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#796

Hi,
On the first topic… Unfortunately in 4.20 its broken. it takes forever to load any object into the browser and loads nothing. However I can make abilities without checking preview if I know what im doing :wink: I will check the “show internal classes”
I am passing anim montage to montage slot, yet still it happens. As I pass the montage it uses the slot already in the montage as it should. It should blend-out as it does on montages used in blueprint right? the effect should be exactly the same?
As for the animation node - I had problems with bad read of “isrunningabilityAnimation” and I had problems with using the node outside of a state machine. or when I used it in a state machine inside a state machine.
I just don’t get why the montage blends out dirty :frowning:

And just on the margin: I love your plugin. I suggest it to everyone. its a solid 5/5. I was using it to run pickups, inventory management, and it helps manage multiplayer so much, as well as fragment code and allow to utilize “is playing ability” instead of “anim instance - is playing montage”. The use cases are limitless!
But this one thing is still bugging me out somehow. :smiley:

#797

Hmmm, Let me play with things over the weekend. If you have a sample project setup that I could reference, send me a PM or such with a link and I’ll use that specific project to see what it could be.

EDIT: Also, which Blend Out time are you trying to use? The one in the Montage itself, or the one you set in the Ability with the Play Animation Task?

#798

I have the montage and ability use the same blend in and out just in case. it blends out, but on the last frame the entire pose kindof… resets.

#799

Resets as it goes back to the animation beginning and then stops (jerking motion basically)? Or your character goes into a T-Pose?

#800

hard to see if he tries to go into T… looks like he forgets the state he has of the animgraph. like the anim instance is being set again for anim blueprint or something.

#801

I apologize for not reading through the 50+ pages of text here. Just curious if this will have Niagra support?

#802

Excuse me, my engine version is 4.17. How do I install this plugin?

#803

Hello,

I have a small question. It seems at the end of the PlayAnimation task, or when the skill ends, it seems to reset all animation montages. Is there a way to change this from happening? The reason I ask is because I have setup a combo system using Ability Branching. The animations are timed perfectly so that the 2nd part of the combo begins where the 1st animation ended. The problem I’m having as that on the first frame of the branch, the ability is stopping all montages from playing, then the next frame the 2nd animation starts playing. This causes the character to enter the Idle animation for one frame between the 1st animation and the 2nd animation and it looks really bad. What can I do to resolve this?

Thanks

#804

Hi

I have reinstalled this plugin again recently.
I have this Bug / problem with Play Animation task.

When I either select Null or select an animation, I would like to change animation and see different ones.
When i do this, it does not change to the animation in scroll down.
Please can you have a look into this. Thank you

#805

Are you saying you would like it to instantly play the animation while you are scrolling through? Or you simply aren’t seeing any animation play after you select one and hit Play?

EDIT: I’m also working on the 3.0 update which will have some very cool things hopefully people enjoy. Hoping to get it out before the New Year.

#806

Hi matt, yeah the anims just wont change. Tried everything already. Even started new project. I have to delete play anim and add new one.

What sorta new features you adding?
Cant wait.
This is my main ability system for my game now?
Jesse

#807

You may need to save the ability before the Animation will play (but that should happen behind the scenes when you go to play it). You can turn on the “Verbose” option for that task and see what Animation it says it’s trying to play. I’d be curious to see your output as I’ve never had that issue reported to me.

I’ll share more on 3.0 as I’m ready. It’s turned into a rather meaty update, and I think people will enjoy it.

#808

Hi matt, Since i cant seem to explain this and you have not seen this error before, I have just made you a video to show you the issue. :slight_smile:

Can you Check your E-Mail as i will email you the video over of the error.

Thank you

Jesse

#809

I have emailed it over to [EMAIL=“Feedback@extralifestudios.com”]Feedback@extralifestudios.com address. Cant remember your other address and cant find it

Cheers Matt

Jesse

#810

Perfect, Thanks Jesse!

So, in your video, I never see you hit the “Play” button in the toolbar at the top once you select your Animation (which causes the Ability to play itself). Automatically playing the animation after being selected could be done, but it could be a bit weird because people may not want to automatically play the ability just because you swapped an animation.

I didn’t get any audio in your video, but I assume that’s your issue? Or am I misunderstanding?

#811

Have you got fb or discord??
I did press play

#812

Does not change at all so deffo something wrong stays as same anim. :frowning:

#813

I saw you change things to dynamic montage from Single Node, if you keep it at Single Node, does it work as expected? There may be something with the montage system.

#814

Hi doesnt work on any settings

#815

I’ll PM you, if you can send me your project I’ll run things locally with a debugger and see what’s going on.