Unreal Engine - Spline Path Animation Tutorial
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Howdy all ^_^ .
Hopefully his is helpful. Comments and Questions are always always welcome.
THANK YOU for making something that everybody else was making so difficult so easy and concise!
Hey,
Not only is this the quickest UE4 tute I've seen so far; it's the best and most concise as well. Not one hiccup experienced :)
Thanks.
Please come back and create more tutorials!!! You have no idea how important this is for us! Thank you so much for the work you have done!
Thanks for the tutorial, glad I found this. Imagine this would've been overcomplicated like things are in a lot of Unreal Tutorials online. Real time saver.
Very good tutorial sir, I was just trying to do this two days ago and fits exactly what I need. Thanks and keep it up. Subscribed!
Thank you very much. I shall do my best. My apologies for the non-tutorial videos in between. Got to shamelessly plug my game and all that :P
Great explanation. Fast and simple. Well done.
Great explanations/executions. Kudos to you.
Thank you thank you :) glad it helped
Thank you for this! Straight forward and works as intended!
Just wanted to say thank you. You are helping a lot of people like myself.
Thank you! It was exaclty what I was looking for. :) Note: if anyone is having a problem with mesh moving in a wrong direction along the spline - reverse key positions in the Timeline inside the "Spline_Animation_Actor" editing mode.
This was very helpful! Thank you so much for making this tutorial :)
Super nicely paced video!
Great simple tutorial! Just what I needed. Thanks a bunch! :-)
Finally a simple tutorial. Thank you.
Could you make a tutorial about how to make the object on the spline stop if it encounters an obstacle, and then continue when the obstacle is not in the way of the spline anymore?
Thank you so much, this solved a huge problem I had that I was going crazy trying to figure out for a game project I am developing.
Fast, simple, beautiful thank you
This is super helpful, many thanks!
Thank you so much for taking the time to help! =) Great video!
Excellent tutorial! Thanks for this :)
Awesome. Exactly what I needed, thank you!
Thank you so much for helping. I can use your method on a camera at completion of the level to show various locations of the map without player control.
Awesome tutorial!
Great video. Short and precise. I needed this done tonight. Now I have extra time for polishing. thank you!
Would be great if you touched on scale. Not sure how to add that to the timeline node.
thankyou so much just a tip that helped me if you want it to be triggered by an actor add a trigger box and use add component begin overlap to connect that to the start and end overlap conect to stop so kit stops when the player jumps just incase this save anyone's but!
Great stuff! Thanks man!
GOLD! I'll have to try this ASAP
Quick and efficient, thank you
This was super useful - thanks! If I wanted a camera to do that fixed path movement, like say for a virtual tour, do I need a different type of Blueprint Class, like, say, Actor Component or Scene Component?
Great video, keep up the good work :)
Thank you for the kind words. It keeps us all going on those long nights ^_^
Thank you for an excellent explanation, I'll cheers to you tonight :)
Nice tutorial, really thank you! :)
Thanks! Very useful.
Very, very good!
Great video thank you!
Thank you for the Awesome tutorial man!!! One question, can you stop and start a mesh based on the spline with this approach?
Thank you so much for this!
You are very welcome :)
Thank you - I appreciate the clear explanation. I want to swap out the cube with a static mesh of a bee, but it is not that simple. Would you mind sharing the steps involved to replace the cube with a static mesh?
My man! Thank you so much for this clear and straight forward tutorial! Only problem that i have is that i use RC car instead of the box and it doesn't follow the spline on the curves as it should, any solution for that ? It's really weird because i can see that even your cubes are following the spline correctly.
Ok, so the greatest thing ever is playing this tutorial at 1/2 speed, you sound drunk AF, especially at the very end. It was the only way I could follow along but man it made it funnier to watch
XD hahaha I dun been Tyson'd
th-cam.com/video/jSHNyppwS5w/w-d-xo.html
Thank you nice Tutorial.
Thanks for the tutorial! I have a question, how would I go about pausing it at a certain point and then playing it again. I am using it for a train system and I need it to stop and then play.
Amazing. Insta-subbed just for stuff like this.
Hi, thanks for the great tutorial. I have a question. How can I attach a camera behind the cube so it will follow the cube with little natural offset effect, and the camera will play when I press the play button? And cinema sequencer can detect the camera and render the animation?
