Motion Editor Graph area size.

[alexbenn1991]

Is there a way to adjust the size of the motion editor graph area? I've somehow managed to decrease the size to a point where it isn't really useable and I can't work out how to fix it!

As you can see, it's minimised to a point where I have to scroll through the options on the left to be able to change what I'm working on, and to make changes on the graph I either zoom in and can only see one point or work inaccurately like this.

Is there a way to restore it to default size?

Thanks

[kglad]

you can reset or change your workspace (window>workspace).

[alexbenn1991]

Unfortunately, that didn't fix it. It's the same regardless of the workspace I use and resetting them doesn't seem to make a difference. I've opened other files I've been working on and none of them have this issue.

[Myra Ferguson]

If you hover your cursor between where the Timeline is docked and the Stage, the cursor will change where it has an arrow at both ends. When the cursor looks like that, you can drag the Timeline up to expand it, and the graph will also expand.

[alexbenn1991]

That allowed me to increase the size of the timeline window, but even If I make it the size of the entire screen, the size of the motion editor doesn't change.

[kglad]

are you trying to increase the size of the timeline frames?  if so click the hamburger menu at the upper right of the timeline panel.

or drag down at the red arrow to change from this:

to this:

[alexbenn1991]

This is what I want to do! However, when I hover over the same point that you are dragging from, I can only make it smaller. It's like the maximum height has reset to a tiny value.

[Colin Holgate]

I was able to get into the same situation you saw. Double clicking the motion to collapse it, and double click to expand it again, fixed the problem.

The height of motion editor seems to be from the bottom of the lowest visible layer to the bottom of the window set, and it is possible to add lots of layers to the point that the height never gets to be very high. At some point while doing that it got confused into looking like you showed it.

Using folders more, or having less layers, could reduce the number of times you might run into it, but hopefully the collapse expand thing will work for you too.

[alexbenn1991]

I've tried as you've suggested and again I've had no luck, it still won't expand beyond that tiny window size.

I'm tempted to pull everything into another file that I know is working to see if I can just bypass the problem.

[Myra Ferguson · Accepted solution]

I was able to reproduce what you're seeing, too, by expanding the Timeline to the size of my screen and adding layers until it was filled completely. When I collapse then expand the graph, it won't go back to the original size. When I put layers in a folder like Colin suggested and then try collapsing and expanding the graph, it does go back to regular size for me. Does that work for you?

[alexbenn1991]

You and Colin are my heroes! So I had one layer that wasn't in a folder that I was using for timing. I followed the steps you and Colin suggested and it worked perfectly and has restored the graph to the regular size.

I really appreciate all the help, this was starting to drive me crazy!

Thank you!