animation

[obsidian trench]

hmm.. running into a snag.. I have a animBP that i'm doing via layers to make this modular and easy to swap between anims depending on if the characer is holding a wep, unarmed, etc... all my anim sequences are stored on the ABP_Layer children in a data asset.. its readonly and never changes.. so should be thread safe... however when i try to access a reference of the data asset when determining what sequence to play.. its telling me that object reference is not thread safe.. how do I set it to be thread safe?

if it was a function i could add meta = (BlueprintThreadSafe) to the UFUNCTION().. however because its done as a reference.. UPROPERTY does not have such a meta specifier... how is this any difference to saving the anims directly on each childLayer as regardless the refeerence does not change after creation.

ok.. I dont know why its doing this... i've used a similar function before with no issues.... here i'm using my EVelocityLocomotionDirection to select a sequence anim to play based on what state of movement i'm in.. my ABP detects it as blueprint threadsafe and theres no issues whatsoever with playing the right anim

here i'm doing the same exact thing.. picking the proper anim sequence to play via my VelocityLocomotionDirection and the state of movement im in.. but its telling me the dataasset reference is not threadsafe

both are used in OnBecomeRelevant in a sequence evaluator

[scarlet moth]

When using live retargeting, can I use a retarget asset like in the retarget animations tool somehow? I'd like to make some slight adjustments.
I can't find any documentation about this "retarget orig body anim mode" setting.

[fast dew]

i can barely read that tiny screenshot but it looks like in the first screenshot you're breaking start anims, where in the second shot it looks like you're splitting the pins. no idea why that would matter, maybe there's an internal getter/setter that isn't threadsafe. try making it exactly the same way as the first shot

(and post larger screenshots, my eyes hurt now :P)

[ivory osprey]

You can assign a child animBP a different skeleton, then use the asset override editor to change defaults (on a Sequence Player, for example). There are two options for child animBPs. "Create child Anim Blueprint with Skeleton" is what you'd expect to use, but this assumes you have a compatible skeleton, which is set in either the sk or skel asset. The other option is to make a child animBP, then right click and choose "Assign Skeleton". Now of course, if the parent references specific bones (transform(modify) node as an example), then it won't work in the child accurately. You can also use Linked Graphs to bring in even more modular functionality, but its a bit complicated and I would recommend looking at some Lyra talks that go way in-depth into those systems!

[haughty girder]

any idea how to apply sync markers over motion matching
I motion Matched Lyra Animations using state machines and motion matching tutorial and I am satisfied with the results but there is significantly noticeable bad blending between start and cycle

[jolly hatch]

Am I dreaming thinking that I can Retarget hand poses from the manny to the XR hand and vice versa , I am trying but the XR hands fingers are a mess

[fickle silo]

sorry im not too familiar with animating stuff yet, so cant give good advice. but apparently bones can add distortion to meshes. so for the cards i recommend looking up a tutorial on animating static meshes and trying to incorporate it into the same animation of the other object that has bones. tho idk how it works, i just saw a title on youtube about animating the movement of static meshes.

[fickle silo]

i have zero clue if this helps, but anyways https://youtu.be/CUjUikUQ0wU?si=eREplZxeocrROjda

[glossy vapor]

Thanks but I know how to animate 🙂 this more complex situation as its one mesh and more parts need to be animated with bones. But no problem,, take it bit,by bit 🙂

[fickle silo]

i would make the cards separate meshes, and then add them to the sequencer like shown in the video. but i havent done so before, only done character animations, so i dont know if that would work well.

[harsh sail]

yo guyys

where can I turn on animation loop?

[quartz forge]

double click on the animation -> search for Loop in the Asset Details view

[harsh sail]

I turned that on

[quartz forge]

you might need to also enable it in the animation blueprint

[harsh sail]

but still animation doesn't loop when playing

[harsh sail]

where can I find that? it doesn't show nor in detail, nor in preview, nor the asset override thing

oh found it

[quartz forge]

I guess you have a the animation in a State in you animation graph

yeah that one

[harsh sail]

yup

okay thanks

[red pumice]

Hello, have a question again
there any way to fill branch filters by some kind... variable?

[dense saffron]

I'm hitting an issue with modular control rigs in 5.4.3, when I add an arm or a leg node it puts the IK helper at the origin instead of extending out from the joint, this is happening with all the control rigs that were prexisting in the project, and with any new ones I create

[hasty delta]

Anyone know why I cannot create an AnimationBP of a given skeletal mesh? I have the goblin assets from I think last month that I'm trying to use but when I go to create an animation blueprint I can't find the SK_Epic_Goblin skeletal mesh in the list

oh wait I see it needs to be a skeleton not a skeletal mesh, well I didn't even realize there was a difference

ah it uses the UE4 manny skeleton ok

[opal agate]

The motion matching sample project has extra skeletal meshes on all of the character BPs that are not the base character BP. Anyone know why? Why not just use the Skeletal Mesh 0?

[hasty delta]

ok nevermind that does not work at all. is there a way to create a Skeleton from a skeletal mesh?

it really seems like I should just be able to use the skeletal mesh for the animation blueprint i don't get why that doesn't work

[wispy tangle]

hi. Why montage stop node doesnt stop montage?

from another bp*

[naive mountain]

Reference issue

[wispy tangle]

yep. i solved it. 🙂

[naive mountain]

You cannot have a skeletal mesh without a skeleton

[wispy tangle]

Hi Some, how can i make animations have less effect on the head. I just dont want head bob. I dont want to add camera lag*

[hasty delta]

well, there are bones and it is a skeletal mesh, but when trying to create a new animation blueprint - it doesn't exist and everything in the list says Skeleton not Skeletal Mesh

[finite violet]

Thoughts?

[near moth]

No hip movement
No spine movement

Hips need to go sideways and also up and down

Spine also follows the hips and goes up and down

[finite violet]

I will see what I can do

[hallow elm]

WHAT?????
IS THAT NOT SINGLE STATE????

[blazing wave]

Is there a way within ue5 to remove rootmotion from animations?

[ocean wharf]

I want to make a dangling fuse that has posing capabilities (just bending and curving it to the initial shape), and physics (danging when the object is being moved).

Should I go with spline components, or the bones?

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/dynamite-sticks-isolated-white-background-red-sticks-burning-fuses-explosion-timer-realistic-cartoon-style-dynamite-149939557.jpg?w=768

[subtle thicket]

There seems to be next to nothing in terms of how to align the player and play an animation for when you want to interact with something, say opening a door. All the guides or info I find dont talk about that
Or maybe I'm just bad at googling this very specific thing....
Anyone have any reaources or can point me in the right direction plz? I'm getting annoyed at this point

[obsidian trench]

The motion matching sample was showing you their new live IK retargeter showcasing you can use animations on skeletal they weren't orig. Designed for in real time now... it's pretty resource intensive though so don't expect it to work for a whole crowd of mobs

[opal agate]

I heard that performance rumor too, but I found someone running some tests on it, and apparently, the difference isn't really noticeable. Ofcourse UE is terrible at having lots of characters right out of the box. You really need some custom culling levels and such to make anything above 50 run acceptably.

As for the issue I was talking about. Changing the base/original skeletal mesh to the echo one makes UE crash when you run it, right after seemingly behaving as expected. The images show what I mean with multiple skeletal meshes on the inherited(retargeted) ones.

[obsidian trench]

It's not noticeable with only 1 instance running.. but it adds up quickly if you have over 10 on your screen.. because each one has to virtualize and calculate every bones translation every frame vs just moving the bones based off their native animation

[opal agate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ryrzavNx3Q
Looks like the comparison I saw was on ALS vs Motion Matching, so disregard my earlier opinion.
Should be fine for just the player character though.

[inland ember]

How do I edit animation with camera? I mean I want to change the animation but how do I check what it looks like with camera?

[eager yarrow]

Anyone know how to turn off the animation for turning in a vehicle without removing the ability to turn?

im using chaos vehicles

[fast dew]

how does one remove a function input in control rig? I feel like i've right clicked on literally every possible location and none of them let me delete it. I accidentally clicked the "+" button one too many times, now it seems like i have a permanent new input on this function lol

i love control rig but i cannot fathom why they decided to change so many basic UX standards established by literally every other graph editor in unreal

[merry bone]

I would like to say thanks again for the link! Just finished watching it and I can finally start working on my fps animations. 👍

[sudden sedge]

Is there a way to get the location of bones pre subtraction? I'm trying to do IK, and I'm trying to only affect height ik goal of a bone, but I'm running into an issue with feedback loops

when I set the world position of a bone, suddenly it doesn't keep the X and Y axis of the bone

[lusty venture]

if you're editing the animation in scene and have a camera set up in your scene, you can view through the camera in this menu (as you can see for me i created a camera called mouthcam):

[red pumice]

Hi, have a problem

If I'll make new "LayeredBlendPerBone" without LandingGear_09 and R_Suspension_01 in any other blend pose, but with tire bones, blend for tire bones under R_Suspension will work fine
but LandingGear_09 and R_Suspension_01 will became static, not animated

[cunning salmon]

guys, I messed the bone of the skeleton, and now my metahuman is stuck in A pose

I need help please

[lusty venture]

can you be more specific

[cunning salmon]

It looks more like this

What happened was I downloaded a mixamo character and tried to assign the sk_mannequin skeleton with it, I clicked yes and everything, and it ruined the bones of SK_Mannequin.

I cannot use all animations I head for the starter content or anything.

What I need help on, is to get the bones of the mannequin skeleton reseted

[lusty venture]

so you can't do it this way because the skeletons are not the same, and will break everything. instead what you should try to do is import the mixamo character and skeleton and retarget the manny animations to the mixamo, or vice versa

https://youtu.be/N7WdyAeeDrw

[cunning salmon]

So here's what I did, I deleted the mixamo character because I was panicking.

So, there's no way I can reset sk_mannequin?

[cunning salmon]

I don't want to do anything with the mixamo character, I just need to get back my animations' skeleton working right

[cunning salmon]

It's all okay. I'm doing something different

Basically I'm doing a soft restart from a different project with migrated assets. Thanks for your help

[ivory osprey]

Expand the details panel until you see an X

Control rig is silly like that

[tropic root]

in this, how do i make the enemy not teleport backwards after its attack?

[tropic root]

had to enable root lol

got it

[fathom bluff]

https://youtu.be/VN9gqiuAQfc?si=eXTI47Ht7OxTOiBl

does anyone know how id be able to attach the tips of the cloth simulated wings to the hands during the gliding animation?

[inland ember]

I know about this but my problem is that if I edit the animation in the animation itself. The change don't replicate on the scene. I even tried level sequencer but couldn't find how to do it. Do you have any tutorial that could guide me? I have a gun holding animation in my fps game. The animation is right in the middle but I want it to be on the bottom right, but don't know how to change the animation with live review as to how it would like with respect to the camera.

[final orchid]

is there any way of making vault and mantle with out motion warping

[north plaza]

im setting my speed here with the velocity and stuff

but when my AI stops it dosent blend to the idle animation

how can I smooth it out when it goes to the idle animation

[azure roost]

Does anybody know how to correctly set up control rig inside a character blueprint?
I have a modular setup with multiple meshes using the same skeleton and I have set them up to use "lead pose component", but is there a better way to do this?
Lead pose component currently crashes when raytracing is enabled, so I´d like to avoid it if possible.
If its not possible it might be a better idea to just work around it and simply use a non-modular setup for just the animation part.
So:

1. Create the animation with the control rig blueprint.
2. Bake to animation asset.
3. Use animation asset in the modular character blueprint.

Another issue I´m having with the current setup:
I´m using a proxy mesh as lead pose master and its set to "invisible", but then if I want to animate using the control rig, the control rig is also invisible.
Is there a way to set the control rig visibility independent of the mesh using it?

[spare venture]

Hi does anyone know any good weapon animation tutorials for 3dsmax and unreal?

