animation

[static falcon]

And because the parents are rotated the relative up (z) is at a funny angle

[sonic trout]

I have a model of a knight that has the sword and the shield attached to the skeleton mesh
and I don't know how to add separated collision to them in order to make them deal and block damage

[gusty rivet]

Hey everyone

I have a question

I want to adjust my characters arms to hold the vertical grip. But even after adjusting those animations, the hand is shifting away from the grip (it's not snapping, to be precise)
I want to snap the hand to a particular position right below the barrel of the gun i.e where the vertical grip is attached. I've read about TwoBoneIK node in AnimBP and I've tried using this node on Virtual Bones but apparently UE5 has a bug and Virtual bones tend to reset or just not work. So is there any alternative to TwoBoneIK ? I'm not very good with IK animation nodes so I wanted to ask you guys.

Any suggestions? Which node is best for this scenario?

PS: I do know about FABRIK node but I'm not sure how to properly set it up in my case.

[gusty rivet]

Also, is control rig my only option that's left ?? :/
Reason i wanna avoid it (if possible) is because I have multiple weapons in my game and every weapon will need some adjustments.
So having a node inside AnimBP which can dynamically fetch a value from player's BP is a nice workflow in my opinion.....

[vapid halo]

I've just imported my skeleton from Blender. Why am I missing arms and a leg?

[digital jasper]

Hello!

Trying to recreate an animation sequence very similair to this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j8J1NfDBv0&t=383s

I had some help yesterday and just trying to wrap my head on how to go about this.
So I would start by creating an anim montage to begin the casting animation,

Then I would use a OnBeginPlay event from that montage to start 2 seperate anim montages:

1. a montage of the spawned actor climbing from the ground up
2. I would need another anim montage for the ground breaking like the video.

So far does this seem to be the correct way to go about this?
Where i'm struggling to understand as well is how do you go about animating the spawned actor cilimbing from the floor to actually have him follow you or start attacking?
Do I need to wait for the animation to complete to then spawn the actor or is there a more seemless to go about this?

[vocal owl]

in my first person melee game I am using a thrust animation, the thrust looks nice, but the sword takes a very low trajectory, how would I go about forcing the sword to travel such that it stabs through where the users cursor is aiming at a specific point in the animation?

[eternal elk]

I am having an issue with an animation inside of my sequencer. It will not play fully? The animation runs completely when i open it but once I bring it into the sequence shot it is missing the last 10% of the shot? can anyone help me on this

[scarlet moth]

Please someone help me with this, I don't get it, drives me nuts.
I set up an object which follows a spline. So I added the default Arc to the spline. It will always create it laying flat on the ground, and everything works fine.
But if I rotate the spline like in the second image (red arrow is what I want, like a garage door opening), it always also rotates the mesh (last image).
I seem to miss something about splines.

[static falcon]

There should be an alignment vector setting somewhere

How did you attach it? Sequencer or blueprint?

[scarlet moth]

Blueprint

[potent scarab]

IDK if this is the right channel but does anyone know how to get AnimSequence bone animation tracks in UE5 C++, in UE4 I was using UAnimSequence::GetRawTrackToSkeletonMapTable but this got deprecated

[marble ingot]

Once my pawn dies, I play my death montage which literally at the moment just tilts dude 90 degrees on his side, which is fine, but.. ( I disabled looping ) however it plays through and does work, but after its "duration" its back to its default pose which is ... up again?

guesing I need some type of state machine at this point to say if dead, keep in this frame?

[fading drift]

hello, can someone help me edit the direction of my animation's root motion? I don't really use blender or any animation apps so I can't do it

[scarlet moth]

@static falcon What did you mean by 'alignment vector'? I can't find anything like that right off the bat

[ashen junco]

Yes.

[upper robin]

anyone know how to get a baked cloth animation from blender into unreal 5?

[ashen junco]

Vertex animation texture, or alembic cache (or chained morph target/shape keys)

[upper robin]

urgh im a noob ngl

i have this:

then its just static here

[static falcon]

@scarlet moth https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Spline/SetUpVectoratSplinePoint/

Not sure this is what you're needing or not, but it may help. I think this is more of a #blueprint issue

[gloomy lintel]

Finding it hard to manage this issue... Does anyone else keeps getting the editor to crash randomly with the control rig?

[wide cedar]

i'm trying to bake an animation i made using the controlrig but no matter what i do, once i bake it, i go to the sequence and it's completely blank as if i did nothing, i saved the anim before baking too, so i'm just confused what i'm doing wrong?

[rustic blade]

retargeting in 5.0 - 5.1 seems like a huuuuge pain, does anyone have any tips, tricks or tools to speed up the process? Im just trying to retarget identical UE4 Skeletons from multiple marketplace packs to one single UE4 skeleton but it seems i need to make this IKRig asset with like 50 bone chains for every single unique skeleton...

[grave drift]

Hey! I wanna make my player to play full-body inplace animations while standing still, and upperbody animations when moving about. The montage I'm using for attacking is using an UpperBody blend, but when standing still I need to use default slot - whats the best way to approach this? Just check when attackign if Im moving, and if Im not moving, play the in-place anim montages? 🤔

[wide cedar]

can no one help?

[tranquil lark]

If they're the same skeleton, use the compatible skeleton feature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQASyPLApoA

[pliant acorn]

So idk why, and idk if it's a bug or something else, but, I've got this mixamo skeleton, rigged for UE, and I'm working with IK. I was testing Modify Transforms function, and all axes are inverted, ZYX, I tested out UE mannequin, and it has regular axes XYZ, some know maybe why?
when I'm changing Z, it's goes forward

[rustic blade]

absolute lifesaver, ty

[wide cedar]

i don't know what to do

[pliant acorn]

I guess my skeleton is broken, cuz in regular ue manneguin they behave different

[wide cedar]

nevermind i am an idiot

did it by myself

[dawn sail]

Hello, I need some help
I have a skeleton that is used for all characters of the game. I realized the hierarchy of the dress for a character was not good, it was parented on the leg instead of on the hip. My goal is to reparent it on the hip but keep the same bone names.
In my maya rig I did that, but now, I know that when I'm going to reimport my SKM in unreal, it's going to try to add the bones as a new hierarchy to the skeleton, but because there's already a chain of bones with the same name, but in another hierarchy it fails to merge bones.
What is the solution there? I can't delete the old bones as they are used by the specific SKM I reimport and can't seem to find how I could rename them before reimporting to delete them after.

I also can't delete the SKM and recreate it (Well, I could, but that would be a huge pain in the butt and the other tech animator would not be happy)

[ruby swallow]

I'm exporting and then re-importing a model rigged to UE4 skeleton. I'm using blender (ignore leaf bones+dont add leaf bones) and selecting everything from root down when exporting. However, when exporting back the weighted data for "head" disappears. Any idea what could cause something like this? It only happens to certain models:

[dawn sail]

There might just be no skinning on that bone?

[ruby swallow]

Hmm but why does it say that it does in the original (pre-export)? The actual issue is that the helmet appears offset when imported back in

[dawn sail]

I don't know enough about blender export settings, but I would look into those

[flint idol]

Hello everyone, i m havign a problem with my character animation on the wrist, it seems that is having a gimbel lock and rotating weirdly inside unreal after i import it from maya, it seems that is happening inbetween frames

does anyone ever had this problem? and how did they resolve it?

[dawn sail]

Check your rotate order

[flint idol]

in maya?

[dawn sail]

Yeah, I think unreal has only one option

[dawn sail]

I found the solution, it was a bit painful but made it:
Rename the bones in the rig with the old hierarchy, import in unreal, go in skeleton asset, delete unused bones. Export rig again with new hierarchy, import in unreal, it now works because there are no name conflict, go delete unused bones again to get rid of old temp bones. Worked super well

[obtuse fox]

I NEED SOMEONE TO DM ME AND LOOK AT MY PROJECT. Basically I’m trying to redo the entire locomotion blend space animation as well as put in third person shooter animations to be combined with the locomotion….. once that’s done… it’s gets tricky. The game I’m making is third person but can be toggled to first while keeping the same arm animations for a fps view. I also need to somehow sync the arm animations with the weapon animations. Im calling all animation gods out there to help me figure this out

[dusky void]

Does anyone have any good tutorials for smooth animation interactions with buttons and levers. Ive tried a few but most of them are very jankily put together, and don't really function well.

At the moment im trying to get a first person interaction where the arm goes out and swipes a key card

im trying to find either a tutorial or documentation on how to reliably get the character to seamlessly go to a specific point and play the animation

[dusky void]

I think I understand what your trying to do. I can take a look if you hop into help vc

[crystal imp]

Anyone know any tricks to debugging Control Rigs? I really hate it when you get compile errors and yet the Compile Results shows nothing but Compile successfully

lol

[ashen junco]

If you're in UE5, you can use Motion Warping

[dusky void]

looking into it it looks quite interesting, il dig into it to see if it works for my needs

[tranquil lark]

It is pretty easy to setup honestly.

[vocal owl]

I have a noob question. I have a static mesh that i am using as a sword in my game (its the longsword from the kubold longsword animation pack in the market). I want to do a few things that I think would work better if it was a skeletal mesh (if I am wrong about that lmk). First I want to use IK to make the players offhand stay on the handle of the sword throughout all the various animations. Second, I want to use ray-casting for hit detection at various points along the blade so that I can tell if they hit with the handle vs the center of the blade and have precious hit detection. Third i want to do some physics calculations. I converted the static mesh to a skeletal mesh and a physics component, but it is just an empty skeleton with a single bone. I think that I want to add a socket for the left hand and a few bones along the blade, how do I do that?

[ashen junco]

1. You can get away with the sword as static mesh just fine - just the matter of moving the IK effectors to points in world space.
2. You can either put a capsule collision covering the area of the blade to serve as the hit trigger, or do line/sphere trace in intervals in your animation notify.
3. Elaborate more.

[vocal owl]

for #3 I like to get the velocity of the part of the blade that hit so that you do less damage with the very beginning or end of your swing, or more damage if you are rotating your body with your swing (those could be calculated separately i realize), Regarding #2, I guess I want to do multiple traces from different parts of the weapon (hilt vs blade eg), but i could just do the math from a static mesh

[ashen junco]

VR?

[vocal owl]

no but first personal melee slasher in the style of mordhau or mortal online

[vocal owl]

ah, the one other thing where maybe having a bone matters? I want to use motion warping (I think) to adjust the swing animations to make sure that for a thrust, eg it pulls the tip of your blade through the cursor and for a slash it pulls a point about 2/3rds of the way up the blade through your cursor. the point to pull through will be in world space, but I think I'd want a bone on the blade to tell to go through the point?

[shy vortex]

https://i.imgur.com/hASG9gS.png
Quick way to restrain my bones so I can try and animate without worrying about stretching out of scale?

[young olive]

I am using a Bone Driven Controller to trigger a corrective shape key when the right arm is rotated in Y to a degree. This works fine. Problem is, i need it Not to trigger if X is between a certain range. I cannot see anyway to do this type of calculation in the AnimBP. I imagine i am just missing something obvious. How or where can i do this?

[young olive]

Maybe this.. https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue5-manny-control-rig-mannequin-stretching/516762

[shy vortex]

Thanks!

Ok so basically don't use the Translate gizmo on FK controls

Should I make my own rig or is this default one OK in your opinion?

[rigid robin]

How do you guys import animations for a mesh that already has a skeleton and skeletal mesh inside unreal? when I try to import an animation it ends up importing an creating a new mesh, and physics asset even though I specify which skeletal mesh this asset should use

[shy vortex]

From what are you importing from?

[rigid robin]

blender

[young olive]

I honestly do not have enough experience to say 🙂

[young olive]

The Animation was made on the same skeleton in Blender, right?

[rigid robin]

in this particular case it was made with keyframes but then unreal created a skeleton upon import, its a simple chest opening animation but im just trying to learn the workflow of back an forward between an having different animations

[shy vortex]

check FBX import options

[young olive]

Maybe take a quick look at this and see if it covers it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSziSB9LDig

[rigid robin]

Yeah i have the animation working inside unreal, i guess my question is what is your guys process for re exporting animations? Like do you name it a new FBX name called something like Alien_Run an Alien_Idle or

wait

the video has it at the end

[shy vortex]

Hunan is top G googler

for something simple like chests and stuff try animating in unreal

doors, etc

[rigid robin]

tbf i did google but i struggled to find the reimporting when i already had it, thank you tho Hunan

[shy vortex]

unless you built the model in blender

[rigid robin]

it was a chest in this case but its more of a get use to the flow with an easy object

[shy vortex]

ya nice 👍

[digital dock]

wrote in general allready, but this is probably the better place to ask: has anyone here got an example of how to create a custom AnimBP node in c++?

[ashen junco]

You can look into Kawaii Physics plugin that does exactly that.

There's also Control Rig that do similar thing in "BP" (it's not really BP, as it is different VM, but the graph is the same as BP)

[digital dock]

Ohh thats a very good suggestion! ty!

