You can have the bones showing so you can click on them physically instead of in the hierarchy, just click the Character --> Bones --> All Hierarchy, it makes it a lot easier to edit
@@visualdistortionvfx3859 On the preview window, there are several buttons: Perspective, Lit, Show, Character, LOD Auto, etc. This is the Character button (s)he is referring to.
mind blown coming from unity where this is a couple hundred dollars worth of plugins or a few months of learning 3rd party software. Amazing this is in engine... worth the switch alone
def learned new stuff but for quinn i cant move his legs. i can twist them somewhat and move the toes but i cannot reposition the legs at all. any tips?
having an issue when I tweak the animations and add the key when I move my camera to look at the animation from different angles it breaks the animation and everything I keyed heavily changes
It was a helpful video but I was looking to animate one half of a character using one animation and the other half using another, such as running and shooting a gun. Please make a tutorial on this
Hey thanks so much for your comment! So for using animations on different sections of a character is just by using slot groups and montages and i have a video going over just that! If that doesn't help let me know and I can make a follow up video on anything I missed :) Link to slots and montages tutorial - th-cam.com/video/uOiYEkLNUto/w-d-xo.html
So… my character’s feet touch the ground when standing, but when I go into crouch his feet are NOT touching the ground anymore… will this work for that? Should I select the Main root at the top, and pull the character to the ground, then save?
Possibly but this issue could also stem from your capsule collision around your character. Id check the crouch animation and see if the root bone is moving properly - If not then make any adjustments necessary and also check the capsules half height during crouch.
When u rotated the arm, the idle animation also plays on that arm with updated rotation..is it possible to delete all the animations on the arm? I have an animation from mixamo and i want all the animations to be deleted on left arm and add my my own keys to it but the small animations messes up things. any solution?
To completely remove a bone groups animation track the best way would be to export the animation into an FBX and remove the keyframes inside something like blender. Now with that being said that doesn't mean it's not possible through unreal also just a bit dirtier and requires some tricks. First open up an animation and scrub through until you get the arm starting position as close to a nice starting point as you can get and go to create > animation and select from current pose. Then from there you can add animation data to that arm in the new animation. Then in the animation blueprint use a layered blend per bone and set the bone index to the clavicle, and blend the animation you made from the pose as the blend and the normal animation with all the bone data set to the base. This way it will blend the animation data of the new arm track with the original animation. Now with all that said... Id recommend just tossing it into blender and remove the keys and use the powerful IK and curve animation system to make a really smooth new arm track. This way there's no complex blending and runs fluid together.
@@ArtofficialEntertainment Can you make a video about exporting an animation from Unreal to Blender, modifying it and then importing back into unreal? Really confused on how to do it, ive seen someone use the Mr Mannequinn template
How can I extend the playback time of a premade animation such as walking? I thought about copying and pasting the keys to make it longer but I am not seeing the keys to the original animation to do that.
To extend a walk animations cycle the easiest way is to make a new montage by right clicking in your content browser and create new montage, then drag the walk cycle animation into the blank animation data section and just repeat until you get the length you want. This will only work though if your animation fully cycles. Meaning it starts and ends in the same position. Otherwise you would need to do some key frame editing inside of something like blender to ensure that you have the full cycle smoothed out.
Truly great tutorial! Please consider offering a Udemy course on character animation for pre-visualization in film production. Awesome teaching skills!
Im not sure who that is haha. I used a lot of video video copilot tutorials when I started learning to make intros and getting deeper into VFX haha. Ill have to check out Red Giant though. Always love to see more ways to make intros. Im a 3D guy that just plays around with Aftereffects really xD
Haha thanks! Yeah my mic was starting to die and is now replaced with something more ear friendly! I will be redoing a lot of these videos soon with updated intro and using the new sound equipment. :)
Great tutorial, you deserve a lot more than just 300 likes.
Thank you for the lesson. Question: Is it possible to add a layer and control this layer like what is found in Maya?
You can have the bones showing so you can click on them physically instead of in the hierarchy, just click the Character --> Bones --> All Hierarchy, it makes it a lot easier to edit
Underrated comment, thank you!
i dont see anywhere to click character
i have the same question
@@visualdistortionvfx3859 On the preview window, there are several buttons: Perspective, Lit, Show, Character, LOD Auto, etc. This is the Character button (s)he is referring to.
