by Coby Randal Media·Workflow
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A narrowly focused, free add-on that does one job: stopping playback at the final frame. Its reach back to Blender 2.79 alongside support up to 5.1 makes it usable across a wide span of versions.
Auto Stop Free is a Blender add-on from Coby Randal Media that places a single checkbox in the 3D Viewport N-Panel. With it enabled, animation playback and recording stop at your scene's last frame instead of looping back to the start.
That stop matters for auto keying work: Blender's default playback looping can overwrite auto keying input, and it can cause rigid body physics simulation caches to be lost. Halting at the final frame keeps both intact so you can focus on your performance.
Legacy support for Blender 2.79 is included, which allows live interactive physics that can be imported into later Blender versions for rendering in Eevee, Cycles and beyond. The add-on covers Blender 2.79 through 5.1, ships under the GPL license, and comes with documentation. It is one part of Coby Randal Media's line of auto keying tools, alongside Countdown Record + Auto Stop and Camera Flow Pro.
Auto Stop Free is best for animators using auto keying who need playback and recording to halt at the last frame rather than loop, and anyone preserving rigid body physics simulation caches during animation.
Auto Stop Free is completely free to download and use.
Auto Stop Free lists compatibility with Blender 2.79 through 5.1, covering a wide span of releases from an older build up to a current one. That range means you can run the add-on across most modern Blender installations as well as much older ones. It also carries specific legacy support for Blender 2.79. For confirmation of behaviour on a particular build, check the developer's page and the included documentation, since the listed range is your best guide to where it works.
Auto Stop Free adds a single checkbox to the 3D Viewport N-Panel. When it is enabled, animation playback and recording stop at your scene's last frame instead of looping back to the start. This is aimed at auto keying, where Blender's default looping can overwrite your input, and at rigid body physics simulations, whose caches can be lost when playback loops. Stopping at the final frame keeps both the keyed input and the simulation cache in place while you work on a performance.
Auto Stop Free includes legacy support for Blender 2.79, which lets you do live interactive physics in that version. Those results can then be imported into future versions of Blender for rendering in engines such as Eevee and Cycles. This gives a path from older interactive physics work into a newer rendering pipeline. The add-on's supported range runs from Blender 2.79 up to 5.1, so both the legacy source version and the newer target versions fall within its coverage.
Auto Stop Free is listed here as free and ships under the GPL license. It comes with documentation, and the developer, Coby Randal Media, offers related add-ons such as Countdown Record + Auto Stop and Camera Flow Pro if you need more options for auto keying performance capture. For current licensing terms and to download the add-on, visit the developer's page. A demo video is also available for the add-on.
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