Hi guys !
Another idea I had once (but I think I never did talk about it here) was to be able to instantiate frames.
The idea here is to have a “special” copy/paste option for frames, which would instantiate them.
That means that if you have several instances of a frame (eg. you’ve made a walk cycle that comes back several times in your animations), editing an instance of a frame would make that edit occurs in every instance.
Eg.
walk cycle is from frame 19 -> 25
I select those frames and make an instance copy
"original" frames have their color changed (=instanciated)
when the frames are pasted (48->54), they got that same color too
Editing frame 48 would edit frame 19 (and other instances) at the same time
+ : option to "break" an instance (and get the frame color back)
+ highligh all its instances when selecting a frame in the timeline
Wouldn't be nice ?
While reading the documentation (keyboard shortcuts), I see that there is a "Insert Duplicate Frames" (Ctrl+U) shortcut and a "Duplicate Frame" (F6) shortcut.
I don't know if that has something to do with my idea; which make me think we should put a description next to a command in the documentation.