Animation works on client, not on server...

[DarkHalf]

@cbuttner;35259

There is no need to get worked up over this, even in the unlikely case that four people got it wrong. On the other hand, just saying “go look at the documentation and figure it out” is not very helpful either.

Anyway, your issue is related to the following comment in the code (SkeletalMeshComponent.cpp, line 466):
“Remote Clients on the Server will always tick animations as updates from the client comes in.”
In other words, clients on the server don’t update the pose automatically each frame.

This probably doesn’t solve your problem, but I hope it’s a good starting point.

Ok, I looked through the third person template (which plays the animation on the server just fine) and can’t find why the animation update tick executes as it should but won’t on the first person template. I see a dotted line on the event and in the animation graph but I can’t, for the life of me, find why that line is dotted (and animating)…
See this video for example:

- YouTube