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Bug description: In the past it was possible to get both NLAs and animations that have not been pushed down successfully by using action mode in the exporter. With blender 4.5 I can only get either NLA or unpushed animation to export correctly but there seems to be no way to get both types exported. Is there any way to address this? Sometimes it might make sense to not push down an animation for easier editing in the future. Having a way to export both types would be crucial in my opinion.
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in your video you have exported both a nla and a non nla animation?
There is also this report which mentioned nla tracks no longer exporting correctly when doing it with animation mode in the exporter set to actions.
To be clear, when talking about non nla animation I mean one that has not been pushed down to an nla track yet, so keyframes still accessible.
Are you working with the latest exporter? Mine is still from SU6 so that is something I could try on my end. Maybe something has changed in the meantime.
The exact blender version I am using is 4.5.14 LTS.
I found the issue: exporting using NLA Tracks isn’t working for animations that aren’t pushed down.
The bug has been logged on our end.
Thanks for the heads-up!
On my end it is going both ways. With animation mode set to action I can only get non pushed animations to export correctly. Previously this mode allowed both types to export successfully. Animation mode set to NLA has always only worked for NLA tracks as far as I remember.
I would need to specifically prepare such a file and at the moment unfortunately I dont have the capacities. @DA40CGDFQ maybe you still have a testing file from when you first confirmed the bug months ago?
EDIT: I did not test to see if the animations worked - just exported - as I always use NLA
Also ensure that the ACTION Name is set to the corresponding animation name in your XML. See the Gear_Centermain animation name in relation to the c_gear NLA name.
@DA40CGDFQ Did you export several nlas using the same nla name with animation mode set to actions and test it inside the sim?
As you had described it in your bug report the bug is specifically related to several nlas with the same naming being exported with mode actions. On my end I can then only get one of the nlas to work and all others are dead.
I´m not sure where we are misunderstanding each other, I have an animation that consists of several objects moving differently and each individual object was animated and pushed to an nla. All nlas share the same name but with the lastest exporter only one of those nlas will work.
you described in your bug report that upon export the nla name is longer being used to identify the animation instead the action name seems to be the identifier, so as last test I will rename all the action names of the nla tracks
I just prepared a quick test file that I have linked to the private content group, please make sure to use the exact same blender version (4.5.14) when testing and the export settings below.
