The most painless explanation of combining animations in the NLA I've seen. Great context and demonstration without the painful explanations without context of application. Great job. Been using Blender since the IPO days.
I was struggling for 2 days to blend Mixamo animations in 3Ds MAX using different tutorials with no success. Lots of errors all the time. Thanks to this video I was able to make what I want in 1h. Thank you!!! That was clear and informative and that was my 2nd time using Blender.
I am having trouble here. I have followed your instructions line by line and unfortunately I keep running into this issue when I try deleting the 2 rig. When I delete the 2nd rig, it blows up huge and lays flat and then my primary animation no longer works. Has anyone else experienced this? Looking for some help here as a new Mixamo and Blender user. Thank you!
Thanks, this was soo useful - been struggling with this for a long time because being total noob in Blender. For those other noobs who can't see the bones go to Object properties -> Viewport Display and tick "In Front" box.
That was fantastic! I actually learned more from this short video with you demonstrating the workflow practically than with longer videos trying to explain all the functions of the NLA editor in a theoretical manner. Thank you! c:
The first and second animation are facing the opposite direction in the NLA system. I selected the hip rig of one of the animation and rotated it to match, but the animation has become a little wonky. So i rotated the entire object in object mode but now both animations have rotated and still don't match. Is there a way to rotate one of the rigs on the z-axis without messing up the animation?? If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it!
hey, i've been following this guide and it's grand, only when i add the second track with shift a, the first animation stops working and just freezes to the first frame of the second animation, it's not in rest pose and i've check the timeline to start to both correctly but it refuses to play the first animation. any clue on it?
Doesn't work for me in 3.2 When I follow the steps, when I end up importing the 2nd action the 2nd animation not working as the figure remains frozen after the 1st animation plays :( any ideas would be great... UPDATE Works in 2.9 must be a bug in 3.2
Best 4 minutes of my life lol. But seriously probably going to be one of those videos I watch multiple times and rewatch as I follow along. Sincerely thank you for the smooth explanation. I genuinely had no idea how to combine the FBX animations like this. Now I will be able to import a crap ton of animation and mix and tweak away.
For some reason I couldn’t make a new track and import it because it had. No animation and it so I created it via different mesh and can only use the same track instead of over lapping like shown how can I fix ?
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! one qick question, when i shift A added Armature.001, the first action freezed , but second action can move, is there anything i did wrong?
i like this although how would i do this if i want the second armature to be still/no keyframes, for example i want a "stand to crouch" keyframed armature to a "crouch pose" armature with no keyframes, is there a easy way to do that?
if im not mistaken , you can always export fbx without the mesh but only take the animation. This will make your export from mixamo faster. BTW this is cool tutorial :).
another noob here.. how do you switch to the move the keyframes mode (2:52)? I see a cut over there and I have no clue what did you do there. Ty for your answer.
When I move second animation into place on the graph editor it creates an animation what slides into that position before playing the rest of the animation. Any idea how to resolve this? Thanks.
i tried now several times with different options... everytime i add a walk animation to an idle animation my charackter turns 90° and the arms goes through the body like n "x" .. any ideas? :/
Doing this with skinless armatures does not work. When I reach the stage where you SHIFT+A to add the animation from the other (deleted) armature, the rotation of the animations is messed up. Is there anyway this can also work for skinless Mixamo exports?
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I've been looking for this for a long time! Can I ask how to "tab into pose" mode and "search for bake action?" would appreciate it if the keybinds were enabled so that we would know what keys you're pressing in future videos
You could always make sure your armature is selected then go up to the dropdown menu and select pose mode from the regular menu (next to view_select_pose) then click pose-then animation-then bake action. My bake action doesn't show in the search menu for some reason so that is my work around.
For anyone wanting to know just press F3 while in pose mode to bring up the search menu now type in bake .....then choose Pose ..animation bake....booom
recently when I upload the FBX file into blender, the model is locked at a certain size and location and I would have to change individually for each keyframe. any way to fix this?
A little late but I was having the same problem until I went into timeline and made a keyframe for the moved character and kept it in the same position on the moved x axis.
HI I AM HAVING A PROBLEM WHEN I DO THIS THE SCEOND ANIMATION GET STARTED FROM THE POINT WHERE THE FIRST ANIMATION STARTS INSTEAD OF STARTING FROM WHERE THE FIRST ANIMATION ENDS PLSS HELP
Hello there. I am new to blender program. I want to ask you a very important question for me. First of all, I learned to combine moves from mixamo. 1- I get 3 different animations from mixamo. e.g. walking, running and jumping 2-Then I open the animations in blender, respectively walking, running and jumping. I also add an animation myself manually, for example, waving. There were 4 moves in total. 3- I combine them respectively walking, running and jumping and waving. There is nothing wrong. is happening. 4-but the problem is this: for example walking, then running, then hand waving animation that I added manually, and then the last jumping animation does not happen. 5-So after I rigged the character in blender to animate it myself, I can't add animation from mixamo afterwards. what should I do? I hope I was able to explain. thanks
Dunno what's going on...but downloading without skin in Mixamo it's messing up the model. To solve this, apparently, to be downloading everytime with skin.
