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No problem! :D

Thank you so much! Glad my workflow tips are helpful :)

I can answer a few questions for you! Email works best, you can find it in my TH-cam about section :)

So good news, I actually just started recording a course going over how to create Souslike gameplay animations in Unreal using Sequencer and how to code them to the player. I'm planning to start posting episodes in December. However, it will be animation focused and will not go into damage/health systems, enemy ai, music, environment design, etc. There are other great educators on TH-cam who will do a much better job teaching those than I can. Here are video series I used: Basic logic for a soulslike game (I used chat GPT to customize it): th-cam.com/video/9J0NrZJV2H8/w-d-xo.html Damage system: th-cam.com/video/o3uFXnNxwKE/w-d-xo.html Enemy ai: th-cam.com/video/-t3PbGRazKg/w-d-xo.html For smaller features, I often would watch tutorials from Gorka Games and Matt Aspland. Hope this helps!

Thank you for your feedback. It was not my intent to mock the Bible or Catholicism, as both are very important to me. I'll make sure to draw analogies more clearly and respectfully in the future.

Thank you!

Good question! I briefly tested it out and yes, that it seems you can switch on an additive layer. I know for me personally, I would drive the IK/FK switch on the base anim layer for clarity and cleanliness, but if you have a particular reason for handling it on a layer, I think you should be okay.

@@ZeroToAnimator perfect , thank you!

Of course! Glad to have helped!

Thank you! I try my best to be clear, but if you ever have any questions when the course is live, please let me know :)

Thanks so much, Leroy! I appreciate it! So I used a mixture of animation montages and blendspaces. I tried to get additive animations working but with little success, due to how I animated them. So I opted to use root motion and control the character's movement that way for when I used anim montages (for attacks, healing, pulling a lever, etc.) The locomotion was handled through blendspaces in the ABP. Using additive animations is something I definitely want to learn how to use for my next project, and I think I'll have an easier time getting them working now that I have learned the basics of Unreal's animation system. Excited to keep learning!

I did have fun! I wanted to challenge myself and learn something new :D

@@ZeroToAnimator oof nice to know

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Thank you! Glad it was helpful for you!

Thank you so much! I'm glad you found this helpful and thank you for your kind words!

Another great suggestion! I have that one as well, super helpful. I'll add it to an ongoing list here :)

Unfortunately I am not aware of any plugin :( I would search with terms like "Blender reference editor" to see if anything comes up. Best of luck finding one!

100% I should have included that!!!

Of course! I'm hoping to continue this series once my schedule frees up more. Stay tuned :)

Of course! Hope these resources help.

Thanks so much! I appreciate the feedback. If you use other resources for animation, please let us here so others can take a look :)

@@ZeroToAnimator The only other book I've been looking into getting is Character Animation Crash Course! by Eric Goldberg (30yr+ animation veteran).

Nice! I have that one too. The section on smear frames and cartoony animation was so helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

Of course! Glad it was helpful :)

Interesting. So my weapon static mesh did have a few sockets I created, one of which was at the tip. But since your weapon is already a skeletal mesh, perhaps there is bone data which creates the rig differently. I would experiment with your weapon skeletal mesh. Maybe try adding socket at the tip and re-creating the rig to see if the tip becomes the root in the control rig. The default settings at 01:03 used to create my skeletal mesh probably have something to do with how my rig worked. I am not too familiar with editing rigs or skeletal meshes, so I would have to play around with it more to see what could work. Sorry I don't have a solid solution for you.

@@ZeroToAnimator Thanks for responding. I will keep testing.

Yay so glad this helped! Happy animating!

No problem! Hope it helps!

To my understanding, Unreal doesn't allow Motion Trails to track any object except a control rig control. There are a few ways you could handle this which unfortunately aren't a simple fix: 1) edit your control rig to include an additional control that you then constrain to the tip of the sword via a socket in the sword (probably best to rig the extra control in one of the hands) or 2) you create a simple control rig of your sword and arc track controls on that. Your sword would need to be a skeletal mesh, so if it's a static mesh, you would need to convert it via a plugin called Skeletal Mesh Editing Tools. I have not personally tried either of these methods, but feel free to give it a go. Or you can use the old school method of drawing on your monitor with dry erase marker. I did that in school 😂

Thanks for the suggestion. I thought it would be helpful to figure out how to arc track weapons, so I made a video about it: th-cam.com/video/3IQ0k9EFe5c/w-d-xo.html Hopefully it helps!