Very nice!!!!!!!
Great tutorial. If I can ask, can you trigger this by using a series of machine states so it could be controller from begining to end? (If this is a dumb question I apologize) -- I'm new to Unreal so please forgive me as I learn the proper terms.
Very nice tutorial. Thanks a lot. You mention drawing splines for objects to follow them, I assume you mean drawing the splines during gameplay. Could you explain how one would go about setting that up?
Thats a great video
Nice tut. I'm wondering what's missing to apply this to animating a snake slithering across bumpy terrain. I had this worked out in 3DS Max before realizing you can't export PathDeform (WSM) in the fbx. Thanks for any thoughts on that.
sir this was really helpful, just had a question. how to add custom skeletal mesh to the spline ?
Great tutorial, really love this! Is it possible to make a Spline animation in Cinematic Sequencer, thanks a lot!
Hey, I was wondering if you could do a tutorial where this cube can be controlled by the player. e.g. pressing 'w' will move the cube along the path. thanks!
Good day, GREAT tutorial dude! Thanks!!!!
A question regarding follow spline - I have it all working 100% - But how do I make it loop - ie: get to the end of the spline and return to the start and just keep going?
I put on 'Loop' in the function, but its not going back to the start?
Thank you!!
Thx a lot, Perfect :)
Thanks for the tutorial, this is a simpler process than others involving character controllers. Question: Would adding a local offset somewhere allow the cube to follow the spline from a nearby reference point (like 1 foot to the right)? Also, how would you make it come back in the other direction automatically when it reached the end as a back and forth NPC for example?
Totalys, Is stead of having a cube in with the spline traveling actor, ActorA. I would create a second actor, ActorB, that has the functionality to Lerp a sphere between locations 1 foot to the right or left by pushing the left or right arrows. Then inside the spline traveling actor, ActorA, I would get a reference to ActorB and use an "attach to componant" to attach ActorB to the cube running along the spline. That way ActorB get brought along for the ride. Then to get the fowards and backwards control I would probubly just call events that change the playback speed of the timeline from 1 to -1. Hopefully that helps and thank you for the kind words :)
This is great ! Holy crap I feel like He-Man and gonna go up on the roof shout *"I have the **_POWER!!!_* while holding out my Wacom pen like Sword!!! :) Thanks a lot,. Really cool. I love when there is no ancillary, auxiliary, extemporaneous, arbitrary, irrelevant, unnecessary or extra stuff,.. ;) LOL... This got right to the point, and my UFO is FLYING across the scene! _I tried to customize it a bit and am having a little trouble,.._ If you have a second I'd sure appreciate a clue! 1) I'd like the UFO to rotate around a few times during it's path journey, I tried Add Rotation, Multiplying/ Nothing seems to work :? also 2) I tried to add a delay before the UFO starts down the path (and/or rotating,. ) .. I got it to pause (delay), but then when the delay time was up it went from the beginning of the path to the end in a millisecond! UPDATE: i GOT #2 ! I made a delay, by changing the first keyframe in the Timeline to 100 and the second keyframe to 200~ Awesome,. Now if only I could get the thing to rotate while on its path! :) THANK YOU!
@5:55 was so helpful to me, thank you!!
Thank you very much for the tutorial. Do you know of any way to rotate the starting position of the spline? I have my character looking on the y axis but the spline appears on the x axis, I would appreciate your help.
Question 2: I gather that the timeline animation is the "driving force" behind the movement.. (pushing the numbers forward). Are there other simple non-player-controlled ways of doing this? (i.e. setting the start and end of the spline as a point/variable and telling the object to go back and forth on a timer?)
Totaly, you could just set a looping function with an "Interp" node to drive the distance along the path value as a variable. You can also set the playback speed of the timeline to what ever you want. +2 or even -1 or 0 to controlll it that way too. This other one I made might explain things a little better.
th-cam.com/video/twgmFrhElEQ/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! Great video.
Could I use this to have my animals to follow a spline along my terrain?
Thanks a lot!
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Word up. Glad yah like
Amazing tutorial very helpful thank you!
Q: How would I go about looping multiple boxes after each other on a single spline? say like bullets?
