Future of Frame Ranger

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Frame Ranger vs Action Commander

Action Commander will be the successor of Frame Ranger in future. Their core feature are more or less the same for now, however, there is a few things to note between them

Right Now, Frame Ranger has more feature because it is a “Bundle of Multiple Addons”, being a quite bloated addon and unfocused and becoming more and more difficult to maintain.

Action Commander however, is focused solely on Action Management, you can think of it like “Frame Ranger with only Object Action Manager”.

Why Action Commander?

By Focusing only on Action Management, which is the core feature of Frame Ranger, it will make Maintaining the addon much more manageable, it will also make the addon less bloated.

Note

If You Have Already Purchased Frame Ranger, you will be able to claim Action Commander For Free

Feature Comparison

As the name suggest, the addon will be focus on Action Management, and remove the other non related Frame Ranger Feature.The Action Management related feature will be further extended / enchanced.

Included Feature

  • Object Action Manager

  • Action Bin

Removed Feature

  • Frame Range Manager

  • Action Baker

  • Timeline Markers Manager

  • Animation Player & Frame Range

  • Auto Frame Range

  • Framerate Remapper

  • Timeline Utility Pie

Extended Feature

  • Support for Library Overrides and some other quality of life feature

  • Tag System to help with Action organization / Filtering

What About the Other Frame Ranger Features?

Frame Ranger is currently still Usable, and if you want the more minor Feature, you can use Frame Ranger Lite.

However, In future, I intend to make those into smaller addons (Which Existing Frame Ranger Customer on Blendermarket can get for free)

Below are the Planned feature that is Planned to made into seperate Addon in future:

  • Frame Range Manager

  • Timeline Markers Manager

  • Animation Player & Frame Range

  • Auto Frame Range

Frame Ranger Deprecation

With Action Commander as Frame Ranger’s successor, Frame Ranger will be deprecreated, and slowly phase out over time.

  • It will no longer receive any new feature, or be updated for the latest version of blender

  • Bug Fix will still be done when reported on Compatible Blender Version

  • The Addon is Open Source, feel free to do anything to it at your own risk

Existing Frame Ranger Customer (Important)

If You Have Already Purchased Frame Ranger on Blendermarket, you will be able to claim Action Commander For Free