[red pumice]

Will bump my question due still no solution

[cursive hollow]

Does anyone have any advice for someone learning unreal 5 on their own how to do animations I am looking for a good straight to the point video explaining adding animations, creating Blendspaces or setting up state machines I bought a kit on sale called
Basic Survival Animation Pack
it has 582 animations so I thought it would be fun to go through using it to learn animations either using blendspaces and state machines or should I just use MotionMatching?? Probably will try to learn both ways because it has a lot of ones like cutting down trees and breaking up stone with a pick axe cooking in a frying pan I thing these will probably only work once I set up a fire place or have trees to cut down

[cosmic roost]

I'm trying to make Manny crouch (type "c" in the project settings), but I can't. I chose the free crouch animation from the store and imported it as the tutorial teaches, but unlike running and jumping, which work, this one doesn't. Where did I go wrong?Please help me, I'm close to giving up on learning this on my own.

I didn't find any part of the tutorials that teach how to create and add animation to the character, if anyone knows where this part is in the UE5 documentation I would be very grateful

[steel pilot]

I fixed my issues, I figured out the blendspace player and how to expose the pins.

[steel pilot]

If you’re using enhanced input actions, you should be using enhanced input actions throughout. Just create a new InputAction, attach it to your InputMappingContext, and then just use that instead of input action crouch.

[steel pilot]

Additionally, have you used the print nodes to make sure that the crouch even is firing?

[cosmic roost]

No

[steel pilot]

You should do that first, the event may be firing but the function “crouch”/“uncrouch” isn’t working properly.

[cosmic roost]

Where I find a Basic of animation tutorial to ue5.4 , I don't understand too much your explanation

[steel pilot]

How did you set up your animGraph?

[cosmic roost]

Always I find videos but they are different some way to my project

I imported

[steel pilot]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/enhanced-input-in-unreal-engine

[steel pilot]

If that doesn’t work, the functions named Crouch and Un Crouch aren’t working. You can check to see if the red event node Crouch is working by putting a Print String node at the end of the Crouch function to see if it prints.

[steel pilot]

If it does print, it means it’s firing and your crouch function is working properly. If it is not, it means it is not firing and that means the event is not firing and you need to change it to an enhanced input action.

[cosmic roost]

Well, I didn't do that, I wander from tutorial to tutorial and since they are very different, I end up not doing anything, I've tried to open ready-made projects but they are too complex for learning, the old UE4 tutorials are good to learn but I want to learn in UE5 since it has much more optimized resources, so I get lost, I don't know if I have to learn Blender and do everything from scratch or if I have to learn C++, I've tried countless times to create a study plan through chatgpt, but it's dumber than me.

I'm using the default third person project, is that the best way to start? I've already found these inputs in the actions folder

should I create another one here?

[steel pilot]

Right. If you want to learn the engine, that’s not a good way to do that. Many people who make those videos generally offer very hacky solutions that will not scale well. If you want to learn about player movement in general I recommend you look at making your own controller and trying to hook it up to a Pawn through an Blueprint Interface. The documentation that Epic makes is very good in this regard.

[steel pilot]

Yeah, just duplicate your sprint input actions and rename it. If you open it up, you can even change the action from a button to one axis or even two axises. Two axises are used for something like bidirectional movement using WASD or a joystick, as well as mouse input.

[cosmic roost]

but there is no sprint here, there is only jump, look and move? Do I duplicate move then?

[steel pilot]

Sorry, I meant the jump. You can do the same to get the sprint.

[cosmic roost]

but sprint is already working so I did it wrong is it still working?

[steel pilot]

It should still work, but the way that sprint event is functioning is meant to be depreciated, I believe.

[cosmic roost]

ok i will correct it too

[steel pilot]

Right. Then you can just save that and then open up your input mapping context. You can also open it up and double check that the value type is a button (bool). Setting the actual values of the keys should be done through an Input Mapping Context so you can ignore that bottom part.

[steel pilot]

Once you’re done with that, you can open up your Input Mapping Context and start adding those events.

[cosmic roost]

this?

[steel pilot]

Add more mappings through that button. If you hit the little triangle on the side, you can also see where you change the keys that’ll call those actions.

[steel pilot]

Yup. Now hit those triangles or right click and expand all. Then scroll down to where your crouch and sprint are and set up those keys.

[cosmic roost]

well.. thanks but i dont find this too

and now?

[steel pilot]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/blueprint-interface-in-unreal-engine
This is one of the first things that pops up when you type Blueprint Interface ue5 documentation. I’d also recommend that you only call enhanced action inputs in a custom player controller and use interfaces to talk to the pawn, but for now you can just stick it in the pawn.

[steel pilot]

Now, enhanced input crouch and you hook it up.

Triggered runs every frame, started when you first push it, and completed when you finish it.

[steel pilot]

If you want to make sure it’s working, attach a print string to the started and completed nodes with different messages.

[steel pilot]

So it is working now. Does your model crouch?

[cosmic roost]

not crouching yet

[steel pilot]

Right. Is your crouch function hooked up, and if it is, can you show me what the function is doing?

[cosmic roost]

do nothing just display message

here animations

[steel pilot]

Not quite what I mean. Can you send me a screenshot of the crouch function itself?

[cosmic roost]

It was this skeleton file that I used to do the redirection

[steel pilot]

It’s a little important as it’s probably communicating with the animation blueprint.

[cosmic roost]

how to open it?

[steel pilot]

Right. I believe your animations are fine, just that you’re animation Blueprint is not set up properly. You can just double click to open it, or right click on it and hit edit.

[steel pilot]

The orange guys are your Anim Blueprint.

[spare kiln]

I'm trying to retarget a few animations, but I'm facing an issue, where while doing motion matching, the pose search database is not able to detect the trajectory correctly.

Image 1: Original animation
Image 2: Retargeted animation
Image 3: Animation in the retargeter, where some of the green circles (not sure what they exactly are) stayig in the middle, could this be an issue?

[steel pilot]

What about there?

It should be the one called AnimGraph.

[steel pilot]

I’m not sure myself, I don’t normally use motion matching as my workflow is entirely different.

[cosmic roost]

unable, not is history here

[spare kiln]

I think it might have to do something with the retargeting but not sure

[steel pilot]

Do you get an error message?

[steel pilot]

I meant right above it, my bad.

[spare kiln]

noep

[cosmic roost]

Thank you very much for your patience

[spare kiln]

"Success! The IK Retargeter is ready to transfer animation from the source, SKM_Manny to the target, SKM_Quinn"

but the green circles in the retargeter stay behind so i suspect is has to do somethign with that

[steel pilot]

Does the Anim play properly?

[steel pilot]

Might be visual glitch.

[spare kiln]

yes id does

[steel pilot]

Ah, they use state machines. You generally don’t need to use them, but it can help some people with their workflow. Please double click and open up the state machine.

[spare kiln]

but why would the pose search database then not be able to get the trjacetory

[steel pilot]

Huh. I wouldn’t be sure about that.

[cosmic roost]

this?

[spare kiln]

because for the source the move

[steel pilot]

Yup.

[spare kiln]

how does the pose serach database calculate the trajectory

[steel pilot]

That I wouldn’t do. I’d probably assume some kind of machine learning.

[spare kiln]

But how is it then able to detect the trajectory for one animation but not for the exact same animation after retargeting

[cosmic roost]

There is neither sprint nor crouch there, but sprint works, I think because it is already standard and I didn't need to create it in the project settings.

[steel pilot]

Is there something that you might have to manually copy or is it possible to edit the trajectory?

[spare kiln]

Thats what I'm asking 😅
No i just retargeted the animations

[cosmic roost]

Are you customizing a running animation?

[spare kiln]

I'm just trying to retarget a animation, so the custom bones work on my mesh

[steel pilot]

Right. I believe your issue stems from here. There’s also a lot of functionality that is being run every frame where you can save some performance by making some functions on update. As such, I’d recommend you “start over” when it comes to the AnimGraph. You don’t have to redo everything, just how assemble the animation information. Firstly, I’m going to ask you to see if there’s a walk/run blendspace.

[steel pilot]

I’m going to read the docs and see if that’s the case.

[spare kiln]

wait maybe this is the issue?

after retargeting the animation moves of the center, what is that?

[steel pilot]

That might be it.

I don’t think the Pose Data Asset is getting any of the information of the bones that it wants, so it thinks nothing is moving.

[spare kiln]

No but the two animations, the first one is the original one the second one after retargeting

[steel pilot]

@cosmic roost If there is not, we’re going to have to make one.

[spare kiln]

why is the retargeted one not staying in the center?

[steel pilot]

I wouldn’t actually know myself. I’m only speculating here since retargeting and animation pissed me off so much that I changed my whole animation workflow into interpolating between key frames.

[cosmic roost]

I'm just ears and eyes

[spare kiln]

hmm it's my first time trying to retarget I'm wondering

[steel pilot]

Right. Here’s the plan. We’re going to have one two way blend that two blendspaces that describe the character when moving upright and the other when he is moving hunched over. We will control the how he does that through the blendspaces by adding a function that changes on the update of the blendspace player.

[cosmic roost]

I saw about blendspaces in contentexamples but it doesn't teach how to do it

and look, I was just going to make him crouch down to do several other animations, like washing his hands, getting water, picking up things, making a fire, scratching on the ground, etc... I don't even know where to start, will I need Blender? Or will Controlrig solve it?

[steel pilot]

You can create a blendspace by right clicking in the content browser, which is the tab with all the files, and either search for a blendspace 1d. You can type and it will pop up in the search. The normal blendspace has a y dimension, but we don’t need that.

[steel pilot]

You’ll probably need blender. I use something called MrMannequin which allows me to create animations through IK, it’s really good and it’s free.

[steel pilot]

There’s already some, but we’re looking to create our own so we don’t have to use those.

It’s also not set up in the way we like, so we can ignore them.

[cosmic roost]

double click here?

[steel pilot]

Right click and create a new blendspace 1d.

[steel pilot]

That’s the one. I believe you’re using the “SK_Mannequin”

[cosmic roost]

Skmannequin

ok

[steel pilot]

Yup.

[cosmic roost]

done

[steel pilot]

Awesome. You can open up the axis through this to change the values, and drag any animations from the right to put onto the blendspace.

[steel pilot]

Also, you’re using the wrong skeleton. You chose the “Sk_Mannequin_Skeleton”, not the “Sk_Mannequin”

[cosmic roost]

so I didn't understand what axis this is or the other details of the asset

[cosmic roost]

1min

[steel pilot]

All good. The “axis” is this thing. If you drag animation here, you’ll see them there. If you hold CTRL and move your mouse around there, you can see the green X move and the mesh also change animations.

[cosmic roost]

some thing is wrong

This is the female mannequin, I didn't import the animations for it nor did I retarget it.

see?

but I did it by intuition because I didn't have the same files as the tutorial here so I improvised

There are some files in red, does that mean they don't work or is it just a pose?

[steel pilot]

It’s actually correct. If you click the three buttons that are on the pink mesh button on the top right you can actually change the viewing mesh.

[steel pilot]

Those red files are actually pose files and I don’t believe you need them for what you’re doing.

@cosmic roost You’ll only need to retarget meshes that have a different skeleton. You can have different skeletal meshes that share the same skeleton.

My apologies for suddenly dropping, I had a impromptu test on Bernoulli’s equation.

[cosmic roost]

I studied mathematics but I don't even remember that 🤪

[cosmic roost]

what's the right way to do this then? since I did it wrong

[steel pilot]

You’re about 3/4 of the way done now. Now you’ll need to drag the animations where the mannequin is crouched into the crouch section and the one where he stands in the standing section. I notified you of the axis earlier as we’ll need to change that to a larger number as that axis will represent the speed of the character.

[steel pilot]

The mannequin that unreal engine provides is already set up properly and you haven’t done anything wrong. If you want to swap the “active” mesh, there should be a drop-down menu that occurs when you click the button with the three vertical white circles. This button should be to the left of the pink skeleton mesh button, which will be on the right side of the hotbar up at the top.

[steel pilot]

Yup. Now you can go ahead and fill out the crouch anims and the stand/walk/run Anika into their respective blendspaces.

[cosmic roost]

is this?

[steel pilot]

Yup. We’re also going to need to add jumping functionality back into the animation, but we can do that later.

[cosmic roost]

What values ​​do you suggest to put on the axis?

