametric Animation plugin - Discussion

otb designworks

I agree completely that image sequences is the best and most desirable way to export animations from any software.

JQL

What about animating textures?

Animating backgrounds and foregrounds with clouds and rain.

Animating leafs on trees.

Animating TV or PC screens.

Integrate with render engines to animate channels like displacement, bump, transparency, reflection, emittance, etc...

fredo6

@jql said:

Animating leafs on trees.

oaks in winter are supported
Working on animating snow on the top of Fujiyama.

Fredo

JQL

@fredo6 said:

@jql said:

Animating leafs on trees.

oaks in winter are supported
Working on animating snow on the top of Fujiyama.

Fredo

Bah! You didn't do that! Animating textures? Nah! It was me that remembered that first!

Pixero

Animating leaves got me thinking. Would it be possible to have vertex animation with a small sinus curve to animate leaves and branches like in many games?

JQL

Damn Pixero! I was coming here to post that! Vertex animation would simply...

Well...

Humpmetwice

Is this something available now or something in the works?
Either way nice work and I can't wait, been looking for something like this for sketch-up awhile now...

ntxdave

@humpmetwice said:

Is this something available now or something in the works?
Either way nice work and I can't wait, been looking for something like this for sketch-up awhile now...

WIP by Fredo6

solo

CadFather

@unknownuser said:

Working on animating snow on the top of Fujiyama.
Fredo

Fredo, i have thought many a times you must be living somewhere at those heights...!

fredo6

@cadfather said:

@unknownuser said:

Working on animating snow on the top of Fujiyama.
Fredo

Fredo, i have thought many a times you must be living somewhere at those heights...!

Yes, must be a nice place, but never been there, so just my imagination!

So far, it seems to work, as you can judge in the video below

animation of snow on Fujiyama.jpg

Overall, still a long journey for this plugin, but I am progressing (slowly) on the framework to later host advanced visual effects.

Fredo

jo-ke

Wow. I'm looking forward to this phantastic plugin

fredo6

@jclements said:

What about exporting the animation to movie formats? Would that be left to the native SU export options or would there be other means for MP#, Avi, etc., formats?

I made some tests, and Animator can generate all or any of the following formats

numbered sequence of images
mp4
avi
mov
mpg
flv (for Flash)
animated gif
wmv (although seems to have problem of quality)
ogv (ogg, but don't know what it is for)
webm (for Android phones and tablets, I guess).

I don't know if miss some important ones. Also, there may be some options for each of the format.

Normally, this should work on Mac, but I still need to test (via a proxy 'kind user').

Fredo

ntxdave

WOW Fredo6, is there anything of any type you are not going to cover

Cannot wait to give this tool a try. This sounds more exciting every time you post something in this thread.

optimaforever

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JQL

Please Fredo, stop this already or I'll have to learn yet another thing... animations!

deaneau

@Fredo6

Hi Fredo, in your first post you have asking about models.

Eneroth Railroad System have Steam Locos.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=57831

2016-03-31 10h42_59.gif

Could be its usefull.

Im happy that you work for this Project.

This is a quantum leap.

when animations will be exportable to other 3d software (3DMax, Cinema4d etc.) this would be great.

yes this softwares have an own animation plugin however, the feeling in sketchup is better for all sketchup users.

why i search an exportable animation?

i ll design objects for the Simulator Trainz

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=61818%26amp;hilit=+trainz

and some objects will need animations,too.

the problem of the export plugin is:
no support for attachement points and animations.
this will only support 3dmax

good luck for this awseome project.

EDIT:

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=290c193443757e95c6cd8b0ea8654545

Dean

fredo6

Dean

I am still far from constrained kinematics, but know what to do. Simply, more GUI to code than the engine itself.

For your trains, I think that animation would always be superior in terms of simplicity when it is embedded in an application. For the Eneroth RailRoad, at least the rails serve as a guide for the movement.

Regarding export of animation, I have absolutely no clue of what would be needed, but I guess this would be in addition to exporting the objects themselves and their geometry. If someone knows what to do, I will be able to open Animator for the information on the animation part.

Fredo