You manually assign each position to build an animation. This script's premise is that objects in your model-groups and components-can each have multiple positions. Shockingly, it only took me about half and hour to do Proper Animation is refreshingly easy to figure out and use.
Watching the teaser video (below) inspired me to model and animate my very own robotic contraption. And that's why Ruby script plugins for SketchUp are so darn useful.Ī while ago, I found out about a nice little plugin called Proper Animation. Unfortunately, it's also not something we've managed to tackle just yet. It's something all of us have wanted to do at one time or another. Somewhere near the top of SketchUp's all-time list of feature requests, there's a big, bold headline that reads ANIMATE THE MOVEMENT OF OBJECTS.
