animation

[winged depot]

I think it's easier to start writing my own converter.

[shut locust]

Hey so im back here again and I want to add my two aim offsets together so I have a full one with left and right but can still dissable one on command if I need to with the alpha. What node would I need to do this?

[humble loom]

Hi guys, I need some help with my control rig.
I am trying to make a control that follows the hand bone with an offset but then is parented to the hand bone.

[naive smelt]

Hey, trying to get into animation in UE5 and see some models for sale. Is there a way to animate any model's face with a camera? I see metahuman animator but is that only for metahumans?

[spare ice]

hello! I would like to debug my animations, is there a way I can check how much time is left for a sequence and to print out what current animation sequence is playing? I tried using Get Play Rate and the Get Animation Sequence node but neither works

[keen wasp]

does anyone know how it would be possible to make something like in the paramount intro and Warner bros intro? where its like a reflection transition?

[silent trail]

I need some help, for some reason my Jump Start, Jump End and Run stop animations aren't playing, the state nodes are being triggered but the animations just aren't playing...

[karmic bobcat]

i made a child bp of my player bp, and retargetterd the skeletal mesh animation blueprint. its working fine, for the most part, but it doesnt look like the animation blueprint(retargetted) is playing montages(i also retargetted those individual monatages and reassigned them) . what am i missing?

[shut saddle]

Hi. Noob here. Is it possible to assign the controls in Control Rig to Keyboard Events inputs in a Event Graph? I have a model of a crane I want to be able to control in-game. So basic "up", "down", "rotate right", "rotate left", etc.

[karmic bobcat]

what are your rules? you might need to add a time remaining into it

[silent trail]

rules?

like transitions?

[limber rock]

Yo folks. Im creating basic AI patrol machanic and Im completely stucked with animations. I have really basic patrol logic that move AI from A to B then C ... I really want to achieve smooth rotation when AI needs to turn to face new patrol point. My first idea was to have 2 animations -180/180 turn, check delta rotation between AI and destination, trigger rotation animation, stop when delta is nearly equal 0, and blend to move. Unfortunetaly it looks really really clunky. Maybe you have some tips or different approaches to solve this problem? What animations should I have to achieve the best results, maybe I should use AimOffset? I can easly get all animations that are required to acheive the best results bcs I have animator.

[final radish]

Do you have the proper slot node in the ABP, eg DefaultSlot?

[coral osprey]

Hey guys, I have an animation which moves away from the root node.
And cause of that when the animation ends it keeps going back to the root node position while moving.
Is there a way to remove the movement from the animation and keep it the root node position while animating?

[lofty vortex]

you know, I am having a similar issue, please let me know if you find something

[coral osprey]

Is it possible that I did something wrong while retargeting from UE4 to UE5?

[karmic bobcat]

yea

its a retargetted blueprint, and i confirmed, its there in the default slot

[frosty moon]

Uhm, i have an issue about some delaying my metahuman's bodyparts. Do someone know anything about it?

[plush garden]

Anyone familiar with FBIK? I'm having an issue with the Head and Tail. Settings are all default

[tender copper]

yoo! does anyone in here know how to mirror an animation montage?

i can only seem to find info on how to mirror it in the animation blueprint

[flat sluice]

why does control rig crash...so...much

[ripe stone]

trying to learn Anim BP to adjust/adapt mocap data.

I need to block the rotation on a single bone. I found the Transform (Modify) Bone node. That said. I only want to affect a single axis.. how?

[misty dagger]

Unreal renders bone differently than the 3d software you use. The bones are "there" but you just cant view them properly. You may choose to ignore the bone visualization completely.

[uneven salmon]

multiple threads trying to access the same data

[ashen solar]

isnt that because you put the head and tail as well as the feet as the fbik influences`?

if you want the feet to move the entire body and all i think you would need to remove the head and tail from the solver

otherwise those would be treated as drivers

not entirely sure tho but it looks like that from this vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8eqaFG7lZQ

[midnight rune]

Having a lot of trouble with root motion, I thought there was a problem with my root bone but I've tried renaming it, removing it from the structure and making the next bone down the root bone, no matter what the animations work fine except the one I have that uses root motion just resets the player back to their original position every time. This is what my skeleton looks like as of now (if I revert it root and Hips used to be Root and Root1, but changing that didn't make any difference)

Example of root bone not moving in root motion animation

And here's what root motion is set to on that Animation Sequence

I'm not really sure if I'm doing something wrong with the way my bones are set up in Blender, or if there's something I'm doing wrong in UE

[midnight rune]

Okay even more lost, just set my Animation Blueprint to print out the value of "Is Playing Anim Root Motion" and it returns true when the animation is playing

[rough stag]

Hi, I am getting started with animation. How can I edit a pose?

I know how to create a pose asset. But in there, I am confused

any changes I make to the skeleton do not affect the pose, but all of them. I think I am not actually editing the pose but rather the skeleton

[simple pine]

https://youtu.be/km5tZxAKS-Q update!

[hoary carbon]

People, how could I make the skill apply the locomotion when I add the add relative offset? seg 10

[frosty sonnet]

So I've got this Left Hand IK working, using regular AnimBP nodes (no transform delay/lag), but I cannot figure out how to do it in Control Rig! Every attempt I still get that Transform lag

Here's how I'm trying it in CR

[midnight rune]

One weird thing I noticed is in Blender the Root bone's location is updating with the animations, but in UE it stays at 0,0,0 so I don't quite understand why that's not carrying over?

[karmic bobcat]

any idea why specifically the arms of my character are "broken" when retargetting? it seems like theyre not respecting the width of the shoulders

[pastel zenith]

Driving me nuts y'all - I have animation dynamics on hair looking great in my Chracter viewport - as soon as I put the character in the level (same animation as in the viewport) the hair just explodes. Why is there something different in the level? I don't understand what's going on. If there is any who has any idea, please let me know

[frosty sonnet]

Sounds like collision against something. I'm not too familiar with hair however

[nova ocean]

This is my first time working with Root Motion. Any pointers on what I may have done wrong here?

All of the animations have Enable Root Motion in them, The anim BP's root motion mode is Root Motion From Everything.

I have in-place animations for these, but I was thinking that maybe root motion was the way to go with NPCs

[sick sky]

is there a way to trim an animation in unreal engine
or speed up certain portions of it

[alpine hill]

hi, so im using ue5.1 so i am using animations on cars but for some reason animation works in editor but not in standalone

[alpine hill]

if i use layer blend per bone one with wheel controller in editor it working fine with all the blends but when i use standalone only wheel works

[frail dove]

hey, how can I make a one frame animation (so a pose?) last for a certain amount of time?

[ashen ivy]

why my character turns like this when i use rootmotion although its fine before

[pastel zenith]

You can create a pose from any frame, you just make a pose asset and then set the animation and frame and duration

[pastel zenith]

you need to check your rig's up - it needs to be -Y forward Z up in DCC when 0, 0, 0 if you exported from Unreal. If you bound it yourself I can show you how to make it 100% X forward Z up in DCC so you don't even have an offset. Let me know if you want to jump in a voice chat I can explain what/why its doing it and how to fix it

[ashen ivy]

i need to set -y forward z up when exporting animation?

[pastel zenith]

epic rigs (Mannequinn) and most things are marketplace are bound in Maya -Y forward Z up root, they then stand it up in DCC to be Z forward Y up (so the root Y faces backwards in worldspace). This is horrific and comes into engine Y forward Z up if you "convert scene" so "convert scene" expects to flip world Y to Z which flips -Y to pos Y

it's ridiculous voodoo that goes back to the fact that decades ago someone did that

there is a very easy fix

[ashen ivy]

i use mixamo skeleton

[pastel zenith]

isn't mixamo based on Unreal?

[ashen ivy]

no idea

[pastel zenith]

well, the things is - the "convert scene" is voodoo, and not necessary. If you bind your charcter X forward Z up with your mesh frozen X forward Z up in Maya with Z up set in your preferences - you can uncheck "convert scene" and everything comes in perfect. If you then work in DCC you just rotate the root so the character is facing whater direction, and when you export you can turn on root motion with root lock if you don't intend to use it, or turn on root motion without it if you do and everything will always be perfect and you won't have a 90 degree differece between your skeleton and the root of the character either so math is a lot easier in UE, but it means you can't use marketplace stuff without retargeting it.

[charred zealot]

You might be able to remove frames by positioning the animation "cursor" in the timeline of the animation sequence, right click, you should see "remove from X to Y", depending on there the cursor is. Removing one frame is tricky, you move the cursor forward or back several frames.

[pastel zenith]

quick fix for you - create a parent node, rotate it, then parent the root (you will need to bake your root on a null in worldspace, make sure your rig is driving your character not the parent node or it just flips your character, idea is constrain the root in worldspace, add a parent, and offset the matrix of the root by the parent then bake the root again), then export your root as a selection. if you do that though you will need to turn on root motion for all animation or it will be rotated in strange ways.

[distant fern]

Hey guys, I'm new to importing animations from Blender to Unreal. One animation doesn't look like expected while all the others do. Do you have any idea what the problem could be?
Here's what it looks like in Unreal compared to Blender

[ashen ivy]

no matter what i do ref pose is always 90 degrees on X @pastel zenith

oh wait its supposed to be

at 90

anyways character is always tiled like this

[hollow moat]

so does anyone know how to make it where you are using a diffrent belndspace but then when you pick up a weapon you use the weapon blendspace
Or some good tutorial

[frail dove]

hey, I'm using locomotion animations from Mixamo but they have root motion

is there anyway I can disable root motion in Mixamo?

cause disabling it in the engine makes the animation buggy/doesn't work

[indigo smelt]

as u can see i created the first moment but when the wheel rotate so i took the hand down and add another key in animation but now the problem is that i want it to be stoped so that i can make the animation properly but animation keep starting from beginning and happning very fast . do u guys know how can i make it slow or stop on second key so that i can match the hand with the wheel

[muted moon]

anyone know of an engine bug that crashes dedicated servers when a skeleton component is attached to another skeleton component, logs point to skeleton animations

[pastel zenith]

When you fix it, in Maya your root is has a node above that is 0,0,0 your character is probably Y up Z forward when root is 000? Can you take a pic of the root with translation manipulate set to local?

Honestly the best way I have found to fix this 1. Set z up in Maya prefs, 2. Rotate your character so it’s standing up and check your transform of your root. If it’s y forward z up, parent it to a group node and the group note so that it’s y up z forwars or what we you want, then you can import your animations without the option to correct the scene. If it’s -y forward z up then you should be fine exporting with convert screen checked provided you animate z forward y up in maya. If the root transform is anything other than those 2, I would say you might need to delete the root and create a new one, rotating it and freezing it deleting the bind pose and regenerating it until your animation is right. Try go to bind pose and see where orientation is. You could try to score with pre rotation of the root and see if the wonkyness that normally causes actually fixes it.

Best solution is work z up x forward in Maya, freeze and skin your mesh that way, have your root that way, then import with zero converting of anything. Then your mesh won’t have a 90 degree offset like epic’s meshes, and you will have exactly 1 to 1 root in game to Maya root.

[digital jasper]

Hello!

Im working with a root animation, a bit of a long animation to climb over an object.
During the animation I can move my camera, which is fine however it also rotates my character.
I enable root animation and root lock on my animation sequence. I tought this would surely do it but no ..
I dont understand what I need to do in order to prevent my character from rotation during the animation.

I dont want to disable all input entirely, I just want to lock my character during the animation.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[midnight rune]

Finally figured this out after about 100 tries of changing things, reimporting, fixing references, reverting commits, etc.

The issue was that I needed to change my tree in blender for UE to properly import the Root bone - which is actually the Armature in Blender.

So this was my bone structure in Blender before

Armature > Root (but was actually the hip bone) > other bones

I had to update it to be

Root (Armature renamed) > Hips > other bones

I'll repeat that "Root" should be the Armature itself in Blender, this was the core thing I wasn't understanding at first.

[lofty vortex]

here is an AnimBP that is supposed to get movement and etc and select the animation to be played: https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/xupbpxht/ (the enum consists of 2 things, walk and idle)

the attached image is a state machine that I have

the problem is

this, the animations for rotation just don't play

here is what I was trying to do earlier

[midnight rune]

I was wrong my root bone is still moving in Blender but not in Unreal, so same problem I've been having. Think I've followed like 20 different videos and posts redoing this in the last day as well as trying several other options myself. I am considering just updating the root motion animation to not move in Blender and then key framing the root bone in UE...

[midnight rune]

Okay I fixed the root bone issue by following a video on how to manually add a root bone in Blender, now if I have root motion off in UE I can see the root bone is actually moving in Y location with the player as he attacks like I want it, but if I enable root motion instead of the player moving along the axis like that it just stops them from moving.

First image is root motion off, which in game causes the player to rubber band back, second is with it on which is keeping the player in place instead of moving them with the root

[umbral egret]

In Unreal Engine 5.3 they changed how you can edit animations in sequencer. You used to be able to right click your character in sequencer, then edit with FK Control. Add an additive, then make slight alterations to animations (like aligning hands more properly), this no longer works in 5.3. Anyone know the new method?

