animation

[viscid willow]

welcome to animation friend, we hope you enjoy your stay

[wide cedar]

do i animate with a UE mannequin and then retarget it or do i directly animate the metahuman?

well actually looked at the mannequin control rig

it looks the same lmao

[viscid willow]

IIRC the rig is the same, but proportions are different. The metahumans also come with the face board which I suppose you aren't too concerned with.

[wide cedar]

i intend to facially animate the character in just an intro cutscene using an Android alternative to Face Link so yeah not concerned with it

well i guess i would animate it again later on but that's far into development and could change

[molten scroll]

Mixamo haha (I can’t animate)

[wide cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/culture-man-of-culture-cultured-gif-10903367

[limpid folio]

Where can I find the transition animation between two stones by searching under which name?

[rose canyon]

Speaking if rigs. What is the best and affordable ue5->blender->ue5 tool nowadays? I’ve seen Uefy 2, send2ue, game rig tools. Not sure which is more beginner friendly and actually working.

[viscid willow]

UE to Rigify and SendToUnreal seem to be pretty well supported, I've seen the git repo update recently.

[hallow elm]

Hi, I have a question
how to use this variables?
I use animation layer interfaces and I wanna use variables from master animBP, but I don't know how can I set as variables

[vague gate]

when I click the play button how do I make that display camera view?

[thin flicker]

if your camera is a component in your player blueprint, it should set automatically

[small karma]

Hey, could someone help me out why my root motion is not working in engine?
I have been combatting this problem for a while now, I have played about with the settings in engine (i.e. all the settings for root motion), however to no avail my animation always resets to the initial position the character was in.
I am starting to think maybe my animation export in blender is wrong, if someone could help that would be great, and yes I have dug through youtube on root motion in blender to unreal could not find any that actually show the process clearly and mostly beat around the bush

[thin flicker]

Oh I think I can help. I had an issue like this.

At least for me, the armature as a whole, is what Unreal considers to be the root bone.

so I have to move the whole skeleton

it's a weird thing, unsure why it does it, unsure how to properly fix it, but this what I do to work with my problem. If there is a better way to fix it, I'd love to know. But for now, this is all I got, maybe it'll help you too :)

[still pendant]

hi

anyone here familar with mixamo?

[viscid willow]

@thin flicker Is on the right track, Blender has a bit of a hard time with Root Motion because of the Armature node which gets exported in your FBX.

There is a way to solve this in your export by making sure your Armature Node type is Null in which case Unreal will ignore it and use the Root Bone as the first bone in the skeleton hierarchy. I would suggest in @thin flicker's case that you have a root bone in your skeleton which is at world origin, instead of using the hips as your root, this will cause problems with root motion as the engine expects the root to be at the base/root of your character.

To make sure root motion is working your in your animation sequence you should see a red bone from the scene origin to the root of your character.

I made a quick example, in the Blender scene I'm using the Mannequin template with the UE to Rigify plugin and the large control at the base of the mannequin is the root control which I can move independently. As this control moves I'm introducing root motion to the animation.

[small karma]

Hey, if you are available, could you hop into vc or something to problem solve, cause I have by default Node Type set to null this whole time, could be something I am doing wrong.
Thanks.

[coarse osprey]

hey everyone, I am running into an issue that is causing me confusion; in general, what I am experiencing is not breaking anything for my project, but the fact that its happening is confusing me, and concerns me in terms of possible performance issues. I am dissecting the Lyra sample project, specifically its use of animation blueprints, and linked anim class layers. For my project, I have gotten to the point where I am able to link my unarmed class layer, via enhanced input events (just to ensure I know whats happening {I have also tried to link the anim class layer via on possessed event, but with the same results}). The issue is that in the animation blueprint that I am linking, I am seeing 5 different instances to preview of this layer, where it should only be one (at least that is what I see when debugging/previewing their linked layer in editor). Does anyone have any ideas as to why there are so many instances of this linked layer when I am only calling the function, Link Anim Class Layers, once? Is there a possible performance concern here? If more information is required to answer, I will be more than happy to do provide it. Thanks in advance!

[valid gate]

Quick question about Control Rigs.
I basically only use UE5 for rendering still images right now.
So I need a way to pose characters for a scene inside the editor.
I can do that with Control Rig.
BUT: I need to have some basic logic attached to the character, so I have set them up inside a blueprint. But inside a BP I can't use the Controlrig in the editor anymore.
Is there a simple/"intended" way to get the functionality back without having to recreate controlrig controls inside a blueprint? Ideally something that works without BeginPlay/Tick

[granite wagon]

Hi. I just ran into a issue I have never seen before, I exported a door from 3dsmax to unreal. I use points to animate in 3dsmax. But when it is imported into unreal engine 5.1.1, the mesh is part of the bones list. Is this common ?

this is how I have always exported to unreal engine in the past, and I can never remember that the mesh is part of the bones list

this doesnt make any sense to me, if I want another mesh to animate using the same rig this would be invalid

[edgy meteor]

Anyone know if its possible to expose a struct to cinematic? That option disappears on that type of variable

[granite wagon]

wait, you cant use linking to animate with in 3dsmax any more? my problem solved itself when using skinning.

[viscid willow]

Happy to help problem solve, maybe you could post some screenshots of your blender rig and Unreal Skeleton asset.

[tiny mirage]

anyone ever seen this before?

[small karma]

Yeah sure, I'll post tomorrow pretty late right now.

[small karma]

Yeah UE5 has weird thing where the bone joint scale is exaggerated a lot, to change it, do this
Character > Bones > Bone Draw Size = 0.001 or something low enough for you

It resets every time you re-open

[tiny mirage]

thanks. it's weird because it was working in 5.0 and maybe even 5.1.0

[viscid willow]

np np, i'm on the NZ timezone so I'm way out of sync

[molten siren]

Is there anyone available to walk me through 8 directional movement with start and stop animations? I can't seem to get it down 😦

[viscid willow]

What are you unsure of exactly? Like most things there are multiple ways to approach a strafe set and locomotion transitions

[molten siren]

For one, I can't seem to get the "Resident Evil 2/4" camera. Where I can spin the camera around the character freely, but if I hit forward the character will move/turn towards where the camera is pointing.

Secondly the animations just don't seem to flow together well, I have watched a couple tutorials on it and I have it...kinda. But it doesn't look good.

[molten siren]

I see the camera effects I want are in the Advanced Locomotion System pack, but I don't know how to reverse engineer it.

[rose canyon]

Are Manny's ik_hand_gun and ik_hand_l/r suitable for attaching melee weapon meshes to them or the purpose of these bones is different?

[viscid willow]

For the controls you might be looking for these settings on the character movement component.

Orient Rotation to Movement will face the character in the direction they're moving.

Use Controller Desired Rotation will maintain the orientation of the character with the camera angle while allowing you to move in any direction.

One thing to bear in mind is that the Use Controller Desired Rotation will rotate the character even when idle, meaning they will spin on the spot.

[viscid willow]

When it comes to the animations themselves there are a lot of reasons a typical eight directional blend space wont necessarily blend well. The most common is the foot phase of the character, this is usually very evident in sidesteps because the motion of the legs does not interpolate reliably with a standard forward walk/run. And that gets even worse when you're trying to blend a forward animation with a backpedal animation.

If you look at the ALS project you will see that there isnt really a blend space for the core strafe locomotion. Instead it uses a blend multi node to achieve a better blend of the locomotion animation (if I'm remembering correctly).

Another way to approach strafe locomotion is to instead create two blend spaces which cover 180 degrees of movement, one for your forward locomotion cycles, and one for your backward locomotion cycles. The idea here is to create 360 degrees of movement but split your animation assets into blend spaces which will blend reliably, so all the forward cycles blend well, and all the backward cycles blend well, but backward and forward are like oil and water and wont blend well, therefore we keep them separate. So when we want to run backward we flip to the backward blend space using a blend node for example, and when we want to run forward we flip to the forward blend space. You can see this demo'd here: https://youtu.be/4rnsph1eg4s?t=3096

I will say it's not 100% necessary to create an offset blend like the y have here with the 135 degree blend, but it might depend on your assets.

[viscid willow]

You can attach a weapon to the ik_hand_gun bone, if you want some examples of why these bones exist and how they are used I would recommend this video: https://youtu.be/vZW8mxlQJEk?t=1793

Laurent demonstrates how retargeting can alter a pose and how these IK bones can be used to create accurate hand placement for props and interactions.

[rose canyon]

So it seems like it is not for equipment slot really. I'll proceed with adding additional slot bone for that

[supple vigil]

I'm running into a problem where I imported a character, retargeted, fixed the IK_foot_l issue it had, but now when my character jumps and lands, when they land they slide about a meter to the left, then slide back. Any idea what may cause this?

[molten harbor]

hello guys! I have animations for a basic dragon but i want to somehow make a new animation that is throwing a fireball (animating its mouth) while standing idle in flying mode.. what is the best way? can i make it through unreal or should i use another program?

[molten siren]

There are in place animations and root animations. Root animations will move the character with its animation.

[supple vigil]

Hrmmm ok I will have to check - they are just the retargeted animations from manny

so it should all work ok but /shrug what do i know I'm just getting started with the program

[fair wyvern]

Hey, can anyone here help me with an animation issue i'm having in unreal, for some reason all the animations i made in blender has a weird arm glitch when importing into unreal. If someone could point me in the right direction for a fix It would be appreciated 🙂

[molten siren]

Cheers. Me too. Just started this week, been constantly wanting to learn more. Using v5.1 when most tutorials are for v4 has been tricky tho 😅

[languid trail]

If i have a bunch of skeletal meshes with v different armatures but based on various inputs/variables do the same thing, do i need a separate animation blueprint for each?

[vapid quartz]

is there a way to enter a different animation state at the end of an anim montage? right now it seems as though all the current anim montages transition back to idle

[hushed gull]

Hey, id like to add root motion to my attack animation, but my skeleton is weird, i have put an empty as parent to the armature, it isnt animated but it is scaled x -1 because my animation was left handed first
So which bone should i animate for that? i think it should be my rootPos bone that i should animate

https://gyazo.com/7e10af4619609d92aecd474f3b30362f Here i added motion in blender but as you can see the camera isnt following, i enabled root motion

[small karma]

This is it in Blender I have 2 rigs one for IK and one for the game that copies transforms from the IK

[grave ermine]

hello, hope everyone is well. i've been experiencing a problem with an asset as many have too. I am curious if there is a step missing within the animation set up.

UE4 you could pretty much use any character with any set of anims. But UE5 it seems there is a problem with proportional values. so a set of animations made for the manny ue5 skeleton. when used with quinn (or other characters), are really out of place.

My question is, is there some step missing that allows what ever character that is being used to match the animation data correctly?

thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to read and reply to this 🙂

[tropic vapor]

Hello if you need any animation DM me

[nova cedar]

Got a question: Trying to prototype a M&B Bannerlord combat system. Basically you can click and hold and it uses the last mouse move direction to decide which way you are about to swing a sword. On release, it would continue the Attack.

Am I right thinking that I should have 3 animations for a swing? Raise (move from idle to a hand high position ready to swing), Hold ( hold at this position, looping montage?), Release (swing through and return to idle)?

With this what would be best practice to have the Hold animation feel decent while walking? I am having a hard time getting a good "hold" animation as the entire upperbody gets locked. Should I be using a AimOffset instead for the Hold animation?

[viscid willow]

I think you're going to have issues with that Humanoid node, because that is technically your root bone since it's first in the hierarchy. I believe the reason it's appearing is because Unreal needs it to be named Armature in the FBX to know to ignore that node. So I would suggest renaming the humanoid armature object in Blender to Armature and re-exporting.

[viscid willow]

Ideally you would want to animate that RootPos bone in Blender to achieve root motion. If you read my post above, does your in game skeleton have an Armature node above the root in the bone hierarchy?

[hushed gull]

yes there is an armature "bone" + an "empty" bone

i showed in my screen that my armature is named "Armature" already

but i think that the empty is the problem

[viscid willow]

If they're imported into the engine as different skeletons then yes, if they're proportional differences of the same skeleon, then ABP's can be shared, and you could use child ABPs or ABP Layers to achieve the animation goals you have.

[viscid willow]

I agree I think the empty is the problem. You want to ensure your skeleton asset has the root bone as the first node in the bone hierarchy, and every animation export you make should follow that convention.

[hushed gull]

yeah the root pos is the first bone in the hierarchy

but i didnt find a solution without using the empty to invert my anims from left to right

[viscid willow]

so you want to create flipped animations in Blender?

[hushed gull]

yeah

and bake them if possible

[hushed gull]

do u know how to do that??

I tried alot of methods and none are working for now

[viscid willow]

know there's a Paste Flipped for poses, but that seems slow and manual and uncool 😎 There is a mirror node in Unreal if that is more useful.

[hushed gull]

a mirror node? where?

[viscid willow]

In the ABP

[hushed gull]

oh

but how can i do that on all animations?

will it work on everythign?

oh yeah its workiiing wow

but removing the empty will break alot of things in my character system i think

[swift edge]

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[echo glen]

So, I have to do some animations for this character still which includes breathing chest, breathing mouth, finger movement, toe movement and each twitching.

