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

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Animator Beta
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    • JQLJ Offline
      JQL
      last edited by

      @solo said:

      Trying to figure out how to do the water spray

      Why don't you composite it using Natron or other similar software?

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      • fredo6F Offline
        fredo6
        last edited by

        New Release: Animator - v1.0v - 13 Jun 16

        Maintenance and small evolutions

        • Reworked the Movement engine to make it more contextual. This answers some valid requests by Pilou and Dave. See video below
        • Objects concerned by a movement are highlighted when mouse-over in the timeline. I still need to illustrate the movement itself
        • Possible assignment of color to a Clip element. This may help to distinguish them.
        • Bug fixing, in particular when creating new films and for random cases where the offset of transaltion was 'unset'
        • Cosmetic changes

        Note for the video:

        • The Rubiks cube is actualling 'orbiting' around the small cube. Orbiting means Rotation by a point which is attached to another object (versus absolute pivot).
        • It can however move by itself individually (the small jump)
        • The inside of the Rubiks cube is also animated
        • That why, in the second part of the video, the second instance only shows the movements within the Rubiks cube.

        Animator - Mix movements instances.gif

        See main post for RBZ files

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        • ntxdaveN Offline
          ntxdave
          last edited by

          @fredo6 said:

          New Release: Animator - v1.0v - 13 Jun 16

          Maintenance and small evolutions

          • Reworked the Movement engine to make it more contextual. This answers some valid requests by Pilou and Dave. See video below
          • Objects concerned by a movement are highlighted when mouse-over in the timeline. I still need to illustrate the movement itself
          • Possible assignment of color to a Clip element. This may help to distinguish them.
          • Bug fixing, in particular when creating new films and for random cases where the offset of transaltion was 'unset'
          • Cosmetic changes

          Note for the video:

          • The Rubiks cube is actualling 'orbiting' around the small cube. Orbiting means Rotation by a point which is attached to another object (versus absolute pivot).
          • It can however move by itself individually (the small jump)
          • The inside of the Rubiks cube is also animated
          • That why, in the second part of the video, the second instance only shows the movements within the Rubiks cube.

          Some good enhancements. I am playing with these a little and having a point of reference for rotating (orbiting another object) will turn out to be valuable. Already playing with that a little.

          In particular, I like the ability to hover a sequence and get some visual feedback on which objects the sequence is attached to is REALLY valuable (IMO). I also like that I can color code a sequence so I can easily identify all of the sequences that belong to a given object visually. I think this will be another tool that can be used a lot.

          Here is good example. I have 2 panels of the garage door that I have animated. By color coding each panel, I can easily see which sequences belong to which panel.
          Garage Door Animation (WIP)

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          • fredo6F Offline
            fredo6
            last edited by

            About Orbiting, for the time being:

            • when you have clicked to select the pivot, you should click-right and choose the reference object if this is not the one taken by Animator or if you wish an absolute pivot.
            • The reference object for pivot is highlighted in Orange.

            I'll make the GUI more explicit in a next version.

            Fredo

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            • fredo6F Offline
              fredo6
              last edited by

              New Release: Animator - v1.0x - 08 Jul 16

              • New Features

              • Visual Effects: Layer visibility on-off (see tutorial)

              • Visual Effects: zoom

              • Cameras: Tracking Cameras (see tutorial)

              • Cameras: Scene Cameras

              • Support of Twilight Render Pro (thanks to Chris)

              • Minimize timeline(to hide all palettes when playing animation) - see tutorial

              • Maintenance - Fixes and adjustments

              • Corrections for Rotation with orbiting

              • Various bugs

              • Cosmetic changes in GUI

              See main post for RBZ files

              Here are two videos

              1) Tracking Cameras

              2) Layer visibility: State and On-Off

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              • fredo6F Offline
                fredo6
                last edited by

                chri,

                Can you open the Ruby console to see what is going on

                Fredo

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                • fredo6F Offline
                  fredo6
                  last edited by

                  Chri,

                  Thanks.
                  I fixed it and republish as LibFredo6 7.0x2 9 Jul 16 (Animator is unchanged)

                  Fredo

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                  • fredo6F Offline
                    fredo6
                    last edited by

                    Actually, the X2 is not good. Take the 7.0x3.

