Creating a full year shadow animation

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Revisiting this: I’m trying to create a dawn-to-dusk shadow animation from a fixed pov that runs through every daylight hour for a whole year. I’ve created two scenes, the first at sunrise on 1 jan, the second at sunset on 31 dec. I’m now stumped as to how to run through the animation either live or to export as an MP4 - it just doesn’t seem to do what’s needed, as I end up with a very short video on which of course it’s not apparent what I’m looking at.

So I’m looking for output of shadow movements across every day for a full year, with an overlay (especially in the saved video) of day and time.

I’m mostly Mac-based but also have a 24-vcore AMD Windows 10 machine (the Win machine has more RAM, but the Mac is faster). Sketchup Pro 2025.

TIA…

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go to the animation parameters (window / model info / animation) and set the time to something like 30s or even 60s. that means SU will take that time to move from scene 1 to scene 2.

if you need more, you can also set a midpoint scene.
if it were me, I would make 4 scenes, 21st of june, sept, dec and march. one per season.

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Answered in your reply to other thread. Try not to double post. We’ll get to you…some of us here on the forum work full time or are on different time zones and it takes awhile.

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