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Problems moving animation channels up and down in dope sheet/action editor
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Operating system and graphics card

Mac OSX 10.8.5
GeForce GTX 660 3072 MB

Blender Version
Broken: official 2.69, through latest build hash 8fa15d1
Worked: (optional)

Short description of error

Moving Channels up and down in dope sheet/action editor working only sporadically. Tried both pageup/pagedown as well as menu Channel>move.

Sometimes it works for one movement then stops, sometimes I get a burst of 3 or 4 moves then stops working.

Tried this with rigged character - seems OK, but with linked proxy character in scene, problem appears, though not always immediately.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

  • Link and proxify a character rig
  • select all bones and insert keyframe (I)
  • go to dope sheet/action editor
  • select various channels and move up and down (pgup/pgdown or menu) keeping mouse over channel list.
  • keep selecting different channels and moving them. For me issue appears sometimes after a minute or so or shifting channels.

Hope someone can reproduce this. I can't see anything else I'm doing wrong. The character I'm using is more or less rigify based btw.

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Stephen Hamacek (hammers) created this task.Mar 1 2014, 2:08 AM
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Stephen Hamacek (hammers) added a comment.Mar 1 2014, 2:21 AM

I've figured out what's going on here I think. As I only had about half the bones visible at the time, the up/down seems to be taking into account the non-displayed bones in the list too, So sometimes the channels are 'invisibly' moving up and down among channels I can't see.

Not sure how this should work exactly with that in mind. But certainly confusing to have to show all bones to reorganise in the list.

Bastien Montagne (mont29) claimed this task.Mar 1 2014, 11:17 AM
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Bastien Montagne (mont29) edited this Maniphest Task.Mar 1 2014, 12:31 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a subscriber: Joshua Leung (aligorith).Mar 1 2014, 12:34 PM

Patch is ready, adding @Joshua Leung (aligorith) here as well, waiting for his review.

But note it’s rather unlikely it makes it into 2.70, this is not a regression (hardly a bug, actually, more like usability issue), it’s a bit late for that kind of changes now.

Bastien Montagne (mont29) edited this Maniphest Task.Mar 14 2014, 12:50 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.Mar 14 2014, 12:50 PM

Closed by commit rB1f3655d22419.

Stephen Hamacek (hammers) added a comment.Mar 16 2014, 8:49 AM

@Bastien Montagne (mont29) I've just tried the latest build 2aff243 to check this out, but now the channels won't move up/down at all, only move to top or bottom (shift-pageup/pagedown).

I tried it on a character with all active animation channels visible. Let me know if you need more details. Cheers.

Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a comment.Mar 16 2014, 8:52 AM

I need a .blend file, as far as I can tell it works OK for me…

Stephen Hamacek (hammers) attached 1 file(s): F81666: ChannelMoveTest.blend.zip.Mar 18 2014, 3:34 AM

Here's a blend with one of the rigs I'm using atm. Haven't tried rc2 yet, but def. seems to not work in 2aff243

Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a comment.Mar 18 2014, 6:57 AM

Your file works OK for me… UP/DOWN/TOP/BOTTOM, all four works here.

Stephen Hamacek (hammers) added a comment.Mar 18 2014, 2:27 PM

Strange indeed. I definitely can't move channels except top/bottom in that build (not just in this blend). RC1 OK. I guess I'll wait and try another build soon...

Stephen Hamacek (hammers) added a comment.Mar 20 2014, 9:22 AM

Just tried with 2.7 official and all works perfectly so far. Thanks for implementing this great enhancement!

Bastien Montagne (mont29) edited this Maniphest Task.May 12 2014, 4:44 PM