[steel pilot]

You should leave the minimum at 0 and the maximum at 600. You can then take your idle/stand and stick it at 0, your walk at 100, and your run at 300. If your animations look like they’re sliding, you can either shift the values up or down.

Then you’re going to do the same for the other one.

[cosmic roost]

this

I just dragged one, is it to pull more?

[steel pilot]

You should pull the one that says crouchwalk.

[cosmic roost]

So take this one off and put the other one on?

[steel pilot]

No, you should have both there. If you have zero speed, you want to have the idle animation, right?

[opal agate]

Any idea why my motion matching can't find its database? I'm 98% certain I have all the plugins, and I connect it in the level blueprint just like in the motion matching sample.

[steel pilot]

Oh man, some of those have root motion enabled.

[steel pilot]

You’ll want to use the ones that have _IPC in them.

[cosmic roost]

deleting

[steel pilot]

What are you deleting?

[cosmic roost]

now crouchwalkidleIPC and crouchwalkingIPC

[steel pilot]

Gotcha.

Awesome. Once you’ve finished that, save all your files and go back to your AnimGraph.

[steel pilot]

@cosmic roost Also, we want to clear your skeletal mesh of the post process blueprint. https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/animation-blueprints?application_version=4.27

[cosmic roost]

ok i take some timo to read all this

[steel pilot]

You’ll get to the asset if you click on the pink button in the top right.

[steel pilot]

All good.

[cosmic roost]

in Mesh?

[cosmic roost]

here?

[steel pilot]

Double click that guy.

[steel pilot]

Search for post process anim blueprint

If there is anything there, clear it from there.

[steel pilot]

I mean you clear it from the skeletal mesh asset in here. You can do that by clicking on its right and clicking clear asset afterwards.

[cosmic roost]

in assset details?

I couldn't find this one

it's really in this window?

[steel pilot]

It’s in that window.

You can use the search bar.

[cosmic roost]

Search for clear?

I should make a index to this because i'm already lost.😂

[cosmic roost]

I don't changed nothing there yet

[cosmic roost]

Is this what I have to clean?

this?just delete then?

I swear I looked in every possible search bar here

[cosmic roost]

or just click disable?

disable "ABP_Manny_Postprocess"

this clear?

[steel pilot]

You have to search for post process anim blueprint.

[cosmic roost]

i cleared here but same thing

[steel pilot]

Not in there. You only cleared the mesh preview. You have to go into the area I specified before and search for the post process anim blueprint and disable it.

[cosmic roost]

This was missing, I can't imagine what value to put so I put 0.1 as the minimum and left the maximum as 100, is that in m/s?

[opal agate]

I think I found the problem. This node is missing after migrate. Any idea how I can add it? It doesn't seem to appear in the context menu when I right click.

What it might be called, that is.

[steel pilot]

In this instance, yes. However, you’ll most likely want him to be still when he is at 0, not 0.1. After that, we need to blend the cycles together.

[cosmic roost]

@steel pilot my friend, is not working yet...

[steel pilot]

Where are you doing this?

[cosmic roost]

BP_ThirdPersonCharacter

[steel pilot]

Also, type IA_Crouch or IA_Sprint instead.

[cosmic roost]

you are a genious i never imagine this

kkkkkkkkkkkk

what i put in Actionvalue? bollean?

[steel pilot]

The action value returns if the button is pressed down or not during the event, which is technically always going to be true for us. Click the arrow underneath the action value.

[cosmic roost]

this?

[steel pilot]

Cancelled only fires in one specific instance where you cancel a button hold.

You’ll want to use completed.

[cosmic roost]

shit, dont work, and now dont ddisplay more a message

change project binds?

[steel pilot]

Go back to your IMC.

What did you set your key in there?

[cosmic roost]

but the messages started to appear again

[steel pilot]

Does it work now?

[cosmic roost]

do not crouch

[steel pilot]

Right. Do te messages still appear?

[cosmic roost]

yes

[steel pilot]

Awesome. Open up the AnimGraph.

[steel pilot]

Once you do that, do a two way blend into the locomotion pose.

The B value will be your crouch blendspace player, and your A value your stand blendspace player.

[cosmic roost]

here?

[red pumice]

anyone?

[steel pilot]

Those are a lot of nodes. What exactly is happening here?

[cosmic roost]

this?

[steel pilot]

Not quite. What did you name the blendspaces that you made?

[cosmic roost]

well is better rename it

maybe I didn't choose the animations correctly here

Shouldn't he first be standing up and then crouching down in idle?

and now i changed view and dont knows how to back to other

[red pumice]

evaluate anim sequences for different bones depended by different variables

[cosmic roost]

and now crashed UE5 😆

[red pumice]

just example for Elvl and Elvr

[steel pilot]

Crouch Blendspace should just be, from left to right, crouch idle to crouch walk. Stand Blendspace should be, from left to right, idle to walk to run.

[steel pilot]

That’ll occur when you edit your axis and one of your assets is in a position greater that the new maximum value.

[steel pilot]

Damn, I’d recommend looking into control rigs for this. This goes straight into a layered bone blend, right? The first thing I’d look into is if an earlier/later position is overriding it and if the bone you’re trying to modify is in the layered bone edit list in the node.

[cosmic roost]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOV0RypRvQ

[steel pilot]

@red pumice But I’m not gonna lie, you’re probably going to have an easier time using control rigs.

[steel pilot]

?

[cosmic roost]

It was this asset that I downloaded this video

[steel pilot]

Right. This is the same asset that UE provides out of the box.

[cosmic roost]

so ?it shouldn't work?

control rigs or motion making? what is better?

But now I'm only going to start this other chapter of this story tomorrow, I've already been beaten up a lot today, my back is burning!😂

[steel pilot]

If you’re looking for performance or an actual way to implement it, you use control rigs.

[steel pilot]

Right that, have a good one!

[cosmic roost]

thanks for all

hope is the last to die!

[red pumice]

iirc control rig doesn't exist in 4.18.3
yes... i'm asking here about tips for modding a game

[steel pilot]

Oh damn! My fault.

[red pumice]

not your

[silent ruin]

Based on your setup, I assume you are animating the suspension of the wheels as an aircraft lands.
You can do traces on tick as a part of the landing sequence.
Then you can feed those numbers directly to a Modify Bone node in the ABP to modify the bones, additively.

I don't have 4.18 installed, but I assume these controls should exist since they are in 4.23

Good luck.

[spare kiln]

Hey guys, does anybody know, why for my retargeted animations, there is no trajectory generated?

[red pumice]

unfortunately in my case i need to make it animated depended on variable value

[silent ruin]

yeah it does that

the modify bone node

[red pumice]

no, need to do that by anim sequence

not modify bone =(

[silent ruin]

can you summarize the setup you are attempting? Its kind of hard to follow from all the stuff above

oh god I see what you are doign now

hummmmmmmm

[red pumice]

i need to make play animation by evaluate sequence by editing variable
there are for example Elvl variable, i need to make play animation by this variable only bones that will be related to it (in my case - L_Elevator, L_Elevator_01 and etc, i guess it is possible only by "layered per bone blend" node, and any other bones should be not affected by this)

i did that
but it have issues

for some reason even with blend depth 0 it affects to child bones

[silent ruin]

What you are showing me.... can be better done with pose assets

Like these floats you are feeding into the evaluators

[red pumice]

yup

[silent ruin]

are they like just controlling a specific 0-1 alpha of like the Elevator from rest to maximum?

[red pumice]

-1 to 1 actually

[silent ruin]

okay that's okay too.

[red pumice]

don't worry, i did math for this

[silent ruin]

Hummm, I would recommend pose asset.

since it handles these kind of "possible positions" really well

[red pumice]

in my case zero value is medium frame (if anim with 101 frames, 50th frames
-1 - first frame
1 - last frame

here's a problem
very outdated version of UE4
4.18

[silent ruin]

I see pose asset right there

can you show me like the anim sequnce yo uare using

want to get a feel for waht kind of data you are working with

[red pumice]

sorry, i'm stupid sometimes

[silent ruin]

what this thing does, is turning every frame of An Anim Sequence, into "Poses"

and you name them

[red pumice]

yes

[silent ruin]

then turn them on/off etc.

So yeah, I think this will really streamline what you are doing with a whole airplane

than using evaluators

unless there are some special case I am not tracking.

It won't work if you are trying to do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3yiIWkhVw

[silent ruin]

yeah for pose asset

it just wants the first frame and hte last frame

then you can just animate a curve going from 0-1 for timing

How should I put it, it simplifies animation data, so you are no longer doing
"Store 98 frames of 12 bones rotating"
Instead it becomes
"Store 2 frame of 12 bones, with 1 curve telling them what % they need to do the poses"

Cuts the data down from
98 frame x 12 bones
to
2 frame x 12 bones + 1 Curve

[red pumice]

i have no idea how to use pose assets =(

[silent ruin]

you are telling these individual poses to turn on/off, with curves from your animation

[red pumice]

i have tons of "Pose_" poses

from 0 to 101

[silent ruin]

yeah you just need 1 and 101

and rename it to like tire_retracted and tire_extended

you may not even need frame 1 if it jsut matches the rest pose

you check it as additive on the left side, give it the base pose

then 💵

oh wait, it's already good since pose_0 is your idle

[opal agate]

Anyone have an example of Hand IK being used?

Just need to know how to feed it the grab coordinates.

Oh, nvm. I just hadn't selected the details tab. Whole bunch o' variables in there. I'll figure it out.

[vapid matrix]

Hi everyone, just joined here, sorry if this isn't the right spot to ask questions. I'm trying to implement a basic turn in place system based off of Lyra's implementation: bUseControllerRotationYaw = true, rotate the root bone by the yaw offset to keep the character looking forward; then, when the state machine transitions to the TurnInPlace state, it uses the RemainingTurnYaw curve attached to the state's anim sequence to reduce the yaw offset by 90.0f over the course of the turn animation. From the TurnInPlace state, the state machine transitions to a TurnInPlaceCooldown state that can either transition back to turn in place (if yaw offset is high enough), or it can transition back to the idle state.

The blend logic both ways between the TIP and TIPCooldown is set to inertialization, and I'm positive that is causing my problems because when I change them back to standard blend the problem goes away. Everything works fine in standalone mode, but when i use a server, the animation transition is messed up on the other client's screens (the ones who are not turning). For example, on the other client's screens at the start of the transition to the turn left animation, the character snaps to looking right some number of degrees, rotates back to looking forward, and then does the 90 degree turn to the left. How much he snaps to the right is determined by the mouse speed of the turn (if i pass the 50 root yaw threshold slowly it looks fine). And it also glitches worse while on a listen server than a dedi server.

I'm attaching a video below that shows what's going on, along with a couple screenshots of the animgraph/state machine. The issue can be seen on the left viewport. Apologies if I haven't given enough information, if anything is unclear just let me know. Cheers

[viscid willow]

I'd recommend checking out the whole video but Hand IK Retargeting is well explained here: https://youtu.be/vZW8mxlQJEk?si=UEEW5_c9whCNsd0M&t=2233

[opal agate]

That looks spot on. Thank you!

[simple vapor]

I'm still abit puzzled on fps rigs for UE5, my fps rig has the hands and weapon seperated, so i have to attach the weapon to the hands by sockets in-engine.

I've heard another approach which is to use a designated "weapon bone" instead of a socket so that all weapons get positioned correctly, but i struggle to find information about this, would love a simple explanation or source that explains the process of using this method.

Another problem i have is my weapon is a double barrel shotgun, which while reloading requires the right hand(which usually holds the socket/weapon bone) to detach to grab new shotgun shells while the left hand holds the weapon. I'm guessing this could be an issue for other weapons aswell when pulling charging handles for example.

any help would be greatly appreciated

[final orchid]

How make vault and mantle without montages in state machine

[naive mountain]

Check out John Galts material, he helped me with some replicated Lyra stuff. Might apply to your case.

[topaz crest]

Hi,

I'm testing around with control rig for the first time and wanted to try and animate the trigger of my gun in sequencer. However the trigger always snaps back to the origin. Are there any usefull tutorials for this case? Everything I find is for hand IK but not the weapon itself

[silent ruin]

make sure you are in forward solve, control shouldn't be a child of the bone

[tardy fiber]

Is it possible to move frames in animation sequence editor? I see remove or insert options only

[signal jasper]

Anyone ever used the Scale Chain Length nose before ?

