Animation Blueprint patterns (State Machines, Notifies)

📚 Animation System Documentation

Animation Blueprint Core:

• 📖 Animation Blueprints - Complete AnimBP system overview
• 📖 Animation State Machines - State machine setup and transitions
• 📖 Animation Blending - Blend spaces and animation mixing

Advanced Animation:

• 📖 Animation Notifies - Event-driven animation system
• 📖 Animation Montages - Complex animation sequences
• 📖 IK and Procedural Animation - Advanced character rigging

Animation System Tutorials:

• 🎥 Advanced State Machine Patterns - Complex animation logic
• 🎥 Animation Optimization - Performance-efficient animation
• 🎥 Combat Animation Integration - Animation with gameplay systems

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🎭 Animation Architecture

What/Why: Drive animation from data and events, keep logic out of montages, and connect gameplay cleanly.

Prereqs

• Skeletal mesh set up; AnimBP; input from movement component

Steps

1. Locomotion

• State Machine with Idle/Walk/Run/Jump; use blendspaces
• Transition rules read movement speed and grounded state

2. Gameplay notifies

• AnimNotifies fire Gameplay Tags or dispatchers for hit frames/footsteps

3. Montages

• Use for attacks/abilities; expose sections via DataAssets

4. Sync with gameplay

• MVVM updates HUD (stamina) from AnimBP events

Data

• DA_AnimSet references blendspaces/montages per archetype

Networking

• Montage play on server; replicate to clients; handle prediction if needed

Performance

• Keep graphs lean; reuse blendspaces; avoid heavy per-frame math

Testing

• Verify transitions and notify-driven events under latency

Suggested prompts

• “Set up a locomotion state machine with idle/walk/run and a jump state in AnimBP.”
• “Emit gameplay tags from AnimNotifies and listen in Blueprint to trigger effects.”
• “Drive montage selection from a DataAsset.”

Prompts for this example

• “Provide transition rules for Idle→Walk→Run and Run→Idle based on speed thresholds.”