Baking NLA

[Hepworks]

I don't seem able to bake the NLA with the individual viseme actions, into a single action for fine tuning.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1suIq48XreNrPXhMAa5ozlvaoa1wpklY2/view?usp=sharing

any help appreciated!!

[Premik]

Hi @Hepworks

It is not clear what issue you get exactly. But Blender is bit picky when it comes to what has to be selected where. Make sure to:

• Select the Armature, go to Pose mode.
• Select the Bones you want to bake. For example A for all.
• Select the strips in the NLA track you want to bake. The B for box-select.
• The go to to menu/Strip/Bake Action
• Consider checking the Visual Keying and Clean Curves options,

Few other things:

• In the Mapping section, always select/create 2 NLA track. While single track baking is supported track-pair produces better results as the strips interleave and have more fluent transitions.
• Some of the Actions I see int Mapping section seems to spawn among many frames and some of them are even blank. But it might be an issue with how I imported the file. Usually a single frame-actions for each Cue works best.
• It looks you are animating DEF bones. Not sure if those are meant to be animated directly. But it might depend on your use-case..