Animation help!
Animation help!
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I need to make an animation of one of my designs for an upcoming visit here. I have some experience with this, but I can't seem to figure out how to hide/display different components during an animation. I'd like to show my assembly coming together piece by piece... any help would be much appreciated.
Travis
Travis





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You should have afull list of colours in the Start and Finish dropdown menus. The default is 'Use Part Style' though.
you should also have 2 other options that say '0% Visible' and '50% Visible'
Are you saying you don't have these?
Jon
Jon Sutcliffe / Solid Mastermind
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Jon Sutcliffe / Solid Mastermind
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Anyway, the animation I exported really sucks - the fade in/fade out (@60fps) doesn't really "fade" at all. Its essentially instant. :(
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Sometimes it can help turining the VHL off when you are fading parts in and out. With VHL on the part appears visible until it is completely switched off as there is no dimming done on the models edges.
Jon Sutcliffe / Solid Mastermind
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If you are doing these things regularly and the assemblies are not too complex I would have a look at Bunkspeed.
You can get HyperMove on 30-day trial.
www.bunkspeed.com
This image done 'out of the box' with HyperMove trial.
bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.
Where would we be without sat-nav?
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SE rendering tools definately need to be enhanced inline with some of the other offerings out there on the market now.
Jon Sutcliffe / Solid Mastermind
The Solid Edge Community. Video training sessions, best practice documents, process maps and interactive training http://www.SolidMastermind.com
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By out of the box I mean all I did was apply standard materials and render at default settings.
bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.
Where would we be without sat-nav?
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what format did you use to import into hypermove?
Jon Sutcliffe / Solid Mastermind
The Solid Edge Community. Video training sessions, best practice documents, process maps and interactive training http://www.SolidMastermind.com
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It's a terrific program. Setup takes 30 seconds, and even screenshots taken in real-time after leaving the screen generate for about 20 seconds on my 3GHz dual-core CPU were great looking.
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BTW there was some big changes at Bunkspeed earlier this year: following a dispute with the raytracing engine owner (who was also working at Bunkspeed!), their license was revoked. So they had to pull out Hypershot and are now preparing a new version with a different rendering engine. They couldn't keep the name either, so they renamed their whole product line: Hypershot is now Bunkspeed Shot, HyperMove is Bunkspeed Move.
And to make matters more complicated, the now defunct Hypershot spun off another product, KeyShot bu Luxion, the company that was providing Hypershot's ray-tracing engine.
http://www.keyshot.com/
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Sorry for the triple post...
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Gemnoc has it correct, I used STEP but the transfer is really quick and you don't need the intelligence anyway.
I also tried Luxion Keyshot and that is also quick.
A 15 day trial is available, and that's what I had on my laptop. You get a few backgrounds with that trial but can't save the renderings or any of the setup. You need to do a screen-grab to keep the image but the results are just as good.
One thing I haven't found in either program is how to zoom in on small parts, other than by scaling the model.
This one was done in KeyShot, saved as a screen grab then clipped with Paint, so no post-processing. It took a few minutes to set up and apply the materials and get the scale and orientation about right but rendering time was only about 3 minutes on 2.1GHz Core2Duo,4MB ram laptop.
The trial has run out now.
bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.
Where would we be without sat-nav?
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First thing you can change the camera settings in the preferences (going by memory here). By default the camera is set at 44mm, you can put it to 28mm (wide angle) to get an exagerated perspective for example. 200mm (or even bigger) will bring a small object closer, like it would with a real camera's telephoto.
Then, if you want to zoom in into the scene, I believe the shortcut is ALT+mouse right button and drag.
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I think I've got another week or so left on that one.
bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.
Where would we be without sat-nav?
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Anything I can do about this?
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Also make sure that you render the scene first so that the light works rendering is activated. Make sure all your materials, lighting and background are as you want them.
When exporting the avi file, make choose the 'Presentation View Style' option. Each frame will then be rendered using the Lightworks engine and give a much better result than when using the default view style.
Jon Sutcliffe / Solid Mastermind
The Solid Edge Community. Video training sessions, best practice documents, process maps and interactive training http://www.SolidMastermind.com
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I've set presentation style and all that but they still came out looking like it was filmed on a cheap phone.
Has anyone got a decent one they can post just so we can see that it CAN be done?
bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.
Where would we be without sat-nav?
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We do have some render and animation training available on Solid Mastermind but are looking at updating and adding a lot more in the near future.
Jon Sutcliffe / Solid Mastermind
The Solid Edge Community. Video training sessions, best practice documents, process maps and interactive training http://www.SolidMastermind.com