Animgraph slot nodes broken (4.5)

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I’m trying to use a slot node for a montage in my anim graph. But it refuses to accept a name. I’ve made a small clip showing my problem. I have a slot name “Arms” from my montage that I’m trying to put as the name for the slot as well.

http://pahlavan.se/dump/2014-10-15_17-15-03.webm

The montage in question also seems to forget the name given to the slot even though I am saving and compiling everything.

Further detail could be provided if needed. It seems very odd that the slots are suddenly broken with the release of 4.5.

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Hey Torabi-

Thanks for the report. This is a known issue that has been fixed internally and should be included in a future update to the engine.

Cheers

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Good to know. Thanks!

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Are there any workarounds in the meantime? Currently it also seems to cause me problems when trying to save (the skeleton will not save after adding a slot with this issue).

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Hey coffeetime-

As a workaround you can add a comment around only the slot node with the name you’d like to give it.

Also, I am not seeing the issue with saving that you show in your screenshot. I added a slot node and tried to give it a Slot Name and then saved.

Cheers

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Hi ,

Thanks for the quick response! It seems like my saving issue was unrelated. There was a UE4Editor process kicking around (possibly from an earlier crash) which seemed to have caused some of my assets to be locked. After I killed that process, I was able to save again.

Thank you for the workaround using comments. I didn’t realize that the slot node bug was simply just a visual issue.