Get Current Time or Time Remaining of the Active Animation

Development Character & Animation
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Is there a way to get the current time of an animation, or the current time of an animation, outside fo a transition rule? Either in the form of ratio or actual time?

I can’t seem to find this feature anywhere. Is the current length of play through an animation accessible anywhere?

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Yes there is, but you probably want to use ‘anim notifies’ instead. Look for that in the online docs.

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I have used anim notifies for this, but the amount of time it takes to mark up an animation heavy project, and the clutter it causes make it seem like a fairly hacky workaround. They have also proved not incredibly reliable. A float value would be much more useful.

Could you elaborate on the method of getting this info?

Thanks

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For some reason Epic wants you to use anim Montage to have access to current time in animations.
So, things gets more complicated because of that; take a look at montage docs…