said in [Plugin Library] LibFredo6 - v15.8e - 15 Feb 26:

I did a quick test on an old Animator file and it looks like we now can use perspective and generate a video.

Well, I also tried to generate a video with the Animator file that has both perspective and parallel and the generation stopped when it switched from parallel to perspective. So, if the file has all scenes with the camera set the same way (either perspective or parallel) it works fine but having both options in the same file will not generate the video.

Just thought I would pass this along but maybe you already knew that.

I did a quick test on an old Animator file and it looks like we now can use perspective and generate a video.

@fredo6 Is there any place where we can find out what the bug fixes are?

OK, I think I have finally generated a multi scene animated presentation with Animator. Here are 2 videos that I hope help you see this.

GIF Version

MP4 Version
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

Just to let everyone know, I also posted the same videos in the Animator Plugin thread

OK, I think I finally figured some things out so here are my latest videos. I hope you enjoy them and they can be used to see how Animator can be used to generate animated presentationsl

GIF version:

MP4 sersion
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

I am also posting this in the Scene animation with Animator thread. The main point of that thread was to discuss how Animator can be used in multiple scenes for presentation purpose.

OK, I think I finally figured some things out so here are my latest videos. I hope you enjoy them and they can be used to see how Animator can be used to generate multi scene animated presentations.

GIF version:

MP4 sersion
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

I also posted them in the Animator thread thread.

OK, I think I finally figured some things out so here are my latest videos. I hope you enjoy them and they can be used to see how Animator can be used to generate animated multi scene presentations

GIF version:

MP4 sersion
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

I am also posting this in the Scene animation with Animator thread.

OK, I think I finally figured some things out so here are my latest videos. I hope you enjoy them and they can be used to see how Animator can be used to generate animated presentationsl

GIF version:

MP4 sersion
Jesus Plaque - Fancy.mp4

I am also posting this in the Scene animation with Animator thread. The main point of that thread was to discuss how Animator can be used in multiple scenes for presentation purpose.

OK, I do not know if this is the thread where we should be discussing this rather than the Scene animation with Animator thread, but I changed the "introduction" scene to Parallel Project and things are working now the way I wanted (although I did make a couple more edits).

Now for a real DUH on my part. When I was discussing what I thought were FOV issues turned out to be a DUH by me. When I was looking at the clips, if I did not select the same scene as the clip I thought things were not being presented with the correct FOV. When I woke up, I realized that if I had different scene selected than the one I was viewing the clip for, it would show me thing in the FOV of the selected scene and not the one I was viewing the clip of. Again DUH

Here is the latest version of my video (but I plan on maybe making some more "edits" to make some things a little fancier.

@fredo6 I apologize to you and hope I have not take this thread to far off topic.

OK, I need to go back and figure out which file you used because I change all of my scenes to parallel and everything worked fine. However, in the "version" I was working with I got it all to work but I need to make some adjustments (as you will see in my video).

So, bottom line for me, what I have learned ls:

• The camera setting "parallel" vs. "perspective" needs to be the same in every scene.

• The position of the camera needs to be the same in every scene. At least what I have seem is that if I turn on the axis, it needs to be in pretty much the same position for each scene or things will not present correctly. I guess what I was trying to say here is the Field Of View.

• Depending on the type of video/presentation you want to create, you need to evaluate very carefully what you want to achieve with each scene. As you can see in this presentation, I may have to give in and reevaluate if you should use Animator for the full project or do you do the animations with Animator and the other things, like my introduction and thank you scenes with another video generation tool.

However, let me say that I am still a big fan of Animator and want to keep working on the best way to achieve things. I do plan on going back and making some changes in this project and really appreciate the support and feedback I have gotten here.

@fredo6 said in [Plugin] Animator - v4.6a - 18 Dec 25:

I will look into the bug, which seems to concern camera interpolation when in parallel projection.

I'll advise then.

Any update on this issue?

Just to clarify (I hope) here is a video of the way I would like to present my model, but this one does not include the Animator animations I would like to include (as presented in my other post).Jesus Plaque Mixed.mp4

This video was created by just showing the 3 scenes in the model and using SketchUp's animation creating tool.

I hope this example contributes to the discussion about where I would like to see Animator go (only with the Animator features included).

BTW: I do not know why it goes back to the starting scene at the end. That is not what I would want though.

Very interesting. I think a lot of this has to do with the type of building which varies a lot from one part of the world to another. Some parts of the world have very much conservative styles compared to other parts of the world thus, the type/style of the roofing can vary very much. Always good to have an “open” mind though.

@fredo6 thanks a ton for the reply. As you saw in my “edit”, I an also having a problem with the “view” position when I have all scenes in perspective. In this particular situation, I would like to have the “introduction” and “conclusion” scenes in parallel and the “animation”scene in perspective. Maybe this is an odd situation but I look forward to your resolution. I have another project in mind but will wait for your response. Again, thanks a ton for your response.

I hope I am not being a PITA with this.

Yes, I see that now and the Introduction scene is set to Perspective. I made sure all scenes were set to Parallel Projection and was now able to generate the video. So the camera setting turned out to be the issue. Hope others can learn from this.

Yes, there are a couple of issue I need to clean up but as I said, I hope this will help others.

Edited update
OK, I am having a little problem. I have created a second version of the file that has all 3 scenes with the camera set to perspective. However, I cannot seem to get things so work correctly. Regardless of how I capture the camera the presentation of all 3 scenes winds up in the same perspective. I like for the plaque animation to be at an angle and the introduction and conclusion screens to be presented straight forward but I cannot get it to come out that way.

Any advice/hints as to how to make that work and should we take this discussion to the Scene animation with Animator thread?

@Rich-O-Brien If you look earlier in this thread you will see the screen shot of the dialog box when I am trying to create the video. You will also see that I posted the Ruby Console that popped up when the generation of the video stalled.

Did you download the skp file I posted a link to yesterday? If so, have you tried to generate a video? If you did, did you have any problem (i.e. did it stall for you)?

I was holping to hear something from Fredo6 today but have not heard anything so far.

I really would like to understand if I am doing something wrong, and if so, what it is.

Here is a Drop Box link to the file so you can look at it and see what I am dong wrong that will not allow me to generate the video. Jesus Plaque SKP file

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich. Now I know that I can share the link with Fredo6 on the Animator thread so he can download the file and look at it (to hopefully identify the problem I have been having trying to generate a video).

You might also try generating an Animator video and see what results you get.

Can someone test this and let me know if you can download and open this SketchUp SKP file in the link.
Sketchup File

@dave-r Can you try again. I think I just got the file moved/copied to that folder.