Duplicating a character and it's keyframes, replacing it's skin.

[moniker 67]

I have a character with a certain skin, i've animated him. Now I want to duplicate it, move it away and then use the same keyframes for another character at the side, using a different skin. Let's say I want to walk them in sync side to side. It seems I can't do this. I don't understand why you can't change skins on the fly, it seems you have to create a new entity in "Library" for each skin you want to use. Which leaves me without the posibility to re-utilize the keyframes from other characters specially the basic ones that work for all entities such as walking.  I can't also try to copy keyframes from one character to another in the timeline. So im asking: How do I ago about this?

Edited August 31, 2015 by moniker

[Marty McFly 1k]

You have to use that method you mentioned before. Create a new entiiy and do it all again. There is no other way, But in the next version of Mine-Imator we will be able to copy-paste keyframes to other entities.

 

Welcome to the future.

[david 8.4k]

I don't understand why you can't change skins on the fly

You can, change the texture (found in keyframes) in the top character layer to a different skin. Do this while having all keyframes selected.

[moniker 67]

You can, change the texture (found in keyframes) in the top character layer to a different skin. Do this while having all keyframes selected.

But im afraid this doesn't save me from redoing every keyframe from scratch everytime I want to use a different character with a different skin (no posibility to use the walking cycle of an existing character into another character to save time).

[Blue Chocolatebar 1k]

But im afraid this doesn't save me from redoing every keyframe from scratch everytime I want to use a different character with a different skin (no posibility to use the walking cycle of an existing character into another character to save time).

drag select the keyframes then do what David said

[SydneyIzMe 1]

If you're talking about changing skins in different scenes (as in: in one scene the character has one skin, then in the next has another) I just add a new character (a "stunt double" if you will) with a diff skin, then make the original character invisible. I don't know what version you're talking about. but I'm using the 0.7 demo because 1.0.0 confuses me 

EDIT: That's pretty much the only way I know of 

Edited August 31, 2015 by SydneyIzMe
Forgot to add a part :I

[moniker 67]

Im using 1.0.0 DEMO 5