TheKeyMachine

Changelog

Release history

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0.1.53

Published August 27, 2026

  • Polish: Toggle Temporal Control menu entry renamed and grouped with its own separator.
  • Bugfix: Remove and Bake correctly bakes the temporal control's animation onto its object, at the same keys, without losing any.
  • Bugfix: Mute and Bake keeps the object's baked pose instead of occasionally dropping it.
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0.1.52

Release date pending

  • Polish: Temporal Controls uses one consistent color across all its actions.
  • Bugfix: Temporal Controls space switching keeps the driven object in sync, even after undo.
  • Bugfix: Space conversions keep working on Maya installs where matrix math needs a fallback.

0.1.51

Published August 26, 2026

  • New: Help menu adds a GitHub link.
  • Polish: Update checks run silently in the background.
  • Bugfix: Reload refreshes version and build information.
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0.1.50

Published August 26, 2026

  • Changed: Temporal Controls adds localizations, updated icons and menus.
  • Polish: Temporal Controls Panel manages color, shape and size.
  • Bugfix: Temporal Controls preserve nested hierarchies and understand secondary controls.
  • Bugfix: Nudge will merge colliding keys with Snap by default with a setting under the Nudge right-click menu.
  • Bugfix: Auto Pause Viewport refreshes safely after animation edits.
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0.1.49

Published August 24, 2026

  • Changed: Animation Layers, Global Curve, Temporal Controls, and viewport controls have expanded translations.
  • Polish: Tools share consistent progress feedback, delayed time remaining, and animation selection targeting.
  • Polish: Animation and pose paste actions process large clips substantially faster.
  • Bugfix: Rapid Nudge clicks stay responsive, preserve the active selection, and resolve key collisions without flicker.
  • Bugfix: Rotation Order changes use Smart Euler Filter for selected keys and highlighted ranges when enabled.
  • Bugfix: Temporal Controls and Tracer create full-resolution results reliably and update in efficient batches.
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0.1.48

Published August 23, 2026

  • New: Auto Pause Viewport pauses refresh and updates after animation changes.
  • Polish: Temporal Controls Panel has a larger default size and cleaner icon sliders.
  • Polish: Graph Editor toolbar docking is clearer and stays synced.
  • Polish: Global Curve creates dense guide curves faster.
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0.1.47

Published August 22, 2026

  • Bugfix: Toolbar reloads and tab restores avoid leftover callbacks and keep docked areas from stretching.
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0.1.46

Published August 22, 2026

  • Polish: Updates show download progress with file size and time remaining.
  • Bugfix: Update prompts show changelog details without errors.
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0.1.45

Published August 22, 2026

  • Polish: Long tool operations keep progress and time remaining responsive while work continues.
  • Bugfix: Attribute Switcher can cancel multi-frame applies with Esc and no longer stalls in Normal or Super mode.
  • Bugfix: Copy and Paste Animation and Pose stay responsive during heavy copy operations.
  • Bugfix: Nudge keeps highlighted timeline ranges moving together with nudged keys.
  • Bugfix: Nudge snaps keys cleanly when a moved key lands on another key.
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0.1.44

Published August 22, 2026

  • Polish: Toolbars open and reload faster.
  • Bugfix: Reloading and unloading cleans up callbacks and leftover UI elements.
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0.1.43

Published August 21, 2026

  • New: Temporal Controls builds a driven curve control for each selected object, with System, Position/Orientation space, and color, then Bake or Revert.
  • Changed: Locators removed.
  • Changed: Manipulators, Micro Move, Tracer, Temp Pivot, Follow Cam, and Animation Layers trimmed from the Graph Editor toolbar.
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0.1.42

Published August 15, 2026

  • New: Global Curve reshapes selected or visible Graph Editor curves together with live time and tangent controls.
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0.1.41

Published August 14, 2026

  • New: Create and manage multiple tracers.
  • New: Rotation-aware tracer offsets.
  • Changed: Auto Update is enabled by default with selectable performance presets.
  • Bugfix: Tooltips stay accurate and correctly localized across animation, selection, attribute, tangent, and tracer tools.
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0.1.40

