[Tutorial] Animator Quick Start

[ACWN]

Dangit. A'righty, thank you!

[TonyAU]

Hi Fredo,
Thank you for your efforts with this plug-in, it adds a whole new level of useability to the sketchup platform.. I have used it to create 3 animations now and the results are pretty impressive. I have a question, does the plug-in allow for transfer of the animation parts to other components, or the copying of the component with the animations attached. I have looked thru the forum for the answer and nothing has popped out at me. I am doing animations that require repetitive actions to components and I'm finding myself doing the same animated time after time,ie, move up 150mm, move right 150mm, move down 75mm, rotate 90. if I could just copy the component with the animation attached I could just stagger in the time line and that would save me huge amount of time. Once again thanks for your efforts with this extension..

[fredo6]

I have a question, does the plug-in allow for transfer of the animation parts to other components, or the copying of the component with the animations attached. I have looked thru the forum for the answer and nothing has popped out at me. I am doing animations that require repetitive actions to components and I'm finding myself doing the same animated time after time,ie, move up 150mm, move right 150mm, move down 75mm, rotate 90. if I could just copy the component with the animation attached I could just stagger in the time line and that would save me huge amount of time.

In principle, you have the Clone Sequence button in the Sequence Editor for Movements

Animator - Clone Sequence.png

But this works for sequences individually.

Cloning a list of sequences for another object is something Animator should provide, but I have still to find a way to do this with the UI.

[TonyAU]

Awesome..
Thanks for the quick response, I'll have a play with it and see how it works..

Cheers.

[ctrlaltf1]

Hello! I'm trying to animate a scene using STATIC SCENE (the ones created in SKP).
Here is the prob.
I add Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3....
and it ALWAYS forces a transition between them.

Whereas I want:
Scene 1. ...5 secs.
CUT to SCENE 2..... 5 secs.
CUT to SCENE 3.... 5 secs.

NO TRANSITIONS between scenes.

I'm getting a bald spot looking for a solution :S

Any comments appreciated.

[juju]

Hello! I'm trying to animate a scene using STATIC SCENE (the ones created in SKP).
Here is the prob.
I add Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3....
and it ALWAYS forces a transition between them.

Whereas I want:
Scene 1. ...5 secs.
CUT to SCENE 2..... 5 secs.
CUT to SCENE 3.... 5 secs.

NO TRANSITIONS between scenes.

I'm getting a bald spot looking for a solution :S

Any comments appreciated.

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[fredo6]

NO TRANSITIONS between scenes.

When you click on each element for scenes in the timeline, you have a dialog box appearing in the corner.
Just click and disable the 'Fade out' (it's a toggle button)

Animator - View params.png

[fredo6]

Hi, Is it possible to reuse the animated object in another sketchup file?

Not possible at the moment.

I am trying to think whether it could be possible and how to do it, but not obvious.

[fredo6]

I did an APPARITION in animator to create a section cut effect of a particular object. However, after rendering, the section cut effect affected the whole scene instead of that object.

This is one known problem with rendering software. They don't seem to take section cuts into account.

Could you try to render a model with an active section cut using Ambient Occlusion Ex and tell me if you see it.

Thanks

fredo

[fredo6]

Ambient occlusion does not render section cut correction when export via animation mode.

Section cut does work in Ambient occlusion in a static view.

Animator interacts with Ambient Occlusion Ex via an API. Maybe it caches the state of objects. Let me see if there is a way to force a refresh. I noticed the same behavior with Thea.

[Saumil12345]

Hi,
I have a question regarding explosion effect in animator, is there a way to control direction of elements that explodes, currently they are exploding in all the directions but i cannot control them as in which element should move in which direction.

This plug-in is super useful, thanks for making something that can convert your imaginations into something visual.

Regards,
Saumil

[fredo6]

I have a question regarding explosion effect in animator, is there a way to control direction of elements that explodes, currently they are exploding in all the directions but i cannot control them as in which element should move in which direction.

Currently Animator explodes away from the center of gravity of the object. There is unfortunately no way to customize it at the moment.

[Saumil12345]

Greetings,
Thank you for a quick reply.