If I were to do that I would probubly make a for loop at the begining that spawns a second or third or fourth actor that has a reference to the spline. Inside each of those actors they could follow that spline on there own. Or like what I did in our game I have two seperate actors. One is a path and the other is a pilot. The path spawns into existance. Then all the pilots spawn with a reference to the path and then travel down the path. I would be happy to go into more detail but time is of the essence currently as its release week. Thats how the Scout Bunnies in my game work. Hope that helped :) . If this does well I'll have more free time to help heheh - store.steampowered.com/app/672910/Hangry_Bunnies_From_Mars/
Thank you for the reply!
I got the mesh to loop but what I need is for multiple of the same mesh to be moving on the spline at the same time so it looks like say an infinite row of ants walking between point A and B.
I am not a coder so I am not sure how to implement all that. I have the for loop but will google more in the direction you suggested thank you very much. My current project require a bit of code. I plan on learning soon tho but this project needs to be done soon (3 weeks) so I do not have the time at the moment to learn blueprints. Good luck with the release of your game looks really well done and like a lot of fun would definitely check it out if I had a VR headset. Thanks again for the reply.
Any help would be amazing but I understand that you are busy at the moment so whenever you have time again.
Thank you
Hello, I was wondering if you knew how to take the spline created with the cube and put it on a "loop" so that the motion repeats itself continuously. Thanks!
There is a LOOP checkbox top of the the Timeline window.
@@NextWorldVR Thank you XD
thanks man... really helpful.... one question... Can we attach 2 cinematic camera side by side to the spline & export 2 videos from that both camera through sequencer... I want to export stereoscopic side by side output from unreal & play it on 3d tv... is it possible... ? thanks for the help man... I am new to unreal engine... no idea about programming...
Heyo good sir. Sadly I am about 4-6 weeks out from starting in on learning how to render out 360 stereo videos from unreal. BUT! I am absolutely certain what you are talking about is possible through blueprints. But but, I sadly dont know it yet. I think this video might be a good starting point?
th-cam.com/video/VfuQv_5RDRA/w-d-xo.html
Once I get a solution down a month or so from now I'll definantly make a tutorial video.
Also, just found this on the forums
forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?130681-360-video-rendering-with-Nvidia-Ansel-!
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You can do all of this right now using the Stereo Pano Plugin. You can read more about the plugin using the following link.
www.unrealengine.com/blog/capturing-stereoscopic-360-screenshots-videos-movies-unreal-engine-4
I have also created a step by step tutorial that goes over how to use this plugin to generate, capture and display stereo images.
docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Platforms/VR/StereoPanoramicCapture/index.html
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Hammer-On Productions hi, Thank you so much for the reply... i think you misunderstood.... i want to export side by side stereo like in the movie theatre we watch 3d film with glasses... i don't need 360 stereoscopic video... side by side stereo means one video for the left eye and one fir the right eye....all 3d application has that facility to render side by side... but game engine do not have this export facility..
In Epic Launcher under Marketplace search iLocalPlayer4UE4, a plugin that supports SxS in the Editor and packaging, works great.
Hello
Hangry Bunnies From Mars !
I have a question for you !
Can we use this technique to make an AI following you spline path ?
I am asking because the Character Blueprint and the Acto Blueprint are not the same !
Can you show us how to do that ?
Thanks ! :)
good tut
does this only work for static meshes? I tried with a skeletal mesh and it sort of just glitches out
edit: nevermind, you just have to do the rotation and scale manually apparently
i have used your tutorial to the Tee for some reason the Mesh or Cube doesnt move
Thank you so much, can I ask you how to set direction?
Hey Man, Great Tutorial- I have one quick question: I want to animate moves for my Character but dont really know where to begin, could you tell me what I need to do to create movement animations (for a 3rd person character),
can I do it within the Engine itself or do I need another Programm to actually create certain Animtions?
Big Thank you in advance
Glad yah liked the tutorial. As far as third person animation stuff goes. This tutorial series right here is the very very best I know of for getting started in that direction.
th-cam.com/video/hRO82u1phyw/w-d-xo.html
Once you are done with that you might need This one also
th-cam.com/video/1pmPb_TWG-8/w-d-xo.html
Mostly for its use of 2D blend spaces.
But once you get through those two it should be nearly everything you need. I think :)
Hmm this is the second tutorial that ive watched but in my case no of these are working. Iam using Unreal engine 5. Are there any difference in the blueprint settings?
