Animation Notifies

How the pack’s AnimNotifies and AnimNotifyStates trigger gameplay.

Animation notifies are timeline callbacks fired by an animation sequence or montage. This pack uses custom AnimNotify and AnimNotifyState Blueprints for magazine drops, casing ejection, action unlocks, temporary prop spawning, and short-lived animation-state control.

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• Notify Types

• Execution Model

• Pages in This Section

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Notify Types

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• AnimNotify is a one-shot event at a single frame or time.

• AnimNotifyState defines a time range with Begin, optional Tick, and End.

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Execution Model

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1. The montage or sequence advances time.

2. Unreal Engine gathers notifies for the current time slice.

3. Unreal Engine executes the notify Blueprint.

4. The notify Blueprint usually talks back to the owning actor or the active anim instance.

Exact call timing can vary during skipped time, section jumps, or blend-outs, so it is best to treat notifies as best-effort gameplay signals rather than fully authoritative state.

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Pages in This Section

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• Drop Magazine (AN_TFA_DropMagazine)

  • Calls the weapon-side magazine drop helper at the exact release frame.

• Eject Casing (AN_TFA_EjectCasing)

  • Spawns and ejects a casing with configurable force and rotation spread.

• Spawn Object Attached (AN_TFA_SpawnObjectAttached)

  • Spawns a temporary prop and attaches it to a character socket.

• Throw Physics Object (AN_TFA_ThrowPhysicsObject)

  • Spawns a physics prop, throws it, and optionally clears disposable socket props.

• Unlock Actions (AN_TFA_UnlockActions)

  • Clears the main busy gate so the character can act again.