Motion Matching with Play Montage

[Gulli_Gullile]

I’m working on a proof of concept to use motion matching in my next project. I’m using latest UE (5.4). I got motion matching set up to work with choosers. However, if I play animation montages outside ABP, they do not work correctly. In this case I play an attack animation and only the feet wiggle a bit and the rest does not work.

I tried disabling the ABP animation slot to see if it gets overriden, but than the character will not play the animation at all. Does anyone have an idee what is going on here?

BP_ThirdPersonCharacater

ABP

[Gulli_Gullile]

If anyone stumbles onto this: The solution was to add an additional node to ABP to enable animations started on "Default Group’.