PlayMontage — play animation montage

ACharacter::PlayAnimMontage. Returns duration. Alternative: Montage_Play on AnimInstance.

Play animation montage on character with callback when finished

Pattern: EventBeginPlay or custom event → GetMesh → PlayMontage(MontageToPlay=AM_Attack, Rate=1.0) → Bind to OnMontageEnded delegate on AnimInstance for completion callback. Simpler approach: use Delay(Duration=MontageLength) after PlayMontage as rough callback. Key: PlayMontage is called on SkeletalMeshComponent (GetMesh()). Inputs: 'InSkeletalMeshComponent' and 'MontageToPlay'. Returns montage length as ReturnValue.

PlayAnimMontage call has no actual montage assigned

Why: The Montage pin on PlayAnimMontage is empty (None) or points at a deleted '{m}' asset. Fix: Click the PlayAnimMontage node. In Details, set the Montage to Play pin to a valid AnimMontage asset. If you don't have one yet, create one in Content Browser → right-click → Animation → Animation Montage, target the same skeleton your character uses.

StopAnimMontage — stop playing animation montage

Animation Montage

A sequence-of-sequences with named sections — perfect for attack combos, dialogue cuts, etc. Triggers via PlayAnimMontage.

PlayMontage — play an AnimMontage on a SkeletalMeshComponent

Call on the SkeletalMeshComponent. Get it via GetMesh() on Character. Returns montage length. Exec out is 'then'.

StopMontage — stop a currently playing AnimMontage

CreateDynamicMaterialInstance — create a runtime-editable material copy

Must call this before SetScalarParameterValue/SetVectorParameterValue. Store the result in a variable for reuse.

PlayAnimation on widget — play UMG widget animation

PlayAnimation (widget) — play a Widget Animation