Unable to Reimport gltf with new animation

Gowydot

Hi, I know I asked this before for Godot 4 but I am unable to re import the same gltf model with added new animation, even for Godot 3.

Basically I import a model with 2 animations then inherit a kinematic/character body then add script/camera..etc. (3rd person player). Then I add a 3rd animation in blender and export gltf with the same name and copy/paste the gltf over into the project folder. But after it reimported my character animation player scene still only show 2 animations.

I've been searching but no one seems to have this problem in GD3 or 4 so this must be my problem and I wonder if I do it wrong or is it something that Godot unable to do.

Any explanation / help with this please. What are the steps to update the model new animation after scened it. Thank you

fire7side

What I do is have the model scene parented to the kinematic body with no code on it. I have all the code on the kinematic. So when I change the model, I delete it from the scene and from godot and from my window file. Then I reimport the new model and parent it back. Not sure if I have to do all that, but I'm paranoid.

Gowydot

Ohh. All these time I just changed the type of gltf scene to kinematic/characterbody and expecting reimport to update it.

I saw some tutorials mention doing it your way but never really fully understand why until now.

Thank you!

Lethn

I just thought I'd mention since I've run into this problem of missing animations after import, another thing that seems to fix it is if you go into Blender and press push down in the action editor for the animations you want. Of course make sure you also have fake user enabled on all the animations you want to export to Godot as well.

Gowydot

fake user enabled

I don't truly understand what Blender's fake user is about so I didn't do anything with it. It's working so far with just the push down action. But I will keep this in mind if there's importing problem in the future. :)

Megalomaniak

it gives the datablock a owner so it will get written to drive on save. Orphaned data gets discarded.

Lethn

Another extra note as well and I'm just passing all this on to save people trouble in the future, if you ever run into materials issues such as materials from another model applying themselves onto the model you just imported make sure to import your model into it's own folder. Godot does have some quirks about it when it comes to importing generally.