Timing Planning Tool

[jukibom]

Originally requested by @Zernys in #86

Planning out and marking the timing to place notes at for a song is an important first step to mapping. The way I've been doing it is to start by placing placeholder targets in a corner through the entire map to mark timings. This solution is however quite annoying, since these placeholder targets needs to be removed while mapping and, can physically get in the way of the map itself. Particularly due to the editor limitation of not being able to place a second target of the same type at the same timing, requires you to remove placeholder timing targets continuously while mapping. Also means if you want to throw out and redo a section, you lose timings for that section. A more tailored solution of marking timings on the timeline which are not ever removed, with toggleable hitsounds would be a lot more convenient.

[jukibom]

I think this is a solid idea, getting the tedious ground work in first would make mapping so much more pleasurable.

[Wolferacing]

This is now in NR, Press U (I think) to set them.

[Zernys]

It needs to be fleshed out a bit more to be useful, but it's a good start. Most obviously the ability to remove individual ones is a must. Currently you can only clear all of them with ctrl+shift+U. Also them having a togglable sound is quite important for verifying that the rhythm fits the music. Other features such as selecting and copy-pasting them would also be nice for repeat sections of songs, but might require a bit of work.

Honestly a "bookmark all targets" button might be a functional quick fix that would allow you to do the initial timing with targets, then clear them when you're done, allowing target sounds and copy-pasting during the timing process.

It also needs to be documented somewhere (the f1 menu presumably). I didn't know of the feature when I wrote the suggestion originally.