NLA Strip Merger - Blender Addon

[@joannabessey4844]

Sweet Blender bliss with Inlet.

[@BrennanLetkeman]

can you merge NLA tracks from multiple objects? I have a dozen objects, each with their own baked track, and I'm trying to make one big NLA of everything

[@inletzone]

Not with this addon. It's meant for single object targeting.

[@barrylee2001]

isn't this just doing the same thing that the "edit -> bake action" button does?

[@inletzone]

Strip Merger has several advantages over the default 'Bake Action'. It's really just a more developed version of it, taking the concept and adding some quality of life improvements. Strip Merger only bakes the NLA Strips that are selected, automatically finds the range of frames required and attempts the put the newly 'baked' strip in a logical spot to replace the strips that have been baked. By default, you can't easily choose which Strips to bake and which not to. You have to specify the Start and End frame manually every time and the new 'baked' strip is just lumped in a new action strip. NLA Merger also bakes non-locomotion information, allowing for many other animated object properties to be stashed, while 'Bake Action' only preserves location, rotation and scale.

[@toddhowardfr]

@@inletzone is the addon using the same internal baking code from blender or is it it's own algorithm? if so how fast is it compared to the default blender baking? i have big 10 minute NLA scenes that take half an hour to bake and i'm looking for alternatives

[@inletzone]

@@toddhowardfr It will not decrease your baking speeds from the default.

[@Jedah84]

no context menu in 3.6

[@Inlet]

Is that related to this addon? Could you please elaborate further?