Creating a "library" of animations / Actions

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Hi folks:

I am slowly learning character animation, and in the course of things I am creating some actions that I would like to be able to re-use in projects down the road. The problem is that I (A) dont know how to do this, and (B) dont know if this is the best way to go about it anyway

So I ask you – whats the “approved” way to create some sort of a “library” of actions that I can import and apply to a rig while I am animating a scene?

The end result is that I am aiming to make a short (1 min or so for now) movie of a character walking around and doing TaeKwonDo Katas (Or whatever the TKD world calls them)

Thanks

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Hi,

there’s not much to it, just work on your different actions and remember to click the shield icon on each of them when creating a new one so that it’s kept around even when it’s not linked to the character, otherwise Blender dumps it - same goes for other type of data such as textures, etc.
Also, since actions connect to rigs through bone/channel names, these shouldn’t be changed.

Have fun animating !

Hadrien

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Cool, thanks - I appreciate it

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