                    Fredo

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                    • chriC Offline
                      chri
                      last edited by

                      hi Fredo
                      the new release don't works for me
                      When i click on the icon ... nothing !

                      (i use SKETCHUP PRO 2014 AND WINDOWS XP )

                      Chri

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                      • chriC Offline
                        chri
                        last edited by

                        @fredo6 said:

                        chri,

                        Can you open the Ruby console to see what is going on

                        Fredo

                        message in Ruby console

                        Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `definition' for #Sketchup::Group:0x968a150>
                        ...

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                        • chriC Offline
                          chri
                          last edited by

                          @fredo6 said:

                          Actually, the X2 is not good. Take the 7.0x3.

                          Fredo

                          It works for me
                          Thanks Fredo

                          Chri

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                          • pilouP Offline
                            pilou
                            last edited by

                            @unknownuser said:

                            AmbientOcclusionEx v1.9.5.
                            TheaRender v1.5 (from Animator and in Batch from Thea)
                            SketchFX Ex v1.0.6
                            Twilight Render %(#FF0000)[Pro v3.5]
                            

                            It's Twilight Render Pro v2.5! ๐Ÿ˜‰ (and I suppose also Hobby Version ? )

                            What is the process for use it with Twilight Render ?

                            Frenchy Pilou
                            Is beautiful that please without concept!
                            My Little site :)

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                            • chriC Offline
                              chri
                              last edited by

                              Hi Fredo

                              I have a problem to ROTATE.
                              Please , have a look on the next GIF ( clic to anim )

                              Chri


                              PB ROTATING.gif

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                              • ntxdaveN Offline
                                ntxdave
                                last edited by

                                @pilou said:

                                @unknownuser said:

                                AmbientOcclusionEx v1.9.5.
                                TheaRender v1.5 (from Animator and in Batch from Thea)
                                SketchFX Ex v1.0.6
                                Twilight Render %(#FF0000)[Pro v3.5]
                                

                                It's Twilight Render Pro v2.5! ๐Ÿ˜‰ (and I suppose also Hobby Version ? )

                                What is the process for use it with Twilight Render ?

                                It is my understanding that only the Pro version can be used with Animator. We will have to wait and see when they post the link today.

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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  Idem! Seems there is blend of rotation / Object / General!
                                  GIF_idem.gif

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                  • fredo6F Offline
                                    fredo6
                                    last edited by

                                    @chri said:

                                    Hi Fredo

                                    I have a problem to ROTATE.
                                    Please , have a look on the next GIF ( clic to anim )

                                    Chri

                                    Thanks for signaling. Fixed.

                                    Fredo

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                                    • fredo6F Offline
                                      fredo6
                                      last edited by

                                      @pilou said:

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      AmbientOcclusionEx v1.9.5.
                                      TheaRender v1.5 (from Animator and in Batch from Thea)
                                      SketchFX Ex v1.0.6
                                      Twilight Render %(#FF0000)[Pro v3.5]
                                      

                                      It's Twilight Render Pro v2.5! ๐Ÿ˜‰ (and I suppose also Hobby Version ? )

                                      What is the process for use it with Twilight Render ?

                                      I think this is just for Pro version.

                                      Fredo

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                                      • fredo6F Offline
                                        fredo6
                                        last edited by

                                        @pilou said:

                                        Idem! Seems there is blend of rotation / Object / General!
                                        [attachment=0:yeoqnx06]<!-- ia0 -->GIF_idem.gif<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:yeoqnx06]

                                        Is there a bug there?

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                                        • ntxdaveN Offline
                                          ntxdave
                                          last edited by

                                          I have been rebuilding my Pendulum animation (preparing for Twilight Render) and I have not seen a problem. I thought I did once but went back and redid my sequence and all worked well for me.

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                                          • pilouP Offline
                                            pilou
                                            last edited by

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            Is there a bug there?

                                            Yes same than Chris!
                                            Rotation must be from a point outside the object, but result gives from a point inside the object! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

                                            Frenchy Pilou
                                            Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                            My Little site :)

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