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FAnimNode_Slot

An animation slot node normally acts as a passthru, but a montage or PlaySlotAnimation call from game code can cause an animation to blend in and be played on the slot temporarily, overriding the Source input.

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Inheritance Hierarchy

FAnimNode_Base

FAnimNode_Slot

References

Module	AnimGraphRuntime
Header	/Engine/Source/Runtime/AnimGraphRuntime/Public/AnimNodes/AnimNode_Slot.h
Include	#include "AnimNodes/AnimNode_Slot.h"

Syntax

struct FAnimNode_Slot : public FAnimNode_Base

Remarks

An animation slot node normally acts as a passthru, but a montage or PlaySlotAnimation call from game code can cause an animation to blend in and be played on the slot temporarily, overriding the Source input.

Variables

	Name	Description
bool	bAlwaysUpdateSourcePose	Whether we should continue to update the source pose regardless of whether it would be used.
FName	SlotName	The name of this slot, exposed to gameplay code, etc...
FGraphTraversal...	SlotNodeInitializationCounter
FPoseLink	Source	The source input, passed thru to the output unless a montage or slot animation is currently playing.
FSlotNodeWeight...	WeightData

Constructors

	Name	Description
	FAnimNode_Slot()

Overridden from FAnimNode_Base

	Name	Description
void	CacheBones_AnyThread ( const FAnimationCacheBonesContext&... )	Called to cache any bones that this node needs to track (e.g. in a FBoneReference).
void	Evaluate_AnyThread ( FPoseContext& Output )	Called to evaluate local-space bones transforms according to the weights set up in Update().
void	GatherDebugData ( FNodeDebugData& DebugData )	Called to gather on-screen debug data. This is called on the game thread.
void	Initialize_AnyThread ( const FAnimationInitializeContext&... )	Called when the node first runs.
void	Update_AnyThread ( const FAnimationUpdateContext& Con... )	Called to update the state of the graph relative to this node.

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