What I’ve done, ultimately, is just manually add his death to his character item, incidental to the event item. I get different results, or sometimes the same result, but the one thing I don’t get is a result in which Clifford’s death and the date of the event are what I want it to be. I’ve tried different variations, and also tried going the other direction and adding a constraint to Clifford’s character entry instead of through the event entry. The problem is when I add this constraint to the Clifford event, I get the message “1 item was moved due to constraints”, and the event, it turns out, now has the Clifford birth date from his Character Item entry. My instinct is for it to actually be End > equals end of > (Character Item) Clifford, since the event itself ends with his death, but for now I’m sticking with the same construction as I saw in the imported Harry Character Item. End > equals start of > (Character Item) Clifford.In v3, well, I still haven’t succeeded.īased on the explanation linked above, which covers birth only, and on the way Harry’s character constraints appear as imported from v2, I inferred that for Clifford I should add a constraint to the event in which Clifford dies thusly: Based on that, I try to link that event to his death. But as the plot develops, I realize there’s an event at which, oops, Clifford does in fact die. I don’t set a death date because, at first, I have no plans to kill him off. So in v3, I create a new character, “Clifford.” At first, I simply enter a birth date for him, since he’s a secondary character and his date of birth doesn’t have plot significance, but I do want to keep track of how old he is at various points so it’s useful to have a date set. (For example, Harry didn’t die at the “start of” the “Harry’s death” event, but the end of it, but this is a minor point, though I’m afraid to change the logic in the imported constraint, because see below.) Harry still has a birth and death linked, and the dates are right. That language is a little convoluted, but I could see the logic. In that v2 timeline, I was able to do that sort of thing with several character, always without a hitch.Īfter updating to v3 and importing my timeline, the “Harry” character entry had two constraints: In that timeline, I had a character “Harry” and two events, “Harry’s birthday” and “Harry’s death.” I linked those two events to the birth and death fields respectively, and all was well. As it stands, I can’t “constrain” a character’s birth and death to two different events, and the knowledgebase doesn’t provide any illumination.įor example, I had a working timeline from v2. I assume there’s a reason the simpler approach in Aeon 2 was abandoned in terms of attaching a character’s birth and death to an event, but the current approach is very counterintuitive. I have to admit this constraint system is very confusing to me. the duration would not be automatically adjusted on moving the end death date). In Aeon Timeline 3, you can add the set date, but you can only link them to events based on the constraint system, and this is not currently set up to cover all cases (eg. However in Aeon Timeline 2 you could either add a set date for the character’s birth/death or link them to events. if it has the same birth/death dates then it should give the same duration). The actual calculation of the duration for the entity should be the same (eg. This will then display your character on the timeline if they have been given birth/death dates. Select Character from the list on the left, and tick the option “Timeline View” under the heading “Show In”. If you open the Settings Window (the cog icon), then Data Types tab, then Edit in the top right, you will open Advanced Settings. You also can display your characters on the timeline like an event, which shows their lifespan (I don’t know if this would be helpful to you). So you can just add the event manually, the only reason to use the constraints would be potentially if you were going to be changing the birth/death date as you write the story and want some notification of that (as otherwise you would have to manually remember to change both values) I forgot to link to this help page: Linking a character's birth or death with an event - Aeon Timeline 3 Knowledge Base which explains the constraints setup as I mentioned earlier. Yes that is correct there is no button that adds an event automatically from a character’s birth or death date.
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