[jaunty finch]

Hey everyone

I'm trying to set up a simple rig for a tentacle so I can pose it in my scene

I followed a tutorial for a fullbody Ik, and I'm having issues with rotation. It seems the very tip of my tentacle can rotate, but none of my other controllers. How can I add rotation to the rest?

[topaz crest]

how could I solve this isse? Both should rotate the same

[spare kiln]

I've a question I was stuck for quite some time, and then figured out, that the Root source chain's translation mode was set to none, but setting it to absolute fixed it.

So the root chain is just part of the full body ik solver right?
But what is the translation mode and why is it set to none per default and why do i need to set it to absolute?

[mortal granite]

anyone happen to know why the retargeter in UE 5.4 doesnt properly include the additive animation references? once I retarget all of my animations that had additive references are no longer additive and my animations explode. having to go in and replace all the additives is very time consuming lol

[spare kiln]

I also had the same issue, especially because i needed to figure things out, it felt like i was setting the additive references 100 times

But you can bulk edit them the property matix, this at least makes it a bit faster, buit it's still a pain

[pure mica]

I have a character and some animation imported. All modeling, rigging and animation was done in maya and I wrote a exporter to clean out all the extra IK handles, IK/FK joint chains etc. so I know the skeleton is very clean.
I originally imported everything with a scale of 1, but decided the character was a little small and changed the Import Uniform Scale to 1.25 on the characters and the animations. This mostly worked but I have 3 or 4 animations that refuse to scale to 1.25 so when I play them he shrinks a little and then grows back when it blends into another animation.
Any thougths on how to force these animations to 1.25 scale?

[rigid halo]

what is the quickest way I can make this fish wiggle on loop? (I have never animated anything ever and this skeletal mesh is something I found online)

I can click on a bone and rotate a bit but idk how to make this into an animation sequence

I hope to do smth like create keyframes for each frame of animation for like 12 frames and call it a day

[rigid halo]

ok found out how to do some rudimentary stuff in this curve editor, but how do I change the y axis scale lol

[topaz crest]

Still looking for a solution

[eager yarrow]

Whats the proper way to animate a simulated skeletal mesh while keeping its physical collisions?

not sure what approach to go with yet. For reference im doing this in multiplayer

[viscid willow]

This is because the local axis of your controls is different. You can click this to rotate them both in world space:

[topaz crest]

No, does not change anything. Already tried it

[viscid willow]

if you want super simple you can use ChainHarmonics in Control Rig to drive something like a fish swimming:

[viscid willow]

so it what? still rotates in local space if it's set to rotate in world space?

[topaz crest]

yes. If I select the both Controlers, I want them to rotate around the one controler the gizmo is

yet they always stay in the same location and rotate idependently

[viscid willow]

In that case you want it parented. Rotating the controls will rotate each in place. You would need to parent the gun control to the hand to get the gun to follow and update its location to stay in the hand.

[topaz crest]

the Weapon is parentet to the IK_Hand_R bone, a seperate bone not linked to the hands so it can freely move around

[viscid willow]

If it's not parented to the hand it won't move with the hand. If you want it to follow but also be able to freely move it, you will want to look into space switching so the gun can follow the hand or move independently depending on your needs.

[topaz crest]

I previously used AllRightRig Plugin in UE4 where this wasn't an issue. And If I look into all weapon assets from marketplacs, they all use this bone.

I can't beleave Control rig can't do such simple tasks out of the box

[topaz crest]

Just as an example how it correctly worked with this old plugin.

Without this I don't know how to animate weapons at all

[topaz crest]

Tried it with a Virtual Bone attached to the Hand, they still rotate in this way.

[viscid willow]

"how it correctly worked" depends on who you ask 😅 Other animation software would behave the same way and rotate each object individually by default, unless specified by the user. For what you're wanting to do here you could look into Space Switching: https://youtu.be/nNG4f1kNd74?si=2d4B8o_vjK25S3Ky

Or Proxy Controls so you could drive one control with the pivot of another: https://www.youtube.com/live/t1YxqE6rtZc?si=bY9POw-15uR5AwSL&t=5803

[vestal star]

Animate them one by one not both at the same time that solves your issue

Or make sure its using the correct socket

[topaz crest]

How would this work. It would never say in the perfect same spot and wobble around

[topaz crest]

Space Switching seams tpo be a think. but damn is this a horrible video 😄

[viscid willow]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/re-parent-control-rig-controls-in-real-time-in-unreal-engine

[topaz crest]

Seams to be borken. Adding new spaces is not working. Only a searchbar shows up and nothing can be added or found at all

[finite hollow]

Anyone here got a laptop recommendation for mocap? Preferably something not Asus.

[cosmic roost]

Is it just me or did I retarget wrong here? I only realized this when I opened the walking and running animation "which works"

[errant hearth]

Hi. What would be the best was to fix this right-hand deformation: https://i.imgur.com/2tnlpPI.png

[cosmic roost]

thanks god i find a solutionhttps://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/2Lz/unreal-engine-animation-ecosystem-for-game-development/68oa/unreal-engine-blendspaces-and-the-analyze-tool

[eager yarrow]

Hey! Happy hump day! I'm attempting to animate a specific bone from my character that has a constraint attached to it. Whats the proper way to do this while keeping the constraints physics realistic?

here is a professional illustration I did to describe my situation

blue is a static mesh with simulated physics that is constrained to red which is a bone. Red a bone that Is part of my player pawn with simulated physics as well

I am attempting to move red up with a animation perhaps

[honest geyser]

I have a question about retargeting. Im using the Game Animation sample (UEFN Skeleton) and am retargeting those animations to the UE5 Mannequin Skeleton, but the hands do this weird mis-alignment thing when generating the new auto-retargeter, does anyone know of a solution to fix this?

[pseudo pawn]

Hello all!

I built a picker and animation tool for the Metahuman Face Control Rig - it allows you to select and animate any Metahuman Face Control Rig from the picker directly, using the WASD keys. This widget has really helped speed up my workflow, and I hope it does the same for you.

Short video explaining how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4qp6ZAnks

Gumroad link to download: https://locodrome.gumroad.com/l/Metahuman_Face_ControlRig_Picker

Installation instructions are in the Gumroad content page, as are tips on usage and troubleshooting. It's all pretty simple and straightforward. Do let me know what you think - I will try and incorporate feedback and feature suggestions whenever I can. And if you find it useful, do please spread the word to anyone else that might find it useful too.

[boreal lintel]

Hello all,

I've got a dog model, and when I get close to an object I want it's head to move to the object. I'm using an IK system and have the IK chain set-up as the neck and head bones. When I set the IK target to the world location of the target object, it breaks the model completely. Turns out that is because the IK system uses rig space and not world space. When I'm converting to rig space though, what position should I use as 0,0,0? The root component? Or the beginning of the chain?

I've been using the root bones inverse transform to convert the world space of the target to root space, however it doesn't work, seems to have the opposite effect if anything

[viscid willow]

It's a little hard to understand exactly without seeing the issues/results. If you have a video that would be fantastic.

In this case are you not using the FromWorld and ToWorld nodes?

[boreal lintel]

I'm writing the code in C++, so using the FTransform of the root component, but if you only know BP it's no issue, as I can work out what those nodes are doing and replicate.

I don't have a video, not sure what the disclosure rules are on this project, I'll ask.

So, the white circle is the IK target (in world space)

@viscid willow the head should be closer to the target, but it is miles away for whatever reason...

[viscid willow]

poor dog haha yeah I guess I would debug and see what values are actually being applied to the head.

And yeah I'm not experienced in C++. I take it you're not building this in control rig?

[viscid willow]

typically in control rig if you're getting a value from world space that you want to apply to the rig (global space) you would convert the value with these:

[boreal lintel]

Nice one thanks, I'll take a look

I think it might be that the transform of the bone is aligned differently to the target...

[runic kayak]

Hii
How to save a animation/pose assist so I can use on other characters in the unreal?
I can’t seem to figure it out 😭 help

[naive mountain]

Pretty

Its a frog

[wraith swallow]

Does anyone know why setting a montage blend mode to "Inertializaton" results in it not blending at all if that montage is being played on an upper body slot? Aka it's using a Layered Blend Per Bone node in the anim graph. I tried putting the Internalization node right after the layer blend, also right before it. But in the montage itself, only the Standard blend mode actually blends.

Montages played in slots that aren't before a Layer Blend Per Bone work just fine with Internalization.

[sacred helm]

Hello guys, question, how can I make it so that every time the sequence is executed it starts from 0 and not in the final position. thank you

[viscid willow]

On your layered blend node there's this checkbox:

[rose moth]

I have a rigged character from maya in FBX I would like to import it into UE5.4 to retarget animations to it also i wanna be able to manually animate the character with a rig control if possible,and the character also have already facial sliders to animate the eyes and mouth. How can I achieve this?? if theres a good tutorial out there can somebody please point me to it. Thanks everyone

[misty dagger]

This is to rotate the spine, but how do i Make it ONLY rotate in the YAW direction? I do not want roll at all, makes it look really wierd.

[zealous viper]

how do I setup a aim offset with blendspace?

the blueprint is not working for now

[wheat charm]

blend by bone layers?

[zealous viper]

using
I need something to get and set the aim angle to input to the blueprint

[wheat charm]

Then you have to use find look out rotation I think.

Get the yaw and pitch to input to your anim bp

[fathom bluff]

So, here for the wings im using 2 meshes.. one with cloth data and one without. Im hiding the simulated mesh and showing the animated mesh when gliding, does anyone know of a way to contain it into one mesh? or is this my best option? thanks

https://youtu.be/W4BB4XDBSxA

[zealous viper]

this?

[fathom bluff]

No the skeletal mesh with cloth data wouldnt respect the pose or weights of the rig so i had to use a 2nd mesh and change visibility

[misty dagger]

Any ideas?

Just want to lock the roll to not be used, on the LookAt in the anim bp

[spiral sun]

hey there i have make animation in blnder it is working fine in blender but when i am importing in unreal engine there is no animation while i have watched many tutorials is there any way

can anybody tell me what i am doing wrong

[dense ibex]

How do I properly export and import animations from Blender to Unreal? my pose looks like this in Blender however ends up munted in Unreal

it looks like maybe some bones just aren't getting animated

[dense ibex]

but I keyed all bones so idk whats happening

[spiral sun]

in blender it is working fine but in unreal engine not i my mesh is imported correctly with the skeleton but i dont know whats happening with animation

[spiral sun]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/struggling-with-blender-exporting-to-unreal-help/623616

[spiral sun]

i have solve that isuue but now the knew problem is the scale of my animation is very small the scal of my mesh is good but my animation is very small what to do how to fix it

[zealous viper]

how to get ue5 to update animation all the time?
I spinned my gun but if I don't move the animation won't update

[zealous viper]

first, make copies
put them everywhere in your pc
(in my case, I nearly lost my progress because exporting make my mesh super large after and impossible to return, so the suggestion)
it's probably a keyframe problem
I don't think you can see the bones directly in ue5 so I assume your mesh's size exported may be wrong (too small or too big to see)
you may have to try applying transformation and then exporting

[sturdy plume]

I'm learning rigging in blender thanks to the vfxgrace course and I'm pretty happy with the results, it's super interesting but sometimes very frustrating if there's a problem with the rig x)
Here's the preview of the body with an auto skin (next step is the facial, then blend shape and skin correction)

The way the rig is built is not really optimized for a game so the next step is to learn how to make an optimized rig for unreal!

[viscid willow]

For something like that you're better off using an Aim Offset and defining the poses you want to drive. An LookAt will rotate the bone on whatever axis it needs to achieve the target rotation. You could also potentially use control rig to achieve a more controlled aim but I would suggest an aim offset is the more reliable option.

[misty dagger]

How can I set an angle limit to aim offset then because I do have an aim offset but it makes the characters spine rotate too much

[topaz crest]

Any suggestions on how to fix the retargeting issues?

