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Timeline 5 Progress & Poll
🕑 Added 2021-05-07 21:09:14 +0000 UTCHey fellow vammers! Now that Glance, DesktopLeap and Embody are out, I'm back working on Timeline. I already have great things working:
- Direct to Timeline, live mocap recording without going through Scene Animation
- Morphs live recording (e.g. Leap Motion fingers motion can be recorded and played back)
- Up to a thousand (1000) fps during recording and playback
- Much improved keyframe reduction (flat areas detection, staged keyframe removal, etc) which can be used for smoothing as well as simply allowing sane manual tweaks, with the ability to backup and restore so you can tweak your settings
- Timeline Diagnostics which detects typical hard-to-guess situations and analyzes the scene
- UI improvements, such as separating float params in sections in the dope sheet
- Ability to select targets to add in the scene instead of through a drop down
- Match real time rather than game time, so you can sync with music more reliably
That already makes Timeline a much better option for mocap in general. Now, I'm wondering what should I focus on next, I'm curious to hear what you think?
And if what you'd like first is not on there, and what would it be?
Comments
Acid Bubbles
That could be a good idea yeah, or sort by sequencing... I'm taking a note :)
SlamT
Sort alphabetically or numerically?
Acid Bubbles
You can manually sort them in Manage Animations, though there's no "auto-sort". Otherwise, how would you see this working?
SlamT
Any chance to sort the animations or create folders within the list on the right? Some of my scenes have 50 plus animations and can be tricky to manage.
Acid Bubbles
This is a good idea, and would be a good fit for the "bulk edit" screen. Let me see if I can do that easily. Otherwise I could also make a "Remove before time" and "Remove after time", that's 2 steps but at least, no math :P
Michał
I often cut my mocaps and it's a little frustrating sometimes to cut the portion I like from the whole mocap as you need to manually calculate the lengths. I'd like two input boxes where I enter start time, finish time and an Apply button. Should leave the portion within the markers and cut the rest
Acid Bubbles
Yes, check out LogicBricks by MacGruber or VUML + ActionGrouper by JayJayWon :)
Bernie
Is it already possible to start a specific animation when a certain variable is within a certain range? Say variable A < 0.4 play Anim 1, var A < 0.6 play Anim 2 etc ? (probably not the right place to ask, but would love to have more control over what and when without scripting)
Zane
gotta throw some scenes out! you a wizard
TGC
Dayyyum that sounds amazing!
XRWizard
You're a machine AcidBubbles. I'm so excited for timeline 5, can't wait!
Acid Bubbles
It means I can record and playback with a 0.0001s precision, versus 0.1s with the current version of Timeline for mocap import :)
Acid Bubbles
It's challenging on a UI standpoint though (especially in VR)!
PixelPorts
What is the "up to 1000fps during recording and playback" mean?
Luna_C
Ability to pan & zoom to work on segments of a longer animation would be huge!
