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Hello and welcome to another video

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of the Blender Animation Workflow Tutorials.

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On this video, I'm going to show you

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how to export and import using animation action.

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For this video, I have created

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a simple Armature with one Bone,

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and the Cube with the spheres

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is parented to it.

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This Bone have two different axis.

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one that is moving in X,

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it's a loop.

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And one that is moving in Y.

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If we want to create the third one

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that moves on the Z axis, we just have to go

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to this button over here, "create new action",

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now this one will make a copy of the one

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in Y.

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We can call this one

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Z.

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Now, we can go to the last frame.

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This one, Y is 360, I'm gonna

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change it to 0.

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And then for Z, gonna change it to 360.

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So now it's going to be looping on Z.

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Remember that if you want to keep your actions

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when you close your file, you have

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to click here,

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and then Blender will keep your action.

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If you want to delete an action, you can

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go to the Outliner, and then

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inside the Outliner, go to Blender File,

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Actions,

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and then here we can delete the one we

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don't want.

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I'm sure you knew this. Because the easiest

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way of exporting animation in Blender,

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is by using Actions.

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You don't really have to export them

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because they are already in this file.

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What I'm going to do is to go to another file

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with the same exact rig,

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I'm going to open

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Important Information here.

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So this is another file with the same rig.

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But here you can see, it doesn't have any action.

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The important action in this scene,

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what you're going to do is to use Append.

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Append is in File,

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and here you can look for Append.

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It's a way of bringing

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information from another Blender file

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into your file.

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Take Append, and then we look for

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Import Animation Version 2,

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is a 1 when I have the actions I want.

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Click that one and then here you have

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a list of the things inside your scene.

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Here I go for Action,

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here you can see, I have all my actions here.

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I can select this one or if I go with

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Shift, I can also select multiple.

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So now I have imported all the actions

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from the other file into this file.

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Now I have to go here, you can see,

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it has a 0.

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0 means that right now

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if I go

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rebuild the file, which means reopening

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the file again,

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now all the actions are gone.

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So in order to keep them, you have to go again.

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Then when you apply it, you will see that

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the 0 disappears.

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So now,

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if I close and open again, (so remember

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to save first, it's saved,

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revert)

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and now as you can see, the other two with

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0, disappear, but this one stays here.

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You can also go and pin it,

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and then

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it won't be deleted when you reopen Blender.

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And now if I play,

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it will have the same animation.

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This is a way of how you export and

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import actions.

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Thank you so much for watching

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and see you on the next one.