[Open Beta] Procedural On-the-Fly Animation in UE4: iTween!

[Impossybleposslb]

@JaredTherriault

Good day Impossybleposslb,

The answer is, it depends! The plugin is meant to change the transforms of actors, components and UMG widgets, but it also has operations to change floats, vectors and colours over time.

If you want to change the topology of static meshes, this plugin would help. You’d have to create a runtime mesh, figure out where to move vertices (to morph the mesh the way you want it to) then run a number of Vector Move From/To functions to translate the vertex positions of your original dynamic mesh to the positions you want in your morphed mesh then plug the result of the tween into your dynamic mesh’s vertex position every frame (on update).

This is a very complicated way to handle this, but is possible. What is it that you want to do in specific? I can try to help you find the best solution for what you want.

Thanks so much for response! I truly appreciate it as indeed I am a bit lost.

1. The end goal is a series of music visualisers in VR(so, objects morphing,changing in response to music), however, for now I would simply be happy to achieve this in regular 3D

2)Transform an object into particles(particles of itself,not different colored particles etc)

3)Apply ripple or any other transformative effect(and/or visual effects like motion blur) etc to an object

4)for one example, maybe you have a square that suddenly has different shapes sticking out, pulsing…

5)recursive multiplication of an object(while keeping them connected)

Anyways, that´s a lot of stuff, so whatever light you have the time and inclination to shed will be more than appreciated.

Thx in Advance!