Dear Fredo6. I just discovered Animator and I think I will not be able to sleep in the next few days. It is an essential program and especially for those who use Thea as a rendering engine, for example.
I've been watching the tutorials for several hours and practicing. It is possible that the suggestions that I am going to give you are already implemented. If this is the case, I apologize to everyone.
First of all, thank you for all your plugins. All are admirable.
My suggestions are related to the use of Animator in architecture visualization.
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It would be interesting to be able to link the animation and especially the activation / deactivation of layers with MS Project files or other project management programs. These programs indicate times and tasks. If the tasks are linked to objects and layers, the evolution of a construction could be shown. This is called 4D. There are some plug-ins for sketchup that do it but they are expensive and complex. On other platforms, Naviswork would be the benchmark. It is not far-fetched to think that many people who love sketchup have it very easy with Animator to do almost the same thing.
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Facilitate the creation of exploded views. For this it would be good to have two utilities:
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Be able to choose a center and the position of the axes that will define the directions of the explosion. Ideal for general movements of complete buildings. Separate the roof, walls and floor, for example.
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To show the assembly of parts, facilitate the movement of screws and nuts indicating the thread pitch and the direction of the shaft. Thus the composition of linear movement and spin would be easier and natural to perform if it comes with an aid by part of Animator.
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Create links between positions of parent objects and child objects so that the movement of some does not begin until a certain position of the others is reached.
Thanks for your attention and patience. I'm from Spain and I'm not fluent in english.
Pablo