SU Animate Forum

similar component animations?

nicknickson — Thur, 19 Nov 2009 21:58:39 GMT

Helo, is there any way how to give path to one component so that other components similar to it would do the same animation. I would like to make kaleidoscope animation with lot of similar components and this is extremely annoying to do the same thing fore every peace of my kaleidoscope.

walkthrough troubles

makemoore — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:21:40 GMT

I have made a walkthrough of my masterplan which shows the different buildings and etc. But on the preview animation it cuts through the buildings. I have played with the filed of view but it still keeps doing it.

Also the view doesnt seem to feel like its coming from a person even though it is set at the right height. When it turns corners it does a wide view which looks really odd. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

many thanks,

maxium quality

abgehlot — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:29:24 GMT

hi am using su animate to make scenes.... here are few important queries i would like to cleared out...

1) i want a beat quality video file to be exported from sketchup..... whats the best way to do that.....?

2) when i export it with normal 640x..... pixels thru sketchup, i get a very bad quality blurred video but when i increse the pixels to some what 1000 and above it do get a somewhat better quaility.....

3) then when when i exported the video with 2000+x... pixels settings and then when i tried playing the video, i was not able to see the video( black out)... why is it so?

4) will i get a good quality if i export the scenes as images instead of video and then join it with movie maker... and what pixel image i should go for to get the best quality..

5) what is video codec and which will give me the best quality?

sorry for too many questions

Rotation camera

Natato — Thur, 15 Oct 2009 09:07:14 GMT

Hi,
You can rotate the camera view a location?
For example in a circular path, looking at the central point,

(sorry English is not perfect)
Best regardes

Polyline Path disappears after creating it.

suanimateuser — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:08:06 GMT

Somehow, the polyline animation path disappears after I create it in Sketchup 7 Pro. I looked at your YouTube video and my paths don't appear so I cannot click on them and change their properties. What could be the problem?

Thanks!

Animation sample

davew — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:46:38 GMT

Does anyone have a good animation that they are willing to share that I can include in the next Podium / SU Animate newsletter. Something uploaded to You Tube would be great.

staged animation

dannad — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:05:48 GMT

HI, I'm trying to produce a product loading sequence, have worked out how to get groups to move and how to delay, but cant get the following to work - eg - a group contains a crane and a product to be loaded, this swings crane and product into place on say a train, then I want to ungroup product from crane - make a new group containing just the crane and move the crane away - then group product and train and 'drive' loaded train away - but cant seem to do this - get the first stage to work fine, get it to make scenes, then when I get the second stage to make scenes it tries to apply the new movement to the previous scenes as well as creating new scenes ?

fast preview

quark — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:04:15 GMT

Hi
I have installed the evaluation version of animate. When creating a path and viewing it, the sceen transition is very fast, and settigt the sceen number high dosn't slow down the preview. When exporting things look fine, but i loose the ability to evaluate during priview. How do i make it run in normal speed?
Also the path maker and ofset dosn't seem to work. Changing ofset between different values dosn't change the path - why is that?
Thank

problem - su animate and su podium

abgehlot — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:52:25 GMT

@bjeet

su podium and su animate

hi, am using su animate and su podium to make animations.. i have a problem...

1) with su animate i did make two paths.. one for the camera { which is targeted to a specific tree in the model} and one assigned to a group ( car) so that i see the car moving in the animation...

2) i made scenes with su animate after saving the file and checking the preview in which the animation was the way i wanted... ( around 60 scenes)

4) i exported sketchup quality video which was also perfect with camera and the car moving..

3) then i rendered all the scenes with su podium ( by render all scenes command)

4) after stitching the 60 images together in movie maker i made the video

5) the problem - podium rendered all scenes but in all the renderd images the group(car) is at the same place where it was in the 1st scene, though the rendered scenes had the camera moving.... can sum1ne hekp me with the same, urgent.... plz...

6) in short - if i render the 60 scenes indivually, then i do get what i want but i partially dont get when i use the command - render all scenes...

Have a problem !! Someone Help !!

hotpan0093 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:14:02 GMT

I want to make an animation act like "the follow me tool"

Use a face to follow a curve line and becoming a tube

how can i do for this?

I've tried some way but still not work.

here post my fail way!

Animation Preview

rspierenburg — Thur, 03 Sep 2009 20:21:03 GMT

Is there a way to stop the animation preview after it has started?

Animate Subgroups?

DanEngel — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:31:35 GMT

Sorry if this has been previously covered (seems to me this would be an obvious question) but I haven't been able to find anything on this.

What I am trying to do is this: I have a turbine assembly that I need to show in rotation. This assembly is a group, but is part of a larger group that I need to also show rotating about a different axis.

I can animate either of the groups without problem, but it seems not both at once. Is this possible, and if so, why is the subgroup animation seem to disable, if I animate the higher lever group?

Any assistance is of course hugely appreciated. I have a client waiting on an animation of an already approved model...

SUanimate V3 Crashes!!!

lacarrye — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:04:37 GMT

Hello everyone.

I could see that to many people had the same problem. As soon you draw your path, Sketchup Freeze. I'm using Vista 32 Home Premium and I've a gateway laptop. Thanks!!!

When exporting there are a lot more frames??

dtlang12 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:33:23 GMT

I am doing a walkthrough of a building, right now i am just doing a simple walk up to the building and look at the exterior. I set my frames at 200 and made the scene. Then i went to export and changed the export options to 15 frames per second, once i clicked export to said i had 30,572 frames to export and it was going to take 15 hours. I was just wondering where the 30,572 came from and what i need to do to get that to the 200 frames that i wanted. Thanks for the help.

-Dylan

Trying to duplicate doors opening

leke44 — Thur, 06 Aug 2009 21:29:48 GMT

I've been trying to duplicate the doors that open and stay open in the tutorial, but my door swings back to it's original closed position. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.