Can you mirror an animation?

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I have a simple bird made from cylinders (one for the body and two flattened cylinders for wings). I made the right wing flap with a simple up-down animation. However I had to make the animation for the left wing from scratch again because I couldn’t figure out how to “mirror” flip the animation. I would really like the other wing to use the same animation file. Is a animation flip even possible? Is there a better way to do this?

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yes, it is possible to “mirror” flip the animations. I use blender to do my animations, and to flip animations in blender you simply :

  1. Click A to select all the bones,
  2. CTRL + C to copy,
  3. and CTRL + SHIFT + V to paste the flipped version

for more information regarding this issue watch this tutorial,

this tutorial helps me quite a lot to understand the basics of rigging, skinning, and animation in blender

to get to mirroring part skip to 1:09:00
I hope this helps

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I might have to learn a little Blender (haven’t used it yet, except for converting file formats). I’m more of a programmer guy I guess. Thanks! :slight_smile: