Simplest way to string together animations Nr.2

[Sicro]

Hi!
The more I read into the documentation about blueprints the more I think this belongs into this section of the forum. Sorry for creating identical posts (I am new here so please just tell me where it fits better).

@Sicro

Hi everyone!

First of all I hope this is the correct section of the forum. I was unsure if this belongs here or into the blueprint section since my question might involve some regular blueprint action as well.
Second of all I am very new to Unreal Engine and especially anything that has to do with blueprints and animations. I am more of a modeller and texture artist myself.

If that is okay I would like to ask how you would go about this:

I created a sci-fi looking drone and added some simple idle animations to it. The scene we have in mind is the following:

Inside a futuristic office: An elevator-like door (only for drones) opens. The drone flies out, crosses the room, stops and now idly hovers over a special desk. After a brief pause some sort of authentification sound or voice plays and the drone opens it’s hatch on the bottom. A small device is getting lowered and put on a specific platform that came out of the desk. Said device is being retracted into the desk, hatch of the drone closes again and it flies off back into the elevator shaft.
We don’t plan it as an ingame cinematic, the player should be able to move around meanwhile.

What would be the simplest way to go about this? Would it maybe be easier to animate all of this as a whole inside my 3d software, load it into UE4 and play it triggered by a trigger box the player walks into?

The rest of the drones in the elevator shaft I would animate as “carts” along several spline paths and they don’t have specific animations to them. In fact I tried this method for the sequence mentioned above but got stuck at the point of reaching the desk.
Since I am very much a noob in this aspect I wanted to ask which would be the best way to implement this small ambient object animation sequence before spending a lot of time on the “wrong” method.
Should I treat the little drone as an NPC and have it fly there to a target point?

Thanks in advance for reading through my entire post and I am looking forward to your suggestions on how to go about this!

This is my drone btw:

[Est_engine]

@Sicro

Hi!
The more I read into the documentation about blueprints the more I think this belongs into this section of the forum. Sorry for creating identical posts (I am new here so please just tell me where it fits better).

Hi man,
You can easily move your drones around with simple blueprints,
you can easily give them multiple things to do in sequence and in realtime,

basically,
Learn how cast to actors, (you can make an actor Drone-Managers that call events on each droid )
Learn how create custom events with input, so you can call an event , “Stop” or “Go in this location” (Learn Enum too is siimple)
Learn to use the node if and Switch on enum (This will make you able to do diffenent things )
Learn to use Array saving thing ( so you can say to your drone, 1 start engine, 2 fly toward location A, fly toward B, play animation “collect object”, fly back home)

Then all youneed to do is get your drone manager,
and make him say to your drones what you want to do,
Reeeeealy basiclyy XD

[Sicro]

Thank you Est_engine!
Sorry for the late reply.

Meanwhile I kind of solved it with Sequencer only but for more advanced behavior of my drones I’ll look into your suggestions.
That’s pretty much what I needed.