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drag animation into builder and have it stay in order

Ann K AlteredEssence 11 years ago • updated by Alin Alexandru Matei 11 years ago • 2
Still when I drag in an animation from a file into the builder as an animation it brings all the layers in but all mixed up.  I have to replace many of my animations since this last build and the layers are still coming in all mixed up.  not a big issue when there are a few layers but when there are 20+ it takes a long time to rearrange them.  Is there a trick to have them come in order?

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Alin Alexandru Matei 11 years ago
To drag the frames in the correct order you order them like: 001, 002,003... select all and you start dragging from frame 001. So with all of them selected drag them into the builder by performing the drag action to the first frame.
For the second problem try to delete that frame element, remove the frames from the builder folder and try importing them again.
Charmaine Anderson 11 years ago
Hi Ann,

I've had that same problem, and I noticed to circumvent this, before you bring the files into IB3, make sure they are listed in alphabetical order when you drag them in, otherwise they might come in out of numerical order sequence.  Hope this helps. On Mac. Click "Name" in your folder where the files are you wish to import and the files should sort into alpha order.
Ann K AlteredEssence 11 years ago
Charmaine, Thanks for the suggestion I have the files all named the same with the number following, like ' bird-001, bird-002"; I'll try the number first and see if that helps.  Now I'm having a new problem, I am reentering the missing files since the update and I've twice now entered 20 layers for an animation and only 14 show up
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Alin Alexandru Matei 11 years ago
To drag the frames in the correct order you order them like: 001, 002,003... select all and you start dragging from frame 001. So with all of them selected drag them into the builder by performing the drag action to the first frame.
For the second problem try to delete that frame element, remove the frames from the builder folder and try importing them again.

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