Timeline Preview Controls Grayed Out

[HaggardMelon]

I saved the project to take a break in the middle of this lecture. The next time I loaded up my project, I noticed my player ship was already sitting where it is supposed to be located at the end of the timeline. My timeline controls are all grayed out, and I noticed the animation tracks for both the player ship and the enemy just say “Animation Track” and “Animation Track (1)” respectively.

I’m not sure what happened here. It looks like the tracks are no longer assigned to the ships? How can I fix this? Do I need to rebuild the whole timeline from scratch now?

Please see screenshot.

Thanks!

[HaggardMelon]

I’m not exactly sure how I fixed it, but it’s working now. I think somehow a “Playable Director” was added to the Player Rig and since it was locked, it wasn’t switching to the Master Timeline when I was clicking on it. After unlocking it and clicking on the Master Timeline, it started showing everything again.