[Bf-interface] Bf-interface Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

[N Adams]

Erick
 
Thanks for your reply. The grouping method lets me separate items in the dope sheet from others, but I already do this by putting similar objects on their own layer - selecting just that layer in the 3D view shows only those objects in the dope sheet. But any 'master' object that must always appear in the dope sheet must be added to all relevant layers (or all relevant groups). There's not much difference using layers or groups - it's still awkward to quickly compare the key-frame positions of two random objects.
 
It would so much easier if objects could be freely rearranged in the dope sheet list, so the animator can quickly put two objects next to each other, or just make temporary comparisons of their key-frame positions...
 
Nick
 
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:34:48 +0200
From: erickblender at gmail.com
To: bf-interface at blender.org
Subject: Re: [Bf-interface] Bf-interface Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2


In that context animation group is the best solution.
Do this:
Select your object go to object data and add to group
and in the Dope sheet a new icon will appear (sphere and cube )
select your group from there.




>>Dear Developers,

>>I am working on an animation that has a large number of separate animated objects. In the Dope Sheet editor, it does not seem possible to rearrange the order of these objects, as they >>are locked in the order in which they were first animated. This means that logical groups of objects cannot be placed next to each other in the list, which makes editing/moving the >>keyframes or related objects unnecessarily difficult. Object A could be at the other end of the list from Object B, even though the objects are closely related in the animation and always >>need to have their keyframes moved together.  When the complete list of animated objects does not fit on the screen without scrolling up and down, selecting keyframes of related >>objects becomes even more difficult.

>>Please could you make it possible to reorder objects in the Dope Sheet editor? Drag-and-drop, or little up/down arrows on each object line would do the job.

>>Many thanksNick.






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