[Bf-committers] Re: [Bf-blender-cvs] CVS commit: blender/source/blender/blenkernel/intern scene.c blender/source/blender/blenloader/intern readfile.c blender/source/blender/makesdna DNA_scene_types.h blender/source/blender/src buttons_scene.c header_time.c toets.c

[Jean Montambeault]

Martin Poirier wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> --- Matt Ebb <matt at mke3.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Sorry to reply about this a bit late. This feature
>> seems pretty  
>> decent, I can see how it could be useful, but I
>> really don't think  
>> the 'steps' number field belongs on the timeline.
>> The timeline header  
>> is meant to be kept pretty simple, for quick handy
>> access to commonly  
>> used things. Setting this steps property isn't
>> something that would  
>> happen very often and for things like timing
>> animation to music,
BTW : I tried to use the feature and it is impossible to remain on tempo 
if one must use an integer number for step. One quickly becomes out of 
phase.
I understand that frame 2.14 may be counterintuitive but it is possible 
and realistic and necessary IMHO
>>   
>> would be set up at the beginning of a project then
>> left. It doesn't  
>> relate to any of the other timeline controls either,
>> none of them are  
>> to do with the uparrow/downarrow jumping between
>> chunks of frames, so  
>> it doesn't make that much sense to put it there on
>> its own either.
>>
>> I think it'd be better to remain only in the scene
>> buttons, though it  
>> should be a straight number field, not a slider.
>> Number fields are  
>> best used when you want to represent an arbitrary
>> value (such as  
>> this). Sliders are best to represent a proportion or
>> a percentage.
>>     
>
> Agreed on both counts.
> I'll do the changes and commit tomorrow (unless
> someone gets there before I do).
>
> Martin
>
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