[sick sky]

why is my pawn doing a different animation than what i put into a play montage node?

[ashen ivy]

add default slot to anim bp

[ashen ivy]

i dont use maya, i use blender

[sick sky]

ok ty

[sick sky]

jsut realized i already have a default slot

how can i incorporate it?

[ashen ivy]

did u make sure that u put a correct animation in anim sequence

[sick sky]

im activating the montage through a UI button

@ashen ivy

[nova ocean]

Capsules aren't moving with the animations. I assume this is an issue with the actual animation?

[ashen ivy]

but do u use the correct animation in anim sequence?

anim montage*

[sick sky]

how do i know

[grim phoenix]

How would I play a sitting anim from pressing a key on my keyboard, I have tried looking at the epic games community but to no luck

[foggy nexus]

In your character BP, drag out the mesh, from the mesh, find play anim montage, select the correct montage (which you make by right clicking an anim sequence and making a montage), make sure the montage slot is "default slot" (bottom middle bar), then in your anim BP add the default slot like in the picture a few messages above.

[karmic ether]

Would anyone be able to point me in a direction for how to fix an issue where if I move backwards or left/right I suddenly find myself jerking into that direction. It was vibrating like crazy earlier when moving in those directions but something seems to have calmed it down.

[oak spire]

I probably can't help you directly, but I can tell you it'd be helpful for others to know how you're achieving what you have so far. I'd assume a blend space with left, right, forward and back, or something similar?

[karmic ether]

Ah. yeah I forgot to upload the blueprint.

Here is the attached blueprint. I am just using a simple 1D blendspace then using a layered blend per bone into a blend by bool if I am holding the aim down

I am not the best with animations, I started putting some more focus into learning them recently as I wish to improve that aspect. Results have been mixed.

also the extra blend pin was just removed. I must of accidently added while getting the screenshots

[oak spire]

Can you also provide your 1dblendspace?

[karmic ether]

it is shown above. 3rd image

the BS_MM_Walk

[oak spire]

Oh duh yup

Longshot but try setting Smoothing Time to something like .5

[karmic ether]

sadly not. Altho that does bring back the vibrating. It is a little perplexing to me since it seems to be rock solid if I move forward but the moment i press back/left/right it begins to snap or vibrate

[indigo smelt]

as u can see i created the first moment but when the wheel rotate so i took the hand down and add another key in animation but now the problem is that i want it to be stoped so that i can make the animation properly but animation keep starting from beginning and happning very fast . do u guys know how can i make it slow or stop on second key so that i can match the hand with the wheel

[muted moon]

if anyone ever has this issue anime curve evaluation was the issue for me for some reason having this enabled crashes shipping dedicated server when a skeletal mesh component is attached to another skeletal mesh component

[sick sky]

can you keyframe using the root bone cause my add key button is greyed out

[polar grotto]

hi there ! how hard is to create a character looking at a newspaper in first person ?

[indigo smelt]

Just change some bone location rotation or scale the grey will be gone and u can use key

[indigo smelt]

Not much if u know how to do it

[polar grotto]

ahha sure 🙂

i guess i should create a custom anim for this right ?

but if so how

[indigo smelt]

What how u want to know how to create a animation to edit it or? What?

[polar grotto]

yes i want to know to create a simple animation like a hand moving left
I have the basic character

[indigo smelt]

So first u go in character physics asset and then click on create asset then choose create animation.

Then u will have to make hand move and add the key at that location

And u are done

[polar grotto]

oh great thanks a lot amazing

[sick sky]

how do i make an object thrown from my hand socket on my skeletal mesh and land where i click

[lofty vortex]

bumping this up

[finite yew]

hey giuys please help me i am stuck for 8 hours for this shit , i am using https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/control-rig-samples-pack this Example of Control Rig from Epics and don't get wth is this metadata and how it is used and why ? no definintion of the functions

[arctic raven]

Hi team! I have snake-like character with a Control Rig and a "Fit Chain on Spline Curve" node. I've generated a spline and have fitted the Bones to the spline so the bone structure deforms along the spline, which is controlled by 4 points. So far so good.

The problem is I want to have extra deforms positioned dynamically in relation to the generated spline, not in relation to other controls. Essentially I want to calculate a point on the spline (let's say the middle) and parent the extra controls to that point and not to another control. Can anyone help? I'm using 5.1 🙏

[forest elk]

hey using 5.2 and currently having a issue with animation loop pausing just a bit. Everything is set to linear in blender.

[brisk sage]

Hello. I finally figured out how to get my multimesh with animations into UE5 properly.
My problem is that I just simply want to fire an event when the animation finishes. I can't do that with the Animation Sequence, so I created a Montage.
The montage plays just fine but has been acting weird when I play it from my blueprint using nodes. I turned off looping and playing in the options of the skeletal mesh.
I set animation mode to asset and set the montage there. In the begin play event, I have play montage, where I plug in the skeletal mesh and assign the animation.
However the first time I did this, it was acting very weird, near the end of the animation, but the OnCompleted worked.
I fiddled around with the montage, trying to remove unecessary crap from it (which I can't such as cloth physics and mesh cache).
So now the montage plays just fine in the scene, but the OnCompleted never fires. In fact none of out put nodes ever fire except the very top one.
Any ideas?

One more thing, the montage defaults for blend in is 0.25 and blend out -1, so unless that is the problem I am not sure what to do. I simply just want to run code after the animation finishes. UE5 is making this so @#!? hard.

[brisk sage]

I got around this issue by creating a montage notify in the animation. The question now is, is it wise to put a destroy actor (self) at the notify begin or end?

[brisk sage]

Nvm, notify end doesn't fire....

[fathom lagoon]

Anyone know how to change the skeleton being used in a blendspace?

[midnight rune]

Figured out part of my root motion issue, so the root bone is rotated 90 degrees which means the Z axis points forward, it shows like this in Unreal as well as Blender, yet when I click Character > Animation > Root Motion > Loop to view the motion an the Animation Sequence it is moving the entire bone structure on the Skeletons Z Axis instead of on the bones Z Axis... the strange thing is with root motion off it moves correctly

Do I have to rotate the bone in Blender and redo the process of fixing the animation there? Or is there some way I can get root motion to recognize the local space?

[indigo smelt]

do u guys know how can i stop it and then play from that location again like when i will rotate the wheel and then stop the anim should also stop and when i start again rotating wheel then anim should work again from where it left

[teal flint]

u need to enable root motion for that

i guess

[midnight rune]

It's actually fixed, confirmed in gameplay

I'll just say UE cares a GREAT deal about every tiny aspect of your rig's orientation and if something isn't right fixing it is a hell of a time if you don't know what you're doing

I did learn a lot about manipulating animations in Blender in different ways in the process of fixing this though so that's cool

[misty dagger]

I have an issue animating metahumans in control rig using 5.0/5.2. When animating in control rig everything is fine, when I bake the animation it causes the whole hand and fingers to deform/displace making it impossible for me to either migrate ue5 animations to metahuman or to make my own with control rig, can someone help?

[misty dagger]

Guys, enable rootmotion in animation is for the animation to "stay in place"?

Yeah my problrm is basically the second video thanns

So the main symptom is the slide back to the capsule

[loud path]

Hi! I have animation with 30frames, shortened it to 25fr in blender, but after reimport it still has 30, is there any way to fix it by reimport? Deleting after 25 doesn't work properly as sometimes it makes just 6 frames and crashing UE...

[narrow wedge]

Does root motion work with blend spaces in UE when making a networked game? I want to use a blend space with directional root motion locomotion animations, and then use the root motion data from that blend space to drive the animation on the server. My animation blueprint has its "Root Motion Mode" set to "Root Motion from Everything", but this supposedly doesn't work over the network. Since I can't put a blend space in an animation montage, how do I use a root motion blend space in a networked game? Or is root motion locomotion not possible for multiplayer games in UE?

[rancid pendant]

Hi guys i am facing issue in depth of field, making an animation in unreal 5.1 and trying to do rack focus shot. My animation is looking fine in viewport but when i render there's not depth of field in output. please help

[hollow moat]

Hi newibe Here But i have no idea what is going on could anyone help

[misty dagger]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/RootMotion/

[iron slate]

I've seen some mention of creating control rigs procedurally using external data. I can't seem to find any examples of this being done. Does anyone here know of any videos or examples? I'm looking to create a set of controls loaded from a json that defines the hierarchy. I just can't seem to find any examples of creating/modifying a rig in C++ or python. I have seen some python documentation in regards to creating rigs/nodes, I'm just looking for a bit more if it's out there.

[indigo smelt]

i wanted to know how can i stop it and then play from that location again like when i will rotate the wheel and then stop the anim should also stop and when i start again rotating wheel then anim should work again from where it left

[pastel roost]

Does anyone understand why the Trigger on Dedicated Server bool seems not to do anything on custom anim notifies?

[marble sierra]

Hey guys, is there a way to visualize bone sockets in play mode?

something like this is in blend spaces:

how to visualize it in-game, maybe there is a console command for it?

I tried "showdebug bones". It doesn't seem to do anything

ah, "showflag.bones 1" shows bones, but not sockets. Getting close

[wide hearth]

attach something

[marble sierra]

this is all I am getting, no names

only lines

(PIE)

[tight stag]

did u enable root motion?

[pastel zenith]

Animation doesn’t run on server unless it’s a montage. That could be the reason (unless you are in a montage).

[pastel zenith]

Either the root isn’t animated so you are running away from it, or root motion is playing on an animation in AnimGraph that isn’t accepting root motion. You can turn on root motion and then force root lock. If it’s still wonky it means your root isn’t animated

[pastel zenith]

Root motion will not work online with blendspace, you can’t run them in montage which is the only way to replicate root motion (and even that is really horrible looking).

[pastel roost]

This is in a montage

[ashen ivy]

@pastel zenith i figured out the reason why my character is goin into floor when i turn on root motion
root bone is rotated somewhy
how can I set it in default position, so it points up?

[spare ice]

hello! does anyone have much experience in sync markers and sync groups?

I'm currently having a lot of issue with them especially when it comes to transitioning between a one-off animation (180 degree pivot) to a looping animation like running

I keep seeing leg skip or minor blend issue. Does anyone have any tips when it comes to handling sync groups or if there is anything I need to look out for?

[fallen vigil]

anyone know how to fix this? its not an in place animation when its ported to unreal engine 5 it either becomes a gigantic model or the animations break and all become t pose

[willow pilot]

hi i have a problem with animation, my character floats a little bit when i crouch

i tried in my character blueprint the character where its right on the bottom of the capsule.

when my character is standing looks good

but when i crouch it floats a little bit

i checked the animationBS i have and i notice my character is floating a bit in the animation. i retargeted the animations from UE mannequin. how can i ground the character. do i have to redo the animation retargeting or is there another way. i tried the player bluprint and capsule but then i have to bring my character way under the capsule so my crouch animation can be grounded on the floor

[ashen ivy]

just edit the animation in ue

[willow pilot]

how, i been trying to figure out a way

[ashen ivy]

in anim sequence

choose ur root bone

drag it down a bit

[willow pilot]

i am IK retarget right now. on origianl mannequin its grounded but mine looks like this

ok let me try

[ashen ivy]

and press s

[willow pilot]

on my blend space

Sir @ashen ivy i was able to drag it down, thank you

i tried that earlier but not clicking the root i was selecting bones in viewport

so now its grounded. let me try playing the game.

@ashen ivy i still have the same problem. when i play tho. is there something else i neede to do i saved after adjsuting

[ashen ivy]

drag ur cursor in the place where i have those blue lines and hit S

it like inserts a keyframe

[willow pilot]

image is in blendspace.
ok let me try

i dont have those lines tho

let me show you

[ashen ivy]

drag ur mouse to the right of additibve layer tracks and press S

[willow pilot]

wait, sorry now i do

yes i just click "S"

i clickd "S" while in discord and UE didn't recognise. lol

let me try to us the character

it works, thank you

do i have to do this to all my crouch animations

yea hu, because i walk in other direccions and after i leave idle it off sets again

[warm chasm]

How Do I set that so the animation will play difference one everytime? Casue my set up is like this but not playing randlomly ?

[willow pilot]

it worked thank you @ashen ivy

i see, i think it creates like a new location,scale,rotation.

[tulip basin]

I need some help. I wanna understand how to make things keep vibrating. Of course this in the pic doesn't work as the engine now rotates.. but which nodes do i use for changing axis values instead of Euler?

that's what i wanna achieve

https://gyazo.com/7eeba39afa3a4b8ef691debe18539b1d

but i don't want to move the value all time manually

[loud path]

Hi! I have animation with 30frames, shortened it to 25fr in blender, but after reimport it still has 30, is there any way to fix it by reimport? Deleting after 25 doesn't work properly as sometimes it makes just 6 frames and crashing UE...

