@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.

Making some progress. [image: 1766441094367-screenshot-2025-12-22-160302.png] [image: 1766441094379-screenshot-2025-12-22-160329.png]

@ntxdave said in Create new or adjust materials: The only problem I am having now is that when I rotate the object (actually the camera) So you mean orbit the camera? @ntxdave said in Create new or adjust materials: the image on the back side of the heart comes and goes Sounds like Z-fighing. Make the image of the heart a texture and apply it to just the back face of the heart. Turn on Hidden Geometry so you can paint the back separately from the rest.

Once again, I want to thank all of you for your responses. As I said earlier, this is not my first model and I have been using SU for several years. Just doing things far different from what I am working on now. @Box was right on. I finally did it correctly and it worked exactly the way I wanted it to. My dimensions are slightly off (VERY minor) but I got it to do exactly what I wanted. . I have some other challenges but hope I can share what I am doing in a couple of days. You will all wonder what the heck was so difficult.

As it turns out, using the Extension Manager did not really uninstall the Trimble Scan Essentials plugin. However, do to some replies from others, I did get the issue resolved. OK, I finally got everything setup correctly now. It was kind of an awkward process but here is what I did: First I uninstalled 2026 Then I made sure all plugins were up to date in 2025 Then I clicked on the check for update in 2025 Now I ran the update option in 2025 to install 2026 When the process for installing 2026 ran, I deselected the Trimble Scan Essentials, Revit Importer and V-Ray Everything is now running fine and the Trimble Scan Essentials is finally gone and all of my plugins are installed and things are now the way I want them. Once again, I really want to thank everyone (on the SketchUp and SketchUcation forums) for the replies and insight of how to get things going correctly again. As I said in the original post, I have been gone for a while. Now I can get back to using SketchUp (latest version) again.

@gullfo said in SketchUcation Forum Interface: same it's working now across both Edge and Chrome on Win11 Thanks for checking

Check your SU preferences and the location of your templates folder and see if it exists. It may sound odd but since I had a left over install of SU I had to create a dummy users folder for my install. It's a backwards fix but it worked just fine for me.

Right Click your Toolbar Area an enable Measurements If you right click the Status bar area you can disable whatever you need to

Good advice @Dave-R

@Rich-O-Brien I wish some others, like SketchUp would use that tool (I could mention others).

@ntxdave PBR materials aren't supported yet in Rayscaper, but they will be soon...

I guess you mean the one with the V on it, that when clicked activates the vertex tool, hmm what could it be.

@tuna1957 Thank you. I thank you for the reference to the FredoScale tool and its ability to twist. It helped me begin to visualize some things like you have been doing. I just need to practice/experiment more.

@Box Thank you sir! I finally got things working correctly and was able to "play around" a little. The image below represents what I figured out using the FredoScale tools. I greatly appreciate your help. [image: 1728147597308-fredoscalesample.png]

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich. I wondered about that.

@ntxdave OK, I adjusted the items you pointed out. And I should have mentioned before that the material was Disney Metalic. However, I made some adjustments: Dialed back the metal Increased the roughness Dialed back the IOR Hope you find this on to be improved. [image: 1727289750598-revised-bently-model.png]

@ntxdave The current version of SketchUcation Tools works on versions >= v2017 If you have bundles relating to other versions [newer or older], then you should be able to use them in v2020...

@Rich-O-Brien Yes I had done that before but for some reason it did not work. It now worked so I think all is OK. Thanks for the support.

You can't change it. Its the email address you input at purchase time. Licenses are associated to your user account.

OK still a little more progress. Noticed a problem in the model so fixed it and re-rendered. [image: 1720457840694-blower-dryer-mammoth_rayscaper-v2.png] Then I played with another setting and like this one a little more. [image: 1720457885806-blower-dryer-mammoth_rayscaper-v3.png] I am going to start another thread about Rayscaper Learning-Practice as I continue to learn how to render with Rayscaper and also a place to ask questions.