Animation Layers

by Tal Hershko in Addons

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This item has an average rating of 5 from 82 ratings by the community.

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  • Aaron Williams
    about 4 years ago

    For me, it just works. I was so relieved to find this add on for editing mocap animations. Five minutes into using the addon the $25 felt totally worth it.

  • JH
    about 4 years ago

    The only addon I've purchased and it's been clean and easy to use. I don't use it atop anything other than basic keyframing and it's just what I wanted out of the system.
    There are some minor grievances, merging layers seems to add keyframes in every frame which can make the graph editor overly complicated without cleanup, but merging is rarely necessary.
    Good addon, should really be what Blender ships with by default.

    • Tal Hershko

      about 4 years ago

      Thanks for the review and feedback. If you want to keep your overall keyframe count, then you can merge with smart bake. However if you need 100% bake percision then baking on every frame is still more precise.
      I will also add more baking options and other features in the near future. Make sure that you are currently using version 1.7 or above to be able to get automatic updates.

  • abedd
    about 4 years ago

    There is a big room for improvements, and I truly appreciate the honesty of the creator cause he did mention that the body part may get obliterated. But the problem is that this happened to me right off the bat, and using the Replace blend as suggested by the creator did not solve the problem, I had to use Subtract and work my way in reverse to get an animation done. I can't give it less than 4 cause this addon is a true breakthrough, but 4 star is a fair rating IMO.

    • Tal Hershko

      about 4 years ago

      Hi Abedd, thanks for the honest review. There was indeed a scale issue / bug when changing the action of the base / replace layer in all the last versions. Please check the current update - V1.67 It should be now solved. If you still run into issues, then feel free to let me know.
      I will hopefully also try to implement cgcookie's auto update module as soon as I have a chance, so you can all keep getting updated.

  • Mark Burrows
    about 4 years ago

    This is a brilliant addon, I just couldn't find my way with the NLA and it did a lot of things "unexpectedly". Now I can work on animations in more focused chunks keeping it all more organized and easier to follow. The developer was super helpful when I found some things that didn't work right for me which I think were related more to my particular file than normal bugs but he's worked through them and resolved the issues - can't say fairer than that.

  • Bad Monk
    about 4 years ago

    Thank you for an amazing add on. This is awesome. Fantastic to clean up mo cap animations. 👍👍👍

  • Anne Draaisma
    about 4 years ago

    Great add-on. Works wonderfully for cleaning up motion capture animation.

  • Hyaline
    about 4 years ago

    This looks awesome addon,
    But I had to give up adapting this addon to my workflow.

    Almost of actions that I made have tons of keyframes of constraints settings.
    In addition, my rig has many custom properties made in addon that I made.
    Maybe these are causing the problem. When I turn on the Animation layers, and add action that I made, my character get something like scale problem. Yes. my character puffs up like a balloon.

    To use Animation Layers, I have to abandon my workflow that I was making, and I have to remake my animations. This makes me painful.

    • Tal Hershko

      about 4 years ago

      Hi, I'm sorry to hear that. If you add actions that were not originally created in an additive layer then you need to change the layer's blendmode to "Replace". The character explodes because the scale is also being added on top of the previous layers. If you still want to use it as an additive layer then you could also try to delete the scale keyframes from the additive layer

  • Marco Balanco
    about 4 years ago

    Something that should've been in Blender from the start but at least it's finally here!

    • Tal Hershko

      about 4 years ago

      Thanks, that's great to hear!

  • Rafael
    about 4 years ago

    I come from Maya and this makes my pipeline more confortable in Blender. I just tested it a couple of times but works very well !! Simple to use, I do recommend it!

    • Tal Hershko

      about 4 years ago

      Thanks for the review, I'm glad it can help you to do a smooth transition. Blender is great

  • Splash
    about 4 years ago

    Sometimes random animations are deleted entirely from the layers. I have no idea whats causing this but its frustrating animating a lot on these layers only for you to click and all of a sudden your animation is completely gone. When it works it works great but this glitch is far too massive for me. Not sure if it's this plugin or other plugins but this happens every time I use them on occasion and this has been in different scenes every time.

    • Tal Hershko

      about 4 years ago

      Hi, I'm really sorry to hear about this. I didn't hear or ran into this issue so far. Did you check if the animations still exist in the action editor? If this happens, you can normally reload them from the addon's panel or the action editor. Can you provide me with information such as the addon's version you were using and also your Blender version, and what other addon's were you using? If you have a sample file that I could test, then it would be the most helpful.

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Sales 7300+
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Published over 4 years ago
Software Version 4.3, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2
License GPL
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