[Feature Request] Ghost selected bone in different color

Pharan

Sometimes when I need to animate a body part in a specific way, I like to use ghosting to see exactly where it goes. But when that body part stays within the silhouette of the character (or frequently crosses the path of other body parts, as in animating the legs and feet), the trails get jumbled up and becomes useless.

It'd be useful if there was some way to ghost a specific body part a distinct/different color. Or only ghost specific parts or while hiding others.

I'm thinking: ghost the selected bone's immediate child slots a different color? Or make the selected bone's ghosting overlap?

... or toggling visibility of a whole bone and all descendants in the Editor could just be made easier?

Søren

Keep in mind you can use offset.
One way to do this would be to have a checkbox in the ghosting panel to only show selected bones with ghosting. We talked about having middle mouse or some other key combination to select an item and all descendants in the tree. This will still be implemented at some point. For now select the items using shift and then press H to toggle visibility. You can use filtering in conjunction with it to only select bones.

Pharan

Yeah. Offset's not something that'll help here. (I was just giving legs as an example. I wasn't doing a walk or any constantly displacing animation, though such a feature could still be useful for walks, I think.)

Thanks, Shiu.

I guess I'll do the whole select bone > expand button then
select all children > H > animate stuff > select those children again > H again > spacebar > play animation
thing

I think those Collapse All Descendants and Expand All Descendants buttons would be pretty neat if they also had shortcuts though. :p

Nate

Why won't offset help? You can move the ghost so you can see the whole thing. You can use "images" instead of silhouette.

Pharan wrote
I think those Collapse All Descendants and Expand All Descendants buttons would be pretty neat if they also had shortcuts though. :p

They do, right click. 🙂

Pharan

I thought right click just did the same thing as clicking on the arrow. >_> good to know, Nate!

Anyway, the problem is that I can't see its ghost because its ghost is hidden in the sea of ghosts of a dozen other slot images in the same general area. An offset would make it slightly less occluded than it already is but then I wouldn't be able to see the shape/spacing of its path over time anymore.

seaaa of ghooosts.. boowoghowohgow

Pharan

Oh, I see. right-click expands or collapses all the descendants of only the thing you clicked regardless of the presence of a selection.