[Tips] Animator Tips and Tricks

[solo]

Fredo

I was watching the tutorials and I saw what you did to create spinning wheels, can you please explain the sequence of voodoo you used to create this?

[ntxdave]

@solo said:

Fredo

I was watching the tutorials and I saw what you did to create spinning wheels, can you please explain the sequence of voodoo you used to create this?

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I had asked the same question.

In my car wash animation, I used a multiple of 360 degrees, adjust the duration of the sequence, and then used the repeat setting to control the wheels.

[fredo6]

@solo said:

Fredo

I was watching the tutorials and I saw what you did to create spinning wheels, can you please explain the sequence of voodoo you used to create this?

Say the diameter of the wheel is D (2.02 m), so the perimeter is Pi * D. This is the distance for a rotation of 360 degrees.
The offset of the forklift translation is 14 m. So you need 14 / (PI * D) rotation of 360 degree..

This gives the formula for the angle: 14 * 360 / 2.02 / 3.1416

Fredo

[solo]

smarty pants. I'm too old to learn these tricks.

[wanniya]

Is there any way to work with section plane animation?

[fredo6]

@wanniya said:

Is there any way to work with section plane animation?

This is coming in a new release tomorrow.

Fredo

[pilou]

Useful for magician!

[fredo6]

The picto is explicit

[pilou]

Can we add a Clip (or a movement) made in a previous session to the current session where an another is yet created ?

Say an object A (a Car) is on the screen and animated
A ball is an object B (a Ball animated) previously made in another session, can we add it to the car ?

[fredo6]

@pilou said:

Can we add a Clip (or a movement) made in a previous session to the current session where an another is yet created ?

Say an object A (a Car) is on the screen and animated
A ball is an object B (a Ball animated) previously made in another session, can we add it to the car ?

Any animation piece (i.e. sequence) created within a model can be integrated into a film, knowing that you can have many films within the same model. Think of a Sequence as a Component Definition in Sketchup. You can create instances of a sequence and insert them in the time line, change some parameters like duration, easing, ... (like you can scale a component instance in Sketchup). All sequences created in the model are accessible from the Insert buttons (for Movement, Cameras, Visual Effects, ....):

Note that you can also insert a full film

Fredo

[solo]

I'm still using Thea 1.5, but I cannot get animator to work with Thea, it works perfect with straight SU output but nothing happens with Thea, at first it just rendered the 1st scene, now when I click 'render animation' it does nothing, what am I doing wrong?

[fredo6]

@solo said:

I'm still using Thea 1.5, but I cannot get animator to work with Thea, it works perfect with straight SU output but nothing happens with Thea, at first it just rendered the 1st scene, now when I click 'render animation' it does nothing, what am I doing wrong?

Do you mean when you launch the rendering from Thea (not from Animator)?

Fredo

[MANaboutTOOLS]

Hi,

I am using a Mac and cannot change the scale of the timeline to zoom in. When I mouse over the scroll bar it says "Use Mouse-wheel +ALT to change scale"

The equivalent on the Mac is the "option" key. When I push the option key and touch scroll the Mac magic mouse it zooms the model and not the timeline.

Thanks
Kent
https://manabouttools.com

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[fredo6]

@manabouttools said:

Hi,

I am using a Mac and cannot change the scale of the timeline to zoom in. When I mouse over the scroll bar it says "Use Mouse-wheel +ALT to change scale"

The equivalent on the Mac is the "option" key. When I push the option key and touch scroll the Mac magic mouse it zooms the model and not the timeline.

Thanks
Kent
https://manabouttools.com

I don't have a Mac to test.

Could you try with Command or Ctrl to see what happens.

Fredo

[MANaboutTOOLS]

I tried as many combinations as possible. All just zoom the model.

Kent

[fredo6]

@manabouttools said:

I tried as many combinations as possible. All just zoom the model.

Kent

Can you at least scroll the timeline (mousewheel, no modifier) and scroll the tracks (Ctrl + mousewheel), [assuming you have enough tracks) ?

[MANaboutTOOLS]

I don't have enough tracks to test that. Will try tmrw.

[MANaboutTOOLS]

I changed a clip to make it longer so it brought up the scroll bars. I am unable to scroll the timeline with the mouse wheel. It always zooms the model window.

Kent

[MANaboutTOOLS]

Any keyboard shortcuts to zoom the timeline? Or any settings to key in a zoom value to get around this?

Thanks
Kent

[fredo6]

@manabouttools said:

Any keyboard shortcuts to zoom the timeline? Or any settings to key in a zoom value to get around this?

Thanks
Kent

Let's take things in order

1. without any modifier, putting the mouse cursor over the time, can you scroll the timeline?

2. with Option key pressed, and assuming you have enough tracks, can you scroll the tracks?

3. with Command key pressed, putting the mouse cursor over the time, what do you get?