Rendered animation with moving objects

Hi!

I am trying to make an animation with moving objects.

I can make an animation with baked geometry, but some parts have to move so it is not possible to bake the geometry.

I created a building which rotates according to the sun position.

One part of the façade has objects which are also moving according to the sun's position. So there is one "slider" which causes the movement of the objects.

I hope this is clear...

Now, I want to make an animation where:

1. the camera position is able to change during the animation

2. The building rotates, and the objects are moving during the animation

3. Ability to render the animation, with materials, textures and lighting etc.

How can I achieve these 3 things? Is there a plug-in or something like that?

Or do I have to use another program? Or what are the different options for me?

I hope someone can help me!

Thanks in advance,

Maria

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Maria-89 on August 20, 2015 at 3:03am

HI!

Here I am again!

I have a question, I cant get the lights to work right.

The shadow of the building stays at the same place, and is not rotating.

Do you know how to get it to work, or can you help me?

Is it also possible to use the sun as a light. So that the location of the sun also affects the intensity of the lightning.

I hope you can help me with this!

Thanks in advance!

Maria

Permalink Reply by sahar on December 18, 2016 at 1:28am

hi daniel

can u tell me how u save this animation?

Permalink Reply by Kim hauer on June 15, 2015 at 10:18am

I would export your file to .skp format then import into SketchUp 2015.

For animation, lighting, materials, sun position etc. There is nothing easier to learn how to use then SketchUp.

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Permalink Reply by Maria-89 on June 15, 2015 at 10:41am

Thanks for your reply!
But, is it possible to let the object/building move during the animation (by a slider from grasshopper)?
I can understand that it is easier when the building is a "baked" geometry, but how about when the object is adaptive?
Is it also possible and if so, how witling sketchup?

Permalink Reply by Kim hauer on June 15, 2015 at 6:09pm

Once you bake the geometry in Rhino, there is no longer any connection to Grasshopper when you import into SketchUp.
That's means if you want to show sun shading for Louvers moving at various times of the day to provide shading to windows, that wont be possible in SketchUp. Also Buildings don't rotate, the camera moves around the building , and yes there are free scripts written in Ruby, the SkethUp API, that can make objects such as cars move along a path.
Other alternatives that do these type of presentations: Lumion, LumenRT, and Twinmotion.