Animation Blueprint code with different skeletons

[Kenedos]

@Ben_Cykyria

So, coming back to this, I had time to test it with a new project today. I have to admit that it doesn’t work.

However, we do have one project with a child AnimBP with the steps as I described, and it works there with the existing child AnimBP, but not with new child AnimBPs…? The project was created with 4.24.0 I think and maybe it broke with .1 or later subrevisions.

As a workaround, you can expose the Animations as variables in the parent AnimBP:

Then create a child AnimBP and change the Skeleton in the Class Settings as described in my first post, but instead of using the (broken?!) Asset Override Editor change the value of the variables.
It is one step more, but at least you don’t have to remake the whole AnimBP.

Let me know if this workaround works for you, please.

I love you, this just saved me dozens hours of work. Thank you.

I’m still amazed this isn’t a straightforward common feature from UE, having one blueprint with all animation logic as parent and multiple children with different skeletons and respective animations should be a given.

I don’t understand why they don’t let us make animation classes without a skeleton associated to it, and even if the UI worked on newer UE versions, changing mesh in class defaults and then using that override animation window still seems rather obscure to me.