[Bf-funboard] Learning from Flash
Thorsten Wilms
bf-funboard@blender.org
Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:45:35 +0100
Hi!
Thinking about layers and visibility management, Flash
came to my mind.
Take a look at its Timeline:
http://faculty.ivytech.edu/~bljohnso/images/timeline.jpg
The pencil marks the active layer (if I remember corectly).
Eye and lock should be obvious. The colored rectangles is
for toggling outline mode and setting color for the same.
My idea: Combining a new layer management and a timeline
facility.
The stripes in the timeline mark layer/object lifespan,
so visiualizing particle effect timing and things like that
come to mind.
This lifespan thing would make it easy to have varying
setups/environments in a single Blender Scene.
Audio and video sequences right in the same place.
IPO curves could be depicted in a pseudo-bird-view with
gradients.
It should be easy to view only the layer part without
timline for working on stills.
Of course this is all quite rough. I'd like to receive
a little feedback if this makes sense / might have a future.
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Thorsten