Animation notifies not working on custom character

I’m trying to add footstep particle fx to my custom character, but it seems that animation notifies don’t work at all in any of my animations.

The notifies work in the animation editor, but they don’t work at all in game.

It’s not anything to do with the blend tree, I’ve tested notifies on animations that aren’t in a blend tree and they still don’t work…

And the particle effects are fine because when I test them on the default unreal mannequin, they work with notifies just fine. Also I’ve tested sound effects with notifies in my custom character, and those don’t work either, but do work with the mannequin.

This seems like it could possibly be a bug, but I’m new to Unreal so maybe I am missing something… Plz help! :sob: