Imported animation use multiple instances with seperate time offsets

[drz]

Hi,
I have a problem using my imported animation more than once with other time offset.

Here is my setup: I have a file animation.sifz which have an animation from 1f to 24f.
Then I have a file scene.sifz where I have imported the animation.sifz.

I copy the imported layer, so it is twice in the scene. Now I thought if I give one of the layers a time offset of -24f the first layer starts on 1f and the second layer on 24f. But every time I change one of the both import layers this effekts also the other.

Is this a bug or do I something wrong? Is there a way to disconnect the two import layer?

Thanks for any help!
Daniel

[veermetri05]

It’s not a bug, but that’s how it works.

I also expected it to work in the way are expecting it.

Issues with imported file and canvas (Time Offset and Speed)

Synfig crashes when trying to import a file into itself. To reproduce: Create a file Save the file Within the same file, Go to file import and select the same file. Synfig crashes Expected Do not allow to import a file into itself (Display a message not to import the file into itself) I know that it is a stupid idea to import a file into itself. I just wanted to see what happens (I thought I would get infinite canvas within each other )

Please read the above thread, there are explanation on how it affects the animation and also workarounds to solve the issue.

[drz]

Thanks for the hint.

I could do the job by using a workaround with some script magic. I wrote a script that detect changes on my animation.sifz file and than copy it to files named animation_01.sifz … animation_70.sifz. In my scene.sifz I imported the 70 animation copies. I does this by editing the xml directly.

So now when I change the animation and save it all copies are updated.

This works fine for me.