Questions tagged [nla-editor]
Questions related to the NLA (Non-Linear Animation) editor in blender.
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How can I edit an action strip while seeing the global NLA animation playing?
I'm playing with the NLA editor so I can use action strips, but I think I don't understand how it works.
From what I understand, I can see the NLA (global) animation only if there is no action opened ...
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Saving NLA-Strip Configurations for Multiple Actions for further Animation
Is there a way to save NLA-Strip Configurations like this?
Here is whats going on in the scene:
walkcycle from left to right
look around with the head and other acting
tail wave
jump over obstacle
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How to create a fade in action?
I have seen many videos that explain how to fade in an object and the corresponding keyframes are visible in the timeline. However, I have not been able to create an action with these keyframes (...
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Push Down NLA strips for only selected bones?
I have a whole sequence of lip sync animation and I am now going through and adding in all the other secondary face and head animation on top of it. I want to have a cyclic head bobbing that I can ...
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I want to blend two NLA Strips with different root positions without the character moving
I have two animations on two tracks with different root positions. I aligned the character so that he is standing in the same position when the tracks switch. When I blend the tracks together, ...
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Bake two NLA strips in a single animation
i'm getting mad with this.
I'm trying bake a single animation from different NLA strips, but i can't do it.
I imported a character with a skeleton and i added some animations with a retargeting from ...
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NLA Animated strip time with cyclic strip time reverses the motion
I created two quick walk and running animations for practice purposes using Rigify animbox. Blender version is 3.6.0.
In the NLA I'm trying to blend between the two actions, but when I activate the ...
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How do i rotate an animation i imported as an FBX
I have 2 animations I have imported. Both as a .fbx.
One is a character turning and running and the other is the character just running.
I am having a problem syncing up the rotation.
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Audio and Video sync issue in the Project after Render
I have faced a strange issue of syncing video action with audio. I am working in a Project. The entire project is of 4787 frames (Start frame 2154 and End frame 7150). There are numbers of audio files ...
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Is there a way to copy an entire NLA sequence from one armature to another, without using python scripts?
I have a character/armature with an NLA tracks sequence, and I want to copy the whole NLA sequence to another character that uses a similar armature.
I can add the same actions to the second character'...
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Action editor's active action
I'm designing a stack of animations for a game, and once in a while the display will get stuck on an animation, regardless of the action I edit. How do I change the active action displayed in the ...
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Editing Stashed Action VS Tweaking Strip Actions
What is the difference between "Editing Stashed Action" and "Tweaking Strip Actions"?
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FBX export: some NLA actions are broken
I'm having a weird issue with exporting an FBX from Blender to Unity with different skeletal animations as action stashes. Some of the animations show fine in Unity, but others seem to only have ...
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Need help blending my own animation with a mixamo animation
I have blended animations in the NLA editor before, but that was mixing two mixamo animations. Now I am blending my own animation with a mixamo animation.
But when my animation blends to the new one, ...
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How to export 1 action that contains two rig's animation
I have been told to export only one action containing the animations of the two seperate rigged pigs seen in the image. What is the best way to go about this? I have heard the suggestion of combining ...
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Dope Sheet Action Editor turned orange. I think I've changed a setting somewhere on accident, how can I undo it?
If you open a new blender file and open the Action Editor in the Dope Sheet, it looks like this:
Nice and clean, empty, and gray. In this new file, changing the End frame of the Timeline also sets the ...
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How to determine which NlaStrip is being tweaked
When working in the NLA Editor, there are multiple NlaStrips you can edit. You can go in and out of tweak mode to make adjustments to existing strips.
My question is, how to find out which exact ...
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Move 1 animation along Y axis while keeping others at origin
I downloaded 3 animation from Mixamo and added them as FBX.
I "pushed them down" in the NLA editor as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPJbwXLqJs&list=...
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When duplicating an action in the NLA editoris it suposed to create a new source action each time?
Like I said above, as of Blender 3.0 whenever I duplicate an action in the NLA editor it creates a new action entirely. Previously when you would duplicate an action in the editor, it would make ...
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Make strip active or deactivate it in python
I found out that the 'active variable of a strip is read-only.
Is there another way to activate and/or deactivate a strip with python?
Maybe a predefined operator which I can use?
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How to create many clips in the NLA editor
I have a metarig with:
Action 1 - for example he run with ball
Action 2 - he walk and throw the ball
When I switch actions for metarig - ball goes wrong - he throws it while running.
How can I ...
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Animating object's transparency in NLA editor
I would like to animate a short promo for a game I am making. I have various objects with different animations all set up nicely in the NLA editor. I would like to have some of those objects appear ...
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Is there any way to turn NLA (Non Linear Animations) into "normal" (Timeline) keyframes?
I've been working on a project in which I aim to animate the displacement of a material.
My problem is that anytime I add a keyframe for ANY parameter of the material nothing appears on the timeline.
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How to offset an animation with rotation?
I made a motion capture with multiple shoot. I used Wonder Dynamics to transfer animation to a character. With Rokoko I retargeted this to a Mixamo character.
I edited some part with NLA, and now I ...
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Can't delete empty NLA tracks and unused animation strips
These two are not working also "Remove Empty Animation Data" option are not working too.
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Rig's bone still moves/animates to different location on next frame even when keyframe is deleted
I'm not sure what is happening. I've deleted multiple tracks from NLA editor as well. There are no other keyframes when I reset this bone (Alt + G) yet when I move to next frame it stretches back out ...
