Calling Animation C++

Development Character & Animation
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Hello everyone, I know C++ very good, i know define classes,Structs,variables,loops,arrays and Etc… and how to use it of course. But i never developed games with unreal engine cpp so idk what the unreal engine commands do.
I did Download Mixamo Animation, and the character, and my question is How to Call the animation on the character Everytime i press a Specific button? for example i downloaded “punch” animation and i want that whenever i press left click on the mouse, My character will start the Punch animation.

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Hello!

I am new to UE4 as well so bare with me if im not super in depth. But the way i did this was I created an animation instance class and set that as the animation instance on my USkeletalMeshComponent. My custom animation instance class was super simple and looked something like:

#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "Animation/AnimInstance.h"
#include "UCustomAnimInstance .generated.h"

/**
 * 
 */
UCLASS(transient, Blueprintable, hideCategories = AnimInstance, BlueprintType)
class APP UCustomAnimInstance : public UAnimInstance
{
  GENERATED_BODY()

public:

    UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite)
    int MyCustomProp = 0;
};

The cpp file is a single line which is

 #include "CustomAnimInstance.h"

Then inside my Actor class for the object i did:

USkeletalMeshComponent * myMesh = CreateDefaultSubobject<USkeletalMeshComponent>(TEXT("NameOfYourMesh"));
  this->animInstance = Cast<UCustomAnimInstance>(myMesh->GetAnimInstance());

Then you can use blueprints to handle the animations when you change the UCustomAnimInstance MyCustomProp variable.

For a more in depth tutorial take a look at: this

Hope this helps!
Tyler

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Thank you Very much!