I totaly understand what you are after here. Because animations in Slate are always in-sync with the time of the cutscene thus to be as deterministic as possible playback wise though, this is not really possible to do out-of-the-box. In Slate, animations are “sampled” at a specific time, instead of just “play and forget”.
This could maybe be achieved with a custom “Play Animation” Slate clip (or an option in the existing “Play Animation” Slate clip), even though I can foresee that this will probably create some side effects like for example out-of-synd when the cutscene speed changes, or even with Root Motion. If I am to add an option (like “Out Of Sync Play”) I could probably ignore Root Motion and animation playback speed when that option is enabled.
I will definetely need to investigate further how this could be achieved without any unexpected behaviours. I will take a look at this right after Eastern (in Monday) and will let you know what I may come up with as a solution.
Gavalakis
