How to use multiple animation blueprints given an array of AnimInstances ?

[mrm_dev]

My custom skeletal mesh component has a variable called “AnimClassArray” which takes an array of UAnimInstance / ABP Animation Blueprints:

UPROPERTY(...)
TArray<TSubclassOf<UAnimInstance>> AnimClassArray;

I’m trying to get all these Arrays of AnimationBlueprints to effect the skeletal mesh one after another

e.g. if I had ABP_StandardMovement, ABP_FootIK & ABP_AimWeapon inside the array I’d like the output of an ABP to pass into the input of the next one as such:

Unfortunately “Linked Anim Graph” Node doesn’t seem to have the “Instance Class” variable exposable as a pin

I’m open to any c++ and/or blueprint solution even creating a custom node

[3dRaven]

I don’t think the setup makes sense as Linked anim graph spins up a new thread per anim instance.

They will not trigger in sequence even if you were to expose the input.

In the current architecture one anim graph can be evaluating while another is still calculating. They would have to be evaluated on the same thread one after another to not get wonky calculations.

[mrm_dev]

@3dRaven Should I make them thread safe ? or is there some other approach I should be taking?

I’m still new to this and my ultimate aim here is to get a versatile system for animation since there are a lot of ABP combinations per mesh as shown in the example