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Questions related to the NLA (Non-Linear Animation) editor in blender.

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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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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. My question ...
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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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How do I link 3 animations made in 3 different scenes of the same character for Unity in NLA

I already have 3 FBX files. Idle, Speed walk and walk. I am a beginner and thats why I copied the character and pasted in to 3 scenes. I want to clarify that when I talk about scenes I mean new ...
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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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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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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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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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Adding new transforms to constraint target of camera. Without affecting original animation

I am working with a camera that has a Child Of and Track To constraint targeting an object in motion. That animation of the camera with the constraints is good, however I need to apply additional ...
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How to add SoundClip of a Speaker in NLAEditor using python

I want to automate playing a sound via speaker multiple times. I know that there is a operator bpy.ops.nla.soundclip_add to add soundclip to a speaker. But it's an ...
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Can I have an NLA channel containing multiple armatures?

I've set up Animation retargeting with this tool: https://github.com/cgvirus/Simple-Retarget-Tool-Blender that uses blender's in-built bone constraints to have the bones of the new armature ...
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How to bake NLA to keyframes

New to blender coming from Maya. I have some action strips on a character, and I'd like to bake down all the animation into key frames so that I can start hand animating on top of it. I tried ...
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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 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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