So, the "sitting" is already a 1 frame animation, but the question is if it's easy to just make all these animations as either morph targets or proper animations and then just queue it up in a Blueprint to trigger every x, possibly with a certain chance of playing?

Input greatly appreciated.

[swift edge]

is this an IK bone? I can't find much info on how to add these. but I suspect I would need to use Blender or something like that

[viscid willow]

It will probably mean you have to reexport eveything 😬

[hushed gull]

yeah i guess... meaning the blueprints will be broken? or i would have to import new animations?

and replace the old ones one by one?

[viscid willow]

IMO the clean way to do it is to reexport and import new animations and create new Blueprints, you could try retargeting to the new skeleton but it seems sketchy with the different root hierarchy

[hushed gull]

i think i can just replace every animation used in my blueprints, it will take some time but i dont need to recreate the blueprints lol

[viscid willow]

The thing is you will need to make sure your base skeleton no longer has that empty and armature node, so doing that will mean changing the skeleton, and if the skeleton is different the ABP will become invalid.

[calm hound]

So, um, this might be a dumb question I don't know

I am trying to follow along a YouTube video, and I have a little question

So I am on Unreal Engine 4.25.4

Here is what I have running on Unreal:

And this is what is on the YouTube video:

How do I get my screen to the one potrayed in the second picture?

So basically I want to Montage Notify

[viscid willow]

It's the same Window, the UI is updated in your version of the engine, your notify track is there below the viewport:

[calm hound]

Yeah, but how do I make my screen look like what’s on the YouTube video?

I want to do this

[viscid willow]

Right click here:

[calm hound]

Ok, I think I figured it out, thank you

[small karma]

Renamed now all my anims are jumbled where the animation shrinks the character in Unreal due to some import error "Imported bone transform is different from original". Which is odd cause all I did was rename "humanoid" to "Armature" which did work here:

[viscid willow]

Yes, but the problem is now, you have changed the bone hierarchy, which means your skeleton and anims are no longer compatible. So you'll need to reexport

[next python]

having issues getting pose watches to be visible in 5.0... seems like an animbp node id mismatch?

oh well, I guess I can live without for now

[lyric cairn]

I've created an AnimNotify that has a variable on it that I want to access when it's triggered. How do I get access to it? I've gotten this to trigger but it doesn't give me any objects to work with.

[lyric cairn]

Looks like I'm able to access my character from within my notify blueprint, that will work for now

[runic peak]

Is there an easy way to create the aim offset in engine? I mean the animation adjusted so they're looking up or down?

[stark thunder]

Hi guys I got a problem when retargeting, the animations I am using are made on the IK_Hand_Gun
They are weapon animations
The Author of the animation made them to align with their skeletons hand, so all the animations match up properly when using their skeleton
My issue is I want it to work with the UE5 Skeleton but the hands are not in the same location

And on the new skeleton
The thing is its 'retargeted' correctly in the sense the values are right
But the offset it due to the hands bing in the wrong location, I think because of size issue or something
As a reference I am using the default UE4Manny to UE5Manny retargeter
So it should be setup properly

This is the original position of the IK_Hand_Gun, and the output of the retargeter

[stark thunder]

Yes, right click in the browser, go to animation, then aim offset, or if you want a 1D one, animation, legacy, thenAim offset

[runic peak]

Right. But don't I need an animation sequence where it should be at maximum?

Or minimum values?

[stark thunder]

Yep

You do

[runic peak]

Yeah. I thought so. I was asking a way to do that easy, but there probably isn't. I will just have to do it in Blender, oh well.

[stark thunder]

Another strange thing, from the retargeter, the bones have some sort of constraints

As you can see where the right hand should be to where it is because of these

[swift edge]

this looks like the IK solver on the manny IK rig

[swift edge]

the retargeting workflow doesn't seem to handle ik or virtual bones. not sure if this is by design.

[noble lichen]

hi, i have a timed niagara effect on an animation. is there any way to link the effect to a blueprint to be togglable?

[tawny oxide]

Hello! Does anyone know why exporting an animation from unreal causes some issues? I have this animation (from 4.27.2 on the right) here but as you can see in unreal engine 5.1.1 (on the left) it's bones have gone a bit... funky. As I said earlier, I exported the animation from engine

if anyone knows how to move animations between projects without these issues being caused then please let me know <3

from what I can see it might be caused by moving between engine versions

but still cannot confirm

now it does turn out that the best methodology I have found is migrating assets as opposed to FBX exporting them and then re-importing them

[warm bluff]

Hey guys! I have probelm on the animation. animation downloard on mixamo and retargeting to our mannqiue but there not as i expcted any one can help how can i fixed?

[languid trail]

thanks, i figured it is the case, basically the ABPs are going to always need to be different when you have different skeles

[uneven axle]

Hi all. Kinda newb question maybe. But how do you animate the root bone in Maya (or any other DCC) without negatively affecting the pelvis? I have motion capture files with movement on the pelvis but the root remains at the origin. I want to setup a constraint to have the root bone follow under the pelvis on the ground plane.. but when I do that the pelvis gets double translations. I understand why its happening, I just don't know the best way to fix it

[small karma]

Forgot mention, I did infact change the name to "Armature" in my animations as well, I have separate blend files per animation

[viscid willow]

Usually an animation rig would allow you to animate the root bone independently of the pelvis, so you can create accurate root motion.

A common way to approach this if you don't have a rig is to bake the animation of the pelvis onto a locator or other simple object, and then constrain the pelvis to that object. This way the pelvis animation stays the same, but you can now influence the root without affecting the pelvis because of the constraint. When you're happy with your root motion you can bake both the root and the pelvis and remove the constraints.

[viscid willow]

ah yep, are they coming through with the expected bone hierarchy now?

[small karma]

Lemme check, not on my PC just yet

[small karma]

Yep, the bone hierarchy looks indentical

[small karma]

@viscid willow as you can see the animation on the right shrunk the character down due to some weird bug. I'll probably just redo the animation cycles, and the root motion animation which is an attack move

[tranquil willow]

is there a reason why manually removing frames on an end of an animation within unreal results in the montage on completed function being broken

I can put other animations into the same play montage node and it will return completed when it has well... completed. But my edited animation just doesn't do it

[radiant matrix]

how inside an animation blueprint do i interp a rotation from current to target if i dont have a current?

i only have new targets

it constantly updates

but it glitches atround heavily

with no between steps

i would need to somehow get the bone rotation

but that is wrong too

[astral narwhal]

I'm trying to simulate physics in the tail of a mesh, but the name of the first bone in the tail is "Tail.001". however, the "name" variable doesn't allow periods. how do i pass this into the function?

[tranquil lark]

Control Rig

You could also modify the animations without Control Rig. CR just makes it easier to handle IK/FK when doing so

[tranquil lark]

I don't understand the problem. There should always be a current rotation. Unless you're saying you don't have a current target yet. In which case, you'd just need some default value.

[supple vigil]

Slowly figuringn this out. I added a character from daz to unreal. when somethinng lands it shifts 3 ft left 3 ft right to come back. If i open the animation in the viewport it shows that the figure is performing the land action to the left of the viewport and not in the cneter.

anyone else ever run into this?

vs. in the middle of the viewport for all other animation previews

[runic peak]

Right. I don't have much experience with control rigs though

[supple vigil]

Second question maybe easier - I bought an animation pack annd it comes with a mannequin is the idea that I retarget that mannequin's animations to my own character?

[astral narwhal]

I'm trying to simulate physics in the tail of a mesh, but the name of the first bone in the tail is "Tail.001". however, the "name" variable doesn't allow periods. how do i pass this into the function?

[crystal imp]

Anyone know what's causing this in 5.0.3 when I bake an animation...it suddenly started doing it and it seems to be independant of the animation sequence...I went to another one that had previously baked fine and it's also now doing it.

I know this was fixed in 5.1 but I'm on a project that can't currently be converted

[thin halo]

check out his awesome AI animated video clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMvDjWvC9o&t=206s

[odd jackal]

In blender the pelvis moves and the animations looks right. After the import into unreal, the pelvis stays in the same spot and character is animating with everything but pelvis. Root motion is enabled in that animation. Anyone knows why this would be happening? This is a custom skeleton with a mesh

[spiral carbon]

does ue5 have the old ue4 retarget system or i have to make an ikrig each time i want to retarget something?

[shell sable]

did you ever find a solution to this? i am having the same issue

[viscid willow]

If that problem persists, I would check your blender scene scale settings

[wicked breach]

I did, but I don’t remember which videos I used to solve it… sorry about that. You might want to check that the bones are matched correctly when regathering body animations

[desert nebula]

How can I obtain the position of a bone relative to another bone in an animation

Needed to drive a FABRIK node for keeping the left hand on my gun

[viscid willow]

You could use Virtual Bones if you don't already have IK bones set up: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/virtual-bones-in-unreal-engine/

[polar terrace]

Does anyone know why my animation rises so much when the original animation barely rises? This happens when I retarget the animation to my character

I think the answer is because my character is smaller, right? If so, is there a solution?

[latent condor]

anybody know if there's a way to switch bodies in a physics asset back and forth between kinematic and simulated at runtime?

I've got a ball and chain mesh and I want to run rigid body on the chain, but i'd like to blend it with different alphas at every link in the chain

it's working right now, but I have to use a full copy of the physics asset for every link. seems like a big hack

[desert nebula]

ok i tried it out
it doesnt quite work in this case
My problem is that I have a blend space for the Aim Offset animations, and the left hand doesnt always stay on the gun
There are 3 bones in the arm btw (Bicep, Elbow, Forearm)

[desert nebula]

Ok
in the end I think I am going to use FABRIK to fix the hand position (relative to the right hand I think)
the problem is, how do I get the relative transform of the left hand to the right hand in an animation?

[shell sable]

same here.. anyone else find a solution?

@slender trellis have you figured out how to resolve this issue?

[viscid willow]

if you create a virtual bone which is a child of the right hand and targets the left hand, that will give you a bone which is the relative transform between the left and right hand.

You can see an example of this here using IK bones, virtual bones work the same way, the difference being you can create virtual bones in the engine: https://youtu.be/vZW8mxlQJEk?t=1793

[viscid willow]

you can see this in use here where virtual bones are used to fix contacts and parent bone spaces: https://youtu.be/Zwc9uuOYfFg?t=724

[viscid willow]

I think you might find more reliable results with Two Bone IK, I know you mentioned there are three bones, but the bones you described are exactly the bones you need for Two Bone IK, which is generally more stable.

I'm also of the opinion that these issues might be better solved using Control Rig.

[rugged crescent]

not to sure if this is the right place but can anyone explain why this happens?

^click to zoom loaded weird

[viscid willow]

The images are a bit low res, it's difficult to read what the inputs of your nodes

[rugged crescent]

better?

[desert nebula]

but the elbow bone isnt seperate
they are linked together as a 3 bones in the chain

[slender trellis]

Nope

[desert nebula]

will try thx

[viscid willow]

Yes, and that's perfect for a two bone IK setup, the node takes in three bones the shoulder, elbow and hand, same way it works for the legs, it takes in thigh, knee and foot. In both cases the Hand and Foot are the Effectors of the IK constraint, the bones being manipulated in that case are the two bones above the effector bone.

Shoulder = Bone One > Elbow = Bone Two > Hand = Effector

[desert nebula]

but theres a forearm too

[desert nebula]

or is this setup for moving the shoulder as well

[viscid willow]

How many bones are there in the arm from shoulder to hand? Could you share your skeleton?

[desert nebula]

here you go

(ignore the small bones in the forearm, those are for arm twist, properly parented to forearm and will work)

[viscid willow]

Oh jeez never mind, does FABRIK allow you to set rotation limits for bones? because that arm could end up behaving like a tentacle with that many bones in the chain

[desert nebula]

theres 3 bones. dont look at the 4 small bones in the forearm, those arent part of the bone chain and are directly parented to the forearm

they will rigidly follow the transforms of the forearm bone

[viscid willow]

Oh right yes I see, for some reason I didnt register the yellow forearm, that elbow is likely gonna cause issues though

[desert nebula]

in blender you just set IK chain length to 3 but idk what will do that in unreal
Two bone IK doesnt work with this chain? I don't need to move the shoulder

[viscid willow]

CCDIK might give you a solution.

You could feasibly make a chain from elbow to hand, not sure how that might end up looking on the character

What's the purpose of the extra elbow joint btw?

[desert nebula]

gives better deformation at the elbow (and knees)
without it unless you do some good weight paints or shape keys it kinda collapses like a crushed cylinder

https://youtu.be/JbQX8C3lrHE

badly titled video, but this is just about the extra joint bones

[desert nebula]

how is it different than fabrik?

or rather, is it different

[viscid willow]

0:07 "the basic rig is great for game design" - that's kinda my thinking too, it's also standard for IK setups

[viscid willow]

CCDIK lets you set joint rotation limits, so if you had a bone chain longer than standard you could lock the rotation of some bones for the IK to solve.

