Timeline confusions NOW WITH DEMO GIF
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 6:00 pm
I am re-learning Moho after about a year off. It's coming back quickly, but there are a few things I have forgotten how I managed them. I'm particularly having trouble with the Timeline.
1. I don't recall having to click on and off the individual layers I want displayed in the Timeline, but that's what I'm seemingly having to do now. And if I select to display a group, all the layers within that group do not also get selected in the Timeline. I tried selecting layers and clicking, shift-clicking, all the usual ideas, but no matter what, it seems like I can only toggle layers to display one at a time. Really? I think I would have remembered adjusting Timeline displays being such a pain, so I'm thinking there are some shortcuts I've forgotten. Yes?
2. I'm trying to make a Smart Bone Dial, and so I select the bone and choose the option from the Bone menu. I get the blue timeline for the smart bone, but then I'm seeing Mainline keyframes in there as well. not only that, but keyframes that are part of the bone dial's actions do NOT display unless I click on them. There seems to be no intelligrance as to which layers display in Action timelines, it is purely going by what's checked in the layers palette. Why is that?
3. While this isn't technically a Timeline issue, I also find that often I will select a bone layer, choose the Mainpulate Bone tool, but cannot actually manipulate the bone, but only transform it (thus creating unwanted keyframes as well). Something's amiss here.
1. I don't recall having to click on and off the individual layers I want displayed in the Timeline, but that's what I'm seemingly having to do now. And if I select to display a group, all the layers within that group do not also get selected in the Timeline. I tried selecting layers and clicking, shift-clicking, all the usual ideas, but no matter what, it seems like I can only toggle layers to display one at a time. Really? I think I would have remembered adjusting Timeline displays being such a pain, so I'm thinking there are some shortcuts I've forgotten. Yes?
2. I'm trying to make a Smart Bone Dial, and so I select the bone and choose the option from the Bone menu. I get the blue timeline for the smart bone, but then I'm seeing Mainline keyframes in there as well. not only that, but keyframes that are part of the bone dial's actions do NOT display unless I click on them. There seems to be no intelligrance as to which layers display in Action timelines, it is purely going by what's checked in the layers palette. Why is that?
3. While this isn't technically a Timeline issue, I also find that often I will select a bone layer, choose the Mainpulate Bone tool, but cannot actually manipulate the bone, but only transform it (thus creating unwanted keyframes as well). Something's amiss here.