I’m working on an animation in brush and have been animating with the majority of the timeline tracks, but cannot figure out how to animate subtool visibility. I can see the button there but it is always greyed out, and I can’t seem to find anything in my searches for how to get this track to work.
Does anyone know how to activate the subtool track in the timeline?
In the Movie / Timeline Tracks panel.
Select Enable and ensure subtools is enabled
Press the Link button.
You should now be able to animate subtool visibility
Ah, I didn’t know about the linking. I have enabled subtools but I want to unlink subtool and tool from the camera which it doesn’t seem to want to let me do. I can get the subtool visibility to animate but since it is linked with the camera it also keys the camera motion which makes keyframing the camera motion a bit overcomplicated.
I’ve tried clicking off subtool and tool in the link menu but they stay selected no matter what, is there something I’m missing?
yes I believe they are linked by default, but why wouldn’t it allow you to unlink them?
I’m not sure if this is possible but thought I’d see if anyone knew anything about this:
I keep needing to change how long my animation is in the timeline settings so I go to add on more time. I normally need to do this after I have been working on getting good timing for camera movements as well as layer tracks. What happens after I modify the track length is that my entire animation is then scaled to fill 100% of the new time making everything I had worked on already scale up in length making it play slower than I want. This also means I have to go and modify all of the keyframes layer by layer to get them back to the original speed / length.
Is it possible to change the amount of time in total, and just leave blank space after the existing keyframes rather than scaling all of them?
In future I will likely just leave a much larger amount of time than I need right at the beginning so I don’t run into this issue, but since I’ve got a tight deadline I need to work with what I have for the moment.
On a side note, my original question is workable but:
I go to the link panel and try unlinking the subtool from the camera, but it stays stuck, I can’t seem to link any of the other options either. The pane just seems frozen on default settings. I have been able to animate the visibility, but since it is linked to the camera track it makes modifying timing on my animation much more difficult than it needs to be.
Are there any weird work arounds you have to do to unlock the link panel?
Thanks for any advice