[Plugin Beta] Animator - v4.0a - 02 Apr 24

adrihal

While working with the plugin, several problems arose.
There is no way to make a render of any size - just the size of the screen.
Can not record the reverse playback.

There is a wish - I would like to receive lines on which the assembly is disassembled.
As if the circuit for assembling complex structures.
The effect is the damping for the pendulum and the rebound with the damping for the ball.
These inserts revitalized the videos

fredo6

@adrihal said:

While working with the plugin, several problems arose.
There is no way to make a render of any size - just the size of the screen.
Can not record the reverse playback.

There is a wish - I would like to receive lines on which the assembly is disassembled.
As if the circuit for assembling complex structures.
The effect is the damping for the pendulum and the rebound with the damping for the ball.
These inserts revitalized the videos

You are right. The reversed_play option does not work. I fixed it. Thanks for signaling.

For the dimensions, you have predefined options but you can freely defined custom dimensions. Simply, dimensions cannot be bigger than the viewport resolution.

Fredo

adrihal

@fredo6 said:

For the dimensions, you have predefined options but you can freely defined custom dimensions. Simply, dimensions cannot be bigger than the viewport resolution.
Fredo
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The quality of the video with the screen size is poor. It can not be used for further work. Why the renderer in Sketchup allows you to set the picture size to 2500 or more.
The animator can greatly improve the presentation of the model. But for this we need a large picture resolution without additional programs.

fredo6

@adrihal said:

The quality of the video with the screen size is poor. It can not be used for further work. Why the renderer in Sketchup allows you to set the picture size to 2500 or more.
The animator can greatly improve the presentation of the model. But for this we need a large picture resolution without additional programs.

I arranged to increase the limit for video resolution above the screen resolution. I did not test what are the limits in FFMPEG, but in Sketchup it is in theory 16000x16000.

I have attached a short one in 6000x2000 (as a MOV file, since we cannot attach a MP4 in this forum)

Fredo

Film 4 - final path.mov

adrihal

@fredo6 said:

@adrihal said:

The quality of the video with the screen size is poor. It can not be used for further work. Why the renderer in Sketchup allows you to set the picture size to 2500 or more.
The animator can greatly improve the presentation of the model. But for this we need a large picture resolution without additional programs.

I arranged to increase the limit for video resolution above the screen resolution. I did not test what are the limits in FFMPEG, but in Sketchup it is in theory 16000x16000.

I have attached a short one in 6000x2000 (as a MOV file, since we cannot attach a MP4 in this forum)

Fredo

Thank you! Do I need to update the plugin,
So that all the changes were in my program?

adrihal

@adrihal said:

@fredo6 said:

@adrihal said:

The quality of the video with the screen size is poor. It can not be used for further work. Why the renderer in Sketchup allows you to set the picture size to 2500 or more.
The animator can greatly improve the presentation of the model. But for this we need a large picture resolution without additional programs.

I arranged to increase the limit for video resolution above the screen resolution. I did not test what are the limits in FFMPEG, but in Sketchup it is in theory 16000x16000.

I have attached a short one in 6000x2000 (as a MOV file, since we cannot attach a MP4 in this forum)

Fredo

Thank you! Do I need to update the plugin,
So that all the changes were in my program?

After updating the plug-in - the result did not change ...
Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Video_2017-04-16_220841.rar

fredo6

@adrihal said:

Thank you! Do I need to update the plugin,
So that all the changes were in my program?

Well...I need to publish it first. Should come in the next release in a few days hopefully.

Fredo

valerostudio

Just playing with this for the first time, testing with Thea. Amazing! Fredo, you've made SketchUp the modeling application that we've always wanted it to be. Huge thanks.

fredo6

New Release: Animator - v1.5d - 13 May 17

Requirement: LibFredo6 v7.5a

This is the same as previous version (v1.5c) with extension of validity beyond 14 May 17.

I am working on a major new release, with Scaling and Along path movements, but it takes more time than expected.

See main post for RBZ files

bedavisdesign

Hi Fredo,

I absolutely love your Animator plugin. I was actually in the middle of editing some animations when I received the notice that "this version is out of date, please update" (paraphrasing). I went to the sketchucation plugin and downloaded animator v1.5d successfully. I am currently running LibFredo6 v7.5b. However it still is giving me the popup that says this version of animator is out of date. I am running sketchup version 15.3.331 64-bit. Thoughts?

UPDATE: I quit and restarted sketchup and the animator plugin seems to be working. Apologies.

Best,

BD

fredo6

Yes, you need to restart Sketchup after you install Animator (or most plugins) so that the new code is actually loaded.

Fredo

sarkarshomit

@fredo6 said:

New Release: Animator - v1.5d - 13 May 17

Requirement: LibFredo6 v7.5a

This is the same as previous version (v1.5c) with extension of validity beyond 14 May 17.

I am working on a major new release, with Scaling and Along path movements, but it takes more time than expected.

See main post for RBZ files

Waiting and i know it will be the best as always.....thanks for the plugin Fredo......u have been great.
Scaling is something i have been waiting from long time......this expected update will be a great update...

pilou

Fabulous! Fast & furious!

fredo6

New Release: Animator - v1.6a - 25 May 17

Requirement: LibFredo6 v7.6a

Major release

bug fixing and cosmetic changes
introduction of Scaling Movement
Introduction of MovementAlong Path
Wireframe mode in Movement Editor
Speed Control mode (i.e. impose the speed) for Translation, Screw, Rotation, Spin and Along Path
Cloning of sequences (copy a sequence, and then change the object selection)
video resolution can be larger that the screen
Improvement in the management of Thea rendering (more efficient when you have timeouts) (see video)

See main post for RBZ files

Rich O Brien

Vrrroooommmm!!!!

ntxdave

Fredo, this is pretty exciting. I will be giving this a try as soon as possible (might take a few days).

Treadshot A1

Animator 1.6a is awesome! Most happy about Animator actually saving animation and model data on click now (previously, saving was... not reliable for animation data). Only had time to try out the follow path feature, by driving a tank of course.

Great job Fredo as always, thanks!

fredo6

@treadshot a1 said:

Most happy about Animator actually saving animation and model data on click now (previously, saving was... not reliable for animation data).

I guess you use an old version of Sketchup (< 2014). I discovered that there was a bug in the model.save method (doing nothing basically). So I fix that too in 1.6.

Nice model and video animation!

Fredo