Animation Library in Blender 3.5+ (Asset Browser HACK!)

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Shoutout to ‪@xxerbexx‬
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His video about the Asset Library
• Blender 3.0 Animation ...
I recently shared a video showing how to use the Asset Browser in Blender (versions 3 and later).
• Blender Asset Browser:...
As of now, we can create Animation assets but the functionality to actually use these assets is not properly implemented yet.
In this video I'll show you a couple of workaround that will allow you to build your animation library despite the current limitation of the asset system.
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0:00 Intro: Action Assets
1:08 Asset Browser TLDR
1:46 Animation Library Workaround
5:22 NLA hack
6:42 Preview fix 1
8:28 Preview fix 2
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@sybren.blender Жыл бұрын

Preview generation as it's supposed to work: - add a camera to your scene, and point it at the animated mesh. - on the Action: Mark as Asset. - whatever the camera sees will become the preview image. This is actually how the pose library is designed to work, as different poses might need different perspectives (full body, face, hand, foot, etc.), so you can use the camera position for that.

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Oh, thanks for the input, Sybren! Sure enough, your method works. This is probably not the best place for feature requests, but currently it seems to take a screen at frame 1, and not at the current frame.

@sybren.blender Жыл бұрын

@@CGDive It would render at "the" frame of the pose, so if you have a key on frame 30, it would render frame 30. This is useful to set up a scene specifically for creating the pose library, and then having different frames for different camera positions, background colours, etc. It's not aimed at having animation snippets yet, that's for a future project, which is why it simply looks for a single frame (and thus picks the first).

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

@@sybren.blender I see. Yeah, I think I get how the Pose library works. Looking forward to the Action asset implementation!

@activemotionpictures Жыл бұрын

how possible would it be to upload a 256x256 (max size) for 20 frames (max frames) as .gif? (animated gif) for the preview of the thumbnail? What about APNG format, for the asset library "actions"?

Жыл бұрын

@@activemotionpictures GIF is a horrible format (only 8-bit colours, very inefficient compression), IMO it should just be abandoned. Currently the preview images are just raw bitmaps, i.e. no compression at all. My gut feeling is that when we add video support, we should also move the images to a compressed format. WebM resp. WebP come to mind, as they're both fairly modern, commonly used, and also very similar (to eachother) formats.

@MannyVanDelight Жыл бұрын

Thank you. This series on the asset browser was very insightful. Love it.

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@GlitchmanVGM 4 ай бұрын

Incredible! This is so helpful! Thank you so much for this awesome video! 👍😃

@xxerbexx Жыл бұрын

Aprooved. Essentially a run down of what my add on will do.😘

@xxerbexx Жыл бұрын

You just made me realize i really need to update my channel banner and profil pic. Btw thanks for crediting me.

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Update, why? The pirate cat is awesome! :)

@Mamika_AFK Жыл бұрын

Thank u very much! This will be super useful 😄 Great as always! 😆👍

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

@fergadelics Жыл бұрын

I’ve been using all these techniques and it’s worked out pretty well. You brought up parts of this workflow in a comment sometime back when I brought up the xxerbexx addon. It was good advice. Thank you. I also found a file somewhere with all the miximo animations and ended up with this gigantic miximo library that’s honestly just too big - ha. But I do have sets of animations from MoCap online and when using the ranger action manager to quickly browse and locate an action to use, then blend the actions with Animation Layers, I’m quickly able to build a part of a scene. Its a lot of prep but im used to making new sets and navigating everything. I’ve also been using this workflow to prep things I want to refine in Cascadeur, exporting an fbx, and that’s been super cool. At the end of the day, using all these tools and techniques I’m saving countless hours. I feel like a rock star being able to get things done so fast

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good workflow!

@BenleGentil 7 ай бұрын

For a week I've been working on a system with customizable characters for Archviz - Your system is the most practical I've seen to quickly drop various animation to a library of T-Posed assets. Thanks!

@CGDive 7 ай бұрын

Awesome!

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Shoutout to xxerbexx kzfaq.info His video about the Asset Library kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pb53fqd4lqjJh2g.html

@Morphinometr Жыл бұрын

I think it's easier to use standard append functionality. At least for now, until developers make it more usable

@princechaudhary2255 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

My pleasure

@samuelpope7798 Жыл бұрын

This channel is dope!!!!

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

ha! thanks!

@jaobe0009 Жыл бұрын

Todor Please full tutorial on Rigify animbox And blocking technique too

@dreamsprayanimation 3 ай бұрын

Genius.

@cgdtb 7 ай бұрын

thanks again

@sergiipes 26 күн бұрын

It seems that now, in 4.1 version, we are not able to choose if we want import collections as an instance or not. There is no checkbox "instance"

@NildoE Жыл бұрын

CGDive Hi.... thanks so much for your tutorials man..really golden stuff :) I have a question regarding ARP I hope you dont mind.. how do I mirror an action? i have one character walking then turning left... I want the same motion but walk and then turn right..basically flipping the animation i tried ctrl+c and then ctrl+shift+v doesnt work..

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

I think ctrl+c, then ctrl+shift+v should work if you do it in the Curve Editor. Make sure all curves are selected, copy them, then ctrl+shift+v inside the Curve Editor.

@NildoE Жыл бұрын

@@CGDive ouf.. thanks soo much.. it works! :)

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

@@NildoE awesome! :)

@SumNumber 6 ай бұрын

So it is like a BVH or mixamo action that you can cover with a ' skin ' of you choice. :O)

@CGDive 6 ай бұрын

If it works that way for you, that's great :)

@othoapproto9603 6 ай бұрын

Thanks, another great AB tut! Q: Is it possible to make an asset with multiple part and still apply Modifiers?

@CGDive 6 ай бұрын

I am not sure what you mean, sorry.

@othoapproto9603 6 ай бұрын

@@CGDive OK, well YT is the wrong platform to explain, thanks anyway

@CGDive 6 ай бұрын

@@othoapproto9603 yeah, you can try on Discord discord.gg/j8SQCjFsXP

@GamerTV-cx8jz Жыл бұрын

Can I have a way to contact you? There is a problem.

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

Please share some general info about the problem and how you think I can help.

@takenbyblancship1017 Жыл бұрын

If you use different animation on a rig in a scene.. what happens to previous animation in scenes

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

They are still in the scene but they may get deleted when you save and re-open your scene. This may help you start to understand how things work kzfaq.info/sun/PLdcL5aF8ZcJvaLgirnTuH8-4Ro5Ou-YsZ

@takenbyblancship1017 Жыл бұрын

@@CGDive okay thanks!!

@ladopretoebranco8333 Жыл бұрын

friend? I'm a cinema4d user and I'm migrating to Blender.. the same mesh in cinema is fluid in the viewport, in Blender it gets stuck as if working with many polygons, while in cinema it's very fluid and it bothers me a lot at the time and I end up going back to cinema4D. help me?

@CGDive Жыл бұрын

So the Performance in Blender is not as good as C4D. I can't help, that just depends on too many factors.