Scene animation with Animator
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@rich-o-brien and @fredo6 I would like to suggest that we set up a new thread category for Animator called Animator Tips and Tricks that hopefully would give Animator some more attention. If you look at the image below, I would then like to suggest that you also set up some subcategories as outlined in the image.
Hope you guys do not think I am crazy. As I learn more, I think that Animator has a lot of power, but people do not know how to take advantage of it .
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There are videos and there is already a Tip and Trick thread for Animator.
My plan is to rewrite the UI of Animator, but only once the Mac version of Sketchup is migrated to Qt and share the same code as on Windows. I will lkely use HTML dialogs to have a better positioning of the UI elements in the workspace (especially if you have multiple screens) and a more guided interface.
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@fredo6 said in Scene animation with Animator:
There are videos and there is already a Tip and Trick thread for Animator.
Yes, I know there are videos (and I have watched several) but as you can tell from this thread, there are times when I have problems finding answers about some tools. I did not find the Tip and Trick thread for Animator. Can you give me a link?
My plan is to rewrite the UI of Animator, but only once the Mac version of Sketchup is migrated to Qt and share the same code as on Windows. I will lkely use HTML dialogs to have a better positioning of the UI elements in the workspace (especially if you have multiple screens) and a more guided interface.
Looking forward to this.
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@ntxdave said in Scene animation with Animator:
Can you give me a link?
It is pinned to this suforum.
Animator Beta
General discussion about Animator for SketchUp
sketchucation (community.sketchucation.com)
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I am suddenly getting a message that my license expired on 23 Jan 2026 and I do not know how to update/get it working again. Right now I cannot use Animator.
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Are your extensions up to date?
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Yes. - according to the SketchUcation manager.
I just sent @fredo6 my email address so he can send me some license information
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OK guys, I think I have a model here that I think shows you can have something like I talked about before. Although there are some things I need to update (in particular the camera position/distance) on the Animation scene the model has 3 basic scenes. An Introduction scene (which is what I will use at the beginning of some future models), an Animation scene (which is the "main part of the model") where I will do the main features of presenting the model, and a Conclusion scene (which is where I will present some information like - in this case thank the donor of the plaques I modeled).
I hope this might at least get people to think about the wide range that Animator has and how it can be used (IMO) to present models.
Here is the "rough" model" 3 Scene Animator.skp
Once again, I appreciate any comments you might have.
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OK - this was the wrong version of the file.
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It's obviously a personal project. Well done persevering.
Now you get to polish and improve while adding to your knowledge.
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Somehow several updates did not get included in the file I posted before. I am going to try to update the file and post it again with the additional things I have been working on. What I am doing with this (at this point) is not the final version I have in mind but rather an example of where you can go with Animator. Hope to be able to include the updates within the next couple of days. I spent a good amount of time yesterday and do not know what happened to my updates.
I do appreciate your feedback though. I have leaned some "shortcuts" during the process yesterday that really came/come in handy.
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