Animation works on client, not on server...

[GamerErrant]

@DarkHalf;40444

I am using your Character (at least, I believe so, whatever is out of the box for both templates: first and third).

It seems to do the ‘inspecting’, that you speak of, on the animation update tick event. But what makes that tick event so different between the third person template and the first person template? Again, there seems to be an animated dotted line in the editor for that (per the video in my last relevant response) in the third person template but not in the first person template. I fully get that something is different between the 2, but where is it specifically. Is it a checkbox somewhere that indicates that the update ‘inspecting’ should happen every frame?

As for the first person animating update should work on movement, it doesnt update the pose when i move the remote client (from the perspective of the server).

Lastly, I’ve watched all the videos 3 times now (no joke)… I can’t see where this magic bullet is that your talking about. Please be more specific than just “watch 2 hours of videos, it’s in there somewhere…” Alas, frustration continues. If it’s such an obvious (and simple) problem, why can’t someone just point it out?

I’m not asking for anyone to create a game for me, please don’t mistake this as such. I’ve been a programmer for some big companies in the states (non games related) using everything from C to Scala over the last 20+ years, and done moonlighting game dev over the last 6 years with Unity, and earlier on, Torque. I’m very frustrated because the very first thing I want to try out isn’t working. I just want to press a key and every client’s model in the scene loops an animation. I understand I could be doing it much more efficiently however it’s one of those things where if I can’t even brute force the solution, then whats the point in switching?

A complete stab in the dark:

Server side, animations on clients only update when they communicate with the client, which forces the pose refresh. The reason you see the little dotted lines on the animation graph (and why it’s updating during movement) is because in it’s default state it’s constantly checking the server-replicated speed property. Double-click the default node in the animation graph, and you’ll see the replicated speed property it polls each update. I’m assuming your character’s default state-machine node, on the other hand, has no such setup. Maybe just the ‘play animation’ action? So it only communicates the ‘play animation’ message upon playing - but then stops communicating. Because there’s no back and forth communication you get the initial pose change (upon play), but then the server does not refresh the pose.