Orange:

For some ancient reason, the stride option only worked on a single strip,
and extended always. This made it nearly impossible to integrate it well
with other actions in NLA.
This commit changes it as follows;

- As any strip, the striding-strip also stops at the end of a strip
- This allows to put multiple different actions on a single path, and if
  all of these have the striding option set, the actions will each do their
  own individual stride.
- To match the different actions, a new "Action Offset" button was added
  in the NLA Panel, which allows to internally cycle the action.
- Of course, blend-in and blend-out works nicely too.

Here's a quick AVI test with 2 actions. There's some slipping of the feet
between actions still, because of the stridebone blending. I might look
at that later, for now you can correct it with a simple Ipo on Armature too

http://www.blender.org/bf/0007_0151.avi

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_nla_types.h b/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_nla_types.h
index fa1a4fbe456..fe01fa91eb2 100644
--- a/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_nla_types.h
+++ b/source/blender/makesdna/DNA_nla_types.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ typedef struct bActionStrip {
 	struct  Object *object;		/* For groups, the actual object being nla'ed */
 	float	start, end;			/* The range of frames covered by this strip */
 	float	actstart, actend;	/* The range of frames taken from the action */
+	float	actoffs, padf;		/* Offset within action, for cycles and striding */
 	float	stridelen;			/* The stridelength (considered when flag & ACT_USESTRIDE) */
 	float	repeat;				/* The number of times to repeat the action range */