I have been playing around with the new 4.21 level sequencer recently, specifically the event tracks. It seems the new system severely limits the types of events that can be called from the sequencer. I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong or missing something.
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Is it possible to add parameters to events that can be modified on the keyframe within the sequence? I’m fairly certain this is a no, since the engine will not let you call an event that has additional parameters that aren’t the object reference. Is there any workaround? This seems like a major limitation.
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Is it possible to forego the Sequence Director class? The old system allowed you to call events directly on actors by name, but now I have to create a bunch of unnecessary director function calls to just delegate the event to the actor itself. Even the official tutorial (Fire Blueprint Events During Cinematics in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.2 Documentation) does this, and it just seems like bad practice for anything more than a few events.
My intent was to use the level sequencer to sequence out some moderately complex gameplay features, but it seems like the new system will not work for this application.
Posting this in the Blueprints forum since my question mainly pertains to events, but apologies if it is in the wrong place.