[hallow elm]

Hi, I need help
I have a gun animation using "play niagara particle effect", and the ejection effect will rotate if I turn.
Although other weapon's animation with this effect works with correct rotation, this weapon will not.
How to fix it??

[sterile otter]

Hello, I have an issue when retargeting animation, the target skeleton's feet are under the ground!

[wheat badge]

has anyone tried to use Control Rig Component to procedurally control facial animation at runtime in blueprint? I experience extreme lag from just setting 2-3 controls from the rig using SetControl2D and SetControlFloat

[ashen junco]

Have you tried putting the Control Rig inside the animBP instead?

[wheat badge]

Yes i have which is ofc fast but my question is regarding control rig component, the doc says its supposed to be used for interacting with gameplay logic but right now its performance is really bad for any kind of interaction

[swift remnant]

if you're spawning the effect in animation then make sure it is attached to the owner, the owner would have to be the actual weapon mesh and its specific animation, if not just spawn the effect from within blueprint of the weapon or pawn where you have firing logic and make it attach to actor/component after its spawned

[dull sun]

Is there any place to scale the influence of root motion on an animation asset?

[sterile otter]

Anything I can do please?

[marsh crescent]

I just wanna make amazingly basic animation with moving object. It will be IDLE animation. Is it possible in UE5? I just wanna choose frame and then move the object.

[steady orchid]

you could use an animation notify state for scaling root motion. if i remember correctly there is no way to scale it on an animation asset

[steady orchid]

layered blend per bone is the way to go

[coral sequoia]

is there a way to create VAT animation texture from metahuman right in UE5?

[red jungle]

hello guys, i was wondering if someone here successfully retargetd City Sample Crowd animation into a MetaHuman ? I Cant find any topic on this, for cinematic/sequencer purpose

[real orchid]

Is there a way to easily copy a blendspace and all referenced animations?

[spare pulsar]

anyone using mixamo animations ?

There is problem with the animation with using the ue5 mannequin

[steady orchid]

yes thats how it works

there are a lot of tutorials on this topic, just search for it

basically you put your upperbody animation statebehind a layered blend per bone so that the resulting pose play that animation on the bones you specified

you probably did something wrong, i cant tell

[orchid topaz]

Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrlFozqB0jA

[coral sequoia]

thank you.. is that best way to animate crowd sim?

[jovial aspen]

So does retarget base pose just not work in UE5.0?

[shy vortex]

HI, why can I not add a socket to this VB ? https://i.imgur.com/RyEMHqJ.png

[cinder linden]

by any chance are you trying to fix the same issue I'm having ?

I imported this character into lyra is using the old UE4 mannequin as reference

I cannot get the space between the hands right or the weapon to attack nicely

[shy vortex]

Well i found i just cannot add a socket to VB's I thought it was an IK bone. Oops. But in your case did you have to retarget the skeleton?

[hallow elm]

I spawn effects from play niagara effect anim notify. I know effect rotation will be correct when it is attached, but I don't want to attach because effect will follow my character movement. I don't know why other weapon's effect works with correct rotation and this weapon won't work with correct rotation

[safe star]

Evening all, I hope you guys and gals are having a good one... I've got a newbie question and I hope this is the right chat to drop it in.... Would anyone know a good tutorial on how to animate a model to match a film scene?

I am using UE5.1 and I do have the film footage and the model I want to use.

[ashen junco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSrQc-LocQ
The tut uses Maya, but the basics are pretty much the same even with UE5's Control Rig + Sequencer. As far as video ref goes, instead of the archaic Quicktime, you can use MP Keyframe to get the frame numbers down.

[safe star]

Thank you so much!

[sterile otter]

any help please?

[sterile otter]

I want to export it with the offset value!

[minor ginkgo]

anyone knows how to import a shapekey baked curve animation in ue5?

im having this error

[shy vortex]

How do I attach something to my hand that will stay there and move throughout an animation when using a control rig?
The mesh I'm attaching wont animate with the character in sequencer, even if I parent it to the socket. Sorry, new to animating and yes im doing this inside unreal, any help would be much appreciated.

[ashen junco]

Are you attaching the actor via World Outliner, or using the new Constraint tools?

[shy vortex]

world outliner

[ashen junco]

Maybe it isn't attached to the right socket/bone?

[shy vortex]

hmm looks correctly parented to correct socket

tried the new constraint tools too

[gloomy pike]

hello! 🙂
does anybody know a fix to the fingers being twisted/skewed by default when using the RTG_UE4Manny_UE5Manny?

[ancient wasp]

is this ue5? or 5.1

(ue5.1) open retargeter and set Rotation Mode 'Interpolated' to 'one to one' and set rotation alpha '0' to '1'

if u using ue5 you need to select fingers from the skeleton tree on the left

[gloomy pike]

setting it to One to One doesn't change anything for me. RotationAlpha is already at 1 by default

I'm on 5.1

[ancient wasp]

wait, im checking on my project

[ancient wasp]

@gloomy pike thats all i can do :D i hope it works

[wise lava]

hey im new to inverse kinematic, im trying to use Two Bone IK on left hand, but when i move the joint target location, the elbow is not moving, but when i move the effector the hand is moving.

when i try to change this value, it didnt do anything to the hand elbow character

[gloomy pike]

well, you basically deleted the whole finger animation

but in some cases that probably works

[wise lava]

can any1 help me

[wheat agate]

Is anyone here familiar with shape deformers / pose editors? -

I've created a character rig that has deformers on it that blend the shape of the legs and butt when the legs bend. This all works fine in Maya, but the issue is I need to have multiple different clothing options that will sit as separate objects on top of the base body. These new clothing objects no longer follow the deformation of the base model due to these deformers.

What is the best workflow for having a base model with shape deformers and then adding multiple outfits that need to match these deformers on top?

[vapid quartz]

PlayAnimMontage()```

is not working for me, after looking at at least 10 forums they all say to look at which slot is playing, but I never set up any other slots, only the default one, if anyone knows that would help a bunch

it's inconsistent, it works sometimes, but not others, and only on one specific animation

which is set up exactly like how the other animations are set up

is there a different common cause as to why play anim montage might not work?

[marble ingot]

trying to follow the 5.1 documentation on Animation_BP, but when I get to the part about creating state, I dont seem to have that option?

[azure roost]

Quick question, I have to work with some alembic geometry cache file that has its pivot waaaay off...is there a way to center the pivot on a geometry cache, or does that only work for static meshes?
Please ping in reply!

[ember tundra]

Hey everyone, I am in need of an animation where a character falls to its knees. Where can I look for ready-made animations besides the marketplace? (There is no such animation in store, or at least I couldn't find one even after intense searching.) Are there any other platforms that sell Unreal (Epic Mannequin) compatible animations that are trustworthy?

[azure roost]

Mixamo probably has that option.

[ember tundra]

I've only heard the name, what is it 😅

Ah I got it, thanks for the advice!

[ember tundra]

Not even Mixamo seems to have a "fall to knees" animation except one that ends in kneeling prayer. But I think I found something else I can use, thanks again!

[torpid bane]

This Stephen Ulibarri video seems to include animations that include a fall to knees. You might have to sub to his Patreon though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9gd7gbqCJw&t=253s

[sonic trout]

when im casting to an enemy character what must i use as an object ?

[ashen junco]

Note that casting is not getting.

[tawny oxide]

hey, simple lil question here - doe anyone know why I cannot edit the preview in my animation blueprint? Anytime I try and edit the variables they just reset to their default value and I can't see whats going on with the numbers behind the scenes

[compact onyx]

Can someone tell me the difference using UE5.1 between Blendspace and Blendspace1D?

Because the tutorial I'm following is using blendspace1D and I used normal blendspace. Could this be why my character isn't moving?

[ashen junco]

Blendspace1D is Blend Space, with one axis ignored

Likely Epic deprecate BS1D due to maintenance

[compact onyx]

I'm not using blendspace 1D the tutorial is, does this change how I set it up?

[ashen junco]

Nope, use BS2D and ignore one axis

[compact onyx]

is just "Blendspace" BS2D?

[ashen junco]

Yes

[compact onyx]

Sorry, I'm new.

Okay. I'm trying to figure out why my AI isn't moving, when it is in my other project. I'm thinking it has to be the animation I setup, because it's the only thing different between the two.

[graceful basalt]

anyone got any tips for retargetting animations in UE5.1? Every time i try to retarget anims like holding a pistol aiming with both hands, left hand goes haywire

[wise lava]

anyone can help me why this happen?

[strange oasis]

Is there an optimized way to achieve this transition?

[scarlet sapphire]

Hello! How can I see the targeted bone that was chose when a virtual bone was created?

[scarlet sapphire]

Hi! The retargeting system was changed in UE5. Have you tried to follow this tutorial? It worked for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7WdyAeeDrw&list=PLA4lmF9X9b0HL0ijw8toNNlQdIq4QYYO_&index=3&ab_channel=MattAspland

[compact onyx]

Hey guys having a issue, noob here. The Animation Montage is called and passed through but not playing.

Not sure what's going on.

it plays when I open the montage

but not when called in BP

[brazen wharf]

How would i call an function/event when a sequence player has finished playing?

trying to swap out idle animations every time they finished playing

[ashen junco]

Make sure your animBP uses the slot

[graceful basalt]

that and many other tutorials. you can see even his overview that the hands don't match

while general animations work fine...anything that has fine movements of the hand and arm, don't get properly retargeted

i'm looking for more in depth info on how to make them match better.

[graceful basalt]

does your BP have the slot defaultslot in the anim graph?

[graceful basalt]

if you're trying to play random idle animations there's Random Sequence player. it has a shuffle or order

[brazen wharf]

ah thank you, not quite what i need, since the idle animations can't be swapped out on runtime ;/

[graceful basalt]

why at runtime?

[ashen junco]

Or montages

[brazen wharf]

different animations for different characters/situations

[ashen junco]

You can swap it if you have the sequence variable in Sequence Player node exposed

[brazen wharf]

yea, but i dont know when it is save to swap it

[graceful basalt]

then you have to use montages i guess

[brazen wharf]

😭

so i have to convert every sequence that i want to use to a montage...

[ashen junco]

Anytime, really, at least I don't have much issues changing the variable on the fly

[brazen wharf]

the thing is, i might have for example 4 animations for a happy idle movement

they should play random, then the character get's neutral, and it swaps out my array of idle sequences for neutral idle animations

[graceful basalt]

what determines the "mood"?

[brazen wharf]

the animation bp isn't aware of the mood

[graceful basalt]

you could have an enum and blend poses on that enum

[brazen wharf]

thats controlled from outside

[graceful basalt]

tell the BP then 😄

[ashen junco]

In my case each character have predefined set of idle animations in the actor BP, then the animBP make a copy of the variable to be used in the anim graph sequence player

[brazen wharf]

well, i would like to avoid to tell the AnimBP the mood 😄

and rather handle that outside

[ashen junco]

I also use montages to have idle animations like shifting the feet, or doing hand stretches

[ashen junco]

You can tell the animBP when you changed the mood

[graceful basalt]

tbh i'm pretty new to animations but from a programming perspective i see nothing wrong with feeding an enum of the mood to your anim BP and change accordingly

[brazen wharf]

yea but then i suddenly have mood logic in the AnimBP

i rather would like to have that logic in one place, to keep track of what happens

[graceful basalt]

anim bp just has to listen for the change

[brazen wharf]

then on top of that, idle animations between male and female differ...

[ashen junco]

Not really

[brazen wharf]

so then i have mood + gender logic

instead of an array of idle poses, which i just want to poll in the right moment for a new idle sequence

[ashen junco]

You can still have the mood dictated by the actor BP, and call event in anim BP about the mood change to copy the anim sequence variable again

[brazen wharf]

all meh...

i rather put anim notify events at the end of each idle sequence 😄

i would just need something like this from the sequence player...

[ashen junco]

ICYMI

[brazen wharf]

i have that

i just need to know when it's done playing so that i can update the IdlePose sequence

[sterile otter]

is there anything to do?

[ashen junco]

One thing: provide more context.

[solemn kite]

why is it not facing the right direction ? any guesses what could be the issue ?

[compact onyx]

@ashen junco is this correct?

[ashen junco]

Yes

[compact onyx]

okay i just added that, do I need to make a new montage?

hm made a new montage, still nothing

[graceful basalt]

if you're adamant about it then you could use states too and do this tick box, then it will play the next state

[scarlet sapphire]

Does anybody has any idea?

[compact onyx]

This works, playing the blueprint, but the montage does not.

I need the montage for the animation delay

I just know it's something simple lol

[ashen junco]

Is your character using that animBP?

It strikes me odd as the blocking stance is its own animBP instead of just a state

[compact onyx]

it's using a different bp for idle/walk/run

[ashen junco]

What, no, that's bad.

[compact onyx]

?

[ashen junco]

[compact onyx]

teach me wise one

[ashen junco]

Ideally you'd want one animBP to contain all the locomotion states

animBP isn't something meant to be replaced often

[compact onyx]

so one animbp should have my idle/walk/run and combat(in this case punch, but also need gun poses shooting etc..) animations?

