Switch Data file problem

[Equalrights4animals]

When I try to sync a mouth to more than one switch data file which I created in papagayo, when I do the second one it deletes the keyframes for the first! How do I get it not to do that?

[slowtiger]

There's nothing to do here since this is the way a switch layer interacts with a .dat file. However, you can easily duplicate the switch layer, assign a different .dat file to each copy, and switch visibility to show only the party you want.

[Equalrights4animals]

I like to make each line of dialog a new file so I can adjust the timing easily. I'd really rather not have to make a duplicate switch layer for each line. That would get disorganized. I aleady have two mouth switch layers within another switch layer. (one for happy mouths and one for unhappy mouths.) There was one animation I did where I somehow didn't have to make a duplicate but I don't know how. I've noticed that sometimes when I import a data file, the keyframes line up with the right audio automatically but sometimes they don't and I have to highlight and move them. What's up with that? When I import the 2nd switch data file it puts the keyframes on top of the ones from the 1st file. If I could get it to put the keyframes somewhere else, would it not delete the old keyframes? How would I get it to put the keyframes somewhere else? Maybe where they actually belong, for example?

[jahnocli]

If you have a new file for each line of dialogue, you shouldn't have more than one switch data file per character, should you? Or am I missing something?

[Equalrights4animals]

I have multiple switch data files for characters when they have lots of lines because their different lines are in different files

[jahnocli]

Can't you deal with them separately and composite them together in a video editor?