Please add the ability to start an animation sequence from certain time.

General Feedback & Requests
1

Just like you’v added an animation-rate variable to the anim sequence so we can modify it in the animation blueprint.
It would be great to have a time input next to it.
Is it possible to add it soon?

2

there are workaround with montages for this kind of effect.

3

Thanks.
The thing with montage is that you can’t just connect it to blend nodes like you could with animation sequences.
In order to get that effect I’m using state machine ( each time it starts a new state it will stat the animation from the beginning ).
However, I think this is a very simple thing to implement and it could make life a lot easier sometimes.

4

yes
for behaviour like play animation from segment, i used combination of play anim montage -> jump to section
but it gonna jump, not blend, to blend i made play anim montage play rate very high and changed for normal one when it hit anim notify.

ugly.

5

Yeah I thought about that too but there are more notifiers that effects the logic of the game, This is far from being a solution :\

6

What about Mesh->AnimationData.SavedPosition?

I’ve been using that to start playing animations from various points in their cycles. For example, for one actor that I want to start at a per-object random point in its animation, I do:

     Mesh->AnimationData.SavedPosition = AnimLengthInS * Random01;

Where Random01 is in the range[0…1] and different for each object. Then each instance of the actor is animating starting from a random point.

7

Thanks, Can it influence on animation sequences that are inside an animation blueprint somehow?