noob question about animations

Hi guys,

Im newer to blender and have a quick noob question. I went through a few tutorials on animations and things. And i have learned how to set up animations to work with triggers and stuff in the game engine. My problems is now that im trying to do it, I dont know how to make a second animation after my first. Ive set up my forward walk. Now I want to make a jump, but i dont know how to start another animation. Where the title of my animation called ‘walk’ is, I hit that and clicked “add new”. It made a duplicate of walk named walk.001, which is fine but it will not let me edit or delete anything in it. (below is a link to a SS as it will not let me put in links)

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I thought about putting all my animations on one long timeline and using the segments I need, but i think i might run into problems that way with the NLA. So how do I set up a new animation to make another action with from this point. Without touching my 1st animation?

Thanks guys in advance for you help, and any other advice would be greatly appreciated.

if you’re animating a chartacter with armatures, it needs to be in the action window, not on the timeline go here for a quick and easy tut:


you’re gonna want to watch part two as well :slight_smile:

lol i see it now…ill watch the vids thanks…any vids on learning a little things beyond modeling and animating beyond that, thats game related i would love to see. I still know nothing really about scenes and layers and how to set that up. Is there a good pile of BGE tuts that gets some good core game stuff accross other than on youtube?

greatly appreciated.

I just tried again. I switch it to the action window. Select Walk and hit addnew. When i try to move my new model. It like turns orange and wont let me adjust poses

Hmm…ok I went back to a save I had before adding strip in the NLA editor, and doing this I can add as many actions as I want. And play them in the game engine. So I dont see what the point of the NLA even is. Anyways. Sorry for the goofball questions…Ill look at any tutorials on the above you guys can provide.