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within 3 minutes got things working as intended, didnt realize it was this easy, and now to move on to the aim offset with this, thanks for making this video and sharing the know how
if you find that the animations are not blending, it might be because the animation in your animation montage has root motion or force root lock enabled. Disabling them both worked for me.
One way would be to use a state machine. Move the default slot into the idle state between ur idle animation and output animation and use the upper body layered blend in the walk/run state, then plug ur walk/run animation into the base pose of the layered blend. Alternatively, if u don't have a state machine, u could use also use Blend Poses by bool and simply plug ShouldMove into the active value. For the true pose u would use the upper body blend and for the false pose u would use the default slot.
Misleading. The thumbnail was exactly what I was looking for (using a specific upperbody montage while moving in any direction). Instead, this video was just exactly what Matt Aspland showed, using input to blend actions (punching while running etc.)
@@kimbalboa9398 Yes I did actually and I have already implemented it perfectly. I will try my best to explain it here but I will gladly show it to you perhaps over Discord screen share if the explanation isn't clear enough. So, what I wanted was for my character to always use the lower body locomotion when moving around, and for the upper body to be holding the weapon the same way in any direction. Just how FPS / 3rd person shooters work where your character moves around and the gun is always pointed to where you are looking (but sprinting will be normal sprinting without aiming). To do this, I used the 'Layered blend per bone' node on each movement state in the AnimGraph state machine (walking, crouching, turning in place etc) but not sprinting, more on this later. So in my walking state for example, I have the blendspace for my 8-way directional movement (forward, back, left, right, diagonal etc) - this blendspace connects to the Base Pose of the Layered blend per bone node, and the 'rifle aiming' animation sequence is dragged and dropped and connected to the Blend Poses 0 pin of the Layered blend per bone node (bone blends from Spine1) The Layered blend per bone node is now connected to the Output pose. So now, my lower body always uses the movement directionally, and my upper body always aims the rifle as I intended for it to be. Repeat these steps for the other movement states like crouching and turn in place for a smoother look and feel. As I mentioned, sprinting was excluded from these steps because I wanted my character to actually run without being able to shoot and just play the running animation while sprinting. So i removed the sprinting animations from my original movement blend space, and created a new state called 'sprint' where the the sprinting animation is in its own separate blend space. No blending of animations there. Also, the Player Movement state machine still connects to the CachedMovement state and the "Use cached pose 'CachedMovement'" still connects to the Output Pose on the AnimGraph. I really hope this makes sense, if not then please let me know how I can show you what I did.
@@TimothySchidlowski thank you for taking the time for a detailed answer!, this is actually what I've being doing now, but i struggle with the spine twisting too much when running left and for x aiming a gun. Was hoping to make a new "custom" animation blending upper and lower body in a single montage :)
@@TimothySchidlowskiis there any videos on this I could watch to learn. I’m still new to UE5 and this was still a little bit too confusing for me. What you explained was exactly what I’m looking for though!
how to make the animation looping, the animation montage only played once when I hit the key, I have checked loop option in anim montage and the animation sequence and still the animation doesn't loop
Bro does not know how to research and just comes up with lies this is remake I made of a video years ago please just try spend 2 mintues looking online before you come up with baseless claims th-cam.com/video/2KdbzE_LODE/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUgYmxlbmQgYW5pbWF0aW9ucyB1bnJlYWwgZW5naW5lIDQ%3D
For those working with 5.3 (or up?) and failing to find the Slot Manager: it can be found under 'Window | Anim Slot Manager'.
omg you re a fantastic person, thank you so much
within 3 minutes got things working as intended, didnt realize it was this easy, and now to move on to the aim offset with this, thanks for making this video and sharing the know how
Animations are one of the things that totally allude me in Unreal
It's a confusing mess for sure.
Yup me too. I think they need a real overhaul in how everything is handled.
if you find that the animations are not blending, it might be because the animation in your animation montage has root motion or force root lock enabled. Disabling them both worked for me.
EXACTLY what i was looking for oh man I'm so glad i'm subbed to you
Great video! Straight to the point! Subscribed.
Super top video saved me a lot, I gained another subscriber
BEAUTIFULLY explained. Thank you very much!
These deserve 1,000,000 likes great video
Thank you so much!!!
