Can you use blenders NLA system effectively for layered animations

Frankie

I'm trying to work out if it's possible to use the NLA editor for a layered animation workflow in blender. It feels like it's almost possible but I'm not quite sure what I'm doing. The end result needs to be a regular action so I can import multiple ones to unity. Anyone know how to do it? Thanks!

Frankie

Bumping just in case anyone knows.

Michael Knubben

I sent this to our Blender-using animator, but I guess he doesn't like you.

Frankie

Can't blame him!

Lamoot

I can't give you a definite answer apart from MightyPea being a pain in the ass sometimes I haven't used NLA all that much, but I do know one of our outsourced animators used it when making lower and upper body animations and then combining them. So yes, it can be done. Effectively? No idea, sorry haven't got that far yet.

xrg

It can blend multiple actions together, but I'm not sure if you can take that result and convert it back into a new action or not.

Frankie

Thanks for the replies, I'll post if I ever work it out.