Play a montage when a previous montage finishes, in C++

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@Gbr

I don’t know if you are trying to avoid the Engine’s built in animation state machine, but if not I suggest you to take a look at the Animation Blueprint and Animations KeyFrame Events instead of trying to synch game loop with animation state manually.

You can define the animation transition condition inside the animation blueprint and get previous animation’s remaining time and compare to use as a transition. Is way more reliable than depending on actor’s tick

Edit: Now I saw in the end of your thread why you are not using animbp. I guess you can leave a KeyFrame Event as a time window in the end of the animation to connect another move and it would work fine instead of relying on checking every tick

Thanks for answering. Yes, I’m not using animbp because I’m porting an old project to UE4 which write animation logic purely in C++ using “play A, if A finishes, play B” pattern.

I’m afraid event method may not a good choice for me. Firstly, I play every animation in this pattern. Adding an event to end of every animation doesn’t look a smart way to manage things. Moreover, there is already a “blend out” setting in montage, which is exactly meant to do what I want to do – it’s time to blend out old animation and blend in a new one. Second, adding events doesn’t solve my problem. It just shifts the problem from “blend out” setting to event. If the event triggers shorter before the animation ends than the second animation’s blend in duration, I still get the same problem.

Thanks.