How to display a widget and play an animation on a button press?

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I would like to display a widget to the screen and play an animation that I created of that widget at the same time when the player presses E. What is the best way of doing this? Thanks.

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You can either have the player controller handle input:

E key → Get reference to the widget → Get animation → Play

… or have the widget handle it instead - useful if you’re running UI only mode:

Override onKeyDown, return Handled.
Override onKeyUp, Get animation → Play

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If you don’t already have a widget you can create one.
instead of get reference, you would do “create widget” and “add to viewport”.