[trim crane]

hey everyone, actually i'm making a third person shooter on UE4. recently i have been facing issue in Aiming animation. whenever i try to aim and shoot, the character does looks that targetted area which is the crosshair

sharing the video for reference

[willow pilot]

hi i need a bit of help in a transition. i dont know if i messed up let me post it

Crouch to walk

Walk to crouch

[finite yew]

hey guys i have downloaded a asset and it has something weird for me , i got In Air attack Root motion animation and when i enable "Root Motion " it plays animation in place when i disable it it is actually moving , why ? and also when i play this anim montage camera stops following the character

[misty dagger]

Cuz cam is attached to character the capsule it self not the mesh of character

[finite yew]

no it is attached to the mesh

[heavy kayak]

https://gyazo.com/a28f61fcff09e052fbb7676767859942

Why Cant i add the annimations 😮 ??

[short wasp]

And what is the mesh attached to?

[finite yew]

to the capsule

hey i have noticed that animation is doing complete oppostie when i enable "RootMotion" it plays anim inplace when i disable it it moves the mesh how it is possible and how to fix it ?

[hybrid pollen]

hey guys, im trying to get the characters arm to rotate with the right thumbstick but doesn't seem to work. any ideas?

[prisma urchin]

Hi everyone,

I am posting this issue in this channel as is supesct this is related to a bones issue and this is the closest channel to that.

I am setting this mesh as the one that appears in the game and that uses the bones of the ALS mesh (SKM_ALS) using set leader pose component, This is the mesh:

However when I put it on my character you can see how the bones of the right foot are rotated on itself.

How can I fix this? is there any tutorial?

[hollow delta]

Anyone know what would cause animation stretching?

in maya the animation appears fine but in Unreal when it's played it stretches

[timber summit]

Does anyone know if there's a reason the full body control rig for Manny doesn't have anything for moving the hands?

edit: nm, i found them lol

[violet crescent]

How would one go about changing an anim class from a player mesh? Literally just want to be able to go from idle animation to holding a shotgun animation.

in game tho obviously

[knotty frigate]

Hi.. so I have a problem. I have a metahuman, animated, in unreal and I would like to export it to blender for rendering. I dont want to edit this animation, I just want to render it. The only way I see would be to export this to maya and then export an alembic from maya to blender. But how? exporting the entire rig in the level sequence leaves the mesh in a T pose in maya, without animation. I would REALLY appreciate any pointers, as I am on a deadline and didn't foresee this problem 😦

[smoky shell]

Anyone have a solution for retargeting animations where force root lock removes the root motion from retargeted animation? Basically have to go through every animation, remove force root lock, then restore only the ones that had it originally, then apply the same to the retargeted animations that are meant to have it. Bit ridiculous

[finite gulch]

I'm using some animations I've made myself and I found that the two actors animating in tandem would be pushed out away from each other for (at first) seemingly no reason.

After playing around with it I found that the capsule components of the two characters was the issue. Is there a way I can remove the capsule component for the duration of the animation and then add it back in, or is there a more elegant solution to this issue?

The animations would be more of an 'in engine cutscene' - perhaps I should just use a matching actor with no capsule component?

[smoky shell]

You'll want to call "Set Collision Enabled" on the capsule component

[sullen python]

Im looking for a way to get additive animations, extracted from other UE projects, and reimport/merge them together into UE again. Will be mainly doing this for FP anims. I cant have the animations separated into two different files, I need them in a single sequence for my project.

[finite gulch]

❤️ Ill have a play around with that now, thanks!

[coral rivet]

how do i make some bones not be affected by a animation and let the rest be affected by the animation

[muted nest]

hi i am having an issue where some of the animations that ive made for this custom homer simpson rig seem to glitch out and become distorted when testing it ingame in the ue4 editor

however if i preview said animations they appear fine

in preview

in game

[smoky shell]

Looks like you're applying additive animations that are incorrectly setup

[muted nest]

ohhh

which additive should i use?

i might use local mesh

mesh space

i mean

[olive bough]

Hey, I'm pretty new to animation. And I cant find any answers to this issue I am having. First one is the animation in blender, second one is what happens in unreal. Not sure how to fix this issue. I imagine it has something to do with exports. The animation does not use bones. I can see that a skeleton seems to be auto generated when importing to unreal. Is the lack of rigging causing it?

These warnings appear in the log when importing to unreal

1. No smoothing group information was found in this FBX scene. Please make sure to enable the 'Export Smoothing Groups' option in the FBX Exporter plug-in before exporting the file. Even for tools that don't support smoothing groups, the FBX Exporter will generate appropriate smoothing data at export-time so that correct vertex normals can be inferred while importing.
   2)Could not find the bind pose. It will use time 0 as bind pose.

[small wigeon]

i'm quite new to animation as well, but from what my gut tells me, then this looks like an export issue.

[olive bough]

I think youre correct. Just not sure what export/import setting is the issue. I can't seem to find it myself

[small wigeon]

i have yet to import animations from blender, could you send a screenshot of the prompt it gives you in unreal when you import, and eventually the logs?

i can try to fix it for you, as well as learn the workaround for myself, should i import from blender.

[olive bough]

to anyone else looking at these messages: we don't have a solution yet. So if you know, help is much appreciated

[small wigeon]

^

[foggy nexus]

Disabling collision on the capsule will likely make you fall through the floor, you could set the capsules to response to channel (pawn, unless you've changed anything) to ignore for the duration of the animation.

[foggy nexus]

As far as I know, all Unreal animations require a skeletal mesh with bones so you'd have to make a skeletal rig in blender that you could export into unreal first, then import the animation selecting that rig.

[olive bough]

do you know if the bones need to be tied to whats moving?
Like do I need to redo the animation with bones instead? Or do you think adding a skeleton would be enough?
Regardless i'll be testing it

[foggy nexus]

The transform of the bones need to match from Blender to Unreal

[foggy nexus]

Just make sure you import the skeletal mesh before the animation

[olive bough]

Roger, thanks for tipping me in a direction. I’ll mess around with it

[muted nest]

ok so i fiddled around with the additives but sadly to no avail

the animations still appear good in preview but they still distort heavily upon testing in the editor

[agile hemlock]

I'm getting this weird issue where when I hold down "Left" and "Backwards", the animations works fine whilst when I hold down "Left" and "Forwards" the animation doesn't work properly. Same case for the "Right" animations except reversed, "Right" and "Backwards" does not work properly whilst "Right" and "Forward" works just fine.

[muted nest]

is there anyone that can help me with this issue

guess i should post mine as well

[hollow moat]

Hi does anyone a good tutorial where when a mesh aka a gun/weapon attaches to the character they use a different blendspace.

[karmic bobcat]

im wondering if you noticed any performance improvements or stability issues when upgrading from 5.1 to 5.2? is it worth it?

[karmic bobcat]

if you're using a blendspace its because you're not reaching the negative values on the Axis

[hallow elm]

Hi, I have a question
Although I set "Reset Play Time When Blend Space Changes" on, it won't reset like this movie...
how can I fix it?
https://i.gyazo.com/f83387907a8b5b1c60e718565e9780c3.mp4

As you can see, there is some lag on starting walk at first time, but there is not at second time

[hallow elm]

Solved! I made state machines nest, but I stopped making nest, it works!

[next osprey]

Hi, anyone knows How to Import Alembic cache animation to Unreal engine as an animation to get it play in Sequencer. i have been searching for this but still unable to find a proper solution.

[analog raptor]

Hey ... Anyone know how to use diffrent animation BP for diffrent level ?

[oak belfry]

In your level blueprint you could set the anim bp on the character

or choose from a Datatable or something like that

[tepid obsidian]

You've been here long enough to know not to do that surely

[next osprey]

It's not for any kind of game modes or BP. The use is for just sequencer

[tepid obsidian]

I'm on about the ping...

[next osprey]

I found the solution

[tepid obsidian]

Ok... That still doesn't change the fact you tried to ping 96 thousand people about the issue though

[next osprey]

When you don't find solution on any document. We ask in community. You can help or just ignore instead of being like you in chat

[tepid obsidian]

You ask the community. You don't try to ping 90 thousand people about it

That's super rude

[next osprey]

Yeah it's rude to just ask questions 🤣 and it's just too polite for a response like yours🤣 hats off dude keep it up

[tepid obsidian]

It isn't at all rude to ask questions.
The rude bit is trying to ping nearly a hundred thousand people about your issue rather than just asking

The rules were made for a reason, they're not for show

[short wasp]

It's okay to ask questions, that's the whole point here, but you never ping everybody on a big server. You asked in the proper channel and that's enough, there isn't much to argue about, so let's leave it at that please.

[tepid obsidian]

And I was pointing out that youve been here long enough to know better

Glad you found your solution though

[next osprey]

My bad i misunderstood👀. Removed the tag

[tepid obsidian]

All good :)
Apologies for the miscommunication

[grave drift]

Hey guys, are there any animation packs on the marketplace that fits for demonic creatures? Been looking around to little success.

[obtuse siren]

Hi Guys im trying to make a procedural animations for the rig for now i have done simple system for fixing legs to the ground and i have a question do you have any tutorial or just how to properly set up IK for the rig i would need know how to limit rotations for a few bones beacuse you see on third picture when my mesh is to close to the ground legs just coming into eachother

[plain dirge]

Hey guys, I've made an animation and exported it in FBX format. Now i want it to work on both UE4 and UE5 Mannequin rigs. How can i make sure that it works on both rigs ?
Thanks

[agile hemlock]

How would I fix that?

[short wasp]

Animation retargeting should work well in that case

[plain dirge]

Retargetting Inside the UE right ?

[short wasp]

Yes, it has a retargeting system

[plain dirge]

Awesome, Thank You So Much Mate!

[quaint zephyr]

Help me please, I bought the Unreal Engine Assets pack from the Humble Bundle site and there is a MoCap Animation pack, when I try to open the animation I am prompted to select a skeleton, but after selection, the animation stops working

[short wasp]

Are you sure the animations were made for the same skeleton you're using?

[quaint zephyr]

no

[shell steeple]

it imported without skeleton

[short wasp]

In that case try finding out on the bundle's page or info what skeleton it was made for. I'm guessing UE5 or UE4 mannequin, as most store assets are.

[narrow wedge]

Hi, how do I get a curve value from an animation sequence from with an animation graph? I am always getting the value of 0, even though I've set up every option on the skeletal mesh that I found on the internet (allow animation curves is enabled, visibility based anim tick is set to always tick and refresh bones, turned off enable rate optimizations). See screenshots for the blueprint nodes and anim sequence curve. The animation curve was created in UE's anim sequence editor, not imported. What am I missing?

Could it be because it's in a state machine?

[shell steeple]

I have imported this asset into UE4, and it works, how i can made it for UE5 Mannequinn

[short wasp]

Funny you should ask, someone just had the same problem a few messages above lol. Look up Animation Retargeting, you can make different skeletons share the same animations.

[short wasp]

Can you try converting it to a metadata curve and seeing if it works?

[narrow wedge]

Ah, you know what, now it shows that curve data is being fed to the pose in the anim graph. Still getting 0 for the curve value though.

Actually, it seems like it works on other animations

It's not showing up in all curve names

[short wasp]

Maybe it's not the way then... Kinda weird it works on other animations.

[narrow wedge]

Yeah, it's definitely just a few of the animations

Okay, no, it's the animations that are not active by default in the locomotion state graph that don't seem to work

I can't get a curve value from any of them, nor see it in all curve names

I can preview and see the curve value change in the skeleton though.

[serene onyx]

hey guys does anyone know of any good info (preferably step by step video explanations) or any other resources on the pose search plugin, motion trajectory component, motion database and motion database config. for motion matching

Also looking for any good locomo, aim offset, turn-in-place, motion warping montages, and any real good, advanced vids or instruction. have been digging on the internet for anything on this stuff for a while and havent found much quality info. and ue docs are useless

[agile hemlock]

Thought it had something to do with the Max Speed, changed it from 270 to 500 yet still no luck.

Same issue occurs

[ancient wasp]

hi guys, what happened after retarget?? preview looks perfect 🤔

[astral perch]

If I would like to have different idle animations based on the weapon I'm holding, how would I achieve that? Would I have to use different animation blueprints or just set a variable for the ItemType on animation bp and go from there?

Noticed I can't use branches inside the state machines, so kinda lost atm

[gleaming pier]

Does anyone know why the shoulder on the mannequin is raised very high here? This is in an attempt to retarget some attack animations to the UE5 Manny character.

[gleaming pier]

FIXED: For everyone elses reference, set "Current Retarget Pose" to T-Pose.

[high cradle]

The skeletal meshes I buy from Unreal Market are turned towards the Y-Axis, I need them to be turned towards the X-Axis, does anyone know if there is a method to permanently rotate them like you can with the "apply build settings" for static meshes? I know you can do that when importing from blender/maya to unreal, but since they're bought assets I only have them in editor.

