Is it possible to play a subsequence in reverse?

[DarrellHaemer]

I feel like this should be fairly simple, but I’m coming up empty after scouring for answers. The scenario is fairly simple:

I have a sequence with a subsequence in it. I want the subsequence to play normally, and then I want a copy of the subsequence to play in reverse.

None of this is in-game stuff; it’s all sequencer-only, if that matters.

Here’s a greatly simplified example of what I’m doing. I want the second subsequence to play in reverse (rotate the object back).

I’ve tried the Time Scale, and I’ve tried some BP stuff (both in Level BP and Director BP for the sequence), but I’m not that great with BP, so no luck there either.

[DarrellHaemer]

Update:

I ended up using the Transform approach I originally found here:

How to reverse a level sequence?

I did actually figure something out but I think UE5 is still limited and later updates will fix more things. The space switching was completely broken by this. I figured out that the transform tool requires selected the keyframes in the sequencer view not the curves view. I then scale things by -1 and then translate them forward by the length of the animation. This technically does what I expected but not as correctly as I hoped which will probably be fixed in the future. Maybe I can work w…

It did work fairly painlessly, despite having many objects and keyframes (almost 2000) in sequencer. However, this method requires duplication, either of the whole sequence, or of all the frames inside the sequence. That’s not ideal for multiple reasons, but it’s the only thing I could figure out. I chose to duplicate the entire sequence, so basically, I have a “forward level sequence” and a “reverse level sequence”.

For anyone who is also trying to do this, here was my approach:

1. Find the midpoint of your animation (ex. if your last key is on frame 1200, your midpoint will be frame 600), and put the play marker on your midpoint frame. The “flip” will happen around this point, which is why you want it in the middle if you’re looking for a “mirror” of your animation.

2. Select all the keys (the actual keys, not the object layers) you want to “flip.”

3. Open the Actions Sequencer menu and choose Transform Selection.

4. Type -1 in the far right field, and then click the multiplication (*) button. Your keys should immediately be flipped around the midpoint.

That said, it would still be nice to have a “right-click on a subsequence and choose “reverse”” option, or just make the “-1 play rate” trick work like it apparently used to.