[Blender] Un-confusing the NLA Editor (Nonlinear Animation)

要有逻辑思维能力，不然很难理解几种模式的原理。这是难点
You must have the ability to think logically, otherwise it is difficult to understand the principles of several modes. That's the hard part

Someone must have said it before, these are the best Todorials out here :) Thanks man!

how to add animation to more than one object and export it to FBX ? still strugelling with it

Great video! you explain things very well, this is a great contribution to the game dev community, thanks for helping us out!

Awesome set of tutorials!! my sincere gratitude, dude ! 👍👌

Excellent tutorial, it really helped me out. I've been trying to work out how any of this works and was TOTALLY CONFUSED, but seems straight forward now.

Is there a way to turn a sequence created in the NLA Editor into a single clip, that can have it's keyframes edited all together in the dope sheet, and then pushed back down into a track again? (Similar how you can output an animation from Unreal's Sequencer)

Am I right to assume that
1. Timeline for scrubbing
2. Dope sheet to mix movement of upper arms and legs and control their timing
3. Graph editor to control how sharp or smooth the movement
4. NLA to blend different motion of a single object like making a bullet tumbling in the air after deflected?

First class tutorial. The most thorough I have seen

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Such a good video. Concise and very informative.

Nice video on NLA. Thankyou.

is there a way to convert an action in NLA back to a normal keyframe animation?

This was very useful, many thanks. Great job explaining it!

This was amazing, been using blender since 1.79b and always saw NLA but was awfully confusing, thanks so much

Thank you very much! One of the most helpful and structured tutorials on the matter.

Thanks!!

Awesome tutorial! It really helped me to understand the NLA editor.

there's a way to bake object animations and armature animations and export all in 1 FBX file with 1 animation track?

you teach awesome, thanks a lot. Since i couldn't find a good tutorial about constraints, it would be very nice if you could make a tutorial about the function of the existing constraints in blender with some examples. Thanks in advance!

it is illegal to know this much in one video! Love from PK

Very informative stuff thanx brother❤

QUESTION: you create a simple "hide object in viewport" action and push it down to the NLA. This works fine, but every single time you go to add an instance of this action strip to the NLA the extrapolation setting always resets to "hold". Is there a way to get extrapolation set to "nothing" baked into my action strips I push down to the NLA??? Thanks for your video it has been a lot of help!!!

Great video as always. One question though: are there any ways of "grouping" NLA strips together in case I need to adjust them afterwards? I know I can bake them into a single action/strip, but sometimes the client may want changes and that'd help tremendously.

tnx a lot

THIS IS A GREAT TUTORIAL. I'M LEARNING SO MUCH

I've been learning blender over about the last 2-3 months, and almost EVERY "tutorial" is not a tutorial, but a demonstration that identifies keystrokes as the host progresses through a project. YOU, however, are a true tutor. You don't just demonstrate, you introduce, explain, demonstrate, and discuss. You do an excellent job. Thank you.

This is an excellent overview. Exactly what I needed.

Thank you for making this great tutorial. A lot of courses skip this because they say its too complicated but this explains it so well and simply.

Thank you very much! Big shout out and hugs!

The most confusing thing for me is moving the strips... you move one high, there's a new layer created you have to delete. If they're boxed in, you can't move them, you have to mess up all your strips to make way for moving one of them.... moving strips feels like playing snake but the game plays in reverse after completion.

Thank you for this video - this is the best explainer of the action / NLA workflow in blender that I have seen. Solved a half-day-long problem just by watching and understanding this video.

Best explanation about NLA editor I've seen so far!

This and your previous video have been SO helpful, thanks a ton man.

So well explained! You are great!

Hello, can anyone help with merge two different actions in NLA editor. Is this real in blender?

Blender Foundation needs to put your tutorials to some official learning course. Very quality materials, man! Thanks for your work!

Brilliant video, thank you

A little tip fo begginers: in situations where we have several ActionStrips stacked on top of each other that affect each other.
If we click on, for example, the middle one and want to edit it (TAB), our character is no longer influenced by ActionStrips that are above the one we are currently editing. It is very inconvenient when, for example, one ActionStrip is responsible for placing our RootBone and the other for the movement of the hand, and when editing the movement of the hand, the character teleports to a different place because the ActionStrip with RootBone stops working.
There are two solutions;
One thing is to move the edited ActionStrip to the top in the NLA, for some reason editing the ActionStrip the ones below still work..
The second is to click on the star next to the name of the Track on which the ActionStrip you want to edit is located, and then edit it, then most of the effects remain, for some reason ...
remember to uncheck the star after editing.

All I'm gonna say is just thank you. You're right, NLA is a pain when you try to figure it out by yourself. As somebody who's also creating video tutorials I should say this is very well explained

Great lesson!

this video is gold

Is it possible you can do video comparing animation layers addon to the NLA editor? And how you can use the 2 together?

The best video for this complicated topic.Thank you very much

Very thorough explanation. Thnx!

wow...thx for explaining it so well

In depth and valuable information, thanks

Bro! Brilliantly simple breakdown of a complex topic. You truly made this easy to not fully understand. Amazing job!!!

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