You can change the color and size of various elements of the Time Slider to suit your own working style.
You can resize Maya's Time Slider the same way as other elements in the interface by hovering your cursor over the top edge until it turns into a splitter cursor, and dragging up or down.
The Time Slider height is saved with the workspace; these settings persist until they are manually changed (or the Preferences have been reset).If the changing of the cursor to the splitter bar cursor is too distracting when the cursor passes over the Time Slider, you can change the following Option Variable:
optionVar -iv "splitterHandleMargin" 3
To increase the splitter cursor triggering, set a greater value.
The default setting is 3, the maximum is 8.
To turn off the splitter cursor so it does not appear, go to the prefs/workspaces/ section of the Maya .json file and change heightProperty from fixed to free.
Key Ticks are red (by default) marks in the Time Slider that represent the keyframes you set for the selected object. Breakdowns are a special type of key displayed as green marks in the Time Slider. See Breakdowns.
To set the thickness of your keyframes in the Time Slider
The Preferences window appears.
Key thickness is measured in pixels. The minimum key thickness is 1 pixel and the maximum is 63 pixels.
To set the color of a curve’s keyframes in the Time Slider
The spreadsheet for the selected animation curve appears in the Attribute Editor.
All the curve’s keyframes in the Time Slider are now the Curve Color you selected.
To set the color of individual keyframes in the Time Slider
keyframe -tds on
and then press Enter on the number pad.
The keyframes you selected and set the -tds flag for are now drawn with Time Slider Tick Special color in the Time Slider.
For more information on this flag, see keyframe in the MEL Command Reference documentation.
You can customize the color settings for the Time Slider to increase visibility, especially for larger timelines.
To open the color settings for the Time Slider
To change the color of the Current Time Indicator
To change the color of the Time Slider foreground or background
Change the Time Slider Foreground and Time Slider Background settings.