Can you make state machine active at all times?

fanzypantz · May 23, 2015, 7:59pm

So I have a normal state machine and a Slot so I can play montages:

Now I want to change the idle animation for everytime he walks and it looks something like this:

What is happening is that after the montage is playing it will go back to the original idle anim and snap to the other idle as it should, but it doesn’t do this while the anim montage is playing
Now this would have worked if the State machine didn’t completely stop doing stuff while a montage is playing. How can I get around this? It should be simple enough.

WillianG83_1 · May 25, 2015, 7:36pm

+1 having the same issue here.

fanzypantz · May 25, 2015, 7:37pm

I would say its just a “feature” Like its just the way it works. I’d like to know of a good way of getting around this with another way of doing it.

WillianG83_1 · May 25, 2015, 8:26pm

Can you give a better description on what he is doing in idle and what the animontage will be doing?

fanzypantz · May 25, 2015, 8:28pm

In idle he is holding the right seat. Then the animation takes one step forward and he should now hold the left seat. So when the montage plays when he walks forward I want to switch the idle, but it seems to snap back to the original idle and then to the new idle when I try to do anything.

WillianG83_1 · May 25, 2015, 10:02pm

Humm, ok… But according to how i understood it, i would have implemented it differently. Instead of having two distinct state, i would have just one with a “blend by bool” thus using a condition that stands for left or right. By doing this way you should get rid of that problem.

let me know if it helps

fanzypantz · May 25, 2015, 10:07pm

I kind of do. But since I’ve done it this way even if I change the bool, the blending doesent happen before the montage is done playing. Which results in: Right after montage is played, it goes back to the last idle and lerps to the new idle.

WillianG83_1 · May 31, 2015, 4:47pm

I’ve created this little example of how i solved a problem similar to your.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x6hhtmfgs1eun5s/Example.7z?dl=0

There are 3 different pawn (method 1, 2 and 3) which all they do is to transit from idle stand to idle prone animation.

Method 1, it is the classic that can be found in all examples and you surely know it, i just added a notify to make sure it does not move while transiting.

Method 2, makes use of animMontage and does show the snap (although my snap is in the beginning but it is just a matter of when bStanding is set, if it is done during the transition anim or later the snap will occur in the end of the transition like in your case).

Method 3, use the animMontage but don’t have snap issues.

I hope i understood your issue and this could help to solve, in case you haven’t already done.