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    • fredo6F Offline
      fredo6
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      @rich o brien said:

      How do you control the motion of an object over time? Is it linear interpolation?

      If an object moves along X at 2m/s can you control the acceleration from 0 to 2m/s in some way?

      This should be addressed with Easing, which is supported in the Animator engine (in the initial video, you can see that the explosion of Homer is accelerated).

      But I still need to build the GUI for custom easing.

      By the way, I don't know if the appropriate term in English would be 'Easing' or 'Pacing'.

      Fredo

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        @fredo6 said:

        By the way, I don't know if the appropriate term in English would be 'Easing' or 'Pacing'.

        Easing.

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        • Rich O BrienR Offline
          Rich O Brien Moderator
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          Will the easing have types?

          anim-fredo.png

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
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            Will be cool for animate gears! 😎 (a new gear plugin by Caermalo)

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            • majidM Offline
              majid
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              @rich o brien said:

              Will the easing have types?

              [attachment=0:1tzh4w5t]<!-- ia0 -->anim-fredo.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1tzh4w5t]

              Mover plugin had some easing as I remember
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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
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                There is a nice lib on GitHub for easing in Ruby:
                https://github.com/munshkr/easing-ruby

                And nice visualisations here:
                http://easings.net/

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                • fredo6F Offline
                  fredo6
                  last edited by

                  @thomthom and Majid,

                  Animator should support predefined easing and custom easing. Simply, I need to build the GUI for custom easing.

                  Animator also supports oscillations (i.e. cyclic movement back and forth), either libnear or smooth as sinusoidal curves.

                  Fredo

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    Time to start another donation round for Fredo!

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                      Anton_S
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                      Nice work fredo!

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                      • JClementsJ Offline
                        JClements
                        last edited by

                        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?

                        John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                        • fredo6F Offline
                          fredo6
                          last edited by

                          @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 MP4, Avi, etc., formats?

                          Unfortunately, the Sketchup API does not expose a method for generating videos, even if there seems to be an embedded video module in Sketchup for Scene animation.

                          So I test with an external tool, so that Animator can generate videos at a specified frame rate and dimension. My current tests are with MP4 (as the animation of Car Wash posted by ntxdave), but I think it can generate other formats like AVI or animated GIF. I'll check when I have time. I'll need a Mac user to validate it also works on OSX.

                          I also hope that rendering software have a way to generate videos.

                          Anyway, this is an area where more exploration is needed. By default, Animator can generate a sequence of images.

                          Fredo

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                          • soloS Offline
                            solo
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                            @unknownuser said:

                            Anyway, this is an area where more exploration is needed. By default, Animator can generate a sequence of images.

                            IMO the best way to do animation πŸ‘

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

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                              • JQLJ Offline
                                JQL
                                last edited by

                                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...

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                                • fredo6F Offline
                                  fredo6
                                  last edited by

                                  @jql said:

                                  Animating leafs on trees.

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

                                  Fredo

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                                  • JQLJ Offline
                                    JQL
                                    last edited by

                                    @fredo6 said:

                                    @jql said:

                                    Animating leafs on trees.

                                    oaks in winter are supported πŸ˜„
                                    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!

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                                    • PixeroP Offline
                                      Pixero
                                      last edited by

                                      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?

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                                      • JQLJ Offline
                                        JQL
                                        last edited by

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

                                        Well...

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                                        • HumpmetwiceH Offline
                                          Humpmetwice
                                          last edited by

                                          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...

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                                          • ntxdaveN Offline
                                            ntxdave
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                                            @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 ❗

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