Chaos Cloth Interactors Don't seem to work in Sequencer?

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Sorry super noob here… Question on Chaos Cloth interactors in ABP’s…

What I’m trying to do:
I have a Post Process Animation Blueprint on a skel mesh that check’s the characters global space Transforms for the current and last frame. It compares the length and if it’s a certain length like 20 units (which is pretty much light speed) I want to suspend my physics for RBAN an Cloth sim for that character. I have all the logic working except for accessing the Chaos Interactors.

Steps taken:
I have read this tutorial very closely:

It seems to work in game play but NOT in Sequencer? If I run the following code in my post process ABP to get access to the Chaos Interactors, and try to print its display name I get nothing in my Sequence printed. If I add the print string before the cast to cloth I get that string printed for every frame as expected. (I have simulation enabled and am playing the sequence in sequencer).

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It looks like in the tutorial they set up the Chaos stuff in the Sequence Director. This is not ideal in my situation as there are a ton of sequences for our project and I really would like a post process Animation Blueprint that follows along with the skel mesh to control my cloth in any sequence. Any thoughts?

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Try and change the the play to Simulation, it would run. You might need to just render it to see the result you are after, I find that just playing it in viewport causes glitches… I struggled to find the solution as well tbh :frowning:

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Thanks @Ranimate! Good suggestion! I was using the “Simulate mode” when testing this logic in sequencer. Alas, I ended up making a seperate “Max Distance” track and just keying the cloth sim on off… Max distance would still sim but i would set it to a super low value so it was pretty much in its skinned position when moving at light speed then I could turn it back on slowly blending it to its actual max distance without a reset pop. Though I really wish I could do this in a Post process abp instead of having to go through all my sequences and do that. :frowning:

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