In your case you want the elbow to contribute to the rotation so you could perhaps set limits there, or just run with FABRIK.

[desert nebula]

ye thats probably true but as you can see from the overcomplicated wrist and forearm assembly apparently i enjoy rigging more than weight painting

[desert nebula]

ok yeah sounds good
standard is how long
2?

[viscid willow]

then you're a stronger individual than I.

I would make the point that Weight Painting is a skill within the Rigging profession, and it's very much an art

[viscid willow]

standard would be two Shoulder > Elbow > Hand (Hand is the effector)

[desert nebula]

no i kind of just slap stuff together from tutorials quite quickly
though the wrist deformation system is custom made with help from some help from some other blender users (it is my crowning achievement tbh it doesnt break even in weird rotations)

[viscid willow]

nice 😎

[desert nebula]

yeah fair enough
i suppose these are the names of the joints rather than the bones??

i was gonna say the names of the tips of the bones but the forearm bone needs to end at the head of the hand bone

[viscid willow]

Yes, i suppose that's why Blender typically refers to things like Upperarm, lowerarm, thigh, calf

Maya calls them joints and is primarily geared towards pivots so Shoulder, elbow, hip, knee.

Naming is weird, but so long as its consistent that's what matters 👌

I'm an animator so I'm mostly concerned with pivots so I tend to go by the Maya convention.

I gotta dip, but good luck with the IK setup and the Rig

[desert nebula]

ahh i see that makes sense

[desert nebula]

aight thanks for the help

[desert nebula]

hey i done it with FABRIK btw
CCDIK doesnt allow for setting "Effector rotation source" which means you cant control the hand rotation very well

[viscid willow]

Oh nice, so it works as you wanted?

[latent condor]

is there a way to get the anim curve values directly from the output of an anim node, instead of using the GetCurveValue function

[stark thunder]

Do you have an suggestions that I can try?

[desert nebula]

ye pretty much
just set an offset transform from the weaponsocket and the chain start and end, one FABRIK node does it
its just shifting a few cm so i didnt really need to worry about the direction elbow is pointing or wrist deformation and stuff

[viscid willow]

Noice 😎

[desert nebula]

also remember to set "Precision" to a smaller value than 1 unit otherwise it will look jittery

[oblique anvil]

is there some sort of documentation on UE RBF nodes in Maya? They come with Metahumans plugin and are used for driving deformation helpers. I'm interested in using them separately but I need to know exactly how they work (the nodes, not the poseWrangler GUI)

[swift edge]

1. look up tuatec on youtube, he made a tool that can constrain the ik/virt bones. you may need to work out the hierarchy.
2. edit the animations directly. I use control rig, but something like blender should work
   e: depending on how the animations work e.g. if there is an ik bone that has the animation data for where the weapon would be - then the tool I mention would strip that data and you'd need to add it back manually

[small karma]

I found a semi-decent solution, I just enable force root lock on every animation, somehow it fixes itself

[warped mango]

in sequencer, can i key whether or not a track is active or muted?

[warped mango]

nvm i figured my prob out, had to bake my animation to control rig in order to edit with controls

[grizzled aurora]

Let's say that in my character, I have an axe and there is a tree in the blue cube. I want it to hit the red dot wherever I hit the tree, like the arrows in the pictures. My question is, can I use two bone IK for this, and if so, how can I make the tip of the axe hit that red dot?

[deft solstice]

Does anyone have an idea why this happens?

im working in blender btw. sometimes it imports like this.

[hallow elm]

Hi, I have a question
what's difference between local space and mesh space?
which is good for additive animations?

[earnest idol]

hey so am I able to have a mesh inside an animation play a different animation? like say for reloading a gun, I want the gun to be synced up with the arm animation so it looks right.

[dull scroll]

Hi, everybody, I'm using Mr. Mannequins to create animations in blender, but seems it doesn't support new ue5 skeletons, are there any fixes for Mr. Mannequins or maybe alternatives ? Thank you

Got it, you can easily retarget animation from ue4 mannequin to ue5 mannequin, thx

[tender elk]

hello, other than force root lock, what else do i need to set to keep the animation in place?

[split crescent]

I'm wanting to have a bone at the base of the tail control the whole tail (all the tail bones would rotate locally the same way the control bone would, making it swing), but I can't figure out how to do that with Control Rig. Any thoughts on what nodes I should use?

[gleaming remnant]

Hey all!

I've been working on a realistic weapon-handling system in UE5, inspired by games like Escape from Tarkov and Ready or Not.

Let me know what you think!

https://youtu.be/_BpteUXhGXA

[viscid willow]

Force root lock will keep the animation in place without applying root motion.

Enable root motion will mean the character will move using the animated root.

So it might be that you want to only check force root lock if you want an in place animation.

[viscid willow]

You could use animation notifies to trigger animation on the gun, based on your character animation. Might not be the best solution 😅

[viscid willow]

Both are good for additive animation, but create different results.

Local space additive solves the additive pose using the local bone rotation of each none of the skeleton.

Mesh space additive solves the rotation in the space or orientation of the skeletal mesh component, meaning if something rotates directly left, the resulting pose will always rotate left no matter the local bone rotation of the skeleton.

Mesh space additive is used a lot for additive animation used for aiming, and Aim Offsets are a perfect example.

One caveat is you cannot mix and match local and mesh space in a single blend space, the settings must be consistent per blend space asset.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/aim-offset-in-unreal-engine/

[viscid willow]

Do you perhaps have export all NLA Tracks or one of those checkboxes enabled in the export settings?

[lapis sorrel]

when using Play Anim Montage, is there a way to get the rate scale from the animation and use that? for when slowing down / speeding up the base animation (not the montage) so play it at the correct rate? changing play rate in the animation isn't respected when using Play Anim Montage

sequence length on the anim montage doesn't seem to change either when changing rate scale in either the anim or the montage

it does speed up the animation correctly, but the return value on the play anim montage is the full length without respect to the play rate in the base animation

[winged portal]

Hi! I just realized that some games may have really smooth animations because they start and end into the idle pose. Is this a normal practice?

[unreal trench]

Sequence Length on Montage should change when you change the play rate in the animation itself, restart the editor? Might be a bug.

[unreal trench]

Yes, it's usually done with blending back to the idle pose at start and finish of the animation.

[winged portal]

You mean by using the blend-in blend-out values on the montage or by baking it into the animation frames themself?

[unreal trench]

You can try with the blend in blend out, most higher end stuff uses curves though like ALS or similar systems

[winged portal]

I i didn't tough about curves, i'm gonna check them out and see if i can get a smoother animation with that without baking it. thanks!

[wind goblet]

guys i have made a blendspace with idle walk and run animation, i set idle animation to 0 speed walk to 300 speed and run to 600 speed, but when i change the characther speed to 300 instead of using the walking animation it uses the run animation, pls help me

[nova cedar]

Going little crazy on this one. I'm trying to blend sword swings and block animations to the UpperBody of my locomotion. The result is the upperbody sort of does it, but the head sometimes turns in odd directions and sword swings are shorter than the source animation. I have blend strength at 1 for now and going from spine_01. Ive tried other spine settings with no improvement. Also tests around with the Mesh Space Rotation Blend to no avail. Any ideas?

[carmine trench]

why are only half of my textures importing into mixamo

what he should look like /

[cinder ledge]

is there a way to check collision of a skeletal mesh with other mesh and correct positions to not clip through other meshes

?

[shell sable]

awesome work!!!

[gleaming remnant]

Thanks! It means a lot 🙂

[cobalt mortar]

IM running into a randomly recurring issue. I have a mesh I am animating in sequencer. I am keyframing animation and everything is normal but once in a while I will move the object and rotate it and it will change the number.

Number I want it to be

Number it changes to when I key frame

This causes the object to spin around and then settle on the final rotation which is obviously not what I want. Happens in local and global and not all the time.

[cobalt mortar]

I dont know if you figured it out but Mixamo almost always doesnt show all the textures for me. Once I export the animations or skeleton however they can be reimported and look the same

[rose canyon]

I'm thinking to which skeleton to stick in UE5.
For my prototype (and mb even future) UE4 skeleton would fit well. I'm concerned if itwould be a mistake to invest into the old version of skeleton in UE5.
What is the killer feature of UE5 skeleton except bigger amount of bones?
Am I losing something by choosing the old skeleton?

[nova cedar]

I would think youre mainly losing forward compatability. If New assets come out they will be on the UE5 skeleton and you will need to retarget them. Is there a reason why you are thinking of sticking with the old one?

[rose canyon]

1. For me it should be simpler to animate it just because there is lesser amount of bones to manipulate
2. I'm planning to have big amount of actors in a scene and suppose that simpler skeletal meshes will be more performant

[nova cedar]

I'm relatively new to animating but for #1, check out software like https://cascadeur.com/ which helps a ton with posing and makes having more bones a bonus rather than a negative. For #2, unless this is a mobile game or a game with thousands of characters at once I wouldn't worry too much about having too many bones.

[rose canyon]

Thanks, I'm already using Cascadeur 🙂 The number of bones is not an issue in this app but I still feel like UE5 is overcomplicated for my character. Maybe for big titles with main character story it is good not for one-man project.
I'd say having a thousand of characters is desired number for simulating a medieval battlefield in my demo

[nova cedar]

That sounds awesome! Another option is to animate using UE5 SK and retarget to a simpler skeleton later if you do need less bones.

[rose canyon]

Yeah, with using UE4 SK there is no simple way back to the new skeleton as I understand.

[nova cedar]

You can setup a retarget from UE4 to UE5 SK but youll have to process every anim with it.

[nova cedar]

Side note, have you got into animating the Melee Attacks yet? I've been having an issue (doing melee as well) where I am using a UpperBody layered blend by bone for the melee swing and it doesn't fully swing. I tried turning on the mesh rotation tick box but that didnt fix it

[rose canyon]

I haven't got to blending animations yet unfortunately, just preparing animation sequences for swings.

[exotic current]

Is there a way to swap meshes quickly for animating in sequencer? I was planning on using sockets, and having a similar thing to swapping weapons for example, but I don't know if that can work the same for sequencer.

[slender stirrup]

For some reason my shape key animation isn't being imported with my simple blender fbx model. I dont have any modifiers, i applied transforms, & checked import morph targets in ue5. The morph targets (keys) show up in the skeletal mesh, and i can change them manually, but the animation has no duration. Are there other settings you need to have to export/import shape key animations?

[fringe trellis]

There should be an import morph targets check box on the mesh import pop up.

hi, I am having issues with warp motion. I want my character to walk backwards and have the characters location follow it as it moves back. For some reason my character teleports backwards immediately to where it should end, then it moves forward back to it original location slowly playing the backwards anim. Any ideas what i am doing wrong? I am using enable root motion.

[sudden sedge]

That's pretty cool. Weapon handling looks a bit much for me though lol. How does it handle cases like revolvers and clip based weapons?

[livid canyon]

Does anyone know where i can find any wood cutting or mining animations for manny?

[timber sparrow]

Morning! How would I go about getting this animation (done with a modifier) into UE 🤔 Any suggestions or pointers would be appreciated 🙂
https://i.gyazo.com/27b80621b79de36bcea238868f75e900.mp4

[inner skiff]

Hello i have a First person animation related question. When it comes to weapons, each weapon has their own set of specific arm animations for how they hold an shoot the weapon. I was thinking a single anim BP for the first person arm skeletal mesh would balloon and be too big an convoluted maintaining states, so instead I had the idea of creating an anim BP asset for each weapons anim set an when the player swaps weapons, it switches anim BP instances? Is that a normal approach for something like this?

[livid canyon]

the way i have my spells, they are actor, i store the spell animation on them. then when i use my casting spell state in my anim bp, it grabs the equipped spell, checks its animation, and uses that. im very new to unreal so not sure if its good / bad but it works

[viscid willow]

I would say the former is a more common approach, and a lot of the complexity could be mitigated by containing those weapons you have in layers or linked ABPs. This way you can encapsulate all your weapon information into different locations without the need for fully switching ABPs.

I would also suggest looking at reducing complexity by doing things like defining a weapon pose, as a static animation, and use shared additives for idle and locomotion animation.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-US/using-animation-blueprint-linking-in-unreal-engine/

The Lyra project is a great example if this in practice.

(Unless by instances this is already what you meant, in which case 👍)

[tawny steppe]

Anyone familiar with Mixamo know if there is a neutral idle crouch animation? There's a neutral "Crouched Walking", but I can't seem to find a matching idle crouch that isn't holding something or leaning against an object.

[red pike]

Hey guys. I'm not sure if this is the right channel for this question sice it might be AI-Navmesh related, but my little units are doing some crazy twitchy movement and i wonder if there's a way for em to stop doing it 😄

[astral narwhal]

if you have a character with lots of meshes, and especially bones, attached, i.e for customization, when you import it into unreal from blender, is there a way to disable bones for specific parts of the skeleton, and then re-enable them?

in the picture, imagine that the skirt/hair/cape are customization options that aren't visible at first, but the bones exist on the model

[loud path]

Good morning! I'm having some real headaches getting a root motion animation working from blender to unreal. I set up a simple animation to reproduce the problem. The root of the character just moves around on different axis .

