Time for action – a basic elevator/door

1. The first thing you need to do is select the static mesh you wish to use in the content browser, then right-click somewhere in a viewport, and add it as an InterpActor:

   

2. Next, open up Kismet. A button with a green K in the top toolbar:

   

3. Keep the InterpActor you just made selected in the viewport. Then in the Kismet window, right-click the large empty gray space in the middle and click New Matinee:

   

4. A Matinee block is added. Double-click this block to open the Matinee sub-editor. Right-click in the dark gray space in the center-left of this window and click Add New Empty Group:

   

5. Right-click the NewGroup that you just made and then click Add New Movement Track:

   

6. Move the timeline to another position; in my example, it was moved to 3 seconds by clicking in the dark gray space at the bottom of the timeline. Press Enter to add a key to the current position. Keys are positions that the engine remembers. Note how you can increase or decrease the length of the matinee...