Reply To: My keyframes keep disappearing
Dear Diary,
When you link an action to an object or armature, any actions that are not linked anymore will not be saved when you close the file. (This is try for all unused data blocks in Blender)
If you want to hang onto things that aren’t linked you need to press the shield button that will create a “fake user” and Blender will not delete it.
But it sounds like you might be having a workflow issue.
Why are you wanting to swap out the action for the vanilla bounce? (This is probably not the best thing to do in most circumstances)
I would suggest that incrementally saving the file would be the easiest way to go. That way all the old versions are nice and safe.
However, if you are creating many different versions of a bounce (or other animation) then it is the best way to go.
What do I mean? Say if you want a nice 14 frame bounce in one action, and then you are trying to do a more cartoony version of say 7 or 8 frames. It makes more sense to keep both those actions in the same file (which you can incrementally save) rather than having them as stand alone animation files.
Anyway, I hope that helps. You don’t learn anything without running into a few hurdles.
Keep going!