Animation Sequence Editor

Reimport Animation

With this button you can reimport Animations from their original file's location on your computer. If the location is not known or cannot be located, Unreal will prompt you to browse for the file you wish to Reimport.

Apply Compression

You can use this button to apply Animation Compression to your animation to reduce the animations resource demand.

Export Asset

With this button you can export the current animation asset for the current Skeleton either as Animation Data or a Preview Mesh. For more information see, Exporting and Importing FBX Files.

Key

Add a Keyframe of the current pose to the Asset Editor as an additive layer.

Make Static Mesh

Create a new Static Mesh Asset from the current pose displayed by the Mesh.

Edit In Sequencer

Open the current animation in Sequencer. From this drop down you can also toggle the button to open the Animation in Control Rig or Bake the animation to Control Rig.

Animation Track Names

Displays the currently selected Animation Track's name.

Interpolation

This property controls the interpolation between key frames of animation.

• Linear interpolation will implement linear easing between keyframes, causing abrupt starts and stops when reaching each keyframe.

• Step interpolation will implement non-interpolating keyframes, which maintain their value until the next keyframe is reached.

Target Frame Rate

Listed here is the read only target frame rate the animation had been imported or created at.

Number of Sampled Keys

Here you will find a numerical read out of the number of sampled keys the current animation has been imported or created with.

Number of Sampled Frames

Listed is the number of sampled frames the animation has been imported or created with.

Resampled Animation Track Data

A list of bones being manipulated in your animation. Depending on how you export your animation, not all bones will always be animated.

Rate Scale

The speed of the animation playback. 1 is default, lower values are slower, higher values are faster.

Skeleton

Reference to the in use Skeleton Asset. This can be double-clicked to open the Skeleton Editor.

Parent Asset

Lists associated Parent Asset, only when working with Animation Montages and the currently selected AnimMontage is a Child. However, modifications to the current montage will be disabled, apart from assigning unique child behaviors through the Asset Mapping Table. This data will be used to bake out to a normal asset during cooking. Useful for mapping animations to exact timing and displacement of other animations.

Asset Mapping Table

Displays Asset Mapping Table, for use when working with Parent and Child Animation Montages. When a Mapping Table is present double-click to reference the associated Source Asset and Target Asset.

Retargeting Source

Base pose to use when Retargeting an Animation.

Retarget Source Asset

If the Retarget Source property is set to Default (None), then the selected skeletal mesh here, will serve as the base pose for use when retargeting. Transform data will be saved in RetargetSouceAssetReferencePose.

Preview Pose Asset

The default Skeletal Mesh Pose Asset to use when previewing this Skeletal Mesh - this only applies when you open one of the Animation Editor modes using the associated asset.

Asset User Data

Asset User Data is a general array of applied functions that can be attached to animations in order to derive data or perform uniform behaviors. In addition to Animation Sequences this data is shared across multiple asset types such as, Skeletal Meshes and Skeleton Assets, and attach arbitrary user data to these targets.

Allow Frame Stripping

If enabled, this will allow low priority frames of animation to be removed if the export platform requests it. Can be disabled if animation has high frequency movements that are being lost.

Compression Error Threshold Scale

Set a scale for error threshold on compression. This is useful if the animation will be played back at a different applied scale. For example, if the animation will be played on an actor or component that is scaled up by a factor of 10, then set this value to 10.

Bone Compression Settings

The bone compression settings used to compress animation data on bones in this sequence.

Curve Compression Settings

The curve compression settings used to compress Anim Curve data in this sequence.

Do Not Override Compression

For use to prevent an override of the compression scheme when running a CompressAnimations commandlet. Some high frequency animations are too sensitive and shouldn't be changed.

Additive Anim Type

Overview

Animations can be used as absolute or additive. When absolute animations are set to control the same bones, each will compete and influence one another. Additive animations can circumvent this issue by having priority of their respective region so as not to conflict with other animations. Additive Animation

The Additive Animation calculates the delta, or the displacement value, from their starting position of the base animation and the current animation. You can then apply the difference of delta to any base animation with an Additive Animation. With Additive Animations you can create different permutations of animations by applying this delta to different base animations.

Two necessary components are needed to create an additive animation.

• The Current Animation is the animation you wish to add to a base animation.

• The Base Animation is the foundation animation form which delta can be calculated. Which base animation is selected can change how the delta is extracted.

Additive Animation Type

This decides what kind of additive animation you want to use.

• No additive: This animation is not additive and will compete with any other animation data present.

• Local Space: This animation is additive and delta is calculated using the local space. This is the most common option for additive animation. Using the local space as reference the additive animation can implement delta, to smoothly incorporate the additive animation data onto the existing location of the properties.

