...a little Friday afternoon exercise [Victor Mousetrap]

Hi All
finally I took some time for a little fun exercise again. Some robot pretending to be a Roman centurion and I have no idea why
(Everything is native SketchUp with Fredo6's plugins such as FredoScale, Joint-Push-Pull and Curviloft or Anton S´s Copy Along Curve plugin. The shown image export is made with Affinity Photo 2)

...thank you all for your kind comments
(I agree with Rich O Brien (above). SketchUp's AO style is a bit strange for me too. Maybe because it's new and I played with it here for the first time. But for sure this AO style can be used in image editing as a standalone multiply layer or something like that. At least there is this additional option).
Best!

@ntxdave wunderbar

@Rich-O-Brien said in Snowman:

@Gus-R Come on, Halloween hasn't even ended and I'm seeing xmas stuff!

Halloween or not - here in D they start selling christmas biscuits shortly after the summer holidays. So this is a seasonally appropriate job and a so very nice one on top it !!!

@ Gus R - interesting how you did it with the snow

TH Darmstadt / Architektur, and a completely digital-free education back then (not even Zuse) This (CAD) topic then came over me very intensively in my first year of work, but thankfully in a company that provided very good training...

Yes, I agree with you that this issue discussed here has been a flaw since the beginning and yes, it also annoys me that Sketchup never fixed this flaw.

Again to your script and for information for everyone participating here - in the meantime I played through at least 10 scenarios (a: because this topic is so important to me and b: because I have to simulate the output of my many colleagues and our cross-workplace collaboration) and in all these scenarios your script consistently delivered the same and good output results! Prima! I even included the downstream render output in this test, with excellent results as well.
Again, Thanks! to All!!

I'm definitely going to deal with the scripting topic - because that's the only key to solving problems like this!

Rich O Brien and @sketch3d-de
Thank you Both so much for all these helpful tips and, above all, for your patience.
With your guidance above I have actually got the thing up and running!!!
(I always behave like a neandertal in such activation and licensing affairs)

@rich o brien said:

...Haha! Now we to vote to add Hornox' Graffiti to it...

Hi all - apparently there is a solution to my (for you surely annoying) viewport export dilemma, and that is by using Sketchup's own onboard tools:
Instead of using the classic 2D export you can use the animation export instead. There you do not export a video file but individual frames, for example as png or jpg with the setting 1 frame per second.
There you can set a viewport-independent export resolution. I have tested this under all possible settings and various viewport modifications, I always get identical export image results, and these even fit together with a downstream renderer (e.g. Enscape) provided the renderer is set to Sketup's viewport synchronisation.

I wouldn't have come up with this obvious solution if Eric M Sargeant hadn't posted his video Batch Exporting Scenes and Styles
Batch Exporting Scenes and Styles
So thanks to Eric M Sergeant and all of you here

ouch me! - you meant the original page, of course.
I had already updated the link to your new page and the obvious disappeared from my perception

many thanks!

@Rich-O-Brien said in Snowman:

@Gus-R Come on, Halloween hasn't even ended and I'm seeing xmas stuff!

Halloween or not - here in D they start selling christmas biscuits shortly after the summer holidays. So this is a seasonally appropriate job and a so very nice one on top it !!!

@ Gus R - interesting how you did it with the snow

...thank you all for your kind comments
(I agree with Rich O Brien (above). SketchUp's AO style is a bit strange for me too. Maybe because it's new and I played with it here for the first time. But for sure this AO style can be used in image editing as a standalone multiply layer or something like that. At least there is this additional option).
Best!

...I´ll add another correction of the "trigger" mechanism

...a little Friday afternoon exercise [Victor Mousetrap]

@Rich-O-Brien wunderbar!

this is so good! & great impressions of the steps you took

Prima !!

@Rich-O-Brien
Thanks Rich - I had to google first to remember if I had the same guy in mind

@faust07
Thanks Faust - Yes, I had such a movement option in mind from the beginning. So I equipped each logical joint point (e.g. the elbow) with a corresponding axis of rotation (axial or radial). So I only had to rotate the logical following group(s) (e.g. the forearm and the hand) around the correct axis.
It was all purely manual work here, but it worked very fast with these axes.

Thanks Jo-Ke

Hi All
finally I took some time for a little fun exercise again. Some robot pretending to be a Roman centurion and I have no idea why
(Everything is native SketchUp with Fredo6's plugins such as FredoScale, Joint-Push-Pull and Curviloft or Anton S´s Copy Along Curve plugin. The shown image export is made with Affinity Photo 2)