Animation Layers

by Tal Hershko in Addons


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This item has an average rating of 5 from 79 ratings by the community.

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  • Stephen Greenberg
    over 3 years ago

    A real problem solver. Simple examples:
    1. A character walking up a hill with variable terrain can have all the hill climbing animation added on top of the walk cycle.

    2. After loading mocap on a character, additional channel layers can be added for hand animation on top of the motion capture.

    This makes animation re-use so much easier.

    • Tal Hershko

      over 3 years ago

      That's great to hear. Thanks for the review

  • Djimbodo
    over 3 years ago

    Great Addon, a time saver, a problem solver, go for it!

    • Tal Hershko

      over 3 years ago

      Great! thanks for the the review

  • magnative
    over 3 years ago

    Is an amazing addons, totally worth it.

    I hope developer separate section of the UI so you can hide some of the UI (i.e.. active action, keyframes from multi layers) until you really need it.

    • Tal Hershko

      over 3 years ago

      Thanks for the review. You were right, it started to get too crowded so I've added sub panels in the latest version

  • Intellectric
    over 3 years ago

    Great tools, outstanding customer support. I can't say enough how pleased I am with this purchase.

    • Tal Hershko

      over 3 years ago

      That's great to hear. Thanks for the review.

  • Virtual Earth Resident
    almost 4 years ago

    I actually deliberately stopped doing my project to spare a few moments to rate this tool as FANTASTIC! I've been using it steadily for the last month, gaining skill and confidence. I can't and won't work without it - enhanced all my animation outcomes, eased my anxiety with messed up animations. Dons my Superwoman cape and gets back to work (aka play), lol. Thank you bunches - very highly recommended!!

    • Tal Hershko

      over 3 years ago

      That's a really nice and motivating review :) thanks!

  • Monro
    almost 4 years ago

    I can't imagine doing anything without this now.

  • Sean Dunn
    almost 4 years ago

    In general this is a great plugin. Two things that I didn't like though:
    * Smart baking does not preserve original animation. There are errors in its analysis that can be seen in the final bake.
    * It only works on bones, and not general object animation. Not a big deal, though.

    • Tal Hershko

      almost 4 years ago

      Thanks for the feedback and review.
      *Smart bake preserve keyframe values and handle types, however it still doesn't preserve handle values. If you finalize an animation and need precision, then it's better to use normal bake
      *Smart bake should also work with objects.
      If you run into any issues, then please feel free to report me about it.

    • Tal Hershko

      almost 4 years ago

      Thanks for the feedback and review.
      *Smart bake preserve keyframe values and handle types, however it still doesn't preserve handle values. If you finalize an animation and need precision, then it's better to use normal bake
      *Smart bake should also work with objects.
      If you run into any issues, then please feel free to report me about it.

  • 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.

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Sales 7000+
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Published over 4 years ago
Software Version 4.1, 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2
License GPL