Cycle portion of animation?

Support Animation and Rigging
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I need to cycle portions of an armature animation.

Say I want to cycle the keyframes of bone01, bone05 & bone12 between frame 32 and 43 for 100 frames. There are keyframes before fr.32 and will be keys after. I also want to cycle other bones in other ranges.

How do I do this in Blender?

With the F-Curve Cycle modifier I can restrict on which frames I want to see the cycle but not set which frames should be cycled, it’s always all existing keyframes.

Trying to use the NLA always end up in a mess, I no longer can animate my characters properly, keyframes is lost somewhere, I can’t see the cycled animation while animating the non cyclic, I can’t separate the bones I’d like cycled from the ones not cycled, etc. It’s like trying to read a map from half a jigzaw puzzle.

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Well, this is normally what you’d use the NLA editor for, so I’d recommend learning how to use that. It’s very powerful once you do. Otherwise you’re stuck trying to use a single action, which limits you being able to do things like this what you want to do.