Animation tracks missing Track Settings panel (4.1)

[djmcgaughran]

4.1.stable.mono

The documentation on the tutorial Introduction to the animation features mentions a track Settings panel, which does not exist in the Animation tab of the Godot 4.1 editor.

As an example, I have a basic Elevator scene containing a CollisionShape3D and two meshes (Platform and Shroud), each of which has properties animated in the Ascend and Descend animations (which are separate to allow configurable delays with corresponding looping animations to play in between). There are no children of the AnimationPlayer node in the Scene Tree; the meshes and collision shape are sibling nodes. The Ascend animation is shown here, with the tracks occupying the full width of the panel:

I cannot find where such settings have been moved to, even when toggling into the bezier curve editor. No such settings are visible in the Inspector panel, even when selecting Animation -> Open in Inspector.

[AThousandShips]

They are supposed to be on the right, to the left of the garbage bin, see here, but they only apply for some tracks, they are not applicable to the Bezier tracks as they don't have those options, create a property track or other type and you can see them

The tutorial says:

Each track has a settings panel at the end

And the tutorial specifically talks about the property type track, so that's why they are pointed out

[djmcgaughran]

Thanks for clarifying that limitation; the quote you included was from the section I was talking about.

Perhaps it would be good in this section to clarify that this is only for 3D position, rotation & scale tracks, property tracks and Blend Shape tracks, but not Bezier tracks (which are what is created by default when clicking the key icon next to a property in the inspector). My impression from reading that section was that these track settings could be applied to any floating-point property, even if that was animated via a Bezier track.

It is easily understandable that track settings would not be applicable for Call method, Audio playback nor Animation playback tracks as those are discrete triggers. It wouldn't hurt to also mention that, though.

As a bit of context, I was first looking for these track settings to resolve animations being messed up / conflicted when the start times of the Elevator instances are offset from each other. It turned out that both the CollisionShape3D's Shape -> Resource -> Local to Scene and the Shroud's Mesh -> Resource -> Local to Scene needed to be checked, since their Size is being modified by the animations, and therefore cannot share shape resources between Elevator instances. That might also be a handy tip to include somewhere, so that others are aware of this gotcha when creating multiple instances of a scene with animations.

[AThousandShips]

I don't think it's needed to clarify that a setting mentioned in one specific area isn't relevant to other areas, further the documentation for the Bezier track shows that the menu isn't present, so the documentation clarifies that as well, as you can see here.

So I'd say the documentation shows in screenshots that this menu isn't available for Bezier tracks, and doesn't present them as if they were global