Reply To: 2.8 Hurdles and Roadblocks
Captains Log #5
@waylow “Tips for Fixing Animation Data” tutorial saved me a lot of time, a lot of time. If Wayne had kept that knowledge for himself, I would’ve wasted a lot of time, a lot of time. Sharing accomplishes much more than competing. Innovation is faster when you stand on the shoulders of giants. I should open that bakery.
– What is up with the new Timeline? You can’t see at all where the first frame begins and the last frame ends. You can’t see markers well either. Hard to work this way.
– After hours of working this way, turned out you just had to pull up the timeline. Very funny Blender. Very funny.
– In Blender 2.9 the names of the Markers in the Timeline were “Scene_1, Scene_2” and so on. In 2.8 the names changed for some reason. I want to change the names of the Markers, but Blender wont let me. I I go to Marker –> Rename Marker but apparently it glitches out because the name doesn’t change. Or maybe since the markers are Bind To Camera, it takes the name of the Camera? Also that’s why it has the camera icon? I want to change the name either way. Blender mister dictator now.
– Got a bit frustrated for a while there because I was used to moving the scrubber in the timeline no matter where the mouse cursor was at, now you have to specifically grab the blue head of the scrubber to move it. Right now when Blender acts out, you think everything is a glitch.
– Yellow Keyframes bar no longer appear in the timeline. Glitch?
– In 2.79 in the timeline I could hit S and it cut to start in that frame and hit E and the timeline got cut to end on that frame. Can’t seem to do that now and the menu doesn’t show any hotkeys.
– This Ribbon sometimes is at the bottom, sometimes is at the top, sometimes it’s not there, its hidden, sometimes is there, visible. Don’t have any idea on how to achieve that, to move it to the top if I want it at the top, down if I want it down, hide it or make it visible. 
– The little stripes at the corners of every window that let you split windows in half are no longer there. I thought we couldn’t split windows anymore because of the Workspaces tabs, but it turns out you can still split the windows, it’s just that the stripes are no longer there. Very misleading. Why not just put the stripes back to signify that?
– I have noticed that when you select a collection in the collections list, right click then delete, the contents that it has inside doesn’t get deleted as well, the whole batch of its content gets move out to the global scene instead of being deleted and if you had that collection hidden then suddenly all it contents will show up in the viewport, creating a horrible mess. Would like that deleting the collection deleted the contents inside as well.
– Spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make the rig a proxy in a linked scene, because it was duplicating it. Two rigs were showing up. Turned out you have to mask it with the Holdout icon so it doesn’t show in the linked scene. I hope this is the right way to do that because in 2.79 you just selected which layer you wanted to remain visible.