Paid Toolkits + Templates Timeliner

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Timeliner - A Standalone Desktop Editor for Vam Timeline​

Tired of the slow, cumbersome process of editing dozens of animation clips inside VaM? Do you have a large library of Timeline animations that has become difficult to manage?

Master has forged a new instrument. Timeliner is a standalone Windows application designed to solve these problems. It gives you the power to edit, organize, and manipulate your VamTimeline animation files with the speed and precision of a desktop interface. Take full control of your animations before you even launch VAM.

Why Use Timeliner?​

The VamTimeline plugin by AcidBubbles is incredibly powerful, but as your projects grow, managing everything in VaM can become a bottleneck. Timeliner streamlines your workflow by offering:

• Speed: Use your mouse and keyboard for rapid editing, renaming, and organization.
• Clarity: A hierarchical tree view gives you a clear overview of your entire animation structure, even in complex scenes with multiple atoms.
• Power: Perform complex operations like merging layers, batch renaming, and advanced transformations, which are difficult or impossible to do in-game.
• Safety: Edit your files in a controlled environment. By using "Save As", you can experiment without fear of overwriting or corrupting your original scene files.

Key Features​

Timeliner is packed with features designed to make your life easier.

File Management​

• Load Both Scene and Animation Files: Open a complete scene (.json) and Timeliner will automatically find the Timeline plugin data, or load a standalone animation file exported from the plugin.
• Intelligent Saving: When you save, Timeliner preserves the original file structure. It will update the animation data within a scene or save a standalone animation file, without altering any other data.
• Merge Animation Files: Merge a separate animation file into your currently loaded project. Timeliner provides smart conflict resolution (Rename, Replace, or Skip) for clips with duplicate names.

Organization & Editing​

• Full Tree View: View all your clips organized by Atom -> Segment -> Layer -> Clip.
• Smart Drag & Drop:
  • Live Action Previews: Get real-time visual feedback with color-coded highlights and tooltips to see exactly what your drop action will do before you release the mouse.
  • Reorder Clips: Drag clips within a layer to change their playback order.
  • Move & Copy Clips: Move clips to different layers or segments. If moved to an incompatible layer, a new one is created automatically. Hold Ctrl while dragging to create a copy.
  • Merge Layers: Drag one layer onto another to merge them! Timeliner intelligently combines their animation targets, adding placeholder keyframes to ensure all clips in the new layer function correctly.
• Rename Anything: Simply double-click or press F2 on any item (Clip, Layer, or Segment) to rename it.
• Batch Rename: Select multiple clips and use the Batch Rename tool to quickly find/replace text or add a prefix/suffix to all of them.
• Duplicate & Delete: Easily duplicate a selected clip or an entire segment. Delete multiple clips, layers, or even entire segments with a single keypress.
• Properties Inspector: Select a clip to see its core properties, such as length, loop status, and a list of all its animation targets.
• Target Deletion: Right-click and delete specific animation targets (Controllers, Float Params) from a clip. Timeliner will offer to either remove the target from all clips in the layer or move the modified clip to a new, compatible layer.

Advanced Animation Tools​

• Move/Rotate by Offset: This powerful tool replaces the old "Move by Offset" feature. It allows you to precisely transform selected clips by applying both a position offset (X,Y,Z) and a rotation offset (Pitch, Yaw, Roll).
  • Global Mode: Rotates the animation around the world origin (0,0,0), perfect for repositioning it within a scene.
  • Local Mode: Rotates the animation around the character's own root controller, allowing you to turn the character "in place" without changing its location.
• Center Root on First Frame: Fix animations that don't start at the world origin! This one-click tool calculates the X/Z offset of the root controller on the first frame and applies a counter-offset to all position keyframes in the selected clips.

How to Use​

1. Download the ZIP file from my Patreon site.
2. Extract the contents to any folder on your computer.
3. Run Timeliner.exe.
4. Go to File -> Open... and select your scene .json or animation export .json.
5. Edit and organize your animations.
6. Go to File -> Save As... to save your changes to a new file. It is highly recommended to save as a new file to avoid any risk to your original work.

IMPORTANT: Requirements & Credits​

• This is NOT a VAM plugin. It is a standalone Windows application that edits the data files used by a plugin.
• You MUST have the VamTimeline plugin by AcidBubbles to use the animations in VAM. This tool only edits the files; it does not provide the in-game functionality.
• All credit for the incredible in-game animation system and the keyframe encoding logic goes to AcidBubbles. Please support his work!
• Find VamTimeline on Acid's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidbubbles