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VideoPlugin
With a colleague, we have realized with young students (eleven year old) a project during the school year 2009-2010 : make the plans of our school with SweetHome 3D.
Then we decided to make up a story and produce a video. But at that time, the "Create a video" option did not exist in SweetHome 3D.
After some investigations and the help of "Plugin Developer Guide", I realized that it was not difficult to move the visitor and record a photo. So, I started to develop the plugin VideoPlugin.
Then E. Puybaret edited a new version of SweetHome 3D with the "Create a video" option. However, I decided to continue the development of my plugin for different reasons : - the pleasure to achieve it, - it facilitates the continuity of the various sequences produced by the students, - it enables to edit the path without having to erase the previous steps, - it enables to modify the visitor's speed and the step duration (between two passage points).
However, it has got 3 drawbacks : - because of lack of time, the interface is quite basic, - it is more complex to use than Emmanuel's panel which is intuitive ; but some of my best students managed to deal with it and helped the others, - I did not succeeded in recording the video : distinct images are produced and must be edited to a video with another program ( we have used VideoSpin from Pinnacle ).
In spite of these drawbacks and following Emmanuel's advice, I publish the plugin as an example of possible developments which can help other developers of the community. here
Do not hesitate to notice some bugs or ask for questions. Jean-Luc Delmas jeanluc.delmas78@free.fr
