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    • pilouP Offline
      pilou
      last edited by

      and an hobby version ?

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

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      • SUaliveS Offline
        SUalive
        last edited by

        Hello,

        We are currently developing a two-side educational version aiming educational institutions.

        • One side called 'Teacher' is a full version out of license about professional use.
        • One side called 'Student' is a limited full version as regard output aiming classroom only - meaning inside an educational institution.

        Question is 'Student' version only in classroom right or should we think about 'Student' version inside and outside of the educational institution - meaning on student pc at home?

        What is your take?
        Any suggestion welcome.

        Have a good day

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        • SUaliveS Offline
          SUalive
          last edited by

          Hi Pilou,

          What do you mean 'Hobby version'?

          Regards

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          • SUaliveS Offline
            SUalive
            last edited by

            Hello,

            We are pleased to announce SUalive Freeis now cross-platform - Windows or Mac Osx.

            Thanks to Helen and Hugh, Vincent ( osx59) and some others for the time. That Osx very first version also owns a debt to John ( driven ) for his welcome and wise advices and the nice way he offers to test SUalive user interface.
            I would like to tell you nothing would have been possible without your great help. It's an honour for me to have met such friendly people.
            If there is anything I can do for you, it will be a pleasure.

            Have a good week-end

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
              last edited by

              @unknownuser said:

              What do you mean 'Hobby version'?

              this : SUalive Free 😉

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

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              • N Offline
                naarx
                last edited by

                This "trial" plugin is just great !

                Looking forward the final version.
                Keep up the good job

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                • M Offline
                  macfreek
                  last edited by

                  SUAlive looks very promising, although the user interface is not very intuitive: I was not able to get anything done till I watched the demo twice.

                  So far, I did recreate the demo with the interpolation, although after some fiddling it no longer works -- I get an error "Can not animate. No action to play" when pressing the "Run all" button, even though there is a an action (with green check mark) listed in the bottom half of the SUalive window.

                  Also, I have not been able to define a camera, let alone a path. In the "Camera" tab, there is a text field, but that can't be selected. There is a button "New from window", which opens a new window with some apparently camera settings, but none of the field (name, positions) can be changed, and none of the buttons can be pressed. Perhaps this is intentional (I only have Sketchup Make, perhaps this only works with SketchUp Pro).

                  Or perhaps, the camera is not yet implemented, like the rotation, translation, scale and layers tabs. At least all of the buttons and fields in those tabs are disabled, and don't work (yet?).

                  I'm using SUAlive 2.35.60017 on SketchUp Make 2017 on macOS 10.12.6.

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                  • WhyDiW Offline
                    WhyDi
                    last edited by

                    Hello,

                    Sorry for the late reply but we didn’t get the mail – or missed - from the thread 😞

                    Final version release expected soon. See our website https://www.SUalive.com. We are currently making help – tab on the website right.

                    macfreek you’re right about intuitive interface. SUalive V1 was far more but quickly faced hard time such way we were not able to make three out of the four animations you may see on the website. We say ‘the devil is in the detail’ and this is so right about animation! If you want an animation process as easy and intuitive as it could – note I don’t use ‘quick’ – I may help regarding general purpose.

                    1. Check your SketchUp model.
                    • The more animated groups parallel to XYZ model axis, the quicker and better result.
                    • The less group transformation, the less nasty surprise at run time. You may read about on extension warehouse thread. https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/sualive-free
                    1. Make mental scenario.
                    • All website animations made this way but you might use a mind-mapping soft. It works although not saving time for short animations.
                    • Keep always in mind ‘One action, one group’ – action is rotation, translation, scale or path move. Here you are still very likely to adjust your model creating or arranging your groups.
                    1. Have a look on toolbar 'Save and Reload Model' button - small house with star. Does it blink? if so click. Check another time.
                    2. You are ready for animation! Probably any model adjustment to come but as few as you can. Never forget snapshot is a photo at 't' instant of your model. Any following modification might lead to unexpected outcomes. No issue regarding tiny or small animation but none of the website animation was made in one shot. Trial and error also works well here if you don’t lay scenario on a paper.
                      We are currently trying to improve help adding explanations on training you are talking about and help will be available at any time from our website. This is our last task before releasing Windows versions. Mac OSX are currently under test but I am not still satisfied – I am in charge of. I really hope both Windows and MacOSX available at the same time.

                    Free version aims tiny projects using interpolation and you can have a tour on other actions but they are SUalive Light or Full version features. See Version tab on our website.

                    This should lead to animate your model with no trouble and solde issue you were dealing with.

                    Best Regards
                    WhyDi

                    the devil is in the detail

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                    • SUaliveS Offline
                      SUalive
                      last edited by

                      Hello,

                      Following macfreek post we checked once more ‘Can not animate’ message then found out a bug when using [Adjust Sel Times] on SUalive Free version.

                      Details on Plugins Store, SUalive, Reviews.
                      https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/sualive-free#comment-80736

                      Best Regards
                      SUalive Team.

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                      • SUaliveS Offline
                        SUalive
                        last edited by

                        Hello,

                        SUalive Free 2.40 just under review (you can download 2.40 from our website)…

                        • Replay slider on top window* Online help available from SUalive help menu* website help tab QuickTour shows tuto and a tenth of videos from SUalive Full* No longer use .rbs files* SketchUp 2018pro

                        SUalive Light and Full release today!

                        • from http://www.sualive.com at first

                        Website home page has 4 new animation videos

                        • Lift-top Table assembly* Scaffolding assembly* Corkscrew* Scissor Lift

                        @jumpjack
                        We are waiting for Twilight contact and will let you know here as soon as they mail us.

                        you said ‘...creating a temporary new scene per each frame...’
                        You can now render any frame you like. Simply move replay slider then render!

                        you said ‘...Maybe SUalive could save scenes data...’
                        SUalive full has 2 commands. First ‘Export Scene like’ and ‘Play Scenes’. The last wait for user to click on next button and can easily be automated. User Ruby script or render extension can integrate the following safe script. Both script and next button may be used at the same time.

                        
                          if defined?(YDco657479255;;api_play_next_scene)
                            YDco657479255;;api_play_next_scene()
                          end
                        
                        

                        Have a good day
                        WhyDi

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