Note in the first animation he moves forward immediately, but when I enable root motion and use it in game, his first motion is upward (rather than forward). I believe this is an import/export issue between blender and UE. I've tried quite a few different configurations and made sure that the orientation for the skeleton and the animation are the same. I've attached my export settings too.

[scenic scaffold]

IKtwobone function is messing up the deformation of my skeleton mesh

on the first image, when I execute the fk mode, everything looks fine. But on the second image, if you look carefully, the mesh is deformed, even though, the controls are in place. And also, it makes some strange, broken deformations on the mesh. I find this very confusing. Because if you look at the bones, they are in the right position. But for some reason, the mesh gets deformed in this weird way.

how is that even possible? I should not be deforming the mesh other than what comes from the bones, but the bones are in the place, the mesh should be looking exactly like in the t-pose, or as in FK configuration

ok, it is working. I had to setup the axes differently

so weird, still.

[lunar storm]

Hello, does anybody knows where i can learn these type of animations?

I got the basic of animations but like... i would at least like to know what are the name of the techniques that are being used so i can search about them, ty all for your time

https://youtu.be/k3VH0iyeTP8

[split parcel]

hello my animation montage will not play for some reason

i dont get why since I am using play montage it should work right?

[violet steeple]

Dear Community,
I have published an easy tutorial to Retarget Body+Face to a MetaHuman in #unreal #retargeting #animation https://youtu.be/8yhPieOQqQ8

[viscid willow]

Do you have a Montage Slot in your ABP?

[split parcel]

I’m not sure about what that is

[viscid willow]

Okay. If you want to play a montage, you will need a Montage slot in the animation graph of your animation blueprint.

[fiery snow]

I am having an issue where my mesh disappears and some the skeleton does too when I set the control rig like this:

Is there something I am doing wrong? If I tick the initial box for the set transform bone nodes, they appear correctly but the control rig no longer moves the bones.

[echo ibex]

What kind of techniques are there to handle the TPS animations of the character in an FPS game. The first thing that comes to my mind is to use two different animbp but I was wondering if there are better techniques?

[fiery snow]

Yep, always use the Send2UE addon for skeletal meshes. Everything works fine with the control rig now when I exported the mesh and skeleton using the addon.

[winter hornet]

Hello guys, I want to make a playing guitar animation in UE5 but I can't find a tutorial, the main point is how to make a string shaking, how should I make it?

[split parcel]

manged to get it working

[viscid willow]

https://tenor.com/view/tomorrow-x-together-txt-txt-funny-yeonjun-choi-yeonjun-gif-24124071

[split parcel]

look at them kicking and punching like a pro

(:

[rose hull]

Hi everybody, got an Unreal animation related question, not sure where to ask so I'll ask here, if there is a more appropriate channel feel free to remove the message.
I'm trying to plug in a custom control rig animation into the default UE5 mannequin animation blueprint and the animation plays back a bit broken in game, namely the legs seem to snap to a weird neutral position. I assume there is some logic somewhere in the anim blueprint that's messing with this but I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough to figure out what it is and I'm having no luck googling for an answer. If anyone has played around with the built in character controller and has encountered the same issue I'm all ears if you have a solution

[little pasture]

It's not possible to animate visibility the same way as in Blender. But there's two ways you could go:

1. make a modular character, and then you can switch on/off visibility of individual skeletal meshes
   https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-US/modular-characters-in-unreal-engine/
2. control the visibility of parts of your skeletal mesh by adding an opacity parameter to their materials
   I imagine 1) is more performant, if you have a lot of bones and meshes. In 2) they would still be loaded but serve no purpose most of the time.

[astral narwhal]

is it easy to attach a separate model to a character in unreal? i.e in scenario 1? thanks for responding

[little pasture]

Yeah, it's pretty straight forward I'd say. It is something that will take time though. Depending on what you have. You need to have all skeletal meshes separated, retaining their weight painting and their bind to the skeleton. There's a recent video from Epic Games you could follow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IUpa3Pxqug

[astral narwhal]

thank you! I'll give this a look when i can :)

[misty dagger]

Is there a UE5 game or prototype/Demo with Euphoria like character behavior? (I saw the Project Hexane which has that kinda vibe but still very far even in comparison with gta 5) rly curious, cause that's my goal.

[dusky void]

Has anyone else gotten an issue where set focus on an ai does not work properly with rotate root bone? When I have them both running the character does not rotate properly. This is for a turn in place on my AI enemy. My set yaw math is correct, so i dont know how to go about fixing this. Any Ideas?

This is the closet thing I found to a fix, but the fix they mention doesn't seem that efficient It mentions root motion and not the animation blueprint rotate root bone node https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/set-focus-dosent-seem-to-work-with-root-motion/368917

[undone turtle]

How are we supposed to refresh a FBX with SK mesh & animations where there is a new ones ?
When i reimport it, it ignores any new animations.

[empty hull]

Anyone know a good tutorial/way to replace the first person mannequin arms mesh while keeping the animations?

[mellow ferry]

Hey everyone! Sorry to bother, but can someone help me with using scrollboxes + animation curves?
Basically when a scrollbox's offset > 500, I want to trigger an animation where the scrollbox automatically scrolls from 500 to 1920 in 2 seconds.

Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to create that animation (and then how to hook it up to my on scroll event? I tried using the animation panel on the bottom, but I couldn't find the "offset" property of the scrollbox there...

[harsh bluff]

Hello! Can you advise how to use pose asset in Realtime likewise morph target??

[limpid sapphire]

Can someone help me with this, im trying to retarget animations from default ue4 skeleton to an other and if i turn on IK it looks like this,
with ik disabled it looks normal but than i wont have any root motion for the retargetted animations

[queen matrix]

Hi, anyone experienced with the UE5 retargeting system?

On on the original rig I have a weapon bone that animates weapon position, on the new rig this bone is no longer a thing and was curious if via the IK part of the tool I could copy transform of the bone from old rig to new

[stray quiver]

My fps character has a camera attached to a head bone.
I use "use pawn control rotation" to move this camera.
I have some animations where my head bone is moving.

For example, the slight shaking of my head while walking.

But I can't seem to use them with "use pawn control rotation" selected.
Is there any way I can do this?

[real orchid]

Hey folks, is there a good best practices article/tutorial for how to get assets moving from unreal<->blender reasonably easily?

I've setup the blender tools unreal provides

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/download-our-new-blender-addons

And they seem to help fix a lot of the scaling issues I've run into on import/export. However I am still running into issues (for example when importing an anim exported from unreal the root motion appears to be scaled very small). Pretty much every issue I'm running into seems to be scale related in some way.

The importer that Epic provides there appears to do some stuff to apply scale correctly to the 1transforms during import (FBXs imported raw appear to have an unapplied scale transform of .01 to their root object). I've been struggling with getting this pipeline going for a few days now and figured I'd come over here and ask before I just continue banging my head into a wall.

[native umbra]

I'm trying to set up a control rig for manny that controls the location of the hand for some procedural recoil stuff.

I have all the procedural stuff working, i just can't get the Primary/Secondary Axis correct for the Basic IK node.

The closest I've got just by randomly choosing numbers is everything correct, except my gun is facing the opposite direction it should be (only when control rig is enabled)

Here is a screenshot of my node

any value other than this makes the arms look like spaghetti in the preview, only this one makes it appear normal

but the -1 is why the gun is inverted i think. Changing it to anything else makes the preview strange

How can I go about finding these axes values without guessing?

are you available to talk about this solution more?

did you solve this?

[small portal]

it didn't really turn out as a solution after all, the only way to solve it was to have the armature bones connected so they have the precise length and orientation in the skeleton

i still don't really know or understand why it doesn't work otherwise

[native umbra]

it seems like its a common issue that many people have

i feel like there has to be a solution somewhere lol

[bold carbon]

guys, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm having trouble doing a nice locomotion system for my characters. The rotation seems off and I'm not sure what I should change to make it seem more natural :/

[native umbra]

I found the solution -

Go to your skeleton that the control rig is based off of. Select the bones you're using in the chain, and go to the 'transform' view (where you see the red, green, and blue arrows).

Look at the arrows; whatever one points along the bone, that is the value that should be "1.00" in the primary axis. In my case, the red arrow was pointing backwards, so it had to be "-1.00".

The secondary axis is set by looking at whatever value points to the Pole vector. In my case, that was the green arrow, and so my Y value was 1.00 and the others were zero.

Everything worked great after!

[native umbra]

turn in place animations would be helpful here I think

or maybe even tilting your animal depending on the angle of the turn, as a lazy way of doing it

hmm

[odd crest]

Please vote for a new #control-rig channel!
#1098080043923681310 message

[molten siren]

I am having an issue recently where my ADS in my AimOffSet strangely looks to the left while aiming. It was working previously and I am unsure what I touched to make this happen. Any ideas?

[lunar storm]

Hello, does anybody knows where i can learn this type of animation? It can be a paid course or whatever thing, i just wanna learn how to do this specifically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXljmxi216E

[night crow]

does anyone have any experience of posing the metahuman neck?
i feel like whatever i do with the head ik it just looks anatomically wrong

[bold carbon]

absolutely true! I didn't think of using them at all, thank you very much!

[subtle lava]

Has anyone here gotten close with runtime control rig setup with out pre-defining the bone hierarchy? I am pretty close with it

[storm veldt]

anyone got any experience with importing an FBX animation to a metahuman in maya with advanced skeleton?

[split crescent]

I have a basic question about the general use of IKs for animation. For a running animation, for example, how does the rig know when to snap the feet to the floor, since they obviously also need to travel through the air? For some reason I haven't been able to wrap my head around it yet.

[split crescent]

raycast, duh... It finally clicked

[native umbra]

im interested in this, can you explain more? how would this work?

[subtle lava]

You just access the hierarchy & controller and give it information at runtime for the live CR asset

[astral narwhal]

I'm trying to simulate physics in the tail of a mesh, but the name of the first bone in the tail is "Tail.001". however, the "name" variable doesn't allow periods. how do i pass this into the function?

[polar terrace]

I just modified an animation using the Keys in unreal engine, but the montage runs without the Layer tracks, does anyone know how to fix it?

[misty dagger]

What can I do with these animation curves and layering?

[viscid willow]

Lots ...

but really, is this ALS? Coz if so, the curves are used as weights for layered blends and things like that

[misty dagger]

Yes it's from ALS, I'm trying to make an effective pistol aiming system, so maybe I can reach out studying these

[floral sky]

Does control rig have bone constraints?

[severe pelican]

Hey guys, I'm trying to understand how to replicate a control rig.
I've replicated the variables successfully (from each animbp i can print a rotator and both client & server recognizes)
and yet control rig is simply not replicating, even though the footik control rig after it works fine.
The variable is replicated inside control rig and the animbp

currently the playerbp sets a replicated rotator on tick, the animbp gets it and sets its own replicated variable, then feeds that to the control rig which sets it as its own replicated variable and uses it to position bones

I'm aware this is a very roundabout way of doing things but I am trying to make it work before making it more efficient

[scarlet moth]

I am trying to animate a simple cabinet with an animation sequence from Blender.
When interacting with it the first time it should play it, when interacting again it should play it backwards (with Flip Flop node).
Now I don't understand how to play it backwards. Do I need to duplicate the animation sequence? If yes, how do I set this up in the ABP?

[wicked forge]

Is there a way to run a cloth animation in editor? so not during runtime?

[limpid sapphire]

is there a way to enable root motion on multiple animations at once ? I really dont want to go through hundreds of animations one by one 😅

[willow fern]

does any one know how to fix this i even tried to re export it and i still get this any way to fix

[silent bay]

I know this is probably trivial but I have an animation notify that I want to fire here so that I spawn the system once it happens then plays the rest of the animation to play before anything else. How can I get that to happen?

[native umbra]

hmm, I have a replicated control rig and I didn't do anything special.

I have the control rig, and I have a variable in it. I didn't mess with replication at all here. I'm pretty sure this is replicated always? But I am using Lyra, so there are a ton of defaults in the project that are made for replication and I'm just extending it.

In my gameplay ability, i call a function that changes some of the variables. This is also replicated using some defaults from Lyra.

Hmm

[warped mango]

im out of my depth when it comes to replication, but shouldn't the resultant movement from the control rig be whats replicated, not the control rig itself? haha idk

[primal imp]

Hello im trying to retarget a ue4 character to a ue5 assets animation pack but stuff isn't syncing correctly because the iks aren't setup right and bones are different. Can someone do this? I'm willing to compensate

[tawdry cloak]

Hello, my AI character is using root motion for walking but doesn't stop when I call StopMovement() from the AI controller. Any idea how to how to stop the AI from walking?

[small karma]

Hey am having an odd issue where my root motion animation almost works in UE5, however there is no vertical offset, basically my character should jump a little and move back however it just moves back

Here is a clip that clarifies it a bit better

[native umbra]

does anybody know how expensive control rigs are?
like, im wondering if i should have one monolothic one, or one per type of behavior
like one for recoil, one for turning my head in free look, etc.
the latter seems more correct from a design standpoint but im not sure about compute
this is for runtime animation modifications and such

[violet venture]

@native umbra never heard of anyone going to such extends...