Cool, I didn't think to go there; I usually parent to an empty and reposition as you did, using the foot or toe, then animate the empty, and blend after. I think you've got the elegant and sophisticated solution.
When I delete the second import I am left with the remaining geo. The model pops. I do the edit tabs to move the second position in and line and go back to the non linear graph and now my first rig moves away from the 2nd. How do you fix that?
Automatic translation is skipping something, When the second part is added, the part that says clik in shift, I press shift, and nothing, is the part that opens a tab written, '' Armature 001 '', What is missing ? how to open this tab in another way?
I'm losing my mind over here, dude. I combine my animations - one where the character does a flip and then goes back into a run - when I blend them, it automatically does a 360 spin. I Cannot figure it out! Please help!
Oh I figured it out! Click on the second action, hit N to open the side panel, and then click on the "Strip" tab on the side. Then change the extrapolation to "Nothing".
Great tutorial but I have a question, when I import the Mixamo Animation into blender the animation is there it loads in however there aren't any keyframes, just the animation, do you know a fix?
It's a great video perfect tempo and I love all of it except it doesn't work for me on my M1 mac and Blender 3.2 maybe I can find a way to just extend the walk and add the 180° turn but again different them a PC. I'll keep searching!
great video just what i needed (or almost that). It just happens that I'm using an animation from idle-to-running that points in a direction while the running animation I'm trying to combine with is pointing in another, so is there a way to combine them? I actually managed to kinda do it by rotating the root bone in the transition but with this I lose the chance to use the Blend In/Out, anyone knows a way around it? (I tried rotating the running anim separately but once i add it to the NLA it always inherits it's original orientations).
does'nt work, pb with graph editor. Some important points to highlight must be missing. One unique experience is not a complete tutorial. Will try to find another solution.
Had been looking for this for ages, one question though if anybody knows if you have two additive animations, does it combine the additive effect of the two into one?
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The most painless explanation of combining animations in the NLA I've seen. Great context and demonstration without the painful explanations without context of application. Great job.
Been using Blender since the IPO days.
Thank you Marco, Mixamo&Blender combination explained as nowhere else on YT.
you can also select both actions if they are separated and click add transition to smooth it out.
Where can i find the add transition function?
Bro 2 years later but you menage to fix me a bug witch i was trying to slove for 2 hours. Thank you so much!
I was struggling for 2 days to blend Mixamo animations in 3Ds MAX using different tutorials with no success. Lots of errors all the time.
Thanks to this video I was able to make what I want in 1h. Thank you!!! That was clear and informative and that was my 2nd time using Blender.
Great video. You're the first who perfectly explain the process. Crystal clear. Thank you
Does this method still work in newer versions? I'm following along but when I add the second nla strip the one below it stops working
same here if you know why let me know 😅
Same for me!!
I am having trouble here. I have followed your instructions line by line and unfortunately I keep running into this issue when I try deleting the 2 rig. When I delete the 2nd rig, it blows up huge and lays flat and then my primary animation no longer works. Has anyone else experienced this? Looking for some help here as a new Mixamo and Blender user.
Thank you!
Thanks, this was soo useful - been struggling with this for a long time because being total noob in Blender.
For those other noobs who can't see the bones go to Object properties -> Viewport Display and tick "In Front" box.
This is by far the best explanation of this process I've seen. Thanks!
Thank you so much! I've been trying to figure out an easy way of doing this for years (literally)!
I have come back to this video multiple times as I always forget a step. Big thanks!
I also want to thank you. Starting to work with Mixamo fbx actions and discovered this issue. Best approach I've seen yet.
This was so much easier than several other methods. Thank you for this great explanation 👏
What you press to "search" bake action?
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That was fantastic! I actually learned more from this short video with you demonstrating the workflow practically than with longer videos trying to explain all the functions of the NLA editor in a theoretical manner. Thank you! c:
What about having a walking animation continue past what Mixamo will create?
The first and second animation are facing the opposite direction in the NLA system. I selected the hip rig of one of the animation and rotated it to match, but the animation has become a little wonky. So i rotated the entire object in object mode but now both animations have rotated and still don't match. Is there a way to rotate one of the rigs on the z-axis without messing up the animation??
If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it!
This is exactly what I needed. thank you for this little tutorial
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so cool, I did exactly what you did but for some reason the bottom animation stops but then the top one works, what am I doing wrong?
