How to pause anim montage for couple of seconds then continue playing

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i want to pause anim montage mid playing then on another event unpause it. how do I do this?

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Only way I can think of right now is to use an animation snapshot, save out the time the montage was playing at, and use that time to re-start.

There’s other ways to pause things depending on what you are doing. So if the montage isn’t the only thing to pause time dilation may be the simpler answer.

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it’s an attacking animation but it’s not long enough for me so I want to pause it at a specific moment for couple of secs then continue playing. also I saw there’s a montage section, isn’t that useful?

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Yes you can probably split up and adjust the animation like you want with a montage.

The better way is definitely to just add frames in a DCC app of your choice.

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how can i export the animation? i dont have the original animation

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From the animation, you can export it as FBX with a preview mesh and LOD settings.

When putting it back, you can export just the armature. The mesh is unimportant.

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i did things that u said i animated i the way i wanted and exported it back to unreal but for whatever reason the mesh seems to be deformed or invisible, I can only see small part of the mesh, does anybody know why? the rotations and scale was applied and I only exported the armature. did i make a mistake in blender?

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… I don’t think I could possibly have made a mistake on something you did… so let’s assume that’s a typo…
Still, I have no idea if you made a mistake or not in blender… how could I? Unfortunately I’m not clairvoyant, though sometimes I do wish I were.

Did you select the existing skeleton when importing the animation?
No?
Bad, delete the skeleton that was created and re-importing using the existing one - and making sure it isn’t modified in the process.

Yes?
Then the mesh won’t change at all unless the skeleton is somehow scaled, so:

Is your blender set to use the correct scale?
No?
Start over after setting the scale correctly.
Yes?
Then the animation would play with the preview mesh normally…

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yeah i made a typo Lol.

the flow between unreal and blender is really terrible. it’s so easy to miss an step and screw the whole thing up, i think the problem is with scale being applied after animating. i will redo the animation and see if it get fixed.

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guys i wan able to resolve the issue. i had to apply the scale first then animate.

thanks for the help btw

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