Grasshopper render animation in project

[JHorsley]

Something I would like to be able to do with the grasshopper components, that doesn't seem doable at the moment, is to render an animated object within a static rhino scene.
Currently the render animation on the Render component is totally separate from the rhino scene. Bringing grasshopper objects into the rhino scene with the Render in Project component is exactly what I want but there is seemingly no way to animate this.
I have tried bringing in all the objects into grasshopper but you need to re-apply all the materials and lighting etc. is far harder to control purely using grasshopper.

[Peter.Chaushev]

Hello, and thank you for your post!
There is already an internal task logged to allow this functionality, though I cannot share any ETA yet.
I'll add your feedback to the dev ticket.

Kind regards,
Peter

[J@R]

+1 to have this functionality would really improve the extent to which you could create animations in rhino. At the moment to set up in entire scene within grasshopper is extremely tedious.


Would it be possible to integrate a component that reads external animations aswell? i.e. alembic files

(This would then allow a complete pipeline to be imported from applications like 3ds max including people walking, cars driving etc.)

[Grigio18]

+1 to have this functionality would really improve the extent to which you could create animations in rhino. At the moment to set up in entire scene within grasshopper is extremely tedious.


Would it be possible to integrate a component that reads external animations aswell? i.e. alembic files

(This would then allow a complete pipeline to be imported from applications like 3ds max including people walking, cars driving etc.)

You can already do it.
Just export as vrscene or vrayproxy

[J@R]

Grigio18 true but you can't do it from grasshopper to other applications, i.e. taking an animation made in Grasshopper into 3ds max.