1. Animation Features
4.14

2. Agenda
Animation Editor Revamp
Default Anim Blueprint (Post Anim Blueprint)
Child Anim Montage
Animation Curve Window
Morph Target Debug View Mode
Advanced : Pose Driver
Advanced : Virtual bone

3. Animation Editor Revamp
Persona -> Skeleton, Mesh, Animation, Anim Blueprint Editor
Before it was one big editor called Persona that has 4 different modes
Major issue : You can’t open multiple animations or multiple meshes playing the same animation belong to the same skeleton
This was a huge workflow problem animators face often
Also, the mode is not something we use a lot in our editor. Difficult for the new people.

4. Animation Editor Revamp

5. Animation Editor Revamp
The flow is still guaranteed - opening mesh, and open animation, open another mesh, and compare
Recording has moved to Transport Controls
Show editor of flow and opening and closing

6. Animation Editor Revamp
Preview Scene Setup
Emphasize here you can change preview mesh

7. Post Process Anim Blueprint
Can be set on SkeletalMesh and it will run all the time on the SkeletalMeshComponent when instantiated
This is useful to do something you always want to apply to the mesh - i.e. anim dynamics
If you have animation blueprint set on the mesh component, it will run AFTER the animation blueprint runs
Anim BP-> Post Process Anim Blueprint
Pre Physics : runs before physics
Demo with anim dynamics

8. Child Anim Montage
This is created from another Anim Montage as a child
It derives all notifies, sections, tracks from the AnimMontage
Only allows it to override animation asset data (AnimSequence or AnimComposite)
This will scale the animation length to fit in the track
So that game play won’t have any impact on the animation asset changes
Good for variation of the animations without impacting gameplay

9. Animation Curve Window
Curve type now moved to Skeleton (not per asset)
Now you can only set it in one place
Morphtarget curve type is automatically set if it contains same name of morphtarget

10. Morphtarget Debug View
Community contribution (git : tmiv)
Extended to multiple support and cleaned up UI

11. Advanced Topics
Pose Driver : interpolates from from multiple inputs to multiple outputs
Now bone transform drive target outputs
Shoulder with 4 poses and blending based on arm rotations
Example - RBF node from Maya

12. Advanced Topic
Virtual Bone : Non skinnable joint that can be added and constraint to another joint
Example : IK joint that has to be re-constrained
Before they have to go to DCC, and add new joint and re-export all animations
This was extreme time consuming