Animation Additive Layer Tracks Not Working?

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Anyone experiencing the same thing ?

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Having the exact same problem.

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Also having the same problem.

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Figured it out. In UE5, “Additive Settings” now defaults to “No Additive”

Go into the Asset Details and change it to Local or Mesh and it should start working.

Edit: Be warned that “mesh” doesn’t work with sequencer.

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Same truble. Really don’t know what to do with that issue:(

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it’s strange, but my mesh just dissaper on animation (when game running), when i change it Addtive to Mesh or local

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I have a solution to this question. Apparently, by default, layers are disabled and you can’t turn them on. Solution - after editing the animation, go to the menu create asset - create animation - current animation-preview mesh. This way you will create an already fixed animation without layer and everything will work as it should.

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Thanks!

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Thanks a lot! this worked, even though I wish this will be fixed soon cause additive tracks are way more flexible

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Thank you so much!!

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Why does it take this much Fkery what was once a very good, almost perfect and divinely perfect workflow from UE4?

Please explain!

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The explanation is (from what I can gather from MY testing) is that UE5EA is still a work in progress and this doesn’t work correctly — yet.

Yes, I’m reaching, but I’m willing to give them the benefit of a doubt at ATM. HOWEVER, that doesn’t change the fact that this is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. I DO NOT LIKE the idea of creating a new animation, but as an interim solution (sigh) I can live with it.

Thanks, y’all, for figuring this out, it was bugging me.

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Thanks! You saved my life

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This solution worked for me - thanks!

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This solution also worked for me, thanks

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I noticed that when I try the fix mentioned here (Create asset etc) it breaks root motion and no longer works with motion warping.

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Did you try just changing the additive settings?

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I can confirm this is also broken in ue5-main, and mainly caused because Epic carried additive layer track apply proces to compression step. Probably will be fixed soon, but not sure how long it’ll take.

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hey, were you ever able to figure out how to fix the root motion? struggling with the same thing myself

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Thanks. Hopefully this will get fixed. Almost all of my animations have additive layers. Everything looks broken in UE5.