Small timeline under each viewport

By Script_Butler · 2011-12-19

Description

Hi all you amazing scripters!

I've just thought of a handy script. It would be really useful to a lot of people i think.

Basically when run, it would create a small thin timeline under all visible viewports so that each viewport could potentially have a different frame time shown.

I just thought of this when animating cameras that start where another camera finishes, but i had to keep jumping between the desired frames to double check that my camera placement was exactly right.

With this script you could have the two camera viewports visible and each viewport at the desied frame and check they are exact by looking at the screen. Instead of jumping between cameras and frames!

Do you think this would be possible to script?

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Comments (2)

Not exactly

Anubis · 2011-12-20

Not possible, at least not in a way you like. You can use just one timeline bar. So you can achieve something only using "disable view" command. Shortly, in the active view move the slider to time you like and disable that view, and then select another view, and then move the slider to different frame.

Thanks

Script_Butler · 2011-12-20

Hi Anubis.

Thanks for this. I've been using max for 15 years and never used the disable view for this purpose. I feel a little embarressed! Doh!

Shame it's not possible though, it still would have it's uses.

Cheers.