Head Look & IK on montages

Development Character & Animation
1

Hi,

I currently drive Head Look and IK on NPCs via Blueprints. These work fine during Movement and Idle blendscapes. However, they stop working whilst I am playing a montage.

Does anyone know how to update bone rotations via Blueprints whilst Montages are playing?

2

In your AnimBlueprint, make sure that your Head Rotation and IK setups are done after the Montage Slot.

3

Thanks neo, but I’m not sure how I would set the order.

I currently have a State Machine that controls movement & idle blending. The montage idle path goes through a slot for the montage.

The head Rotation and IK setups are done in the Anim BP’s an Event Graph, using a ‘Event Blueprint Update Animation’ event.

Any ideas?

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I meant the AnimGraph, where you have your State Machine and then your montage Slot, you’d have to put your Head/IK modifications after the montage slot node, so that the AnimMontage doesn’t override them.
Like in the following order:

  • State Machine
  • Montage Slot
  • Head/IK (Transform/IK nodes)