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TimeHide

TimeHide was originally available as a separate plugin on the niklasrosenstein.com online store and is now integrated into NR Workflow Tools. It provides an enhanced workflow for animators that regularly deal with large amounts of animated objects, removing the clutter from the Cinema 4D Timeline and showing you only what you want to focus on.

In the nr-toolbox, TimeHide can no longer be found in the Project Settings but instead in a separate Attribute Manager Mode called "nr-toolbox".

Original Plugin Description

Working with the Timeline in Cinema 4D can become uncomfortable very fast. Only a few objects and parameters animated can let you loose the overview. Cinema 4D’s “Automatic Mode ” and “Link View to Object Manager” commands do not help much.

The TimeHide plugin helps you to keep your Timeline in Cinema 4D clean and organized. Unnecessary elements are hidden so you only see what’s important. he plugin adds a new tab to your document settings. From there, you can enable or disable the functionality of the plugin.

Features

  • Keep focused on what you need to see in the Timeline!
  • Scripts to Toggle parameters On/Off included
  • Free Service Updates

Languages

  • English
  • German
  • Czech (thanks to Lubomir Bezek)
  • French (thanks to Antoine Aurety)
  • Japanese (thanks to Toshihide Miyata)

Parameters

The Only Show Selected Elements option will hide all elements from the Timeline that are not selected in their respective other manager (ie. the Object Manager, Material Manager, XPresso Manager, etc.).

The Only Show Animated Elements option will hide all elements that are currently displayed in the Timeline, but that do not have any keyframes set (eg. if you deleted all keys of a track, the object would still be visible).

In the below GIF, you can see an example with the parameter enabled and also with the Tracks within the Preview Range mode set in the Display Tracks parameter.

Scripts

You can find two scripts in the plugin's res/scripts/ directory that allow you to quickly toggle the parameters of the TimeHide plugin by assinging keyboard shortcuts to these scripts.

Copy the scripts into your Cinema 4D scripts folder and you will find them in the Scripts menu and the Command Manager.