Add Icons on timeline

[Jonibigood]

First of all, congratulations on your work! Friction has been very useful to me!

I'd like to make a small suggestion that might be of interest to other users:
It would be clearer if each layer in the timeline had an icon to help understand its function: group/layer, vector image, raster image, etc.

I've created a small example below:

[rodlie]

Hi,

It would be clearer if each layer in the timeline had an icon to help understand its function: group/layer, vector image, raster image, etc.

Sure, this is something we can consider for v1.1.

[samytichadou]

totally agreed !

I tried to do a list using either friction existing icons, or blender ones (some are already used in friction), i thought it could help to give an overview of the task :

• Path - friction path icon or blender CURVE_DATA
• Image - blender IMAGE_DATA
• Video - blender FILE_MOVIE
• Sound - blender SOUND or blender PLAY_SOUND
• Text - friction text icon or blender FONT_DATA
• Shape - friction rectangle icon or blender MOD_MASK
• Null - friction null icon or blender PIVOT_CURSOR
• Group - blender GROUP
• Layer Group - blender OUTLINER_COLLECTION or blender COLLAPSEMENU or blender FILE_FOLDER or blender RENDERLAYERS or blenderGREASEPENCIL_LAYER_GROUP

Shapes are not specific (rectangle, circle) to allow addition of new ones without new icons, but maybe it is not useful

[Jonibigood]

yeah, most of them could be fine, Maybe for the shape a square is too simple . it could be something like that :

[samytichadou]

yeah, most of them could be fine, Maybe for the shape a square is too simple . it could be something like that :

Yes you're right, just having a rectangle as a logo could be confusing, i also thought about the star (similar to after effect) which often symbolize procedural shape, but giving that friction does not have star as procedural shape, i don't know ^^

Your icon seems to be the best one !