@kennedyaz said: I'm just wondering if I'm saving as image sequence, can I control the format of the frames? I'm rendering with V-ray 5 on Sketchup 2020 and the result I'm getting is in .png and our preferred format is jpg. You cannot.... What is the problem to have PNG images?

Bonjour, Y a-t-il un moyen de diviser un "chemin" continu, composé de segments et d'arcs de cercle ? Application : Pour dessiner un escalier, on peut commencer par tracer la ligne de foulée (ligne imaginaire sue laquelle on marche, en général au milieu de l'escalier) composée de segments pour les volées droites et d'arcs pour les parties tournantes. L'ensemble de cette ligne de foulée est ensuite à diviser par le nombre de marches afin de pouvoir les tracer. L'outil de division est capable de diviser un polygone, une courbe, mais je ne trouve pas le moyen de faire considerer à sketchup qu'une telle ligne de foulée est une et une seule courbe afin de lui appliquer une division. Merci Brieg

Can you share .skp file so we can see what you've got? @councilship said: I'm doing a joint push pull in sketchup pro 2019 from a google earth contour map in show terrain mode How did you get a Google Earth terrain map into SketchUp?

*"Terry, I actually know where the problem is. It comes from from a change of behavior of the API in SU2017. There is no simple solution because the change in SU2017 is itself inconsistent and makes things artificially complex vs. SU2016 and previous versions. Although I have a workaround fix for this, I am waiting on the Sketchup team on what they plan to do about it. Fredo"* Hey Fredo, I figured as much, SU2017 has caused bugs with many other plugin Devs too... I'm not worried though, I'll use Lightwave or MAX to create simple/complex curves and Export/Import .obj/.3ds objects into SU2017 (an extra 3 steps, but hardly worth whining about). I agree with ya, wait and see if Sketchup's Team fixes the API issue (It'll save you development time to focus on things more important). -Terry

@unknownuser said: Repeat and Pursue Yes all yet existing is very useful! @unknownuser said: What you request is slightly different, as you wish the infinite loop is for individual clip elements Seems this is implicite if each clip has its own animation from start to end animation! But will be terrific if you can make this automatically! @unknownuser said: Repeating the whole animation is easy So general Loop! Excellent! Ping-pong will be paradisiacal! Not yet automatic animation element along a path ?

@fredo6 said: I see the issue with the MDI approach (so toolbar must be independent of model window), but I don't understand why the Sketchup team did not address some of the basic issues, such as the icons for New, Open, Save, as well as the size of icons in the main toolbar, the text size in most inspectors. After all, there seems to be many Mac users around, including Pro users. Fredo We Mac users often wonder about the same things (and more). It seems that the Mac GUI has gotten very little attention compared to Windows and things like my.sketchup, starting all the way back when Google bought SketchUp and continuing through Trimble's ownership.

@fredo6 said: Again, you have to place a camera / layer state at the beginning of the clip. Otherwise at 7.2s, Animator tries to re-establish the previous layer state, but there is none. Fredo OH KRAP - I sure forgot about that. There is no forest fire in north Texas. It is just my embarrassing glow show across the globe.

@solo said: Was SimFonIA Animation tools ever released beyond the trial? yes, but it had a weird pricing structure and a limited usage system. Nice BVH support though.

I think that little orange guy lives in my laptop. Thanks for sharing Fredo.

Yes, I have Auto-Save checked (I began to translate the plugin to Spanish language). [image: 0OxX_Autosave.jpg] @unknownuser said: When you start Animator, does it pop up a dialog box about a backup file? No, it appears a message "There is not clip defined, do you want to create one?"

@pawelludwa said: Can I save each frame as a scene in Sketchup ? How to take each frame seperately to actually create scenes from them ? This is not possible with the current version of Animator. Anyway, it would create potentially hundreds of scenes.

I love your creativity Alvis. It is always a pleasure to see your work. So talented. Thank you for all that you contribute to this site

Hi there! When dealing with kinematics, it's very useful to be able to graphically manage speeds instead of positions (slope of positions law) I see that a lot of non-linear laws are availables during a movement, but as far I understand, it's only useful between 2 keyframes. When dealing with more keyframes within a same general movement, I didn't manage to have some smooth transitions... Here is a simple case: Let's say we want to animate a car, constant speed (100km/h) between KF#1 and KF#2. Then it decelerates between KF#2 and KF#3 so that it reaches another constant speed (50km/h) from KF#3 up to KF#4. I didn't manage smooth transitions without generating some weird stuff... Is there some kind of tricks using available non-linear laws? Thanks!

@dan rathbun said: But that was a bug in older SketchUp versions, wasn't it ? I remember it happened when saving the model (most often.) But I thought it was fixed. Maybe, although I am not sure. But as you know, supporting older versions is also a requirement, so that, as long as the old tricks work, you finally leave it as it is. Fredo

Here the NEW versión of the english tutorial because I miss the Last part of the tuto (Animation Technics) that was included in the Spanish version. Here the new link: NEW ENGLISH TUTORIAL VERSION LINK https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ur6USmBRxGFV-X_5ByE6xRRPJHLJfD2r/view?usp=drive_link Also I give you again the link of the explanatory videos of all the examples That are included in the tuto: YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK https://youtu.be/Ne5k4S_DZWw?si=lZ3bQdOZwKFtaYe6

@rich o brien said: I spend some time looking at those .animator file to see if we can implement them into animated browser embeds. Also I was hoping those files could some be imported into larger scenes to animation to objects. The .animator file is purely technical, in case something happen to the model. I was thinking also to have an animation specification file, that would be easier to build and in clear language to specify an animation by the sequences and time line (like "Object1 3.0 4.2 Rotate 90 (1, 0, 0)" for a rotation of 90 degrees around the X axi, starting at 3s and for a duration of 4.2s, applied to Object1. Not sure however if this would be useful and what we could do with it. Somehow, there is a concept of parametric composed animation, which could probably be make more generic with this approach. Fredo

New Release: Animator - v4.2a - 28 Feb 25 Requirement: LibFredo6 v15.1a Animator 4.2a is a major release for: improvements of Video Generation some bug fixing You can now interrupt a video generation to finish it later. Simarly, if the video generation is interrupted by a crash (or freeze) of Sketchup or the rendering software, you can resume the video generation from the last frames processed. No need to generate all frames again. See this video for more details. https://youtu.be/wGuccS_9LMU See plugin home page of Animator for Download of RBZ from the PluginStore. See Main Post of the Animator thread for more information.

@fredo6 said: However, and wrongly, I thought Sketchup::Color was just an encapsulation of a 4-value array ... But that does bring up a very good point, that because it is compatible with an array (ie, has a to_a method and it's constructor accepts an array,)... making a clone method is beyond simple: For Ruby 2.0+; module Fredo6;;Cloner refine ;;Sketchup;;Color do def clone() self.class;;new(self.to_a) end end end using Fredo6;;Cloner module Fredo6;;SomePlugin # code that uses refined Color class end

Hello fredo. For windows, you can use Win32 API or a C++ extension to get viewport origin in screen coordinates. It has been discussed here: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=61867#p566233 It won't work on Mac, however, I guess you could try what driven suggested.

@carlurcia said: Hi, I´m having a problem with Animator after not using it for months. I used to put "tracking cameras" for following objects and trying to smooth the transition between the "sketch up cameras". But everything works well except de "tracking cameras" which block the Animator and don´t allow you to continue with the video. Could you post or PM me the model so that I have a look. Many thanks Fredo