Questions tagged [nla-editor]
Questions related to the NLA (Non-Linear Animation) editor in blender.
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Issues exporting large amounts of animations to Unity
I'm having a few issues I have been trying to work around for a few months now when I'm trying to export a large group of animation Actions or NLA animations.
When I try exporting all my actions into ...
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How do you organize NLA editor strips
The outliner tab/bar is pretty organized, but when you look at the NLA editor it doesn't reflect what you see in the outliner
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NLA clips to another character
I have a character animation with a lot of clips in NLA. Now I need transfer my mixed clips to another character. Is there any way to do this easily?
I don't want to bake all my clips to one, because ...
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Can NLA strips be combined by transform matrix?
When I add two action constraints to each bone in an armature, they combine as expected and as described in the wiki, that is, translations are added, rotations are "added" (whether Euler rotations or ...
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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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Fix Animation with 'Add' Track Breaks the Animation
Firstly I had a model, and the issue was the pelvis was rotated the wrong way (in its default pose). To fix this, I rotated the pelvis back, then adjusted the rotation and location of the leg and ...
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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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Link Object's property to Actions
Is it possible to enhance the animation(where all animations are instanced as unique Actions from the Nla Editor) by changing the object's property (like material color etc) whenever a particular ...
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NLA tracks, how do they work? Why all these tracks?
I have seven tracks and I don't understand why.
My shape key for my "Body" mesh all have bone drivers so there isn't and won't ever be any keyframes to go with it so why do I see a key track?I don't ...
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dope sheet -- how to show two or more NLA strips (actions) belonging to one object
I have an animation set up in the NLA editor with two or more actions for many of the objects. The dope sheet only seems to be able to show one action per object. Example: I have a flower object ...
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Offset Timeline for Multiple Linked Objects
I'd like to be able to link to groups from a series of .blend files so that the models appear in a single .blend file so I can animate a camera between them, but make updates to the individual .blend ...
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Play two nlatracks simultaneously
I run in to problem with nla editor, I cant play two tracks simultaneously if they start and end at same time, the track on top is only which is played, if I move only one to side I get transition ...
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Paste flip animation does not give the expected results
I am doing a walk cycle using an imported .mhx file. To do the walk cycle, I animate the legs and hand for the first frame then I paste the inverse in the frame 21 (in my case).
In the first scenario: ...
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Nested objects/animations like in Flash?
I'm wondering whether there is an equivalent functionality in Blender to simulate the way Flash let's you create object "instances" each of which encapsulates other objects and even animations. The ...
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How snap PlayHead to start or end of strip in NLA Editor?
How snap PlayHead to start or end of strip in NLA Editor?
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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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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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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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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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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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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 do I make a cloth simulation animate on 2s(or 3s, and just simulations generally)
I have this cloth simulation and I want to animate it on 2s but there are no keyframes. I just want to use the NLA track and put a stepped modifier for the cloth simulation so I can animate it on 2s ...
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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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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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Animate plants growing along path as camera passes
I've created a plant object with a simple growth animation action and arranged many of them along a path in my scene. I've animated my camera moving along this path, and I would like the growth ...
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NLA animations aren't combining
I have two animations, one that makes my object bob up and down, and another one that moves it around. I have given both of these a fake user (shield icon) and have pushed them down to the nla ...
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Why does adding a second action sometimes result in two actions influencing each other?
I have been working with Blender for about a year almost exclusively to animate 3d models for games. I absolutely love it, save for the entire flow of action strip + NLA. The moment I think I ...
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Bake/Merge two or more NLA tracks into an action
I have two NLA tracks, one is the fist-clenching, and another is the leg-bending.
I'm able to evaluate them at the same time, so the leg is bent and the fist is clenched.
But my problem is, how can ...
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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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Name not reflected when generating nla strip with Python as strips.new() method
I looked at the api document and expected the name parameter of the strips.new() method to be reflected in the name of the strip, but it wasn't. Did I misunderstand anything? What is the purpose of ...