Wanted to retarget my UE 4 Weapon/Arms Animations to the UE5 skeleton with the retargeter from the 3rd person template. Hand pose and IK bones are kind of messed up. Other marketplace animations on the other hand translate perfectly. Any idea why?

[heady vault]

Hey, sorry for the out of the blue ping, I was wondering if you eventually figured this out? I need to get some looping geometry cache animations to play inside a sequence and I can't find much info

[misty dagger]

yo

[inland ember]

Hello, I inherited from a custom animation blueprint but now I can't find the anim graph? And how do I call super in here?

[jagged peak]

That part worked fine for me actually. I’ll see if I can dig up a tutorial on it but it was pretty straightforward

[inland ember]

What is this binding?

[jagged peak]

https://youtu.be/_RqRsHvpFE0?feature=shared

skip to 4 mins in this video

[heady vault]

It was such a simple thing, needed to add a track and point it to the geometry cache again... thanks so much! Good weekend!

[simple vapor]

anyone know what would be the best way to implement the animations for dual wielding different types of weapons? ( shotguns with pistols, pistol with knife etc...) Im new to animation so I dont know the best way to use procedurals or gun bones.

[bitter stream]

Has anyone experienced the walk animation skipping when testing it? My character starts to walk with a skip and I cannot find a solution

[zealous viper]

Found out more about my problem
mutliplayer game, animation running as normal, unless the aim offset won't get replicated from client to server unless the pawn is moving (there's a bottom body animation)
linking upper body and bottom body with blend layer by bone

[stray scarab]

Not sure if this is the correct channel to ask, but I'm really struggling with positioning sockets correctly to make my weapon looks good with the animations that I have, does anyone have some resources for how to better handle this? It feels like no matter how I try to line the weapons up with the anims, it's always wrong.

For example, in this animation pack look how smooth this preview looks on the SkeletalMesh: https://gyazo.com/a794afa5b693f8dfa54c4cbc93f5e67d

But there's no sockets anywhere, I don't understand how the weapon is resting on the back and then attaches to the hand mid-preview. Nothing is making sense

[viscid willow]

Tha aim offset will be limited by the poses that you author for it.

[viscid willow]

Im not sure what the bone setup is here but if it's the mannequin my guess would be that the weapon is following the IK Gun bone in the skeleton and then animated into position throughout this animation. So at the start it looks as if its following the body and then it's animated to follow the hand after a certain amount of time.

[viscid willow]

Do you have a video to show the issue? It's a little hard to understand without seeing the problem

You first need a sequence player node. From there you can expose the sequence pin and promote that to a variable.

[viscid willow]

This is a pretty complicated topic. But if you're wanting each arm to do something different I would suggest you look into the layered blend per bone node. If you're wanting both arms to hold a weapon checking out this video: https://youtu.be/vZW8mxlQJEk?si=iQEpk4Q1XhapSuJN

The topic is all about retargeting but it shows how the IK bones are used and should give you some insight into how you might want to use them.

[stray scarab]

I think you’re right as the IK Gun is mentioned in the asset description, however my results are completely different. Does UE4->UE5 anim retargeting break the IK? For example when I set the weapon under the IK it doesn’t stay attacked to the back, it’s always following the hand.

It also looks like there’s no sockets in the example, the weapon material is added to the materials away, and there’s only bones in the examples provided by the animator. No preview assets. (In the gif I sent earlier)

I’ve reached out to the animator to see what’s going on here, I think I may be fighting a losing battle.

[noble aurora]

hey is there a way to get twinmotion animated people into Unreal engine ?

[hardy plume]

Hello. Sorry if this bothers you. However, when you suggested to Kosnag use Pose Assets and your suggested Curve to blend between two poses to reduce data from total frames, I got curious. Decided to look up some tutorials on how to use pose assets only to find that I couldn't find much of anything. Do you have, by chance, any good tutorials I can follow to learn about pose assets and blending with a curve as you suggested?

[hardy plume]

Sockets don't come with rigs normally, you have to create those custom. If you go into the skeleton asset, and click on a bone in the hierarchy, you can right click "Add Socket" you can give the socket a name for BP usage later. And then before adjusting the socket, give the socket a preview mesh, use the one you plan on attaching to the socket. From there just adjust the socket Transform (Location, Rotation, and Scale) until the prop looks the way it's supposed to. From there, when you play the animation, use AnimNotifies or BP code, either one works, to attach the weapon to the Socket you made, and that should be enough most of the time.

[stray scarab]

Yes I’ve done all of that

The anim doesn’t match the example

I think it’s an issue with regather

Retarget*

[polar geyser]

This MetaHuman - Mixamo animation issue may better belong here - so see link below to metahumans section if anyone here want's to take a look:
https://discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/831953010900336712/1287140230863786126

[viscid willow]

There shouldn't be anything "breaking" the IK. The IK bones are simply bones in the rig, they won't perform any IK functionality unless set up to do so.

Can you share some images of the animation you linked previously but with the bones visible? And ideally the hierarchy too?

[stray scarab]

I can send you all the information when I’m back, but the example animation doesn’t have a socket or preview asset, instead it has the weapon material on the skeletal mesh. It says in the animation pack to set the weapon on IK GUN with 0 position and 0 rotation but it’s completely botched when doing so.

[viscid willow]

Typically pose assets are used for facial animation which relies on a pose asset and animation curves to drive that pose asset.

The animation sequence should contain all the animation curves necessary to drive each pose and each curve would match the name of each pose.

You can import animation curves with your animation sequence and import sequences which are curves only so the skeleton has no bone tracks but the curves are available to be used to drive a pose asset. https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/animation-pose-assets?application_version=4.27

[hardy plume]

Okay, I'll give this some experimentation. Thanks for the help.

[viscid willow]

From what you're saying it sounds as if there was version of the mannequin skeletal mesh with the weapon added to it as part of that mesh.

I'm curious what you mean by botched? Do you have access the the same weapon mesh?

[stray scarab]

Yes, the weapon comes with the pack. Found here: https://marketplace-website-node-launcher-prod.ol.epicgames.com/ue/marketplace/en-US/product/greatsword-animset

The pack clearly states Please attach the weapon model with "ik_hand_r" , and return the location and rotation to zero.

When I do this as-per the instructions, the default state looks like so (Image 1) and the animation preview looks like this:
https://gyazo.com/ee48c445ab6a840322a67f8091309452

The state being what he askes is shown in (Image 2)

The Mesh provided with the pack (UE4 Mannequin) has a different default weapon starting spot (Image 3) and there is no socket placement (Image 4) Instead it has the greatsword in the Material Slots (Image 5)

The difference between the original and the retarget can be seen here: https://gyazo.com/2f2f8557e452254954b1757211ebd55c

You can notice immediately on the UE5 version the IK_Hand_R is in a different spot than on the UE4 at the same frame of the same animation.

With the UE4 version, the ik_hand_r starts behind the back and then moves with the hand on equip: https://gyazo.com/aae1a6a0b3522e11808d556ea006a2d7

Something is definitely off

When looking at them side by side there's no obvious difference

(Left UE5, Right UE4 from animation pack)

[plain bane]

Can I export/retarget any animation to any character in ue5 or is there a limitation?

[river lily]

I've tried modifying a control rig to do left hand placement, and it seems like it works in the control rig preview, but in the anim bp and game it seems like the shoulder is not positioned relative to the current pose. any idea where to look?

[atomic timber]

Hiya!! Does anyone know of a way to stabilize a first person camera?
(For context, in my game you can switch between first and third person mode — the first person camera is attached to the players head, but it moves with the animations and causes motion sickness.)
Im looking for a way to still have head bobbing, but just, much less than the animations

[analog hound]

out of curiosity , how does unreal normally do real time lip sync?
back in unity i had this asset https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/salsa-lipsync-suite-148442?srsltid=AfmBOoo5xTLnexQ9bqJZlGu3cwRPdy92h1q1qPRJOGDUdFdjMPU2UOfc
witch was nice because I could i could just drop in an audio file or type out a sting and the asset would calculate the the lip flaps in real time.
but what would the unreal equivalent be ?

just about got everything I had in unity rebuilt in un real lol

[hollow moat]

Hi could someone help me on how i would make it so the hand actually removes the mag instead of hovering over it. I cant find a single tutorial on this.

I do not know why its so laggy sorry for that

[nimble jay]

So I've tried rigging my custom character to the unreal skeleton, and I continue to get this weird scrunching effect on my shoulders

How can I fix this?

[naive mountain]

https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/audio2face

[raven stratus]

I want to change location ( Y from 0,21 to -0,21 only location, not rotation or scale) of a certain track and apply to all keyframes in this track at same time, is this possible?

I'm new to sequencer so sorry if I sayd something stupid here

[lusty venture]

yes, if you take a look at the transform dropdown information for those keys on the left, you should be able to select all the keys for the Y location and edit

another way to edit just the location is within the graph editor by selecting just the Y curves and setting the value

[raven stratus]

Selecting by clicking and and dragging all keyframes ( blue colored selected)? Is still only show the value of one keyframe, when I click "next keyframe" values have not changed at all 😦

[lusty venture]

maybe try viewing your curves in the graph editor then and selecting using ctrl a?

[raven stratus]

As I sayd I'm new to sequencer so I'm trying what you told me to do, I'm trying to use this "tool option" box to change it and ALMOST worked, but it refuses to set in -0.21 for some reason, it always go back to -0.19

[hasty lodge]

Good evening;

i have a question about the sequencer, i made an animation that worked great i saved everything of course and restarted the engine

since this restart my character just doesn't make animations anymore he just stands still

but the animations are still in the sequence
This only applies to my character and not to the SKM Manny

[raven stratus]

Managed to make it work, thank you so much, you helped me a lot and saved me lots of time!

[lusty venture]

sorry i was busy and didn't see your previous message! glad you got it working :)

[lusty venture]

you'll need to export your animation in the level sequence as an animation sequence if you're planning to use it for gameplay

[hasty lodge]

No no i only want to make a "video"

but after the restart the character mesh is not following the animation

[hardy plume]

This scrunching problem isn't an animation issue, it's a modeling one. You're getting that scrunching around the shoulders for 2 major reasons: number 1, the model itself is very low poly. Increasing the poly count will fix that. However, given your name, I understand you may not want to do that. The other is because the model is a solid mass, which if you divide the model into pieces that might help a lot. So I offer two suggestions on how to fix it without increasing polycount too much: number 1: if you add an additional set of vertices around the shoulders, like one loop on either side of where the scrunching is occurring, that'll reduce the total amount that's there. This will increase your poly count slightly but will yield some pretty good results if you want the mesh to all be a solid piece. This is the easier of the two solutions.

However, if you want to get rid of the scrunching entirely and you don't necessarily care about the difficulty of the solution, another thing you can try is to separate the joints out as separate objects or meshes on the same rig. Think of it like the joints on a toy: if the shoulder is a big dome that overlaps the torso instead of being directly attached to it, then when the arm moves there will be no scrunching at all. This is the reason that this was the preferred method of modeling for games on the PS1, N64, and occasionally even the PS2, GameCube, XBox, and DreamCast. It just looked overall the best for the total amount of polygons you got out of it.

If you're looking for a way to fix it via animation, then I'm afraid I don't know how to help with that because this isn't really an animation issue. It might be possible to fix with twist bones but the ones that are in the default UE4 and 5 Mannequins aren't enough to fix this issue and adding more will require a custom rig rather than the ones that are already there.

Just my two cents.

[nimble jay]

Thanks! I’m actually getting much better results by having it import as its own skeleton instead of selecting SK_Mannequin and then just retargeting

Retargeted is on the left.

[silent ruin]

I'll type out the setup:

1. Pose your desired poses on individual frame of your animation. You can have a single anim sequence holding a ton of Poses.
2. Right click on the Anim Sequence, and Create->Pose
3. The pose asset is now created, with each frame named Pose_0 -> Pose_99 -> Pose_200 etc. As pose as frames on the animation you used to creat the pose asset.
4. The Pose_0 and the rest can be renamed as needed to better describe what they are for.
5. Now you need to use the** Pose Driver** in the ABP. It will read the pose asset, and turn them on by adding curve matching the pose name.

https://www.youtube.com/live/_VGr4nmEuRg

This guide is pretty promising.

