Add a search bar to the timeline

[Rabbitman 30]

The timeline is a great tool for organization and keyframes, but sometimes it can get a bit cluttered (especially with large projects). Therefore a search bar for the timeline would come in handy.

[MojangYang 918]

3 hours ago, Rabbitman said:

The timeline is a great tool for organization and keyframes, but sometimes it can get a bit cluttered (especially with large projects). Therefore a search bar for the timeline would come in handy.

How, exactly, do you search for a keyframe? It’s not a word.

[Ghatos 1.8k]

57 minutes ago, MojangYang said:

How, exactly, do you search for a keyframe? It’s not a word.

I think he meant searching the objects here:

[Private Cole Man 214]

I think a better solution is to learn to use folders more efficiently. Idk, just my opinion.

[moniker 67]

On 4/7/2020 at 5:38 AM, Ghatos said:

I think he meant searching the objects here:

This is another obvious thing that is missing on Mineimator. Markers as well, and this as well:

 

https://www.mineimatorforums.com/index.php?/topic/80242-we-still-need-a-sticky-object-on-the-timeline/

 

Adding these 3 things would improve the work flow a lot.

 

I just added some rig and I don't know where the hell I mistakingly parented it, it's an huge project and now im scrolling up and down like an idiot because this program doesn't have a way to search on the timeline.

Edited May 9, 2020 by moniker

[Glowing Quartz 4]

On 4/7/2020 at 6:03 PM, Private Cole Man said:

I think a better solution is to learn to use folders more efficiently. Idk, just my opinion.

If you use folder to manage most of big object it was useful because we only need to move this folder to move most of them. This could be effective only on a very simple objects which didn't contains something inside them. 

If you uses this method while you animating the characters, this will makes everything harder because the timeline will be more complex and have more hierarchy. When an object which parented to another object selected, the parent will opens and expose all its child hierarchy. This is why it is better to not always group every object. 

[CRAZYKOKEBROZ 64]

On 4/6/2020 at 4:28 PM, Rabbitman said:

The timeline is a great tool for organization and keyframes, but sometimes it can get a bit cluttered (especially with large projects). Therefore a search bar for the timeline would come in handy.

Well, I (and from what I see, many other people too) tend to have multiple objects in the timeline with the same name (list: Camera, background, audio track, audio track, audio track, piece of world1, piece of world2, piece of world999, surface, surface, surface, surface, enderman, enderman, steve, steve, steve, item, item, item). I don’t think a search bar is what we need to fix this with if its going to be the same name. Plus I don’t seem to have a problem with not having a search bar, plus wouldn’t adding one be a little complicated with the software?