Dev:Ref/Proposals/UI/Static Driver Channels

Static Driver Channels

Problem

Selecting drivers to edit them, then testing to see how they work, has a problem.

Say you add a driver to control a mesh shape key value.

Then you want the driver to read a bone rotation.

So you open the graph editor.

Select the bone, rotate the bone to the desired position and check the Transform panel.

Lets say its bone rotation X 1.57.

Now i have to remember that number, because the Transform properties will change.

So you select the mesh, add driver variable, add settings, change frame to 1.57.

Now i want to test the driver, so i select the bone and move it.

The problem is, whenever i select the bone, the driver disappears from the graph editor.

To edit and tweak the driver i have to select the mesh.

To test the driver i have to select the bone to rotate it.

This process may go on a few times to tweak the FCurve correctly.

Proposal

Instead of having a generated list of driver channels from the active object.

Have a full generated list of driver channels from the scene.

pros

I can keep the bone selected throughout the process.

The drivers wont keep dissapearing, and i can check the bone Transform panel.

cons

If lots of drivers are in the scene, you will have a big list of channels, but i dont think drivers get that bad (may be wrong).

Koilz

Proposal 2

       by Josemaria RRA (not the original author of this proposal)

In the Graph Editor for animation there is a button that looks like a ghost, that shows all controllers, even if they are not selected. For this situation if a similar button was added it would resolve the problem, with hardly any cons.

Proposal 3

I didnt know about the ghost.

The driver editor also has one.

This makes editing much more easy.

Ill strike the page.

This page can be deleted.

Koilz 30.11.13