action editor in blender 2.46 and higher

Hello everyone.

This may not be the right place to post this and the question itself might be pretty dumb, but as I have experienced the blender community as very nice and understanding I will just go ahead and post anyway at the risk of being told to search first and then post :slight_smile:
The point is, I actually searched everything from the blender homepage over google to this forum. Maybe I’m just not hitting the right search terms.

But enough excuses.
My problem:
It’s been a little while, since I actually did animation in Blender. Now that I am trying to use the action editor in Blender 2.46 I come to realise that it has changed significantly since then. It doesn’t behave in the way I am used to and not in the way this article >>http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BSoD/Introduction_to_Character_Animation/2-second_animation<< describes.
No I am not saying that it is bad now, only that I do not know how it works. I don’t seem to find essential functions like for instance the “Paste flipped Pose” button.

What I would like to ask for however is some kind of pointer to good reference, which can help me to brush up on the changes. I am almost sure it is somewhere out there and I am also pretty sure it’s not that hard to find, but I seem to be running against a wall here.

So if any of you are willing to give me a helping hand I would highly appreciate it.
Once again my apologies for bothering you with such stuff.

Thank you in advance,

Ed.

Paste flipped is in the 3D View window in Pose mode, Pose->Paste Flipped
wiki for AE is a bit unloved: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/The_Action_Editor but the best I can offer ya.

thank you so much :slight_smile:

just what I can say, action editor has much improved. I recommend you highly to read about bone groups which make work in the editor very very comfortable :slight_smile:

You’ll find out much of what’s new in the Action editor in this release note for the 2.46 :
http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/action-editor-improvements/