[native umbra]

right on

[violet venture]

on the contrary, the common practice is to try to re-use one control rig across characters

not even talking about using multiple rigs for one char...

[native umbra]

i'm not talking about doing animation in sequencer though, i'm talking about using procedural animations mid game

so i could have one monolothic rig and node point that has every possible thing in there, or i could split up the nodes and functions so they're nice and modular

it would be very surprising to me if nobody has ever thought to organize their work in such a simple way.

[violet venture]

why would you even want to do so? What can be simplier than use one rig and one node in Anim Blueprints for it?

[native umbra]

I'm using the lyra animation system, which comes with a lot of complexity. Dragging in a single Control Rig node in the anim blueprint is super easy.

But I need to do: procedural recoil, lean, head turning - on top of their built in foot IK touch ups and such.

So it was already simpler to go "hmm, that's the foot control rig. Let's just add ours after it". It works great. You can open it up, it's easy to understand and fix, no problems.

So why wouldn't I want to add another node, and within that node handle all the lean stuff? That way if we want to make the recoil better, all the logic is stored in one simple place. If we want to adjust the lean stuff, that's also stored in one simple place.

Makes a lot of sense to me!

But in any case, I'm more looking for an answer to my initial question: how different is the compute to have 2 control rigs with half the responsibilities vs 1 control rig with all the responsibility?

I'm not really looking to argue the other stuff

[violet venture]

Suppose you have 20 bones in your character's skeleton. Well, sure, you can create 20 control rigs for each of the corresponding bone, no problem. You can also control any of the bones through one control rig if it's set up for the whole skeleton. I don't really think both approaches would be different in terms of computing - just ease of use.

[native umbra]

Great, in that case my way is definitely much easier to use

[violet venture]

A control rig adds up to computing only when it moves a bone

[native umbra]

So I'll go with the modularity over the monolithic spaghetti mess

Thanks

[violet venture]

sure thing! good luck

[native umbra]

thanks, you too 🙂

[hexed sparrow]

Hi all, so I’m VERY new to ue5, and I’m making an real time animation of a historical disaster, so my question is how would I make my model destroy its self in a certain area with an explosion, and how would I make the explosion look more like steam?

Any help is appreciated. I have made my models in blender and would like to transfer them to the engine for the animation

Please @ me if you answer

[noble crater]

So I've just replaced the standard 3rd person BP model with my own, and I have a mixamo aanimation for my character imported, but I can't find where the original running animaation is actually referenced to replace it. Where do I do thiis?

[rare viper]

My animations have root motion enabled but still snap back when the animation is done. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[small karma]

Did you export from Blender? If so make sure to name the armature "Armature" and some bone setting to NULL

Afterwards it should work

[rare viper]

i got it from the market place. i have to put it into blender?

[atomic lodge]

Why is it that the only tutorial I can remotely find on the unreal manniquin's ik bones is this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d48mlHtZCm0

there are little to zero tools I have found for actually animating those bones, which would be a godsend considering that you have your ik hands children of ik_weapon, so If you ever did manage to make your animations using those bones animation retargeting for more character meshes becomes a breeze,

I know that ARP for blender has an option in it's exporter to bake your animation to the ik bones, but no tools for the weapon bone, which is the parent of them. It would be incredibly convenient to have a tool where you are able to build your animations around the already existing ik system and where you don't have to be making your own weapon bones. I'm not sure if Mr Mannequin has an option for the ik bones as all the tutorials/documentation I have found all have you making your own weapon bones, and the tool seems like it was built around support for custom weapon bones.

[small karma]

Did you play about with the root motion settings?

I mean if you put it into blender or some other app you may fix it I personally know blender.

[atomic lodge]

if you got your animations off the market place they are already made for the unreal mannequin

you don't need to do any external editing

either force root lock so it doesn't move or enable root motion if you are using a root motion system

[brave token]

newbie question: do I need to rig my character model if I'll use mixamo animations?

[tidal vessel]

Yes. Animations run on the rig

Mixamo just also has a tool that rigs your character for you (usually pretty decently, but rarely perfect).

[brave token]

Even if I’ll do retargeting

[tidal vessel]

Animations run on a rig.

Retargeting requires a rig.

Retargeting is basically taking bones from a rig, and mapping them to bones from another rig

[brave token]

Can I run mixamo animation on non mixamo rig after retargeting?

[tidal vessel]

Depending on the type of rigs, yeah.

You can't run a mixamo animation on a dog rig for example. I mean.. I guess you could. But it'd look pretty goofy.

[brave token]

Ok, thank you

[tidal vessel]

It's good to realize that an animation is (basically) a recording of instructions (rotation, location and scale) to play on bones. Move foot to [position], rotate by [rotation]. Once you realize that it makes a lot more sense why you need a rig. Without bones, there's nothing to instruct.

Or, I guess the skeleton, but the idea is the same. It helps in understanding why you need a rig.

[noble crater]

Why does this not play the second aanimation in the blendspace when shootprojectile is activated?

[craggy knoll]

I believe the Animation Blueprint can't react to Input. You could check that with debugging and trying to hit a breakpoint on the InputAction ShootProjectile Event node.

[rare viper]

I did not mess with the root motion settings. I thought it'd already been set up.

[rare viper]

yea thats what i thought but its still not working

[rare viper]

i figured it out it. apparently retargeting messes up root motion sometimes

[brave token]

I want to summarise what options do I have to use character animation:

Option 1
Create model, rig, animations in Blender and import them in Unreal. No questions here.

Option2
Create model, upload it to mixamo, download mixamo rigged model, download mixamo animations. Import mixamo model and animations in Unreal. Problem here could be with bad rig from mixamo.

Option 3
Create model and rig in Blender. Upload model to mixamo, download needed animation from mixamo. Retarget mixamo animations to use my rig instead of using mixamo rig. Better option if I have complicated character (with coat or backpack) and I don’t want to use mixamo rig.

Is everything correct?

[tidal vessel]

I guess so, it depends on the use case.

If you don't want to use the mixamo rig but you want to use mixamo animations you're probably better off just retargeting

Take one of the presets from mixamo, since they work, and use those to retarget to whatver rig you're using.

[brave token]

you mean there is no need to upload model to mixamo in this case?

[tidal vessel]

Yes

You might need to tweak some stuff, but I think that would be easier.

Or.. Just make your own animations/retarget animations in blender

[brave token]

it's to hard to do nice looking animations (

[tidal vessel]

That's why it's a profession I guess :p

I'm shit at animating. Just getting started myself. But it's fun so.. 🤷‍♂️

[brave token]

agree ) but i think it's better to spend time on creating game instead of creating animations for weeks

[tidal vessel]

In that case you're probably better off going with something like mixamo or finding some team members 😄

[brave token]

Yep, team member is good but it's hard to find good one ( so I'll try by myself

[weak trench]

Hi rigging masters! Any tips on how to rig a hydraulic hexapod/motion controller so it respects the physical limits of the hydraulics?
I have a basic rig that just aims the arms towards the top platform, but it does not limit the range of motion, so it is up to the animator to observe when the hydraulics get stretched too far and start coming apart.
What I imagine is the top controller would work more like IK goal - platform would try to follow it as close as possible, but never go further than possible.
My first approach was doing it iteratively - starting from base position and using small steps move toward the goal until any one of the hydraulics reach it's length limit, then stop. It is quite slow as there are a lot of iterations. So I though maybe there is another method for these kind of rigs?

[violet venture]

@hexed sparrow Hi! Such sorts of effects are done with VFX. UE has the Niagara system for this. Check out some tutorials on it.

[misty dagger]

I have the location of the target where the projectile needs to reach. How can I ensure that my projectile hits the specified target location?

[remote needle]

Hi guys,

I am trying to learn how to animate directly in unreal with the mannequin, but it looks like IK is off so when I move the hand it just stretches the forearm instead of moving the arm.

Is there a way to turn it on or does it have to be built ?

[warm creek]

Hi peeps,
In blender when working on a mesh where is the blender setting to set the world scale to .01?
I don't remember the exact steps I was trying to find them.
But I remember you HAVE to set blender scene to a smaller sizing so when you export to fbx for unreal everything is in its correct size referencing.

[vestal aspen]

Is there a way to use Control Rig to control the visibility of an mesh? Using Control Rig, how do you hook up an meshes visibility to a slider?

[violet venture]

what exactly are you trying to achieve?

[vestal aspen]

Hello, when I move the Control Rig Control from an int of 0 to 1, I would like Mesh A to appear. When I move the controller to int 2, I would like Mesh B to appear and when I move the controller to int 3, I would like Mesh C to appear.

[violet venture]

you need to transfer information from the Control Rig to Animation Blueprint, from where you can control the visibility of your mesh

[vestal aspen]

Animation blueprint can control visibility?

[violet venture]

if you get a reference to your character, you can get the visibility parameter

https://youtu.be/XLxIh3jfi4o?t=768

check out this tutorial when the author does something similar

[vestal aspen]

May I ask how may I transfer info from Control Rig to an animation Blueprint

get a reference, intersting

[vestal aspen]

Does it have to be a trigger event? What if the control rig was animated in Sequencer?

[violet venture]

this is the typical process of getting the reference to the character from the Event Graph of the Animation Blueprint

[violet venture]

for Sequencer, it's even simplier, you can add a track "actor hidden in game" directly to the skeletal mesh you want to alter

[vestal aspen]

O yes, actor hidden in game. But I have a request to hook this all up with Control Rig and attach it to a control. So the animator only needs to worry about the one controller, not many objects

[violet venture]

I see, then check out the video above

[vestal aspen]

Will do. Thank you, Sir.

[vestal aspen]

If the scale is animated in Maya, can UE import the scale animation?

I ask cause when importing into UE, the scale is set to 1.

When I play the animation in UE, I do not see the scale animation from Maya

[wet umbra]

I'm trying to migrate some widgets from 4.7 to 5.1.. Manual process. Not my code so I'm not familiar with all the code in the graphs and functions... I can copy past all the controls from 4.1 into 5.1. But, I've noticed that all the control variables in the graph that were public in 4.7, are all private in 5.1 and there does not seem to be a way to change them to public...

Is there a work around?

[graceful forge]

Hello, I've got a beginner kind of question here, how come when I add an animation to a project, the character and their animations are floating?

[native umbra]

are you spawning real projectiles?

[misty dagger]

yes

[native umbra]

i believe you want to use the Homing option on the ProjectileMovement component

but your question in this case would probably be better asked in #cpp or #blueprint - none the less, other ways include disabling gravity to ensure the bullet travels in a straight line toward your destination, or increasing it's speed so you don't have to worry about it falling. The most sure fire way to make it reach your target would be to teleport it to the desired location. I'm not sure the context of your question though, so I don't know which solution fits your problem best

[native umbra]

the physical location of the character in relation to the collision capsule isn't aligned properly, I believe 🤔

[misty dagger]

I used the socket of my weapon as a starting point for trace, and the end location is where the line trace hits<

My line trace is followed by the camera, and I have some issues when I aim and shoot the ground

[native umbra]

Okay so I myself have a question regarding quaternions again, and their use within Control Rig.

I have the forward vector of a bone, we will call it V1. I want to rotate a different bone around V1 (the reason being that V1 will always point forward, while this other bone doesn't - I'm doing procedural lean and so I want to lean left/right according to the forward direction). How would I do that?

[native umbra]

I see no issue here?

[misty dagger]

the locomotion

[native umbra]

that doesn't help me understand

it looks fine

what are your issues?

[misty dagger]

The bullet direction is not right

it shouldbe a bit up and left

[native umbra]

post the code for your line trace

1. this isn't locomotion, so again, go here #blueprint

2. your line trace isn't doing what you think it is

[misty dagger]

OK

[graceful forge]

moving the physical location didn't work, here's how it looks whenever I import an animation:
The work around I've found is to export the animation.uasset as a .fbx source, then I reimport the animation with the z translation as -1 until the feet touch the ground

but thats a tedious process when working with hundreds of animations

[native umbra]

Hmm

You're using the default UE4/5 character?

[graceful forge]

the animations do, I retarget them after, once the feet touch the ground

[native umbra]

Oh I see

I don't really know tbh

[graceful forge]

same man lol

[native umbra]

i have seen this problem in the past, but it was related to location of mesh to capsule collision

i did do some brief google searching and it seems like there are a lot of videos that discuss this, but im not sure if they all apply to you

[graceful forge]

thanks man, yeah I did some brief searching too but to no avail, I'll keep trying though, I appreciate the help

[native umbra]

I just want to make sure this doesn't get lost. I'm looking to use a control rig to procedurally animate some bones around an axis that exists within the world (the camera direction).

Would anybody know how to do this?

aha, ChatGPT knew

sick

or at least it claims to, going to try and implement now

indeed, it has taught me how to rotate quaternions

[native umbra]

the answer is to feed the camera direction into my control rig via the anim graph and then create a quaternion from that axis and the angle i wish to rotate about. And then multiply that quaternion by the quaternion of the bone (bone quaternion must go second)

However, new problem is that getting that vector to translate correctly is problematic. I am not sure how to convert it to 'control rig space'

'From World' isn't working for some reason

hmm

[crystal imp]

I am correct in assuming that Stride Warping requires root motion to be present in the animation right?

