AnimationMontage Editor QoL Suggestion - visualisation of the AutoBlendOut

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Hey there, we’ve been working with AnimMontages and internally noticed that people would love to see when the AutoBlendOut happens during the montage’s playback. Primarily because of knowing when the next montage can start playing and where not to put certain AnimNotifies.

I’ve added this simple visualisation straight into the AnimMontage’s timeline editor:

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I couldn’t find a way to modify this from the outside, so I injected myself straight into `SMontageSections::OnPaint(…)`, because that was the first thing I found, but it turned out pretty okay. Perhaps a proper visualisation could be added directly in the engine? Perhaps a full-height line with a gradient box or something similar.

Thanks!

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Hi, I think supporting some kind of visualization like this would make a lot of sense. It would also help to make users aware that the auto-blend out time exists and is set to something since that can be easy to miss for anyone not familiar with montages.

I was going to look at implementing this, but I haven’t had time, so I’ve passed it over to the dev team as a feature request. They’ll triage it and make a decision on implementing it. In general, we’re moving towards more of a maintenance mode with montages since it’s likely that we’ll have a different solution to do the same job in UAF. But montages are still going to be around for a long time with ABP so I think there’s still value in this.