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Guppy Animation Tools is a collection of tools to help with animation production in Maya.
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Explore if Slide Animation Keys could be directly integrated into the graph editor #10

Open assumptionsoup opened 6 years ago

assumptionsoup commented 6 years ago

Explore if Slide Animation Keys could be directly integrated into the graph editor, either by docking or by injection. I suspect integrating the tool directly where most animators are looking could be useful.

assumptionsoup commented 6 years ago

I was hoping that the new workspaceControl feature in Maya2018 could help with this. Unfortunately, Autodesk disappoints again.

I was excited when the workspaceControl command documentation had the flags dockToControl and dockToPanel. In Maya, both "control" and "panel" have very specific meanings in terms of UI - they basically mean "button" and "window", respectively. Sounds awesome, no? No. Breaking with the rest of the documentation's parlance, Autodesk has used these commands to mean something entirely different, only related to workspace controls.

While Maya does not yet appear to have a direct way of actually listing what workspaceControls exist directly (lsUI does not have a workspaceControl flag... why am I not surprised?), these appear to be most of them:

Shelf
ToolSettings
CommandLine
AttributeEditor
ToolBox
Outliner
StatusLine
ChannelBoxLayerEditor
HelpLine
LayerEditor
RangeSlider
ChannelBox
MainPane
TimeSlider

These don't appear to be very helpful for this use case.