Questions tagged [nla-editor]
Questions related to the NLA (Non-Linear Animation) editor in blender.
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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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Calling Multiple Actions at Once
I have six objects. Each has an action that occurs at the same time as the others. Is there a way to turn these separate actions into one mega-action that I can call instead of having to call all six ...
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Can't find keyframes anywhere, but I can see their effect
I have set two keyframes for the image texture node's offset property, which are driving the animation of that image texture.
After trying to use the NLA, I seem to have completely lost these two ...
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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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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 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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Rigging when bones must achieve conflicting goals
I have a question and words seem to fail me when searching here for an answer. Although this is related to a swim cycle, it is a problem I have encountered before: How do I achieve more than one goal ...
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Animation with python NLA tracks failed
I am trying to follow Blender sushi tutorial about animation with python, The video link is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX0e1tyV5w
The text version here http://blendersushi.blogspot.fi/...
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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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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
Python ...
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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 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 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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Transition with walk cycle
I made a walk cycle action : the character has nothing in his hands.
Then, I made an action to take an object.
Then, I would like my character to keep his path, using walk cycle action again, and with ...
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Why can my NLA strip only be 10 000 frames long?
I have NLA strip with path animation, But it seems like I can only do animation for about 10 000 frames if I'm using NLA strips?
Really?
Am I doing something wrong?
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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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How can I repeat a group of animation phases
I am building an animation of a machine where various parts move along paths in turn. So far I have done this without any armatures. I was hoping to string several cycles of operation together, and ...
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NLA editor gets tangled all up in Blender 2.75?
Don't know what to do with this mess.
Plane.002 is just a still object in my scene. Don't know how It got an action strip.
I want to clean up NLA editor and action editor up by removing four actions ...
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How to save NLA action but don't use it?
I'm animating something that I made using armatures. I made a very basic walk cycle, and turned it into an NLA action. However, in the current scene of the animation I'm making, I don't actually need ...
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TIME_TRANSLATE don't work [closed]
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the problem is very "easy"..bpy.ops.transform.transform(mode='TIME_TRANSLATE' DON'T WORK ...anything happend if you use that.... any action, any return, ...
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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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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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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 make NLA strip rotate based on previous action?
in this file http://pasteall.org/blend/34781, i would that the person turn left and continue to walk but there is a little bit problem that i could understand that canceled the turn left action. Could ...
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How to make NLA strip pick up location based on previous action?
I am progressing on my complex animation model. Now I have just a small problem. I have create 3 action strips: walking, movingstraight and crouch.
In the NLA editor, i try to compose these actions.
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Why NLA editor run only the top action strip
I get an error when I try to create a walk cycle using two action strip. The first is walk cycle in place and the second moving cycle from point A to point b. I could not understand why the NLA run ...
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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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Swap two curves in the editor graph
I am wondering if possible to swap two curves in editor graphs? or to modify a curve to be constant =0 (no motion)?
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Snap FK/IK does not copy the motion
I have had an amazing problem about IK and FK mode. Snap is used to copy the animation from IK to FK or from FK to IK. So, normally, When i do an animation using IK and FK mode, I can finally run it ...
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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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Animations to Unity3d
I'm developing a videogame, so I started creating my assets on blender. I have made a human with a walk and idle animations (Everything fine here :) ). For unity can detect that the main character's ...
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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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Object in pose mode does not translate
I am doing this super tutorial (NLA editor), in which we animate an object using armatures.
As mentioned in the image below (23:23 in video), I try to translate the object to create some keyframes ...
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Edit IPO curve does not work
I want to edit the IPO curve on blender. In the Graph editor,I select Ylocation curve then I hit T and I choose linear but the curve does not change to linear (image 1 vs image 2). I have tried other ...
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Can I use the the animation/action from one bone on another bone on a later time?
I have a animated bone : translation on Y with ipo keys,
can I use this exact data (linked) with another bone - starting on a later frame?
and how?
Or how is a proper workflow for this...?
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NLA animation changes on every render
This is the first time I'm utilizing the NLA-editor into my animation workflow and I'm having some trouble: it seems like my character is moving in a slightly different manner on every render. I have ...
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How can animated shape keys be used in the NLA when a character is linked from another .blend?
The character's file has some actions to control a rig (rigify) this works fine in the NLA but shape keys need to be controlled by a mesh. A setup like this:
Even the offset (start keyframe) can be ...
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How to spread out keyframes parabolically
I would like to create an animation in which something blows up, starting at a normal speed, slows down to a stop, and then reforms. I know I can manually spread out the keyframes in the dope sheet ...
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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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Animation on keyframe and timeline
How do you loop an animation inserted between, for example, keyframe 1 and 20, through out the whole 250 frames on the timeline?
How do you animate a torus on repeat?
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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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Using NLA strips on different bones belonging to the same armature
Let's say I have a character with four arms, all part of the same armature. Is there a way I can animate one arm, turn this into an NLA strip and use them on the other bones or do the other arms have ...
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Get pose bones which were animated in a strip
I created an animation with some of my pose bones and created a strip in the nla editor.
How can I access the strip and find out which pose bones were needed for this animation via python?
I took a ...
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NLA action modifiers, character walking on curve
In the old MancandyFAQ, Bassam shows an action curve modifier for making MC walk on a curve up hill and all. I'm trying to achieve a similar thing in 2.71 but not sure how to go about it. Walk cycle ...
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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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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 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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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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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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Moving an f-curve from an object to a bone
I'm altering some animations from direct animations on the object to animations on the bone that influences the object.
I've appended the action to the .blend from the original .blend and applied it ...
