Deactivate Anim State Machine on Death

Development Character & Animation
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Hi,

Can you deactivate an animation BP state machine? It causes problems when enemies die. Some enemy animations have notifies on them that keeps firing after death.

I notice the state machine stops updating when mesh is deactivated, but I need the mesh active while the enemy ragdolls. Any other way to turn it off?
An alternative way is to have a death state, but that would add a lot of extra connections and I’m hoping for a cleaner solution.

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Can’t you just add a new state machine with “alive” and “dead” and put the old state machine in the alive state?

3

Good idea, didn’t know you could have state machines inside each other. That seems to work. Thank you :slight_smile: