Smarter "Copy Current frame..."

[Víctor Paredes]

Hi. Do you know if there's a script that works in a similar way to the "Copy current frame..." option in the Animation menu?
I need to copy a frame of a very complex character into another frame.
The menu feature works if I check the "Copy entire animation" option, but it's far to be ideal, since it adds keyframes for all the channels of all the layers. And that is a lot of channels in a lot of layers...
What I'm looking for is a script that would only create keyframes for channels that already have animation and ignore the rest.

Do you know if any script with a similar behavior?

Thank you very much.

[Stan]

So, as I see it, a menu/button script that will open a dialog with just "From frame: __ to frame __", and by clicking OK will copy all animated channels for the selected layer(s) only, including all sub-layers, right?

I could try to make it, just not sure if I have enough time this upcoming weekend...

[hayasidist]

Since I've been working on channels recently I've got quite a few bits of code hanging around --- here's a snippet as a starter ... Only for Moho 12 or later

It gets the "all channels" channel for a layer and for every subchannel that is of non-zero duration sets a key at the target.

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	for j = 0, ctChannels-1 do 
		local chInfo = MOHO.MohoLayerChannel:new_local()
		moho.layer:GetChannelInfo(j, chInfo)
		local ch
		local subChans = chInfo.subChannelCount
		if chInfo.channelID == CHANNEL_LAYER_ALL then
				for k = 0, subChans - 1 do
					ch = moho.layer:Channel(j, k, moho.document) 
					local chDet
					if ch:Duration() > 0 then 
						if ch:ChannelType() == MOHO.CHANNEL_BOOL then
							chDet = moho:ChannelAsAnimBool(ch)
						elseif ch:ChannelType() == MOHO.CHANNEL_COLOR then
							chDet = moho:ChannelAsAnimColor(ch)
						elseif ch:ChannelType() == MOHO.CHANNEL_STRING then
							chDet = moho:ChannelAsAnimString(ch)
						elseif ch:ChannelType() == MOHO.CHANNEL_VAL then
							chDet = moho:ChannelAsAnimVal(ch)
						elseif ch:ChannelType() == MOHO.CHANNEL_VEC2 then
							chDet = moho:ChannelAsAnimVec2(ch)
						elseif ch:ChannelType() == MOHO.CHANNEL_VEC3 then
							chDet = moho:ChannelAsAnimVec3(ch)
						end
						local val = ch.value -- value at current frame (or use chDet:GetValue(inframe) )
						chDet:SetValue(outframe, val)
					end
				end
			end
		end

so you'll need to iterate over all layers (e.g. http://www.mohoscripting.com/index.php? ... ippet&id=1 ) and whatever UI you fancy..

[Víctor Paredes]

So, as I see it, a menu/button script that will open a dialog with just "From frame: __ to frame __", and by clicking OK will copy all animated channels for the selected layer(s) only, including all sub-layers, right?
I could try to make it, just not sure if I have enough time this upcoming weekend...

Yes, it's exactly that. Thank you very much for your message and I'm sorry i didn't answer you before.
Don't worry about writing the scripts (but huge thanks for the offer), we will see what can be done here.
It was I wasn't sure something similar was done in the past.

Since I've been working on channels recently I've got quite a few bits of code hanging around --- here's a snippet as a starter ... Only for Moho 12 or later

This is great. Thank you very much for the help! We will explore the idea.

[Stan]

Victor, if you just need the speed, there is a quick method MohoLayer:CopyFrame(fromFrame, toFrame, recursive). It copies every single channel, but does it very fast and easy.

[A.Evseeva]

Here is the tool that Stan mentioned above. It is our first collaboration.
http://revival.ru/test/ae_keytools.zip
To copy channel values go to source frame, press the COPY button, then go to target frame and press PASTE.
Keys will be created in animated channels only and in all the sub-layers if the "Child Layers" checkbox is checked.
It also can add new keyframes with ADD button using strange but useful logic (it is mainly for those animators who did not add keyframes before animating and found their previous animation destructed by new keyframes added later)

[Víctor Paredes]

Here is the tool that Stan mentioned above. It is our first collaboration.
http://revival.ru/test/ae_keytools.zip

Thank you very much A.Evseeva!
I'm sorry I couldn't reply before. The script seems to be working perfectly and it's exactly what we needed.
Thank you very much again for your generosity.

[Greenlaw]

Good info in this thread!

I actually needed something like this last night. Will give some of these suggestions a try soon.

[Víctor Paredes]

Hi, I just came to say I'm using this script a lot. Thanks again!

[Víctor Paredes]

Hi, I was wondering if there's a chance the copy/paste option of this script could work between different opened files.
Many times I need to use a pose of exactly the same character, but from a different file.
Do you know if that would be possible?

Thank you very much. And, again, this is script is fantastic. Currently I'm using it in every single scene I animate

[A.Evseeva]

It already can do this for selected layer. I will try to add this feature for sublayers. Possible problem is assigning sublayers one to another if layer order was changed.

[A.Evseeva]

Uploaded a new version which can copy-paste between open files including sublayers.
http://revival.ru/public_soft/lua/ae_keytools.zip

[Lukas]

Uploaded a new version which can copy-paste between open files including sublayers.
http://revival.ru/public_soft/lua/ae_keytools.zip

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing.

[Víctor Paredes]

Uploaded a new version which can copy-paste between open files including sublayers.
http://revival.ru/public_soft/lua/ae_keytools.zip

Thank you very much! I'm having some issues testing it in this project (but it's probably because these characters are very complex). I will try again when I get some time

[A.Evseeva]

Released a new version: http://revival.ru/public_soft/lua/moho_ ... l=keytools
new features:
- an option to select all the keys on all layers
- an option to exclude reference layers from this and other operations
- button to copy and paste key options (such as easy handles) from one key to another