Published August 14, 2026

  • Bugfix: Toolbar alignment, pinning, and reloads stay responsive without clipped rows or menu errors.
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0.1.39

Published August 14, 2026

  • Changed: The codebase was restructured for clearer tool ownership and easier future development.
  • Bugfix: Copy and Paste Animation reliably recognizes the same control across full and short scene paths.
  • Bugfix: Smart Key and other layer-aware tools read animation layers without errors.
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0.1.38

Published August 11, 2026

  • Changed: Cycle Matcher can match tangents only or include key values.
  • Polish: Search and Hotkeys open faster and keep menu options clear and in sync.
  • Bugfix: Attribute Switcher stays responsive on large multi-control changes.
  • Bugfix: Mirror and opposite pasting work reliably across full rigs, animation ranges, and parented controls.
  • Bugfix: Snapshot Rig safely handles posed rigs and detects mirror behavior more reliably.
  • Bugfix: Sliders now create keys on frames without existing keys.
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0.1.37

Published August 10, 2026

  • New: Snapshot Rig saves default poses, opposite controls, and automatically tested mirror directions per rig.
  • Changed: Default, Opposite, and Mirror right-click menus expose their matching Snapshot actions.
  • Polish: Tool progress shows smooth second-by-second time remaining without item counters.
  • Bugfix: Rig analysis resolves opposite controls across separate branches and safely skips malformed attributes.
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0.1.36

Published August 9, 2026

  • Bugfix: Attribute Switcher's Cancel and Esc reliably stop an in-progress switch in Normal and Super mode, and its popup selector no longer occasionally errors while dragging.
  • Bugfix: Cancelling Animation Recovery, World Space, or Copy and Paste Pose and Animation mid-operation now reverts cleanly instead of leaving a partial result.
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0.1.35

Published August 5, 2026

  • New: Anim Layer Weights displays live layer-weight curves on the timeline.
  • Changed: Anim Curve Tools share consistent targeting, concise feedback, and a tangent-aware key clipboard with channel remapping and relative pasting.
  • Polish: Tool progress is steadier, more responsive, and less intrusive.
  • Bugfix: Selection Sets and toolbar popups close reliably after losing focus.
  • Bugfix: Smart Key and Snap Keys run faster while respecting Channel Box channels, highlighted ranges, and selected animation layers.
  • Bugfix: World Space frame pastes keep timeline feedback and cleanup reliable.
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0.1.34

Published July 28, 2026

  • New: Added Catalan, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic translations across every menu, dialog, and hotkey editor.
  • Bugfix: Tooltips, shortcuts, and right-click action menus (including Bake, Share Keys, and Remove Redundant Keys) stay translated after switching languages.
  • Bugfix: Windows like About, Donate, Hotkeys, and Workspaces refresh immediately when you switch languages instead of needing a restart.
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0.1.33

Published July 27, 2026

  • New: Super mode to switch Rotation Orders almost instantly.
  • New: Early stages of implementing different language translations.
  • Polish: Fixing startup time by optimizing processes and deduping logic.
  • Bugfix: Workspaces update correctly on toolbar right click menu.
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0.1.32

Release date pending

  • New: Animation Recovery keeps resilient incremental checkpoints and alerts when an older scene file is opened.
  • New: Attribute Switcher can apply different options across multiple controls.
  • New: Anim Curve Tools adds refireable key and frame navigation with reliable channel-aware key pasting.
  • Changed: Copy Animation, Align, World Space and Relationship tools preserve the active animation-layer context.
  • Polish: Tool actions share consistent progress feedback with automatic time estimates.
  • Bugfix: Simplify and Bake sliders preserve the intended animation curve tendency.

0.1.31

Release date pending

  • Changed: Align Objects uses the objecy keys and selects the target object at the end.
  • Polish: Attribute Switcher scrolls attributes lists within to be able to see them all!.
  • Bugfix: Smart Key handles exact subframes and mixed keyed or unkeyed selections.
  • Bugfix: Snap Keys merges multiple subframes per frame from object or range selections.
  • Bugfix: Fixed World Space toolbuttons, it bakes selected or visible ranges without removing outside keys.
  • Bugfix: Auto Hide Static Curves refreshes already-open Graph Editors reliably.

