Productivity Enhancement Plugin Su animate V4 released

SU Animate is non- photo-realistic Productive Enhancement plugin. It works with SketchUp and able to create an animation. It can create object animation of your SketchUp model to show motion of group and components and has very popular Camera animation in SketchUp model to create fly thrus and walk thrus. It works with SU walk also to create photo-realistic animation. The team has released new version-4 after its successful series of products. The new SU Animate’s new feature enables you to give life to your SketchUp model. Check out the new features below here.

SU Animate V4 new features includes: 

Camera Animation with Key Frames

1. Video - Key frame animations - easy camera animation, walking through Barcelona
2. Video - SU Animate to SU Walk - go from non-photo-realistic to photo-realistic with SU Walk

Object Animations with Key Frames

1. Video - Key frame animations - create object animations, example rotate a door
2. Video - Key frame animations - create layer animation, example construction simulation
3. Video - Key frame animations - Layer Animations - automatically create a frame for each
4. layer for timeline simulations
5. Video - Key frame animations - edit and create camera animation to the construction
6. simulation
7. Video - Key frame animations - combine layer and camera animation in the construction
8. simulation
9. Video - Key frame animations - exploded assembly tutorial - bookcase

• New - Table-driven animations
• New - Update to Path Animations

1. New - Add/ Remove for Object Animation with Paths
2. Polyline Path Tool
3. Arc/Circle Path Tool
4. Spiral Path Tool
5. Animated Objects and Animation Properties
6. Path from an existing curve
7. Nested Path Animations - rotating wheels moving forward
8. Tool bar and context menu

• Shadow (time lapse) Animation
• New - New Tools for SU Animate 4
• The final step - Make Scenes
• SU Animate Path Help - more detail on Path Animation, Nested Animations

The user interface has changed in new version-4 but the way path animations, spiral

animations, time-lapse animations, SU Grid are same.

Summary of user interface and Key Frame Changes changes

User Interface

1. Single Animation dialog box that presents all animations in the model.
2. Animation Player dialog to play animations.
3. Player dialog lets you play, pause, step, loop and control the speed of animations.
4. Player dialog offers the same control when playing Google Sketchup animations, i.e.
5. "scenes".
6. Ability to edit common animation properties (name, frame count, delay count, repeat option)
7. from the dialog.
8. Ability to select the objects for an animation directly rather than only by name.

Key Frame Animations

1. Ability to create key-frame animations for object or camera motion
2. Key-frame animations can handle visibility by layer, allowing construction design
3. simulation.

Additional features

1. Path animation options - to move objects without rotating, Add/ Remove groups easily.
2. When editing polyline control points, the points stay in their original plane by default.
3. Ability to create table-driven animations that access external sources of data.
4. Tool to generate names for groups and components instances and to distribute them onto layers.

More information can be explored about SU Animate by clicking here.
 
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