Paid Plugins Snapshot Animator (Beta)

[McKlinton]

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Snapshot Animator (Alpha version for Patrons) - Snapshot Animator is a plugin that helps you to make pose-to-pose animations easily using snapshots

SnapshotAnimator is an experimental plugin for supporting animations (EARLY PREVIEW)

SnapshotAnimator is basically an extension for SnapshotManager (see here) for ability to make animations from snapshots.

Animator features

• Create pose-to-pose animations using snapshots as keyframes. Add keyframe on the timeline and animator makes the transition between the snapshots.
• Select which controls and...

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[huiyu914]

建议可以随机播放，比如100个pose

 

[McKlinton]

McKlinton updated Snapshot Animator (Alpha version for Patrons) with a new update entry:

SnapshotAnimator Alpha2 version released

• Support for multitrack.
• Support for multiple animations.
• Support for saving/loading animations, snapshots and timelines to/from scene file.
• Support for triggering animations.

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[piCtrues]

Really cool plugin that's what i've been looking for, for a long time.

For quality of life, it would be really cool if you could add a track saver and loader and such (or just general a preset saver), you probably know what I mean
What i've noticed as well, is that the slider sometimes get stucked and can't be moved really well.
If possible, it would be cool if you could add a length edit, so people can choose the track length in seconds or whatever

But overall, really sick plugin, im looking forward to the next updates

 

[monkeypaw500]

any chance for VR support?

 

[McKlinton]

Really cool plugin that's what i've been looking for, for a long time.

For quality of life, it would be really cool if you could add a track saver and loader and such (or just general a preset saver), you probably know what I mean
What i've noticed as well, is that the slider sometimes get stucked and can't be moved really well.
If possible, it would be cool if you could add a length edit, so people can choose the track length in seconds or whatever

But overall, really sick plugin, im looking forward to the next updates

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
Yes, I think you mean exporting the animation as preset or a file and then reusing that in another scenes? Then you wouldn't have to remake the tracks, maybe just readjust the snaphots. Something like that is on my feature backlog and coming in future releases at some point

Slider issue is most probably caused by baking the timeline animation in the background. I've noticed this and will make some optimizations in future releases.

Yeah, now the length is hard coded which is not optimal, but definitely there will be better settings for this in upcoming releases.

 

[McKlinton]

any chance for VR support?

It is possible, I haven't actually tried this in VR mode yet. I think changing the UI canvases to VR mode should be fairly easy to do. I will add this to my backlog. Thanks for bringing that up, using VR might actually be pretty handy to make snapshots in some situations

 

[cmramlow]

when you say

• Support for saving/loading animations, snapshots and timelines to/from scene file.

does this mean we can load into new scenes or is this still just for the current scene? Also can the large main and animation windows be minimized/closed?

 

[McKlinton]

when you say

• Support for saving/loading animations, snapshots and timelines to/from scene file.

does this mean we can load into new scenes or is this still just for the current scene? Also can the large main and animation windows be minimized/closed?

Sorry if it is confusing, but it means just saving to current scene file. Exporting animations is on my list for future releases. It is probably bit more work because there needs to some kind of retargeting functionality.

Windows can can be closed either using the checkbox in the plugin settings, or assigning a shortcut key.

 

[cmramlow]

Thank you for the reply. I'll keep my eye on this looking forward to ability for recalling saved poses in other scenes.

 

[McKlinton]

McKlinton updated Snapshot Animator (Alpha version for Patrons) with a new update entry:

Alpha3 version released

Changes in this version

• Animation library for re-using animations in other scenes. Simple make an animation and add it to the library and it will available throughout the different scene files. When importing, choose target person to retarget. Please note that animation might not look the same when using different characters (especially if the persons have different heights than in animation).
• Animating player viewport camera and triggers in timeline. Check the...

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[piCtrues]

This is getting so good so fast, I'm really looking forward to the next updates.

 

[piCtrues]

Do you think it would be possible to make CUA's / Empty atoms also be effected by this plugin? like position, and state of a cua
It would be insane if that would be doable

 

[McKlinton]

This is getting so good so fast, I'm really looking forward to the next updates.

Thanks! I have been thinking about that how to include other items from the scene in the snapshot. Snapshotting everything might be too heavy to handle. But maybe if there was a selection for user to add specific items, that might work

 

[piCtrues]

Thanks! I have been thinking about that how to include other items from the scene in the snapshot. Snapshotting everything might be too heavy to handle. But maybe if there was a selection for user to add specific items, that might work

Sounds really good if the user could add specific items, because lets say i add an empty atom with the VRRender plugin thing, someone could do perfect loops with your plugin as well.
how does your plugin work btw when it runs through the keyframes? because i was thinking if there was a possibility to smoothen the animation per keyframe.
because sometimes it's looking a bit fast on the transition of keyframes, making it a bit unnatural.
Sorry if I ask too much btw, it's just a really cool plugin and I thought that I'd give the best criticism I can You're on an insanely good way to make it a must have plugin for vam

 

[McKlinton]

McKlinton updated Snapshot Animator (Alpha version for Patrons) with a new update entry:

Beta 0.1.0 release

Changes in this version.

• Fixed issue with animating triggers in multiple tracks.
• Improvements in UI
  • Dark color theme
  • Button trigger area fixed
  • Close buttons for panels the user can open
• Implemented timeline zoom and scroll. Now mouse wheel can be used for zooming.
  • Tick marks to visualize the current zoom level.
  • Scrolling implemented by adding a drag feature. Click and hold on the track area and drag to scroll left and right...

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[McKlinton]

McKlinton updated Snapshot Animator (Beta) with a new update entry:

Minor fix

Fixed package path issue

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[piCtrues]

Is there a way to select multiple keys at once and copy and paste them somewhere else? If not it could be a really sick feature

 

[McKlinton]

McKlinton updated Snapshot Animator (Beta) with a new update entry:

Beta 0.2.0 released

In this version:

• Playmode in timeline (play once, loop, ping-pong)
• Solo/mute tracks
• Repeat count for track keyframes. Select a number how many times track keyframes are repeated within the track.
• Improved VR mode. Supporting taking/applying snapshots and playing animations. Timeline usage (dragging elements) NOT supported.
• Keyframe interpolation selection. The user can select if interpolation mode is either Linear or EaseInOut
• Relocation of animation (E.g. move...

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[McKlinton]

McKlinton updated Snapshot Animator (Beta) with a new update entry:

Beta 0.3.0 released

In this version:

• include all atoms for snapshots. Making it possible to animate every atom. Select the atom in the snapshot settings menu to include it into snapshot.
• Created some basic loop animations in the library. Provided as separate var file so it can be updated separately. Just copy the McKlinton.AnimPack.1.var to Addon folder and SnapshotAnimator should load the animations to the library.

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[McKlinton]

McKlinton updated Snapshot Animator (Beta) with a new update entry:

Version 0.4.0

Just couple of small improvements in this version:

• Toggle buttons to select/deselect all items in the track settings. See below:
  
  
• Automatic mapping in library import (tries to find matching atom to mapping selections so the user doesn't have to select). It's...

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