@majid Hope everything is good, and stays that way, with you and your family.

Kind of says it all!

OK, I just tried both of the items I mentioned before and they both seem to be working again.

@majid

Wish I had the talent to do things like this.

Some more learning

Here is my latest render. Some progress I think but one thing I am still struggling a little with is setting the scene in SketchUp so that it will produce the view I want in the render.

@majid said in Merry Christmas:

Merry Christmas, mates, let's pray for a more peaceful world!![m c.jpg]

Nice images and yes, Merry Christmas and hopefully, a more peaceful world.

Making some progress.

Wow, what a great start!

Just curious, what tools/plugins (if any) did you use to draw this?

I was thinking about trying this myself. I was thinking about putting the image as a background and then drawing on top of it.

@TIG said in Silly/Dumb Question about Guidelines:

You can't do that in one step.

I tried to find where I had read that but could not find it again

Do this.
Use the Tape-measure tool to make the first at 1/2" as before click to confirm, Select the guide line, and chose the Move tool, press Ctrl to invoke Copying, make the copy off 1/2" and immediately type 9x press Enter to confirm.
Now you have 10 guides at 1/2" spacing.

As several of you have mentioned, using the Move tool is the correct way to achieve what I was trying to do.

I want all of you who responded to know I really appreciate your feedback. I now have things working and hope to post something in the next couple of days using this process.

I have not been doing much with SketchUp lately (not wanting to go into a bunch details (health related) but things are getting back and participating again.

Again, thanks to all of the feedback.

@tuna1957
Take a look at Sketchfab or depending on your SU License, you can look at Trimble Connect (saving a model and then showing it on a web page via a Trimble Connect shared link.

@Rich-O-Brien said in Scene animation with Animator:

@ntxdave said in Scene animation with Animator:

If you knowledge level in SketchUp is low that is easy fix. Model, model and model.

OK, I think I am learning and I keep working on learning more things. Now back to this subject. I am sharing the animator animation that has led me to all of this. This is the model that inspired me to get more involved with Animator. I hope you see it as a step forward. I know it is pretty basic but it where I want to start. Now I want to see if I can figure out a way to add two text scenes. One at the beginning that gives some insight to what the model/animation is all about and the second text scene will be to give some information about the model/animation.

Here is the file for you to download/view to get some insight about where I am headed.

Learning Animator Animation.skp

Yes, I know I could have saved the movements as a clip but did not do it yet. I also thought there should have been an animator file but did not see it to download.

@Rich-O-Brien said in Scene animation with Animator:

@ntxdave said in Scene animation with Animator:

Am I being unrealistic as to the type of stuff I should do with Animator?

Horses for courses.

I think you need to spend time learning it

I have been doing a lot to learn it (IMO), also @fredo6 has been working with me. He even found a bug related to one of the first files I shared and created an update which resolved the problem. know I am getting old and do not use SketchUp as much as I used to. But it seems that some of the issues I am having are more related to some things I am doing in native SketchUp rather than Animator.

If I do some of the stuff I want to do in addition to the Animator animation, I still need to find another product (video editor) that I can afford ( or free). All of this is for my enjoyment/pleasure. As we age (at least some of us) do things like this for pleasure/hobby and unfortunately cost does become a factor.

Even though this has been a little frustrating and a learning challenge, I want to continue and want people like you to not give up on me. Even though I still cannot get everything to work (as of now) the things I have learned have been fun.

OK, I had everything working in the Camer Positioning 6 file so I copied it and tried rearranging some things. In particular, I tried moving the Box One scene and camera capture to the beginning and it through everything off. So, I am becoming more confused as to what my "rules" need to be. Maybe I need to just do the object movement portion in Animator and do the "other stuff" in a video editor (which is something @rich-o-brien had suggested).

Am I being unrealistic as to the type of stuff I should do with Animator?

OK - I went back to the 6 file and got everything to work fine.

Now, this file is closer to where I am trying to go but I am having several problems with it. Hope you can straighten me out.
Camera Positioning 5.skp

@fredo6 Which camera tool are you using?

I have tried both types and I seem to be getting scene views instead of the current screen shot.

@fredo6 I just updated to LibFredo6 v15.8b and I am having more problems. In particular, when I try to take a picture, it does not seem to select the view i need/want. I tried working with both of the files I posted before.

Can you please give me an updated instruction of which of the camera options I should click on.

Also, should since I am using layers/tags on every scene, should I apply the layer/tag visibility option to the entire animation of just each segment

Maybe I am not going about things correctly. Actually, the version 4 is closer to what I have in mind. I am thinking about a couple of models/animations where I want some text (and maybe some animations) before I show the actual animation (which might involve more than one SketchUp scene and then maybe some more text after the animation giving credits or other comments.

@fredo6 No, I am not getting errors.

Look at this file. The last two segments (Box One and Box Two) are not showing up correctly in the animation. I have tried multiple times and I do not see what I am doing wrong.
Camera Positioning 5.skp

OK, I did some more testing, and I think I have made some progress. Here is a different SketchUp file that is getting pretty close. I think you will see the progress and can point out my mistake so I can get it right.

Here is the new file: Camera Positioning 6.skp

Since the last update to LibFredo6 v15.9a I am having problems creating an animation with multiple scene views. Seems like no matter what camera view I try to capture; there is no longer a transition from one scene to another. I thought I was using the same process as before the update.

Very impressive video.

Wish I could afford Premiere Pro.

@fredo6 said in Scene animation with Animator:

This should be fixed with LibFredo6 v15.8a, just published.

Thanks @fredo6 and @rich-o-brien Yes, this fixed the problem I was having. Just for fun (and my learning process), here is a video of an example of how the update to LibFreedo6 v15.8a solved my problem/issue.

Animator Learning 3.mp4

Now I can go off and work on some things I want to use this resolution for.