Time-of-Day Windows

Many faces change through the day: a background that shifts from morning to night, an icon that only makes sense before noon. WristForge calls a stretch of time like that a window, and you make one by dragging on a 24 hour bar, not by typing hours into fields.

Opening the Timeline

Use Window, then Timeline… (Ctrl+T), or the ⧉ Timeline button on the Scene's time bar. It opens as its own window so you can keep the Scene in view beside it: the point of a timeline is watching the face react as you scrub.

One row per object

Every visible object gets its own row, so you can see how a background's window lines up with an icon's without clicking back and forth. The bar area is the whole day.

Making a window

• Drag along an empty part of a row to paint a window, or select a row and click + window to add one around the playhead.
• Drag an end to resize it, or the middle to move it.
• Ctrl+drag duplicates it.
• Right-click for duplicate, split at the playhead, mute, snap to hours, delete, invert, or clear the row.
• Drags snap to 15 minutes, or 1 minute while holding Shift. Ctrl+scroll zooms around the cursor.
• Ctrl+Z undoes, right in the Timeline window.

A window can cross midnight, for example 22

to 04. Draw it like any other and it wraps.

Swapping art

Drop a picture from the Project panel onto a window's bar to give that part of the day its own picture instead of hiding the object: a sun in the morning window and a moon in the evening one, all on the same object.

Groups

A Group has nothing to draw, so it doesn't get a row. Put the window on each visible object inside it instead.