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maxdee / alc_freeliner

live geometric animation tool powerhouse
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Create a basic tutorial (Improve documentation) #44

Open wezz opened 6 years ago

wezz commented 6 years ago

It took me a while to even figure out exactly how to install and load everything.

Now I've got freeliner up and running but due to all the keyboard shortcuts it's quite hard to figure out how to make any progress in making a visual.

It would greatly help to have either a written step by step guide or a screencast with someone instructing on how to make your first visuals. A Hello World for freeliner so to say.

I think it looks like an awesome piece of software and I would really like to try it out if I could only get over this first bump in the road

maxdee commented 6 years ago

Check the how to freeline, most people can figure it out from that. Dont forget to go to http://localhost:8000/index.html for the web gui once freeliner is running.

wezz commented 6 years ago

I've succeeded in: Installing Processing and the related libraries. Gotten the freeliner up and running including the Web GUI.

But even when I follow the guide to the letter I don't seem to get any animation. I've been messing around for a while now, creating shapes and trying to animate them but without success. It feel like I'm either missing a piece of the puzzle, or something is broken.

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Making any kinds of changes in the Web GUI or trying to use the command keys for animating gives no effect. A more detailed "your first animation" tutorial would be greatly appreciated. I'm usually not a fan of video tutorials but in this case I thing it would be really useful

maxdee commented 6 years ago

Ok so when you make a shape do you hit shift + A or any other letter like shift + B? This will add a template (animation parameters) to the shape. Let me know if it works.

On Sun, Jul 8, 2018, 04:39 Wezz, notifications@github.com wrote:

I've succeeded in: Installing Processing and the related libraries. Gotten the freeliner up and running including the Web GUI.

But even when I follow the guide to the letter I don't seem to get any animation. I've been messing around for a while now, creating shapes and trying to animate them but without success. It feel like I'm either missing a piece of the puzzle, or something is broken.

[image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1185533/42418106-cf2a0e88-8299-11e8-8f16-9e387097ddaa.png

Making any kinds of changes in the Web GUI or trying to use the command keys for animating gives no effect. A more detailed "your first animation" tutorial would be greatly appreciated. I'm usually not a fan of video tutorials but in this case I thing it would be really useful

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Jacques-Olivier-Farcy commented 5 years ago

I put a pull request for a step by step basic tutorial

louprgb commented 3 years ago

@wezz Did you manage to find how to create animation?

wezz commented 3 years ago

I got some basic animations going but due to the lack of documentation / guides I never got the natural hang of it. Haven't touched freeliner in a long time now.

Thought about creating my own web based alternative instead but never had the time to create it.

maxdee commented 3 years ago

I have been fixing stuff in freeliner regularly, some recent updates will bring us to 0.5 and I will stop changing things once and for all. I added project directories and better saving / loading, but documentation has not been updated yet. Its good to know people are interested, it will motivate me to update the docs a bit. Its lots of work.

louprgb commented 3 years ago

Ok thanks for your replies, but could you help me to solve my problem? How can i animate my geometries? I have crated a geometry, placed a center with "c". But when i push "a" or "b" the animation works "half the time" for the first geometry which has been assigned automatically to the template "M". But when i create a second geometry, the software doesn't animate this one because he doesn't place into a template.

I followed all your instructions in your website, and tried all the shortcuts, without success.

So, what is the correct procedure in order to animate one object? And also If I want to create several in its own template?

Thank you

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I have been fixing stuff in freeliner regularly, some recent updates will bring us to 0.5 and I will stop changing things once and for all. I added project directories and better saving / loading, but documentation has not been updated yet. Its good to know people are interested, it will motivate me to update the docs a bit. Its lots of work.

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Jacques-Olivier-Farcy commented 3 years ago

Hi @louprgb , did you have a look at : https://github.com/maxdee/alc_freeliner/blob/devel/doc/step-by-step.md

louprgb commented 3 years ago

Yes, as i said in my previous email, I followed every step by step tutorial. But when I click "a" to generate a render it doesn't work everytime for the first geometry and never for the others. And i cannot manage to choose which template yo assign to each geometry.

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Hi @louprgb https://github.com/louprgb , did you have a look at : https://github.com/maxdee/alc_freeliner/blob/devel/doc/step-by-step.md

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Jacques-Olivier-Farcy commented 3 years ago

I am also intersted to continue using this tool, and maybe if we are some people, we could help to make a more detail documentation ... I am in France, we can use some visio / stream stuff so i can show you how i use it even if i am far from an expert on freeliner

louprgb commented 3 years ago

I'm french but living in Montreal. Très bonne idée pour le visio. Quand êtes vous disponible ?

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I am also intersted to continue using this tool, and maybe if we are some people, we could help to make a more detail documentation ... I am in France, we can use some visio / stream stuff so i can show you how i use it even if i am far from an expert on freeliner

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Jacques-Olivier-Farcy commented 3 years ago

Je suis assez dispo lundi et mardi prochain après-midi. Et un aperçu de ce que j'ai testé : https://interstices.ouvaton.org/mapping.html

devinenicolas commented 3 years ago

@Jacques-Olivier-Farcy Sympa comme utilisation. Salut Max !

maxdee commented 3 years ago

Si ça vous tente de faire une session live stream de tuto/tests/doc je suis partant. Je veux vraiment compléter le release 0.5, la version ultime en Processing, j'y suis presque! Je pourrais dédier lundi et mardi pour faire un sprint.

Jacques-Olivier-Farcy commented 3 years ago

Je suis partant aussi. Je réserve mon lundi / mardi après-midi au moins, ce qui sera les mâtinées pour vous, j'aurai peut-être du temps pour poursuivre dans la soirée de mon côté. Tu pensais à quoi comme plateforme pour se retrouver ?

louprgb commented 3 years ago

Lundi et mardi ca me va à partir de 9h (heure de montreal) 15h en France. Ca te vas?

Tu veux faire ça par zoom?

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Je suis partant aussi. Je réserve mon lundi / mardi après-midi au moins, ce qui sera les mâtinées pour vous, j'aurai peut-être du temps pour poursuivre dans la soirée de mon côté. Tu pensais à quoi comme plateforme pour se retrouver ?

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maxdee commented 3 years ago

Lets use google hangouts, or jitsi if people prefer that.

louprgb commented 3 years ago

Jitsi if its ok for you. Will you create the group for the video chat?

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Lets use google hangouts, or jitsi if people prefer that.

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Jacques-Olivier-Farcy commented 3 years ago

Oui zoom ça me va, et l'horaire aussi. J'essaierai de faire aussi du stream via twitch ou autre en parallèle pour que vous puissiez avoir une vue d'ensemble.

Jacques-Olivier-Farcy commented 3 years ago

I also prefer Jitsi (Privacy and open-source)

louprgb commented 3 years ago

Pas de problème pour Jitsi. Envoi moi ton invit une fois que t'es prêt.

J'ai un compte Twitch aussi (@teddykitano) tu peux m'ajouter également dessus.

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I also prefer Jitsi (Privacy and open-source)

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maxdee commented 3 years ago

rendez-vous sur https://gitlab.com/maxd/alc_freeliner/-/issues/5 pour continuer la disscussion!