Improvements to Curve Modifiers (Animation Curves) #86179

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Luciano Muñoz Sessarego · 2021-03-02T06:40:32+01:00

2021-03-02 06:40:32 +01:00

The intention of this design task is to improve the ways we interact with modifiers amongst multiple curves and other missing options like "baking" the result to the curve.

Based on using modifiers for different things myself here is what I feel would be best:

First thing is to add a new menu under "channel" to add any modifier to all the selected/highlighted channels.
Also a second option to remove all modifiers from selected/highlighted channels. (as in most cases you'd only add one modifier to a channel).
This could be complimented by a remove all modifiers of x type from selected channels.
under Shift G (new menu for graph editor) select grouped everywhere else we could have an option to select curves with x type of modifier.
Add a naming box with automatic unique names to the curve modifiers in the same fashion as in the object modifiers, this will allow association and the use of "alt" for editing multiple modifiers.
At the top where the copy / paste modifiers buttons are paste should allow "alt" modifier to paste to all selected curves/channels or adding a second paste button that will do just that.

All of these are up for discussion but I feel it would improve heaps the way we can work with curve modifiers making them super more useful than they are right now because I feel in general people would use them much more if they were easy to handle for more than just one curve at a time.

What do you guys think?

The intention of this design task is to improve the ways we interact with modifiers amongst multiple curves and other missing options like "baking" the result to the curve. Based on using modifiers for different things myself here is what I feel would be best: - First thing is to add a new menu under "channel" to add any modifier to all the selected/highlighted channels. - Also a second option to remove all modifiers from selected/highlighted channels. (as in most cases you'd only add one modifier to a channel). - This could be complimented by a remove all modifiers of x type from selected channels. - under Shift G (new menu for graph editor) select grouped everywhere else we could have an option to select curves with x type of modifier. - Add a naming box with automatic unique names to the curve modifiers in the same fashion as in the object modifiers, this will allow association and the use of "alt" for editing multiple modifiers. ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F9859173/image.png) - At the top where the copy / paste modifiers buttons are paste should allow "alt" modifier to paste to all selected curves/channels or adding a second paste button that will do just that. ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F9859171/image.png) # Among with the checkbox for activation and the x for modifier deletion a similar menu to this ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F9859175/image.png) could be added with the option to apply which should allow animation baking to the curve with simplified version of the "bake action..." operator allowing to define the range and steps and to delete or disable the baked modifiers for baking the resulting animation to that curve. All of these are up for discussion but I feel it would improve heaps the way we can work with curve modifiers making them super more useful than they are right now because I feel in general people would use them much more if they were easy to handle for more than just one curve at a time. What do you guys think?

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2021-03-02 06:40:32 +01:00

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Improvements to Curve Modifiers (Animation Curves) #86179