Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
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Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
one..
For those situations when there's the need to work on SRT keyframes separately, that's pratically always, I hate everytime to switch on the timeline (and so I'm not speaking about Animation Editor or Dopesheet), to kinematics, marked parameters, scaling (that for some misterious reason it's impossibile to move the scale keyframes if not just in scaling mode or kinematics ) I always had this image in mind I think it's doable and highly useful that would change and speed up all those visual checks and adjustments expecially when there's a continue selection and keyframing of many animated objects one after the other.
Working, it displays the keyframes (SRT or XYZ) for the active trasform tool in the moment (in the image, Translate Tool is considered being active).
Is it too weird? Well, we are in the wish page, right?...
For those situations when there's the need to work on SRT keyframes separately, that's pratically always, I hate everytime to switch on the timeline (and so I'm not speaking about Animation Editor or Dopesheet), to kinematics, marked parameters, scaling (that for some misterious reason it's impossibile to move the scale keyframes if not just in scaling mode or kinematics ) I always had this image in mind I think it's doable and highly useful that would change and speed up all those visual checks and adjustments expecially when there's a continue selection and keyframing of many animated objects one after the other.
Working, it displays the keyframes (SRT or XYZ) for the active trasform tool in the moment (in the image, Translate Tool is considered being active).
Is it too weird? Well, we are in the wish page, right?...
Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
WOW, this is a great idea!
This, of course, should be implemented first and foremost in the editor, although the timeline wouldn't suffer either to see this improvement.
This, of course, should be implemented first and foremost in the editor, although the timeline wouldn't suffer either to see this improvement.
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Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
Good idea.
I think timeline operation is essential to animate dozens of object - which usually means a simple animation- if not going the ICE route.
I think timeline operation is essential to animate dozens of object - which usually means a simple animation- if not going the ICE route.
Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
perhaps because your scaling parameters aren't set as "keyable"? the timeline will only manipulate keyable parametersSuperpositivo wrote:, scaling (that for some misterious reason it's impossibile to move the scale keyframes if not just in scaling mode or kinematics )
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Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
i don't think so, try creating a box or anything for that matter, create keys with "key all keyable", set to marked paramaters on the timeline (and scale as marked parameter), you can't even select a range of keys to manipulate with scale as marked param, however, rotation, and trans work fine. At least this has always been a problem of mine since the timeline was introduced.
edit: i reported this a long time ago, but I don't think they understood the problem.
edit: i reported this a long time ago, but I don't think they understood the problem.
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Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
Nope, Luc.
Using keyable works, as kinematics, but it shows on the timeline all the trasformations keys (S, R, and T).
But if you use MARKED parameters, to display only the ones you want, when trying to simply select keys Translate and Rotation works regularly, but it disappear on the Scale Frames.... It looks as a bug, to me.
edit: jamination answered faster...
Using keyable works, as kinematics, but it shows on the timeline all the trasformations keys (S, R, and T).
But if you use MARKED parameters, to display only the ones you want, when trying to simply select keys Translate and Rotation works regularly, but it disappear on the Scale Frames.... It looks as a bug, to me.
edit: jamination answered faster...
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Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
One of these days...
Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
one of 2014's (to say the least) days...
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Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
That's not much different than how search/find is now. Only difference is it's in a separate pane instead of in-place.bottleofram wrote:One of these days...
And as for automatically "dropping" the node, what would happen if there are many nodes that start with the string you 're searching for ? How would it know when you 're done typing, so that it gives you the result(s) ?
Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
maya 2014's node editor has it..
Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
So how does it handle things like multiple results, partial string search, etc ?luceric wrote:maya 2014's node editor has it..
(my question was legit, not ironic or anything like that)
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Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
It's just a quick chopped up screen recording, mate. It could be a standard nuke-like box for all i care.nixx wrote:That's not much different than how search/find is now. Only difference is it's in a separate pane instead of in-place.bottleofram wrote:One of these days...
And as for automatically "dropping" the node, what would happen if there are many nodes that start with the string you 're searching for ? How would it know when you 're done typing, so that it gives you the result(s) ?
What it does, though, is saves you valuable horizontal screen space and unnecessary mouse clicks/travel. If one was to go further, you could make "explore for attribute" redundant. For example:
- hit tab > type "get d" > enter to autocomplete, type "self.pointpos" > enter to autocomplete and node is dropped
As for multiple nodes available for a particular string... Obviously you'd need a dropdown list, maybe with those used most commonly given the priority....
maya 2013's node editor has it...luceric wrote:maya 2014's node editor has it..
Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
I don't have have a video for the 2014 version, but you can see the 2012 SAP version of that feature here (link should start at 8:45)nixx wrote:So how does it handle things like multiple results, partial string search, etc ?luceric wrote:maya 2014's node editor has it..
(my question was legit, not ironic or anything like that)
Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
Thanks, that's clear. So it does give a drop-down then. Very much like Houdini's tab menu. I 'd welcome it of course, but frankly hitting Ctrl-F and having almost the exact same functionality in a pane is not such a ...pain The main difference is having to drag'n'drop the chosen node instead of having it drop in place.luceric wrote:I don't have have a video for the 2014 version, but you can see the 2012 SAP version of that feature here (link should start at 8:45)
That too, agreed.bottleofram wrote:What it does, though, is saves you valuable horizontal screen space and unnecessary mouse clicks/travel.
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Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
And having your whole graph shift left and right as you do so.nixx wrote:but frankly hitting Ctrl-F and having almost the exact same functionality in a pane is not such a ...pain The main difference is having to drag'n'drop the chosen node instead of having it drop in place.
Re: Wish page for Softimage 20xx....
Not if you keep the pane open at all times.bottleofram wrote:And having your whole graph shift left and right as you do so.
edit : which does indeed waste valuable horizontal screen space, like you said before, to which I agreed
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