topic Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames? in Maya Forum

Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:52:18 GMT

Anyone know if Maya 2018 has an option to only view whole frames? On the time slider and graph editor I'm getting ticks on half and quarter frames, depending on how zoomed in I am. It even chooses to display fractioned frames over whole frames. It's making things harder to read and throws my thinking. Any help would be appreciated!

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

sean.heasley — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:16:29 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

It looks like this may be something with your settings/preferences.

By default, Maya displays up to half frames, so frame 1, 1.5, 2 etc.

The simplest fix for this would be to try deleting your settings/preferences.

Please let me know if this helps or if you need any more assistance!

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Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:34:58 GMT

Thanks Sean!

That did the trick. Curious what I did that changed the view on that. Either way, it's all good now. Thanks again!

Brandon

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

ijdallas — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:08:06 GMT

OK, I figured out the bug.

It has to do with the "Use custom scaling" property. Setting this value to 125% or 150% causes the Timeslider (and Graph Editor) to start showing fractional tick marks.

To fix this (ie go back to integer ticks), reset the scaling to anything other than 125% or 150% under Windows > Settings/Preferences > Preferences > Interface > Interface Scaling > Use custom scaling

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 May 2018 09:29:49 GMT

I tried to delete the " prefs" folder of my Maya 2017. It didn't quite fix it.

However, what worked with me was going to " Preferences> Time Slider" and put in the "tick span" box a value of 1.

This trick did solve the fractional values appearing on my time slider!

Hope this helps.

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

seve.lee — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 03:32:21 GMT

Really stupid maya

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:24:13 GMT

Thank you for this info! So tired of "delete the prefs" being the solutions.

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

dariush — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 18:32:26 GMT

Yes, can this be a fix for a future release, please? I need to use custom scaling, but the half and quarter frames is really annoying. Please fix!

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

seve.lee — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 11:09:29 GMT

I find the solution of this.

In Windows->Settings/Preferences->Preferences->Settings->Time Slider

Change "Tick Span" to the number you need.

Problem solved.

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

dariush — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:22:40 GMT

That fixed it for the Time Slider, thanks! Still happens in the Graph Editor, but this is a much welcomed solution for the time slider!! Thank you, by default it's set to 0 for tick span.

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:03:42 GMT

I have recently been encountering these fraction keyframes recently at work and they have been a **** to solve. you can't snap them to whole frames if there is a set key already on it. even when i set the graph editor and timeline to only key on integers of 1, they still appear. I did come across as to the reason why they started appearing. Here's a scenario:

Say I have key poses of a character set on Frame 5 and 15. I don't like the pose of the head tilt at frame 5 so I scrub through the timeline to go 5 but I accidentally stop at 7 and set a key on the head adjustment. I'm like "oh shoot, i need to put the keyframe from 7 to 5" so I (red) highlight the key on 7 and click drag it to 5 and set it. This maneuver created the fraction keys cause Maya sees frame 5 as already occupied so it shifts the key from 7 to something like 5.032.

Here's fast way to delete the fraction key frames that are already in your scene instead of digging through the graph editor:

Select all controls that are keyed, use the [<] or [>] keys to scrub through each keyframe in your time line till you see a frame number with a ".00" after it. right click that set of keys (making sure its "5.00" not "5" ) and delete the frames.

To prevent the fraction frames from occurring if you misplaced a key frame on the wrong frame number, simply:

go to the key you want to middle mouse click + drag it on the timeline to the frame that has the old key and set it. it should replace the key on the whole number.

Hope this one specific scenario helps understand the fraction key issue.

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

mspeer — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 19:57:35 GMT

Hi!

@Anonymous

Thanks for this detailed explanation, but this has nothing to do with the issue of the thread opener, which is only related to the frame numbers in Graph Editor time slider UI.

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 May 2021 22:46:59 GMT

Has anyone figured out how to fix this for the Graph Editor timeline?

Re: Frame Display - Option to View Only Whole Frames?

thomaslCGBC7 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:15:58 GMT

What fixed it for me (getting rid of the half ticks in the graph editor):

In Windows->Settings/Preferences->Preferences->Settings->Time Slider

Time Display set to timecode on time marker and play range - got rid of the half ticks.

Then when changing it back to Time Display - Frames, half ticks were still gone.

Not saying this is the ultimate solution, but it worked. Good luck!