Check out this turn table animation I created using animator , v-ray for rendering and some post production.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_z7B7SgbWZ ... _copy_link

OR

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-xU8aS ... sp=sharing

[juju]

Greetings,
Thank you for a quick reply.

Check out this turn table animation I created using animator , v-ray for rendering and some post production.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_z7B7SgbWZ ... _copy_link

OR

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-xU8aS ... sp=sharing

nice one, loved the finger snap with accompanying disintegration at the end

[Saumil12345]

Greetings,

Can anyone suggest quick rendering plugin(other than V-ray) for basic rendering of the animation. It has nearly 2000 frames.

[ntxdave]

Have you looked at Twilight Render? Animator also supports it.

[Saumil12345]

Not yet, I'll go through it.
Thank you

[Saumil12345]

Greetings,
I have been trying to render my animation using sketchFX. In the progress bar & even in the sketchup it shows that frames are being generated , but when it is done I don't get the full video or all the frames generated, I only get 2-3 frames out of 300 frames in my folder.

See attached images

[Saumil12345]

Can we add safe frame in animator?
Or is there any way I can get an idea of how much area will be covered if I export in 1:1 aspect ratio while setting up the camera.

[aweardon]

How do I save the video I create?

[smai31]

Bonjour Fredo,
J'adore ton plugin et je souhaiterai l'utiliser pour visualiser et rejouer la trajectoire de drones ou robots dans une pièce.
Je m'explique, les robots sont équipés de capteurs qui me communiquent toutes les secondes leur position X,Y,Z + ID. Pourrait-on imaginer lire ce fichier et écrire en automatique le script de toutes les séquences d'une seconde (ou X secondes) de chacune des translation des différents drones ?
En clair, peut-on créer un code pour générer un script en automatique et l'ajouter au modèle pour qu'il puisse être accessible à l'ouverture d'Animator, visualiser les mouvements et réaliser les films des séquences de ces mouvements ...

Merci d'avance de ton éclairage sur la faisabilité de cette idée

Bien à toi

Stéphane

[fredo6]

@smai31

J'ai prévu de faire des animations par script, mais ca prendra un peu de temps avant que je me remettes aux évolutions d'Animator

Pour l'instant, on peut faire l'inverse et visualiser les trajectoires sous forme de courbes de points choisis sur des objets animés.

Fredo

[Frankoi]

Hi,

I have installed the fredolib and the animator plugin on my macbookpro, on SUPRO2017, i can see the animator tool bar wtih four buttons, but when I click on the first, nothing happens, I can't see the time line and all the other panels!.

Could someone help me?

[Frankoi]

Bonjour,

Je reposte le message en fançais si besoin, suite à l'installation de fredolib et de animator sur mon mac avec sketchuppro 2017, je ne vois que la toolbar avec 4 boutons, mais pas tout l'environnement de travail.

Quelqu'un peux-t-il me répondre sur ce sujets?

Merci bcp

[smai31]

Merci pour cet excellent conseil !
Bien à toi
Stéphane

[fredo6]

I have installed the fredolib and the animator plugin on my macbookpro, on SUPRO2017, i can see the animator tool bar wtih four buttons, but when I click on the first, nothing happens, I can't see the time line and all the other panels!.

What happens if you click on the first button of the toolbar.

If nothing happens, the redo the same, but with the Ruby console opened, so that you can see if there are error messages.

[sketchnut]

Animator does not start when pressing the clip Icon.

Using skethup 2020.

[fredo6]

Animator does not start when pressing the clip Icon.

Using skethup 2020.

Can you open the Ruby console and check if there are error messages.

[lts9876]

I like the videos; they help a lot. I am not sure if this is the place to ask this question. I installed animator. I used it a couple days. Know when I click on the clip editor. It will not open. I am not sure what to do.

[fredo6]

I like the videos; they help a lot. I am not sure if this is the place to ask this question. I installed animator. I used it a couple days. Know when I click on the clip editor. It will not open. I am not sure what to do.

Could you migrate to LibFredo6 v13.6a. It should solve the problem.