Extended Timeline

Anyone know how to add more presets than 5? I cant find a way to contact the creator of it ?

Great stuff, I m loving it, thanks
How come i didnt find it sooner...

Hello, You are a genius!
I have a request;)
You could add color code ticks to the Timeline frames.
For example: KeyPose = pink color,
Extreme Pose = purple color,
Breakdown Pose = cyan color,
Inbetween Pose = yellow color, etc.
Thank you.
Sorry for my English;)

download link is down... please re-up.
thanks.

best regards
themaxxer

Hello You can try this:

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/timeline-zoom

Thank You

fantastic!!!

It would be great if you could sync the extended timeline yellowbar when changing default max's timeline length via CTRL+ALT+(RMB,MMB,LMB) as I find this method a bit faster than dragging on the end's of the yellow bar because with max's method you can drag anywhere in the timeline to do this, if this is not possible maybe add the same shortcuts to your script?

Thanks for your time and congratulations on the great work, I understand the difficulties of working on public scripts as I'm one casual maxscripter myself.

Cheers!

Thanks for your suggestion. Sorry for late response. I will sync extended timeline with max's default timeline.

I migrate to new PC and after ET install allways getting Runtime Error: fileIn: can't open file C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2014 - 64bit\ENU\scripts\Heavenly Pictures\Extended Timeline\extended_timeline.mse

If I run extended_timeline.mse manually from this dir - everything is good..

Win7, Max runs "as administrator".

this is sooooooooooooo good

First, thanks for the sample scene. But I have bad news for you. There isn't any existing maxscript function to easily read the selected keys. The biped root is a special object, so the function (I use for other objects) is not works on biped root. Also doesn't work on modifiers. To get all the selected keys, I have to create a very long loop going trough all the selected objects, its all controllers, its all modifiers, its all controllers of modifiers. But this would be a very time consuming function. So you have to wait for better maxscript commands.
Anyway, I will try to find a way, but I can't promise anything.
Sorry

Thank you anyway! I found this script very useful for me and I will continue to use it. So if a solution will be found it would be great.

Thank you for fix! But it still not work with Biped COM (Bip001) object's keys (No keys are selected). :(

Hi!
I tried it again, and it works for me. Can you send me a scene file with the biped object you use? I'll try to fix it, but I can't reproduce the bug.

email: info@heavenlypictures.hu
skype: heavenlypictures

Error in new scene fixed, callback event error fixed, zoom to selected keyframes works with biped objects (Thanks for the bug report to Royal Ghost).

Useful tool! Thank you for share it!

It seems it "zoom to selected frames" dosn't work with Biped :( Can you fix it?

>> MAXScript dotNet event handler Exception: -- No "">="" function for undefined <<
-- Error occurred in hpxtl_keyframes_click();

Also I think UI may be shorter in height (7pixels). I attached image with possible UI (red zone is unused space).

I didn't try it with biped objects, but I will try, and I will fix it. Thank you for the bug report.

Version 1.6
Available to "Zoom to selected keyframes"
Just select the keyframes, and press the button.
You can switch of this button in Options

Great work! It work's in 3ds max Design 2013 Update 5 and Update 6.

Thanks for everybody.
Any ideas or suggestions for next update?

This script is so amazing, couldn´t live without it! Thank you
Just to make sure, the new version (1.5) is not 2013 only?

A cool feature would be to have a button that sets the timeline depending on the range of keys selected. Like if I have a bunch of keys selected that ranges from frame 345-554, pressing the button would make the timeline within those frames, make sense?

Take care
M

The script works with 3ds Max 9 and above.
Your idea is good. I will make it in the next update.

thank you very much!!!

I fixed some small bugs in the scripts. Now the preset are stored as frames instead of percentage. It's available to set the zoomed range exactly with the inner spinners. The preset have tooltip ballons, to see the saved ranges.
You can switch off the tooltips and the inner spinners in the settings dialog.

It would be cool to have an option to determine the length of the timeline based on the start frame and then how long it needs to be. Example

shot needs to be 144 frames starting at frame 30. There are multiple scenarios where multiple shots are contained in one file. If there was some way to indicate the different sections of shots with a tags or markers so how.

I don't understand well what do you need, but I think presets are useful for you. You have the set the position of the slider only once by manually, than save the current timeline range as a preset, and you can restore it later. You can save 5 presets, so you can have 5 different timeline range in one scene.

Bug fix (again)
Error message when zooming with left and middle mouse button - fixed

Bug fixed:
Error message when first time run the script, and try to load a saved preset.

What do you plan on doing to further expand the tool itself?

Well, I don' know what to do. I have no ideas at the moment. I'm waiting for user's suggestions. If you have any ideas, please write me: info@heavenlypictures.hu

Great work bro,even help pdf included,and nice design.peace

Now the script allows you to save the current silder position to presets. The presets are always saved to the current scene, and restored when open the scene. Right click to store, left click to load, and middle click to delete a preset. Go to options, and press the "check for updates now" button, to get the latest version. Don't forget to press the +1 button.

exelent,tanx for the tablet friendly zooming (middle+left draging)

f**k yes!

Nice script. Super useful and well executed.

New version available. Just go to settings, and press the "Check for updates now" button.
Changes: Small bug fixes, double click again to restore last zoomed position, Zoom without mouse wheel (see manual for more information).

very nice,only problem is when hover over edges without clicking range is moving is it supose to be like that?

No, it's maybe a bug. I couldn't reproduce it, but I will try to find the problem, and fix it in next update.

i am using tablet btw and its not always that behevior.

Thanks for creating this...
As the title says: i think this is the sexiest and best working timeline addon for 3ds Max till now
i would have two requests:

1) Make the height of the addon adjustable - vertical screenspace is precious
2) When the height gets two small (because of 1 ), switch the start/endframe display to tooltips during adjusting, i think the info is not that essential to be displayed all the time, just during atime adjustemnts.
To be able to adjust start/endframe without spinners, you might place some small, graphical UI elements ion both ends, where the spinners sit now.
And when the user click/drags those elements, the tooltip opens and updates during dragging...

thanks again for that great little thingy !

I tested and congratulation... this plugin is very good... I like the control zoom with the position of mouse wheel ... better than maya maybe ... lol

hey so good ... like the system of maya right? thanks...

Simple and user friendly UI. I like this script. Nice work,man.

Thank you.
Well, I never use Maya. It inspired by Adobe Audition CS6