Dragging Animations Into Animation Window

[gamecreator]

Just a quality of life improvement: it would be really nice if we could drag animations into the animation tab to create an animation.  It could take the animation name from the file name.

[Rick]

I'd like to see some automatic configuration around this (if it doesn't already exist) based on a naming convention. Perhaps open the model and click one button that brings them all in with the same name and an underscore or perhaps the @ which is popular format for this kind of thing. Perhaps a dialog that shows all them and you can multi-select which ones you want to add.

[macklebee]

9 hours ago, Rick said:

I'd like to see some automatic configuration around this (if it doesn't already exist) based on a naming convention. Perhaps open the model and click one button that brings them all in with the same name and an underscore or perhaps the @ which is popular format for this kind of thing. Perhaps a dialog that shows all them and you can multi-select which ones you want to add.

So what you are asking for is what you can currently do within the Model Editor with the File>Load Animation dialog except you want it to be able to multi-select instead of one at a time.

[Rick]

Yeah. Just more of a batch load vs individual. When there are 10+ it’s just tedious. Should be easy really. That file select dialog should support multi-select actually.

[gamecreator]

Being able to replace an animation would save time too, not needing to delete the old animation and rename the imported animation from Take 001.

[gamecreator]

Next one and this is important to me: be able to reimport the base model without destroying all the animations.  I think this one may have been requested before.  I changed the mage's weapon but that didn't need to change the animations in any way.  But all the animations were wiped and I had to spend time reimporting them.  Leadwerks should detect that you already have animations in the model and ask if you would like to keep your existing animations.

[Crazycarpet]

Pretty sure Josh said he's not working on LE4's editor because it's not carrying over to LE5.

[gamecreator]

Yeah, I think you're right.  But things change and even if not, it's worth considering for 5.