How SU Animate works
Create a path. Select the Group to animate. Make Scenes. Play. It's that simple.
Create a path.
The first step with SU Animate is to create a path that will be used by the program to animate
a group or the camera. For example, if you want to show a forklift moving out of the back of a truck, first create a path for the forklift to follow.
If you want to create a walk thru animation with
the SketchUp camera "walking" through a building, create a path for the camera to follow.
Click on the image to see the Make Path Flash tutorial
Select the Group to animate
After creating a path, select a group to animate. The group can either be a SketchUp group or the camera. You can also name a
SketchUp group "target" which will force the SketchUp camera to follow the group move a long a path. More than one path and one group
can be animated.
Click on image to view the Assign Group Flash tutorial.
Make Scenes
The final step is to Make Scenes. SU Animate's power is to automatically create SketchUp scenes and layers for each scene. The program will hide all layers except the layer that is being "played". The number of scenes will
equal the number of line segments in the path you created.
Play the Animation
After Make Scenes is completed, it's time to play the animation using SketchUp's View-->Animation-->Play command.
You can then export the Animation to an AVI file using SketchUp's Animation Export command.
Walk thru example
This flash tutorial will explain how to create a walk thru type animation in SketchUp using SU Animate
Click on the image to launch the walk thru flash tutorial
Group Target example
This flash tutorial will explain how you can animate groups and keep the camera focuses on the moving
object.
Click on the image to launch the group target Flash tutorial
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