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Animation

Set the appearance of key ticks in the Time Slider

To set the thickness of your keyframes in the Time Slider

1. Select Window > Settings/Preferences.> Preferences.

The Maya Preferences window appears.

2. In the Timeline section, set the Key Tick Size preference setting.

Key thickness is measured in pixels. The minimum key thickness is 1 pixel and the maximum is 63 pixels.

To set the color of a curve’s keyframes in the Time Slider

1. In the Graph Editor graph view, select a curve.
2. In the Graph Editor menu bar, select Curves > Spreadsheet.

The spreadsheet for the selected animation curve appears in the Attribute Editor.

3. Choose a Curve Color and turn on Use Curve Color.

All the curve’s keyframes in the Time Slider are now the Curve Color you selected.

To set the color of individual keyframes in the Time Slider

1. Select Window > Settings/Preferences > Colors > Animation.
2. Choose a Time Slider Tick Special color and click Save.
3. In the Graph Editor, select the keyframe(s) you want drawn in the Time Slider Tick Special color.
4. In the Command Line or Script Editor, enter the keyframe MEL command with the -tickDrawSpecial(-tds) flag as follows:

keyframe -tds on

and then press on the number pad.

The keyframes you selected and set the -tds flag for are now drawn with Time Slider Tick Special color in the Time Slider.

For more information on this flag, see keyframe in the MEL Command Reference documentation.

Note The Time Slider Tick Special color preference overrides the key color set by the Curve Color attribute. If you have multiple keys at the same time in the Time Slider, and one of those keys has its -tds flag set to on, then the Time Slider Tick Special color will take precedence over the other key colors.