How are u opening the option to pick the second animation?? There was nothing mentioned for that important step
hey, i've been following this guide and it's grand, only when i add the second track with shift a, the first animation stops working and just freezes to the first frame of the second animation, it's not in rest pose and i've check the timeline to start to both correctly but it refuses to play the first animation. any clue on it?
Doesn't work for me in 3.2 When I follow the steps, when I end up importing the 2nd action the 2nd animation not working as the figure remains frozen after the 1st animation plays :( any ideas would be great...
UPDATE Works in 2.9 must be a bug in 3.2
I had the same issue. This works in 3.1, but not in 3.2. I found that whichever animation was on top would work, but the ones below would not.
Best 4 minutes of my life lol. But seriously probably going to be one of those videos I watch multiple times and rewatch as I follow along. Sincerely thank you for the smooth explanation. I genuinely had no idea how to combine the FBX animations like this. Now I will be able to import a crap ton of animation and mix and tweak away.
For some reason I couldn’t make a new track and import it because it had. No animation and it so I created it via different mesh and can only use the same track instead of over lapping like shown how can I fix ?
mine just keeps moving both animations not just one to the same point i am selecting one so im not sure what im doing wrong
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! one qick question, when i shift A added Armature.001, the first action freezed , but second action can move, is there anything i did wrong?
i like this although how would i do this if i want the second armature to be still/no keyframes, for example i want a "stand to crouch" keyframed armature to a "crouch pose" armature with no keyframes, is there a easy way to do that?
Bro after selecting the y location I can't move it....any solution.
sameee!!!!!!
if im not mistaken , you can always export fbx without the mesh but only take the animation. This will make your export from mixamo faster. BTW this is cool tutorial :).
but how doi do that
@@emiliano3d514 in mixamo there is a drop down on export to only save anim no mesh
@@mrgonuts already did that, animation isnt really working
@@emiliano3d514 not working ? In what way
another noob here.. how do you switch to the move the keyframes mode (2:52)? I see a cut over there and I have no clue what did you do there. Ty for your answer.
When I click tab and go to graph editor, there is nothing that shows up. No keyframes or anything.
how to combine 2 running animations so second action starts there where 1st action completed
when I export as an .fbx and import it into my new scene my model loses the second animation...any ideas?
When I move second animation into place on the graph editor it creates an animation what slides into that position before playing the rest of the animation. Any idea how to resolve this? Thanks.
i tried now several times with different options... everytime i add a walk animation to an idle animation my charackter turns 90° and the arms goes through the body like n "x" .. any ideas? :/
when i change the direction in the graph editor by changing the z rotation the animation wobbles. how can i fix this? thank you
Doing this with skinless armatures does not work. When I reach the stage where you SHIFT+A to add the animation from the other (deleted) armature, the rotation of the animations is messed up. Is there anyway this can also work for skinless Mixamo exports?
very nice and clean explanation
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I've been looking for this for a long time! Can I ask how to "tab into pose" mode and "search for bake action?" would appreciate it if the keybinds were enabled so that we would know what keys you're pressing in future videos
You could always make sure your armature is selected then go up to the dropdown menu and select pose mode from the regular menu (next to view_select_pose) then click pose-then animation-then bake action. My bake action doesn't show in the search menu for some reason so that is my work around.
@@jeffdidit8740 Thank you! I couldn't find the Bake Action too. Apparently hoverying your mose in the NLA editor won't appear in the search
@@jeffdidit8740 Gr8 advice!!! Tnx a lot!
For anyone wanting to know just press F3 while in pose mode to bring up the search menu now type in bake .....then choose Pose ..animation bake....booom
thanks for the tutorial, when I bake 2 animations, it only shows Y pose for some reason.
found it, when baking, uncheck only selected bones, keeping it for people who may have the same issue.
This is really helpful, Thanks! I was struggling a bit with this!
recently when I upload the FBX file into blender, the model is locked at a certain size and location and I would have to change individually for each keyframe. any way to fix this?
A little late but I was having the same problem until I went into timeline and made a keyframe for the moved character and kept it in the same position on the moved x axis.
At 2:50. What shortcut do you hold to move the entire graph? Mine just deselects everything when i click
Got it just hold "g"
HI I AM HAVING A PROBLEM WHEN I DO THIS THE SCEOND ANIMATION GET STARTED FROM THE POINT WHERE THE FIRST ANIMATION STARTS INSTEAD OF STARTING FROM WHERE THE FIRST ANIMATION ENDS PLSS HELP
Hello there. I am new to blender program. I want to ask you a very important question for me. First of all, I learned to combine moves from mixamo.
1- I get 3 different animations from mixamo. e.g. walking, running and jumping
2-Then I open the animations in blender, respectively walking, running and jumping. I also add an animation myself manually, for example, waving. There were 4 moves in total.