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Basically live VJing in Blender - Triggering animations on the run
We need to trigger an animation live, during a vj/theatre performance. The artist needs to easily start and stop a pre-made animation. I have been looking into Nonlinear Animation, but yet can not ...
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Animation doesn't update when switching action strip in 2.91
I'm not sure if this is a bug in newer blender versions, or some option that needs to be enabled. In the past when I would move up or down in animation layer, the rig/animation would change ...
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Cannot Transform (Scale Rotate etc) Keyframes in Graph Editor
I am using NLA and graph editor to edit an armasture (bvh). I AM able to edit individual keyframes, and yesterday I was happily editing and transforming the keyframes on another limb, but today, the ...
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Access a random number in an animation
I've been having a lot of fun animating armatures, but I've ran into a problem.
I've been using the NLA editor to play around with repeating animations.
Let's say I have an object, that can rotate ...
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How to trim length of a "Speaker" clip in the NLA editor?
On trying to sync the "Speaker" Sound clip to an Action animation (NLA editor), there doesn't seem to be a way to trim longer clips in the soundtrack.
Although there is a StripExtents option,...
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Edit action scale and repeat of linked rig using library override
I linked a character with a walk cycle as action and used library override. How do I repeat that action in NLA as the properties are disabled?
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How to get rid of "keying set failed to insert any keyframes" error
I am struggeling with the NLA Editor.
It seems that I am triggering a (for me) strange Hotkey, which keeps me from adding new keyframes.
The last times I noticed it before saving, unfortunaltely, ...
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GLTF import animation problem
I'm trying to import a GLTF with one animation track:
https://pastebin.com/raw/LxMeuJ32
it displays correctly on several GLTF viewers, e.g. BabylonJS Sandbox, three.js GLTF viewer, i.e. the cube ...
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NLA Editor: Tweaking an action while also playing ALL other strips and actions?
I'm animating a guy playing a guitar. Several actions are playing at the same time:
STRIP 1: ACTION 1: General body movements (moving the guitar around, swaying, etc)
STRIP 2: ACTION 2: Hands ...
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Accelerating a looped animation over time
I've got a looping animation set up for a ground plane so it looks like there's motion (kind of like a repeating conveyor belt), but I'd like to make it accelerate linearly over time.
Here's a preview ...
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Linking a rig with actions and animating more
So I created a character, rigged it using rigify and created a simple walk action. Next I linked it to my scene blender file and created a proxy to work on it. In the scene, I saw the walk action and ...
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Repeating walk cycle
I seem to be having problems repeating a walk cycle. The book I'm reading says to adjust the scale and set it to repeat 5-6 times. The walk cycle itself is about 40 frames. Though I've scaled it to ...
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Can I use the NLA editor to have one Animation "Dampen" Another?
so i had this idea... and i'm beginning to think it is not actually do-able?
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let's say i have an animation, of a limb/arm/tail/tentacle waving. i later decide it is waving too much. instead of ...
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Character forward roll causes reverse rotation with next animation
I'm creating a forward roll animation for my character, and my problem is that if I put that animation and any other animation after it with a blend, then the character does the reverse rotation ...
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Copy NLA tracks from one armature to another
I've been doing my animation on a low poly model. And now I want to transfer the animations to the high-poly model. I'm doing the following steps:
1. Link the high-poly model into a new blend file
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Actions - separated objects
I am lost in actions and NLA editor, even if I watched a lot of tutorials.
Is there possible to merge animations of more objects to the one action?
My character is a cartoon character and there is ...
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Is there a non-baking method of merging actions together
While it's possible to bake animation data, it usually outputs many keyframes to preserve the overall animation. Lots of keyframes are very tedious to edit. Is there a way of merging strips into a '...
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Export Animations to Wikitude
I am trying to export a scene to Wikitude 3D Encoder. The scene is nothing special, for now a simple cube will do. However, I would like to have multiple animations available for this object which I ...
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How to find out if the nla editor is in tweak mode
How can I verify with python if the current strip is in tweak mode?
I know I can call the operators bpy.ops.nla.tweakmode_enter() and ...
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