Change animation start key frame?

1000h

My character skeletons exported from blender only have one animation each, and that is a full strip of all of the animations back to back.  This seems to have been a very inconvenient choice as it appears you cannot change through the Animation tab or scripting an animations starting frame.  Before I go and undo all of this work is there anyone that knows how to change the first key frame of an animation through scripting It seems like the way to go is to copy each full strip into as many sub actions that exist, then delete the keys irrelevant keys It seems that using .seek() and .get_pos() in the script might be the only way to not split the strips up into different animations, and that would mean finding the different times of each section. The following seems like the better idea over having to cut up an animation strip and readjust every frame just so.  But if it is the case, beginning and starting times must be recorded as float properties on to individual characters assuming they dont use the same animation. All this could be changed if only you could just switch the starting animation key.... #animation # 0 = attack # 1= jump # 2 = run func process(delta): animate func animate(): if animation = 0 animationplayer.seek(time_of_animation_attack) if animationplayer.get_pos(end_of_attack) _string = idle if animation = 1 etc etc

1000h

When importing a scene with animation which relies on redundant key frames, you should uncheck the optimize mark before you select import <strike>Another problem which I </strike>think<strike> I am seeing is that godot takes the liberty of deleting frames which are the same between two points, except the first and last in the strip.  So if you decide to cut your strip up, the points which mark static unchanging key frames are lost and the skeleton ends up losing its structure in the cropped animation.  Which means that every frame which godot deleted, you have to go back and enter manually through duplicating key frames.</strike>

Ross

Wow, sounds like that export/import process is a real mess. There are quite a lot of methods for dealing with animations from GDScript: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/classes/class_animation.html So you could use track_get_key_time() and seek() to that. If you're going to do that I would create a separate track with only keys at the start of each animation, so you don't have to count through a million keys. Use a dummy export var for the track property. Then you could do as you said, just have an integer for each animation. (maybe use an enum or something, I've never actually used those with GDScript.)