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  • Published 17 Sep 2025

NLA Overlays

My animation workspace usually contains multiple editors (Dope Sheet, Action Editor, Graph, NLA), so screen space is limited. In the NLA, I often have to open the N-panel to check certain settings—“Reversed” being the most common. Given how high the N panel is in the NLA, it can be a bit painful to find the feature we're looking for.

My idea is to have an “NLA Overlays” menu that globally controls the visibility of visual indicators and icons on strips, showing whether specific options are enabled. In some ways, the “Extrapolation” option already does something similar, showing a dark grey rectangle in the background of the track.

Example with Extrapolation, Strip Name and Reversed toggled on: NLA Overlays.png

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1P2D
17 Sep 2025

2 Comments

chris.lend

we are working to replace the NLA so we won't be adding new features to it. But those are good ideas. We'll keep them in mind for the new editor :)

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1P2D Author

That's right, completely forgot that. Exciting times ahead!