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  • Published 21 Feb 2023

Automatic sliding of keyframes with expanded channels

PROBLEM

I always found confusing and hard to read the fact that keyframes are kept visible in all the hierarchy levels of channels.

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PROPOSAL

I propose to have the visualization of keyframes following the expansion of channels, to have a better reading of the keyframed values over time.

It helps especially when multiple objects are selected in distinguishing their respective keyframes.

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ALTERNATIVES

Altough, I'm aware that having keyframes on all levels of hierarchy can be handy to easily move entire groups of keyframes. So, I propose 2 alternatives to not get rid of it (even though I still prefer the original proposal):

1 - Different visualization in higher levels of hierarchy, for a better reading.

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2 - Smart Collapse: option in the View menu to collapse all higher levels of hierarchy, maintaining only the keyframed values and the object they belong to.

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Development Status: Open

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slowk1d
21 Feb 2023

1 Comment

matt6

Why are you using the timeline instead of the dope sheet or action editor? They have color coded backgrounds for the summary and parent channels. Also, the summary and parent keyframes are very useful. I wouldn't want to have to fold all of the parent channels every time I want to access them.