[gleaming pier]

Ok, so I've imported an animation and made a montage of it, but when I ask my character to play the montage, its legs don't move the same way they do in the montage preview, any ideas why here?

[agile hemlock]

The problems are caused around the circled parts

I've been trying to fix this for a while now.

[cloud lodge]

@tight topaz #1054845177509974107

[vagrant juniper]

With the ML Deformer, do you think you could get away with 1 bone per finger?

[astral perch]

Any ideas on what causes this issue?
https://gyazo.com/c849cb8d099c7c02003799037900fa34

I retargeted an idle/walk/run animation from mixamo, created new blueprint anim, and created a blendspace for torch idle/walk/run animation. Tried turning looping off/on on each of the sequences but no luck

[tired kindle]

Do you guys generally recommend rigging/animating in-engine or with blender and why?

[silent trail]

Yo I have a problem with my animation, the video below details on the problem but simply put, my Land animation has too much hang time so that It skips the jump animation if played repeatedly...

[sick sky]

is there a way to change character movement speed only on one axis

[misty anvil]

hey new to the scene but a question: can we add custom fps (hand only ) animations to a tps character so that we can make a thirdperson character with better hand animations

i usually see awesome firstperson hand animations with guns and little to no animations when equipping guns in third person character for eg. reload, inspect animations etc. and i can't see anyone implementing those animations soo just curious if it was possible

[short wasp]

Don't see why they wouldn't be. First person and third person often rely on separate models anyway, or just don't share the same animations, so it's already a thing.

[short wasp]

You don't have Root Motion enabled on your animation. On Mixamo make sure it's checked when downloading the anim (not all have this option), or (/and) check it in the animation sequence itself, there is a checkbox for it as well.

[onyx moss]

which blender plugin can automatically generate animation additives like U90, D90, L90, R90 ?

or maybe unreal has some auto tool?

something like this will be cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQJcmJn4C1k

[lunar eagle]

Hi. Does anyone know about or have any resources on how to subclass the behaviour of AnimInstances?

For example, you have two characters, each use the same AnimInstance, which has an Idle and Run animation.

However, you want CharacterA to use the ConfidentWalk animation sequence, and CharacterB to use the AnxiousWalk animation sequence. How is this done?

[short wasp]

I have no idea how optimal it is, but it could be done by having each character have something like a personality enum, and then for each anim state have a switch on personality enum to get the animation you need

[lunar eagle]

Okay. Thanks for the insight. Two questions:

• How would you access the enum from the AnimInstance
• Is this something you can parameterise? I.e. is it possible to have an AnimationSequence variable that is set in a Character/Component which then is used in an AnimInstance?

[short wasp]

• If you mean a variable, then you can just set it in the anim bp at any point. If you mean the node, create the enum first, then if you look for Switch On enum name it will show up.
• I'm not sure you can, but I'm not a 100% on this one. I can't check rn, but I think that you can only use animation sequences directly inside the anim states of anim graph, variables will not work, as they won't have a way to connect to animation pose output. That's why I'm suggesting the switch on enum, you put all your walk variation anim sequences in there, and just switch which sets you use depending on one variable.
  But again, not fully confident on this one, so you can check for yourself.

[lunar eagle]

I understand you could make a variable for the AnimBP, but how would you make this differ based on character? Would you declare/use the variable in AnimInstanceBase, then subtype AnimInstanceA and AnimInstanceB so which are used by CharacterA and CharacterB?

[short wasp]

Create an enum with all the personalities/behavior types you want
In your parent character blueprint you create a variable with this enum, and set it to whatever you want. If you want to use multiple instances of the same actor bp, you can expose this variable, so it can be set separately for each one.
In the anim blueprint you create the variable with your enum again, and then set it to the variable value from the character.
Then the blueprint just switches between anims for each character depending on what you set for them for the personality.

[lunar eagle]

Parsing what you are saying and having a look how to do this now 😅 appreciate the insight

[short wasp]

If I'm not being clear enough or can help you during this process, please let me know, maybe I'm just bad at explaining stuff

[lunar eagle]

No your explanations are good, I'm just new to this 🙂

[loud path]

Hi! I've encounter this issue on lyra animation system and google doesn't really help. Does anyone encountered this and know howe to fix that?

LogAnimDistanceMatchingLibrary: Warning: Failed to advance any distance after 5 loops on anim sequence (<anim_name>). Aborting.

It's showing during pivot animation in just one specific set which is made based on already working set when others work well..

[lunar eagle]

I'm just curious about your last line - "The blueprint just switches between anims ... the personality"

Where would this actually be done? How does the Character affect its AnimInstance?

[smoky shell]

It means there are dead spots where no root motion translation occurs and it gives up
It doesn't take much, I've had to fix this in custom made animations myself

[short wasp]

The character affects its Anim Instance by, in that case, setting variables in it.
Do you have a State Machine set up?

Each state requires an anim sequence inside, that's where you put all your variants for each state and set up the switch on enum

[lunar eagle]

I'm using ABP_Manny, so yeah the basic states are set up for idle/run/jump

[lunar eagle]

I see, so just using Get Anim Instance on construct, and then changing its variables for example?

If so that sounds good 🙂

[short wasp]

Exactly!

[lunar eagle]

Great, thanks 🙂 this helped a lot, appreciate it Beeks!

[finite yew]

hey devs i a trying to retarget animation i added IK Goals they are visible in IK_Rig but can't see it in the IK_Retargetter why ? Especally hand Goals

[short wasp]

Happy to help!

[tall slate]

how do i fix an animation that as a fixed spine that cannot move

[dreamy dagger]

Can someone explain Hand IK Retargetting? I know that it retargets the IK of the hand, but what does the description mean when it says 'Move IK bone chain to meet FK hand bones'?

[desert crown]

I have the AnimationStarterPack which only has a rifle_hip_jog blend space. Is there a way to do a new blend with it, but the top half of the ironsights animatin sequence? Need to make a "jog" with with ironsights.

[warm prawn]

Hi! How to fix that fall land slide?

[warm prawn]

ah nvm i think i figure it out

[ashen matrix]

Hi, I want to add sort of a wind chime to my scene. I want wind but also interaction (bones setup). Apparently wind system doesn't work with physics assets. Do you know how I could simulate wind so the ropes moves (nice effect with bells sound when every'thing's ok) ?

[astral perch]

I forgot to update on this. Found out I had to check "In Place" when downloading from mixamo. I saw there was this free ai for animations based off real life video recordings. Would I have to do whichever action IRL while standing still if it's a moving motion then?

[wheat badge]

Hi, anyone know what happens if I have mismatching sync marker order between 2 blending animations? Lets say animation A has markers a,b,c. While animation B has b,a,c. The naming of markers match but order is not, will it still try to calculate sync? Since the docs says it tries to sync % between 2 markers

[bleak egret]

Yo guys, after you've changed a control/bone position in Control Rig, is there any way to get the actual would-be position of that bone in the animation? After some changes I need to mix a position I've got in the control rig with the animation, but I don't see how.
For context I'm doing some kind of climbing system, and I need to transition from grabbing the ledge onto going up. I have both animations but I'm left with "syncronizing" the horizontal position of the hands

[subtle thicket]

heyo so I come with a simple question
what exactly is the difference between the simple and complex Manny skeletons, apart from obviously more bones? (89 and 161 respectively)
Way I understand it you could just use the simple skeleton and it would work no problem. What exactly are all the extra bones in the complex skeleton for?

[stiff garden]

Is there a baked in way to start an animation (like a running animation) at a variable frame?

I'm trying to sync an animation frame to a Quartz timer

Depending on the quartz clock when the player moves the character I may want a running animation to start on frame 7.

[tranquil stratus]

is there a way I could prevent the warning on the Get Land Anim Curve?
"Node Transform (Modify) Bone - Bone: Root uses potentially thread-unsafe call Get LandAnimCurve . Disable threaded update or use a thread-safe call. Function may need BlueprintThreadSafe metadata adding. "

I give the variable a default value to my curve float asset, and it never changes during runtime

[bleak egret]

if it doesn't change during runtime, why don't you set a variable in the Blueprint Initialize Animation event?

Also IIRC to access properties you should use the "Property Access" node. But I don't thing you can pass in parameters, that's why I'm proposing setting the variable in the event

[tranquil stratus]

I tried setting the variable through the init event but I still get the same warning

same thing with begin play, update animation

[bleak egret]

just to be clear I meant saving the result of all this in a variable

[tranquil stratus]

ohhhh, wait u right

think that'll work, thanks

[bleak egret]

np 🙂
they don't let you accessing objects in any other way other than using Property Access I think

[tranquil stratus]

havent seen this icon in days

[sour ember]

Hi guys, this is Frank a new person for this discord page.

If you guys feel okay with some questions, then can I ask something about Character Rate?

[willow pilot]

is it possible to merge 2 animations into one
i have some arm animations and would like to add to my characte

[gentle sedge]

Hello everyone! Trying to import animations from blender to unreal and having issues with origin location.
I have origin setup to be at the wrist, but when I export, it actually takes the origin as if the weapon is in edit mode (pic. 2).
Help much appreciated)

[short wasp]

There is no need to ask about asking a question, just ask it, and if somebody know how to help, they will :)

[limber garden]

Where is 'smoothing time' in UE5?

as used in this clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IagP5TyPnG8

[jagged swan]

Is anyone else crashing when trying to fire off a Link Anim Class Layers node during gameplay?

[stoic fox]

Any idea how we can create 8 directional movement with pose warping or animation warping

[dull goblet]

When i sprint animations get freeze like picture

[heady pulsar]

Can you guys point me to this error? The animation I put into ue has flickering and blurring errors in some frames

in fames 0,168-> 0,171

[sterile galleon]

hi i need help with fixing the animation. im trying to have a dragon punch in my fighting game

[olive bough]

Is there a common mistake that causes imported animations to change the size of the mesh?

I am having that issue

[ashen matrix]

Hi, Any way to add wind to a skeletal mesh ? Or maybe to fake it. I'd like this roman tintinabulum to move like it was breezy day https://youtu.be/FGIZoJftnmA

[indigo smelt]

can someone tell me why my character animation works like this

how can i make it not go forward when i move forward i mean the animation going forward

how can i make it only use walk animation not go forward in animation

[silent oyster]

Hello everyone,

I have a straightforward question that I haven't been able to find an answer for. I created a control rig for a vehicle, and it works well on flat surfaces. However, when I attach it to a curved path over uneven terrain, it just goes straight and doesn't follow the ground contours.
In Blender, it's simple – I use the "project" modifier for ground contact. But in Unreal Engine, I'm unsure. Should I make changes in the Control Rig or the Animation Blueprint?

My goal is to animate the vehicle along a curve while allowing the wheels to adapt to small changes in the ground, like pebbles and bumps, without manually animating each one.

I would greatly appreciate any guidance on the best approach. Thank you!

[tender cradle]

Have you looked at the collision areas of the ground and vehicle?

[silent oyster]

yes, my landscape has collision and also my car wheels, but i cant figure out what logic to use in control rig so when my car is moving along the curve, the wheels react to environment

[short wasp]

You have no root motion enabled, if the anim is from Mixamo, check 'In Place' in its options before downloading, otherise check Root Motion in anim sequence itself in UE

[sharp karma]

Hi guys, when I add a constraint between the 2 hands of my character in control rig, the child gets all distorted and the gizmo is impossible to control. Is there a way to add it and keep the offset? I'm using epic's skeleton control rig.

Do I need to properly set up the constraint nodes in the control rig?

[sly canyon]

Is there a way to make an AI take a wide turn radius when going to face the player?

[foggy nexus]

Is it set to loop in the ABP?

[dire ether]

Hello, I Imported a model via USD and want to see if animation carried through properly. Is there a simple way to hit play on a timeline?

[elfin moat]

In the cinematic cutscene editor, how do you make the camera move back to the players camera position?

Kinda like a "look there's an enemy! Now run!" then back to player to indicate it's time to run

For anyone who searches how to seamlessly blend from cutscene to gameplay, here you go. It's REALLY hard to find.
https://www.stevestreeting.com/2021/10/15/ue4-smoothly-transitioning-between-gameplay-sequencer-cutscenes/

[sterile galleon]

i have an rising uppercut animation when i run it in game it plays in place. i need help fixing this

[dull goblet]

When i sprint left hand fabrik is not in position

[astral perch]

Are aimoffsets only used for aiming? I'm trying to have my character's mesh look up/down (from the spine bone) regardless of whether I'm aiming or not

[astral perch]

*believe this is what I was looking for https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/NodeReference/SkeletalControls/TransformBone/

reading over it atm

[dull goblet]

I fixed that making a blendspace

[foggy nexus]

Manipulate the rotation of the bones and you'll see what purpose they serve

[willow pilot]

Hey does anyone know if its possible to migrate blendspace to another project

[hushed gull]

hey i imported a custom skeletal mesh and wanted to replace the manny by this custom one, when i do i have this result, any idea why? i used blender to scale my character to the default ue skeleton

i have so much trouble with this i dont understand how it works

[desert crown]

Is it possible to take the Jog_Fwd_Rifle (jog hip fire rifle with gun aiming forward) and use it from the waist down and swap the top for xxx_Rifle_Ironsights top half to create a jog_ironsights that maintain weapon aimed forward while jogging?

