How to animate characters in edit mode.

Hello,

I have created a character animation of people walking and standing around moving using Anima.

I have then imported it into UE4. When i press “PLAY” the characters start to move around and animate.

Is it possible to have them animate while I am in the “edit” mode?

Akin to seeing a tree animate with the wind in edit mode…

This in turn will save me time in the animation sequence as i will not have to individually setup each character animation sequence.