New animation plugin for GoogleSketchup 7-8

Started by RepComm, April 04, 2013, 03:44:13 PM

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I was messing around looking for plugins for GS, and found this site:
http://regularpolygon.org/
It has all sorts of neat plugins on the download page (some of which will be most handy for modelling into SWBF)
But what I found that I really liked was the "KeyFrames" plugin utility, it allows sketchup to manipulate model rotation, size, and placement and play it back in the built in scenes, like a movie (but you can change the view from any angle while watching!)

Here is a simple animation I did this after noon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQbbOOfZYHM&feature=youtu.be
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Plugin page if you want to make better models for SWBF:
http://regularpolygon.org/plugins/

Funny how you used my title of Gold Man Studios in your video, but I don't mind. :P

I've seen some cool things in Google Sketchup, I even know a friend who once used it. I'm curios, but I'm not exactly good with math (as I've heard that mathematics helps alot in this process).

Regardless, very cool, if I knew how to master this, I might be able to make my own intro. :)

Believe it or not, if you are just in google sketchup, you hardly need any math skills at all.
The only numbers you might see, are texture scale and fit property in the "paint bucket" control, but you use that in gimp... So I guess practically anyone can do this if they had enough time to learn the basics in sketchup.

I was thinking about redoing some of the intros I made for people, you can do so much more with this stuff, and for the most part it's free.

Ofc if you aren't looking to model at all in the near future, it's best just to let someone else do it for you that can already do it in the first place :-P