I just accidentally exported an animation over one I wanted

AxeOfMen · October 23, 2018, 8:28pm

By mistake in the animation editor I clicked “export” instead of “import” and wiped out an animation i had created previously. Any thoughts on how I can restore the original?

Veldaren · October 23, 2018, 9:47pm

I’m not an animator, but since you exported it, can’t you import it back?

DutchDeveloper · October 23, 2018, 9:49pm

cant you go to animations in your create tab of the website and then configure and then set an previus version back?

Kiansjet · October 23, 2018, 9:49pm

I don’t believe assets have previous versions like places. I assume Roblox has backups anyway, but I doubt they’d put in the effort to get something like that for you.

DutchDeveloper · October 23, 2018, 9:50pm

well theres no way to restore the animation. so i am afraid you have to redo the animation

Kiansjet · October 23, 2018, 9:51pm

An overwrite confirmation dialog is a good idea (maybe they already have it, I don’t remember)

Thundermaker300 · October 23, 2018, 10:49pm

iirc assets have revert version.

Update: Assets do, ~~with the exception of animations.~~ , just not displayed on website (read post below)

Corecii · October 23, 2018, 10:54pm

Here’s my response from an old post:

Animations do have versions! They just aren’t displayed on the site.

Put your animation id in here: https://api.roblox.com/assets/your id here/versions

Get the Id property of the version you want to load

Open the animation editor on a rig in an empty place

Make a save on the rig

Run the following in the command bar, but replace your vId here with the Id from step 2
local id = (your vId here) for i, v in next, game:GetObjects("http://www.roblox.com/asset/?versionid="..id) do v.Parent = workspace:FindFirstChild("AnimSaves",true) or game.ServerStorage end
Use File -> Load in the editor to load the imported animation

This loads the animation from the version id and sticks the keyframes object in the AnimSaves model.

It would be a good idea to expose this on the site, anyways.

AxeOfMen · October 24, 2018, 12:21am

Thanks for pointing this out, @Corecii
Can you take another look at the content url you’re using in the command? I’ve tried that and many variations of it, but I’m getting 404s each time. The only one that works so far is

rbxassetid://<animation_id>

but I can’t append a version to that,or that is to say nothing I’ve tried has worked

Corecii · October 24, 2018, 12:31am

I’m having no issues with it.

Make sure you’re using the Id field, not AssetId.

^{Note: I have tried this on animations uploaded in the last week, but those are not my personal animations so I don’t feel comfortable sharing their details in public. This does work on new/recent animations.}

Make sure that your command looks like this:

local id = 1594645962 for i, v in next, game:GetObjects("http://www.roblox.com/asset/?versionid="..id) do v.Parent = workspace:FindFirstChild("AnimSaves",true) or game.ServerStorage end

and use it here:

Make sure that you’re logged into the same account in Studio as you are on the website. Make sure that you have access to the animation (it’s yours or it’s a group you’re in with place edit access).

If you have any issues feel free to post the api.roblox.com response text here and I can modify the command for you to test

AxeOfMen · October 24, 2018, 12:34am

This is the part I was confused about. Thanks a lot. I appreciate the help.