0.1.30

Release date pending

  • New: Toolbar workspaces (Standard, Professional, Minimal) switch pinned tools from the right-click menu.

0.1.29

Release date pending

  • Polish: Reordered files to standarize all tools under tools/.
  • Bugfix: Copy Relationship pastes selected or playback ranges only on existing relationship-object keys.
  • Bugfix: Copy and Paste Pose and Animation handle remapped targets and single-object pastes reliably.
  • Bugfix: Smart Key supports subframes.
  • Bugfix: Snap Keys merges near-integer keys correctly.
  • Bugfix: Each Animation Offset gesture undoes in one step.

0.1.28

Release date pending

  • Changed: Micro Move and Depth Mover now ship together across supported Maya versions and platforms with Shift/Control precision; Micro Move also keeps full-color cursors and reliable middle-button object drags.

0.1.27

Release date pending

  • New: Depth Mover pushes selected controls through camera depth with drag-adjusted sensitivity.
  • New: Micro Move uses translate and rotate manipulators with Maya tool switching, cursor acceleration and modifiers.

0.1.26

Release date pending

  • New: Search finds and runs any TheKeyMachine tool.

0.1.25

Release date pending

  • Changed: Animation curve tools now consistently respect selected Graph Editor keys, Channel Box channels and highlighted timeline ranges.
  • Changed: Smart Euler Filter unwraps only the active rotation keys while preserving the exact key selection.
  • Changed: Wave alternates positive and negative offsets per key with range-aware amplitude.
  • Changed: Tangent, alignment and snapping tools use the active animation context more consistently.
  • Polish: Blend to Buffer follows each curve's own buffered shape and rotates manual tangents only when necessary.
  • Bugfix: Static and redundant key cleanup stays scoped, and pin menus retain tool icons, hotkeys and shelf actions.

0.1.24

Release date pending

  • New: Custom Tools supports folders, local icons, toolbar pinning and button-triggered refresh.
  • New: Auto Hide Static Animation Curves keeps the Graph Editor focused on animated channels.
  • Changed: Attribute Switcher and Orbit popups open beside their trigger on the correct screen.
  • Changed: Animation Offset and frame-based slider handles snap and tint accurately as the timeline changes.
  • Polish: Toolbar sections, Graph Editor placement, menus and in-view feedback are clearer and more consistent.
  • Bugfix: About and Follow Cam work reliably, and disabled online or Bug Report features stay hidden.

0.1.23

Release date pending

  • New: Frame-based sliders can pick and display independent timeline targets.
  • Changed: Buffer and Undo sliders blend animation curve shapes without moving keys.
  • Changed: Tangent sliders use contextual targets, mirrored blending and exact modes at full strength.
  • Changed: Time Offset preserves key timing while Stagger moves complete object animation.
  • Polish: Gap Stitcher, Noise, Wave, Infinity and World Space sliders produce more natural results.
  • Bugfix: Slider previews, generated keys, timeline picking and Undo now finish reliably.

0.1.22

Release date pending

  • Changed: TKM menu commands now live in the main TKM Menu section.
  • Changed: Global Tools now appears before Background Runners in the toolbar.
  • Polish: Toolbar maintenance actions carry clearer toolbox tooltips.
  • Polish: Hotkeys window shows the same tooltip text as the matching tools.
  • Bugfix: TKM menu entries are available in the hotkeys list again.
  • Bugfix: Version metadata is synced across the package and installer.

0.1.21

Release date pending

  • New: Welcome prompt can add the TheKeyMachine shelf button after install.
  • Changed: Toolbar command routing is cleaner and more reliable.
  • Polish: Tooltips show assigned hotkeys and cleaner header actions.
  • Polish: Smart Manipulators now sit after Tangents in the toolbar.
  • Bugfix: Hotkeys window uses the correct command tooltip details.
  • Bugfix: Paste Animation is faster on dense animation clips.

0.1.20

Release date pending

  • Polish: Some more tools have refined icons.
  • Bugfix: Fixed sliders messing with rotations and not saving Undo Chunks.
  • Bugfix: Fixed Animation Offset setting keys on timeChange in heavy scenes.