[ashen junco]

Yes

[compact onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/picard-facepalm-star-trek-gif-7161878

Well that's probably my issue

[compact onyx]

Just to clarify, when do I want a different anim bp for something?

only for a different character all together?

[ashen junco]

Never, really.

[compact onyx]

okay got it

[compact onyx]

different skeletal mesh or animation group only then correct?

[graceful basalt]

something like that yea

[compact onyx]

ty

[graceful basalt]

the same way you put your default slot before output pose i n that screenshot, you can do it in your locomotion BP

if its for playing a punch tho, you might want an upper body slot only

[compact onyx]

you mean add the other animations?

[graceful basalt]

anims are so complex X_X

[compact onyx]

it's sort of a full body movement even though it's a punch

[compact onyx]

oh shit okay so I want my BP to run my blendspace animations. Now I am assuming I would want idle/walk/run as one blend space then add the combat that groups together in another blend space but then both to the same anim bp. Is that correct?

[brazen wharf]

@graceful basalt your way worked, but i couldn't get a nice transition between different posed sequences, however... i found another way

this method is bound to the updateFunction binding of the sequence player (so called pretty much every tick)

checks if the sequence is at the end, and if so blends in another sequence

guess the cost of this is pretty much similar to the automatic transition check 🤷

[graceful basalt]

yes. pretty much

[compact onyx]

okay that makes sense

I think i'll take that information and watch some animation tutorials now that I have the concept better understood. Thank you.

[winged violet]

Is it bad to scale bones when animating? As in to do disney drawn style over exaggerated poses (such as inflating when jumping)?

Or is it completely fine to use scale as you would rotation on a bone when animating?

[ashen junco]

It's fine.

Just not done very often

FWIW same squash and stretch effect can be achieved by moving the bone

[winged violet]

Yeah I normally haven't touched it but have a cool use case for this animation and the end result looks better with it, just scared it would mess stuff up

I assume the physics asset shapes also scale with the bone that is being scaled

[ashen junco]

I don't know about physics assets, but it's safe to assume you're not going to do ragdoll while you do the cartoony effect

[winged violet]

Yeah! Would reset all scales before doing that (it's more just for regular gameplay traces since physics asset collision is used for those)

Thanks for the help

[sterile otter]

Thanks for your reply. I have created an Ik retargeter to retarget animations to UE4 skeleton, the source skeleton is fine, but the bottom part of the target skeleton is below the ground, although it's above in the edit pose mode! The animation works fine, the only problem is being immersed in the ground. thanks again.

[static holly]

Imported animation from bledner (Up) has a different root location than un-animated model (bottom). Anyone can tell me how to fix this?

[scarlet sapphire]

How can I find that node?

It has something to do with arrays and Inputs to a sub-animation graph from a parent instance

[static holly]

The root bone is in correct place, but it still spawns underground

[shell sparrow]

Question! I am scaling bones in the anim bp so I can have weird and fun stylised characters. Everything works well EXCEPT when I enable some physics component stuff for floppy arms etc. Then it all goes to hell and stretches quite a bit.

Any ideas?

[ashen junco]

Physical anims? Probably the physics assets isn't constrained properly

[tranquil lark]

Doing a OTS game. I have unarmed/armed/aiming states. I plan on doing all of the base locomotion (idle, walking, etc..) as the primary locomotion stuff. To handle the armed_idle and aiming_idle, I plan on using additive animations. This way I really only have to animate the base stuff.

If anyone has done this approach - did it work out well for you? Is there something that I'm not thinking about? What are some pitfalls?

[compact crane]

Does UE 5.1 make animation easier? I notice they put out an Unreal Fest video on it.

And is body motion capture the most efficient way to do it? Say if I want to animate characters in cut scenes.

[ashen junco]

It is far better than the state of Control Rig in prior versions.

[static holly]

I don't want to nag, but I really need to get this sorted out before I finish the player controller, so if anybody knows what's happening I'd be most grateful 🙏

[ashen junco]

Personally I'd do it with layered blend per bone, I don't use additive animations that much.

At least I'm having hard time to get intended result from additive anim on that regard

[ashen junco]

what

[static holly]

Imported animation from bledner (Up) has a different root location than un-animated model (bottom). Anyone can tell me how to fix this?

[static holly]

this up there

[ashen junco]

Probably transform not applied

[tranquil lark]

This is how it is currently being done, but we were playing with the additive approach last night and liked how it could potentially work.

If we can get the additive stuff working as intended, it could reduce a lot of animation authoring

[static holly]

Nope. Did apply them, multiple times to make sure

There's even an "apply transforms" options in export settings which I ticked, so there's no chance for that

Also, static model is positioned correctly, which it wouldn't be if transforms weren;t applied

[meager thorn]

hey guys, need some help with this. My character doesn't seem to fall off the edges while crouching. Please someone help me.
I've used this tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN5erThC02A&t=291s

[crystal imp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbLsRymXe4

[hollow orchid]

I still couldn't figure this out
tried doing the euler vector thing but not really sure how?

[brazen wharf]

is the origin of your armature at world origin in blender?

[static holly]

Yup

[brazen wharf]

then i got no idea, sorry

ig mesh origin is there, too.

[deep geode]

Does anyone have any experience iwth IK rigging with animations? / player control

specifically with VRM models

[errant glen]

Should I skip IK on retargeting Mixamo's animations to UE5.1? I can't get that to work and I can't find new links or videos to make it work.

[compact onyx]

Just an update from yesterday @ashen junco I finally got my animations figured out, just now got it working. Thank you for your help.

I figured out how to use the anim BPS and state machines for separate animations unlike idle/walk/run which can be put into and configured in one blendspace. Switching outside of that was my issue. Got it now! woot!

As you can see, he now throws a punch at me which is all I wanted to get it figured out initially.

but he also idle/walks/runs just fine

https://tenor.com/view/celebration-dance-celebrate-good-times-gif-19472129

[brazen wharf]

you shouldn't retarget mixamo animations at all

https://terribilisstudio.fr/?section=MC

[errant glen]

Hey, thanks a lot

[tight acorn]

Hi everyone! Can someone help me with my problem?
I'm adding i sequencer body, add animation to this body and it not work - body just stay in A pose

but if I use backward solve in rig blueprint - it works

[digital dock]

Anyone know how I can get the local space transform of a bone in AnimBP node (c++)?

[ashen junco]

Your control rig is overriding the animation track.

[tight acorn]

can you say how to fix it?

[ashen junco]

delete either one of them in the sequencer.

[tight acorn]

Done. and after add track with animation again - nothing changed. I'm trying to add existing animation as pattern and create my own animation based on this. Guess I'm doing something wrong. On youtube videos they just add track with animation and it works.... I'm doing the same - and not working

sorry to worry you

[digital dock]

you have to bake the animation to control rig or something afaik

dont directly drag it into the timeline

[tight acorn]

@digital dock I'll try it, thanks

[unreal zenith]

Hi , i need a help guys, do you have some experience with Caching the CLOTH Simulation ? in 5.1 release notes says its possible but for it doesnt work ... i can record object but no the cloth simulation ... any solution how to record it or get it into cache ?

our team is like rly desperate ... bcs only solution that i found is use uDrapper plugin but that is not solution for us

[ashen junco]

How about prebake it elsewhere?

[sterile otter]

Hi @ashen junco can you please take a look at my issue? thanks in advance 😊

[ashen junco]

No, I still haven't know much about the new retargeter

[unreal zenith]

that would mean make it somewhere else than in unreal ... i wanna make cloth simulation in that unreal but then i need somehow bake it for no more changing ... thats why i hoped for take record function

[ashen junco]

Cloth sim is handled differently than key-able elements like bones and transforms

[static falcon]

Yeah to my knowledge it's not possible in Unreal. Can def do it in Blender though, and export alembic or vertex animated texture

[unreal zenith]

yea, but if you look up in 5.1 release notes thay says " record of cloth simulation is now possible " ...

yea, i trying to find fastest workflow and this would be huge deal for us

for sure , its possible make it in Marvelouse or blender but still , that mean export alembic and when became change you have to repeat that proces , thats time consuming

[ashen junco]

FWIW doing it elsewhere is tried and true

[unreal zenith]

yea, it is , and our last solution will be this way but for optimalizations this will be super good , so im just asking if somebody has a same problem or know how to solve it

[static falcon]

Ah, I haven't gotten to 5.1 yet, so I'd just look for the latest docs

[tight acorn]

@ashen junco @digital dock thx guys! after your help I googled right questions and fount solution. Just when I start tracking SKM - I need to delete default control rig and after that - + animation and after that on SKM need to "edit with FK Control Rig"

[strong barn]

Hey, i got a question :

I need to work on a skeletal, it will be modified a lot along the mesh. (character can be adjusted along the project)

But i need to work on the animation (anim blueprint, rig, etc...)

What is the best workflow ?

Tag me.

TY

[ashen junco]

So, modular characters?

[strong barn]

not so much, only the head can change, i use CC.

The best solution in my eyes would be to make a 1st mesh empty except the skeleton to keep it.

[lethal egret]

Probably a very simple thing but. In my animation previews I somehow ended up with 2 of ym character but 1 is stationary (only in the animation previews).. And I have absolutely no clue how to get rid of the stationary one. Does anyone know?

[sterile otter]

It's okay, thanks for your reply!

[stone moat]

I'm trying to retarget animations from the MVN Puppet to the UE5 Manny using the UE5 retargeter; however, I seem to be running into issues I can't resolve, as explained here: https://youtu.be/urXtRHZVNPA. When using the FK-only option in the retargeter, I have a good retarget except for foot sliding and foot-on-ground "mushiness" (see video). I applied speed planting in an attempt to resolve the issue, but speed planting requires the IK portion of the retargeter to be turned on, which creates its own set of issues (see video).

Does anyone have any ideas for how to resolve these issues in the retargeter?

[rustic swallow]

Hi, I have a question about IK retargeting: I have a custom skeleton which has a bone for this Cog mesh
When I retarget it, the bone delta is different resulting with it floating behind the player
Is there some way to set it as a fixed transform relative to another bone?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/946195322160423014/1062720690010193970/2023-01-11_13-11-08.mp4

[wary burrow]

hey, i've been stuck for a while trying to fix my rolling animation in my game (im using the Flexible combat system asset). The problem i'm having is that if root motion is turned off in my animation, the animation looks good but when i try it in game the character teleports back to where they were after having completed the animation. If i however have root motion turned on the character does a weird movement without moving.

[vocal owl]

I am making a first person melee game and am trying to have it such that my attacks always go through a point in space that is in the direction of the players cursor and a certain distance away from them at a specific point in time in each attack animation. Similar to what mordhau shows right here: https://youtu.be/p-B4AwgArwA?t=165. Currently if my player does a "stab" they can move or spin to change the position of the attack but the animation will not change significantly if they look up or down and so they always hit roughly the same vertical height regardless of mouse input. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to morph or warp (I don't know the right word) the animation so that it forces a specific part of the weapon through a specific point in world space at a specific time?

[chrome holly]

Hello guys, i am a very beginner:
Why when i retarget my animation from mixamo the UE5 skeleton arms are stiff in the animations?

got it, the t pose of the ue mannequin has bent arms

xD

[potent cradle]

If anyone here has any experience dealing with bone blending issues inside animation BPs, I'd love to get an outside opinion on some weird behavior I'm encountering related to the mesh space vs. local space options. Details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/10bsgbm/weird_bone_rotation_from_layered_blend_in/

[scarlet moth]

Quick question for the Blender/UE guys: I'm importing a rigged mesh from Blender (via FBX) into UE. When importing into UE, it creates a skeletal mesh, a skeleton, and a physics asset. The physics asset is empty tho, it has no collisions. Do I have to create these myself? If yes, where?

[tame crypt]

is there any glaring pro/cons to making an first person rig and removing the unused bones?

For example I will only have arm meshes, will deleting the chest and lower bones jebait me later down the road, or is the gain not worth it and its just easier to leave the full rig in there attached to nothing?

[ashen junco]

You have nothing to lose by keeping the full body rig around

[tame crypt]

hmm.. good to know
wasnt sure if there would be any weirdness at some point with alot of unconnected bones or anything

[potent cradle]

Sometimes the default settings for physics assets skip over a lot of the bones, so you end up with only 1 or 2 collision volumes. If you want to make your own, right click the skeletal mesh, Create (at the top) > Physics Asset > Create and Assign, set it up however you want, and delete the old one

[covert onyx]

https://github.com/ubisoft/ubisoft-laforge-animation-dataset anyone got these animations retargetted to ue4 skeleton or atleast exported with fbx not c3d?

[tawny thistle]

I am trying my hands on ue to rigify but I am having problems with the fingers

I used the simple Quinn mesh from the template and the downloadable template from github for the addon in blender

The bones match up and the weights seem to be also fine but for some reason the fingers are getting squashed 😨

It's only happening for the ring finger and pinky and I can't figure out why. Anyone solved that and had a good experience animating in blender or is maya still 3x easier + better for animations?

