[Bf-committers] Autokey and 3D viewport outline

[Nathan Vegdahl]

> It's fine to have an indicator that autokey is on,
> it just doesn't need to look as if something bad is happening.

Just keep in mind that the original motivation of all of this was that
the auto-key toggle in the timeline was not visually obvious enough.

In general, there is going to be a conflict between the purpose of the
feature and people who are annoyed by its non-subtley.  We already
have a subtle indicator: the auto-key toggle button.  The entire point
of this is to _not_ be subtle.

(And incidentally, now that you mention it, I agree, red should be
reserved for errors.)

--Nathan


On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Brecht Van Lommel
<brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:
> It was made optional now in svn, but I think that does not really
> address the issue. It's fine to have an indicator that autokey is on,
> it just doesn't need to look as if something bad is happening. Red
> should be reserved for errors. There is no need for a warning/error
> here, just good feedback about what is happening.
>
> For example improve the blinking so that it's more like the report
> message blinking in the info header (which is better visible), show
> the autokey icon in the 3D view header or next to the object name,
> color the header a bit yellow, or show a report that X keyframes were
> inserted after transform is done. I don't know which combination works
> best but the red border is just too much and the current blinking is
> not very visible by itself.
>
> Brecht.
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Francesco Siddi
> <francesco.siddi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> a new feature has recently been introduced in Blender: when Autokey is
>> turned on and some object/armature transformation is performed, every 3D
>> viewport gets a red outline and a message reminding the user of the fact
>> the a keyframe will be created at the end of the transformation.
>>
>> After talking with other users, it seems clear that this feature should at
>> least be optional, if not off by default. It's quite distracting to work
>> with a flashing outline all the time.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Francesco
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