[hardy plume]

Awesome. If this solution works, go for it. But my suggestion does still stand, especially if you're going for a low poly look, which it looks like you're trying to given what your character looks like.

[hardy plume]

Awesome, thank you so much. Experimentation ahoy!!

[nimble jay]

Looking pretty good for now. Yeah I know what you mean about the separate meshes, they almost behaved like action figures back in the N64 era.

[hardy plume]

If you overlap and texture them right, the overlaps are barely noticeable too. Granted they're a lot more noticeable these days, PS1 models of that sort in particular. But if you want an example of a game that does this that's also not super noticeable, I recommend looking at Dead or Alive Ultimate 2 and Dead or Alive 3, two XBox games that do what I'm suggesting but in a way that it's almost hard to tell that they're doing it unless you're looking super close. I could recommend Soul Calibur or Tekken as well but I'm not sure that they're doing the same thing. The 6th Console Gen ones anyway.

[nimble linden]

I'm using the first person .blend arm rig but every animation I export is rotated 90 degrees to the right of the character, everything is applied and perfectly fine in blender, any ideas?

[hardy plume]

Your Forward and Up Axes in the Exporter need to change. If you're exporting from blender, change the forward to -Y and Up to Z. That should fix this right up.

[nimble linden]

Thanks, I ran into one more issue if you'd be able to help

For some reason the camera in blender does NOT match the unreal engine one, I figured they'd be 1:1 since it's the rig file but maybe it's outdated

I have spent like two hours trying to figure this out and there is nothing on google about it 😭

The blender camera FoV is *95, Unreal is 90 but that doesn't change anything

[hardy plume]

I'm not sure. I don't usually export cameras from Blender to Unreal. What I find is that it's better to export just the mesh and rig on their own and attach the camera later. Once you're in Unreal Engine, you can just create a CharacterBP, insert your Skeletal Mesh Component, then since it's First Person, add a camera component and just attach it to head and adjust its transform so that it's the same height and just in front of the eyes.

As for a guess as to why this is happening, I think a contributing factor is that Unreal Engine handles axis codes real different from other programs. In Engine, X is the forward axis, and that is still true. However, the way the X Axis is coded in terms of orientation makes it more similar to Unity's -Y Axis. This is fine when importing from Blender to Unity but in Unreal, if you export a Mesh with X-Forward, it'll be rotated somewhat. So you want -Y forward. I don't know how much this applies to the Camera though. Using Blender always presents issues when exporting Cameras from itself to a standalone game engine so it's better to handle the camera inside the engine itself from my experience.

[nimble linden]

Ah I see, I'm not trying to export the camera from blender, I'm just trying to understand why the animation does not match between both programs in terms of hand distance

Maybe it's the .blend files fault, I didn't create this .blend

I'm a complete amateur when it comes to animating and unfortunately my years of experience with asset making doesn't help so the fault is most likely on my end

alright sorry I completely wasted your time, it's definitely the .blend file I should've known to not trust a random .blend from a tutorial

[hardy plume]

In that case, you'll want to go into the scene settings and check for the Units. You want the Units to be Metric and set to .01, that should fix any scaling issues. However, from the looks of this, it looks like the Camera might be a parenting issue. If you look in the Camera Settings, it'll say somewhere that it could be parented to a socket. If that value says none you want to change it to the head. That way it'll move with the head of the rig. Your rig also should have a head bone for things like this and for future animations even for First Person games.

[nimble linden]

adjusted the arms and it matches

[hardy plume]

Alright, awesome.

[nimble linden]

If you never need help with modeling let me know, I owe you for the rotation

[hardy plume]

No problem.

[ruby jay]

Hi all. Im trying to bring a cc4 character, into blender, then into unreal, with a head and without a head so that when i toggle to first person, the head is removed (so you cant see the teeth and eye balls when in first person)

when i bring them together i can never get the neck to line ur right...
Anyone have any fixes/work arounds or ideas?
thanks!

[nimble linden]

It looks like your missing faces?

the edges do not line up to begin with, check your modeling package

I think that group of faces aren't being exported

[ruby jay]

cheers tarkus, the tutorial i was following urged me to delete hidden faces, ill try the export with out that option selected

[nimble linden]

Yeah you're missing those

[ruby jay]

cheers brother

[nimble linden]

Np

[zenith pewter]

im new to Control Rigs so I apologize if this is a simple question but is there a way that i can get the head bone to look in the direction of the camera rotation? I've been trying for a bit now but nothing seems to be working

[viscid willow]

For something like this you would need a target position to Aim at. So a transform that is projected ahead of your camera and character that you can aim the head at.

For something like head look I would very much suggest using an Aim Offset instead so you can drive the head rotation with poses, this way you have more control over the poses your character will hit and you can calculate a pitch and yaw in BP and just feed that into the Aim Offset instead. You could base that rotation on the Character>ControlRotation which should correlate to your camera input rotation.

[analog hound]

thanks ...... lol

Nvidia are you shady ?

[wild pine]

Hey, does anyone have tips/ideas how to get this realistic quadruped locomotion for the main player (turning, body follows head with delay etc.). I bought animal assets from Malbers on UE marketplacce, with 100+ great animations, so that part is covered. I'm trying to achieve something similar to this - https://youtu.be/-sdgDA1eRYU?t=7

[hasty lodge]

Hey guys ,
I have a problem with the seuqencer - I added my metahuman, deleted the control rig and then tried to add animations that I matched with motion blending

now when i try to render the video my metahuman just stands still and doesn't move but in the viewport i see the animation running as seen in the video

[somber glen]

Hey folks!
Anyone have any idea on how could I animate the bones on this model to have a sort of "recoil" when shooting?
I need to control how far it goes and how much this whole animation takes.
I don't think creating a traditional animation (animation clip/track) would be the right approach. I think something procedural™ would be the right thing to do.

Anyhow, any ideas?

[dry grail]

Any idea why the bones in my animation are jittering like this? Pretty sure the FBX is fine as I don't see jitter if I import it into blender.

[crude pawn]

Is it jittering? not just the gun? 🤔

[dry grail]

the bone the gun is attached to is jittering

[dry grail]

changing the import uniform scale to not be exactly 1 fixed it 💀

setting it to 1.0001 fixed it

[rare birch]

When should I use the property access on animgraph?

[rare birch]

You could be searching for the sequence player node?

[valid sedge]

Hello guys, I'm having this problem when switching from fk to ik, the legs is bended in a really weird way (right leg ik, left leg with the blue circle fk)
I've tried checking the skin weight but it's not fixed. And this only happen when I switch to ik.

Here is my ik setup, it works fine with the arms, I've also tried changing the primary axis and 2nd axis but it's still not working. Anybody has any ideas about this?

[umbral goblet]

Hey guys I have a problem. like everyone I think

my spaceship's cannons doesn't work properly with mouse aim.

it's a simple code but however, one of the side of the ship while seated to control, doesn't work.

surely is something missing easy

if someone could share his experience, will be glad.

it's a simple branching

then a line trace based on actual active camera

but idk why, one side not working

the actual anim graph

and so on for every cannon

[topaz vessel]

Hello,
I'm in UE5.4.4 and encountered the same bug today, GetCurrentAnimationTime() always returns zero.
Have you found a way to solve this issue?

[stuck dirge]

I suspect my solution is sacrilegious, but yes. 😂

I can share a gist of my solution if that helps.

[topaz vessel]

Oh, could you perhaps explain conceptually how you solve it?

[topaz vessel]

That will be very nice! 🙂

[stuck dirge]

Can do that too 😄 I'm not protective of my source though. Here's the conceptual gist of it:

1. I created my own class derived of UAnimNotifyState
2. Since the amount of notif instances can vary (generally there's one and it's just applied, I believe); I am tracking every instance manually. I do this by maintaining a map.
3. Disclaimer! This is not yet generalized, I just used it for this one notif type. You could with little effort make it a generic base class, UTimedAnimNotifyState or w/e.

Gist: https://gist.github.com/Muhwu/f8a0af8ab2509095667bc917ca2b7634

@topaz vessel Hope this demonstrates the idea. It's in the context of a time dilation script that takes in a curve and bends the time relatively to slow down animations for more oompf without having to change the underlying animation itself.

Guess now that I opened this class in the first place - maybe I'll just go ahead and create that generic base class since I reckon I will need this in future projects as well. 😂

[topaz vessel]

Hmm...I see, this looks like a total solution for this problem. Very clever.
Thank you for sharing your code! 🙂

[stuck dirge]

No problem! Hope it helps!

Word of caution though - if you have overlapping animnotifystates of the same type in the same montage, you'll likely get undesired consequences.

You could guard against that and produce errors and/or not execute. 🙂

So it's not perfect 😬

[topaz vessel]

the time accumulation will double?

[stuck dirge]

So the tracking currently stores one "instance data" per mesh component. If you have two overlapping one, the second would overwrite the instance data.

[topaz vessel]

oh there will be data racing, i see

[stuck dirge]

So it'd mess up the time tracking for the first one.

Yarp.

I don't recall if the FAnimNotifyEventReference has more identifiable information inside like some kind of unique ID you could use to key instead with

but iirc, it was just all empty

I should probably check

It'd be nicer if it had a unique animnotifstate id or something instead of keying the Map with the meshcomp.

[topaz vessel]

I'm only keeping the accumulated result per anim notify state instance (for input buffer) - what you're doing is a lot more complicated than what I intended to do XD.

[stuck dirge]

hahah ok 😄

Yeah, I'm just thinking of a solid solution I could use everywhere. The above is certainly enough for my current use case.

[topaz vessel]

Thanks again for the response man! 🙂

[stuck dirge]

No problem! Happy to help where I can.

Feels good to have my struggle help someone else. 😄

@topaz vessel Fwiw, it does seem like there's a *EventReference.GetNotify()->Guid.ToString() which appears at a glance to be a better solution in case you change your use case later.

[topaz vessel]

I'll take a look into it! Thanks for the heads up!

[granite arch]

Hey we are using GeometryCaches to get animation into unreal 5.3, quite often when rendering the Caches freeze for 2 frames after 18-20 frames into a shot... has anybody seen a similiar behaviour and has a potential fix ?

[pseudo dagger]

heyo, is this the help channel ? im importing the animation from blender FBX to unreal, first there was an root error, so iadded root bone to my rig, nwo it exports wihout an error but there is no animation, just T pose

[polar geyser]

FYI - I think I've about resolved this. Note I've been avoiding using the Mixamo Converter as wanted to stay within the UE too chain. Here's what I learned:

The automated retargeter uses the default T-Pose, and it seems that using the T-Pose as the retargeting pose to go from Mixamo to Metahuman presents problems with the clavicles - hence the shoulder/shrug problem.

I found that by importing and using a more natural / relaxed pose (closer to idle or A-pose) within the Retargeter, these issues largely go away.

I'll ultimately document this further for myself (so much of what I learn I forget while figuring out other stuff!) - if anyone wants more details, let me know.

[outer garden]

Is it possible to have Groom as a skeletal mesh? I want to have the Groom quality, but make it posable. I just don't want to rely pn physics.

[sour kiln]

hey guys ! do you know if it is possible to have the actor movement influence all the control rig's controls? (set actor location), it can help to benefit from the spring interpolation of control rig without access the controls themselves

[fast dew]

hey guys, general rigging/weight painting question for you experts- how does one properly weight a forearm so it doesn't A) twist into a knot or B) lose massive amounts of volume? I have a twist bone halfway up the forearm between the elbow and wrist, and I feel like I can only either get it to knot up like you see in this screenshot or smooth out the weight between the forearm bones to the point where it loses massive amounts of volume when the twist happens. I've got the forearm topology following the 'crossing' nature of the radius/ulna which I've read is supposed to help with this?

[somber glen]

Can I use animation montages in animation blueprints with NON "character" actors?
Every single post, tutorial, article, etc. "teaches" how to do stuff with characters only. I don't have a "character", I have a very specific skeletal mesh that I wish to blend animations, and I just can't.

[somber glen]

I'll ask more specifically: How can I blend these 4 animations? This thing shoots fast, so I need to blend animations so that it Looks like all are independent.

