Timeline - Start and end points of an animation a subset of what is displayed

MerKhrys

Hi,

 Is it possible to define start and end points for the animation inside the timeline range ?
 
 For example I set the timeline range from 0 to 200.
 
 But I want the animation to start at frame 50 and end at frame 150. 
 
 I want to make a loop, a cycle, the movements transitionning continuouly (or seamlessly) when the animation reaches the end (so 150) and restarts at the begining (so 50). 
 
 To do that I create a copy of the 2nd half of the cycle just before the main cycle (simulating the previous cycle), and a copy of the 1st half of the cycle just after the main cycle (simulating the next cycle).
 
 So I need to see the timeline from 0 to 200 because there are keys below 50 (the end of the previous cycle) or above 150 (the begining of the next cycle) that have an influence inside the 50-150 range and it's not practical to have to change the range to 0-200 to make adjustments, change to 50-150 to test the cycle, back to 0-200 for new adjustments etc ...
  
 
 So is it possible in Daz Studio to display the timeline range 0-200 and yet make the animation start at 50 and end at 150 ?
 
 
It was possible in that now very old software called Carrara (see picture attached - yellow triangles)

 
 

Richard Haseltine

For renders, yes, but not I think for Viewport playback. However, I don't understand why changing the Range values while leaving the total alone is an issue.

Richard Haseltine

Hah, shows what i know. If you set the toal and range as you want then there is a "scroll bar" (Light-grey horizontal box one dark background with the darkside style, showing the current start/emd frames of the play range - you can drag it around to move the play range, resize from the ends to adjust the elngth of the play range, and (most imprtant for your request) double-click to toggle between play range and full Timeline.

MerKhrys

Richard Haseltine said:

Hah, shows what i know. If you set the toal and range as you want then there is a "scroll bar" (Light-grey horizontal box one dark background with the darkside style, showing the current start/emd frames of the play range - you can drag it around to move the play range, resize from the ends to adjust the elngth of the play range, and (most imprtant for your request) double-click to toggle between play range and full Timeline.

 

Thank you, that's fantastic ! I'm not very skilled with DS and to be honest I hadn't realized it was possible to move and resize with this scroll bar, and I must say it's very practical to change the range and display.

This alone could have been enough for my needs.

 

But the double-click / toggle, that's perfect ! Exactly what I wanted !

 

Thanks again !