Finaly! How to animate group of objects in Unreal Engine sequencer

Animating a group actor?
I have suffered from this problem for a long time. How to animate a group of objects in Anrial Engine 5. Many guys on the forums couldn't find an answer either. And finally I found a solution.


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[williamgreen]

saved my bacon with this ! my group actor in sequence was only moving the pivot tool but not the assets. I added all the parts into a folder and made them child assets to an added actor instead and it worked perfectly. Thanks alot

[mpjstuff]

I've started to add a sub-sequence track for these types of things. Because that sequencer can get pretty crowded. You can still have the main elements like the car in the main sequence, and then adjust little elements that are part of that car in a subsequence -- and these can be turned on and off much like switching between cameras. And likely, adjustments to the sub sequence are over-rides or "additions" to the main sequence -- kind of like how you tweak animation tracks.
Case in point, I animated a card deck, and started with just a few cards to get the flow, then added in 50 more in a subsequence to float around the main cards.

[HungViet-rzkl]

Hi,

I find there 2 other ways:
1/ Choose an object which you want the other objects will move with it. On the Outliner table, drag a group of objects into this main object and they will be all attached together.
2/ Or in the Sequencer editor, choose an object(s) > click on the "Add Track" button > Attach > choose the object that you want it to move with. There are also some Attach options in the Attach rollout.

I don't know if there are differences between these methods?

[bunyaminkaya]

Acting with the actor saved my entire project. thanksss;))

[happywasabii]

OMG THANKS
Finally something that works!

[Sky-hliw]

tq4this! it works! so its like a static mesh bluprint but simpler i think

[EvanMapleMaggot]

Thank you and for "movable" answers also. <3

[titilim]

Omg thanks! And i'm very interested with you youtube channel!

[MabelYolanda-ci]

Unreal 5.4 doesn’t let you link static meshes to the actor. Do you know a way around this?

[viral_histories]

Hi Thanks for this ....i was facing the same issue.

[ailens.c]

hello! im trying to rotate an actor with 3 objects in its own point but the pivot of the actor is not closer so the actor does not rotate on its own axis, can you help me? i tried to change the offset of the pivot but it still changing the place :S

[JosephC]

Hi, thanks for the video! I just can't make the objects child of the actor. It says 'cannot attach static actor ro dynamic actor..' do you know why?

[RunaUwO]

how can one animate two people fighting in unreal engine directly. i want to manully animate it not import animations and warp them together i want to make it in unreal

[MadiNoe]

Would it be possible to rate a moving character 360 degree while he does an animation already ?

[pushthebutton]

Thanks for this video. Do you know how to use sliders to play through an animation? I would like to connect a slider to my animation and when I drag the slider it runs through the animation. Let's say you import an simple cube animation with translate and rotation from Maya that you have done. Then you connect the animation to the slider in Unreal. How do you do that, can't find any info about Driven, or Run or Play your animation with a UI slider for Unreal anywhere? Can look into this? Thanks in advance. Hope for a reply.

[wolf]

anyone else having issues when rendering? it looks all good in my sequencer then when i render its a totally different scene :/

[billcch]

But the actor movment cannot be render, any solution?

[isolophobiaofficialgame]

Question have you ever imported an object and key frames it on the sequencer and then try and render it and it didn’t move just stood there ? I’m trying to animate a box moving and when I play it in sequencer and view port it works but when I render it doesn’t move at all in the render it’s been very frustrating I’m not making a Game in doing cinematic ! Do you have to make. Blue print to render out

[TheChrisNong]

Hi! Is it possible to make all of them spawnable?

[slamm]

I cant add static objects to actors any solution?