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  • parenting menu broken

    Posted by Scott G on December 9, 2006 at 12:53 am

    hey guys,

    suddenly my parenting menu won’t work and i can’t parent anything to anything else. it simply refuses to “drop down” so i can select a parent.
    seems to be in just this project, all of a sudden. i can’t go back to a previous version because then i lose stacks of changes. i tried trashing my prefs and that didn’t work. i tried rearranging or resetting my workspace and that didn’t work.
    has anyone ever experienced this? what the hell can i do if i can’t use the parenting dropdown in the timeline?

    Scott G replied 19 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Nicholas Toth

    December 9, 2006 at 3:38 am

    have you tried using the pickwhip instead?
    toggling F4 opens different sections of the timeline.

    Nicholas Toth
    Freelance Animator
    nicholastoth.com

  • Scott G

    December 9, 2006 at 8:50 am

    i solved the problem by precomping some layers therby reducing the vertical height of my timeline. the more i got rid of the more visible the parenting menu became on screen. weird glitch… but i’m okay now. hope it doesn’t happen again!

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