[nova nexus]

hey guys i have question about pose driver the doc isnt realy precise and there is no good tut out there someone have a little bit of xp ?

the cone of detection is insanely small

[nova nexus]

its cause of ur rig, the rig u use with that custom mesh have different rotation and wieght paint so when u parent the mesh with the manny rig its just translate like it was with his previosu rig

[nova nexus]

u have to import manny rig to blender and parent ur new mesh to the manny rig there is tutorial out there, u will have to weight paint and shit

[hushed gull]

https://youtu.be/9Z9IATTJVZ8 yeah thanks i found this one, i followed it and after 4 minutes of tutorial it worked ! now i can import any custom skeletal mesh and replace the basic one with them, its amazing ! the only problem is that the armature is weird and i cant create animations with it

[worthy latch]

is there a way to set a bulk of animations root motion on?

I am kind of lazy to set it on 20 animations or so, I will manually set it this time but I don't want to miss if there is a feature to set it in a faster way

[dire ether]

I imported an object with baked animation, but upon import as asset I see it as static mesh and it doesn't retain animation contrary to anaother object which is part of skeleton. Is that an issue in importing method of said object or do I just need to check something in UE?

[lavish patio]

any idea on how to fix this problem? Imported from Blender and the animation ist scaled way down because of this. Scaling the root bone in unreal back to 100 breaks the animation and nothing moves

[desert tinsel]

Quick question - is there a way to dynamically change playback rate of a timeline / duration of a timeline? I did a workaround with using Set New Time pin few times but it potentially may skip some values returned from my float track.

[stark crescent]

Hello i have a problem with an animation "running_left" being offsync and so it causa problems when i use it in a blend space . the creator told me to set the cycle offset to 0.5 but that was a solution for unity . Is there a cycle offset in unreal engine ?

[reef agate]

Hey all, I've got solid technical animator chops but I'm stuck on something that I'm wondering is it a straight up bug or what. I have a generic skeleton asset assigned to a few skeletal mesh assets. The SKs have slightly different heights. I only mention this in case it's relevant.

The bug is that when I play an animation asset by dragging the anim into the level, everything is perfect, but when I put the animation in a level sequence and play, the pelvis is raised up on Z. The root is still perfect

You can see on the anim the feet are on the ground. But you can see in the level sequence this raising happens

If that all sounds esoteric, the short version of the problem is: the Z height of the pelvis is different between the level sequence and simply playing the animation asset on the SK details

Maybe the issue is that the level sequencer just does not respect the retargeting in an anim asset?

[cinder lance]

Hi there. Quick question regarding Control Rig: Anyone knows why these two don't produce the same result? What am I missing? I tried toggling Recursive but that didn't help. I was looking for an easy way to get all child bones from a hand root bone.
EDIT: Nevermind, I realized that there where bones, which don't have their own controller, so I just have to filter the resulting array.

[heavy kayak]

hey guys ive imported annimation that makes my characters hands all twisted and stuff any ideas how to fix ?

[willow pilot]

hey is there a big difference bethween blendsapce and blendspace D1

[crude crystal]

Hi, I have an issue with switching from chain spline to fabrIK for tentacles(6 bones) on an octopus I'm trying to rig, it pops when I switch back and forth, is there a way fix that? Or are there any good resources on that, thanks!

[ashen onyx]

Hey! hope everyone is doing well
I just rigged my custom character inside Blender using Auto-Rig Pro for UE5. Inside Blender, everything looks great (weight pant is good), but when I import it inside Unreal and I replace the mesh on my animation, it looks like that, does anyone know what's happening and how to fix it? Thanks!

[oak bluff]

Can I fire this outside of a widget graph?

[quartz heath]

I've enabled on the skeletal mesh of my AI "Update Rate Optimization" and suddenly the AI stops moving entirely. it only moves when the skeletal mesh is not rendered. Any idea why?

the AI Move To node returns "blocked", if thats anything that helps identifiying the problem

[quartz heath]

so it seems like they only move when the camera is super close. this is really odd
https://streamable.com/5ozeq1
Maybe it has something to do with the bounds of the actor?

[quartz heath]

okay so the problem seems to be that if i tick root motion mode = "root motion from everything" enable update rate optimization fails

anyone experienced that before?

[split siren]

trying to get ik working on a model and have a problem where the ikbones on it dont move with the animations

most things I find online are either very outdated or suggest just re-targetting the whole thing to the base mannequin which idk if that is correct.

and even the retargetter is completely different than the one currently in ue5

[languid sandal]

how do I get a transform's forward vector inside a Control Rig? I wanna find the forward vector of a bone in the hierarchy

[whole snow]

How do I set the fk_ik switches to be set as IK for every frame in an animation in the sequencer with a control rig? I'm using the default mannequin control rig setup. When I go through frame by frame it changes.

I've tried:
Set a global ctrl for the booleans in the anim outliner in the sequencer
Setting default values in the control rig itself
Setting the booleans themselves in the anim outliner and they keep changing.
Selecting every key frame and changing it then but no dice either - it only affects whatever frame the current playback is at.

EDIT: Figured it out - you can add keyframes for the global ctrl IK FK switches - delete all keyframes in there in between - add start and end ones with the bool set - remains consistent

[wide hearth]

there's a copy bone anim modifier in newer versions of unreal, you can copy foot to ik_foot bones

[worthy latch]

Guys I have a question about root motion(reverse)

How can I move an object by animation's root position?
for example X pawn's location is 1,1,0
animation moves the X pawn to 2,2,0 as visually
but I want to protect that movement after the animation ends
so it should not go back to 1,1,0 after it ends

I want to use it for my dodge animation

I will lock the default movement, instead the animation will move the object

[warm island]

I am trying to import an animation.fbx but it keeps importing as a skeletal mesh, what am i doing wrong?

[hushed gull]

what is the best workflow for creating an animation inside blender and exporting it to unreal and use it on manny without having to retarget? is it possible ?

[hushed gull]

export only the skeleton and not the mesh

[warm island]

i figured it out, i was exporting meta data instead of actual tracks

fixed it

it's dumb

[clever abyss]

Question.
Is there a way to make Take Recorderd record transform in animation?

I want to record an animation WITH WORLD transform

I could have done It in UE4 but I cant find an option for that in UE5

[desert crown]

I did a Layered Blend at Bone in my anim bp... mixing hip_rifle_jog and ironsight_rifle_idle.
The left image is after the layered blend, the right image is ironsights walk (just to show the aim) What would cause the extra twist at the waist so the gun is aiming too far left.?

[foggy nexus]

Upper half using the lower half pelvis rotation. You'll have to offset pelvis in one of the animations.

[lament wyvern]

hey all, quick question, what are these input pose things and how do I make them?

[lunar vigil]

first thing when you dont know what or where a node is, just right click and try to search for it :D

[lament wyvern]

oh, yeah I tried that and nothing came up?

[lunar vigil]

show me what part of anim graph youre in

[lament wyvern]

literally just a blank state

[lunar vigil]

go to the lowest possible level

of the graph

and try there

[lunar vigil]

🤷‍♂️

ive never used it though so i cant help you there 😅

[lament wyvern]

Oh I see whats wrong, the animation layer I made isnt in my hierarchy so it isnt at the bottom of the anim graph

hey @lunar vigil I saw that the input pose node was under a linked anim graphs category, is that an addon or something?

cus even when I remove context sensitivity, it doesnt show up

[lunar vigil]

i dont think i added any animation plugin

when i make a completely new animation BP with a selected skeleton, i can already place it there in the anim graph

you can try that

[lament wyvern]

oh yeah, it shows up

weird

have you worked with animation layers much? @lunar vigil

[lunar vigil]

not really, animation is still something im a bit of a beginner with

[lament wyvern]

ah okay nws

[coral rivet]

yo

i have a animation graph with a pistol fire animation and i want to spam fire the pistol. issue is is that i have to wait for the animation to finish to actually complete the fire code.

so is there any way to play a animation at the point of the same animations position was

so if a fire animation position was at 1 second and u press LMB the fire animation will play at the inital position of 1 second

[brittle raft]

is there a reason why i can't adjust the ending frame red line in a animation sequence in unreal 5?

[vapid glade]

Why does my animation import like this ?

Looks fine in blender

[leaden elk]

got 2 questions

1: imagine I made a test-character with a simple skeleton in blender and imported that into unreal to make animations (made with sequencer). will I then later be able to add new bones to that test-character in blender and reimport it while still keeping the animations and they stay functional?

2: if 1: is true, will I then also be able to make another character with almost exact same skeleton to "inherit"/transfer all of those animations from the test-character, but then also delete the test-character afterwards?

[drifting mantle]

does anyone know how to smoothly rotate a character in a given direction, so the foot animation is actually triggered?

rather than rotating the actor and seeing it rotate in place without movement

[tender charm]

Well you probably need to change your animation blueprint to detect the rotation input/change of state and trigger the animation

[drifting mantle]

I was wondering if it's possible to trick it to rotate using character movement

It's strange something like that isn't easily available out of the box

[tender charm]

As far I know all of the animations need to be in the blueprint. As far as I know character movement only controls the direction, speed etc of movement NOT the animations

[vapid glade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221798806713401345/1141160819795689482/image.png

Why does my imported animation look like this ?

[topaz nexus]

Question for exporting FBX in Maya. I know Unreal prefers animations with a framerate of 30/60, but if you have a 24 fps animation is it fine to simply convert that to 30 fps in Maya before exporting or does that cause problems later down the line with blend spaces, control rig etc?

[topaz nexus]

On a different note, I was wondering if anyone had any good resources for starting to learn about Blueprints in Unreal Engine 5, specifically with respect to creating animation for games, as someone coming from an animation background with no prior programming experience?

A lot of the resources I have found surrounding state machines and setting up a character assume you have some knowledge of the logic of the blueprints, but I can't find any good videos actually explaining said logic with regards to animation blueprints specifically.

I assume a lot of it is simply f around and find out, so I'm trying to analytically go through the Manny ABP, and I'm slowly figuring things out, but I could really use some help lol.

[plucky lotus]

Hi there, I have a looping animation that I'd like to apply to two identical meshes, but with a slight offset in the starting point of the loop. This way, the meshes will have a bit of variation. How can I achieve this?

[final radish]

Is there a way to get the Animation Blueprint to track updates to a blendspace? I find that if I make a change to a blendspace, the ABP continues to use a stale version of it; Refresh node does nothing and I seem to be able to "update" it only by deleting and recreating the node. Surely there's a better way?

[tranquil lark]

Can't say that has happened to me. That's some weird shenanigans. All I can offer is support 😅

[reef agate]

Anyone know why when you Create Asset / with preview mesh in an animation sequence asset the target framerate is bonkers?

60000fps : /

ue 5.2

[potent bronze]

for optimizing anim blueprints, FAnimInstanceProxy is suggested, but in 5.2 documentation that is not mentioned and using blueprint threading is suggested instead
which approach should I go for ?

[frigid hamlet]

Hey guys, utilizing 5.2, and the skeletal mesh plugins or 5.2 modeling is it possible to split a Skeletal Mesh into Head, Torso, Arms etc?

I have done this with "split" but then the skin weights seem to of fallen off, I think this is because the output is Static Mesh, then I converted to Skeletal Mesh using the original skeleton but still cant animate it.

I seen outside of modeling in unreal 5 we have a skeletal mesh plugin I can access but I dont see the ability to "split". Anything I am missing or do I have to go to Blender or Maya where I seem to lose my textures as a novice and got frustrated on that path as well.

[fringe sparrow]

i have a fabrik node working well while the character is standing still but doesn't seem to update fast enough on tick to make it smooth. how do i interpolate or make it smoother while the character is moving?

[fringe sparrow]

changed it to component space which is a little better but same problem

[fringe sparrow]

ok fixed it. pro tip: dont use variables directly from your character blueprint in your anim. they tick at different times.

[ashen matrix]

Hi, is there a way to simulate wind with a skeletal mesh (it's a wind chime) ?

[desert crown]

Is that an "copy animation, rotate the pelvis some" try again, or use a blueprint node to do that?

[pseudo pewter]

Okay, I'm here

[night rover]

Post your anim blueprint

[pseudo pewter]

Ah, what part

The event graph?

[night rover]

Yeah

The Character Mesh anim blueprint yeah?

[pseudo pewter]

Like this?

[night rover]

K, go to the anim Graph

[pseudo pewter]

Okay, how...?

