How can I recover a reference to an asset on C++?

Development Character & Animation
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Hi there, sorry if this was asked before but i simply couldn’t find an answer for it. What I am trying to do is to animate a character from C++. I know i must create an AnimMontage for the character and pass it to PlayAnimMontage. What I can’t find is how to reference my anim montage from C++ code without exposing a property. I tried:

ConstructorHelpers::FObjectFinder < UAnimMontage >  GuardWalkMontage (TEXT("AnimMontage'/Game/Animations/GuardWalkMontage.GuardWalkMontage'"));

to get the ->Object member but when code reach this line, everything explodes and unreal editor quits. I am a bit lost, since I started to mess with Unreal engine two days ago. Thanks for the help and keep up the great work!

2

Did you tried debugging?

3

#.h

Put this in a .h for a class that you’ve blueprinted, like character or player controller

UPROPERTY(EditDefaultsOnly, Category=JoyAnims)
UAnimMontage* Swing2Running;

then in the editor, you can select which montage to use

the fabulous advantage of this

is that if you do this in a base Character class

you can then select different actual animations for each subclass of this base class!

4

Just to make sure, you know it’s
GuardWalkMontage.Object
and not
GuardWalkMontage->Object

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Not yet. I am more interested if this is the correct way to retrieve the reference rather than knowing why it crashes. If FObjectFinder is the way i’ll look more deeply into it.

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Yep, I’ve been programming with C++ for over a decade now

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Sorry but I don’t really want to expose a property, I let that clear on the question.