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

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We love seeing Unity refugees in That’s not to say we want anyone to stop using Unity - both Unity and UE are excellent engines with their own strengths. We just want to be simple across the board.

Direct manipulation of UMG widgets is not possible right now because we’re missing the ability to reference widgets outside of the blueprint that owns them, but this functionality will be in 4.6, as Darnell said. However, I’ve come up with an interim solution using the messaging system that will remain forward compatible. There will be UMG-specific tweening operations in the near future, but you can tween them now if you need to using the messaging system and those tweens will continue to work forever. Or at least until I break something.

I guffed the last two videos (trying to piece together clips instead of one contiguous video has resulted in two different irrelevant clips getting mixed) and I am re-rendering them now. If you’d like to start tweening your UMG stuff, the (quite long, sorry) videos on messaging and iTProxy. Part 1 is ready to . Part 2 is mostly complete but is missing the ending and the video on iTProxy needs to be completely re-rendered. Look for them within the hour.

Haha thanks :).
They did, until UE4 also got ITween xD. But yeah seriously I know what you mean :).

Curses, every time I think ‘yup this version will get me everything I need :D’ I hear things coming in the next version I want now xD;. Awesome to see that a workaround exists that will likely persist after the update, that’s great news-much better than making and keyframing every single text object like I feared I would have to. Can’t wait for more UMG-specific tween functions.

Ahh no worries, and don’t worry about the video length, you’ve just got a lot to tutorialize and I’ve already watched most of messaging part 1 and it’s presented really well :)! Looking forward to the other videos, keep up the great work