Animator: Parametric Animation plugin - Discussion

solo · 1 Feb 2016, 21:50

That is very cool, I like the control one has.

Will we be able to include section cuts and hide/show layers?

jiminy-billy-bob · 1 Feb 2016, 22:01

@fredo6 said:

I plan to include Easing hopefully.

Can I kiss you?

pilou · 1 Feb 2016, 22:20

So seems we will be to make that?

And this plugin by Cplassais will be very useful for put easilly some pieces!

alsomar · 2 Feb 2016, 09:18

Looks really great, thank you!

Pixero · 2 Feb 2016, 09:41

Could you explain how to set up hierarchies?
Does it come from how objects are grouped inside other groups, or can you set it up independently through some hierarchy building function?
Will it be possible with inverse kinematics as well as forward kinematics?

Patrick · 2 Feb 2016, 10:35

Hello..

I have this model...

Formes béton.skp

See explain in french Forum : http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=51%26amp;t=64057#p587158

Bye
Patrick

thomthom · 2 Feb 2016, 16:30

Can you animate instances within other instances?

ntxdave · 2 Feb 2016, 17:20

@thomthom said:

Can you animate instances within other instances?

Not sure if this is what you are asking but in my car wash model, there are goups & components within groups and components. As an example, if you look at the first spinning brush, it is a subcomponent of the brush/arm assembly which is also a component. There are multiple things like that in the car wash animation.

So, if I am correctly understanding your question, the answer is yes.

faust07 · 2 Feb 2016, 17:55

Great! I could post a 2,400-year-old tricycle with driver when BryanK (the designer) does not mind. You could convert it from SketchyPhysics into your parametric animation process.

thomthom · 2 Feb 2016, 20:03

@solo said:

I hope that this animation gets supported by the SU integrated render engines like Twilight, Thea, Podium, Corona, Vray, etc.

Ditto! I know they'd be very interested.

ntxdave · 2 Feb 2016, 20:09

I know this is pushing it but I would also like for it to be supported by one of the extensions that support exporting the model to WebGL.

Imagine being able to show you model on a web page with no plugin that included object animations.

fredo6 · 2 Feb 2016, 22:01

@thomthom said:

Can you animate instances within other instances?

Answer is Yes.

Actually, grouping component instances and groups helps transform several objects at once, instead of selecting each of them (even if multi-selection is also supported).
But you can individually move an object within a group.

In the Car Wash example, the whole car is translated as a group, including the wheels, and the wheels are transformed by spin individually.

Fredo

fredo6 · 2 Feb 2016, 22:21

@thomthom said:

@solo said:

I hope that this animation gets supported by the SU integrated render engines like Twilight, Thea, Podium, Corona, Vray, etc.

Ditto! I know they'd be very interested.

I tentatively built an API for acting externally on the animation, so that a rendering software can drive the animation frame by frame.

Animator - API for Renderers - v1.pdf

I am in contact with tomasz for Thea.

But I don't know how to reach the others

Fredo

fredo6 · 2 Feb 2016, 22:25

@ntxdave said:

I know this is pushing it but I would also like for it to be supported by one of the extensions that support exporting the model to WebGL.

Imagine being able to show you model on a web page with no plugin that included object animations.

That would be a good feature, not just for animation.

I'll have to explore WebGL to understand what it is about and if it is applicable in the case of an animation.

I know Tak2hata has released a plugin doing WebGL export, so he is probably the best expert to contact.

Fredo

solo · 2 Feb 2016, 22:35

So when can we play?

Planning a beta team?

otb designworks · 2 Feb 2016, 23:02

Re beta test team: Pick Me Pick Me!!!

I am more excited for this plugin than anything I have seen come out of the official team since they gave us Layout!

thomthom · 3 Feb 2016, 00:06

@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.

solo · 3 Feb 2016, 17:01

I have had so many issues in the past with the available tools/plugins, that is why this is a huge thing.

See video below, a recent attempt to use SU and Thea, It failed and i needed to finally go into Thea studio to complete animation. I also needed to have layers animate, so I could show and hide panels, will it be possible with this plugin?

fredo6 · 3 Feb 2016, 21:16

@solo said:

I also needed to have layers animate, so I could show and hide panels, will it be possible with this plugin?

Animator should normally support layer visibility, either attached to views or independently of views.

Below a short example. Watch the green cylinder and red cube, and layers panel.

[attachment=0:1ubxfxj3]Animator%20Layer%20visibility%20simple.gif[/attachment:1ubxfxj3]

Fredo

JQL · 3 Feb 2016, 21:40

Fredo and what about animating stuff by cycling through scenes as usual, is it also possible?

I mean it's so advanced in it's own that I can't understand if that is a possibility as it's what a basic animation plugin for SU does...

If it is, can we do it without showing UI? In fullscreen mode, to present stuff live to an audience?