Playing the Scenes Animation
When you're working in SketchUp, it's great to be able to click a scene to jump from one predesigned view to another. When you're making a presentation, you may prefer to have SketchUp automatically show one view and then move to the next.
That's a cinch; just choose View ^ Animation ^ Play. An even quicker way to play the animation is to right-click any of the scene tabs and then to choose Play from the shortcut menu. You can choose which scenes are included or excluded from the animation, as explained on page 407.
Tip: If the little window with the video control buttons (shown in Figure 12-4) isn't visible, you can start and stop the animation using the same menu command: View ^ Animation ^ Play.
Figure 12-4:
In Windows, the Animation window pops up with a couple of familiar video-style controls: Play, Pause, and Stop. On a Mac, you can control the animation from the menu command View ^ Animation ^ Play.
Figure 12-4:
In Windows, the Animation window pops up with a couple of familiar video-style controls: Play, Pause, and Stop. On a Mac, you can control the animation from the menu command View ^ Animation ^ Play.
SketchUp automatically changes from one view to the next, with a short pause at each. Scenes play from the top of the list to the bottom. The animation loops, so after SketchUp shows the last scene in the list, it goes back to the first and starts again.
Note: The steps for exporting your animation as video files are included in the chapter on exporting to different file formats, page 443.
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