Animation Config
The Animation Properties dialog controls how one animation behaves. Open it by right-clicking an animation in the Animations panel and choosing Properties.
Fields
Animation Name
The animation’s name, used in its function paths and tags:
<blueprint_id>/animations/<animation_name>/playNames may only use letters, digits, underscores, and periods. When exported, they’re lowercased and periods become _.
Loop Mode
What happens when the animation reaches its last frame:
- Once: stop, and snap back to the first frame.
- Hold: stop, and stay on the last frame.
- Loop: start over from the first frame.
Loop Delay
How many ticks to wait before a Loop animation starts over. 20 ticks is one second. Has no effect on the other loop modes.
Excluded Nodes
Nodes this animation never moves. Drag nodes between the Included Nodes and Excluded Nodes columns, or use the swap button to flip the two lists.
Use it to:
- play an upper-body animation while the legs keep walking,
- run a facial animation alongside body animations,
- stop two animations from fighting over the same node.
Excluded nodes also aren’t updated at all, which saves performance.
Preview Variants
The Variants shown when you preview this animation in the editor, applied in order. Set these to the state the rig will usually be in when the animation plays. Empty means the Default Variant.
Only affects the editor.
Preview Texture Slots
The textures Texture Slots show when you preview this animation, applied after the Preview Variants. Empty means the slots show whatever the Preview Variants set.
Only affects the editor.
Patterns
Layered locomotion and actions
walkexcludes the arm and head bones.attackexcludes the leg bones.
Both can play at the same time without overriding each other.
Holding a pose
- Set an
aimanimation to Hold, so the rig stays aimed. - Tween into another animation to leave the pose smoothly.
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