Need help with a idea for a time lapse using the feature tree.

@Ben_

I do something similar on Linux with a little (very hacky) shell script.

It basically works like this:

1. Manually set the number of features in your file (55 in my example)
2. Manually move the rollback bar to the top
3. Run the script; it will wait for 3 seconds allowing you to select the rollback bar again by clicking on it
4. The script will fake a 'down arrow' keypress, wait a second, take a screenshot, wait another second and repeats this 55 times until all features are applied.

I might try to make a little python script that does something similar using the API (so you don't need to set the number of features manually) but for now this works fine for my needs. If you're on Windows / Macos there are many apps that let you control your system in a similar way (for Windows there is AutoIt for example). You could use one of those programs to set up a similar loop.

In the end I use ffmpeg to combine the frames into an animation (but again there is also GUI based software that can do this for you).
ffmpeg -framerate 24 -pattern_type glob -i "*.png" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4

My shellscript (also online as a gist on Github )

#!/bin/bash
sleep 3
for i in $(seq 1 55); do
echo "Iteration: $i of 55"
# Press the Arrow Down key using xdotool
xdotool key Down
sleep 1
# Replace "Part Studio" with the actual window title or part of it
WINDOW_ID=$(xdotool search --name "Part Studio" | head -n 1)
import -window "$WINDOW_ID" ~/screenshots/screenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).png
sleep 1
done