I tried using "Layered blend per bone", but it is not working, animations are not blending.

PS: please, I'm desperate

[viscid willow]

what do you mean by they're not blending? What does the resulting animation look like in the ABP?

[somber glen]

Each individual "play" resets the other bones (as those bones are standing still in each different animation).

[viscid willow]

I can't remember if this is the case but try separating your slots into different groups. It might be that your blend is working but each slot anim is overriding the previous because they're part of the same group.

[cobalt sparrow]

I imported a custom animation and the character is floating? I checked the roots and they all seemed fine in blender. Any ideas?

[viscid willow]

If the bones are in the correct positions this can sometimes just be a visual bug with the "floor" in the sequence viewer

[cobalt sparrow]

Ah okay

[viscid willow]

You could take a look here:

[cobalt sparrow]

Oh shit I didn’t even know that existed

Thanks

I’m trying to figure out how to switch different blend spaces from a normal mode to a combat mode kind of and I ran into this problem when importing animations

[viscid willow]

Otherwise if the floor remains misaligned or if you pull this mesh into a scene and they're floating you might have issues with your bones.

[cobalt sparrow]

Alright thanks

Just gotta figure out how to switch blend spaces in game and I can check

[viscid willow]

you can promote the blend space to a variable by exposing the Blend Space pin on the node and then change that variable in game

[cobalt sparrow]

I tried doing this and setting it to the number one but it didn’t work

[viscid willow]

how were you setting it?

Also if you're looking to do this sort of thing extensively you might want to look into Linked Animation Layers which can be used to swap out parts of your ABP on the fly

[cobalt sparrow]

I’m not super familiar with ue5 but I was watching a tutorial about equipping and unequipping guns, and he showed how to swith blend spaces with an enum, the locomotive state, and the variable of switching them out. I did all of it and it didn’t work, but he was also using the BP manny, and I’m using a custom APB

[viscid willow]

I would say there's nothing uniquely "special" about the Manny ABP that would make something like that work. Have you done any debugging to determine where the setup went wrong?

[cobalt sparrow]

I’ve went through some stuff and I couldn’t pin point it, I can send some screenshots of what I’ve done tomorrow, it’s like 11 for me

[viscid willow]

np, if you have more information, happy to help solve it

[cobalt sparrow]

Thanks man

[warped warren]

Hey guys, How do i go back to my Default idle state after Animation asset has finished playing in ABP ?

[ashen onyx]

Hey!
Is there a way to export the animation of a mesh that's attached to another one? I've tried baking the animation, but it seems the attachment isn't being considered :/
Thanks 🙂

[signal gate]

Hi I'm trying to play an anim montage for the first person arms (the default rifle shoot one) but I can't seem to get it to play. This is the abp I'm using.

Also I'm having an issue where animation sequences I am importing are locked at 60000 fps. I've tried manually setting them at 30fps as well as exporting and reimporting them but neither have worked.

[azure roost]

Has anyone seen this video on building your own custom modular control rig module?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMRmLnqd8sw&t=1289s&ab_channel=AskADev

I just can´t figure out what I´m doing wrong or what I´d need to change, so my control gets parented correctly to the parent control from the previous module.
(I´m trying to create a jaw control for a jaw bone I added to the head)

[whole harness]

Hey folks, I have a question about design intent/use cases for Linked Animation Layers.

In general, I understand LALs, how to set them up, use them etc. But I made an assumption about their purpose that appears to be incorrect, and I would like some clarfication on this.

I had thought that one of the problems LALs addressed was the inability for multiple developers to concurrently work on an Anim Blueprint. I had thought that by breaking out various animation "States" into linked layers, individual uassets could be created for each "state", avoiding the creation of asset conflicts. (I.e If Developer A wanted to work on the "Idle" state, and Dev B wanted to work on the "Run" state - they could do so without fear of conflicts due to the states being in different assets)

However, after further investigation into actually using LALs, it appears that this is not the case - as there is no way to assign different ABPs to individual layers - only a single ABP that implements all of the layers.

So my question is: Was I just wrong, or is there a way to do what I described above? The way I'm now looking at it, it appears that the larger purpose of LALs is to allow for the implemention "motion sets", and not really anything to do with concurrency of development. (Side note: I'm aware you still get some concurrency due to the "main" ABPs having responsibility for some things and the LAL ABPs having repsonsibility for others, but this feels more like a biproduct of the implementation rather than intentional design.)

---

Side Question: Is there a way for ABPs to interact with attributes from GAS other than binding to Gameplay Tags? this is fine for "state" transitions but if (for example) I wanted to get the float value of something like "health" - can I do that?

[ashen junco]

Layered anim BP could have all the layers available at your disposal, and only partially implement them. The layers that don't have any anim nodes won't disrupt other layered animBP using it.

And no, it wasn't meant to ease version control to begin with (and could needlessly wasting performance if not careful). A good use case would be to have base locomotion animBP running on Locomotion layer, and weapon specific animBP running on Weapon layer. The skeletal mesh have master animBP that glued them together.

[whole harness]

Oh, so you can have more than one linked BP active simultaneously?

[somber glen]

I just tried that out, but still no luck.
I reduced the number of shots to 2 only. Pay attention to how the last barrel animates after shooting, it slowly goes back to its position. However, the first barrel gets instantly teleported to the initial position as soon as the second animation plays.
Meaning, the blending is not working.

[pale elk]

hello,
I have an issue when I want to run a reload animation on my Arms Skeletal Mesh, and on my Weapon Skeletal Mesh at the same time. I am using animation montage for both and as you can see on the screen I play both montage. But only my first montage on the node graph is playing. The second montage ( the one for my weapon mesh ) is supposed to spawn bullet shells and a muzzle flash, both made with Niagara.
I also have the same issue for the reload animation.
After some research I have found that If you want to play animation montages at the same time, you are supposed to use two different slots in the anim montage. But I don't have an animation blueprint for my weapons, and the weapon and the arms are two separate skeletal mesh.

So, questions:
do I really need a different slot for animating my weapons ?
If yes, how can I create it, do I have to create an animation blueprint for each of my guns ?

Thank you 🙏

[viscid willow]

can you confirm whether this is a blending issue or if your montages are cancelling each other? because your layer blend appears to have all of its filters

[cloud coyote]

Hello, I'm wondering how and where to assign a T-pose asset for a Metahuman so it becomes the default pose ?

[lusty venture]

is this so that you can use the metahumans in ik retargeter, or for a different purpose?

[weary zinc]

Hi all, just started playing with motion matching in my project and I wonder if there's a way to access the currently selected animation from the motion matching database in real time?

[cobalt sparrow]

I figured it out, the root axis is off but I checked in blender and its solid, but when i import to ue5, its just off center

any ideas?

[weary zinc]

found it. It's the GetMotionMatchingSearchResult node incase anyone else is looking for this

[cobalt sparrow]

anybody know how to switch between two blendspaces ingame?

[latent echo]

Hey yall. Anyone here use the Kilt option in Auto-Rig Pro before? how does that work with unreal? Like if rig a character with that and then bring it in to UE5 and use mannequin anims on the model will it respect the Kilt setup from ARP? or will it only work for anims that I export from blender?

[viscid willow]

you mentioned before that promoting the blend space to a variable and setting that doesnt work? I'm curious how you were setting that? Because it certainly works

If you're really at a loss you could just add a blend by bool node, plug both blend spaces into the blend by bool and swap them using a boolean variable

[viscid willow]

do you get any errors or warnings when importing your skeletal mesh?

[untold vigil]

I recently made a new easy to use animation blueprint solver for the dragonik plugin. It's a "chinese dragon solver", which lets you basically get the old nokia snake game effect working on any bone chain. The bone chain follows the first effector transform as if they are going along a train track. Useful for certain kinds of procedural animation, such as chinese dragons,fishes and snakes.

[topaz crest]

Hi, I want to snap my left hand to my weapon and grab the transform and get it into bone space and apply a fabrik. It kind of works but the location where the left hand is is entirly incorrect. Any idea why?

[cobalt sparrow]

I did on the custom ones

Couldn’t figure out why

The first animations work fine, it’s the custom ones that give me errors

[cobalt sparrow]

I think we got messed up timezones, I have to go to work now, won’t be able to send pictures for a few hours

[azure roost]

So, is there no way to reimport a skeletal mesh with new morph targets, if its the skeleton doesn´t also get reimportet?
I´m not sure what the correct procedure is, but the skeleton I imported with this skeletal mesh is being used by hundreds of other skeletal meshes, so importing a new version and then consolidating the existing skeleton to the new skeleton (which seems to be the only way to get new morph targets and their curves to show up anywhere) forces them ALL to get updated and I need to resubmit with source control.

That can´t be the intended way, can it?
What am I missing here?

[still prism]

Hi, my problem is that when I attach my weapon to my hands with the animation the weapon doesn't follow my character's hands correctly, I don't know why this happens, but if anyone has a solution I'd love it, thanks in advance.
Here's a short video explaining the problem.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo96CYORB1s

[pulsar hollow]

why my animbp wont print anything? not even begin play.

animbp works for putting skelly with animbp ref on level but on my master bp a skelly with animbp wont just start

[pale elk]

hello, i am still stuck on this and would really appreciate any help 😅

[wraith swallow]

To play the montage on your weapon, the weapon will need its own animation blueprint (like your hands mesh) and a Default Slot. Do you have that set up correctly?

Right click on your weapon skeletal mesh, Create > Anim Blueprint. Then inside that new AnimBP create an empty state machine, with an empty state inside. Then a Default slot in the anim graph right after the state machine. And hook that up to the output node. Then in your character BP, set the the weapon to use the new AnimBP you created and it should play your montage.

[pale elk]

No i dont have any animation blueprint for my weapons

[pale elk]

thank you i will do this ! So do I have to do this with every weapon I have ?

[wraith swallow]

If its a skeletal mesh with a unique skeleton then yea, each gun will need its own animation blueprint.

[viscid willow]

I live in NZ I have a messed up timezone for everyone 🥴

[gusty quest]

hey guys I have a simple question, I have this animation to throw a lance/spear but the animation flips the wrist and thus the weapon socket (making the weapon appear in the wrong direction) is there any way to spin the socket 180 degrees by some notify or other method ? I'm trying to edit the animation with control rig but it seems a bit too complicated for what I'm trying to do

[pale elk]

alright thank you! I didnt knew anim bp where mandatory for all skeletal mesh that i want to animate

[gusty quest]

I thought maybe I could flip the actual item as the animation occured, but all I can do is relative rotation and the actual item isn't world aligned so it just rotates wrong, dang :/

[cloud coyote]

Hello, I’m wondering if live motion capture data will broadcast correctly when the actor is in a T-pose while the Metahuman is in an A-pose. Since the default poses are different, the mocap animation might not match. How can this be resolved so that the live mocap animation works properly?

[gusty quest]

get a simple asset to redo he actor pose I guess

can be done inside the editor too afaik

usually motion matching is more about velocity and such, check your schema

[cloud coyote]

What do you mean by simple asset?

[gusty quest]

on the marketplace there are cheap assets that can redo an actor pose

[cloud coyote]

I have tried to export additional pose in UE5 and it works fine with retargeted baked animation, however with live motion capture it doesn't work.

[gusty quest]

oh sorry I misread ! I thought motion matching !

yeah you'll have to have the exact same pose for the control rig much like live retargetting

as close as humanely possible I guess

[cloud coyote]

In that case, do I need to export the Metahuman from UE, pose it in a T-pose, and then import it back into UE? Is that the correct workflow?

[gusty quest]

if that is what the system requires yes... theres docs about it isn't it ?

[fossil rivet]

What's this weird collider that I see under my character's skeletal mesh?

[fossil rivet]

so much action in here lol

[fast dew]

it's very late in the US, and very early in europe, so your audience is diminished by quite a bit

not to mention your question is kinda vague- what is the weird collider? well it appears to be a weird collider, go double check your mesh and figure out why it's there. there's certainly not enough info in your screenshot for me to hazard a guess as to what is or why it's there

[fossil rivet]

Question was aimed at anyone who may have had or seen such a case before. I've already tried extensively figuring out what it is .. there's nothing that seems selectable. Hence asking here. And my last comment was a mostly humorous, slight expression of frustration that's all

[fast dew]

well, squinting at your tiny screenshot it looks like the ground plane, which is part of the preview scene

[fossil rivet]

It's 2044x1346, hardly tiny. Thanks anyway.

