Animate some of the vox models in our demo world

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We need to do it before mid August when a podcast about it appears.

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We need to start from #114 and select 1 model to rotate it. Once we have it, we can try to do the same with some random selection so it is a kind of surprise the models that rotate.

Or we can just select the best models in order to rotate them.

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First results:

Already uploaded to:

https://github.com/Voxelers/mcthings_scenes/commit/b8d232fe54da2c4c2ded6ffdacac1cf15130ba1f#diff-bbf4bbb577fd449f3c1bec54841ba931R47

using version 0.52.2 of mcthings which includes some fixes.

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Next steps:

• Test moving more than model (probably it won't work)
• Define howto deploy the scripts which will animate our world
• Test the animating script with our server (#130)
• Test if it is faster to remove the model removing with setBlocks

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We can not rotate, at least easily and with good results, several models at the same time. But we can do it in a sequence:

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To deploy the animation the best thing is to create a a venv and install in it the dependencies and then execute the script.

It is interesting to explore the execution of several script at the same time. But at some place they will be serialized to reflect in the scene the results. So I am not sure about the results of that. And it depends on how the raspberry pi mod has been implemented.

The results executing two times the scene:

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My guess is that we must avoid trying to move at the same time several models, so we can do all the animation in the same script. We can select a region of the world that will be animated. Probably, just selecting 10 models (the most attractive ones and with details front, back and at sides, so the rotation shows all the details).

I will do it in a specific region because those models will need more space between them so they can rotate without collisions.

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Ok, next step is:

• Test the animating script with our server (#130)

During the testing we will check that the raspberry pi mod works with 1.16.1

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Ok, we have now the API working in 1.16.1. So we just need to start the plugin in the server in a venv.

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script installed and running. All done using pip packages and pretty easy.

The script is running in a screen. I will monitor it, but probably it will work without issues for long periods of time (the logic is pretty simple).

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I will check later that all is ok later and close this issue!

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Ok, let's check that the animation continues and the state of the server with it running.

It is running without issues.