Actions timeline and normal timeline?

[lehtiniemi]

How do you manipulate action timeline? I mean, what's the structure? There seems to be function ActivateAction (or something like that) that "activates action timeline for editing". What does this mean?

Let's say I activate action for a bone layer. Does every keyframe I add to any layer under the bone layer go into action timeline I activated? And I just leave by ActivateAction(--- Mainline ---)? Or how does it work?

[synthsin75]

Yes, once you've activated an action timeline, and keyframes will be added to the action. ActivateAction(""), with an empty string, returns to the main timeline.

[Stan]

ActivateAction(""), with an empty string, returns to the main timeline

I think it's ActivateAction(nil), not an empty string.

[synthsin75]

ActivateAction(""), with an empty string, returns to the main timeline

I think it's ActivateAction(nil), not an empty string.

You're right. An empty string just creates an unnamed action. I got that confused with the test for the mainline: (moho.layer:CurrentAction() ~= "")

[lehtiniemi]

EDIT: Thanks!