How to animate multiple meshes on one character using a single skeleton?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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In my game I have a character that is composed of several separate meshes such as hair, head, pants, shirt, shoes, etc. I have a few idle animations that are played at random. All of the meshes are using the same skeleton currently. I have an animation blueprint for that skeleton that calls the idle animations. When the animations play, each mesh ends up playing a different idle animation. The shirt will do Idle1 while the pants are playing Idle3 and whatnot.

What I would like to be able to do is have all of the meshes on the same skeleton play the same animation with the animation blueprint that I have. How can I do this?

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This has been asked & answered on several occaisions.
There is even an old wiki entry on the subject.
Search is your friend :cool:.

But anyway… you are looking for SetMasterPoseComponent.

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I’m just adding this here to remeber this thread.

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Thanks Kris, it the SetMasterPoseComponent worked. I’ve seen it before but was unsure if it was actually what I needed. It works great though.

As a quick note I couldn’t get it to work in the Construction BP, but it works fine in the regular BP for my character. I just call it on BeginPlay.

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Hey kris, how to randomise the animations between the meshes? like for example there are two characters using same AI in the character blueprint. So how do I randomize them instead of in sync animations?