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Great Work Brother! Keep it going
Thanks! Will do!
Can I use zombie animation for my own game? Is there any problem for you?. Thakns for tutorial ❤
How do I make it so that when the character is standing still, it uses the default slot and when I move, it uses upperbody?
One way would be to use a state machine. Move the default slot into the idle state between ur idle animation and output animation and use the upper body layered blend in the walk/run state, then plug ur walk/run animation into the base pose of the layered blend. Alternatively, if u don't have a state machine, u could use also use Blend Poses by bool and simply plug ShouldMove into the active value. For the true pose u would use the upper body blend and for the false pose u would use the default slot.
cool
please create tutorial animated main menu button
can you link an example, maybe
Misleading. The thumbnail was exactly what I was looking for (using a specific upperbody montage while moving in any direction). Instead, this video was just exactly what Matt Aspland showed, using input to blend actions (punching while running etc.)
Same, have you found what you needed? I need the same!
@@kimbalboa9398 Yes I did actually and I have already implemented it perfectly. I will try my best to explain it here but I will gladly show it to you perhaps over Discord screen share if the explanation isn't clear enough.
So, what I wanted was for my character to always use the lower body locomotion when moving around, and for the upper body to be holding the weapon the same way in any direction. Just how FPS / 3rd person shooters work where your character moves around and the gun is always pointed to where you are looking (but sprinting will be normal sprinting without aiming).
To do this, I used the 'Layered blend per bone' node on each movement state in the AnimGraph state machine (walking, crouching, turning in place etc) but not sprinting, more on this later. So in my walking state for example, I have the blendspace for my 8-way directional movement (forward, back, left, right, diagonal etc) - this blendspace connects to the Base Pose of the Layered blend per bone node, and the 'rifle aiming' animation sequence is dragged and dropped and connected to the Blend Poses 0 pin of the Layered blend per bone node (bone blends from Spine1) The Layered blend per bone node is now connected to the Output pose. So now, my lower body always uses the movement directionally, and my upper body always aims the rifle as I intended for it to be. Repeat these steps for the other movement states like crouching and turn in place for a smoother look and feel.
As I mentioned, sprinting was excluded from these steps because I wanted my character to actually run without being able to shoot and just play the running animation while sprinting. So i removed the sprinting animations from my original movement blend space, and created a new state called 'sprint' where the the sprinting animation is in its own separate blend space. No blending of animations there.
Also, the Player Movement state machine still connects to the CachedMovement state and the "Use cached pose 'CachedMovement'" still connects to the Output Pose on the AnimGraph.
I really hope this makes sense, if not then please let me know how I can show you what I did.
@@TimothySchidlowski thank you for taking the time for a detailed answer!, this is actually what I've being doing now, but i struggle with the spine twisting too much when running left and for x aiming a gun.
Was hoping to make a new "custom" animation blending upper and lower body in a single montage :)
@@TimothySchidlowskiis there any videos on this I could watch to learn. I’m still new to UE5 and this was still a little bit too confusing for me.
What you explained was exactly what I’m looking for though!
@@TimothySchidlowskijust went through and figured it out, you are awesome. Thank you very much
how to make the animation looping, the animation montage only played once when I hit the key, I have checked loop option in anim montage and the animation sequence and still the animation doesn't loop
Where the link to the Animations to download while following along?
readded sorry was removed by accident you can also get it here : bit.ly/3zafITH
How I speed up the blend transition speed?
playrate
I don’t understand why you put one in an upper body slot, but left the other in the default slot.
I wanted to showcase how you can use different slots
im having trouble
Houston I've not montage files!
I just found how to create,its ok
I was really expecting that only upper body part will dance at the end.
It depends which bone you select to blend from
@@UnrealUniversity Yes. I thought that you select just upper body. Maybe I need to watch it again ;-)
Bro just copyed GorkaGames tutorial💀💀
Bro does not know how to research and just comes up with lies this is remake I made of a video years ago please just try spend 2 mintues looking online before you come up with baseless claims th-cam.com/video/2KdbzE_LODE/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUgYmxlbmQgYW5pbWF0aW9ucyB1bnJlYWwgZW5naW5lIDQ%3D
this hasn't worked for me i dont know what ive done wrong