Timeline is unchanged for a long time, but 3ds max get a lot of new features that can make use of it.
-We can use the timeline to show progress of any simulation with coloration for fluids/pflowcaches/cloth/pointcaches creation, etc... or third party plugins. Right now each app use different progression bars. But if the calculations are timeline based, will make sense to unify the interface and all use the same behaviour.
-On latest 3ds max we get ability to load a lot of data on RAM for faster playblack. We can do it with Alembic or with Fluids. And this is great. But right now we dont know what data is loaded on ram (other than experience faster playback). Will be good if when we select an object that uses ram for accelerating viewport display to show the frames loaded on ram with a soft coloration on the timeline.
