Can you define poses/state-machines, porgramatically, inside the animation-BP (or elsewhere at all)?

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@MostHost_LA

I suppose you could try with a pose snapshot, to mitigate it somewhat - but realistically the swap has to take place in a frame or less for you not to notice a hitch.

That’s why the running still has issues…

@Frenetic

Overall, more for organization, but this also gives me opportunities to tune my game to a smaller level of granularity. As well, a more dedicated anim BP will be less costly at runtime since it will only have the weapon-specific animations it needs and not all the rest it won’t.

More granularity yes.
Performance doesn’t change.
Again, the animation being used is whatever it is at the time of it being used. Size on disk doesn’t really matter and size in memory does matter a bit, but its not like the whole ABP is always in the ram - as far as the print outs read anyway.
Also, if that were the case the ABP would need to be completely read into memory when swapping, so what we commonly do wouldn’t perform as well as it does on smaller footprint machines like mobiles…