Hello everyone!
I have a Skeletal Mesh with a Control Rig and an Anim Blueprint.
I exposed some variables from the Control Rig to the Anim Blueprint so I can control some positions by value.
Then, I created an Actor Blueprint that has my Skeletal Mesh with the Anim Blueprint set. In this Actor Blueprint, on BeginPlay I’m getting a reference to the Anim Blueprint being executed using GetAnimInstance, casting it to my Anim Blueprint class and saving the reference in a variable. Then, I created some Instanced Editable variables and in the Tick Event (just for testing) I’m setting the previous exposed variables from the Control Rig → Anim Blueprint.
If I use the normal Play, everything works. If I change the value of the variables in my Actor Blueprint, my Skeletal Mesh moves accordingly since those nodes on Tick get updated.
The problem starts when I tried to test things using the Simulate play (Alt + S). If I press Simulate and do the same thing (change the value of the variables to check the movement) nothing works. I attached some print nodes to each step to check if the reference was getting caught and values were being passed correctly, and what I noticed is that after pressing Simulate, everything is assigned correctly, but if I change any value manually, it seems the blueprint stops being simulated and all the values are erased.
Is that the normal behavior of Simulate and I never noticed before because I never tried to twitch things while using it, or did I do something wrong? If that is the normal behavior of the Simulate play, is there a way to change it so that the blueprint keeps executing if I change a value during execution?
Thanks in advance!