Offseting Referenced Animation?

[mcomet]

Is there a way to take a file that has animation on it, reference it in, and then be able to offset in time that animation? Apparently Maya seems to lock the the curves once something is referenced in....

Alternatively, is there way to in the base ref file, tell the keys/animated curves to be offset based on a "start frame" type attirbute that I could make?

Thanks!

-comet

[mcomet]

Well I ended up making a node and tieing that into the animCurveTA node that drives the real animation...effectively faking hte "current time" for those animated attributes. At least it works...