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How to translate all bones of an armature in pose mode without destroying the animation?
I have a simple blender file with a mixamo animation imported as fbx. The animation is pushed down to the NLA and I have added a new (corrective) NLA track to do some tweakings. On this new NLA track ...
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How can I combine a new action to a pre-existing action in the NLA properly
I am using a mixamo rig / walk cycle and want to have my character take a drag of a cigarette. I created a new action for the cigarette animation but when it combines the action the hand "spazzes ...
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Mute/Unmute NLA actions on all objects by name
I have file with 55 objects and 86 NLA actions using four distinct names - many NLA tracks with the same name are used to control many objects with a single animation when exporting to glTF. I want to ...
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NLA Editor moving tracks up or down
Following a tutorial there should be a possibility to move tracks up or down in the NLA editor with the Page Up or Page Down keys but I can't get it to work. I tried several options with no result.
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How do I delete empty NLA tracks and why are they so randomly created?`
I can't seem to delete unwanted tracks when I have the "Include Missing NLA" button selected. What bothers me more is it seems to create tracks by random. In the screen shot below, 1/4 ...
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NLA Editor - Adding Animations Over Existing Animations
The NLA editor is not working as I expect it to.
I am animating a robot bowing, removing his hat, and then throwing it into a crowd.
I animated the right arm to the point of the release of the hat, ...
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NLA Animation: Where is the Extra Animation Data Coming From and How do I fix this?
So I recently tried my hand at non-linear character animation. I set my character up in a way where I wouldn't need to rig it and made both a walking animation and an idle animation. Each of the parts ...
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Trouble blending Forward and Left Strafe animations in NLA Action Editor
I'm currently having an issue with blending animations using the NLA Action Editor in Blender. I have a character model with four strafe animations (Running Forward, Running Backward, Strafing Left, ...
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Keep object assigned in the same position when changing animations
I am using animations from Mixamo for my character, but upon making the weapon the child of the hand bone, some animations work fine and others change the position drastically, is there an easy fix?
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Is there an reliable method to control for angles when working with multiple consecutive actions in one scene?
Currently, I am working on an animation where a character walks then turns at a 90 degree angle to the right then moves into the idle animation using a transition. All X,Y,Z rotation start at 0 for ...
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Exporting model animations with "Group by NLA Track" with thousands of objects takes an eternity
I have baked thousands of objects with dynamic physics for a particle simulation. Then I baked them to keyframes. The animations are roughly 400 fps long. I stashed those actions to individual NLA ...
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using python to set nla subtracks to active so I can insert animations with python
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If you look at the first picture (bottom pic) you'll see I can activate an NLA track and insert an action strip using python - it works fine no problem
The problem (look at second picture) Is I cant ...
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python navigation to NLA sub-track of an object
I need to fix up animation on a character mesh every time I resync a linked armature, because the related mesh shape_keys animation gets deleted. Manually I have to navigate to the mesh object, ...
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Using Pose Library for NLA (non-linear animations) causing distortions
I've saved a few hand poses using Blender's Asset Library and hoping to use them in some animations. But when I use them as keyframes and Push it down to an NLA, the fingers become distorted and I can'...
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Blender keeps crashing at random. Problem with Action constraint?
My Blender keeps crashing at random intervals whenever I am in a project using two specific rigs I put together. Most of the time it's completely fine to use them, but other times it suddenly begins ...
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NLA Editor issue. Actions not working
I have created characters and rigged them using Mixamo and then added a control rig via the Mixamo Blender addon. All good so far. I then download Mixamo fbx animations and push them down in the ...
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NLA Not Playing Simulataneous Tracks
I am trying to tweak an imported FBX animation.
I have created an action and brought it into the NLA in order to tweak the rotation of the arms which have for some reason become offset.*
Initially it ...
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Combining two actions into one
I'm currently in a bit of a pickle because of how I handled actions with this file. I have two armatures in my project, one for the viewmodel hands and one for the gun. Instead of animating them both ...
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Transforming an entire animation to match the location of another
I am making an animation of a tennis player, and I am trying to combine 2 animations: an idle state (the player stationary, bobbing up and down) and a hit, blending them together using the NLA.
The ...
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Rigify IK Pole Targets Disappearing During Animation
I've been having trouble with my rigify rig where I currently have an action where the IK pole targets disappear completely during the first few frames of the action. I've checked in the rigify ...
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Non linear Editor in Blender 3.2 is not playing animations on different tracks
I ran into a strange problem.
Usually if you have in the NLA Editor more than one track, and you chain these animations one after another on the timeline, they will play in that order.
You need to ...
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mutli object animated gltf for working, same Nla track name
I am making a PEB animation showing it being assembled. when I export a single object, it works fine but with all objects selected it still shows animation for one object with the animation bar moving ...
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How to animate multi part object diagrammatic explosion using NLA
I wish to animate a mechanical part (train bogie) exploding and imploding for a realtime system (taqtile manifest) using an fbx export.
I have keyframed the actions shown below.
Then cycle back to ...
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Trying to re-use actions as NLAs in an exported GTLF
I think I've read all the NLA/GTLF export posts in here, but none of them seem to talk about the issue I'm having.
I'm creating a pop-up book that will be controlled within a WebAR experience by ...
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