Get current playing animation time or frame

Development Character & Animation
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In an event graph is it possible to retrieve the current frame or time of an animation that is playing? I’ve gotten the boolean if the animation is playing, but not the current animation frame or time. Also is there a way to retrieve the total animation length in a variable? I know I could just look at the animation and write in it’s value but it would be nice to have a variable directly getting an animation’s total length so I could use it in multiple different cases.

Thank you.

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Have you tried using animNotifies or floatTracks for what you are needing? They allow you to set up events attached to times in animations.

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floatTrack worked, thanks a lot.

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Animation notifiers don’t work if you’re using ‘explicit time’ with an ‘evaluate’ animation node. So this would be useful!!