For some reason “key” does not appear for me at all
Thanks a lot! Found was I was looking for.
mind blown coming from unity where this is a couple hundred dollars worth of plugins or a few months of learning 3rd party software. Amazing this is in engine... worth the switch alone
def learned new stuff but for quinn i cant move his legs. i can twist them somewhat and move the toes but i cannot reposition the legs at all. any tips?
the style of your videis is clean and sick, as well as quick and dirty! love it, thanks buddy
Thanks so much! I love that description haha
having an issue when I tweak the animations and add the key when I move my camera to look at the animation from different angles it breaks the animation and everything I keyed heavily changes
your video is a game changer
Haha I see what you did there :P And thank you so much!
Great info, thanks a lot man. 👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!
You're very welcome! And thank you for the support!!!! :D
Thank you! This is so helpful.
You're so welcome!
It was a helpful video but I was looking to animate one half of a character using one animation and the other half using another, such as running and shooting a gun. Please make a tutorial on this
Also 69th like
Hey thanks so much for your comment! So for using animations on different sections of a character is just by using slot groups and montages and i have a video going over just that! If that doesn't help let me know and I can make a follow up video on anything I missed :)
Link to slots and montages tutorial - th-cam.com/video/uOiYEkLNUto/w-d-xo.html
This is great! Thank you.
You're very welcome!
So… my character’s feet touch the ground when standing, but when I go into crouch his feet are NOT touching the ground anymore… will this work for that? Should I select the Main root at the top, and pull the character to the ground, then save?
Possibly but this issue could also stem from your capsule collision around your character. Id check the crouch animation and see if the root bone is moving properly - If not then make any adjustments necessary and also check the capsules half height during crouch.
@@ArtofficialEntertainment How you check the capsule half height in crouch?
make it visible in game?
When u rotated the arm, the idle animation also plays on that arm with updated rotation..is it possible to delete all the animations on the arm? I have an animation from mixamo and i want all the animations to be deleted on left arm and add my my own keys to it but the small animations messes up things. any solution?
To completely remove a bone groups animation track the best way would be to export the animation into an FBX and remove the keyframes inside something like blender.
Now with that being said that doesn't mean it's not possible through unreal also just a bit dirtier and requires some tricks.
First open up an animation and scrub through until you get the arm starting position as close to a nice starting point as you can get and go to create > animation and select from current pose. Then from there you can add animation data to that arm in the new animation. Then in the animation blueprint use a layered blend per bone and set the bone index to the clavicle, and blend the animation you made from the pose as the blend and the normal animation with all the bone data set to the base. This way it will blend the animation data of the new arm track with the original animation.
Now with all that said... Id recommend just tossing it into blender and remove the keys and use the powerful IK and curve animation system to make a really smooth new arm track. This way there's no complex blending and runs fluid together.
@@ArtofficialEntertainment Can you make a video about exporting an animation from Unreal to Blender, modifying it and then importing back into unreal? Really confused on how to do it, ive seen someone use the Mr Mannequinn template
How can I extend the playback time of a premade animation such as walking? I thought about copying and pasting the keys to make it longer but I am not seeing the keys to the original animation to do that.
To extend a walk animations cycle the easiest way is to make a new montage by right clicking in your content browser and create new montage, then drag the walk cycle animation into the blank animation data section and just repeat until you get the length you want. This will only work though if your animation fully cycles. Meaning it starts and ends in the same position.
Otherwise you would need to do some key frame editing inside of something like blender to ensure that you have the full cycle smoothed out.
@@ArtofficialEntertainment yeah, that’s what I had to do unfortunately but it works perfect now.
This is awesome information. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
You saved my live thankss
Truly great tutorial! Please consider offering a Udemy course on character animation for pre-visualization in film production. Awesome teaching skills!
great
lmao, u used red giant's tutorial for the intro in the beginning. Ur a real VFX guy ;)
Im not sure who that is haha. I used a lot of video video copilot tutorials when I started learning to make intros and getting deeper into VFX haha. Ill have to check out Red Giant though. Always love to see more ways to make intros. Im a 3D guy that just plays around with Aftereffects really xD
your mic is horrible but good video ♥
Haha thanks! Yeah my mic was starting to die and is now replaced with something more ear friendly! I will be redoing a lot of these videos soon with updated intro and using the new sound equipment. :)