Hi guys,
As you maybe know, UE4 only supports animations that use a skeleton. This is a problem, because I want to have, for example, a cube that rotates on itself. Any idea of how to do it? I think I can use Matinee, but I want to reuse that animation and I don’t think matinee allows me to do that.
I think many people uses Timeline node for such things like doors etc. You might want to check that out. 
You could do some basic animation in a vertex shader, or you could use Matinee/Blueprint to animate simple rotations.It’s really up to you what it is that you’d like to do.
Hi Meta Developer,
As already suggested there are a couple of ways to go about this without the need to use a skeletal mesh necessarily.
For non-skeletal mesh animations you can use some of the following ways:
If you just want to use a simple rotating mesh we already have a component setup that will allow you to do this very quickly.
This can be done via blueprints or from the details panel of a selected mesh
Once this is added you can select this component and adjust the values as you see fit. By default the rotating movement is set to 180 on the Z axis which will make it spin like so:
We also have a component for Interp which will allow you to move an object between locations.
I hope this helps and if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask.
I know it’s an old post, but I’ve been asking myself that question too for quite a while. For example what if you want to animate multiple objects and in a very particular way? Here is what I found, big thanks to “Hangry Bunnies From Mars” for the tutorial!
Here is the video: Unreal Engine - Spline Path Animation Tutorial - YouTube
Hi Guys, thanks for the answers. It helped a lot.
I m stuck with one thing i.e. i want non skeleton actors to spawn on button click and they should have its own animation attached to it.
For Example:
i m building a AR application and i want actor(couch) to spawn at a location in a room and once it appears it should do animation like open couch leg rest, and also lean back on ui button click.
So I want help with animations on actor(non-skeleton) after the spawn.
The animations i encounter over the internet is based on actors already present in the world scene.
I need help as i m new to the unreal engine and blueprint.
Thank you
Hi Guys, thanks for the answers. It helped a lot.
I m stuck with one thing i.e. i want non skeleton actors to spawn on button click and they should have its own animation attached to it.
For Example:
i m building a AR application and i want actor(couch) to spawn at a location in a room and once it appears it should do animation like open couch leg rest, and also lean back on ui button click.
So I want help with animations on actor(non-skeleton) after the spawn.
The animations i encounter over the internet is based on actors already present in the world scene.
I need help as i m new to the unreal engine and blueprint.
Thank you