Animation Tags

A tag-based organization system revolutionizing how you manage your animations. Unlike Blender’s "Collections" system, which doesn't apply to animations, this system lets you assign multiple tags to any animation, giving you full flexibility in how you categorize them. Create your own tag hierarchies and quickly filter through them to find the exact animation you need in moments.

Whether you prefer to organize by character, action type, or a combination of both, the choice is yours. Effortlessly search, filter and animate with total creative freedom!

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DOCUMENTATION

Location

Panel
NLA Editor ‣ Sidepanel ‣ Tool

Actions
Tags
A button at the top of the UI that toggles editing or viewing the tags

Viewing

Add Animation
Under the list of tags, there’s a list of all animations that have the selected tag applied to them. Clicking any of these will add it to the NLA. If you have a track selected, and there is space, it will add the action there. If you don’t have a track selected, but there is a track, it will add it to the top one. NOTE: These will be “linked” actions. It is not the default Blender behaviour where adding each one creates a new “action”, they all share the same data. This means that changing the keyframes of one will change all of them. This is done to reduce the amount of duplicated animations you can end up getting.

Editing

Add Remove Move
Add or remove tags. There is also the option to Move tags up and down. However, while ‘moving’ the order of tags is safe, it is not fully functional, and is disabled by default. It can be enabled in the addon preferences.

Dropdown Menu
Contains “Remove Tag With Children”, which performs the same function as “Remove” does, except it also removes all tags that are a child of the current tag. “Empty Tag” removes every reference to it.

Settings

Viewing
Hide
Hide all items which belong to this tag from all results. Anything in a hidden tag will not show up no matter what other tags they are assigned to.

Isolate
Show only the items which have this tag assigned to them. No matter what tag you are looking at, if there is an isolated tag selected, only things that also are a part of that isolated tag will appear.

Editing

Active
The tickbox beside the Tag or the Action shows if that Tag is assigned to that Material. Clicking the tick adds or removes the Tag to the Action. The ticks beside the Tags, shows which tags the action currently selected has in the list below. The ticks, next to the materials in the list below, show which actions have assigned to them, the tag selected in the list above.

Parent
Set the parent Tag of this tag. The tag will be automatically moved beneath its parent in the UI. Something assigned to a tag will also be assigned to its parents as a factor of how tags work.