Exploded assembly animation

[JMG]

P.S. If you would provide an option to do a (by using a built in support for POV-Ray) render at each step that would be cool!

I have spent some hours with that but I do not find it motivating enough to continue.

But, hey, this is Open Source and I would be very happy to see (and merge) someone else code providing for this or any other functionality.

[triplus]

P.S. If you would provide an option to do a (by using a built in support for POV-Ray) render at each step that would be cool!

I have spent some hours with that but I do not find it motivating enough to continue.

But, hey, this is Open Source and I would be very happy to see (and merge) someone else code providing for this or any other functionality.

Fair enough.

P.S. I get this if i set your WB as start-up module:

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'NoneType' object has no attribute 'addObject'

[JMG]

P.S. I get this if i set your WB as start-up module:

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'NoneType' object has no attribute 'addObject'

Fixed

[triplus]

P.S. I get this if i set your WB as start-up module:

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'NoneType' object has no attribute 'addObject'

Fixed

Can confirm the error is gone!

[therman]

Hi!

This is a great tool. I'm currently trying to create a video and I'd like to run only a part of the animation. How can I do this from script? I tried using

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ExplodedAssembly.runAnimation(start=0, end=2)

Unfortunately this didn't work, because the animation doesn't stop and plays to the last part. What is the correct function call for this?

[JMG]

Hi.

The command needs a small modification:

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ExplodedAssembly.runAnimation( start=8, end=10, mode='toPoint' )

Start and end are the positions of the animation groups counting from the last element in the exploded assembly folder. If you have 10 animation groups and only want to run the first two, the configuration is start=8, end = 10.

Try the above command in the example file provided.

Javier.

[therman]

Thanks, in the meantime I figured that out However I'm not sure why it is counted from the end, rather than from the beginning. Anyways, I wrote a function that asks for the start index, end index and the number of animations, and calls your function with the correct parameters.

And to show my appreciation to you, I'd like to show you the video I was able to create with your workbench:
https://youtu.be/zMzEMR8Gdp8

I'm part of the team that develops the possible second Hungarian satellite, SMOG-1 and I created this demo video to show the build up of the device.
The animation was purely run by python script, including the Exploded Assembly functions.

Thanks!

[microelly2]

https://youtu.be/zMzEMR8Gdp8

nice to see this.

[JMG]

And to show my appreciation to you, I'd like to show you the video I was able to create with your workbench:
https://youtu.be/zMzEMR8Gdp8

I'm part of the team that develops the possible second Hungarian satellite, SMOG-1 and I created this demo video to show the build up of the device.
The animation was purely run by python script, including the Exploded Assembly functions.

Thanks!

That's big project! I am really happy to know that my workbench has been of some use for it

Big thanks for sharing.
You also gave me a idea for a future implementation: vanishing.

Regards.
Javier.

[triplus]

And to show my appreciation to you, I'd like to show you the video I was able to create with your workbench:
https://youtu.be/zMzEMR8Gdp8

Looking good.