Can I animate a mesh that is in a socket

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I have a Crossbow, and I can insert the crossbow mesh into a socket on my character just fine. What I want to to do is animate the character drawing the cable backwards to ■■■■ it. I have the player animation but I’m not sure how to animate the Crossbow independently while its in a socket.

Can this be done in UE4?

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Did you ever figure this out ? Im wondering the same thing.

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its totally possible to do. you just need to get a reference to the crossbow and use the play animation node.