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

ntxdave

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)

fredo6

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

fredo6

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

fredo6

chri,

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

Fredo

fredo6

Chri,

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

Fredo

fredo6

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

Fredo

chri

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

chri

@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>
...

chri

@fredo6 said:

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

Fredo

It works for me
Thanks Fredo

Chri

pilou

@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! (and I suppose also Hobby Version ? )

What is the process for use it with Twilight Render ?

chri

Hi Fredo

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

Chri

PB ROTATING.gif

ntxdave

@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! (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.

pilou

Idem! Seems there is blend of rotation / Object / General!

fredo6

@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

fredo6

@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! (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

fredo6

@pilou said:

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

Is there a bug there?

ntxdave

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.

pilou

@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!

ntxdave

@pilou said:

@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!

OK - I understand. My rotations were from inside the object.

fredo6

@pilou said:

@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!

When you pick the pivot, the reference component containing the pivot is highlighted in orange. If you wish a pivot at top of model, then right click and select the option.