Palettes & Rulesets

Keep a growing library sorted without tagging anything by hand. You describe what belongs together once; every clip that arrives afterwards files itself.

The idea

A ruleset is a named condition - "name matches Walk, Run or Sprint". A palette gives that name a colour and an icon. Together they turn a flat wall of clips into something you can read at a glance, and they update themselves as the library changes.

Rulesets also double as filters in the browser: one toggle per rule, combined with AND, and invertible for "everything this rule did not catch".

Building a rule

Rules are built from conditions, grouped with AND / OR.

Fields you can test

Field	Useful for
Name	The workhorse - prefixes, suffixes, regex
Duration, FrameCount	"Anything under half a second is probably a fidget"
IsLooping, IsHumanoid, HasRootMotion	Structural properties
IsInsideFbx	Clips still living inside their source FBX
UsageCount, SceneUsageCount	What is referenced - and what is not
EventCount, AudioEventCount	Finding clips nobody wired up
Version	How many versions a clip has
LastUpdated	Recency
Character, CharacterName, BoneMatchScore	Rig-related filtering
IsFavorite	Your own marks

Operators

Equals, NotEquals, Greater, Less, GreaterOrEqual, LessOrEqual, StartsWith, Contains, Regex, and four date operators: OlderThanDays, NewerThanDays, WithinDays, NotWithinDays.

An example

"Unarmed locomotion, under two seconds":

Name        Regex          ^(Walk|Run|Idle)
AND  Name   NotEquals      *_Weapon*
AND  Duration  Less        2.0

Or the one that actually earns its keep - "everything the boss rig uses that still has no audio":

CharacterName   Contains   Boss
AND  AudioEventCount  Equals  0

Saved rules run down the left - the built-in ones like Humanoid, Looping and Inside FBX alongside your own. Add Group is what turns a flat list of conditions into real logic: groups combine with AND or OR, and each group holds its own conditions.

Palettes

A palette holds the visual side: colour and icon per group. Assign a palette entry to a ruleset and every matching clip is tinted and badged in the browser.

Palettes also cover the keyframe editor's look - key colours and shapes, muscle-group tints on the timeline. Those are Pro; see Lite & Pro.

Every state a key can be in has its own entry - default, selected, locked, pending, pending-overlapping - and the muscle-group palette tints whole bands of the dope sheet, so left arm and right leg stay apart at a glance on a rig with two hundred rows.

Quick Filter

For the question you only have once. Build an ad-hoc rule with the same condition builder, read the live result count while you assemble it, then throw it away - without spending one of your saved rules on it.

Note the two things at the bottom: the live match count updates as you build, so you know whether the filter is worth finishing before you finish it - and Save as Rule… promotes it to a permanent rule if it turns out you want it again.

Quick Filter is a Pro feature.

A typical setup

1. Create a palette with entries like Locomotion, Combat, Cinematic
2. Create a ruleset per entry - start with Name / Regex, refine later
3. Import new animations and watch them fall into place

Lite includes one custom rule on top of the built-in defaults; Pro is unlimited.