Questions tagged [nla-editor]
Questions related to the NLA (Non-Linear Animation) editor in blender.
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What is the NLA Editor used for?
I understand how you animate something (say bones location and rotation in an armature). Doing so creates an action; that action can be renamed in the Dope Sheet. In the NLA Editor I can create a ...
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How should an animated character be moved while repeating a walk cycle?
I created a walk cycle as an action, placed it in the NLA editor and repeated the cycle.
For each repetition the character jumps back to the starting position, what are some options to move the ...
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How to bake animation in blender 2.8?
I'm only starting on blender with the 2.8 version
I want to do several animations by moving the different donuts up and down so I started animating with actions. But I got one action per object and I ...
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Getting area (region.view2d) pixel coordinates of 2D views (VSE, NLA)
I am looking to overlay a sound vis, using bgl, over strips in the NLA, VSE, like
How can I find the area.region.view2d x,y, width and height of strips in the NLA and VSE editors using python?
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Is there a more efficient way to edit actions alread used in NLA?
When not happy with the results in an animation the action can be edited again (Tab in NLA-editor). After that the action is displayed with a snowflake indicating that it needs to be freezed again.
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How to export multiple NLA Actions to gltf?
Usually videogames require you to create your NLA action tracks and export them as an @action_name.fbx (unity) individually, so the game engine will pick them up and apply that .fbx data only to the ...
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How to reverse an animation?
"I'm looking for a way to reverse my animation so it is identical the other way."
This is commonly asked and so I am presenting my solution.
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How to make a walk cycle loop?
I've made a walk cycle that I would like to repeat a certain number of times. When I tried to "Make Cyclical" the entire armature animation I realized that the Graph Editor's modifiers only appear to ...
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How do I offset animation start in a linked blend?
I have a resource file containing a model with materials and animation tracks (NLA action strips) that I want to re-use in another Blend file.
In the resource file I created a group containing the ...
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How to use Nonlinear Animation NLA Editor with Grease Pencil
I have a walk cycle made with Grease Pencil in Blender 2.9.
I would like to be able to use the NLA editor to duplicate it a number of times and operate on it.
I have seen a number of useful videos for ...
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Looping walk cycle animation snaps back on repeat
I have what seems to be a fairly common problem (From what I've seen while searching) that I can't quite seem to solve. I'm trying to make a character walk down a street. This is the first proper ...
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Where can I change mixing of an action in NLA?
I combined two action strips in the NLA-editor but the forward movement fades in (red curve in the image below) I would prefer to have this linear. Where can I change this behaviour? Action blending ...
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How can I push all actions into Nla trough blender headless with python
I'm trying to write a script that pushes all the actions into NLA for the selected active object or a rig. But I'm using blender through the command prompt so I can't use code that has UI like
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Bringing in Multiple Animations of a Single Armature to Be Used For One Animation
I have created 3 animations using one rig in separate .blend files, a walk in place, run in place, and a simple front flip. If I were to create a new file with this rig in it, how would I go about ...
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Can an action be mirrored or reused?
In a scene I linked two groups (object and rig) and appended an action, now I'm experimenting what would be the best workflow to animate more characters in a scene.
I would like to have a set of ...
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How to export only NLA animations to GLB
I have a model with dozen animations, but only a few of them are "pushed down" to NLA tracks. How to export only NLA animations to GLB? I somehow managed to do it before, but not now :)
For ...
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Loop Actions with a Cycle F-modifier
I am about to create a ~3 minutes long forest scene with some rabbit roaming around.
I created a rabbit with two animations: Sit, Walk.
I then created a curve and key framed the evaluation time so ...
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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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How can i copy NLA Tracks from one armature to another?
I want to copy the NLA action strips from one armature to another armature. The simple approach does not work of course because the nla_tracks is read only :
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Why does 'bpy.ops.nla.fmodifier_add' fail due to 'context is incorrect' error?
My nla strip confirmed that the active attribute is True, but bpy.ops.nla.fmodifier_add failed due to the context is correct ...
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How can I make an NLA strip longer to fit more keyframes?
I made an animation and dropped it as an NLA strip - now I'd like to tweak that strip to add more keyframes and make the strip longer.
I thought that the Extend (E key) function does that - but no it ...
