@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.

@rown2000
Since Twilight Render is going away it would also be neat if you could add Rayscaper to the list.

@HornOxx said:

Hi️
I'm making fast and simple progress with CapCut—it's very simple and straightforward (and there are a lot of help-tuts on Youtube)
It has all the needed features, such as transitions, text, sound, etc., and even keyframe animation...
https://www.capcut.com

I am still trying to learn how to use the CapCut software. So far, I am not doing as good as I would like but the software looks very powerful.

For my first video, I would like to video, I wanted to start with multiple images and text. I want to animate some of the text. That all seemed very easy to do but I have one issue I have not been able to resolve. Since page is a mixture of multiple images and some animated text I need to be able to set the background for the page. I would kind of like for it to be a single color. I have not been able to figure out how to set the background color though. Later I plan on adding more pages with more images and eventually an animation that I have created with the Animator plugin in SketchUp.

I have now watched several videos but have not found out how to set the background for my "presentation" though. If you, or others, have any suggestions, I would really like to hear from you.

For others who have looked at this thread (or do look at it) I think CapCut looks like a really cool piece of software.

@HornOxx said:

Prima! (I can´t translate "Is there a charge for the desktop version? into something that makes sense in German" ) Aren't you running the program on a computer? Or does that mean “does it cost anything”? Hmmm—my version didn't cost anything.

Yes, I meant does it cost anything.

Animated text: There are various pre-animated text templates available (I never like those things), or you can use a simple standard text, place it, and set a keyframe, then reposition it, even in size or rotation, and set another keyframe.
You can do the same with an alpha-channel PNG, for example, an arrow or a red circle...
(before you waste too much time, check YouTube for “CapCut keyframes” or “keyframe animation”).
I look forward to hearing how you're getting along ️

Thanks, I will need to learn more about how to use keyframes properly.

As of right now, I am making some interesting progress. As soon as I can, which might be a while, I will share the progress I am making. As of now, this seems to have the features I want/need for the project I want to do.

@HornOxx I have downloaded it and am trying to learn. Looks like it has a lot of the features I want but I still have a lot of things to learn. In particular, I want to be able to animate some text (like make it slide on to the screen).

Is there a charge for the desktop version? I will keep you posted as I learn.

I have been having some problems trying to download and install OpenShot. Any suggestions?

@Rich-O-Brien OK, got the latest version installed now.
I should have known this myself. DUH!

Thanks for the feedback, Rich. I think thee Davinci Resolve is a bit of an overkill, but I am going to take a look at OpenShot. I might wind up just using Animator though.

Again, thanks for the feedback.

Not sure now how I originally installed the extension, but I feel pretty confident I have updated it before via SketchUcation Tools. When I go to the SketchUp Extension manager, it says I have 0.9.92. I would like to update to the 0.9.93 version. Does this mean I need to download the new version and install if "from scratch" or is there some way I can do it via SketchUcation Tools?

@Rich-O-Brien said:

@ntxdave said:

Is there a way within Rayscaper to update to the latest version? If not, is this something you could add to the ui?

If you install extensions using Sketchucation Tools then it will prompt you to update. It has been that way for years.
I agree @rich-o-brien but when I went there yesterday it said it said all my extensions were up to date. I will look again today. That is what prompted my post.

I am constantly getting message about Internet Download Manager that says there is a problem Does anyone have any suggestions about how to update it?

@pixelcruncher said:

Rayscaper users, a heads up: I accidentally uploaded the previous 0.9.92 version to the SketchUcation Extension Store. If you installed Rayscaper in the last 4 days, you may have reinstalled the previous version. (@mike-amos Thanks for the heads up!).

I’ve uploaded the latest 0.9.93 version now. If you download and install the extension again, it should install version 0.9.93 correctly.

Apologies for the hassle.

Happy Rendering!
Thomas

Is there a way within Rayscaper to update to the latest version? If not, is this something you could add to the ui?