Feature Idea / Discussion: Action Groups / Toggle Frame Visibility

[HanClinto]

Feature Request

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I have several animations that I want to blend from one to the other (for instance, a walk cycle that loops, as well as intro / exit frames from the loop). I want to be able to isolate the walk cycle so that I can make sure that it loops well, but I also want to be able to pair it with the intro / outtro to make sure that those blend correctly.

I've tried to think of a few ways to handle this.

Option 1 - more complicated:
Add a way to group frames together into an "action group", such as "walk", "punch", "kick", "walk start", etc. However, this feels like a "heavyweight" option.

Option 2 - less complicated (perhaps less intuitive?):
Add a visibility icon on each frame that will let me toggle its inclusion in the current animation preview loop. This would let me temporarily hide / remove the "walk intro" and "walk outtro" frames while working on the walk loop, and let me bring them back when I want to pair things together.

At first blush, I'm leaning towards the second option, but I'd love to hear others' opinions before I begin on a PR.

[when-lambo]

hey, just found piksel and playing around just now. might not be the exact work around you need, but you can set the opacity of a frame to zero. on the right hand side of the screen about half way down you will see the alpha symbol; click on it and set to zero.