Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

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Alright, putting the final touches on Able v2.15, should be out early next week. This update was meant mainly to give the Ability Editor some love, so here’s what’s new:

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Able v2.15

  1. Added Backwards Stepping while the Ability is paused. This takes you back a frame (according to the 30 / 60FPS you have defined in the editor settings).
  2. Abilities will auto-pause if you Step forwards/backwards. No more pausing first.
  3. You can hit Left or Right on your keyboard to Step forwards/backwards.
  4. You can click or drag along the timeline to change your preview time forward/backwards.
  5. You can now Snap Tasks to whatever units you wish along the Timeline. Just enable the “Snap Tasks” option in the Editor settings and set the “Snap Unit” to whatever value you want to snap to.
  6. Play Animation Task will preview the animation properly while skipping around if you are using the Ability Animation Node Mode.
  7. Bug fix to Play Animation (Thanks to @George.Xiao for that one.)
  8. Bug fix to Play Animation Tasks showing the wrong length in the editor if you modified the Play rate. (Thanks to @shadowkami for reporting that one).

I’d love to get the animation previewing to work with the other modes (Single Instance / Dynamic Montage) but I (currently) see no way to do that. I was hoping to leverage some of Sequencer’s work to help with that, but it looks like Epic is basically forcing in their own Animation Nodes to accomplish that and even then they don’t support Dynamic Montage. So, for now, it’s only available for the Ability Animation Node mode.

Also if you open up your Ability and just immediately jump the time around (which is completely valid) - if you don’t see the animation changing, check your blend times. If you still don’t see a change, try stepping forward then backwards. I’m not unconvinced that it takes a frame or two for an Animation to completely start for the first time.

Please report any bugs.

As always, your feedback is what keeps Able going. Thanks for your continued support!

(Also this new photo system on the forums is terrible. :frowning: )