I had something strange this morning: Yesterday evening I made a poserscene. I wanted to work on it this morning, but I couldn't change the main camera. I couldn't rotate, zoom or pan, nothing.
After a lot of trials I discovered that my scene suddenly had two more animation layers, which is strange:  I have never used that option, because I make hardly any animation. There were also a lot of dialsettings I made on one of those layers, including the camera, which caused the camera to freeze when the base layer was active. When I delete the layers all the settings I made disappeared (which was a lot of work!)
I have two questions: Does anyone know how you can get suddenly more animationlayers? ( I suspect thirdparty poses ,free or bought)
and is it possible to merge two layers into one?

best regards,

Bopper.

There are a lot of different scenarios that can lead to multiple animation layers, but typically it will have to do with a pose having been created and saved with animation layer data which then translates back into the scene when applied later unless you specifically tell it not to. There are a number of different ways to get your animation down to a single layer, but the simplest, IMO, is to just save it as an animated pose. If there are layers active when saving a pose, it will ask if you want to keep them separate or collapse them into one. Once you've saved it collapsed, you should then be able, in either a new scene or in the original one after deleting the animation layers, to apply your newly created pose. Since it would have been saved with the multi layer data collapsed, voila! No more layers.

Just one of many ways to skin this cat. :) -Les

Thanks! that saves a lot of work.

best regards,

Bopper