[Bf-animsys] F-Curve Colouring - Comments

[Joshua Leung]

Hi,

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:45 AM, bassam <bkurdali at freefactory.org> wrote:

> what the colors do is help separate the curves out from each other, some
> more contrast against the bg would be good (maybe this has to use the
> theme somehow), other comments:
> -in a busy line-up, it is sometimes difficult to tell which handle goes
> to which curve.
> -in a busy line-up, it is often hard to tell which cuve goes with which
> label on the left.
>
As I thought...


> some suggestions that might help:
>
> bring back edit mode for curves, *or* bring back some of it's benefits,
> by adding onto the lock/hide options more , such as an ability to grey
> out all other channels/highlight one channel, and the ability to hide
> handles on other channels then the one being edited, some more detailed
> ideas follow:
>
> -as I mentioned earlier, highlighting when you click on a channel label,
> the curve it is representing. this works with shift selecting, selecting
> all, etc.
>
> -inverse of this is ghosting all curves except the selected ones.
>
> -or, the ability to show only the handles of the selected labels (works
> with shift/select all/select inverse, etc)
>
An idea I've thought of pursuing was an option to link selection-status with
visibility of curves...

Unlikely to be even attempted...  -----v

>
> -color coding the handles to match the curves (I suspect this one will
> end in tears )
>
> -some kind of smart filtering widget, like facetzoom, that allows fast
> viewing, filtering and selection of the curves,
>
> http://advancingusability.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/facetzoom-first-open-source-release/
>
> (ps, I know this last thing is in the 'extemely unlikely to happen'
> category, just wanted to provide an example )
>
> cheers
> Bassam
>
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