[potent cradle]

You could try turning on "Preserve Volume" in the armature modifier on the mesh, otherwise I normally fix those kind of issues by manually weight painting

[tawny thistle]

I tried to manually weight paint it but it doesn't really react like I expect it to

that's the weight for the pinky

that's the one for the index

[potent cradle]

That looks like the pinky tip had the weights removed, hard to say. If you click the skeleton, then shift+click the mesh, and go to weight paint mode (ctrl+tab), you can ctrl+click any bone to see the weights associated with it, might help diagnose the issue

[native mist]

Hello, I have some problems with the retargeter in UE5.1. the animation looks good in the preview but jitters extremely after exporting, has anyone had the same problem ?

After Exporting

[wary burrow]

hey, i've been stuck for a while trying to fix my rolling animation in my game (im using the Flexible combat system asset). The problem i'm having is that if root motion is turned off in my animation, the animation looks good but when i try it in game the character teleports back to where they were after having completed the animation. If i however have root motion turned on the character does a weird movement without moving.

[cunning compass]

Hi guys my montage is looping thats weird , how to stop it from looping?

[cunning compass]

Did u choose the right slot

[wary burrow]

what do you mean?

[cunning compass]

Idk how to change slots in ue5 but usually when it doesn't move for me it might mean u didnt use the correct slot

Oh i am talking about montages btw , i use them for rolling animation

[wary burrow]

okay... i still dont understand hahah, im a beginner. where do you find the slots, is it in the montage?

[scarlet moth]

@potent cradle thanks!

[languid mason]

Guys I have a question.
Idk if is the right section but, how I can recreate the floating the"book weapon" of Lisa in Ghenshin impact ? I'm creating some animation and I was thinking of add a wep socket on UE5 and parent a flying book, but in this case it follow my hand so I cant animate it.
So how I can achive better resoult?
Thanks in advance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBw3bcDwODM

[ashen junco]

You can have the book skelmesh floating on its own without socket attachment.

[hardy cypress]

I have a basic pawn with no skeleton and I want to make it scale and move a little, I figured I'd need to make an animation using keyframes but I can't find any tutorials online, does anyone know how to do this or could link me a video? I'd also like to activate the animation using blueprint

[static falcon]

Look up timelines in blueprint

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/UserGuide/Timelines/

[unreal zenith]

@ashen juncoso i found out that you can record the simulation and playback it by Chaos cache manager ... it has to be in actor but it works great , so just giving information that is it possible 😉 thanks for advices

[ancient wasp]

hello guys, is that rootmotion true?
imagine the camera is attached the head, it will be fps.

my programmer says it doesn't affect the movement of the camera and the direction of the camera.

[dawn sail]

Hello! For a while, we used a selection set containing the bones and mesh to export the FBX from Maya to unreal, but I realized, in unreal, we always uncheck "import mesh" option anyway, so would it make a difference if I did not add the mesh to the fbx export in maya? Or would it break something in unreal? We don't have blendshapes

[ashen junco]

Unchecking it makes Unreal treat the import as animation data, not the skeleton asset alone

You'd need to at least bring over a dummy mesh assigned to that skeleton

[dawn sail]

Yeah, but then it doesn't matter if I export the animations with the mesh in maya anyway as in unreal, I just want the animation data and I guess there is only animation data on the bones, and none on the mesh?

[dawn sail]

For the SKM, yes, but we already have a skm setup, so when I import in unreal, I select the good skeleton I want to assign the data to and that works

It's so long to export from maya, I just feel like if having the mesh in the selection set I export is unnecessary, I will just remove it from animatuion exports and just keep it in SKM exports

Usually, I uncheck export mesh and select my skeleton

If I try with a version where I exported my animation from maya with just the bones, it looks the same, but I just don't have the import mesh option

[hallow elm]

Hi, I need help
I wanna make weapon left hand IK with using Basic IK in control rig, but I cannot find how to do it...
plz give me hint?

[fair dragon]

I was wondering do you need to use Blendspace for animations where the character is not technically moving. For example, if the character is only standing still in the idle animation, then throws a punch or block and then goes back to idle. Will using a blend space help with the transition of going from idle to block to idle animations or idle-punch-idle, etc.? It's just that every time I look up anything about Blendspace or tutorial it's talking about movement (walking, running, jumping) and not animations/moves.

[fiery snow]

Experimenting with Pose Drivers, How do I get a driven bone's rotation to move in the opposite direction when driven by another bone?

I am using the Bone Driven Controller

[mystic remnant]

Not sure if this is BP or Animation related... I have a modular character, I setup the leader pose, but when I call an animation montage (skeletal mesh) on the leader mesh nothing happens.

[fiery snow]

Fixed it. Set Multiplier to -1.0

[wary patio]

Hi can someone please help me, I have been trying to find a solution online but nothing seems to work, why does my metahuman not properly do the animations? Look at his legs in example below... the weird thing is that if I look at all animations individually they all look great until I actually go in game and try to walk around. I am using the third person character blueprint and retargeted all his animations

as you can see in the second video, the animations work and legs move normal, but not when I actually press play and move he starts SKIING.... so frustrating 😦

[astral cypress]

Good evening,
I'm pretty new to IK. Just wanted to replace the default idle mannequin animation and now the IK control rig messes the pose up.
Any idea what I should change to make the IK compatible with new idle/walk animations? (without IK everything looks good with the default skeleton)

[dim flume]

Hi, i have an animation with root motion, but i want a character to move further then it is right now. Am i able to edit the animation within Unreal Engine to do so?

[astral cypress]

thats the same issue I have. Its caused by the IK not working properly

[wary patio]

You think so? did you find a better way to handle this?

[true marsh]

Hey so does anyone know how I could go about making a question block type thing like in Mario Bros? I want the block to sort of bounce up and down when hit from the bottom (like when Mario collects coins).

[tranquil lark]

This is where UE's animation system is lame. I'd use a timeline in the block personally. You could use sequencer, but that mostly deals with static data. A friend tried using it with dynamic transforms and it was...interesting.

You can also look at the Actor Sequencer plugin. Be warned though, it is experimental.

Pretty much - animating static stuff has a fairly lame workflow when you want to reuse the animation.

[brazen wharf]

if you don't need collision you can use WPO in the material

[tranquil lark]

I feel like that'd be more trouble than just a timeline

[brazen wharf]

why?

[tranquil lark]

Because I suck with materials

😅

[brazen wharf]

😄

this is pretty easy tho, you pretty much feed a sine to the wpo and mask it on the z-axis so it only wobbles up/down

and a parameter to control the effect (can use custom primitive data, so you don't need to spam 1000 dynamic material instances)

[tranquil lark]

If only sequencer could work in local transform only 🤔. That'd be nice. Not sure if it can though. But the actor sequencer plugin does solve that problem.

[true marsh]

awesome, thanks!

[brazen wharf]

can anim notifies carry a value?

[languid mason]

Guys How can I plug these 2 node to the output?
I tryed with the "Blend Node" but the "ALPHA" input ruins everything
Thanks in advance.

[astral cypress]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxCWtcArhFU maybe the solution?!

[wary patio]

thanks a lot for your help, I tried this exact one but when I do this unreal keeps crashing, appearantly this works on 5.0 but not 5.1.... so frustrating to keep running into so many stupid bugs especially in 5.1

[astral cypress]

this the solution for me, I had the IK bones missing in the animation and fixed the IK control rig to use the virtual bones. (UE 5.1)

[wary patio]

sent you a pm

[wary patio]

this does not work on 5.1, only on 5.0.... hope this saves someone the headache I went through....

[languid mason]

no one know how to resolve ?

[ashen junco]

No one

Except Kawaii Physics doesn't need to be cached

[languid mason]

even if i don't use the node cache, i still have 2 nodes to connect.
I've used a simpler animation blueprint in the past with no problems, but now I don't know how to do it here. 🤔

[ashen junco]

Why not using the Kawaii Physics after the last anim node?

[languid mason]

because I'm a chicken, I missed such a stupid thing, I've had little sleep these two days to fix some unreal things and this is the result.
Thanks for all lol

[cedar zodiac]

Hey all, working on getting aim offset to work in my game and realized that the blend doesn't seem to apply to montages. Does anyone know of any guides to set this up to work with a montage that I can reference?

[gritty heath]

Hey everyone, I've been trying to fix this issue, during this animation/Montage my character's legs go into an awkward squat position instead of the intended animation (This is my first time trying to make an animation so the quality of it isn't perfect) I'd appreciate any help I can get on this one, everything I've looked into talks about the foot IK but I'm still new to this all and don't fully understand tbh

[cedar zodiac]

Fixed my issue, Had to put my montage in before I did my IK and Offset commands.

[hallow elm]

can I get help?

[compact crane]

Does Mesh to Metahuman accomplish the same thing as the official Daz to Unreal Bridge plugin? If so why use one or the other?

[grim orchid]

Anyone know how to make this render look crisper ?

[warped sand]

Can someone explain why this is happening? Very strange... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEODdq-OkSM

[stoic lynx]

Hello All. I'm having this weird problem with UE5 retargeting animations. Basically, when I retargeted from the main skeleton to this cyborg ninja skeleton, the new mesh floats in the air when playing certain animations (specifically montages). I created a leg IK system that (sort of) fixes this during walk and run animations, but I can't seem to get this to work with montages for combat.

Does anyone know what would cause this? The target skeleton is just not lined up with the ground for some reason. This only became a problem when I decided to stop using the default UE4 mannequin. Thanks

[stoic lynx]

Does this happen in game also?

[warped sand]

I don't see it in game yet.

[karmic acorn]

Hey everyone! I have a group that I've started for people struggling with motivation issues. You basically partner up with another animator or artist around your experience level, set a goal for yourself (in my case I am working on a storyboard for a short film, but it could be legit anything), tell your partner about your goal in the first week, set a time to meet and chat every week about your progress, and update your partner via text chat each week on what you've gotten done that week. I made a reddit post about it if anyone wants more details, but PM me if you're interested!! https://www.reddit.com/r/animationcareer/comments/10ao03z

[pale coral]

Sometimes the failures are the most funny, and psychologically damaging

[warped sand]

Check your monitor res, your capture res, texture res, your GPU settings, and animation rate.

[remote mica]

Does anyone know what might be causing this? It only happens with this mesh. Could it be a bad rig on my end or something else?

[mossy kernel]

how can I turn off the IK rig when I do a custom animation so it doesnt look like this?

[hardy reef]

https://youtu.be/SM_AR-oZ-1k

Hello, I was watching a video made by Unreal Engine and there is a system that I could not find when I searched. How did they use EQS to create dynamic sync points?
Sorry for my bad english. In the 35th minute of the video, they show the system I was wondering about.

[ashen junco]

Not going to sit through Inside Unreal due to awful live pacing, but in essence, you just have to feed the location vector to the Control Rig IK

[muted monolith]

use layered blend node

[muted monolith]

the bones man ahh

[compact crane]

What is the recommended way to do fight scenes? Motion capture?

[tender elk]

hello, I have two animation instance blueprints, I want to copy over the state machines from one to the other

is that possible?

i right clicked on one and there was no copy option

[weak beacon]

Anyone got insight to share in regards to what would be the better approach to UE5 animations?
I'm split between using a monolithic AnimBP with AnimLayerInterface for all state machine nodes so linked anim instances can define their own behavior in those,
OR
Utilizing a bunch of LinkedAnimGraphs to drive locomotion through linked anim instances.
I'm really not sure if there is a difference, and if so, what it would be. I feel like option 1 is more in line with Lyra, while option 2 is more like ALS_Refactored.

[ashen junco]

Both mocap and hand animated

Especially if you want something more stylized

[stoic lynx]

That's legit horrifying

Still having this weird floating problem with animations. I've tried reimporting the animations after changing the z offset value, and that didn't work. Anyone have any ideas?

[remote mica]

Is the bone orientation wrong you think?

[muted monolith]

the rig is not done properly and if the rig is done properly then try it in ue4 then it will surly work ik trust me i never like ue5 retartget

[remote mica]

I used Auto Rig Pro in blender (using the UE5 skeleton setting) and it works fine with 99% of the other animations. I've used ARP in the past with UE4 and had no issues

[muted monolith]

ohh

[remote mica]

I noticed that some bones are technically not used such as some of the corrective bone roots in the arm. Could that be an issue as well?

[muted monolith]

have u checked the pose ?

[remote mica]

The A pose? This model is set to A pose by default.

[muted monolith]

yea

like the pose are same ?

[remote mica]

Yeah the pose is the same. I think it is something to do with ARP's rigging method itself. The only other thing I could think of is twist bones but I typically don't use those

[tranquil lark]

Actually, option 2 is what Lyra does. That said - I prefer option 2 because it is more efficient on memory (doesn't have to have all anims loaded at once) and allows you to easily compose/work on specific areas. For example - I have a weapon layer for my linked anim layer. My weapons have their own BP that use their own animations. Adding a new animation set is as simple as creating a whole new ABP and then linking it to the weapon, so when I equip it, all the animations just work™️

I don't need to go back and change anything with the original ABP

It controls the logic on how to navigate around the state machine that is actually being used.

As for what is "better" - well, it depends.

