How do I redirect a linked object to a different source file?

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Hi BlenderArtists,

in my project I am using a linked object for an animation.
However. I need this object in a few different “flavors”, always with slight changes, but the animations that I do with this objects should stay the same. That means I would link the object, animate it and THEN I would like to be able to replace the linked object by a different version of the object.

So my idea was to make a file for each different version and then redirect the link in the animated scene to another version of the object.

Is this somehow possible? How?

Thanks!

MD

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in outliner, switch to datablock view and browse to Libraries. you’ll see the file name that has been linked into the scene. just change that and reload the scene.

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Thank you boyleo!

It works like a charm!