Time Offset Modifier

The Time Offset Modifier applies a temporal offset to Grease Pencil keyframes on your timeline. If you have duplicated a Grease Pencil object you can use the Time Offset Modifier on the copies to desynchronize their animation. This can give more natural looking results.

Using the Time Offset Modifier it’s possible to have Grease Pencil frame ranges play back as repeating loops. Traditionally, 2D animation that uses looped drawings includes characters walking, rising smoke, and falling rain. In Fixed Frame mode the Time Offset Modifier can display drawings on your timeline entirely independently of the playhead position.

Using the Time Offset Modifier it’s possible to have Grease Pencil frame ranges play back as repeating loops. Traditionally, 2D animation that uses looped drawings includes characters walking, rising smoke, and falling rain. In Fixed Frame mode the Time Offset Modifier can display drawings on your timeline entirely independently of the playhead position.

This can be handy for displaying drawings that will appear often in your animation. Think of switching between predefined mouth shapes for instance.

Options

Mode

• Regular:

  Offsets keyframes in the default animation playback direction (playhead moving from left to right).

  Reverse:

  Offsets keyframes in reversed animation playback direction (playhead moving from right to left).

  Fixed Frame:

  The Frame parameter determines which frame is displayed. This value needs to be animated in order to have the displayed frame change during playback.

  • Frame

    The number of the frame to display.

  Ping Pong:

  Loop back and forth animation.

  Chain:

  It allows to combine the different Modes consecutively.

  • Repeat

    Number of cycle repeats

Frame Offset

The number of frames to offset the original keyframes by.

Scale

Controls the speed of the frames playback. 1 is equal to the actual frame rate, could be positive (faster) or negative (slower).

Keep Loop

Moves end frame to the animation start to keep animation in a loop.

Custom Range

When enabled, the animation playback is restricted only to a frame range.

Frame Start/End

Sets the range start and end frames.

Influence

See Influence Filters.