The anim layers adds additional abstraction and complexity. Your game might not even need that.

[compact crane]

I figured. Going to have to RL act out every action scene in the game

Easy compared to manual animation though so I don't mind

[weak beacon]

So, do you use ALI and use StateMachines in your main ABP which then calls those states from linked ABPs?
In lyra all locomotion is set with ALI and then in linked ABPs all animation logic is placed, where as ALS_Refactored uses main ABP only to reference linked ABPs and does not contain any StateMachines (Sorry if my explanation is lackluster, just started diving into the new ABP system about a month ago)

[tranquil lark]

I went back and re-read what you said. My mistake, I read it wrong 😅. Yeah, Lyra is option 1 and that is how I do it as well (even before looking at Lyra). Simply because it is more composable/modular. A linked anim graph links to a specific ABP - which...I don't feel is all that useful honestly. Linked anim layers is where it is at ❤️

(I originally was reading it like option 1 was split up...not one continuous thing, lol. So like it was "monolithic ABP vs using linked anim layers" pretty much 😅 )

You can change which anim layer is linked at runtime. Can't to that with a linked anim graph to my knowledge.

That is much more useful than being locked into a specific graph

My current setup is as follows:

1: Linked Anim Layer which has my "Fullbody Locomotion".
2: Layered Blend Per Bone with the first one connected as the base pose and then another linked anim layer for my "Weapon Layer" as the Blend pose.
3) Then afterwards I connect to a IK node that also connects with a "Weapon IK" linked anim layer

[humble trout]

Hey! I am working in 5.1 and encountering an issue with the LookAt node in the animation graph. It appears to always use the starting input pose for all its calculations. If a "modify bone" node rotates a bone further up the hierarchy, it adds it to the lookAt node, making it no longer work as it should. this happens no matter which node comes first, even if the lookAt is the last thing that is done before finishing the animation frame. Is there a way to work around this issue or fix the LookAt node behaviour, to use the pose, that is put into the node, instead of the default starting pose?
Example: Using the modify bone node on a head will break lookAt nodes, that control the eyes.
Even when doing a blend per bone and completely separating the eyes, it breaks.
If the head is rotated 45° on the yaw via modifyBone, it will add that to the lookAt, no matter what I do.

[weak beacon]

I appreciate the detailed response!
I have a pretty decent idea of how I wanna approach this now, I'm reading into it heavily which makes me uncertain at times haha😅 ..
I'll most likely be following Lyras way of implementation as well! After looking at it closer, I think the ALS version shares movement locomotion between all "overlays" which might be undesirable when creating something like an RPG with multiple weapon types..

[static holly]

I have this very simple setup in my animation blueprint for walking animation, the issue is that the animation plays no matter whether the movement is made by the player or if the character is pushed. Is there something like "Is key pressed" thing I can use to determinate if the movement is player or environment triggered?

[orchid topaz]

Instead of velocity, you can use character acceleration, which is actually a scaled player input

[static holly]

Brilliant. I'll try it out

[past lake]

so I have these 2 dashing animations. One ends with idle animation and the other one ends with running animation(the dash itself and endings are in the same animation, it is one piece). How can I make it end with running animation only if the player is running?

[hushed gull]

hey to retarget a character skeleton to another what are the conditions? the two skeletons should have the exact same number of bones or what?

they should have the same T or A pose necessarily?

[uncut pawn]

hey folks, i'm having a retargeting issue where the wrist becomes totally deformed and separated from the arm of my character. the poses of the source and target are both matching and i don't see this issue with any other bone. is there something i'm missing?

[pale coral]

How do I control what things my IK collides with?

My character's foot keeps glitching every time his pickaxe swings low while walking

[brazen wharf]

do you line/sphere trace your IK targets?

[pale coral]

I don't know, I'm using a UE5 mannequin with default animations

[brazen wharf]

ok, i have no idea how they're solving IK positions

[pale coral]

Me neither, heh

[brazen wharf]

they most likely also trace somewhere, so that's where you should consider adding weapons (which are attached to your actor) to the ignore list

[pale coral]

Hm, alright

[brazen wharf]

the trace might hit the weapon and therefor it tries to adjust the foot location

[pale coral]

Yeah I just have no idea where to look for that

the animation blueprint maybe?

[brazen wharf]

yea, or the control rig (if it uses one)

[pale coral]

It uses three control rigs and an IK rig

okay I found a sphere trace in the foot IK

channel trace on visibility

ugh

[ocean needle]

Can I fix this in Blender? I think I just have to adjust something in the arm to fix this but am not sure how (Same skeleton - different meshes - same anim) .

[pale coral]

You could add a socket and adjust that

Or export the animation and change it

[valid grove]

I exported my rig to FBX. However, after importing it the lantern/arms are separate. Any idea why this is happening? (I recently bought a new rig, trying to figure it out)

[ashen junco]

Because both are separate skeleton

[valid grove]

Oh I see, strange.. I wonder why there are 2 skeletons 🤔
Thanks

[ashen junco]

There's nothing wrong with having arms and weapons separate skelmeshes, if anything it's common even in AAA FPS games

[supple oyster]

Hi, I'm retargeting my character in Blender with a motion from rokoko suit (grabed on their Discord to have a try). Everything works just fine in Blender. I can import my mesh, skeleton and physics in ue5.1.0, all seems OK. But, when I import an animation (with skeleton imported who works fine in blender) as fbx i've got this ... any idear to unlock me ??? thx 😉

[brazen wharf]

has anyone used the Contextual Animation stuff yet?

i'm confused on what's the correct way to begin a scene, and the purpose of the ContextualAnimSceneActor component

[tranquil lark]

How do you handle different sized skeletons? Both characters have the same bone hierarchy and I want them to be able to use the same animations so I don't have to author/retarget the animations. (I'm aware of the compatible skeletons feature btw). Just one character is overall bigger (like slightly taller and chunkier) than the skeleton that the animations were authored for. Is this where stuff like virtual bones come into play or something?

[crimson tinsel]

quick question but how do I stop my units from playing their animation at the same time?

[nocturne abyss]

I have a very quick question.
In Unity or Godot you can animate anything, and easily control when those animations are played etc.

Going to Unreal I can't figure out what the best way of creating animations is. Can you create animations like in Unity or Godot? YouTube isn't very helpful, but god have I tried finding out how this works for a while

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

To add a little more concrete info to this:

say I have a FPS controller, and I want to animate a flashlight sway when moving or something, what would be the correct way?

[ashen junco]

See pinned message of Control Rig + Sequencer tutorial linked by yours truly

[nocturne abyss]

Lemme check that out right now

@ashen juncoThis one?

[ashen junco]

Yes

And on that note, you can also do procedural animation stuff with Control Rig as well

[nocturne abyss]

Sounds pretty sweet, I'm gonna watch that video right away. Thanks, man

[nocturne abyss]

@ashen juncoI'm obviously not done watching it, but let's say I just have a simple FPS character with no skeleton or anything, just as basic as it gets, and let's say I wanna add a sway animation for whatever is attached to the character (like a flashlight), does this video still apply when it comes to doing that?

I must be missing something here, since every single video on youtube assumes you have some grand player skeleton full of bones

[ashen junco]

no arms whatsoever?

Then you can use something like timeline node in the actor BP

Though it's not ideal and hard to control

[nocturne abyss]

@ashen junco yeah I've used timelines before, but like you said, it's hard to control. If unreal requires some sort of skeleton to make such animations, then that's disappointing

[ashen junco]

Eh, not that big of a price to pay

You can have one dummy skeletal mesh with one bone, attach the weapon to it, and call it a day

[nocturne abyss]

That's some 5head right there. I guess that'll have to do. Kinda wish making simple animations was as intuitive as in unity or Godot though, but shieeet

[brazen wharf]

having a rig really improves the overall workflow of animations tho. You can import an Rig with a invisible plane as geometry and attach static mesh's to the bones

[valid grove]

Ok, that's good to hear. Do you know if it's possible to preview them playing together in UE?

[native umbra]

I have an animation montage of a person sliding, and I want to split it up into a start/loop/end situation just like the Jump ability. Is there a way to do that within the montage itself (I'm new - aren't those supposed to have segments you can call whenever?) or should I just split it the old fashioned way?

[next kindle]

Hey guys so I'm having an issue with my character that's using the unreal mannequin skeleton. I want to be able to just share the animations with animations made with the unreal mannequin, which is working fine, but it seems that my new imported character is hovereing above ground level. I'm not too sure what's causing it, but the size it more or less identical (between UE4 Mannequin and my new character).

[clear dune]

Hey all, quick question. I have animations which are InPlace, and I'd like to make RootMotion versions. What's the best method? And, is this a feasible task? Or is this like asking for an "undo" button as a marble sculptor?

[short wasp]

Is it on 0 0 0 location in blender when exporting?

[vestal summit]

So I have a mesh I want to use. The mesh is rigged to the UE man, but has Eyes and Jaw bones, so I can not swap out its skel for the UE skel.
Is there a way around this?

[nocturne abyss]

I imagine there's a good reason why it is like that in UE, but if I just wanna throw some prototype together, it sucks that I'd have to learn an external program to setup basic animations. What drew me the most to UE in the beginning was that you can easily make prototype levels in-engine fast without relying on Blender or something

Damn it

And also that I didn't have to write a player controller from scratch, that was a big one aswell

[ashen junco]

At "best" you'd only make a single bone rig from 3D software, then animate it in editor

[digital dock]

how can I make a turn-in-place system without using curves, and have seperate anims for 45degree steps?

I can only find systems that use curves for the anims and/or they use only 1 animation and repeat it

[hallow elm]

Hi I need help
how to get this node in UE5.1?

I cannot find this node in UE 5.1's control rig

[copper charm]

What causes this warning? Track with name finger_01_l already exists

Ah, resaving the asset fixed it.

[flint crane]

hello all! I'm learning some animation basics, how can I move this bone using blueprints or the animation blueprint? Thank you so much!

I just want to move it in the Z axis like in the picture xD

I don't find the proper way for accesing the skeleton bones -.-

[late burrow]

i make blend space when i rotate 45 degree the backward animation are broken

it only happend on backward movement..

[vocal owl]

can you use motion warping in state machine or does it have to be through montages?

[flint crane]

noobs are not welcome here, I see

[rancid sparrow]

Hello all! Anyone know how to migrate control rigs between projects? I get this msg when I try migrating, and have no idea how to "make" a control rig folder...

Some selected assets don’t have a corresponding content root in the destination.
/ControlRig

[ashen junco]

Transform Bone nodes or using Control Rig

[ashen junco]

Irritatingly impatient people are the one that aren't welcomed

[slim topaz]

If you have UE project 5.0 and 5.1 open at the same time, you should be able to just copy the node and paste it into 5.1, and should work

[slim topaz]

Hmmmm, not sure,
but could you copy the files in the file explorer, to the project you are working on, like paste then in the location of your project in file explorer

[fiery snow]

Is there a way to move a control rig along a spline?

[velvet lion]

Untick the checkbox for /ControlRig when you migrate. As long as you have things below /Game checked it should work

[fiery snow]

I am trying to attach a control rig to the camera rig rail from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc_FaINbw9I

Issue is there is no way to attach a control rig to the camera rail rig in sequencer. I tried using contraints. It doesn't work. Surely there must be a way to animate a control rig along a spline?🙂

This camera rig rail has some limitations. Seems you can only use it for one object at a time, rather than several objects following the spline as a motion path.

[karmic bobcat]

so ive done an ik rig for my accurig skeleton, and have two different characters sharing that skeleton, and retargetting animations from ue4 mannequin. in one of them works fine, the other one, the arms are too close to the body. whats a good way to fix this? im kinda lost because i think if i change something in the ik retargetter is gonna mess up theone that is good potentially, right?

[fiery snow]

Still trying to figure out how to do this. I can't believe this isn't possible in ue5 😭

[azure quail]

One question to more experienced animation folks: I copied the Lyra GA_Hero_Dash ability and only replaced the animation to a roll forward movement as new ability. The result is here: Triggering works fine, but the role ends ignores mesh boundaries and elevation and get a rubberband effect at the end. So it seems to be a problem of the animation - I tried to enable/disable root motion on it with the same results, also tried another roll animation with no success: Anybody has a clue what I do wrong?
*I actually used the one animation from a tutorial video coming from ALS4 - this works like a charm - my animation (from an RPG pack) does not. Anyone ones what could be the difference between these animations?

[still forge]

Do anybody know what is the technical difference between IK Rig and ControlRig and what is better for what cases? Both can be used runtime and in editor as a tools. Obvious one is control rig can have controls for sequencer etc.

[errant solar]

Hi all, I am in the process of migrating animations from the Animation Starter Pack from the marketplace. It is on UE4 so I had to use the included RTG UE4 to UE5 Manny in UE 5.1. I made a blendspace of the jogging animation which looks fine in the preview but as soon as I hit play, the feet animations do not work (again this works in preview). Looks kinda similar to this: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/retargeted-metahuman-legs-not-moving-when-running-sliding-on-the-floor/523050. Anyone run into this issue before?

