Hi,
Here’s a character I’m working on… it is a highly modified Blendo
Anyway, if you load up the file, if you go to the action editor and choose “Dance” then move the left and right arrows a bit, he will move around. But I can’t see the names of the bones in the action editor any more… they used to be there a while ago. (BTW, I converted this action to a NLA strip… also notice that it has 4 owners…)
If I click “X” to clear that action and go into pose mode and insert some key frames, the armature will animate according to those keyframes properly, and the keyframes show up in the NLA editor… but the names of the bones aren’t shown in the action editor either…
So I’d like to be able to have the names of the bones show up in the action editor - so I can edit the actions, etc.
Also, I’d like to be able to delete actions… at the moment all of them have an “F” by them (they have a fake user or something)… I can’t get rid of that (like I could with “fake” meshes, materials or textures)… when I select an action for the armature, it has at least 2 users (due to the “fake” user I guess) and for some reason the “Dance” action has 4 users when I select it in the action editor!
BTW, Action.001 makes the guy’s eyes close… (it only has one keyframe in it, though like “Dance”, you can’t see the keyframe)
Oh, just click on the X next to the action name in the action editor. Make sure you don’t have any other references to it, such as having it assigned to an armature or in an NLA window. Then save the file and re-open the file.
When all the references for something are gone, blender will delete it when it saves.
You can stop it from doing that by pressing the little F next to the item name or by going into a data browse window (SHIFT-F4) and selecting the item with a right click and then pressing FKEY. If something has the F marker, i.e. a fake user, you can also toggle it off the same way.
The data browse window is sort of like walking a file/directory system. When you first open it, it probably won’t be where you want it. Hit the P button or click on the “…” at the top and then click on the item type.
You can also check the reference count for something this way, but, other than the OOPS window, I’ve never seen a way to figure out what is referencing something.
Thanks zaz… I didn’t know about that method of removing fake users… and I eventually worked out that I had accidently assigned some of the actions to things like the camera. (I couldn’t delete the action in the browser when it still had owners like that) But I eventually got all of those actions deleted…
I don’t know if this is related or not, but I have an action in the NLA Editor that I positively can’t select, nor get rid of. You can click on the strip area but can’t choose it.
I had to remove everything from the action to nullify it.
