Hello jumpjack2.
…Or maybe it's a matter of clicking save&reload button at the "right" time…
You probably give the “right” answer. In a perfect world SketchUp model is never modified along animation process. This way, no issue! BUT in the real world we need to add any group we missed which should be animated. Here comes save&reload button. The next release – by the end of this month - will see a blinking orange colour so that you never miss that need. Please, also remember SUalive Free aims tiny projects and be aware modifying SketchUp model along animation may break all previous snapshots – only interpolation drawback. They are nothing more than photo that cannot be modified.
…Shouldn't be enough to...?
Once more you’re right! But only from SUalive Free version perspective which is nothing more than a subset of SUalive Full. Light and Full versions are able to deal with multiple SketchUp models inside a single project. Each project can be split in smaller sequence and so forth. All this makes we can’t automate more than what you know.
…I think some tooltips…
You know what? You are right! This month release will additionally see full help from our website. Maybe any tutorial and new video. A bit too early to tell you!
https://sualive.com/en_help.php
…Bug: face-me…
Added on ToDo list but priority is now on publishing help and next release.
…Question: can free version also animate camera orientation?...
You can learn about version related features from our website, versions tab.
https://sualive.com/en_versions.php
…A double click on a .ydprj…
Thanks Dan for your reply. Perfect as always!
… generate a Sketchup Scene per each animation…
Older version had but we got rid of as SketchUp would probably not support dozen or hundreds of scenes. As instance 30fps * 60sec = 1800 scenes. How to deal with 1800 tabs inside SketchUp?
…associate a renderer plugin…
If you want any renderer to work, please ask the extension maker for contacting us. We will be all our best to please you.
By the way I’m hard negotiating frame by frame replay slider available on SUalive Free. I hope my peers are going to agree on next Friday meeting - today is still holiday. Probably not all features available but basically replaying from the window top slider.
Have a good week-end.
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