• Mesh Space: This animation is additive and delta will be applied in component space. This is required for Aim Offset because aim offset should be applied in component space.

There are many different ways to obtain the base animation pose to which the additive animation can be derived. After selecting which additive animation type, the options are as follows:

• Skeleton Reference Pose: will use the current skeleton's reference pose as the base pose.

• Selected Animation Scaled: will use a whole animation sequence as a base pose. BasePoseSeq must be set.

• Selected Animation Frame: Use one frame of an animation sequence as a base pose. BasePoseSeq and RefFrameIndex must be set (RefFrameIndex will be clamped).

• Frame from this Animation: Will use one specified frame of this animation as the base pose.

EnableRootMotion

If enabled, this will allow for extraction of root motion data and transfer it to in-place animation. For more information, see Root Motion.

Root Motion Root Lock

Root Bone will be locked to the following selected position when extracting root motion.

• Ref Pose: Use the Reference Pose's Root Bone position.

• Anim First Frame: Use the Root Bone position of the animation's first frame.

• Zero: Use the Root Bone position on the first frame of the Animation.

Force Root Lock

Enable to force Root Bone Lock even if Root Motion is not Enabled.

Use Normalized Root Motion Scale

If enabled, a normalized scale value for the root motion extracted: FVector(1.0, 1.0, 1.0) will be used.

Animation length

Select the desired animation range, or length to import.

• Exported Time: This option imports animation frames based on what is defined at the time of export.

• Animated Time: Will import the range of frames that have animation data assigned. Can be useful if the exported range is longer than the actual animation in the FBX file.

• Set Range: This will enable manual control to define the Start Frame and End Frame of the imported animation.

Import Meshes in Bone Hierarchy

If checked, meshes nested in bone hierarchies will be imported instead of being converted to bones.

Frame Import Range

If under the Animation Length property above, Set Range is selected, then you can manually set the frame range used during an importation or reimportation of the current animation.

Use Default Sampler Rate

If enabled, samples all animation curves to 30 FPS.

Custom Sample Rate

Sample FBX animation data at the specified sample rate. If set to 0, Unreal will automatically find the best sample rate.

Import Custom Attribute

If one is present, Unreal will import a custom attribute as a curve within the animation.

Delete Existing Custom Attribute Curves

If enabled, all previous custom attribute curves will be deleted when doing a re-import.

Delete Existing Non Curve Custom Attributes

If enabled, all previous non-curve custom attributes will be deleted when doing a re-import.

Import Bone Tracks

By default, Unreal is set to Import bone transform tracks. If disabled, this will discard any bon transform tracks. Useful for curves only animation.

Set Material Curve Type

Set Material Curve Type for all custom attributes that exist.

Material Curve Suffixes

Set Material Curve Type for a custom attribute with the following suffixes. This property is disregarded if Set Material Curve Type is true.

Remove Redundant Keys

If enabled, this will remove redundant keys when importing custom attributes as curves.

Delete Existing Morph Target Curves

If enabled, this will delete existing Morph Targets from the FBX.

Do not import curves with only 0 values

When enabled, Unreal will disregard any curves with a value of zero during Importation. Useful when importing custom attributes or Morph Targets as curves, to avoid adding extra curves to evaluate.

Preserves Local Transform

If enabled, this will import a curve within the animation.

Import Transform

Controllable offset for importation Transform placement. More relevant when working with Skeleton and Skeletal Mesh assets.

Import Rotation

Controllable offset for importation Rotation placement. More relevant when working with Skeleton and Skeletal Mesh assets.

Import Uniform Scale

Controllable Uniform Scale for importation. More relevant when working with Skeleton and Skeletal Mesh assets.

Convert Scene

Convert the scene from FBX coordinate system to UE coordinate system.

Force Front XAxis

Convert the scene from FBX coordinate system to UE coordinate system with front X axis instead of -Y.

Convert Scene Unit

Convert the scene from FBX unit to UE unit (centimeters),

Source File

Viewable file path for currently selected asset.

Per Bone Custom Attribute Data

Custom Attribute Data array for each bone in current Skeleton Asset.

Data Model

Here you can locate a viewable Data Asset containing important animation data for the current animation such as, Bone Animation Tracks and Curve Data, in addition to foundational values like the animations frame rate, sampled frames and keys.

Controller

Here you can locate an instance of the current animation's Data Controller. This asset handles the operation of the Data Model asset found above.

Meta Data

Meta data that can be saved with the asset. You can query available data with the ‘GetMetaData' debug command.