How to get output values from Timeline component within a child class?

Fuzzfas
Mon, 18 Jan 2021 22:11:47 +0000
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Hello,

I have a parent class with a Timeline component which outputs a float value and updates a float variable.

I am trying to override the Timeline Update function in the child class, but I would like to keep the part that updates the float variable the same, and change the stuff executing downstream.

To do this, I would like to get the output value from the Timeline and update the float variable in the child class, but this doesn’t seem possible to do?

(In my screenshot, for example, I am trying to get the “Track Alpha Out” value in the child class.)

Unfortunately, I can’t simply call the parent Timeline Update function, since I want to make changes to the other stuff downstream, and not everything downstream can be encapsulated in a function that I can override.

Should I instead just make a new Timeline component specifically for this child class and go from there?

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