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Would it be at all possible to have a way to lock an animated layer?


I love Clear Animation, it's awesome.
But with the mantis shrimp update I'm finding a usecase for locking some layers, so we can have a cycling opacity/drift on a layer that is extra to the global lineboil/noise settings. (love those too)

Unless there is a way I don't know yet, I use markers to warn against clearing anim. But even I sometimes forget and then I find out I deleted my cycle (esp Clear Animation From Document) ((has anyone written a script for this))



I save it in an action, that's my workaround, so it's easily retrievable, but I would love to lock a layer
Yours lovingly..

My lock layer script wouldn't be able to stop clear animation from document. All we can do with scripting is keep you from editing a locked layer directly.

Ah dang it maybe Moho will see this and add something

I didn’t know you’d written a lock layer script that’s still SO HANDY! Can you use that to lock Reference Layers?? Editing them directly is often a common error! I will seek this out anyway, thanks so much!

The Clear Animation menu item doesn't seem to come as a Lua file (meaning it isn't there to be modified, and so the menu item will still be there even if a new tool is created) - but it should be possible to script what you want - i.e. if the layer is locked, then the replacement tool can check this and not delete animation in it.

BUT, IMO, this is a trivial change - somewhere in the guts of the factory tool will be loop such as:

for this layer, for all channels, AminChannel:Clear...

and (famous last words) all that's needed is to check the layer lock before launching into the channel clearing code.

bintykins wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:27 pm I didn’t know you’d written a lock layer script that’s still SO HANDY!

Yeah, it's awesome! Here's the original forum topic:

viewtopic.php?p=167236#p167236

If you're using it in a team production, make sure everyone has the script installed.