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    [Plugin] Animator - v4.5a - 22 Jul 25

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    • jgbJ Offline
      jgb
      last edited by

      Thank you.
      This old dog has difficulty learning new tricks.
      I've tried many SU based animators over the years starting with SketchyPhysics (almost got the hang of it). Others left me wanting, others way too complex or plain unusable. I need a simple animator without the physics complications, so I hope, based on the quality and functions of your stuff, most of which I use daily (Curviloft in particular), this rendition of an SU animator will do the trick.


      jgb

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      • fredo6F Offline
        fredo6
        last edited by

        New Release: Animator - v1.7c - 16 Aug 17

        Requirement: LibFredo6 v7.7c

        Minor release

        • bug fixing
        • First support of VRay (v3.40.04) for rendering of animations

        See main post for RBZ files

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          tomaszdrgas
          last edited by

          I guess easiest would be interpolating date and hour seperately.

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          • fredo6F Offline
            fredo6
            last edited by

            @tomaszdrgas said:

            I guess easiest would be interpolating date and hour seperately.

            Definitely.

            If the two dates are separated by less than 24 hours, then interpolate the dates

            Otherwise, interpolate the days, but keeping the same hour.

            Fredo

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              vailly
              last edited by

              Nice job again Fredo6.
              Is it possible to animate the "sun" to see the shadow of a building moving from early in the morning through the night?
              Thanks,
              François

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              • fredo6F Offline
                fredo6
                last edited by

                @vailly said:

                Is it possible to animate the "sun" to see the shadow of a building moving from early in the morning through the night?

                This is possible with the Visual Effect "Shadow"

                In the timeline,

                • put a first one with the date/time of early morning
                • put a second one with the date/time of late evening at the end (based on your video duration)

                Shadow is a visual effect. So it can be combined with object and camera movements and with other visual effects (zoom, etc...).

                Note that if the two date/time are separated with more than 24h, then you'll get a Season shadow animation. This is how you can simulate the shadow across several days, months or years.

                Fredo

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                • fredo6F Offline
                  fredo6
                  last edited by

                  New Release: Animator - v1.8a - 02 Nov 17

                  Requirement: LibFredo6 v7.9a

                  Minor release

                  • bug fixing
                  • First batch of Performance improvement for large models

                  See main post for RBZ files

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                  • M Offline
                    Mike598601
                    last edited by

                    Hey Fredo, you are genius 😄 I love animator
                    I tried rendering a clip in Twilight V2 pro, only 2 second duration (51 frames) - 30 hours in it had rendered 14 clips, so I decided to purchase V-Ray and upgraded LibFredo6 to 7.9 and animator to 1.8 as it says Vray is supported. Tried to render the same animation and it only took 1.5 hours - an amazing improvement!! I saw every frame rendering, However, the resulting movie, both MP4 and MOV were both only 1 frame long 😞 - Have I missed something? Can you advise me please?

                    Keep up the brilliant work!!!

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                    • fredo6F Offline
                      fredo6
                      last edited by

                      @mike598601 said:

                      I tried rendering a clip in Twilight V2 pro, only 2 second duration (51 frames) - 30 hours in it had rendered 14 clips, so I decided to purchase V-Ray and upgraded LibFredo6 to 7.9 and animator to 1.8 as it says Vray is supported. Tried to render the same animation and it only took 1.5 hours - an amazing improvement!! I saw every frame rendering, However, the resulting movie, both MP4 and MOV were both only 1 frame long 😞 - Have I missed something? Can you advise me please?

                      For animation, I don't think you need super-rendering. If you have only 51 frames, with a rendering of 10 s, you should keep it under 10 minutes, whether Twilight or VRay.

                      Could you post or PM your model, so that I see how it renders with Vray and Twilight.

                      Fredo

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                        mast1987
                        last edited by

                        First: Big Thanks to FREDO for this Genius plugin.

                        Theres just 1 Thing I got a Problem with: Camera Fade out.

                        If I use more than 2 views/cameras the Animation stops at the second view/camera and doesnt fade to the third one.

                        what did I wrong?

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                        • fredo6F Offline
                          fredo6
                          last edited by

                          @mast1987 said:

                          If I use more than 2 views/cameras the Animation stops at the second view/camera and doesnt fade to the third one.

                          what did I wrong?

                          Could you please post or PM your model so that I have a look.
                          Maybe you simply disable fadeout for the second camera.

                          Fredo

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                            mast1987
                            last edited by

                            ok I got a solution:

                            when i set the camera Position with the eye tool it doesnt works.
                            when I set it with the Orbit and Hand tool it works fine.....

                            thanks for the quick answer btw

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                            • fredo6F Offline
                              fredo6
                              last edited by

                              Glad to see it works.

                              Still, I don't see why you have a difference, since Animator does not really care HOW you set a view: it just capture the camera when it is set.

                              Fredo

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                              • fredo6F Offline
                                fredo6
                                last edited by

                                New Release: Animator - v1.8b - 19 Nov 17

                                Requirement: LibFredo6 v8.0b

                                Maintenance release

                                • bug fixing
                                • Handling of cases where scenes which are part of an animation are deleted in Sketchup.
                                • improvement in circular camera interpolation (fadeout) if you also install LibFredo6 8.0b

                                See main post for RBZ files

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                                • M Offline
                                  Mike598601
                                  last edited by

                                  Just upgraded VRay to 3.6 but it no longer appears in the 'Render with' options in animator - is this version of Vray supported by animator in SU 2018?

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                                  • fredo6F Offline
                                    fredo6
                                    last edited by

                                    Is Vray 3.6 installed in SU2018?

                                    I will investigate on my side

                                    Fredo

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                                    • soloS Offline
                                      solo
                                      last edited by

                                      Go home Thea, you're drunk!

                                      Why is Thea acting like a drunk uncle? see the animation in SU, this is what I want to render in Thea:

                                      right.gif

                                      However, when I choose to render the animation I get this:

                                      wrong.gif

                                      Is there a way to fix this? reset Thea in some way?

                                      http://www.solos-art.com

                                      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                      • ntxdaveN Offline
                                        ntxdave
                                        last edited by

                                        I am assuming that when you went to create the animation using the Animator plugin you clicked the Thea button. I have not seen anything like that happen but I have not used Animator for a while

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                                        • soloS Offline
                                          solo
                                          last edited by

                                          @ntxdave said:

                                          I am assuming that when you went to create the animation using the Animator plugin you clicked the Thea button. I have not seen anything like that happen but I have not used Animator for a while

                                          If I did not press the Thea button then it would not have rendered with Thea, I did what I always do, use Thea animation with the Animator plugin selected.

                                          Besides Thea, does Animator support other renderers? may be time to move on.

                                          http://www.solos-art.com

                                          If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                          • ntxdaveN Offline
                                            ntxdave
                                            last edited by

                                            I remember for sure that it also supports Twilight Pro and Ambient Occlusion. Not sure which others.

                                            Yes, I thought that is what you did (clicked). I guess I was "grasping at a straw" for an explanation but I know you are much more of a sage that that. Dumb remark/question on my pattern. 😳

                                            Hope you get this sorted out.

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