Hello Dtrarch,
First and foremost I would like to thank Pilou for his help. Like a beacon in the darkness, he just highlights a problem with our website.
The problem is now fixed, you can re-download the trial version and send us mails.
Best regards,
SimFonIA team,
Hello Dtrarch,
First and foremost I would like to thank Pilou for his help. Like a beacon in the darkness, he just highlights a problem with our website.
About your request, ie go beyond conventional keyframe, I do think that SAT is the right tools. In the demonstration package is an example that we realized with Pilou: the weathervane. It is easy but it should give you a good overview of the possibilities of the tools.
Of course we remain at your disposal for further information.
Best regards,
SimFonIA team,
Hello CFish,
I suggest you took a look at our plugin
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=46540&hilit=simfonia
Hello Krisidious,
A quick look on the examples of our youtube channel might help you finding inspiration 
http://www.youtube.com/user/SimFonIATeam
SimFonIA Team
Hello Everybody,
The new version of SAT 2013 (V2.0) compatible with SKP 2013 is finally available!
Just log in to your account on http://www.simfonia.fr/SAT and re-download your version of SAT to get this new release.
SimFonIA Team!
Hello Everybody,
The new version of SAT 2013 (V2.0) compatible with SKP 2013 is finally available!
Just log in to your account on http://www.simfonia.fr/SAT and re-download your version of SAT to get this new release.
SimFonIA Team!
Hello Brian,
First, my condolences on the loss of your friend.
We did something similar to your problem with SAT (SimFonIA animation Tool). The fly datas were from Flight-simulator.
Regards,
SimFonIA teal
Bonjour Patrick,
Super, un nouveau projet! En plus c'est juste en face de chez moi )).
N'hésite pas si tu as besoin d'aide (photos sur place, SAT...) et surtout préviens nous quand tu viens sur zone histoire que l'on se rencontre.
bonne chances pour le projet,
Julien from SimFonIA
Hello everyone!
Recently many users warned us that the extension SCA (animation of characters) didn't work correctly with the demo version.
This bug has been fixed today!
You just have to log on our website, download and install SAT again to be able to test SCA with the demo version.
Below we remind the procedure for reinstallation of SAT.
http://www.simfonia.fr/SAT/documentation/en/SAT_V1_Installation_en_V1.08.pdf
Hi Pilou,
The copy function works only for the transformation processor, not for keyframes. Thus, it will work for rotation and size but not for deformations. You'll see it is very practical ;o). If I remember correctly you have a version V1.0, it is necessary that you re-downloaded the plugin for the new fonctionalities.
Hello everyone!
Last but not least, here is the third and last function available in the new release V1.1 of SAT.
This function allows to quickly find and replace the text used to define the transformations of your groups.
In this tutorial we also show how you can use of a data file (a simple text file which contains data, for instance a scenario of the animation) to drive the transformations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjMQ6CGZdUo&feature=share&list=UU_gETS10HqNYFWqpX2xU71Q
Dedicated tutorials on data files and other basic functions will come soon.
SimFonIA Team
Hello,
Below is a tutorial which illustrates another function available in the new release V1.1 of SAT.
This function allows to quickly copy the transformations applied to a group to another groups.
This can save a lot of time if you wish to build a model where many different groups have the same motion.
You can download SAT V1.1 in our website http://www.simfonia.fr/SAT
For users that already have an account, you just have to log on your existing account and download it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJH9tuCR7DY&feature=share&list=UU_gETS10HqNYFWqpX2xU71Q
We are looking forward to seeing your animations!
SimFonIA Team
Hello everybody!
We are proud to announce that the new release V1.1 of SAT is available.
You can download it in our website http://www.simfonia.fr/SAT
This release contains 3 new functions:
The following video is a tutorial for the Clone processor. Other video tutorials will come very soon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrCJTuwNHg&feature=share&list=PL72518107CA8FA0EB
SimFonIA Team
Hello Rafa,
We can't animate a section plane alone but this is on our to-do-list. At the moment you can include the section plane in a group and move that group but in that case you can only hide objects inside the group so it is limited.
Another method which in some case would be even more efficient that using a section plane is to use the transformation "visibility": for instance for your origami when each time a step is finished, you will just have to make it invisible and make the next step visible.
To control the timing of the visibility, just use a signal generator.
Then, as the signal generator gives a number between 0 and 1 and as the visibility needs a boolean (true/false) in input, you need to use a threshold which converts a number into a boolean.
This is very clear with the example attached to my post: I have done the 4 first steps of your model with that method.
What do you think of this?
SimFonIA Team
Hello Rafa,
We have downloaded your SketchUp file of the origami and we just want to tell you that we are really impressed by your mastering...The use of a section plane is a very good idea. Congratulations!
@dickorama said:
I don't know if this has been covered yet, but will animated sequences export in pbx?
Hello Dickorama,
I do not know the .pbx format, you can tell me more?
This is a very good news for MAC users: SAT, our SketchUp plugin for 3D animation, has been successfully tested on a Macbook Pro 2010 (OS X 10.8.2) with a âwindows virtual machineâ.
To illustrate this, here is a video showing the installation of SAT on a MAC using the VM "Parallels Desktop for Mac 8". Now you can use SAT on your favorite computer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFITM3t87T8&feature=share&list=PL72518107CA8FA0EB
Hello again,
I have attached an example which uses Free Transformation. It is a "digital display" , meaning that it displays the value of a data as a liquid crystal display.
Actually, it reads the value of a data named "Input" and according to the value it makes some groups visible or not in order to display a figure.
At the moment, it can read only one data named "Input" . If you want to have several digital displays in one model which display different values, you will have to change the code of all the groups what takes some time. That's why we are working on a new version which will allow to make a "find replace" on the transformations.
SimFonIA Team
Hello!
There are 2 different ways to "control" the transformation settings like you can in the key frame editor:
You can use the "Signal generatorâ to define a signal which will control the value of your rotation or translation. The signal generator is described in the following document (§3.2): http://www.simfonia.fr/SAT/documentation/en/SAT_V1_Signal_Processor_en_V1.06.pdf
Here is a simple example to prove that contrary to appearances it is easy to handle :
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e408e3b5cd8a84fba58d1b6c23f0289f&prevstart=12
You can also write a scenario in a CSV file to control the value of your rotation or translation (Data file reading is one of the greatest strength of SAT). I have attached a simple example in my post.
The utilization of data files is described in this document (§2): http://www.simfonia.fr/SAT/documentation/en/SAT_V1_Transformation_Processor_en_V1.08.pdf
SimFonIA Team
Hello Rafael,
I watched your sketchup model. It is great! I just have a comment : the keyframes are not the best thing to use for making complete rotations. Due to interpolation, you have to either correctly define the axes of the object (the object "coordinate system") or to create many keyframes for avoiding strange behavior.
So I suggest you try to use the "transformation processor" and to define a "Rotation".
Just look at this sketchup file which contains a simple example : a cube rotates around its center. You will see the difference of behavior between keyframes and transformation processor and the importance of the axes in case of the keyframes.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=395d22a0a1931afeaca5c05fe1384527&prevstart=12
What I call "object coordinate system" is simply the position and orientation of its red, green and blue axes (named X,Y,Z in SAT)
I hope this will help you!