[Plugin] Animator - v4.6a - 18 Dec 25

ntxdave

There was no error message so I shared what I saw. I fully understand what you are saying though.

Any idea why I am not getting a video though?

fredo6

Yes there is an error as shown in your screenshot.

Simply, I miss the beginning of the error message.

By the way resize to lower part of the console to the minimum (one line). The upper part is for the display of messages.

ntxdave

Is this what you are looking for?

fredo6_animator/animatorpalette.rbe:820:in `block in palette_clip_name_duration_video'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:4100:in `execute_button'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:3854:in `onLButtonUp'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/lib6palette.rbe:103:in `onLButtonUp'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe:1293:in `onLButtonUp'

fredo6

Better but I need the top message starting by 'Error...'. This is where the error is stated.

ntxdave

@fredo6 said in [Plugin] Animator - v4.6a - 18 Dec 25:

Better but I need the top message starting by 'Error...'. This is where the error is stated.

OK, here it everything that is in the top box

#<NoMethodError: undefined method custom_convert_id' for Traductor::ChromiumWdlg:Class> c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6weblist.rbe:159:in cid'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6weblist.rbe:44:in initialize__' c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/lib6weblist.rbe:33:in initialize'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorvideomanager.rbe:1666:in new' c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorvideomanager.rbe:1666:in job_dialog_select_repair'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorvideomanager.rbe:1641:in job_detect_repairing' c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe:2293:in movie_clip_generation'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatorpalette.rbe:820:in block in palette_clip_name_duration_video' c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:4100:in execute_button'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/body_lib6palette.rbe:3854:in onLButtonUp' c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_!libfredo6/lib6palette.rbe:103:in onLButtonUp'
c:/users/doppy/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_animator/animatortool.rbe:1293:in `onLButtonUp'

fredo6

Which version of LibFredo6 do you have?

ntxdave

I thought I had the latest version. It says I am up to date. I will have to go to my laptop to find out. Where is the best place to check?

ntxdave

fredo6

Menu Window > LibFredo6 Setting... > About

ntxdave

I have done some more testing, and there is something wrong with my file. In other files I can launch the movie generator.

So, tomorrow I will try to clean up the file and see if I can get things back on trach. I did look at the file earlier and something I did messed up the location of some objects in my animation. So, first I will get that cleaned up and then try one step at a time to see what is causing the problem. Big problem was that I made 4 other copies of the file and they are also messed up also. So, I will try to resolve/figure out what the problem is.

Hope I have not caused you any problems. I thought I was creating something with positive results, so I need to figure this all out and share with you what I figure out.

ntxdave

I am continuing to have problems. It seems like some files will allow me to generate a movie and some will not.

Hers is a file that "seems" to be OK and in Animator I can see everything, but when I try to generate the video, nothing happens.
3 Scene Animator.skp

BTW: I tried both with clips for each section and without them and get the same result. Everything plays fine in Animator, but it will not let me generate a video.

I am beginning to wonder if I should just give up.

fredo6

Can you report the Ruby error properly. Thanks.

ntxdave

Thank you so much for the update to LibFredo6 v15.8d.

I was about to give up but after updating to the LibFredo6 v15.8d I was able to generate the video.
In fact, I was also able to create a 2nd version of the model with everything done in clips. Again

So, here are some videos I was able to create with the 2 versions of the file (one without clips and the other with clips).

Without clips:
3 Scene Animator.mp4
Model Animation.gif

With Clips
3 Scene Animation With Clips.mp4
3 Scene Animation With Clips.gif

I hope this shows that you can have multiple animated scenes in a SU model and use Animator to "show them off".

ntxdave

My whole purpose here was to demonstrate that you can have multiple scenes with animations and information that can be displayed Animator. The one I displayed is not what I want as a final product was just something to show how you can use the features of Animator (like introduction, animation(s), and conclusion) without having to have an external video editor.

Throughout this exercise I think I have learned a lot about Animator like:

How to combine items to create a “clip”
How to “explode” a clip to edit items within the clip
How to create and edit Layer visibility controls. As an example this can be used to I used this in the “Introduction” to control the display of line text one line at a time.
How to create/capture and edit (at least to some level) camera settings/positions.
I also figured how to take advantage of camera feature, along with the layer visibility controls, to “somewhat” control the transition between scenes.
I think I also learned some things about using the movement tools.

Things I need to learn more about (IMO):

How to better control the transition from one scene or clip to another one. I think there are options for this but I do not know how/have not figured out. I would like to “fade” between them.
I have not experimented with the “translation” tool/feature I would like to be able to use something like section cuts to control the exposure of items or text.

I hope all of this makes sense. The more I learn about Animator the better I like it and would like to help promote it’s use