When playing a montage on a gameplay ability you are supposed to use PlayMontageAndWait and not PlayMontage. I just found this out when trying to cancel and replicate montages. However PlayMontageAndWait does not have notifications like PlayMontage.
Is there a way to get the notifications anyway? I use them to get specific points in the animation and react to them and the only other way I found of doing this is using Delay nodes which is very unfriendly to work with.
Anyone who has run into this?
Is there any progress about this question?
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I found the recommended way to do this, and it’s not using Montage Notifies, but instead using Gameplay Events.
There is a node “Wait Gameplay Event” that is a latent function which will wait for a specific Gameplay tag to be executed on the given actor.
What I did was create a custom Anim Notify, that takes as input a gameplay tag, and send the Gameplay Event through the montage.
Then I can simply wait for that event in my Ability, and it will work.
Below is an example in blueprints:
This is my Ability
Here is the custom Anim Notify I created (AN_SendGameplayEvent)
This is how I trigger it in the Montage
Great solution.
I did one tweak, which was to setup the Wait Gameplay Event before the PlayMontage. That way you’re ready for the event before the animation has started playing, and if it’s a short animation it might get set too late.