[pseudo pewter]

Ahhh

Okay here

[night rover]

Lets look at your state machine

I don't see any Slot to play your montage here

[pseudo pewter]

Yeah, it's just the default

[night rover]

Ok that explains why your montage dont play

[pseudo pewter]

Sorry for all this, I'm normally just 3D art person... I'm forced to do coding now

Yeah, I'm pretty silly... I guess that checks out

[night rover]

Before your output pose

add slot to play the montage

[pseudo pewter]

Ahhh okay

Like this

[night rover]

yeah

Test it now

[pseudo pewter]

Nice, thanks...!

Still not working...

[night rover]

lets see your character mesh

what Anim Instance is it using

[pseudo pewter]

Anim bps

With the one I just showed

[night rover]

Screen shoot it

[pseudo pewter]

What part?

This?

[night rover]

This is PlayHero Anim bp?

[pseudo pewter]

Yeah

Wait...

[night rover]

Lets see your Animation Montage

are you sure the animation is compatible with the skeleton?

there's a quick way to check it but SS your montage anyway

[pseudo pewter]

OH GOD

IT OWRKS NOW

[night rover]

Wrong skeletal mesh earlier?

[pseudo pewter]

No, just mixed up the anim bps

I edited the default one instead of the active one

[night rover]

k, but you still need that slot to play

just remember

w/e yt tutorial u are following, they are not showing everything

[pseudo pewter]

Okay, thanks!

Btw, do you nknow how to tweak the bones in an animation without additive?

I wanna adjust the root motion in this animation for testing sake

[night rover]

Not sure what you mean by additive

you can enable root motion in the animation detail panel if you want to use Root motion to drive your character capsule

[pseudo pewter]

UE bone editting is additive by default... Meaning, if you move the bone by 10 units along the X+ axis in one frame, you also move it by that much across all frames

This is helpful for tweaking retargettingn, but may cause issues with mtighter animation tweaks

[night rover]

Not quiet sure, by move it, what moves. The bone?

[pseudo pewter]

Like, any given bone

Like the root

[night rover]

I am only fammiliar with root motion

they are really smooth to move the player around

[pseudo pewter]

See here

This red line is the distance it travels

[night rover]

Yeah, are you talking about root motion?

[pseudo pewter]

I want to lessen this

[night rover]

Yes, that's root motion

[pseudo pewter]

Exactly, yes

[night rover]

That's driven by your animation. if you want to lessen in, imo just go to your 3D software and re-animate the keyframe for the root

you can do some hacky stuff in Unreal I think, but I don't recommend it

[pseudo pewter]

Okay, welll it's just for testing so I guess it should be fine...

[night rover]

gl

[pseudo pewter]

Thanks. I'll need it

Weird

Using root motion makes the montage just play some slight walk

@night rover This is such a weird error

[night rover]

It will move as much as the root motion moves

if it move by 10 units, then the capsule will move by 10 units

[pseudo pewter]

No I mean

The montage doesn't play

It just causes the walk animation to play for a split second

[night rover]

You are using montage to play your walk animation?

[pseudo pewter]

Alright, fixed it...

[pseudo pewter]

...no

[night rover]

What happend?

Example of root motion

[pseudo pewter]

Yea, don't worry about that, finally made it work

[night rover]

Give a quick recap if you solve something. Would be nice for others to know if they have simmiliar problem

[pseudo pewter]

Right. Apparetnly I Ctrl Z a bit too much and accidentally undid the anim BP change

Basically, seems like playing an anim montage with root motion while not having slots causes a portion of the root motion to take place, thus causing "walking"

[night rover]

You can get craft with these anim slots if your project needed

so slots for Upper body, Head, etc

And you blend them per bone

so you can keep your walking anim but your upper body can play attack animation for example

[pseudo pewter]

Ahh, cool...

I didn't plan a game that specifically could use those yet, though

I also got a double tap run working, which actually makes me feel kinda proud

[lone ermine]

Hello! Does anybody know of any websites that would be a good place to sell character animations? And what tips & tricks would help with this process?

[lofty vortex]

you could try the #fab itself

[lone ermine]

I see, that does seem to be the main location, but I wasn't sure if there were any additional websites that I have yet to find. 🤔

[lofty vortex]

not to my knowledge, no

of course, you can sell them on your own website

but I'd prefer the MP

everything will be at the same place

[lone ermine]

that makes sense, i'm the same way ^-^

[dim torrent]

Guys can i have some help? In the image below if i change the animation scale on the right nothing happens. also the same if i change it on the animation itself.

Also, this is how i got all the animation set up

[pseudo goblet]

So I've got these dead bodies that are supposed to just be floating in space, but the problem is that even though physics isn't enabled as soon as play starts they start spinning as if they have momentum? Even though nothing has touched them.

I think either they're colliding with themselves somehow, OR the pose animation is imparting them with some momentum

Yeah the problem is that when I turn on physics simulation they spazz out

Ah! Now I've fixed it. Just wrote a function to force linear velocity of all bones to zero for the first 2 seconds of the level simulating.

[buoyant gyro]

Is there anyway to ensure 2 actors with different skeletons/blend spaces have synchronised timings for their animations?

[agile plover]

my engine crashed whilst I was editing an animation, now everytime i key an animation it shrinks the bone to 0, any ideas? Happens with any bone i try to change..

[unkempt sorrel]

Hello, I am adding additive curve to my anim asset by adding a key to my spine to adjust it.

ue5.2

it doesnt carry over into my blendspace

there is no APPLY button

ive tried everything Ive read online

Any tips in here?

[polar grotto]

hi there ! do you know how i could create a simple talking with hands animation on a metahuman ?
i''ve tried recording a video and puting it in rokoko
but the results are bad

[tight topaz]

Does anyone know how to customize the bones assigned to a (Slot)? Specifically, I want to add my new camera bone to my (Slot) UpperBody so I can influence the camera during the blended UpperBody attack animations.

[tranquil fable]

I hope this is the right channel but I could use some help.

How might I go about making a Rig that will have a base part of the skeleton, but then have extra bones for each variant of a creature? I made some Rainworld Lizards in 3D and I wanted to see how I could have them all use the same controller and animations while having variat skeletons. For example they would have different sizes and different dynamic parts. The red lizard would have a lot of frills while the white lizard wouldn't have any. How would I go about making my rig as compatible as possible for these guys? I want them to share a rig but still be able to be varied and have different dynamic bones for each.

The extra bones wouldn't really do anything besides be dynamic, but as you can see each lizard has different frills in different spots and some will be a lot smaller than others.

[runic ember]

have anyone tried Multi Threaded Animation Update yet?

[tranquil fable]

So far this is what my base skeleton looks like, with none of the extra bones for frills and stuff

If anybody has advice please @ me ^^

[lone ermine]

ya might not have to make that many bones for the tail; it'd be a pain in the butt to move each of them in a tail-esque fashion. I've seen several different methods of rigging the mouth as well so you might have room to play with that ^-^

[tranquil fable]

how could I make one rig compatible with all of the possible variants? Would i just make seperate skeletons with the same base for each variant and have to retarget it or is there a simpler way?

they would all have that same skeleton up there but with additional bones that are different for each species and they would be different sizes as well

the non base bones would mainly be just for dynamics though, since some of them have different types of frills but they're in different places for each of the species

one of them has a realy long tail hence all the tail bones

but you're right it is a bit much lol

retargeting would allow me to have the same base skeleton with different shapes and sizes right? And secondary bones could still work for dynamics?

[lyric estuary]

hey guys! Im working on Locamotion for flying. Im following GoldStones "EagleFlight Locamotion" tutorial series and i had everything working perfectly until now and i have no idea whats wrong.

Basically when i fly now my dragon mesh flies off the screen until i land again

this was the last change that i think effected it

any help would be appreciated

[lone ermine]

I've only ever seen this done in-engine but in truth I don't know how to set it up; I noticed unreal had a single set of animations for their mannequins but had something else that matched the bones' animations for when the other mannequin was chosen for the player controller. Not sure how they did it but that could be a good start? 🤔

[tranquil fable]

i'll have to do more research i guess

[leaden elk]

this is what I would do but I dunno if there is a better way, as long as all the other characters have the same bone hierarchy as the base skeleton then it should be fine to add additional bones to those characters

[lyric estuary]

I figured it out for anyone who wants to know. All Animation BPs used for making the Blend Space need their "Additive Anim Type" set back to "No Additive".

[polar grotto]

Hi there
how could i create custom animations or find some of someone making a speech ? i want to animate a metahuman i have everything ready i just need a good animation

ive tried with rokoko studio from a video but it's not working very well

[loud path]

Hi, I have whole set of animation from motion builder made in 30fps, and exported to unreal, but UE says it's in 60000fps. After connecting it, still works good, but it may cause some bugs in future, does anyone knows how to fix that?

[naive ocean]

Hey, I exported the Lyra Locomotion system into a new clean project and everything works fine. Except its not replicated anymore. I cant find where i can fix that, so i was wondering if anyone of you knows how the replication of the Locomotion system in Lyra works.

[tranquil fable]

Cool i'll try that.

Also does UE5 have better retargeting tools? I saw a video where the person didnt hsve to retarget every single animation and that'd be a godsend for me because i can just make animations for each lizard and not have to retarget each and every one

[leaden elk]

am not sure about that xD but just in case there isn't, have fun retargeting all of those animations

[tranquil fable]

Haha yeah

I could just have the basic locomotion for now and then see how it goes, then i could make varying animations for each one if the retargetting went well maybe

Maybe only a couple animation variants... too many lizards lol

[leaden elk]

yea :3

[topaz nexus]

I was wondering if anyone could help me understand the logic here. I'm trying to wrap my head around how blueprints for player characters work.

• We have the Initialize Animation, which I understand is called whenever we hit play essentially?
• Then Try to get pawn owner tries to find the actor used as the player character?
• Then we cast that to whatever character blueprint we have selected (In this case the standard unreal Third Person BP)

but then why is the "As BP third person character" promoted to a variable? What are we accomplishing here?

Cheers for any answers guys, I'm an animator but I don't have much experience in Unreal yet, trying to learn as much possible 😃

[wanton lance]

Hey,
I've one animation (walking) and would like to create a blendspace for that and use the animation twice but with different "animation speed" depending on the player speed. (I dont have walking + running animation)
Is that possible? Didnt find a way to do that yet

--> Solved | Just adjusted the "Rate Scale" -> If there is another way, just hit me up

[topaz nexus]

Not sure if this is the best way to do it but if you have the-

ah, you fixed it lmao

[wanton lance]

LOL

Check ur DMs bro

[topaz nexus]

o, thank you, I'll read it in a sec!

[onyx moss]

is this a montage slot?

[onyx moss]

no its not.
I found we have no choice selecting montage slot for multiple montages at once

[desert crown]

For 2 animations to blended with a Layered Blend per Bone, it seems (from another comment way above) that I need to offset/rotate the pelvis. Anyone know how I should approach that or what to do? I blended an idle ironsights with a hip fire jog to get an ironsights jog...and my manny is aiming too far left when jogging. (left image)

[sly gale]

Is minimum / maximum limitation for rig control removed in 5.2 ?
i dont see those options here... ( i didnt know where to post so am posting in general sorry )

[frigid hamlet]

Hello all, I exported a full skeletal mesh to blender to attempt and create more modular component's in this case a Torso. I am utilizing the same skeleton upon import but this happens once animated... Anyone know what would cause this.

This has been kicking my ass for weeks.

Tried a few different ways to export and personally hate how difficult blender to unreal really is.

[dull goblet]

How can i align first person gun with third person gun? If u see on pictures, one is aiming on head and third person is aiming on chest

[polar grotto]

hi there how come my metahuman is so stiff compared to the original animation?

[desert crown]

First thing is you appear to have a hip fire third person and an ironsights first person.
I do this on my first person event graph (left image)

then I do this in my 3rd person anim bp(right image)

[desert crown]

I havent done this, but this might help?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorI9wjYoQA

[dull goblet]

What it's supossed to do that?

[desert crown]

If I understand your question, that variable captures your FP rotation from mouse look to be used as the rotation for your 3P character.

[dull goblet]

But on ur animbp where do u use?

In pic u only setting

[desert crown]

\

[dull goblet]

Ah u used transform bone

Got it

I'll try

[floral otter]

I see this server is the right one

Bones gets messed up when adding IK rig?

It looks like two of the arm bones are scaled up, even tho I made sure to not scale any bones in Blender before exporting. Both normal export and Pipeline is tried. Ive remade the rig 3 times and exported a lot as well. Mabe something is wrong with the Basic IK setup?

Setting up a Rig in Blender works great, the weight is fine btw

Simple model as it is for testing

FK works as well no problem in UE

[buoyant gyro]

is there a way to reset the current time for blendspace animations?

[fringe sparrow]

how do i use a hand pose or animation to control only the hand pose on multiple other animations such as idle/run etc.

[iron slate]

Is there a way with the control hierarchy or properties to dampen the affect a parent control has on a child control in a control rig? For example if I move a parent control and only want the child to move half the scale of that transform. I know I can take care of it using blueprint nodes in the rig, but I'm going to have a lot of controls in the hierarchy and was hoping there's a property to do this.