[crystal imp]

Yeah it does

I just confirmed it, I just made my first seamless transition from idle into a loop and you couldn't even tell where one animation began and the other ended

[crystal imp]

Yeah I use it from time to time and sometimes it's actually helpful but you really have to drill it to get anything real useful out of it

hopefully it gets better

[native umbra]

yeah

i've gotten better at prompt engineering and it's been helpful

[crystal imp]

yeah you really have to think sometimes about how you word that stuff

[native umbra]

honestly, it is at times much more helpful than google

(and sometimes even more helpful than epic documentation)

[crystal imp]

GPT-4 though is just as bad as GPT-3 at giving incorrect information, especially on newer stuff in UE5

[native umbra]

it wasn't trained on UE5

[crystal imp]

Yeah some things you won't find specific information on

[native umbra]

so it has no way of knowing anything new

well, unless you use memory gpt i guess

but its training window stopped at like 2019

[crystal imp]

GPT-3 told me that it was trained right around the time UE5 first came out

[native umbra]

so its only good for stuff before then

[crystal imp]

It told me 2020

[native umbra]

that could be about right

[crystal imp]

either way UE5 is changing rapidly

[native umbra]

ye

and it definitely gives confidently incorrect answers

but so do people lol

[crystal imp]

lol yeah

[native umbra]

im struggling super hard on how to define an axis in control rig

i really wish there was just a book of detailed explanations of blueprint nodes somewhere

[crystal imp]

Yeah well it's like that one control rig node Project to New Parent...I'm still not sure if I really understand it

and all the videos on Control Rig just graze over that so I assume nobody else really does either.

[native umbra]

yeah

I'll have to tackle this another time i suppose

[crystal imp]

Yeah Control Rig is difficult to grasp when it comes to anything beyond the basics

[noble crater]

How can I make an animation shorter in length (i.e, keep the same total animation but have it occur over a shorter time.). I have this jump animation and he's barely halfway through the animation before he hits the ground.

[brazen wharf]

increasing the playrate would be one way

i think you can do it in the sequence itself or in your sequence player in the animation blueprint

[queen matrix]

Hey, curious if anyone could point me in the right direction.

My updated First Person rig has a Weapon Attach bone parented to the Root, not the hand_r, my ADS and Sway system relies on Virtual Bones that are tied to hand_r and hand_l. What would be the best solution for me to link/attach/constrain via some IK attach bone to the hand r? I don't want to exactly copy hand_r position, but when hand_r moves or rotates, I would like the attach bone to follow. For example when I apply recoil by Transform (Modify Bone).

[echo ibex]

I find out all TPS and FPS animations are same in latest Call of Duty francise. How they can achieve this while they are not using true fps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWLy5gAgs2A&ab_channel=Kev

[fathom loom]

Lots and lots of animators lol.

I'm having a problem with my animation system. I need my gun to point at an aiming point.

I want my gun to fire where the cross hair is by using look at. But for some reason, applying look at to my ik_hand_gun bone doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated. And I can show all my blueprint work if that would help...

[earnest raven]

Heey Hello! while trying to adjust a mo-cap animation with the sequencer, I got stuck on the control rig, I should add it with "bake control rig", but then it doesn't appear in the pop-up menu, even though I previously created a new "control rig" from the skeleton mesh. Did I miss some steps, does the control rig have to be in a specific folder? Thanks for helping :))

[wide cedar]

is Cascadeur free worth it over the normal sequencer?

[crystal imp]

Alright.....so this is super strange...there is a bug with Thread-safe animation instances where if you cast to your Main Anim BP correctly it won't show up under Property Access....then suddenly several days later it starts showing up...I have no idea what I did to get it to show up because I initially tried restarting amongst a number of other things and I'm in 5.1.1

I haven't changed anything at all related to how I have the function setup that gets a direct reference to that animbp

It just suddenly popped into existence under my Property Access menu...

3 days later lol

I've been accessing the function from the regular Update event and setting it to a separate variable and then accessing that through the Property Access this whole time

because for some reason it was bugged out and I set it up exactly like they did in Lyra

Yeah lol I was wrong

I misread it I guess I got a little too excited...it's still bugged out

Imagine if your new Animation features were so bugged out that you couldn't even set them up properly? It took an Admin on the Unreal Forums just to get around the Linked Anim Layer bug.

I don't get it, I don't know why this function isn't working....I even tried copying it from the Lyra AnimBP and pasting it into this one and it still doesn't work

maybe one of you can see something I missed

I don't see it

I've cross referenced both and even the Class Settings are exactly the same

No GetMainAnimBPThreadSafe

To make it worse right now breakpoints do not work what-so-ever inside of Animation Blueprints

I just don't get that...I have functions in here....why don't my breakpoints work?

Imagine if you made a compiler without the ability to set breakpoints....imagine the frustration....That's how I'm feeling right now

Well not inside of Animation Blueprints in general I know that my blueprint interface breakpoints work on my Main but on my Linked one they don't work at all

breakpoints don't work inside of these functions I do know that to be sure

[molten scroll]

Sometimes you gotta uncheck that "Filter Asset by Skeleton" button to get it to show up. You do mean you built the full control rig for the skeleton, controls and graph and all, yeah? (vs just rt-click and Create Control Rig). Just checking 🙂

[crystal imp]

Jesus.....know what the problem was that entire time....the output value has to be named ReturnValue

Wow

[autumn venture]

does UE5 have tools to do your own basic character animations within the editor?

[violet venture]

Yes. The Sequencer.

[crystal imp]

Man I'll tell you these On Update Functions are difficult to work with when you can't see what's going on inside them. It's like a black box.

Basically this is my problem now...I'm trying to transition from an Idle to a walk, then from a walk to a walkfast, then from a walk to a run. I've got the setup from Lyra and I'm not really used to working with animations like this but I know they mess with the Explicit Time.

I can transition from Idle To Walk and into the Walking Loop fine...when I go to transition back into the Start State to play the Walk to Walk Fast transition that also plays fine....but when I get to the end of the animation it completely hangs up getting stuck in the Start State

[shut tapir]

so im trying to add a running animation to my rick but i cant find way to select him can i get help please

[remote needle]

Hi guys,
I learned to animate in blender but never mastered getting the animations to work in unreal because the mannequin didn't transfer to blender very well...

Should I learn to animate in unreal and make my games chara ter animations that way or is it better with other software ?

[timid olive]

Hello, does anyone know why when I change the value of a morph target, that area that would change remains trembling or flickering?

[crystal imp]

The Unreal Engine Animation tools are cool and useful, but honestly your going to be better off in Software like Maya or Blender for some time. Control Rig is massively under-documented...outside of bare bones basic functionality good look learning it beyond that....as far as the Animation tools they are great but until Control Rig is better documented it's really difficult to pull stuff off in Unreal that you can easily do is other programs

If you've already learned animation in Blender then I would recommend trying to learn Control Rig on the side, but it's hard to take it seriously when there are no proper videos on how to setup anything outside of a Basic Control Rig that is Unsuitable for Animation.

[merry summit]

Has anyone experienced this issue: if you set a 'parent' constraint in sequencer with control rig, save+duplicate the sequence, the constraint ignores the initial offset/breaks?

[crystal imp]

Not that one specifically but I've had tons of issues with it.
My favorite one is where you set any kind of constraint and your control moves to a different location...or how your entire project can suddenly become corrupt causing ANY animation you bake to come out Malformed where all of your corrective bones for some reason are misplaced in every animation you bake until you give up and trash the project

At least every other thing you do no longer crashes the project...I have to hand it to them they have come a long way with it since the official release of UE5

That Baking bug though....man, when it happens to me it makes me want to give up on it

[merry summit]

ive actually not had any real issue, im using it in place of blender for animating now, except this one.. i think it may be when you parent it to something within the same rig though because ive not had any problem parenting other rigs/objects

[crystal imp]

I have some pictures laying around somewhere, it will give you nightmares

[merry summit]

so im thinking perhaps some null objects being used as a middleman for constraints will work

[crystal imp]

I've only had problems with the constraint system that one time

other then that I haven't had issues with it, no idea what triggered it either

[crystal imp]

Possibly

[merry summit]

this particular issue seems pretty replicable, if you just constrain left hand to right hand, then duplicate the sequence, the copy of it is broken, but opening the original is fine

i think they must be missing copying something when it duplicates, like an initial offset

[crystal imp]

The malformed animation bug only seems to effect the UE5 Manny...it could have something to do with the template idk or rigs with tons of bones maybe?

[crystal imp]

You could report it

[merry summit]

hmm well that is what im using, so it would add up

yeah im going to test it / make sure im not doing anything stupid first

not entirely clear on the parent thing

the track it adds.. "parent".. when i move the keyframes on that, it moves the location/scale/rotation keys too

not quite understanding that

tbh im actually finding it way more useful than blender overall though

i wish there was a global option for step interpolation, for blocking out animations, rather than setting them all individually to constant

[crystal imp]

I had to hunt that one down

[merry summit]

i get around that by setting FPS of the sequence to 10 or however many frames i need

yikes

[crystal imp]

that one isn't even that bad compared to some of them I've gotten

once it starts doing that your done

start a new project

[merry summit]

ah the ol' delete it start again

[crystal imp]

yeah....there was a worse one then that at launch

it was like 50/50 your project would be corrupted

It got fixed in the first update

[merry summit]

ive done loads with control rig, since first beta, thats got significantly better in a lot of ways, not had any issues at all in 5.1, but animating in sequencer im kinda fresh to

[crystal imp]

That sounds like the same problem I had not long ago

[crystal imp]

Yeah as far as 5.1 they've nearly cleared up all the major issues other then the one in that picture

[merry summit]

luckily havent run into that yet

[crystal imp]

sorry typo lol

that was a bad Typo XD

I'm a bit zoned out

I'm stuck on a problem with my Animation System

[merry summit]

damn, i missed it before seeing the pre-edit

whats the animation system

my speciality, may be able to help

[crystal imp]

Oh alright one sec

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/linked-anim-layers-explicit-time-bug-or-logic-error/1137398

I made a video there that's MP4 so you can watch it in the browser

I only post on the Forum when I'm about ready to give up now days lol

I'm trying to learn Distance Matching which I have yet to find a video on....the UE5 Distance Matching not the do-it-yourself ones

[merry summit]

not entirely sure on the setup here, why does the cycle state go back to start state when you change to 'fast'?

ahh, im making my own for that atm

[crystal imp]

because I have transition animations from and to cycles

[merry summit]

but a bit more useful than the inbuilt

[crystal imp]

I was wanting to transition without stopping

this is for Ai really

[merry summit]

would it not make more sense to have it pass from cycle state to a cyclefast state, and back?

and you've definitely got all the animations set to 'looping' right

not missed one somewhere

[crystal imp]

Well I have IdleToWalk, Walk, WalkToWalkFast, WalkFast, WalkFastToRun, Run and then I have the animations for going back the other direction

[crystal imp]

the looping ones yeah

right now I've only been focusing on getting it to transition out of the WalkToWalkFast into the WalkFast loop

[merry summit]

to be honest i wrote off using state machines for anims a while ago so im a bit out of the loop on this setup

[crystal imp]

but it's sticking

It's similar to Lyra

in fact the Distance Matching setup came from Lyra

There aren't any guides on Distance Matching at all

[merry summit]

does that actually use distance matching? i thought it was just stride warping

havent looked into it in depth though

[crystal imp]

It does but for the Start/Stop animations it uses Distance Matching

also the Pivots

without Distance Matching the feet would slide

even with Stride Warping

[merry summit]

hmm yeah not sure i can help, ive not used distance matching with their setup and maybe its unique issue with that

[crystal imp]

Also there seems to be a limitation to how effective Stride Warping actually is...I tried to use it on some animations and I found that it only seems to work on animations with an actual measurable speed of 300cm/s

[merry summit]

yeah its all terrible solutions imo

[crystal imp]

anything slower and I couldn't get it to work at all

[crystal imp]

Yeah I'm sure I'm missing something

Man.....I wish they would do videos on this stuff

[merry summit]

i found everything get 1000x simpler/clearer to set up your own systems for this stuff

[crystal imp]

Not when it comes to Transition animations

without using Root Motion on Everything I don't see how you can use them without foot sliding

[merry summit]

i convert animations to bone transform data, with extra info given to it (ik lock/unlocks, intended speed of the animation etc) then scale/timewarp/mess with it manually

[crystal imp]

yeah idk I guess I could use the Distance curve to drive the speed or something

it feels like I would need to make my own Distance matching for that

[merry summit]

would you not find it simpler to just IK the legs to where they're locked to, and manually scale the animation time

[crystal imp]

but the way they are messing with the Explicit Time I believe is related to the problem I'm having with it sticking

It's sticking because of something in the Update Function I believe

[crystal imp]

Idk, I guess I could do that...I never seem to have enough time to experiment though

I always feel pressured to try to either borrow things or use another animation system and I really want to learn this stuff but I'm currently working for someone and not everyone is as patient as I am.

