I used this:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Gameplay/HowTo/RespawnPlayer/Blueprints/index.html
on the starter content Blueprint Third Person Template and upon respawn my character has no animation and is in the “arms spread perpendicular to body” pose. Why is this? Thank you!
Edit: Just checked my email to see a notification of what VizualTek commented on my original comment that I deleted. He definitely got to this answer before I did. He had said:
“Just guessing, because I don’t know much about animation myself, but does the character have default animations? If you delete an actor and respawn the same actor later, then this actor is loaded with it’s default values. Maybe there is something missing, like some initialization or other settings.”
Hey, I was having a similar problem when trying to spawn an AI in my game. I found part of the solution solution here: When spawning AI Character actor, why does MovementComponent not activate? - Character & Animation - Epic Developer Community Forums
I’m not sure if you’re trying to spawn an AI or a player character (there’s different nodes to use for each, Spawn Actor for players and Spawn AI from class for AI), but make sure your default animations are set. To check this, go into the blueprint for your character, click on the ‘Mesh (inherited)’ component in the Components tab, and check out the Animation section in the Details tab.
If that doesn’t work, let me know because I finally got this to work after beating my head at it for hours.
Just guessing, because I don’t know much about animation myself, but does the character have default animations? If you delete an actor and respawn the same actor later, then this actor is loaded with it’s default values. Maybe there is something missing, like some initialization or other settings.
I’m just curious, but did you delete your comment and wrote an answer? I commented on your comment about the default value of the animation and I wonder if answerhub really let’s anyone just “kill” a collection of comments that easy by deleting their own comment.
I did delete my comment and then write that answer, yes. Sorry! I did not see your comment on my comment before I deleted it!
Edit: Checked my emails and saw what you had posted in reply. You definitely came to that realization first. I edited it in my answer but if you’d rather me delete it and you post your answer I totally understand. Sorry about that!
I’m not mad, just curious that this is possible. I don’t know if that is intended by Epic, because I think, that you can make many useful information disappear that way, even information that the person who deletes his/her post finds very useful.