Animations w/ Simulation + Sequencer Problem

Development Character & Animation
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Something I’m struggling with is trying to record animation simulations from a blueprint that is using collision physics. As a simple example I created an character blueprint and selected a mesh with a / pre-existing animation.

I noticed that in the viewpoint, the mesh animation will not play if anything in the collision presets has physics (simulations) enabled (just static T pose). However, If go ahead and drop the character in the scene (with query & physics created), it will play the physics simulations correctly in the editor however, if I try to record the result in sequencer, the entire animation goes away and the character bobs around in a static T pose instead.

Any advice appreciated

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Finally figured out one of the bodies in the physics asset itself had been set to simulate physics instead of default. Now the blueprint works as expected.

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I’m trying to do the same . I don’t understand - if you turn off ‘simulate physics’… then there is no physics in the cinematic. I want to have physics in my cinematic, but I cant figure out how . All the explanations Ive tried to follow seem pretty obtuse and indirect - kind of defeats the purpose of using unreal for quick storyboards.