[fringe sparrow]

am i looking to impliment additive animations or

[stiff garden]

Howdy!

I am new to animation so sorry if this question is too basic. I've been searching through documentation trying to find if unreal supports a way for an animation to start different frames during a transition.

Ex: Starting on frame 0-7 instead of always starting on frame 0.

A janky way I can imagine is having separate animations that each start at the offset with a transition rule "web" to enforce that. Is there a "cleaner" method someone could recommend or some documentation that might help me better understand?

[buoyant gyro]

How can i reset the timing for blend spaces

[quasi void]

I'm trying to follow this same tutorial and all attempts to edit and reimport Manny cause crashes. I've rewatched this for 2 days and cant find what I'm doing wrong yet. Any suggestions?

[stiff garden]

I think I figured it out. For anyone that may stumble on this question later. You can expose the pin "Start Position". Make a custom float variable in your animation blueprint, connect it, add update logic based on your needs.

**I'm still working through this and will update if incorrect

[dull goblet]

Not work, i think my problem it's not with aim. I have two meshes on one actor, FP mesh and TP Mesh. I can align fp to center with a line trace but doesn't work with 3rd person

[hushed gull]

Did you do everything as him? Try with a new blender file maybe ? Do it clean, but if you did then idk, its weird that it crashes

[quasi void]

thanks for responding. I believe I did everything, but the results show something else. I'll try a new project and files, maybe roll back to the 5.1 he used. I've been trying with 5.2.1

[sleek hatch]

Can anyone please point me in the direction of what is causing this shimmering on the morph (eye blink) you can see it is absent before the blinking is initiated (float is changed in character blueprint). Thanks.

[sleek hatch]

Thanks, will take a look at that first then.

[sleek hatch]

Thankyou, it seems this is caused by either TAA or TSR, but not MSAA or FXAA.

[sleek hatch]

true, MSAA didnt appear to work.

[shell ravine]

I'm trying out some IK animations, total newbie. My character looks like it's having a seizure! Any ideas?

[shell ravine]

This is a modified version of the lyra base animbp. Would you still go to the control rig?

I'll do the debug display and report the results. Thanks!

[light steppe]

Hey does anyone know is there anyway to import animaitons with keys on scale curves into unreal?

[polar grotto]

hi there any idea how i can modify that mesh to fit the skeleton ? It's in blender but to import into ue5, thanks a lot

super weird result in ue5

[desert crown]

I have 2 messhes, FP arms for the player and Tp full mesh that others see.

[dull goblet]

Yep, but idk why not work

[quasi void]

So I repeated this in a fresh 5.1.1 project and it sailed right through! idk why I had such problems but I fear something wont be right later on now. I also migrated the resulting characters back into the 5.2 project and it crashed again. Then I created a fresh 5.2 project and I was able to migrate the characters into that. Is there a difference in the 5.1.1 vs 5.2.1 mannequins?? Or did I begin with a corrupted project maybe?

[frigid socket]

Good Morning! I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I downloaded a rigged and animated asset from itchio, there's only one FBX file and when I import it, all the animations come in no problem, but the scale is super off, is there anyway to fix this in unreal? Or do I need to fix this in blender first and re-export?

[nocturne tapir]

Hi all! I got an animation that is supposed to have root motion. However, I never get it to work (with it applied in the animation as well as in abp). Anyone got any ideas what's wrong? There is no bone called "root", it's just called character reference, not sure if it's the same..

[brisk sage]

Hello. I discovered a plugin that helped with my animation issues, called Actor Sequence Component. I got to animate the parts of the pawn the way I want it to. Now I am wondering, when creating sequences, how they are organized. What I am used to is having 1 component that holds different animations with their individual key frames for different objects, and I switch between them in code and in the player. Since the Actor Sequence Component doesn't have that feature, I wonder if creating additional components is wise, or is there a feature I am missing to call a specific set of animations? I know I can group animations together, but do they play separately?

[high oyster]

So, I have these rocks that I want to make shaking.
Is there any simple way I could do it? Normally in a 3D program, I would add animation with position noise and cut off the -Z values so they don't go under the mesh. Easy..
But.. I can't do that and then import it to UE (or it doesn't seem like it) so.. is there a way how can I do that in UE?

[fringe sparrow]

#blueprint message reposting here incase anyone has the answer

[polar grotto]

hi there ! I'm damn close to finishing my proect but still can't make a proper custom clothes for a metahuman to work..

Also any idea why my hands are grey damn

[little creek]

Hey there, I'm working in a small project... iI want to make a dodge system, but I'm torn between using root motion, and movingthe character using BPs. I dont' have a plan that requires me or is benefited from using one method over the other, but I'd like some insight before implementing dodges

[cinder raptor]

Hi is there anyone available that has strong knowledge with anim BP, I'm completely stuck on one thing that I can't figure out at all. It's been 2 days
Would be way easier to share my screen, can't describe by text.

[slow wyvern]

can u create x,y,z curves for a bone translation in animation?

[blazing scaffold]

anyone know how i can put multiple pins in the output pose

[trim vessel]

Can someone explain in general what the use and value of control rig is, in a game, not the obvious use case of animation for a film. I'm trying to learn how to make a fbik in vr, and so far everything I've learned seems like its own different plugin or system within unreal, like FABRIK or just using some default nodes in the anim bp. The way I'm thinking is, I could just attach arms to the VR controllers, but that would look unnatural without shoulders, so I would rig up a triangle of bones between the hands and the HMD so that the arms look more natural and connect at the shoulders, however twisting and bending to extremes would still look bad, and this is where control rig comes in locking sections and blending the transformations more naturally. But can't you just create join limitations at the joints on a node per node basis? Why then do we need control rig?

[gentle lake]

maybe state machine

[trim vessel]

yea for full body IK as a VR pawn, perhaps all I need is FABRIK on the hands and clavicle

but CR is more expensive or what?

for the VR pawn, lower body will be animations

damn 1 CR is cheaper than two FABRIK nodes?

ok

yea makes sense

I always see the control rig asset in the browser, thank you that helps to say "you dont count CRs"

im definitely thinking about it wrong

wow awesome ty

So it sounds like I want to make a CR with whatever nodes it takes to emulate what I have already running with 2 FABRIK nodes?

the full body ik node isn't expensive because I can limit it to hand/clavicle or something?

I thought fbik was expensive

yea you're right, ty

that helps

im very new with control rig

any starting general pointers are very helpful, ty

so this means there wouldn't be a final control rig asset in my content browser, just a node on my anim bp?

yea its confusing how they're in different folders than the skeleton mesh

yea ive seen its, had to use it to modify mixamo animations before

didnt use the CR but I saw the node

Is there any simple difference between a CR node, and a blueprint that says control rig blueprint and has the rotational sections around it?

this folder confuses the heck out of me (above)

this folder makes sense haha (below)

I don't know how they work in conjunction

in the 3rd person template, are those control rigs actually used in the animation blueprint or just available if needed?

ive used the foot ik one in the anim bp with the mixamo imports, lowering their feet to the ground, but not the body CR with the rings around it

[astral prism]

hmm what could cause an anim montage to loop even though I set it to not looping

aha

the event kept getting called from a blueprint i forgot

[runic shadow]

does anyone know how to blend an animation into a specific time to the target (in UE5)? I'm doing a walk-turn split out by left and right variations and I want the left turn to transition into the walk at the halfway point when the left foot is down.

[digital jasper]

Hello!

Currently working with a new asset to setup my locomotion.
I created a new anim blueprint and used the asset's ABPT as my class parent
NOticed my animgraph from my ABP is gone so I wen to the asset's ABPT
I tried adding a animation sequence but keep getting that error ...

I am not familiar with ABPT ( Template ) would anyone know what im suppose to do in order to add a new state machine with a sequence?

[ripe stone]

How does this work? How can I refer to those values via a normal BP?

without creating new parameters for each of them

[heavy kayak]

Hey guya ive bought a asset on the marekt store but when adding anninations to it the hands & arms are all twisted

What are my options?

[ripe stone]

@heavy kayak you have to figure out the skeleton the asset you bought uses and you need your animation to be compatible with that type of skeleton

i feel your pain

[heavy kayak]

@ripe stone aye but like its based on the mannequin

but have like 4 extra bones thats it ?

could that be the issue or ?

[ripe stone]

not sure..

[heavy kayak]

./

[ripe stone]

how do I play an animation sequence (anim asset) within an anim bp?

[frosty moon]

Can someone help me about how can i use multipple animation states in one? I created a main BP which is she can use a knife, gun and unarmed and it worked well but i dont know hot wo add crouching state each one.

[little creek]

Hey there, I found something that could be an important change for my development...
I just found out anim notify can be used to create a collider...

I originally had a "resting" collision on the player that waited until called with a specific position and size, but I feel leaving it to the notify would be faster and more efficient. Problem is, how more expensive is it?

Also, a big problem I have when editting hitboxes is how the montage viewport just won't show the collision boxes for my characters...

[lone bay]

err, actors can have multiple skeletal meshes in them, right?

[runic shadow]

yes

[balmy whale]

Hey everyone! What would be the best way to go about making an attached item face the camera forward vector through the animbp?

[lone bay]

any guesses why only one would play via anim bp?

collision settings seems like the only thing different

oh I figured it out, it was a logic error

[lone bay]

I do this in regular BP personally, but maybe there is merit to doing it in animbp

there is get look at rotation node in bp

good luck!

[runic shadow]

anyone know if there's a way to transition an animation to the halfway point in the time instead of at the beginning?

[tight hazel]

im slightly confused. I've watched many tutorials, but cant seem to find one on what i need. i ahve a mesh, with proper skeleton and an unfinished IK rig. the docs only say you need things, but ic ant find info on how to create or WHY, the IK rig finished with control rig and ik goals. I'm many days in , but the learning curve is real and this early beginner info seems to elude me. If anyone has a resource link to help me finish importing my character, i would greatly appreciate it. i started to try to make a control rig based on control bones, but they dont react or move anything, and im thinking its because the IK isn't set up all the way or something?

main hint for me, is the model disappears from view point when disabling the animation BP

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/5vL/unreal-engine-creating-and-modifying-control-rig/OPY2/unreal-engine-compatible-characters
i was relying on the tutorials but again, i just cant seem to find it is all

[little creek]

Hey, I need help to understand better the Box Collider variable in Anim bps...

First, should I use this for character attacks in a game?

My current method had a single box that adjusted by the anim state bp

[tight hazel]

should goals always be the end joints? like hands feet head?
the docs only say this but it doesn't explan why to pick certain bones over others

isn't every point besides an end point, an effector point?

[sudden matrix]

Hi there, I have a problem I've been trying to solve for a while, but I have no clue. I've asked about it earlier on this server but couldn't find a solution. So, I have a metahuman as my main character and I'm using the ThirdPerson_BP with the ABP_Manny_C animation blueprint. I also use some custom animations (Mixamo) for things like opening the door... All of this is working fine in the viewport, but not in standalone. I would really appreciate some help

For the mixamo animations I retargeted the animations and locked in the root. Then I animated the forward movement with RootMotion enabled, so when the character goes through the door it doesn't go back to it's starting position.

I can provide any further information or screenshot if needed

[opaque dagger]

What do u think of my pew pew animation

[misty dagger]

How do I add multiple parent constraints in anim window? I need to change it from chest IK to hand IK. But clicking on adding parent constraint again does not do anything.

[heavy kayak]

https://gyazo.com/7dc20734b0ed49a0167e8e2e65a01c22

hm retargetted a anniamtion to this char but its like attached to the middel :/ ?

how owuld i fix ?

[gaunt moat]

Is there any way to create a template of animation switching logic, so that you can put this template in Animation Blueprint several times, then change the logic in the template as needed, so that this change is carried over to all copies of this template? Here on the screenshot I have a small logic of switching weapon animations, but if there is no possibility to create such a template - I will have to manually copy it for another weapon, and if I want to change it - it will have to be done for each weapon and there will be a chance to make a mistake in one of them, and with a "template" all changes would be copied automatically and to all at once. Is there such a function? In Unity such a thing is called Animator Override Controller

[karmic bobcat]

is there any documentation or tutorial about importing animations fromt he marketplace? i always get new skeletons of the unreal 4 mannequin, and most of them for some reason are not out of the box compatible with each other, its getting really confusing, i got like 50 of them and more with other names even tho theyre also the same keleton

[modest moth]

what's better for what.

1. Have anim montages play with animation and effects everything done in the timeline
2. Play animation by changing anim bp state and then create effect instance seperately

[desert crown]

How do you apploy a Transform Bone with an "if"? I only want this transform to take place is speed greater than 150.

[misty dagger]

When is worth it make a procedural animation?