[merry summit]

yeah things like that can take longer to set up

[crystal imp]

the problem in my setup seems to be that it gets to the last frame of the animation but then it never ends

and since it doesn't end it never transitions

[crystal imp]

yeah

[merry summit]

whats the rule for the transition

[crystal imp]

to move on after it's done basically

[merry summit]

whats deciding its 'done' though

[crystal imp]

the first one is an automatic rule

[merry summit]

ah

[crystal imp]

the second one is if the Time Remaining is == 0

[merry summit]

any change if you set that to some low value?

[crystal imp]

The animations are chosen inside the Sequence

[merry summit]

0.01 etc?

[crystal imp]

I don't think so, I believe I tried .1

[merry summit]

ah, not sure then, havent looked into the newer stuff

[crystal imp]

the update carries out the Distance Matching

It gets stuck on the update though I believe

[merry summit]

is there a way you could simplify the issue down, in a new setup with minimal anims/nodes to recreate the issue

to make it easier to see wassup

[crystal imp]

I guess I could try

This probably isn't something anyone outside of the Unreal team could probably help me with and unless I fork up $1500 for an Enterprise License I doubt they would even respond

I keep considering it though

It's really tempting

[merry summit]

i think an earlier step would just be breaking it down into some super simple setup that shows the issue, i imagine they'd want that anyway even if they were directly supporting

but more than likely, you'd figure out the issue by having to find the way to 'force' it

[crystal imp]

Yeah maybe I will try picking it apart and seeing what happens

I'll remove the Update Logic and see

It don't even play without that

So I guess my first step is to figure out why

[merry summit]

fully procedural locomotion is the future, none of this 50 animation states and 200 transitions nonsense, its so complex/frustrating to do for such a simple task of moving some legs

[crystal imp]

I'm just going to have to reverse engineer this...it's going to be a real pain though

[crystal imp]

Yeah, for sure

[merry summit]

i'd just start blank, recreate the simplest form of it

[crystal imp]

Ai is coming

[merry summit]

for sure

i think there's gonna be a few years where its inbetween though and procedural will take the reigns

[crystal imp]

Animation is a serious problem, it's overly complex and those that are good at it seem to horde their knowledge

[merry summit]

the issue with AI anims is requiring mocap, which means its basically recreating what you have already, not custom

[crystal imp]

I mean.....you can't even buy animation courses lol

[crystal imp]

Yeah I got a Rokoko Suit and sent it back

[merry summit]

i think the reason for lack of animation courses, is 90% would be 'watch me just animate for a bit and maybe say 1 or 2 sentences'

[crystal imp]

The suit felt like I was slipping on Panty Hose...it was so delicate it started tearing after having only put it on twice

And I'm not overweight

[merry summit]

i recently made a procedural animation course for ue, and some people been asking for a similar course but for animating with sequencer which is why im looking into it more now. But i can imagine it'll just result in.. heres the basics.. now im going to animate..?

[crystal imp]

yeah...well I'm mostly referring to the Technical side of setting up the systems

[merry summit]

so much of it is not really down to reason/explanation

yeah i suppose so

[crystal imp]

Yeah lol...I don't know It's hard to dig up information on Control Rig

[merry summit]

well, control rig ive got in the bag, spent years messing with that

the sequencer part im still getting familiar with but tbf its quite intuitive

[crystal imp]

I tried to reverse engineer some of the stuff in their Templates but struggled with a lot of the functionality inside it

[merry summit]

i'd made my own before they came out with theirs, so had a good grounding of it

[crystal imp]

Yeah, I just don't like it because it breaks unpredictably

[merry summit]

im aiming to remake cascadeur in some form with control rig/sequencer at some point

they do a few interesting things

[crystal imp]

Yeah that would be cool

[merry summit]

think they may be trying to scare people off by mentioning AI

found a better approach than that

ive got a setup where its kinda like motion matching but pose-matching, finds the pose that fits the IKs the best, but still IKs to where you set it

so you just feed it a bunch of poses (from anim data or just individual poses) and it looks for the closest match based on the bones, then applies your IK

so you get specific control with where things are, but the rest is made to look 'natural'

ive not combined that to work with sequencer yet though still figuring out the basics

[crystal imp]

Interesting idea

[merry summit]

works surprisingly well + fast

i fed it the animations from ALS, then did procedural walk for the feet (matching feet bones only to the anims) and it auto-plays the animation

so full foot control + procedurally placed, but the rest of the body is picking the closest/correct matching pose at each frame

[crystal imp]

Yeah I wish that they would release a project showing off Motion Matching...since they updated it I haven't had time to really look into it...it's like just as soon as I was figuring it out they overhauled the entire thing

now it works totally different then it did in 5.0

[merry summit]

do they have inbuilt motion matching? isnt it just 'motion warping' they use with scaling the strides

[crystal imp]

Yeah it's called Motion Trajectory or something

the plugin

but then it gives you the Motion Matching component

but setting up the Library for it is what they overhauled in 5.1

that's the part I haven't had time to explore...I looked at it for 30 minutes and couldn't figure it out

haven't had time to mess with it since

there is only like 1 video on the entire internet that covers it for 5.0 and none since the update

[merry summit]

ahh ill check that out, ive seen some examples of motion matching in UE but everything looks very jittery

[crystal imp]

Yeah probably the Marketplace one

I've seen a few like that but honestly don't have time to dig into C++ right now

[merry summit]

lately ive been using gpt4 for C++ stuff

usually prototype/mess with things in BP

then get a bunch of help with gpt

[crystal imp]

besides that is all getting phased out by the Official Unreal versions

[crystal imp]

Yeah, it still gets things totally wrong though

[merry summit]

yeah but the things i cant do/dont know, it gets right

[crystal imp]

I purchased it and honestly it hasn't been any more helpful then the free GPT-3 version for me

[merry summit]

like i know how the logic should work and be set up

but idk the functions

ive found it way more useful with 4

[crystal imp]

Well I don't work from home so I got to go

[merry summit]

used it for a bunch of GLSL stuff recently, or whatever it is the material editor uses, just kinda promting it with the errors/mistakes and letting it do the rest

[timid olive]

Hello, does anyone know why when I change the value of a morph target, that area that would change remains trembling or flickering?

[crystal imp]

It just dawned on me what is causing this.

I was about to go and I realized what the only differing factor between those transitions are

One starts from idle...so it's not moving

the others start from motion

the logic I copied over was designed for animations that transition out of a full stop

It uses Advance Time by Distance Matching

I have to go but I'll drop a post in here tomorrow if I figure out a solution

[vernal gull]

anybody use cascadeur for poses?

[undone pendant]

Can someone help me with this?
My Goal is to use Orientation warping on a Character.
I use the same nodes as in the Docs (https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/pose-warping-in-unreal-engine/) and animation warping works as it should on Mannequin animations. ✅
But when I use non-default Animations the Orientation warping doesn't work.❌

When I retarget the Mannequin-animation to a different character it works. ✅
When I retarget the non-Mannequin Animation to a Mannequin it doesn't work. ❌

I suspect it has something to do with the skeleton of the animation but I'm not sure.

On the docs they say: "In addition [...] an Implemented IK Rig [...] must be accessible in the project" and I have no idea what
exactly they mean...

When I click on the "IK Rig"-Link they provided they send you to the "FABRIK" docs. This doesn't seem right?

I am a bit new to this and can't find what I am missing...

What is it that I have to do?

[fathom loom]

Hey guys! I'm trying to work out a way to make a bone point at an actor.

Using ik. However, when I use world space in the transform modify bone node. The rotation becomes slightly janky.

And if I try to convert the look at rotation to bone space. My characters arms just completely freak out.

[native umbra]

Hey, I am working on something similar. Would you want to tackle the problem together?

I am trying to determine how to properly convert vectors from World Space (in a GA/ability) all the way to the local space of a bone in a control rig. I am trying to get the forward vector of my camera and then draw a vector originating from one of my bones in the same direction so I can do some quaternion math

My task is to figure out a way to communicate the correct direction of the camera forward vector relative to that bone all the way down to local space of the bone. for some reason, everything remains janky tho

[violet harbor]

Hey everyone. After enabling root motion for my turn animation -- after it ends I get rotation on X and Y, which makes the character standing "wrong"

Any thoughts how to fix it?

[crystal imp]

I believe what they mean by IK Rig is they mean IK Bones...basically unweighted ik bones like the foot and hand ik bones they have on the Manny

I also believe that Root Motion is required on the animations but I'm not 100% sure about that

[crystal imp]

UnRotate Vector is often used to convert the space of something into local space, ALS uses it to convert the Velocity so that it's relative to the Player so that when the player moves left the velocity is -x or forward it's +y

I could have those -/+ backwards but that's the idea at least

[native umbra]

root motion is required for orientation warping

[native umbra]

oh shoot, no way? Okay sweet, this is gold. I can probably find more help in the ALS community discord

(so weird to use that acronym for this, what a sentence)

[crystal imp]

I did a video I believe on it at one point

let me look

[native umbra]

oh shoot, very exciting, thank you so much!

[crystal imp]

Yeah I made that video a while back

[violet harbor]

@crystal imp any thoughts on issue I have? Stuck for hours

[violet harbor]

this

[crystal imp]

one sec

[crystal imp]

Are you sure your not trying to rotate the capsule manually?

What mode is your Movementcomponent in?

You have root motion enabled so if it's turning extra it's probably the way you have your movement component setup to keep the capsule oriented to the camera

[violet harbor]

Yes, I do not have blueprint that enables manual rotating (setrotation, etc.)

My Movementcomponent is "Use Controller desired rotation"

[crystal imp]

Yeah I believe that's it

[earnest raven]

hey, Thank youuu 🙂 I just had to uncheck that and then it appears (MetaHuman_controlRig), and then I select that and seems to work. Though is not the one I have previously by following this https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/how-to-create-control-rigs-in-unreal-engine/, (create>control rig)

[violet harbor]

@crystal imp but even everything is ticked, you can see how the character has a lean back effect when turn animation is done

[crystal imp]

I still get a bit confused when it comes to those settings without going in and looking at the tooltips

[crystal imp]

Disable

meaning UnCheck

[violet harbor]

Yeah, I unchecked these. It had no difference

[crystal imp]

Are you sure it's not the animation then?

[violet harbor]

It's the 4th Mixamo turn animation I'm trying

All of them have that lean effect at the end when animation is done

What's interesting, if you check animation file solely, nothing is wrong

I even tried importing to blender and seeing there

No issue

[crystal imp]

oh

Mixamo animations are not root motion

Mixamo characters have no root bone

I believe there is a plugin for blender that retargets them, but root motion means that the motion is on the root bone

Enabling Root Motion only means your telling Unreal to read the animation data that is set on the Root Bone

If there isn't any motion there then there is nothing to play obviously

Inside of Blender create an additive layer...I don't know how to do that in Blender but I'm assuming such a thing exists...or do this in Unreal using the FK Control Rig to bake it to sequencer

open up the curve editor

copy the Z rotation on the hip/pelvis to the root Z rotation on the Additive Layer

Zero out the Z rotation on the hip

then bake it to an animation if your inside of Unreal

this should give you proper root motion....assuming it's only a rotation animation

[violet harbor]

Thanks so much, I'll try the baking in Unreal. Because previously I tried Blender plugin, and it created jittery animation artifacts

[crystal imp]

I have a video on how to do this in iClone8 but a lot of people don't have that

[crystal imp]

Oh yeah I see

Anyway you basically just want the primary motion on the Root

if it's a run forward animation the motion should only be on that axis, or if it's a rotating it should just be on the Z

otherwise it can cause funny issues if your playing a root motion animation and it has motion from side to side...this will result in choppy looking movement

[violet harbor]

I have the iClone8, can you share the tutorial you have?

[crystal imp]

from the players perspective that is

Yeah one sec

https://youtu.be/ZxENrmATKGA

I plan on doing another video on how to just do this manually...you actually don't need to use the option for transfering hip to root from xy

you can basically just copy the entire curve for the animation on the Z and Zero it out and then Paste it on the additive layer for the other.

your just basically transferring the rotation from one to the other...just don't forget to set the feet to FK before you flatten it or this will mess up the feet.

If you still have trouble let me know and I can do another video

[violet harbor]

Thank you so much, really appreciate it

[vernal gull]

curious you guys are talking about mixamo, what about cascadeur?

[native umbra]

so this was super helpful, but I'm still having some trouble understanding conceptually.

I have the forward vector of the camera, then I do unrotate, then I pass that vector in as a variable into my control rig.

This Unrotated Vector (Camera Forward), is it spawned at the root, in relation to the mesh space?

