How would someone replace an animation in one AO with some animations from a second AO?

[AppleseedAlex]

I'm wondering because I found one set of AOs that I love, except for it's walk. And I found another AO that has a good walk, so I was wondering if I can combine the two together to get something that would suit my tastes rather than have to keep searching.

[Alwin Alcott]

take the animarions out of the one, delete the old you don't like and put the ones you like to the aother AO, adjust the settings notecard ( if there is one)

Of course this will only work if both AO's are mod.

[Nalates Urriah]

Alwin is breif but right.

In general, take the AO off, detach it. From inventory find the AO and drag it to the ground or a floor. AO's are often visible from only one side. The other 5 sides a clear. Pay attention to where you rez it. It is best to have the camera looking down on the floor, not across the floor. Even then you may have to cam around the spot you rez the AO on to find it. Also you can press Ctrl-Alt-T to turn transparent items red.

Once you find the AO edit it. Right-click it and select EDIT.

In the General, Object, Features, Texture, Content tabs select Content. Look through the contents to find the walk you like. Many of the animations you find in AO's are Copy-OK. So, prepare a folder in your inventory's Animaton section and then drag the animation into that folder. (It can be a folder anywhere in inventory) If it is Copy-OK, there will be a copy left in the AO and a new copy in the folder. If No-Copy there will be one copy of the animation in inventory. 

Take the AO back into inventory. Rez the other AO and open Contents. Drag the Walk you like into the AO.

Now the complex part. AO's are made to automatically find all the animations and class them based on name, i.e., as a walk if the word 'walk' is in the name. Some requiure the name to start with 'walk'. Others require you put the name in a list in a notecard in the AO. If there is a notecard in the AO, there will likely be a walk section in the list. Animations will be dividied by various delimiters. You'll have to figure out how they designed the notecard. It is usually obvious.

Some No-Mod AO's look no mode because they have No-Mod scripts. You can still add and remove animations and change the notcard.

Some No-Mod AO's are really No-Mod. In that case you may or may not be able to pull animations out of them. But, you won't be able to add animations.

There are a number of 'depends' but play with it and you may be able to get the animations yuo want all in o ne AO.