Unrealscript animation - reversed

[nonder]

Hello, I am trying to recreate simple Matinee animations (like opening and closing doors) via unrealscript but with imported animations (skeletal mesh). Main points are:

-When one animation is running and second is called (opening/closing doors) it will not wait when animation end but starts second animation from there - doors are opened for 50% and you want to close it now and do not wait while it opens and close it.

-Can I use one animation for opening and closing ? I can't find something like "reversed" in animtree.
-If I can't.Should I use AnimNodeBlend to blend 2 animations ?

I use AnimNodeSlot and PlayCustomAnim() now.

Thank you.

[slowJusko]

You can tell an animation to be reversed, but I can't think of a way to make it reverese at a certain without some unreal scipt involved.
May be doable with Kismet too, if you can get the current time of an existing animation.

If creating a custom animation node something your comfortable with, you should be able to pull it off.

[UnrealEverything]

-When one animation is running and second is called (opening/closing doors) it will not wait when animation end but starts second animation from there - doors are opened for 50% and you want to close it now and do not wait while it opens and close it.

-Can I use one animation for opening and closing ? I can't find something like "reversed" in animtree.

Looks like it's all there.
Read the UTWeapon equipping and putdown code. It does exactly what you're looking for (playing the closing animation starting with the door 50% opened).
About reversing animations, SkeletalMeshComponent::PlayAnim() has a bPlayBackwards parameter which will cause the animation to play backwards if it is true.

[narcissist]

You could also experiment with the UDKAnimNodeFramePlayer node.

It lets you control the animations position directly, using a float value from 0.0-1.0
So you could just have an animation of a door going from closed to open, and just control that with a single float variable.

You can interpolate towards 0 or 1, at whatever speed you want, switching direction whenever you want.

[Neongho]

you Could use the BlendIn And BlendOut time

[nonder]

Thank you very much guys ! I will try every solution.

[nonder]

UDKAnimNodeFramePlayer works very well. Thank you again.