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How to get the active strips in the NLA editor from Python?
Is it possible to get the active strips in the NLA Editor with Python, in order to run a function on them?
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How does one animate time in the VSE?
I'm trying to move between slow motion and normal motion on a video/audio strip smoothly, but am having problems animating this. I've tried Individual objects and Entire scene and Time Remapper addon ...
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Render each strip from NLA editor?
I have 20 different strips on the NLA editor, and am trying to render all of them.
How do I:
Render each strip seperately into it's own output folder
Render only active frames/keyframes
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NLA Action of material Mix Shader node FAC value
I'm creating an animation where regions of the brain light up and turn off, cued to video and sound. Many many keyframes of essentially "fade on / fade off" switches for each of the 6 highlighted ...
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How to get back to normal animation timeline after using NLA Editor
My Model in Frame 1 is at the end of vertical plane. On Frame 240 he comes near the camera.
I did basic walk animation in Frame 1 and went to Action Editor->Clicked F->Clicked X to close it.Then ...
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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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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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How to make a transition between 2 strips in NLA Editor?
In the NLA Editor, I set two strip actions, each one of these actions defined with the dope sheet.
However, I have a gap (20 frames about) between these 2 strips in NLA.
Do you know how to ...
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how to extend this animation to infinity?
So I have this kind of animation:
It changes the location of an object in steps:
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How to select the fcurve of a material
I have a fcurve assigned to a material, but for some reason it neither influences the Offset, which it should be, nor shows up in the Dope Sheet or NLA Editor. And actually, the X-Offset is only ...
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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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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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Join NLA actions from multiple objects
I have 4 animations (one of each leg and arm of my lego man). I want to be able to loop these animations multiple times throughout the scene to make the man walk.
Currently in the NLA Editor it has a ...
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How can unused tracks be removed from the NLA?
With autokeying enabled I accidentally moved a few objects, unfortunately they now appear in the NLA editor. I removed the actions saved and reload but I can't get rid of the entries.
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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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'List' of Properties in NLA Strip Pt.2
In relation to 'List' of Properties in NLA Strip. see that part for details...
How can I get the list (and its custom properties) saved into a "specific" NLA Strip, so the item(s) ...
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Python select empty action line in NLA Editor for Blender 2.8 API
I want my script to add the selected object to the NLA editor, add an empty track, and then add an action strip to that track.
When I call the tracks_add function, ...
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How to bake multiple sounds to f-curve to the same object
So im animating a characters mouth using shapekeys and baking them to an audio clip. I want to add three different audio clips to the same character's mouth using bake sound to f curve. But, when i ...
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How do I download action strips?
I have watched a few YouTube videos on how to create and animate with NLA Editor and Dope Sheet (bake) but my thing ain't working out.
I want to get action strips but I cannot find any! I have tried ...
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How to shift foward actions using python
I have two sequential actions, and I want to shift them both foward.
I can list the actions with bpy.data.actons, but I don't know how to modify them.
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How can I combine 3 actions with the NLA Editor?
Please help me out, I use blender 2.76b, I tried to combine three actions in NLA editor but only the selected track is functioned while the others are muted. Please help me.
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How can I edit F-curves of an action already put in the NLA editor
I am wondering if it is possible to edit curves of action already put in the NLA editor. And suppose that I have an action that extents from the frame 0 to frame 40 and in the NLA editor Strip Extents ...
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How to select a graph in graph editor
I am doing an animation and in graph editor i need to interpolate some graphs. I select the graph point by point but it is not comfortable. Is there any shortcuts to select the graph?
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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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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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Move Strips and add transition in NLA editor using python
System Information Operating system: Windows 10
Blender Version 2.93.5
Hi, im fairly new to the python scripting in blender, how would i go about moving these 3 action strips from this:
To this, ...
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Editing the action strips in the NLA editor
Are the action strips in the NLA editor able to be actually edited, as you would edit clips in a NLE? I was hoping I could grab the end of one and drag to trim it, or say ctrl-drag the edge to stretch ...
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Does gltf only support the export of one strip per NLA track?
This blend file contains only the default cube. I've create two Actions:
MyTrans that implements only a translation &
MyRot that implements only a rotation.
Each of those Actions, I've 'pushed ...
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