Supposedly the constraints system allows you to recreate the “based on” system of Aeon Timeline 2, but I’m having trouble tying a character’s birth and death to separate events. The constraints always seem to resolve without changing the length of the character’s life and so just show conflicts if I try to move one without the other. Am I missing something?
Hi,
Dependencies and constraints do not currently adjust an item’s duration. This is something we want to add, but it is quite a complex area to get right, so we need to design, code and test it very carefully before we can introduce that feature.
You are right to highlight that perhaps tying a person’s death to an event is perhaps the most glaring place this absence is felt.
The workaround for the moment would be to select the person and edit their death date, so that the death event will move instead. But I agree this is not an optimal workflow.
I will see if I can find a way to simplify this particular case in the short term, even if full-blooded item duration changes come later.
Matt
I hope this is something still being worked on. I’ve had similar issues trying to tie in a person’s birth and death to Start and End dates. Sometimes I move one, and then the timeline throws red ! at me and I don’t understand why.