if later you wish to add extra animation when the car moves, say a rotation of the brake pedal at the end of the car movement, you will have to do it once only, and it will apply to all car move instances.Īnimator is parametric.

By encapsulating these unit movements into a Clip, you can re-use the Clip to move the car forward and backward by any amount, without redoing the body translation and wheel spinning each time.

if you design a car movement, you will create a translation for the body and spinning for the 4 wheels.

Clip -> Component containing other components (so both instance and definition underneath)Īlthough this may be abstract to you (as it is where you are beginner in Sketchup), this recursive hierarchical model the base for re-usability and for isolating pieces of animation.

Clip Element -> Component Instance (so one or several).

Sequence -> Component definition (so reusable).

This is quite similar to the Sketchup hierarchical framework for Components think of:

By convention the topmost clip is called a Film.Īnimator is based on a recursive hierarchical model, so that a sequence can contain other sequences and sequences can be freely re-used to create one or several clip elements (e.g.A Sequence can contain other Sequences, by grouping.You can create several clip elements out of a single sequence. When you instantiate a Sequence as a Clip Element, you can then change a few of its parameters, such as duration, easing.

Clip elements are instances of Sequences placed in the timeline.) and for cameras (still view, traveling camera. Sequences are reusable definitions of movements for objects (such as translation, rotation, spin, scaling, explosion.

It provides a parametric, interactive framework to control movements of objects and cameras along a timeline.Īnimations are based on the following concepts: Animator is a script dedicated to the animation of Sketchup models.

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