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BadMonkeysTeam / Dynanimator

An animation package for the Dynamo visual programming environment
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Animate Family Parameter #18

Open andydandy74 opened 9 years ago

andydandy74 commented 9 years ago

When in a family (e.g. conceptual mass) it would be nice to be able to animate the family parameters. Have to check if there's a node for manipulating family parameters, though.

redinkinc commented 9 years ago

hey @andydandy74. What exactly do you mean with this issue. I'm currently using Dynanimator only to animate family parameters (like in the screenshot). capture Fabian

andydandy74 commented 9 years ago

Dynanimate Numeric Parameter is for animating parameters of placed family instances (or family types) in a project or family file. I'd like to be able to animate the global parameters of a family file (e.g. a conceptual mass family) from within the family file itself. The Revit API uses a different method to get/set those kinds of parameters. That's what this is for. Once I have that I can use Dynanimator to rapidly generate different versions of a mass family.

redinkinc commented 9 years ago

ok, but I don't see the usecase here. If I want to generate different versions of my mass family, I place it in my project and run Dynanimator. That is what I'm doing right now. What is in your opinion the difference of modifying the familiy parameters while in family editing mode? Do you want to create different family instances that are then fixed (with the parameters remoced)?

matusficko commented 9 years ago

Hi, I am having troubles creating an animation with family parameter change and I dont know where else to ask for advice. I have tried both tutorial and sample files but I always end up with no animation at all or error: Cant make type ...

Here are some screens. 1 2 3 4

There seems to be too many "nulls" to me but I am new to both dynamo and dynanimation.

I have tried revit 2015 and 2016 and dynamo 0.7 and 0.8 but nothing changed. System is windows 10 64bit

ArneArneArne commented 8 years ago

Hi, @andydandy74, hello to all that can help.

I have troubles to get this to run so that multiple images are saved.

If you compare the screenshot with the older version from May 2015, the node "Dynanimate Numeric Parameter" has changed: it has now an additional entry ("Iteration") and the entry "Iterations" changed to "Total Iterations".

With the current set up only 1 image is saved and then the process stops.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

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andydandy74 commented 8 years ago

This package was never updated for any post-0.7 versions of Dynamo, so it's hard to give you any feedback. I'd like to update this once Dynamo 1.0 has been released but I'm not sure when I'll find the time. One thing that I can tell you from looking at your screenshot is that you should definitely get rid of the 0.7 version of Clockwork. Having two Clockwork versions installed side-by-side is a recipe for disaster...

ArneArneArne commented 8 years ago

@andydandy74 Thank you for your reply. I have deinstalled the old version now.

However what bugs me is that the "DynanimatorFunction Numeric Parameter" node is different from the version you posted. So at least some changes have been made. Do you get it to run like it used to?

And: to your knowledge, is there any other means available to change variables automatically and save an image with each iteration?