[granite cedar]

hey gang, anybody know much about ragdoll physics systems, and specifically Linear Limits on joints? I'm in 5.2 and I'm trying to set up a system where I attach a characters hands to something and have the rest of the body flop around. The Physics Control sample assets have the exact setup, but the problem I'm getting is that if I move around the object that the hands are attached too, everything breaks pretty badly. The higher the velocity, the more the Linear Limits on the joints (the setting that's supposed to stop them from moving away from each other) just gets ignored. Every setting that I've tried so far doesn't seem to fix it.

I made a post for help over on the Unreal forums that also includes a video: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/linear-limits-on-character-joint-constraints-not-being-respected-in-high-velocity-movements-how-to-fix/1257171
No luck yet with any responses.

[clear bough]

What "divisor" are you guys using for animations. Do you make them fit into 24/32 format or do you do 30/60? Does it actually matter?

[sharp karma]

Guys, is there a way to animate just the socket location in sequencer (not the bone it's attached to)? I've seen this done in one of the weapons I've purchased in the market but I can't find a way to do it myself in another one.

[ripe stone]

i don,t have self collision on skeletal mesh.. how do i fix that?

[dull goblet]

Can somebody send me a good tutorial for hand ik?

[heavy tusk]

i cant get the walking animation to work on the npc when it moves

ive messed w every setting and i still cant get it

[tulip basin]

can anyone help me with my control rig? I want every bone to move following my body control except the wheels

https://gyazo.com/c5022e27ac8abc4a854faac0761496db

check "propagate to children" will affect also the wheels, which is what i don't want

[little creek]

How can I use anim notifies to create a collider, then edit and see it in the montage sequences?

[little creek]

Hey... For some reason, anim montages for my character won't play anymore

[tacit needle]

Looking for further assistance, I believe this is an issue with the mesh and skeleton but unsure where to look for solutions.

[ashen ivy]

why warping doesnt work

[warm plover]

hey guys, why is my character disappearing into oblivion upon Jump down state? It has MM_Land Animation Sequence into output animation pose

I didn't get what you meant exactly?

You mean inside MM_Land Animation Sequence?

I just noticed something, MM_Land says it's additive!

when I look into ThirdPerson Blueprint, It's implementation is bit different. I don't get what's additive.

[wide pulsar]

Asking this here because I am unable to understand what's going on but if you open the CR_Mannequinn that comes with Third Person Template, then in the Control Rig editor at least, IK-FK Switching works as you expect it to. When using IK, FK controls follow the bones and when using FK the IK Controls follow them appropriately and there's no snapping in the poses.
When I drag that control rig into a level and try to use it with Sequencer, it behaves differently.
Here if I pose a limb with IK turned on and then turn it off, the limb then snaps back to the position FK controls are in.
If I then using the FK mode to pose the limb, then turning IK back on will make the limb snap back to the position it was in when it was in the IK Mode.
Can't really find anything on why that's happening.

[warm plover]

I think, I solved it. I just disabled additive setting inside animation sequence!

[sudden matrix]

Go into your CharacterMovement Component and search for 'use acceleration for paths' and turn it on

Otherwise your AnimBP would think your character moves with a speed of 0 and won't play the animation

[ionic pawn]

Hello everyone, I'm new to ue5 and brand new to this channel. Im stuck on a problem. My goal is to send daz characters to ue5 and then use dollars mocap for facial mocap, and then join that with body animation from mixamo, rokokko, etc.. I need help connecting the recorded facial mocap data to the mixamo animations on the same character. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[whole veldt]

Is there any reason to not export models facing X rather than the weird export Y and rotate it in UE ?

has it been standardized to export Y and rotate it in UE, and thus if you export something else it could cause problems with animations or other such things?

[misty dagger]

I am having a bug which make my character hand not going in predicted location when running in game.

I was trying to code something that move the character's hand where the character look. I made a variable called Point Of Focus in ABP and pass into Control Rig. Everything was running good in the preview but when i run it in the editor, it go not as expected.

[coral sequoia]

UE5,2 trying to back animation of methuman in sequence and it is always freezing. can anyone suggest how to fix it? thank you a lot

[ionic quest]

Add the “from world node” to the vector

[misty dagger]

in where i may ask?

[ionic quest]

You need to get the point of focus from the world and pass it in.

[ionic quest]

In the CR graph

Also I’m not sure on this but if you need real time updates, you might want to update the get world location of the camera via tick or timer

[weary frost]

Hoping this is the right place to ask this, What would be the best way to deal with character movement,
1 : 8 Way Blendspaces (Walk, Run, Armed, Etc)
2 : Have Enums with Directional and State (State would be W - Walk, R - Run, A-Armed) and Directional would be (N,S, E, W) then send a combination of enums to the anim BP to then send the state machine to the right animation so for example (N + R = Run Forward)
3 : Try to decipher the Lyra system which uses dynamic animation sequences to control each "version" of an animation.

I,ve been pondering over this for some time so just wanted to see if someone could give a "X is the most common to control animations".

[rapid finch]

Is there a really good beginner's course that's very comprehensive of character animation that y'all like?

[deft solstice]

https://gyazo.com/fe6bd5a9a9b66eef65f67e60146cd371

Hey guys im having a wierd problem. the skeletol mesh is fine but when the animation plays it dissapears when close.

[dry grail]

I have a procedural animation setup where I use CurveVector assets to alter the location and rotation (as euler angles) of an IK bone for my first person view model in my game. It works well, but it's a bit awkward needing 2 CurveVector assets to store data for one animation. Is there something I can use that can store curve data for at least 2 vectors in 1 asset?

preferably one that I can edit it easily in-editor

[primal perch]

Crazy what one has to do to use mixamo characters and animations.

[violet crescent]

I have the normal and albedo of an image, I want to be able to render it within Unreal but I cant find any tutorials, any help or ideas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYN2alBR3P8&t=207s

basically do what this guy did except idk how he did it he doesn't explain withing the video

[obsidian pawn]

What is the acceptable input range for pitch and yaw on Aim Offsets? I'm having an issue where I have inputs going into the AO, but the AI is just ignoring them for reason. I've been working on this for weeks with no luck haha

This is the code I'm using:

I then put LookAtRotation on to the anim BP, where it is broken into Pitch and Yaw, that I use to drive the aim offset

[rocky remnant]

Hey is it possible to export "blender Control rig to Unreal Engine"?

[bitter shard]

You define it yourself in the Aim Offset asset. Usually you clamp it at 90 degrees in either direction, but it's possible to use whatever you want. Try manually inputting values in the AO node in the AnimBP to see if it works like you'd expect.

[bitter shard]

Not by default, but it's possible there's some plugin that provides a mapping like that

[cunning juniper]

Is it possible to rig a character made up of separate body parts in Blender animate it and then import it into Unreal. Let say I want to make it animate physics all of sudden and have all body parts fly apart.

[cunning juniper]

Do you know if I need to export the character in any particular way to make it work? Right now the separate body parts gets imported as separete skeletal meshes.

[obsidian pawn]

Hm, ok I think I’m my math is off then. I had read that you needed to normalize it to -1 to 1 so I will go back to not normalizing but it wasn’t working that way either before, like the AI are just ignoring it. Will try again later.

[zinc grove]

does anyone know how i can smoothly stop my animation? i looks bad when it snaps to the idle animation. is it possible for me to add an animation inbetween instead as well?

[weary frost]

@zinc grove Yes you can slip animations between the states if you have a look into the Lyra Example for instance they have a Run_Start->Run_Cycles->Run_End I am slowly learning to reverse engineer the lyra example myself so I cant help you with that side of things sorry., But i think there is some youtube guides and tutorials showing how to use it in Youtube

[coral sequoia]

Guys i have baked animation from metahuman animator. and i want to adjust it.. how to convert it to metahuman face rig back?

[frosty moon]

Res

[coral sequoia]

@frosty moon what? didnt get it

[frosty moon]

I wonder same thing as you if someone answer it i alsa wanna know how is it so i just typed res instead reservation dont mind me im just a Junior in ue5

Btw do you know smth about lokomotion in ABP

[primal perch]

Does someone here knows a little about Cascadeur?

[young cloud]

hi !
I am working on a proceduraly rigged character and I have some problem concerning controlrig -> animblueprint integration.
my character works fine in the control rig editor, but it appears warped in the blueprint editor (using a control rig node) any idea ?

[young cloud]

foot controllers are using a trace to find the ground

might come from here

thanks

nah it's not, stranger when put in the scene, the model gets rotated in a weird way

[cinder linden]

Is it possible to attach to a bone on the editor, by right clicking you are able to attach but it doesn't seem to let you attach to a specific bone. I'm on 4.27

[primal perch]

Hello. Im trying to make a swordtrace for my attack animation but I barely get traces. Ive watched tutorials where the length of their attack phases were close to mine, but they get like a bazillion trace spheres from it and I dont. Im using an anim notify state that creates a sphere trace on every tick. I literally copied the setup from some yotuber, but its wnot working...

Oh damn, I didnt see your message until now...It was about autophysic, but I figured It out

[limber garden]

Anyone know how I fix this error? - i suspect it has messed up all my animations in the sequencer and I have no idea how to approach fixing it

The Skeleton walking_cyclewalking_cycle_Skeleton is missing bones that SkeletalMesh walking_cyclewalking_cycle needs. They will be added now. Please save the Skeleton!

[primal perch]

So I should use like 5 regular notifies put behind each other and fire of one trace shape at each?

@stable basin Do you happen to know how much fps an attack animation like this should have? I tried to google stuff, but lately for some reason my algorithm is so fucked up it does not show me what Im looking for even if I know its there because I searched for it a while ago.

[limber garden]

I should add, all my imported animations were working, and then suddenly they are all broken and im sure it's down to the 'missing bones' that the error prompt mentions. Really stuck here, so if anyone has a clue please do chime in -)

[primal perch]

probably an idea. didnt think of that

I see makes sense

@stable basin Im still wondering why in the tutorials they had so man "ticks" even tho the attack phases were as long as mine and used notifystates to fire traces...

probably not neccessary to know...but im still wondering

[tepid sundial]

The issue is that your animation has a fixed duration, regardless of your FPS. Say your animation is one second long, if your FPS is 60, you get 60 ticks during that animation, if your FPS is 30, you only get 30

[primal perch]

I dont want to do this. you just told me to not do so. I was just curios, why theire tickspeed is faster than mine.

[tepid sundial]

Doesn't matter how many frames the animation is authored with, it is only evaluated on your normal FPS tick. You can see this by using the console commands to set your editor fps to something even lower

[primal perch]

this seems reasonable

hm hm

and how Do I get a visual respresentation of the trace shapes in the anim editor?

in their videos they could preview them to better align it

[tepid sundial]

You use a custom notify to do the trace that also draws a debug shape

[primal perch]

the sword trace notify state I used has debug shapes on. in game its showing, but not in the animation editor where I set the notifies

[tepid sundial]

What UWorld are you passing into the debug draw?

[primal perch]

its like this

[tepid sundial]

I can hardly read that 😓 but I use DrawDebugSphere(MeshComp->GetWorld(), MeshComp->GetComponentLocation() + CurveTransform.GetLocation(), 5, 5, FColor::Red, false, DrawnLifetime); in cpp - I.e call GetWorld() on the mesh component directly, since the actor is not loaded in the anim editor

[primal perch]

ehh idk

[tepid sundial]

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable with BP can give you a hand with that, its not my forte I'm afraid

[primal perch]

its fine, thank you anyways ❤️

[primal perch]

I meant like this

I have filled my animation with notifies now for the spheres. I still only get 4 spheres

im confused

so not like this?

but making big spheres increases the hitbox

hmm

maybe my whole idea is not optimal

im check it out

allright. thanks

[lunar vigil]

Can you create animation sequence assets just within UE itself? I only imported animations from blender until now, but I kinda need to animate bones and create my own sequence just in UE

can you point me in the right direction? Im searching for tutorials but they always seem to talk about something else and confuse me even more

like theyre mostly just using sequencer but thats not what i want

ah so you have to use the sequencer?

it seems so.. complicated though :D like Id rather just somehow export to blender and do it there

[astral bay]

You do know mixamo has loads of animations you can use

[lunar vigil]

yeah but thats completely irrelevant to what i need to do now, but thanks

its not even a biped skeleton lol

and i have all the animations i need i just need to cut and modify one

[primal perch]

Could someone help me with my animation being faster ingame than in the montage editor?..

[worthy latch]

how do you run an animation? Depends on it

PlayMontage requires a playing speed, which is given by you

maybe it's high in your blueprint?

[primal perch]

play rate is 1

[worthy latch]

so you play it through a blueprint, can I see the part in a screenshot?

[worthy latch]

does lowering the play rate solve the problem?

if so, maybe you should create a clean montage and try with it since it's not something about the blueprint

[primal perch]

no not really. But is noticed something else. its not really "too fast", its more like skipping

[worthy latch]

it sounds like a null animation

are you sure you assigned the correct animation

how fast is it, like a frame or so?

[primal perch]

yes. maybe it has something to do with the skeleton

in the anim sequencer quinn is used, and it looks fine. but im using manny in game