Time line and outliner question

[Yecire]

I don't do much animation, so I'm not sure about the first question. But for the second, just select the objects you want to render and hit Ctrl+I (the menu method would be Spacebar > Select > Inverse).

[liquidik]

Hey hyenaman,

you had to make a little mental shift cause Blender doesn't use the timeline like maya. You had to get all your animation in the action editor, which is very powerful.

You can make groups that act sort of like character sets (but are always visible). The middle mouse click of the timeline is a simple duplicate of the keys. You simply select the desired key (if you click on the lower part of the action editor, on a frame number, it'll select all the channels for that frame) and press shift+d to duplicate. then move the key where you want (depending of your prefs you had to press ctrl to not move on fractional values).

After I've set my action editor with groups and everything. I simply collapse everything down to one line and that act as my timeline.

Hope that helps

-Gian

[hyenaman]

Ah well...
That's what Ive been doing so far...
I was just wondering if it was available on the time line and I have missed out :)
Plus ...wouldn't that be a great feature to add???as a animator i would think its invaluable...

Kudos and Thanks guys...

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