Making a tank tread (spline that spawns tread actors) follow the tank

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Hi all – obligatory “I’m new to unreal…”

High level, I’m trying to get a tank tread that’s created and animated by a spline to ‘follow’ the tank after the animation I’ve created has stopped, or if the tank is hit by a projectile. This video demonstrates how this is currently breaking.

I have the tread in a separate blueprint from the tank – here’s the current event graph setup:

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Is there some way to parent or socket the tread to the tank so that regardless of the animation being on/off, it’ll stay where it should be?

Thank you for the help with the newbie question…

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It looks like it’s moving ok, just needs to be attached to the tank.

If you have it in the same BP, you make sure the track spline is a sub component of the body of the tank.

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Thank you! I had the problem persist even after merging the bps, but was able to resolve it by using another animation that looped when my “forward” button isn’t pressed