I believe this is the case - if so, I need to do something else to convert it to the local space of the bone. As the bone rotates, its local space will remain static - but its rotation in relation to the root, and therefore in relation to the Unrotated Camera Forward, will change

The character is twisting like this, as opposed to leaning left/right

I believe the issue is because in this node:

It seems that the axis I am defining originates from the root, and so the axis about which it is turning is actually pointed in a weird location?

so when I 'rotate about that axis', it actually results in a twisting motion

[crystal imp]

Ok well I went back and read it and I'm not actually sure that in this case UnRotate Vector is appropriate. I believe your wanting the location to be local to that bone so if you get the world position of that bone and you subtract it from the location of whatever vector it is you want then you will get a vector that is 'Local' in the sense that the vector location will be representative of the offset from that bone. Which is essentially what it means to be local to something

[native umbra]

but wouldn't that resulting vector still originate from root? 🤔

basically, I need to get the rotation of the camera angle in relation to the root bone - it seems unrotate is actually perfect for this - and then somehow factor in the rotation of the spine bone in relation to the root bone when adding in that Unrotated Camera Forward

[crystal imp]

Try that

I'm not exactly an expert on Vector Math

[native umbra]

so in psuedo code it would be something like

Get relative rotation of spine bone to root
Add the inverse of that rotation in to the Camera forward rotation
Then add

[native umbra]

control rig has updated too much, GPT doesn't know how to use it

case of confidently incorrect - it was the first thing i went to

[crystal imp]

I know that if you Subtract one from the other then it will result in a vector pointing from one to the other and I know Local space is normally an offset from something

Yeah I figured as much

[native umbra]

okay thanks, I think you've affirmed my logic here and that is super helpful

i just need to figure out how to implement it

[crystal imp]

last time I tried none of the Vector Math nodes it wanted me to use existed in Control Rig

I'm not sure why Control Rig is lacking in Vector Math nodes that exist everywhere else in Unreal

[violet harbor]

@crystal imp I got it working by downgrading blender version to 3.3 and making sure I transfer the mixamo "root" rotation to the new root for unreal

[crystal imp]

Oh cool, yeah sometimes those plugins have issues with the latest versions

[native umbra]

they do exist in control rig now, but chatgpt stopped learning in like 2019

[crystal imp]

2020 for Chat-GPT3

[native umbra]

ah, well, roughly the same

[crystal imp]

yeah they really need to do something about that

[native umbra]

memory gpt

it is a task I want to tackle here soon,

but i think it should be possible to just feed it all kinds of source codes and such

not sure if it would work because you'd need an example for everything, and im not sure how to feed that data in exactly

[crystal imp]

I just got access to the Chat-GPT 4 but it's not really much better at least when it comes to Unreal Engine it gets things wrong just as often

[native umbra]

yeah

its been great for helping me understand more basic stuff though

like it taught me how to multiply quaternions to get the effect I want, and that was great

[crystal imp]

It was helpful with helping me understand Additive Animations and how they work but I really had to go at it for hours before it really started making sense

[crystal imp]

Yeah I broken down and started teaching myself math again at nights to try to get back up to speed, but I never really tackled Vector math, it's basically the only thing I never really dived into

[native umbra]

vector math isn't terrible with some practice, I'm just not sure what UE is doing itself in a lot of these operations

[crystal imp]

I got a Vector Math book and it's so cryptic and hard to understand beyond the first chapter it's ridiculous

[native umbra]

lmao

yeah

id be happy to answer any questions regarding that if you'd like

i was a physics major in undergrad and that was our bread and butter

[crystal imp]

even after I spent 9 months teaching myself Calculus I picked up a Vector Math book and was like....Nah, I'll just do Statistics now

[native umbra]

lmao

[crystal imp]

I'm going to though...I just have to get back into the swing...I've almost completely forgot all the math now.

[crystal imp]

Oh yeah, I might take you up on that sometime.

right now I just know a few basic vector math tricks

[native umbra]

i got you, would be happy to help

[fathom loom]

Ayyyyyy, let's go man! I'd 100% go for it together! So, with what I've tried, the only solution that has sort of worked was: I drew a trace from the character's head out into the distance, to the max range of the currently used weapon. And then, I placed an actor at the point that was either the hit location of the trace, or the end location of the trace if the character was looking at something too far away. And I only adjusted the X variable in the location to ensure that the performance hit was minimal. I then got the world location of the socket of my weapon, and then the world location of the actor, and found the look at rotation, I then fed that rotation into a system that swapped the roll and pitch. (For some reason look at rotation doesn't work by default), and used a two bone ik node with a transform (modify) node to "replace" the rotation of the bone in "world space" with the rotation I got. This worked. But, the problem is that it's janky. And I think that has something to do with using world space and replacing the current rotation, and I reckon I need to change to bone space and "add to rotation" to make it stop janking.

[neat moon]

I'm new to UE and trying to follow a video to do retargeting for a synty marketplace character, what might cause the knees to be weird like this?

[native umbra]

would you want to hop into a call and go over it?

we could go to uhhhhhh

Programmer Parlor I guess since its open

[fathom loom]

Can't hop on a call right now sadly, it's 4:50 am where I am, and I'm about to go to work, what time is it for you? I'm free after 3 pm my time!

[native umbra]

its 12:27 pm for me

approximately 10 hours from now, I can do that I think!

good luck at work 🙂

[fathom loom]

Sweet man! Yeah, lol, I'm a sparky, soooo, hobby and work very different.

Weird, seems like adding any rotation into bone space makes it rotate WILDLY with my ik setup.

However, it works fine if you transform the bone's world location to bone space???

[crystal imp]

I think my problem from the other day is actually a Bug

For some reason the animation is playing all the way through but when it gets to the end my Main AnimBP is not being updated properly and so the State Machine on the other side thinks the Animation is still playing.

This causes the transition rule for Automatic and Time Remaining == 0 or even Time Remaining < 0.1 to fail even though the Animation is clearly over

To confirm this I had it print to the log from my Linked anim layer True when the PlayTime was == to the Explicit Time

after the first time entering the state the animations will hang at the end printing True to the Log

meaning that the animation is over but the MainAnimBP for some reason is not being notified

Yes it's 100% without a doubt a bug

all my transitions work perfectly if I start from those transitions...it's only after the second time entering that state that the animation is hanging

Seems Linked Anim Layers are seriously bugged out right now

I shouldn't say 100% I should say I'm 90%

I'm pretty sure though. It's definitely starting to look like another Serious UE5 bug

If I had $100 for every day I have spent trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong only to later find out that it's actually a bad bug in UE5 then I would be rolling in money right now

[native umbra]

@ me later when you're ready 🙂

[crystal imp]

If I'm correct then this will be the second serious bug I have found related to Linked Anim Layers in UE5 so far

[tulip cloak]

Edit: Solved below #animation message

[RESOLVED: Anim Notify States Question]

Short Question:
Why does the end event gets called even when I start a new montage midway. Any workaround?

Long Question:
I am working on a combo system using anim notify states in c++.
The notify-state is the time-frame where the player's input would move to the next combo attack.
I have a separate montage for each attack named AM_MM_Attack01 to 04.
The attack montages are stored in an array in an ActorComponenet that's on the Character. The notify state get reference to the actor component and calls the newly created functions called OnNotifyBegin and OnNotifyEnd.
The begin functions sets CanAttack bool to true. The end functions sets it to false and reset the combo counter.
The input checks if can attack is true and progress the counter and plays the montage from the montages array using the index as the combo counter.

The problem now is whenever the second montage plays in the respective time-frame, the "OnEndNotify" gets called before starting the new montage which resets the combo counter and doesn't progress.

I can't find anything in the documentation regarding stopping the end notify. Is it a must that stop gets called if begin started?

Thanks!

[crystal imp]

I'm experiencing odd issues as well, I was trying to setup distance matching in a project like they did in Lyra....only it would hang at the end after leaving and re-entering the state the second time without coming to a complete stop....seems this may have been why they always went into a full stop before re-entering their start state in Lyra. So I tried to get around this using Anim Notifies and it worked for the second re-entry but then the first blend out started blending out before it was done for no reason at all and without changing anything other then having an Anim Notify at the very end of the second animation being played from that same state. I then decided to add the Anim Notify to then end of all of them playing from that state and only have it transition out when that Anim Notify would fire....only it stopped firing all-together....so now...for some reason The Anim Notify will not fire at all.

I think all of these bugs related to the Animation system are related to this new Thread-Safe agenda they are pushing

It seems like information is getting lost to me

Like their new Thread-Safe system is struggling to keep up with things

Well I just confirmed one thing.....Disabling Use Multi Threaded Animation Update under class settings 100% fixed the issues with breakpoints not firing

So it is the MultiThreaded system causing 90% of these problems

I just had a breakpoint fire on a Sequence Evaluator Update Function and I've never been able to get it to do that.

[spare pulsar]

Hey guys, I'm trying to blend 2 animations, but im not very familiar

right now it blends, but more like switches between the 2 animations

and I want to like play them at the same time

[tulip cloak]

The issue with anim notify not firing at the end sounds similar to the one I faced in Unity where whenever the animation blends, notifies doesn't fire for either animation. Not sure if it's the same case in Unreal.

The thread safe fixing things is new to me too. Thanks for sharing 🙏

[tulip cloak]

I am not sure what are you trying to achieve. To play 2 animations at the same time either the played animation is additive or you override some bones using Slots.

[crystal imp]

Yeah I was trying to get around another bug though somehow related to either Distance Matching or 'Sequence Evaluator -> On Update' functions which was failing to notify the State Machine that the Animation had finished playing so that it would blend to the next state.....but after the first transition it would get stuck on the last frame of the second one and never exit the state....so I tried reworking it so that it would only blend out when that Anim Notify would fire....but they stopped firing. It seems that the first time it plays it doesn't fire but the second time it does

I think it's a bug

idk

[tulip cloak]

if it doesn't happen after disabling threadsafe then maybe its a bug

[crystal imp]

Since they are two different animations and it worked when I first added it to the Second one that plays but not after adding it to the first one...I'm not exactly sure what's going on

[crystal imp]

Yeah I tried that and the first time it doesn't fire...but after switching states which makes the State play a different animation, when I re-enter it in that state it fires

so it's firing on one animation but not the other

but it's the same one on both that is supposed to be firing

[tulip cloak]

Things like that drive me crazy 😦 either I am doing a very obvious mistake or there is a bug and I never know

[crystal imp]

Yeah it's hard to tell in UE5 sometimes what is a bug and what isn't

[tulip cloak]

[Solution to Anim Notify State Question]
Hi again, This form link said that the Notify state end event will always fire no matter how the event ended "https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-stop-player-input-from-cancelling-animations/158213/2"

I found that the Begin event has a TotalDuration parameter and the Tick has a delta. So, I created a new float that is set to zero and increased by delta with each tick. When the notify state ends, I check if the new float is more than or equal to the TotalDuration.
I also manually called the StopAnimMontage function before starting the new montage to be safe.

This fixed my problem. Thanks 🙏

[digital aurora]

Hi

I want to play the first 3 animations in the montage in Upperbody and 4th animation in Fullbody. Therefore I disabled root motion in 4th animation.

I created second slot Default Slot. How do I move 4th animation to 4th Montage Section?

[hexed sparrow]

So in this animation I’m making for the destruction of the sultana, I need to make fire spread in certain way. Like make it start out small and spread out throughout the vessel, would anyone know how I’d go about that or be able to direct me to a tutorial? Thanks!
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[gentle zinc]

Simple question: can everything done in animation blueprints be done in c++ as well?

[spare pulsar]

I have idle animation which is like just smiling and relaxing and I have talking animation where it moves the mouth. I Want to use the mouth animation in the same time with eyes movement from the idle animation if I make sense

right now when it starts talking, the eyes become static, and when it stops talking it goes back to the idle animation

[static falcon]

Hello - If I want to set a mood parameter for my character using blendshapes, should I do this in Control Rig or Blueprint? As far as I can see, you can't set the blendshapes directly in the anim bp?

[river briar]

I'm trying to use the control rig from the content examples with a slightly different sized skeleton in UE5

I saw a video that suggests connecting the forwards solve to the backwards sequence to put the controls in the correct positions and then using "Set Initial transform from Current" to set the position permanently.

but that option isn't available in ue5

I've tried all the options but the control positions reset upon compiling

[wide cedar]

how do you bind a camera to an actor?

like i wanna bind a cinecameraactor to a metahuman's head

so when the camera goes where the metahuman goes

[tepid hatch]

Hi Guys does anyone have any experience with proceduraly generated walk cycles ?

My character is already setup in control rig'

[static falcon]

If I have lots of morph targets, how can I mix between different presets of values?

[crystal imp]

Well I don't know but on mine something really odd is happening. It took me a while to realize that the animation was not being played from the start but actually starting about 45-50 frames into the animation and then jolting at the end. It was playing normally before I messed with the settings on the Sequence Evaluator but after setting it back like it was it still was jolting at the end. When I add an Anim Notify to this animation....no matter where I put the notify on the timeline....it never fires

So for some reason in my project some bug is preventing Anim Notifies from firing

It all seems to be related to this method I'm trying to use that they use in Lyra

Setting the animation and/or the explicit time of the sequence Dynamically as they do in Lyra seems to causing all kinds of issues

so I'm beginning to think that it may have some odd bugs

It has to be linked to this