[minor marsh]

How can I make my character non stuck on jump animation when I reverse the gravity?

[balmy kettle]

my first ever animation export clearly went exactly to plan

[small heart]

Is it normal that you can only change bone rotations but not location in the Aim Offset?

So, only the rotation gets applied but the location resets

[random arch]

Quick question! Can anyone tell me if Sequence Evaluators are supported by Orientation Warping? My Orientation Warping stopped working after switching from Sequence Players

(+ Stride Warping, also stopped working)

[random arch]

Answer - it is! I can see Lyra uses orientation / stride warping with evaluators as well

[unreal linden]

Hello good morning

i'm searching about the way how can i make animation for meshs like satisfactory machines and how that optimized

what should i use for this

[solemn charm]

hi, when i press jump button while jump end, some problem is there help me to solve.. Thank you

[plain drift]

Why has epic made retargeting such a pain in UE5? In 4 I could just retarget one anim to another skeleton and it worked without any extra work if the bones have the same name -_-

[proper sleet]

You should use the mixamo converter from terriblis studio, worked fine for mixamo characters, I just dont know how I would do it with a custom character made in Blender

https://youtu.be/a4FoujGQPp8 this guy made a good video about it, he even got it to their website

[static holly]

This error shows up when I try to import an animation. Using the "snap to closest boundary" option wipes out all animation keyframes

[vocal owl]

Can anyone help me understand how to dynamically force my attack animations to go through the players cursor (knowing that the cursor will be moving as the players runs and looks around during the attack)? I am using a thrust animation with an aim offset from the kubold longsword pack. Even at neutral offset, the stab goes slightly below the cursor. As the offset gets more extreme when the player is looking up or down the difference between their cursor and where the stab actually hits increases. In this gif the desired behavior is that the first and second attack miss and the third hits the player in the head. Instead the first misses (good), the second hits the player in the head (bad) and the third hits him in the arm (bad). Similar effects happen if you are looking at the ground but in the opposite direction (eg stabbing when the cursor is on the enemies toes will hit them in the knee, aiming for the knee hits the groin, looking straight down at the floor doesn't stab the floor, etc)

even just high level advice, like if it should be done with IK or motion warping or if the aim offset just isnt being used right, or whatever would be greatly appreciated

[proven hound]

Hi! I have animation that shrink specfic bone to scale 0 for 0 seconds. It should be started right when I teleport actor: teleport + bone sized 0. But seems it working little late - after tick or some like that after teleport. Do you know how to fix that without changing bone's object visibility, just with animation?

[static holly]

I'm trying to import from Blender, but my keyframes seem to not actually import over? The length is the same and the keyframes work just fine in blender, but do not appear in Unreal

[proven hound]

So, if player can look right, but cursor on left screen side, and after attack weapon should hit left? If so, easiest way will be to split your character and weapon. Make weapon actor to look at cursor, and offset it at some angle to hit that cursor on specific moment

This will work fine while your character without hands

[vocal owl]

right now i am more struggling with the up/down dimension but basically i want to guarantee that at a specific time in the animation, the weapon goes through the users cursor whichever way they are looking

https://youtu.be/p-B4AwgArwA?t=165

right around 2:56 they show it there, it is how it works in mordhau, you can start stabbing rotate your cursor to the ground and you will stab the ground, rotate to sky and you stab the sky, you can retarget your aim mid swing and the whole body animation morphs to accommodate that

a certain point in the stam animation always goes straight through player cursor

[proven hound]

Same answer. Make vertical offset rotation to achieve that

Or I just not understand your problem

[vocal owl]

i guess what you are saying makes sense but i am not sure how to do it so that the body animates properly, it is a multiplayer game so other people see your body moving with your swing

i was sort of thinking I need to keep hand and weapon attached and know where hand needs to be (both location and rotation) at specific point in time and take my existing body animation and use IK to get the hand to go there? but i don't really know exactly how to do that either

in mordhau you can retarget your aim mid swing and the whole body animation morphs to accommodate that (eg start stabbing towards sky and drag cursor onto enemy head midway through the stab to head shot them), visually the player will appear to other players to be thrusting into the sky but then bring his arms down and stabbing forwards

[proven hound]

If you have hands, so, I think, you have to use IK or hard animation mixing. I think Mordhau have highly calibrated animations to achieve 'weapon following cursor'. If you cant find that quality animation or to make it by yourself, easiest way will be IK

Check for "Aim offset", looks like it is what you want

[vocal owl]

okay, thanks. I am using kubold longsword animation pack from marketplace and it does have an aim offset that seems to get things close but not really precise so i will work with that / ik and try to get it to be perfect

very much appreciate the help

[proven hound]

So:

1. Create character, put sword on his hands
2. Add aim offset to character, and stab animation
3. Rotate offset vertically until it starting to hit cursor - that will be your base rotation
4. When your character move up or down - add or remove rotation to "aim offset" to make it visible for other players
5. Same if you want horizontal offsets

Something like that @vocal owl

[vocal owl]

think that will work, thankyou

[clear dune]

Hey, quick question. I have animations which are InPlace, and I'd like to make RootMotion versions. What's the best method? And, is this a feasible task within Unreal Engine?

[vocal owl]

getting the parameters just for all the attacks right will take some tweaking but this roughly working for me already on the stab attack at least, thanks again

[warped sand]

Hello animators! Does anyone know why the character shrinks in the blendspace? https://youtu.be/VEODdq-OkSM

[lofty granite]

I want to blend Curve of animation montage to current slot
but don't want it to effect anybone
it is the face talking staff
I try to use -1 in blend per bone for head bone
but the head still move to base pose/T pose
anyway to blend only curve not bone?
I know I can use curve directly but use animation SQ and montage
make the work easier Visualy
so is there a way to do this?

[misty dagger]

is this good beginner state machine?

[brazen wharf]

is the crawl supposed to be a oneway street?

[misty dagger]

i think so, i dont want it to go from crawling back to idle

is there a way to make an Idle_Crawl within the animation blueprints that is just zombie_crawl but without moving?

sorry im new to animation stuff with unreal

[sacred cloak]

By chance does anyone know a way to fix rotating objects that do a full 360 when you only wanted it to rotate 5 degrees?

[warped sand]

Either split Stand/Crawl into two different state machines or split on Entry.

[static holly]

Does anybody know why my bones don't all import from the fbx file? Only the main root bone remains

[plain drift]

Anyone knows a reason why my animation looks different after importing in Unreal? In this animation I opened the jaw and adjusted the position of the mouth corners. In Unreal it just shows the open jaw but toally ignores the mouth corner and cheeks. I am importing from Blender.

[ashen junco]

Are you using constraints in Blender?

[plain drift]

Ah, let me check that

Yeah, that was the issue -_- Thank you a lot 🙂 Here is the script I wrote to quickly delete all constraints from selected bones:

`import bpy

for bone in bpy.context.selected_pose_bones:
# Create a list of all constraints on this bone
copyLocConstraints = [ c for c in bone.constraints ]

# Iterate over all the bone's constraints and delete them all
for c in copyLocConstraints:
    bone.constraints.remove( c ) # Remove constraint`

[limpid raven]

If any of you are using Valve Knuckles for fingers tracking, I made a tutorial regarding blending realtime data from the Knuckles together with predefined fingers poses.
The setup shows my Full Body Mocap plugin, but it can be easily adapted to any setup you're using

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPMtjNP22w0

[warm creek]

Does anyone know how to export collision data for a skeletal mesh from blender?
I was looking at their pipeline
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithContent/Importing/FBX/SkeletalMeshes/

I see no mention of it.
I did see it mentioned for static meshes.
I was thinking maybe it was similar? create the base shapes name them UCX_ObjectName_#
Then make sure those shapes are bound to the bones?

[ashen junco]

UCX_ meshes are for static meshes.

As for collision, you have to make a physics asset

[warm creek]

Got it thanks!

[dull sun]

I have an animation asset that has a long-gone source fbx (so it can't be reimported).
Is there a way to revert this frame trimming back to how the asset was originally?

I duplicated the original asset just in case, but would be nice if it was possible to revert anyway

[random gyro]

Having an issue where the character vibrates instead of completing the animation, I can't find my error.
Does anyone have any ideas? Datafiles seam to be in order

[neat dock]

Howdy, how can I use control rigs for procedural animations for my FPS?

I was thinking of using 2 control rigs, one for arms and one for guns

but I want to be able to get a control position in the gun control rig and attach the hand bone to it

or is there another way to handle this?

[hushed gull]

hey when i import my character animations alot of them arent aligned correctly, how can i fix that? I use blender and here are my export settings, in blender the rotation of the armature is changing alot depending of the animations but its always X at 90°, its the Z axis that changes, i think i should copy the z axis rotation to the root bone but i cant find a way to properly do it
any other idea in the import/ export settings that could fix that ?

[misty dagger]

how come?

and is there a way to make an Idle_Crawl within the animation blueprints that is just zombie_crawl but without moving?

[cosmic dock]

i like to ask for some help making my movie if this is ok to ask on here
i do not know about the unreal engine 5

[misty dagger]

and how do i "split on entry"? conduits?

[ripe yew]

So if animations has curve movement speed and forward velocity information, how can I use that?

[ashen junco]

Depends.
This is too broad of a question.

[misty dagger]

and is there a way to make an Idle_Crawl within the animation blueprints that is just zombie_crawl but without moving?

[ashen junco]

Depends

The easy way would be just to use the usual state machines

[misty dagger]

tfw assigning a skeleton insta-crashes ue5

[misty dagger]

but then how do i make a state thats just a frozen animation?

[ashen junco]

Also depends on whether you want to go the easy way or the hard way
The easy (but less practical) way would be to make states for each crawl poses
The harder way would be to save pose snapshot
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/PoseSnapshot/

[misty dagger]

i dont care if it is like frozen at the right time i just want a frozen anywhere

[brazen wharf]

so i got a bunch of sitting animations, and some are from the right side of the chair and others from the left side, however, they all keep their root position locked next to the chair, and therefor i can't mix them well with other sitting idle animations. what would be the best approach to solve this?

[ashen junco]

Disable collisions while you're doing the animation, or not using root motion

[brazen wharf]

collision isn't the problem

having the root in another place is

so the idle animation for sit from left are different than the ones from sit from right

as their root-hip offset is totally different

i guess i would have to use root motion to my advance actually

and move the root to the actual sitting position

[soft hinge]

Noob question here.
So I have this animation, I made this creature, and I am trying to attach the eye to the character in the animation.
What's the easiest way of going about that?

[soft hinge]

I mean. I just started in unreal like a week ago. I brought it back into Cinema 4D and just placed the eye in the rig. Brought it back in to Unreal and works great.

Thanks

Yeah, sorry. I still am learning the interface and such.

Unreal is definitely looking like it'll be the future of animation / rendering so get ready for a bunch more noobies! lol.

Yeah. Hoping to get more into developing games after I learn the basics (aka animation lol)

[bronze fable]

Anyone know why the automatec transition rules would work in every combination (client to client, server to client) EXCET client to server?

[ashen junco]

Depends on how you attached it, though usually creatures are skinned skeletal mesh, including the body part

Also for the record, don't listen to the troll.

As for the eyes, if it's part of the skeletal mesh already, which usually the case, you can simply animate the bone that is weighted to the eyes

[zealous maple]

I'm looking for a way to stop a montage played from anim notify when parent montage is stopped (by parent I mean the montage used to call the notify). Any idea on how to achieve this?

[clever shard]

@acoustic leaf Ripping assets, asking how to do it, etc... Without developer's permission is against the server #rules

Either way it's frowned upon here

[acoustic leaf]

Oh my bad didnt know, considering the game is so old I figured it was okay

[somber light]

how can i get this to work for negative speed also?

i am new and don't know many nodes yet haha

[ashen junco]

What are you trying to achieve?

[thin pawn]

just posted ur answer in blueprints

[somber light]

i want my character to play the walking backward animation when walking backwards and forward when walking forward

[somber light]

you posted how to get forward but i am looking for backwards

he already can move forward so this seems to work no?

idk

[ashen junco]

And crosspost is confusing

[thin pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/lord-pleas-help-oh-no-gif-25461814

[somber light]

they told me to come here

[ashen junco]

[thin pawn]

yee, idk whats that about

[somber light]

i mean an animation blueprint is still a blueprint ...

anyways, that can't be such a big deal. There must be a simple node for this

[thin pawn]

i mean, u posted an animation problem, just then we found its in the blueprint part, and he told you to go here for help, cause u alrdy crossposted by mistake, making another crosspost when 3 ppl helping in blueprints

but thats the solution non the less xd

[ashen junco]

Also it's not something specific to the anim graph

[somber light]

*sigh

[thin pawn]

nah, he just feeding it velocity, not forwards velocity, so backwards no wurk xd

[somber light]

alright so i can't even find the get vector rotation node

[thin pawn]

search like this, dragged out from the rotation variable to get things that hab to do with rotation xd or remove context sensitive

[somber light]

i can find get forward rotation

[somber light]

i just can't find the get actor rotation you already have here

[somber light]

ah this worked with removing context

[thin pawn]

this is in ur actor blueprint no? xd

[somber light]

CHAOS

[thin pawn]

put in character xd

[somber light]

oh that makes sense

[thin pawn]

maybe character > get actor > get actor rotation xd

maybe it will do it byself

idk im new too

[somber light]

BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

it workes

https://tenor.com/view/dj-khalid-another-one-i-appreciate-you-iloveyou-thanks-gif-5214052

[thin pawn]

happy be of service

[somber light]

now now, i do have a different problem but that's nothing to do with animation so imma go to general

[thin pawn]

i just done got the same suuuuuuuper annoying problem seemingly taking 3 hours to fix at first

[somber light]

not all heroes wear capes

[thin pawn]

then i looked for 30 seconds, accidentally found a bool ticked wrong and it worked

i didnt even think that was the problem cause it seemed to unrelated but who woulda known, next test it wurked perfect

[thin pawn]

hold on... u saying im not a hero, cause im wearing a cape?