So you can use an image sequence made from any program. All you need to do to create the textures is drag the photos into the Movies folder. Whether the image sequence is made in Unreal, Blender, or another program is irrelevant, as long as you have that image sequence. Yes, I am using 5.4. I am not sure if the Media Framework Utilities is available for older versions. But you can definitely use a regular image plane and apply the texture to that instead.

Yes! I am actually going to do an in-depth tutorial series on using the Animation Blueprint System for character movement. I need to finish my game this month first, and I will create the series in November. Gorka Games will have some great beginner tutorials on using Animation Blueprints, but stay tuned for my more detailed one soon!

But to answer your question about assigning an animation blueprint to your player character, I do have a lecture going over how it works conceptually. th-cam.com/video/Nguo0E9123s/w-d-xo.html

@@ZeroToAnimator ok ya cuz im a bit confused with using blendspaces and state machines so ya would be amazing if u can cover those areas

@@Beanbag59 Yeah no worries, it's confusing at first! It'll make more sense when you practice. The video I linked should help as well.

@@ZeroToAnimator ya it helped but actually doing it in a video would also be amazing but ya with time with time

Thanks so much! Glad to hear you find my tips helpful :)

Thank you! It's great to see your play throughs :)

Thank you so much!!!

I have not! Is this character reminiscent of it?

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :D

Hmmm so I think the way the picker is set up is to swap the character in the picker from the drop down box. You could duplicate the actual editor utility widget file, run that one, and then use the drop down box for the other character.

@@ZeroToAnimator Thank you

@@hotsauce7124 No problem!

As long as the control rig has similarly named controls the same as the Metahuman/mannequin, it should work. If the controls are named differently or if the character has a slightly different skeleton, the buttons won't work, since the buttons' functionality are coded directly to the name of the controls. Hope that helps!

@@ZeroToAnimator Thank you

Possible to change the code?​@@ZeroToAnimator

@@SuperMontana2008 Yes! So instead of right clicking the editor utility widget to run it, double click it and you'll open the code. You'll use the Designer tab for adding extra buttons and use the Graph tab to write the logic for the button.

@@ZeroToAnimator what about applying it to procedural control rigs?

Well yes, this is an animation channel, and keyframes are our bread and butter! This was more to show animators the workflow set up, since Unreal is a bit different than Maya, which is our standard animation software.

@@ZeroToAnimator ik lol im just messing with you :)

@@denberz711 lol well you got me XD

Thank you! Yeah there was nothing in the chest and shoulders in the original animation, had to change that.

Of course! Glad it was helpful. Happy animating :D

Of course! :)

Thank you!

Thanks! I kinda ended up overriding the entire mocap haha oh well, the original animation wasn't all that good to begin with

Thank you! Trying to improve my audio quality of my videos... it's a wip

Of course!

Thank you :D

@@ZeroToAnimator my co workers loves it.

@@wolfyrig1583 Yay glad to hear it! I would love to make a high fidelity Loony Tunes style game, but I need to get more practice in Unreal before trying something that ambitious haha

Wonderful! Glad this video helped!

Nice! That works too!

I'm relying a lot on the tweener tool, with the overshoot and ease in out. Feel closer to my experience in TV

Me too! I cannot work without tweener. My go to are 80s and 20s after I've made my breakdown pose. I'll often use copied pairs but hit the pose with a 90/10 to get a pixel drift instead of copying the exact pose. I didn't showcase much of the tweener tools in this video but maybe I will in a future one!

@@ZeroToAnimator can you make tutorial for tweener tool for beginners pls

@@burak3d Yeah sure thing! I'll try to get one made in the next two weeks.

Just posted it! Hope it helps. th-cam.com/video/QsoDDB61u3g/w-d-xo.html

Of course! Glad you found it helpful :) I'll be adding more to this series in the fall since my schedule opens up more then. Stay tuned!