@ DanYHKim (or anyone) . . .
I'm willing to pay a reasonable fee if someone can get my animation exported to a quicktime movie. The physics simulation and camera movements all work fine. I capture the animation fine. For some reason when I export the animation, it's missing the physics.
If you would like to try the file, please send me an email. Thanks.
-Ace Baker
acebaker1234 [at] yahoo [dot] com
It's not working for me. The physics and camera movement are fine, it records and plays back the animation, but when I export the animation, the physics are missing.
Can anyone else confirm /deny that physics animations with camera movement can make it all the way to a quicktime movie?
Hi Solo,
The animation won't really play smoothly in real time, at least not on my machine. So a screen capture would make a big mess. I'd like every frame, and no duplicated frames.
I'd went to your site, but your contact page doesn't offer attachments. Send me an email, I will send you the Sketchup file, and you will see if you are / are not able to export the animation. If you are, then I will be happy to negotiate your fee.
Ace Baker
acebaker1234 [at] yahoo [dot] com
It's possible that Twilight can render physics and camera movement both, although I haven't seen it. Plus, my last experience with ray tracing and photo realistic renders was that each frame took about 5 minutes to render. I need about 3000 frames, so that's like 10 days, and I don't really care about adding textures to this particular thingy, anyway. I just want my animation.
Does anyone wish to have a go at my model, and see if you can export the animation with physics?
My model with scenes and physics simulation is just as I want it. Thanks to Mr. K's scripts, the physics runs simultaneously with the camera changes. It's a beautiful thing. I capture the animation with the red record button. I save the animation. The animation plays back fine.
Unfortunately, when I export the animation, the physics is missing. All the objects and camera motion is fine, but the physics simulation is not present.
Maybe I'm still doing something wrong. When I go to export the animation, I choose ".PNG". It makes a whole folder of individual PNG images, which then have to be converted into video. I can do that, it would be better for Sketchup just to export a Quicktime movie. But if I have to convert the PNG image sequence to video, no problem. The problem is the missing physics.
I'm willing to pay a reasonable fee to someone to successfully export this working model to video. If interested, please contact me via my email address below, put "SketchyPhysics Render" in the subject line. Thanks.
Ace Baker
acebaker1234 [at] yahoo [dot] com
I have a complex model with camera movement and physics simulations both going on, and it works fine. I'm trying to export the animation, and cannot figure it out.
I THINK I'm supposed to do this:
Only, it never works that way. One problem, it keeps saying "requires Sketchyphysics 3.2". I look in my version number, and it says version 3.1. Except I thought I downloaded 3.2.
Can someone please hold my hand and give me a very methodical tutorial of how to export animation with physics and camera movement happening at the same time? Thank you very much for any help.
I'm using 10.5.8, as mentioned.
Is there anyone who knows for sure what's up with SP and Mac?
I'm trying to run SP on Mac - either Mac Book Pro, or Quad Core Tower.
MAC OS X 10.5.8
Both machines give error:
@unknownuser said:
Error Loading File sketchyphysics.rb
undefined method `file_loaded?' for main:Object
Is it running on Mac, or no? Thanks.
I captured an animation using the red "toggle recording" button. After stopping the physics, it prompted me for "save animation", which I did.
Then I did
Plugins / SketchyReplay / Export animation
And it made the correct number of frames, but the images were not correct, there was no physics and no camera movement either.
I'm still struggling to find out if I have the right SP, I believe I'm running 3.1, that's what it says in Plugins / SketchyPhysics / Version Number. But I downloaded 3.2. The installer file is named:
SetupSketchyPhysics3.2-Dec2
but then the subtitle of the file says:
SketchyPhysics3.1 Setup.
So I'm confused again.