[somber light]

yes

[thin pawn]

aww thats the entire reason i bought it tho

[stone sundial]

how can i make an anim montage play when im holding down right click? No tutorials have helped/worked at all, and no matter what I do I can't figure it out.

ok

[misty dagger]

Anyone know why this is happening, I have my base pose with the modify happening after.

I have this code. The idea is I take the body part of the mesh the White capulse and rotate it towards the player or where the enemy has seen the player. This being done with interp

the above is the result I'm getting and I'm confused on why it's happening

any help would be appreciated as I don't have a clue why it's spasing like that. Obvs it's going between two different values but yeah I'm lost

[warped sand]

On Entry, it looks like the zombie will first go into the standing idle state, then go to crawl. Can you confirm that? What do you see?

[misty dagger]

If I set modify bone like that I get this

I get this

[frank vigil]

https://twitter.com/iglcity/status/1617607741316689920?s=46&t=VEPtsXlCLu0FvQy0n3uHrA

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Goblins have invaded the city, watch where you walk! https://t.co/QIBTlVMwVM @goblintown

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Lol

[neat dock]

Howdy, how can I use control rigs for procedural animations for my FPS?
I was thinking of using 2 control rigs, one for arms and one for guns
but I want to be able to get a control position in the gun control rig and attach the hand bone to it
or is there another way to handle this?

[misty dagger]

#animation message Anyone have any idea on this. I don't have clue why it's not working how I would think it would ??

[misty dagger]

it'll be deleted soon haha I just can't seems to understand why it's not working as expected haha

AI ??

i'm abit confused what your refering to ??

The issue I'm having is I'm trying to rotate the Body bone of the Skeletal mesh so the top half of the bot follows the player so looking at player

but when I try this it's not having it

nothing to do with AI pathing etc

I think the same but not sure what in my function coding I'm doing wrong. I have tried setting current rotation once but it seems to not want to work like I'm obvs pulling from wrong place but

so it's a transform modify bone

to rotate the specific bone on the skeletal mesh

thanks, it's not going to be easy

[digital jasper]

Hello,

Having this really weird issue, just trying to implement a Sprint animation. My condition to get into my Sprint state is met but I end up in a A pose.
I double checked my blendspace and each animations and everything animated correctly outside the animation blueprint.
Tought it was my Yaw offset value created in C++ but couldnt see anything obvious so I tried recreating it in blueprint but still the same issue.

Anyone see what im missing?

[hushed gull]

hey i have some small problems with the hand retargeting, the fingers are not correct and im wondering, is it really possible to retarget for a 2 hand weapon animation? the 2 skeletons should be exactly the same to be working?

its more visible here

[misty dagger]

I want it to idle/walk whenever and when i enable crawling (by Shooting hin the leg) he will crawl. It works fine now how it was but pretty glitxhy

[ashen junco]

You could use world space vectors to align the IK effectors

Though for FPS animations I'd recommend having existing non-procedural animations as a base. Fully procedural FPS animation can get janky real quick.

[ashen junco]

Simply call the Play Montage node on the right click input event's Pressed exec node
(I don't know what Enhanced Input events called it)

[ashen junco]

I don't use transform bone that much, so I might be wrong, but the transform bone could be conflicting between the world space rotation and the skelmesh space rotation.

Though I know it can be simplified more reliably with Control Rig

[misty dagger]

So manage to work it out. I was setting current rotation one frame but then using it and reseting it so one frame and other would conflict

[hushed gull]

i still have the finger problems but worse, any idea how can i fix that?

[misty dagger]

Or at least I think that's what happened

[misty dagger]

I might have to use control rig for the gun as currently the gun isn't pointing where it should etc

[karmic bobcat]

if i put extra bones (for hair, and those bones would not change the main chain of the skeleton)) on my ue4 skeleton and import that model (assigning the regular ue4 skeleton) will it mess up anything? will i be able to use the regular animations from all the other ue4 skeleton animations, or will i need to retarget all of them?(or have to use it as a unique skeleton)?

[brazen wharf]

as long as you don't modify the existing bone chain you are fine

only adding extra bones is not a problem

[ashen junco]

Omitting bones is also not a problem

Just make sure the same bone names aren't located elsewhere in the chain

[ruby swallow]

Is there any tool or method to slow down parts of an animation within Unreal?

[waxen turtle]

Guys… for attacks I should use montages, right? I find stupid cluttering a state machine with 90 states and 90 bool variables

[ashen junco]

Yes.

[young olive]

Those curves on the far right.. How do you transfer those to another mesh? (Not morphs targets)

[ashen junco]

Those are automatically created from existing shape keys/morph targets

[fierce terrace]

I have copied a female ai character and changed their mesh and animation but the character slides. Any ideas about what could be causing this issue?

[karmic bobcat]

Thanks

[karmic bobcat]

Thanks

[mental mountain]

Hi everyone, I have a question about face rigging if anybody can help with some advice, I have created material that contains small pupil and flipbook with two sprites, closed and open eye, the pupil is controlled by U and V offset parameters through material instance, I have managed to retarget mannequin rig to the character and everything is working good, the last thing I want to achieve is the simple face rig, with let's say two bones, two for eye movement "look at" and one for eye blinking, how to connect curves to the bones in control rig so the parameters respond to the bones? If anybody has any clue how to achieve this, also the nodes get and set curve value doesn't recognize the imported curves, can it be done? Thank you 🙂

[neat dock]

Does anyone know the best way for handling FPS animations? For example, I am using a control rig for my arms but I want to add the gun holding part. I was thinking of using another control rig for the gun but idk and was looking for other peoples suggestions. Thanks!

[tiny trout]

Hi there, I've been looking at Lyra's animation system lately and noticed that each weapon has its own locomotion animations - that's a lot of animations. Now I wonder why would they choose to do such a thing, instead going for some sort of upper/lower layering solution (letting weapons override only the upperbody)? I understand that it may be less flexible in terms of visual outcome, but it seems far more scalable than remaking each locomotion animation for each weapon. Is this what the big games actually do? Thanks.

[tranquil lark]

Either or is fine. Resident Evil, as an example, does the layering approach that you are thinking of. You can tell by just how the animations work.

I don't think there is a hard fast rule on which to do.

[tiny trout]

Thank you! Do you think that Fortnite, for example uses layering? The animations are very smooth but they have so many weapons that I will be amazed if they have locomotion animations for each.

[tranquil lark]

I don't really play FN, so couldn't tell you.

[tiny trout]

OK, thanks anyways. I think I'll give a try to the layering solution which will save a lot of time if works.

[young olive]

These are the other type of curves. Not shape keys/morphs also, not material either.

[opal meteor]

Hi,

I've run into a strange problem when exporting and importing a skeletal mesh to 3dsMax.

Last year I worked on this pipeline, everything was working so I documented it and moved on.

Yesterday I wanted to update some skeletal meshes and found out I can no longer export and import without breaking the bone hierarchy.

I figured my character was broken so I exported a standard mannequin from the editor and when I import it back one of two things happens.

Either the bones are there, but an new root bone has been created (from a dummy in 3dsMax) and my skeletal mesh name as been added as an additional bone (?!).

The solution that worked last year was to delete this dummy but when I do that now I end up with a skeletal mesh containing 1 bone.

Any help would be appreciated, I've spent all day looking trough documents and forums but I can't find a solution

[misty dagger]

Any ideas what could be causing these broken weights? The rig works perfect in C4D, but importing the FBX into Unreal gets all janky when I move joints

[urban raft]

This model is made in Blender, rigged to the UE5 mannequin through a plugin. However, when it is imported into UE5, this is the result

It seemingly works fine in the preview, not so much the gameplay

here's the leg area

Might be missing Deform armature now that i think of it

[honest hatch]

Does it have a single bone hierarchy? I don't use C4D but in Maya if you have a bone, then a group, then a bone parented to that group, it will weight that bone to the root. The bone structure needs to be all under the same connected hierarchy. Any bones not connect directly to another bone the weights get thrown off.

had something similar a bit back and noticed the bones that had weird weights were because they were parented to a group instead of directly to the parent bone.

[misty dagger]

This might be the culprit. Will report back

thank you!

[misty dagger]

This is indeed the issue. Thanks for your response, this would have driven me crazy for days

[honest hatch]

Glad I could help.

[stone sundial]

hey is there a way I can make this code only execute when im holding a certain mesh in a socket?

i just want to be able to aim my weapon only when i’m holding it

[vocal owl]

think the standard is to have a variable like "currentWeapon" and/or a boolean like "weaponDrawn" that you set when they pickup / draw the weapon and branch on that

[stone sundial]

thank you!

[lunar warren]

Can you have an if statement on the sequence player? How

I have 2 sequence for idle with weapon and idle without weapon

[stone sundial]

hey so where do I put the branch exactly?

[stone sundial]

@vocal owl I have this weapon drawn thing but it doesnt do anything

[stone sundial]

ohhh i get it i think

nvm i dont

[urban raft]

Any thoughts?

[brazen wharf]

is rotation of the root bone used for root motion? if so, how is it extracted?

will it use frame delta?

[urban raft]

It uses the UE5 rig with the ABP_Manny anim bp

[modest jacinth]

Hey everyone ! Does somebody knows a bit about blender rigify exported to Unreal ?
The bone hierarchy of rigify isn't correct even though I haven't changed anyhting.
The result on unreal is that I can't use root motion and all.
The character after a roll animation snap back to its position at the end of it for instance .
I have been stuck on this for sooo much time

[wintry timber]

Hello guys. What would be best way to achieve something like alembic/geometry cache in unreal? I am reading data from custom file format, which contains bones and positional vector per bone of skeleton, but I am not sure how to plug that into Unreal? Animation sequences doesn't make sense, and creating anim. poses and blending between them seems like too much work it may impact perf. I have the exact positional spatial data of the character, now I just need to set it to those values per bone and move one (data is simple database of positional through time of skeleton of character). Should I just get each character position updated on Tick by using some method from USkeletalMeshComponent or using simple VertexAnimData to store positions into it and apply them to Mannequin skeletons?

tl;dr: I want to pose skeletal mesh in runtime, not sure what would be best way to proceede with it, anyone with recommendation (got all skeletal per bone data loaded into memory (vec3 and boneID)

[ruby swallow]

got character that can jump/climb on top of various ledges, with varying height.

I have a root motion jump (to ledge), and IP jump anim. Rootmotion looks fine, but it's limited by the jump/z-movement, which means that if the ledge is too short the character will land above the ledge (then fall down on it).

Is it possible to parameterize/influence the z-movement of this root anim? or am I better off just using IP and try to solve it using lerps etc. I assume this is a limitation of using RM anims? unless you create several versions that cover most heights
edit: looks pretty good now with IP and scripted movement, but still curious about the RM data

[modest jacinth]

Is it possible to make this bone the first one in the hierarchy ? For a reason I ignore, rigify or Unreal keep messing with bones hierarchy

[barren fiber]

Is someone good with ALS v4 Community im merging als v4 with Survival Game Kit v2, i need help everything works the only thing that doesn't is to equip weapons

Send me a dm if you is!

[ashen junco]

No.

And that's definitely Blender's fault.

[modest jacinth]

Yeah that's not surprising..
This only thing is making me unable to use root motion.
I really don't know what to do or search for anymore

I know other people than me faced that issue.
Why the armature is identified as the root bone ? It should just be .. the armature

[vocal owl]

I am working on a multiplayer 1st person melee game, I have been just using a third person skeleton with a sword attached to a hand socket and the mesh is set to owner no see. So the player currently sees a floating sword. The hit detection is driven by ray tracing from that sword and the sword is moved via animations of the third person skeleton. I want to add first person arms that are visible only to the owning player but have no actual impact on the motion of the sword or the game play. The camera is slightly behind the players chest. What I was going to try was

1. Get a FP arms skeleton and place it on the camera.
2. Retarget all of my 3rd person animations to the FP arms skeleton
3. Make a animation blueprint for the FP arms that is basically a duplicate of the logic for the third person skeleton so that in theory the animations for the fp arms should always match the animations for the third person skeleton
4. Use IK to pull the hands of the FP arms to the hilt of the sword (because the FP Arms aren't located in the same location as the TP skeleton without IK they don't line up)

The main downside I see with this approach is #3, maintaining two animation blueprints that essentially do the same thing but on different skeletons seems clumsy. My other concern is if lag / desync might happen where the FP arms state machine might be a tick behind the TP animations and maybe it would look bad. Is there a better way? I did consider just having the FPArms be solely driven by IK forcing the hands to follow the hilt of the sword but I worry that would look bad. This must be a fairly common problem so I am wondering what the standard thing to do is. This is what it looks like right now with steps 1-3 but without step 4 (I haven't figured out how to get the position of the sword hit into the FP arms animation blueprint yet but I'm sure that's fairly straight forwards).