3- I combine them respectively walking, running and jumping and waving. There is nothing wrong. is happening.
4-but the problem is this: for example walking, then running, then hand waving animation that I added manually, and then the last jumping animation does not happen.
5-So after I rigged the character in blender to animate it myself, I can't add animation from mixamo afterwards.
what should I do? I hope I was able to explain. thanks
Dunno what's going on...but downloading without skin in Mixamo it's messing up the model. To solve this, apparently, to be downloading everytime with skin.
Cool, I didn't think to go there; I usually parent to an empty and reposition as you did, using the foot or toe, then animate the empty, and blend after. I think you've got the elegant and sophisticated solution.
When I delete the second import I am left with the remaining geo. The model pops. I do the edit tabs to move the second position in and line and go back to the non linear graph and now my first rig moves away from the 2nd. How do you fix that?
Automatic translation is skipping something,
When the second part is added,
the part that says clik in shift, I
press shift, and nothing, is the part that
opens a tab written, '' Armature 001 '',
What is missing ?
how to open this tab in another way?
I'm losing my mind over here, dude. I combine my animations - one where the character does a flip and then goes back into a run - when I blend them, it automatically does a 360 spin. I Cannot figure it out! Please help!
Thanks for the tutorial. I couldn't find how to fix the issue of the animations starting at different locations until this.
Short, concise and gets the job done. Brilliant thank you
Is there a way to combine Multiple strips into 1 single strip?
After creating the new track, how to open the search? , and, find the other part that has been deleted?
Is there a way to set blending interpolation from linear to bezier
Why character blur in blender which import from maximo
You saved my life, I love you so much!!!
i didnt understand where to search for Bake action?
Adding the first action is fine, but as soon as I add the second one the tracking is all off and limbs are out of place. Is there a reason for this?
Oh I figured it out! Click on the second action, hit N to open the side panel, and then click on the "Strip" tab on the side. Then change the extrapolation to "Nothing".
Can u tell me how much time did it take to render that scene? Please reply!
thanks! when i import and add model in nl the seccon animation rotates! i dono why ! when i rotate it fisrt animation rotates too! help pls beother
i cant find Baking actions bake action here...
How to tab into pose mode I could do it 😅 anyone help plz I'm not able to bake action
Great tutorial but I have a question, when I import the Mixamo Animation into blender the animation is there it loads in however there aren't any keyframes, just the animation, do you know a fix?
Best tutorial ever thanks buddy
It's a great video perfect tempo and I love all of it except it doesn't work for me on my M1 mac and Blender 3.2 maybe I can find a way to just extend the walk and add the 180° turn but again different them a PC. I'll keep searching!
how to combine running animations?
Got a notebook and took notes... I’m making it out the hood
great video just what i needed (or almost that). It just happens that I'm using an animation from idle-to-running that points in a direction while the running animation I'm trying to combine with is pointing in another, so is there a way to combine them? I actually managed to kinda do it by rotating the root bone in the transition but with this I lose the chance to use the Blend In/Out, anyone knows a way around it? (I tried rotating the running anim separately but once i add it to the NLA it always inherits it's original orientations).
botton and cant see what it does (HELP PLEASE) I want my soft or say to long 5 , 10mins long... you understand
How to export this animation as a one animation to Unreal Engine ?
bro i made a character but 1 problem when i rig with mixamo animation the man's hand goes inside a man's
What addon you are using to display those layers next to shading tab ?
I have mp3 format s and i want to make it puncNice tutorialer plzz help buddy
where to find properties tab?
Thanks, I'm new to this and I think I found the perfect channel for that
that. was. amazing.
what i have to do ni soft stuido?
Thank you! Very useful and informative!!
very helpfull tutorial. great job!
Great tutorial. Helped a lot!
Helped a Lot!
Thank you Marco
You didn't mentionHOW to open the properties panel. Had to look at another video to get that one bit of informatin.
For anyone else with this problem once the top layer is selected just press "N" on your keyboard and that should open the properties panel
Wow thanks for this! Great work!
does'nt work, pb with graph editor. Some important points to highlight must be missing. One unique experience is not a complete tutorial. Will try to find another solution.
Thnks,I was stuck at combining Animations Helped a Lot!
thanks man, very informative.
playing around with it and never knew certain tNice tutorialngs. I thought you could only use it with a midi keyboard.
Thank you , what I needed
Such a great tutorial. Thank you!!
Well done! I hope you plan to do more.
I've been struggling to find an soft soft tutorial. I haven't watched yours yet but if the actual company is telling you nice job, then I'm
Thank you. Very good tutorial.
Had been looking for this for ages, one question though if anybody knows if you have two additive animations, does it combine the additive effect of the two into one?
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This is super helpful and really well explained!
Great video!
Thanks so much for sharing your awesome knowledge! 😃