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    • Rich O BrienR Offline
      Rich O Brien Moderator
      last edited by

      Are your extensions up to date?

      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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      • ntxdaveN Offline
        ntxdave
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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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        • ntxdaveN Offline
          ntxdave
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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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          • ntxdaveN Offline
            ntxdave @ntxdave
            last edited by

            OK - this was the wrong version of the file.

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            • Rich O BrienR Offline
              Rich O Brien Moderator
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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.

              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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              • ntxdaveN Offline
                ntxdave
                last edited by ntxdave

                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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                • ntxdaveN Offline
                  ntxdave
                  last edited by ntxdave

                  OK, I think I have fixed the problems I had with the file I uploaded before. But now I have a new problem. I fixed things in the file (as I just said) however when I click on the button to generate a video, nothing happens. I am including a copy of the file that I hope someone can generate a video for me and maybe someone else can tell me what has happened. I have not had a problem generating a video before.

                  3 Scene Animator.skp

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                  • ntxdaveN Offline
                    ntxdave
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                    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 (This is a version that I updated today)

                    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.

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                    • ntxdaveN Offline
                      ntxdave @ntxdave
                      last edited by

                      Top Part of Ruby Console:

                      #<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'

                      Nothing in the bottom part of the Ruby Console.

                      I hope this helps.

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                      • fredo6F Offline
                        fredo6
                        last edited by

                        I found the issue. The error should happen if you open a model and go immediately to generate the video. If you open other dialogs of my plugins., it should work fine

                        It should go better with LibFredo6 v15.8d, just released

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                        • ntxdaveN Offline
                          ntxdave @fredo6
                          last edited by ntxdave

                          @fredo6 said in Scene animation with Animator:

                          I found the issue. The error should happen if you open a model and go immediately to generate the video. If you open other dialogs of my plugins., it should work fine

                          It should go better with LibFredo6 v15.8d, just released

                          Thank you so much.

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

                          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".

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