KLIPSPRINGER PlugIn | file sequences for animation

I'm attaching a small plugin I wrote a couple days ago: KLIPSPRINGER

It's a very basic component, you just feed it meshes, a filepath and an extension and it automatically outputs a series of files when you animate a slider.

We needed its functionality for a design studio where we asked our students to do animations and the existing scripts didn't allow any texture assignment (Klipspringer can assign objects to layers, which can have materials preset). As I had to do a documentation anyway, I decided to give it a proper Rhino'esque name and post it for everyone to use.

I want to emphasize that previous work in that area was done by Damien Alomar and Giulio Piacentino (for rendering, not exporting). Furthermore, Benjamin Golder recently posted his Finches: Local Code plugin - if you need more functionality than animation, that's currently the way to go!

Perhaps someone still enjoys the humble Klipspringer, if only for his adorable name :)

And now back to the serious robot stuff :)

Johannes

P.S.: The PDF includes some helpful links to plugins/scripts which enable the import of mesh sequences (e.g. into C4D, 3DSMax, Blender etc.), so I'm attaching it separately. It is also included in the ZIP file!

Attachments:

Klipspringer.zip, 609 KB
klipspringer_documentation.pdf, 670 KB

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Hassan David Jassir on November 24, 2010 at 12:18pm

Looks great! I'll take a look...

Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on November 24, 2010 at 12:33pm

thanks for sharing!

Permalink Reply by taka on November 24, 2010 at 1:34pm

Always ahead of the curve...

Thanks for sharing!

Permalink Reply by Philipp on April 13, 2011 at 6:47am

hey! Thanx for sharing!

However its looks like it is not working on latest gh build......

Permalink Reply by Johannes Braumann on April 13, 2011 at 12:18pm

Hmmm... Not good... I'll take a look at it ASAP, but I'm currently working hard on another project - I'll see what I can do!

Regards,

Johannes

Permalink Reply by Philipp on April 14, 2011 at 11:36am

here is one of my tryes.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9561169/matrix.ghx

Permalink Reply by Johannes Braumann on April 20, 2011 at 4:17pm

Hello Philipp,

I'm really sorry that it took me a week to get back to you! I finally had some time to take a look at Klipspringer with Rhino 4 SR8 and Rhino 5 WIP (latest):

With the Rhino 5 WIP for some reason Rhino refuses to save - they probably changed something there. However, with Rhino 4 SR8 its running just fine. I got your example to work without any additional adjustments - you might want to save a random mesh primitive as OBJ before you start the batch (happened once to me). In general, 3DS is easier because it doesn't ever show a save-option dialog.

I'm in the middle of a project so I don't really want to update to SR9 right now - hopefully the Rhino 5 WIP problem doesn't also apply to SR9.

Let me know if you still got problems!

Regards,

Johannes

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