Questions tagged [nla-editor]
Questions related to the NLA (Non-Linear Animation) editor in blender.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cant move tracks up and down in the NLA editor
For some reason I can't move any tracks up or down in the NLA editor. All of the tracks are unlocked. When I right click on a track and go track ordering --> to top, the track doesn't move.
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GLTF export does not respect NLA track ordering
Using Blender 3.3 here, been trying to export my model with the correct track ordering for NLA. for some reason, the export always messes up the ordering.
i definitely did this correctly
in the gltf ...
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NLA Track changes when not editing
I have two NLA tracks in sequence. The first has jogging motions with cycles modifiers. There is also a Follow Path modifier that is animated to stop at a frame. The second will have movements ...
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How to "push up" an NLA Strip or Action Clip to Append to a new file
I want to re-link a library character and then re-append some actions from a previous file. However, while I see my desired actions/names in the NLA Editor, I don't see them in the Action Editor ...
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Why does exporting to FBX only include one NLA track?
I have an armature with a bunch of NLA tracks/actions on it that I would like to export to FBX. However, when I try to do so the animations in the resulting FBX are all copies of whichever NLA track ...
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Shortcut to go to the first and last frame of a selected NLA Strip
I know there is a shortcut to go at the first frame (by pressing ⇧ Shift + ←) and to go at the last frame (by pressing ⇧ Shift + →) in the timeline.
I want to know if there is any shortcut to go to ...
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Animation on the same two characters
I was trying to create a simple walking animation of a character in NLA. However, due to some unavoidable reason, I have to append walking animation on the same two characters once at a time. The ...
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NLA Editor and existing animation
I already have an animation set up (a simple walk cycle) and would like to add some other animations (idle, etc.), but I can't figure out how to use the walk cycle I mentioned in the NLA editor.
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how can i mix NLA with my manual animation?
i just started to mess around with NLA, but what i can't seems to figure out is how do i mix NLA action with a manual/custom action
like for example, this is the setup for the nla, it start with idle, ...
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export mixed NLA editor data
Is it possible to convert/export the mixed NLA tracks into a single animation?
For example if I manipulate motion capture data, to give the manipulated motion data out as a single animation?
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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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How to group keyframes for materials?
I'm looking for a way to group, move and copy material keyframes. For this I use the Dope Sheet, Action Editor and NLA. Unfortunately, it doesn't show any material keyframes in the Action Editor. If I ...
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Multiple animations on one mesh, gltf export [duplicate]
the object I'm working on consists of several meshes. all of those meshes are connected to one animation (let's call it "open"), and one of the meshes is connected to another animation (&...
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Rename all selected NLA tracks with the name of the actions they are holding
Is there a way to automatically rename all existing NLA tracks with the name of the action that they are holding? Tried to find some scripts but only found the one to create an NLA with the name of ...
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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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Only the top track in NLA editor is playing even though none of the tracks are favorited?
This is the link to my Blender 3.2 file which has three Mixamo animations, T-pose to running, and then picking up. Even though they are all in different tracks only the top one is playing and if I try ...
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