How to use State Event?

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Hello,

An animation state on state machine has three properties; Entered State Event, Left State Event and Fully Blended State Event. It looks useful, but I don’t know how to use this.

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At first, I added string “ReadyToFire” into Custom Blueprint Event form. By this, I became able to add “Add AnimNotify_ReadyToFire” on the EventGraph of the Vim Blueprint including that animation state. But the event wasn’t called.

And then, I tried to choose a Blueprint Notify by clicking the triangle button. But there was no option. Could you tell me how to use this?

Thanks in advance,

Kazuhisa Minato.

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Hey Minato!

Using the Side Scroller template project, I was able to get the Custom Blueprint Event to work using the steps you described.

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That workflow is not working for you?

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I’m sorry for my late reply. Thank you for your reply. And I understood how to use this. Adding custom blueprint event shows up it under “Add State Machine Event” not Add Event in EventGraph.

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Thank you!

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Can I add a question? I understood how to use Custom State Event. But I don’t know how to use Blueprint Notify. Can I find it somewhere?

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Hi Kazuhisa,

For tracking purposes, please submit your inquiry as a new question. We’d be more than glad to help!

Thanks,

Sean

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Just to let someone know that you have to create a custom event with the prefix “AnimNotify_”, otherwise , your event will not fire.
Cheers.

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Hi
It seems that this is not a bug, you should add Anim Notify Event or State Machine Event in previous versions inside of your Animation Blueprint.
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I just wanted to add an update to this because there are a few solutions for this question on the forum which are suggesting a slightly more convoluted workflow than needed.

It is three step process to get these events to work:

  1. Type name of your event in the Custom Blueprint Event input

  2. Compile

  3. In the event graph, search that same name and an AnimNotify_ prefixed custom event has appeared

    note that if you make a custom event and type the same name yourself, it will not be called. You need to compile and use the auto-generated event.

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Thank you so much.