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How to customize the walk animation in Motion Designer?

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How to customize the walk animation in Motion Designer?

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Hello guys

Im currently trying to customize the IDLE and WALK animations for my character by replacing it with my own animations in Motion Designer (MD).

I first followed a tutorial on YT about this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gkZbt9UAMY) but realized, that with the techique described in the video you can NOT override all of the idle animations. Instead of replacing it with the new animation, the animations are added at the end of an existing "Basic Move_M_idle" animation, so that this animation always will be played first, THEN the animations added by drag and drop are played, even when I deleted all the idle animations in the Behavior Editor. So this method is not replacing the animations, but rather "appending" it to the basic motion. This is definitly not useful ...

Then, after some trial and error I found a way to replace this basic Idle animation by using the "Edit Motion in Timeline" feature in the Behavior Editor.
To do this I followed this instructions: https://manual.reallusion.com/iClone-8/Content/ENU/8.4/50-Animation/Motion-Director/Editing-Motion-in-Timeline.htm

And that worked totally as expected: It replaced the current basic motion with my own animation. Hooooray!

76% of original size (was 665x19) - Click to enlargehttps://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/38e4a023-b8d5-4164-acd2-afb6.jpg
So far so good... I tried to do the same for the WALKING animation. But had no success at all... There is no "Edit Motion in Timeline" feature available for the basic walk animation.
What I get is this list of animations, with the walking animation not showing.... (?)

76% of original size (was 665x19) - Click to enlargehttps://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/8087995f-db70-40da-9868-58f7.jpg
^^ when I rightclick on the "dgeLow" motion and select "Edit Motion in Timeline", then I only can edit the Perform Motion (this ofc is not what i want).

So i have 2 questions:

1.
Is it even possible to edit the basic walk animation(s) in the Timeline?
2. If yes (and I hope it is!), HOW can I do this??

I hope my explanations dont sound too confusing! :D  Any help here would be very much appreciated! :)
I really like the Motion Designer a lot ... and I really would love to use it with custom animations!

Thank you very much!
Have a great day





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