Can I fade an image based on input from my player?

[Luckieluuke]

I´d like to fade an image based on how much health the player has. In blueprints I would create a timeline and lerp between the two values.
In the UMG/UI I know how to create animations but I need the animation to take 2 input values and I don´t know how to do this. Is there a way to do it in the UMG blueprint? I find a Lerp node but not a timeline node…

[Everynone]

There’s no timeline component in widgets.

If this must be a timeline, have it play in the player and feed the widget appropriate, resulting data. I assume it’s supposed to be an animated fade with a very specific timing, right? Because that’s what timeline are for.

If the fade lasting X seconds is not a requirement, you could interpolate on Tick instead, and let the fade arrive at the desired value. You can control the speed of the interpolation.

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Widgets kind of do have a timeline in the form of animation, have a look here for how to make it work with lerp:

Lerp in UMG (instead of animations)

[image] If the anim length is not equal to 1s, you can translate the range required. Besides that, you can have an actor play the Timeline instead and feed the widget the alpha curve. Widget animations can actually produce events while the animation is playing, similar to the TL’s Event Track. Double click the key: [image] …to get a sequencer widget event at the specified time: [image] Perhaps all you need is a Repeater, the other event above. It spits out an update every frame.

Essentially, you play an animation and treat its progress as alpha. The feature is not that well documented, though.