[cosmic rain]

Anything I can do about this? UE5 crashes when trying to add a keyframe to an animation

[tardy flicker]

Hello 🙂
What would be the best way to use a custom skeletal mesh (downloaded for free, rigged) with the animations from manni in the starter content/ThirdPersonTemplate?
...I suspect that this can't be done in engine because the animations are done with the bones of manni. So maybe I would've to export those bones into for example blender and apply them to the custom skeletal mesh?

[vocal owl]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/ik-rig-animation-retargeting-in-unreal-engine/, you can retarget animations from one skeleton to another depending on how similar they are it can be very easy, right click on animation -> "Retarget Animation Assets"

[tardy flicker]

Alright, thank you very much! 🙂

[tardy flicker]

While looking more into this I found something in ue5 called "compatible skeletons" which lets you basically merge a skeleton to a seperate skeleton asset ->
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/skeletons-in-unreal-engine/

[delicate dragon]

anyone tried accurig?

my zeus came out lookin funny

https://www.reallusion.com/auto-rig/accurig/

anyone managed to export from this?

[modest jacinth]

that's a cute Zeus

[vocal owl]

that part is easily fixed with IK, just hadn't done it yet, am more worried about maintaining 2 different animation blueprints, but image below is same as original but with just an IK node for each hand

[ashen junco]

Keep that, ship it. Meme game of the year

[brazen wharf]

subtitle "feeling cute today, might strike some lightnings"

[vocal owl]

haha i don't know how to do it the easy way so i am stuck lol

you can tell it where to place each hand on the weapon and if your starting pose has roughly the right wrist/finger orientations it does quite a good job

[sacred cloak]

Does anyone know a workaround my animated objects doing a full 360 for just turning 5 degrees?

Is that the only way to fix it? also where do i do that at?

hmm ok thanks

Would that keep the same values tho if i put them intoa blueprint and animate the blueprint?

yeah

hmm ok ill take a shot and see then

ok so I figured out my issue and a solution

it was simply this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcltUgsfXGs&ab_channel=TimAsh

which does work with 5.1

[hidden vector]

Does anyone know if there is a way to play animations at a limited framerate, think spiderverse effect or whatever

I can't find anything online so having something to google would help

[hidden vector]

hmm I guess I can just do this inside blender

[brazen wharf]

you can set the playrate in the viewport

and ingame with the playrate parameter which most animation related nodes have

[clever marsh]

I have a problem with a ui widget. I have set an animation on the opacity of the canvas(starts hidden and slowly fades in), so when the widget is called in the level blueprint, it should first be hidden, but no, it start totally visible instead of being at opacity 0, I don't understand.

how to make sure the widget starts hidden?

[naive dove]

Hello guys, I am new to animation in Unreal, can someone say how to get more complex collision? And is it a problem with a character or should I create a collision primitives manually?

[frigid mesa]

is there way to export the the faceboard curves to FBX? not been able to find anything on that. there's only import option, or bake to FK/Skeletal mesh. exporting "Face" track just gives empty scene with Face_ControlBoard_CtrlRig group and nothing else.

[misty dagger]

On the animation blueprint, there's a box and I cannot click on compile, any idea why?

[delicate dragon]

ahahh

[split crescent]

Hopefully quick question. Is there any way to use a more optimized rig for normal gameplay, then a more complicated rig for cutscenes/dialogue, without completely swapping out the character? Thinking about facial animations and stuff that aren't really needed as you're running around.

[pure spear]

So, we have been playing around with control rig and it's pretty awesome! It seems to be marketed towards runtime use, not just content creation. This leads me with questions regarding performance, it it viable to use control rigs for runtime animation? How dose it compare to anim instances?

[somber light]

hey guys, how can i mirror an animation and then use it in a blendspace? I figured out how to mirror a single animation (no blendspace)

i don't want to mirror the entire blendspace because the other animations in there are good

[rustic swallow]

hi, I am trying to simulate this using RBANS, trying to figure out where to place the bones/capsules, is this correct?

bones dont really look like they are in the centre/pivot of the object. but its the only way I can play them without breaking hierarchy

[median ledge]

I struggle to find any info on limited animation in ue4

you guys got anything?

[timber summit]

Would anyone be able to advise on what the best approach would be to setup an animBP so that I can specify what animations should be playing based on an Enum? I'm pretty new to the animation side of things.

Edit: I think montages are probably what I'm after.

[grave drift]

Hey guys, is there a way to change my attack animation montage's rate scale (how fast it plays) dynamically? Trying to setup so when I hit something it slows down the animation a bit 🤔

[rustic swallow]

hi, I have a skelmesh with a rigidbody chain set up, works fine in physics preview. in ABP with RigidBody node, nothing is happening? tried moving it and adjusting gravity etc (physics asset is set)

[rustic swallow]

ok.. turns out it was a corrupt PhysicsAsset

needed to save skelmesh to desk before the PA

[hidden vector]

oh right yeah playrate, i'm not sure if that'll achieve the intended effect since that'll just make the animation play slower afaik but I appreciate the thought thanks. I'll probably just do this in blender, found out a quick way to do it

[rustic swallow]

using RBAN world space sim, is it possible to scale the skeletal mesh? looks like once I set the RigidBody node to world space, any scale adjsutements get overriden

using WS because I need to collide with some geo. is it possible to add some form of collision in the component sim space RBAN mode? such as planes

[strong flame]

Hi! Does anyone know why we get a more intense roll in the in game imported anims from Blender to UE by chance? Here is a side by side, notice the camera roll in UE that Blender does not have. Any ideas? Thanks!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/597649341997514763/1068346013850550333/vid1.mp4
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/597649341997514763/1068346014257381396/vid2.mp4

[mental zinc]

You can use LODs for that, by culling facial bones on a higher LODs.

[fiery snow]

Is there a way I can animate in ue5 and convert that animation in the level seqeuncer to an animation asset that I can use in another blueprint that uses the same skeletal mesh/control rig?

[tranquil lark]

Yeah. That's literally how you animate with control rig

[fiery snow]

How do you convert the animation in the level sequencer that contains the control rig to an animation asset?

I don't think that is possible

[ashen junco]

It is possible

[fiery snow]

How?🙂

[tranquil lark]

In the roughly one hour you've been waiting for a response, you could've googled "how to animate control rig in unreal" and found out

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/animating-with-control-rig-in-unreal-engine/

[ashen junco]

Only googling Nanite stuff perhaps

[ashen junco]

Right click on the CR track, should be an option to bake it to anim sequence

[fiery snow]

I know how to animate with the control rig 🙂 , but missed where they mentioned how to convert to animation asset.

[fiery snow]

Thank you 🙏

[tranquil lark]

Then change the google search "how to convert to animation asset control rig"

[fiery snow]

Thanks.

[lofty granite]

can Input pose play curve animation{Open mouth} in level sequencer?
the front one is actor with input pose ABP
the back one is skeleton mesh place in level
the skeleton mesh play curve animation properly but front ignore it completely

ah... it work now it just not update...

[heady wolf]

Hey all, i'm having an issue with a blend space where the hands of my character are separating from the arms in the stages between animations. I've tried looking online but cant find any concrete solution. I export the animations as baked and I dont add leaf bones. Any advice?

[ripe yew]

When I retarget in UE5, if the source SK has additional bones hwo do I transfer that?

[uneven axle]

Hello animation people. I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to transition from an animation state back in to itself directly. As opposed to having 2 states with identical data that you can flip flop between. I gave it a shot using an Alias with a condition to enter the state being set by a bool and the allowed State was the Touch state. The idea is that while inside the Touch state, at any point, if the bool becomes true it should exit the Touch state then re-enter again fresh.

Perhaps the Animation StateMachine code isn't structed in a way that a single state can have 2 instances at runtime which would mean this cannot be achieved? Thanks! 🙂

[shrewd heron]

How much of a difference is there in capture for Live Link among iPhone X, 11 and 12? and which of these is a better choice if comparing cost vs effective value for Live Link?

[vocal owl]

having issues trying to retarget animation from UE4 mannequin to UE5 default FPS arms. a lot of the animations are randomly rotated a multiple of 45 degrees (no idea why, some 90 degrees, some 45 degrees, some 135, etc. anyone know what causes that?

[shrewd heron]

UE 5 Mannequin has a lot of bones compared to UE4 so sometimes it retargets extra bones where none should be. You have to manually change those bones to None.

[vocal owl]

I got the retargetting of attacks looking pretty decent, thanks again for the help: https://gyazo.com/b9deb910b388261dbbd89813e6202299

[neat dock]

can someone assist with my control rigs? I have it all set up for my procedural FPS animations I want to make but I am not sure how to go about using it. Like I have a control rig with my hands all set up but how do I go about procedurally attaching the hands to the gun?

[ashen junco]

Not even using premade anims as a base?

[neat dock]

Not necessarily

I don’t know a good route to go

Someone recommended I do procedural animations because I’ll be having a complicated weapon modding system

And I had to agree especially since I’m not good at animation

[ashen junco]

The best route for FP animation is to rely on premade animations, and supplement it with runtime IK to align the hands.
Procedural anims for FP animations should be relegated to idle saccade

[neat dock]

well how do I do that specifically? I’m not the best at animation

Like I have animations I was using off sketch fab

but my only concern is when I need to add attachments to guns such as grips, do I use an entirely new animation or will it be able to change the hand position?

[radiant matrix]

Ok weird question:
I have bones on my skeletal mesh, which are not bound to any vertex data, i clearly recognize them as foreign. I also checked animations and parents.
What will happen when i remove these deadweight bones in unreal?

Is there anything i should be worried about?

i will make a backup of the project ofc as i am scared

[ashen junco]

If there's no other skelmeshes using that skeleton also uses that bone, then it's pretty much safe

[radiant matrix]

yee its only 1 skeletal mesh currently

i want to clean everything up

in blender the skeleton is already completly fixed and fine

my issue was armor

when i make armor in blender and assign the fixed skeletal mesh...

and then import to unreal engine 5

where the broken skeletal mesh is

it wont import.

so i analysed the skeleton and found the greyed out bones and checked if they are even used anywhere...

Tomorrow i will try deleting them with violence.

[full pumice]

Hey in unreal 5.1 "LinkedAnimClassLayers" doesn't work in construction script 5.1.... how do I fix it?

[tranquil lark]

It's borked altogether in 5.1

Wait for the next version or copy a node from a working version

As in - go into the project, go to the node, hit CTRL + C and then go back to your project and CTRL + V. Then ONLY use that node.

[brazen wharf]

you can't delete bones in UE (only virtual bones/sockets)

[radiant matrix]

you can in ue5 now!!!

its a new feature

thats why i asked

[brazen wharf]

huh?! where tho?

[radiant matrix]

i never used that

[brazen wharf]

in the skeletal mesh "editor"?

[radiant matrix]

in the skeleton view

you can click on a bone right

and then you get the delete option

[brazen wharf]

oO

are you lying again?

[radiant matrix]

no D:

i just discovered it yesterday

i send pic

[brazen wharf]

i'm currently trying

you probably mean the "Remove from LOD0 and below" thing?

[radiant matrix]

this?

doesnt that work

[brazen wharf]

yea

not sure

it may

[radiant matrix]

what the fuck do i know XD

i never knew this existed

[brazen wharf]

yea, right

but why would you do it anyways?

well, except that it's more organized to not have dead bones around

[radiant matrix]

its just that

[brazen wharf]

ok

[radiant matrix]

i am cleaning out

[brazen wharf]

damn that feature is a joy to use....

waiting for 3minutes now to delete one bone

[radiant matrix]

does it work?!

[brazen wharf]

what do i know?

it's still processing

[radiant matrix]

FUCK

i need to know

[brazen wharf]

[2023.01.28-10.06.14:631][309]LogSkeletalMeshReduction: Reducing skeletal mesh for LOD 3
[2023.01.28-10.06.14:632][309]LogSkeletalMeshReduction: Reducing skeletal mesh for LOD 1
[2023.01.28-10.06.14:633][309]LogSkeletalMeshReduction: Reducing skeletal mesh for LOD 2

so yea, UE isn't exactly fast at this

[radiant matrix]

i try later

[brazen wharf]

ok it's done

but the bone is still in the list

[radiant matrix]

you sure you did it right?

[brazen wharf]

it was a grayed out one tho, so it didn't had any weights

[radiant matrix]

[brazen wharf]

i guess this only works with non gray ones