Thanks :D
thanks for the tutorial man. I have 1 problem, when i use an animated character it start of by facing the wrong way and is walking sideways along the path, do you know the anwser to this problem? ;p
Same problem. Please help!
i found it after some searching with other nodes. After the SetWorldTransform you have to add and connect the node "AddLocalRotation". the target is the same as you used in the SetWorldTransform node.
In the AddLocalRotation you can put in the Delta Rotation Z, 90. That will make it so it forces the object to start with a 90 degree rotation.
Thanks a lot, HPC! :D
you are smart
hi grate tutorial ... thanks for the tips. I was trying to create snake like creature move along with the spline but not so rigid like a cube... but the spline mesh input only accept Mesh, the Skeleton is not working there... will you be able to help me to solve it? and also i wanted to trigger the event on ue4 cinematics. is it possible? or can you redirect me to a tutorial or documentation i can learn it? thanks in advance.
I have placed a drone I want to follow a path but when I play the animation, the plane is facing the wrong way and its flying sideways along the path. Turning the static mesh in the blueprint doesn't seem to fix it.
I added a rotation vector to the blueprint and was able to fix it, but is there a better way to set it up from the start so that it is oriented correctly?
Thanks, but how can this work If along the path I need to change the animation of the mesh from a set of animations or blends I have (take off, fly, land)
thank youuuuuu!!!
TIL Splines are fucking awesome.
i put a space ship for the static mesh and after following the tutorial it moves backwards along spline when i hit play. i tried rotating it in the viewport and it would always run backwards still. i am using ue4.27. do you know how to fix this?
Hi! After bulding a spline instance. My static meshes with pickup interaction (VR) began flying away when simulating play.. any idea on the reason of this? :c lol
Does anyone know how attach a camera to the mesh, so it follows round? I have a camera BP and mesh BP, where I want the camera to be set as default view and moves with mesh along the spline. Thanks
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i have animated a model with run cycle of 100 meters. i need some turns while running how can i use this method to a animated model which moving.
Hot to make an object move straight and not sideways?
Hello. Does anyone know how to apply this tutorial to a third person car animation. I tried to do but only the car walks by the spline, but the wheels do not spin. Thank you.
Do you have a way to do this for the first person character itself? I'm trying to do this and the character just gets stuck at the beginning :(
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Great Tutorial! Unfortunately I cannot get my plane mesh to follow the path of my spline track...
Solution was found. Would I be able to add a ring to my character with a set up like this?
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Any way to make this loop on a closed spline indefinitely?
Why is none of this ever working for me? It will not move through all the points on the spline?
thx
Hey are u there? I need ur help i added an Static Mesh (Ship) but the problem is that my ship is going sideways along the spline i set my ship in the Viewport in the same direction like the spline.
It's because your SetWorldTransform (that comes after your timeline) has the rotation set to the wrong direction probably. Change the rotation in that and it should fix it.
Im sorry but i cant find the SetWorldTransform im in the Blueprint of my Spline and then on the Timelime but i cant see it and i just clicked Viewport Conruction etc.. but its nowhere
My spline doesn't work. The sphere doesn't even move. I have a path, and my blueprints are the same.
I don't have a player in the game though, just a camera, if that matters.
How to add the spline to the sequencer?
mine just stays spinning in place going mental, any ideas?
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yes with a cube it's easy but with a cone or cylinder .......?
could you do this to your FPS character BP?
I would think you could use an "AttachToComponant" and attach the player pawn to the object that is riding the path. I think?
I will give it a try :)
I think I'm getting somewhere.. what would be the best way to slow down the travelling speed along the spline?
So far I have just been adding more keys the curve on the timeline. Its not the best, but its a quick dirty simple way. there is also changing the actual playback rate of the timeline.
answers.unrealengine.com/questions/132909/request-set-playback-speed-or-length-of-timelines.html
You could use that and when the mine-cart, so to speak, that is traveling along the path overlaps with collision actors, it could check to see if they are named faster or slower then adjust its speed of the timeline playback. Just an idear. Lots of ways to skin a cat and all that.
Here yah go, I made this, should get yah there.
th-cam.com/video/twgmFrhElEQ/w-d-xo.html
That was super helpful, thanks a lot!