4.15 Animation Updates Preview - Feb 9th - Live From Epic HQ

[nikolobin]

@iniside;667770

Thanks. On stream it was said it will eventually make into engine, but that was quite a while ago.

I personally don’t even need everything from it (although it could be cool to have).
It would be nice to have parts of (Orientation Wrapping) and some samples.
I started working on it and hope to push into engine as plugin, but there are some headcaches I can’t get around (ie getting exact direction of movement for animation switching). Getting direction itself is trivial when moving only in y=-1 or 1 vector. What is hard is when you start to move diagonally it should still keep one cardinal direction (ie E or W), but turn character 45 degrees (in between E and N). Or I possibly overthink it.

If you can, ask this question on answer hub, and Laurent can answer correctly.

Laurent wants to move to engine, but there are data dependency, - i.e. orientation warping caches certain data, the node will use that - and those are harder to explain. You can do everything inside of node, but then it’s less efficient.
If you ask this in answer hub, I’ll forward that to Laurent.