[fast dew]

why are you trying to remove the collider from the preview scene? are you trying to solve a bug in your game

[topaz crest]

I'm still looking for a solution

[naive mountain]

Socket location & bone location are probably different. Print their world locations & check.

[topaz crest]

They match in print

already checked that

[naive mountain]

My guess is the xform to bone space node

Maybe conflict between world/local/bone space and their definitions

Where are u printing from

[copper sigil]

Hey folks, I'm really struggling to get the retargeter to keep root motion. I wonder if anyone else has come across this and knows a way to solve it?

I did manage to get a similar result to root motion on that retargeted animation by having root motion disabled and setting the root retarget translation to "Skeleton", but that feels like a hacky way to do it rather than using the real root motion toggle:

[copper sigil]

Hmm, okay, if I have IK enabled in the retargeter rootmotion disabled works as expected, but the IK retargeter seems to have some jittery issues which is why I disabled it in the first place.

Okay, I sort of fixed the issue by leaving the IK retargeter enabled and adjusting the rotation blend to 0.7 to avoid the small pops in the retarget result I was getting. No idea if this will work for all animations in the set but for now it's the only way I can continue 😄

[lament anchor]

Hello, is there any solution for adding momentum to root motion montages? I have grapling hook montage with root motion and motion warping, when jump and use hook my animation has few frames that i want to keep jump momentum from falling then go to flying mode. I also trying combined two separate animation, one with root off and other with root on and fit it in one montage, but it still didnt work. Notify "disable root motion" also didnt work, still it didnt keep jump momentum, character just started falling and thats it.

and the second one with 2 different animation

[coral sequoia]

how to animate rotation of the camera without doing this weird spinning around.. it is always give me hard time. any time i do rotation and looking to the ground then i flying to the ground, camera doing multiple spin

[fast dew]

use inertial blending, that's actually the main reason it exists

[stone kindle]

can you get a bone's current transform in animation blueprint? I can not find a way

[wild sail]

Is it possible to mirror a pose with a Control Rig? Namely, I want to copy the pose of one hand to the other one

[cobalt sparrow]

Alright, so this is what I did to try to switch between blend spaces (following a tutorial). Heres how I set everything up.

[viscid willow]

Righto, so you put a blend space in each state and swap between those. Sounds good 👍

[cobalt sparrow]

yup

its not working for some reason

I used something called an Enum script to switch the two

[viscid willow]

Well looking at your first screenshot you only have one blend space plugged into your output pose. You'll need to have your state machine plugged in

[cobalt sparrow]

oh shit youre right, im not very familiar with ue5. What is the state machine? the enum?

[viscid willow]

An example of a state machine is the first locomotion node in your first screenshot. Each state contains animation and you change to different states based on some rules.

An enum is a variable you can use to determine if a rule is true or not.

You have built a state machine, the unarmed and armed pistol nodes are states.

[cobalt sparrow]

it has worked thank yoy

you

also my speed variable was plugged into the "none" part of the BS for some reason

my whole code is wonky😂

[viscid willow]

I believe you can use the GetSocketTransform node and input the name of of the bone you wanna get and that will work.

[cobalt sparrow]

I made it so my character can aim, but if I aim and click the gun equip button, the gun dissapears and hes just holding his arm in the air. Is there a way to lock buttons while one is being held down?

[viscid willow]

It sounds more like you need to be more clear with when your aim state is valid. Do you want to be able to aim with and without a gun?

Do you want to be able to holster the gun while aiming? These are things you will need to consider when building a state machine.

Locking the buttons seems like a recipe for messy inputs.

[cobalt sparrow]

I only want to be able to aim when the gun is held, and when he isn’t aiming I can put the gun away

[ancient wasp]

Hi guys, has anyone encountered this issue before? Joint looks fine in Maya, but shaking in ue5...

[misty dagger]

How do I force an anim montage to be full body?

[wintry niche]

Anyone know how to edit the amount of frames of animation in unreal? i wanna have less frames

[naive mountain]

Compare the anim groups in the animation montage to the anim group logic in your animation blueprint.

[naive mountain]

It's probably a different bone

[mellow sleet]

Hi all, I'm having some issues with ghosting frames from Movie Render Queue. I think there might be some subframes causing movement because my other scenes render fine, but I can't see anything in the graph editor. I also baked animation down to control rig, baked it to an animation sequence and tried adding it that way, deleting all unnecessary keys, etc. but I'm still getting this annoying ghosting. Anything else I can try? I don't think it's my MRQ settings because other scenes look fine.

Here's a screen recording of the MRQ cooking where you can see the groom freaking out in between frames, which makes me think there are subframes somewhere?

The resulting ghosting in the output mov

I don't have any keys on the global, root or body offset ctrls, and nothing on the transform track either. I'm really scratching my head here and it looks totally fine in the in-engine playback

[modest lagoon]

@mellow sleet what are your render settings in MRQ? Or are you using MRQ? This looks like a motion blur issue, I'd make sure you have both spatial and temporal AA samples high enough. If you don't have enough of one (I forget which) it will make the "motion blur" look like this ghosting effect. If you render out via Path Tracer, then there's an option to choose physically accurate motion blur, whic would be the way to go.

[fast dew]

how exactly do bone blend masks work? are transforms still inherited? ie) if my shoulder and upper arm blend is set to 1 but my hands are set to 0, will the hand's transforms be influenced by the blended bones or will they be in their base anim locations?

[cobalt sparrow]

Whenever I click right click even without the gun, my guy aims. I told it to only be able to aim if its holding the gun and holding down right mouse button

[mellow sleet]

Hi! Here are my MRQ settings for antialiasing:

[mellow sleet]

And my camera-specific motion blur settings:

[mellow sleet]

The reason why I don't think it's my MRQ settings is because I use these same settings on other sequences, but they don't have the ghosting effect. And in the render preview, the hair seems to jump ahead in position, which makes me think there's some subframe velocity changes occuring somewhere, but I just can't seem to root them out

[slow brook]

if i wanted to allow any animation to be chosen to play, is there a way on the play montage or animation if the skeletal mesh for it to take in any animation instead of ones relevant to only the skeletal mesh that is set ?

[rigid nacelle]

Tried the pinned posts, but are there any good consise guides to animation? Like not the basics, but difference between settings when using animation montages and setup of animation blueprints etc.

[neat plank]

Hi everyone, I'm having some trouble migrating animations from an UE 5.3 project to an UE 5.4. In theory it works fine, but the same animation assets end up havng more than double the size within the UE 5.4 project. Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to prevent this from happening?
This only seems to be happening with animations. Were there maybe some updates in 5.4 that increase the file size of animations across in general?

[dense ibex]

How should I go about projecting these decals onto the surface of the main skeletal mesh so they don't float and also avoid z fighting? In Blender, I use a shrinkwrap modifier after armature deformation to get it to stick to the surface. They have very specific custom normals and vertex colour data to work with my lighting setup so I don't think regular deferred decals would work.

[lethal blaze]

hi all - i have a rig in maya that’s in A-pose but it’s oddly importing with the rig at t-pose. would anyone know how to fix this?

[fast dew]

something jacked up with your rig, from the look of that thumbnail your arms arent weighted and your skeleton's rest pose is actually a T pose (not an A pose)

[steel tree]

hello does the steering node cant be driven using anim curve?

[near moth]

could you explain the question more please

[fast dew]

control rig question: is there any way to set a pole vector with a FABRIK solver (or similar)? the Basic IK node gives pretty terrible results.. FABRIK looks great but with no ability to adjust the pole vector it's super limiting

side note- what is the point of modular control rig, is it just so you can animate with sequencer? I thought it was going to be a quick way to set up an actual control rig, but so far as I can tell there's no way to access the solver graph.. just drag and drop modules in and that's all you can do.

[steel tree]

the steering node in animation blueprint.. i just want to know can anim curve be use with it? or do i need to somehow make a new steering node to support that behaviour

[fast dew]

the steering node is still super new and experimental afaik, don't think it supports much of anything at the moment

[near moth]

I see, im honestly not familiar with it sorry. but I was able to use anim curves + regular rotation to play root motion animation along with responsivness

[steel tree]

ah i see

i'll experiement myself.. thank you for your time 🙂 @near moth @fast dew

[mellow sleet]

Update to this: I manually stretched out all keys in this sequence with the Retime tool in the graph editor to 2x length, then put it back, and now the ghosting is gone 🤷‍♀️

[trim perch]

I have a good few hundred bones I want to add springs to. Is it time to find a 6 hour playlist and grind it out, or there's a better way?

[rigid nacelle]

I think that's why they invented programming dude 😛

[viscid willow]

Depending on the type of spring functionality you could loop over all those bones in a control rig and apply the effect to a large set of bones with one setup.

[fast dew]

i find it weird that there's no easy way to preview blend masks in the skeletal mesh editor.. you can preview animations, why didn't they just make it so only the masked bones are influenced by the preview anim so we can see wtf the mask is doing lol

[simple acorn]

Hello!
Is it possible to create such a Pose Search Database (for Motion Matching), containing several random idle animations, which will be randomly selected by Pose Search node during the character's idle time? Or possible to somehow influence this in the animations themselves for random selection (maybe Motion Matching Notifies)?
I know that there is a Random Sequence Player, but I'm not sure if it can be used in the context of Motion Matching...

[trim perch]

Thanks, I didn't realize animation blueprints were exposed to the C++ API

[trim perch]

I haven't had great experiences with the control rig, but I'll bare the suggestion in mind. Thank you

[fast dew]

motion matching is just a node in an animbp, it doesn't prevent you from doing non-mm stuff. you can add in traditional state machine stuff, blend masks, montages, whatever. All that being said, i can't envision a situation where motion matching an idle would be the ideal way to handle this. motion matching is specifically not random. The whole point of motion matching is to take the current pose and search through a database of sequences for a frame that is the closest match for a given state.

just like all the other new animation nodes, it's just a tool- it's not a one-size-fits-all solution for every video game animation problem. like, you don't use orientation warping on pivots, but it's really useful for strafing. Motion matching is basically an alternative to building complex state machine logic for stuff like locomotion.

[simple acorn]

Yes, it's all sounds logical, since the system is designed for "movement", and pose is not randomly pick, but based on the metrics of scheme, etc.
My naive assumption was based on the fact that Epic has a database with one looping idle animation in the Game Animation Sample. They use Choosers so that the mm-node correctly switches databases to look for animations, including the "idle" database. But they do not choose anything randomly, while I wanted to wrap the whole idea around one principle "choosers>databases>mm-node".

However, there is no problem with this, as you pointed out. I just will not look for anything in the mm-node when the character is standing still, so I can perform the logic for randomly choosing animation in any other way. Thanks!

[charred orbit]

I’m working on a little animated short film (about 20 minutes, hopefully). I was going to try to rent an auditorium at our local movie theater, and show it for me, my friends, family, all that. I already know that cost, but the thing I don’t know is sound yet. I was wondering if anyone has any resources they could point me to for how to make sound work there, accounting for the fact that it has full surround sound audio?

[naive mountain]

#audio

[empty wagon]

hi, Im trying to make a short film in UE5 and i was just wondering, is there some sort of way to make footsteps dynamic in engine without having to add them in post? Similar to dynamic footsteps for Games but for Cinematics and Animations?

[short kettle]

Anyone have issues where your anim montage isnt being saved after being edited?

I went into the animation, moved the legs down to be standing up instead of sitting, pressed KEY, and saved. Then Create>new anim montage.

but the anim montage plays the old animation...

[short kettle]

The animation stays correct here.

but in game, using the montage made from that animation, its incorrect.

Even in the montage it looks correct...

[lusty venture]

if it’s looking correct in both the animation and montage it could be something else that is being set or activated on play? do you have any additives or offsets?

[short kettle]

not sure! i set 1 key frame at the beginning and 1 at the end of where i wanted the bones to be in the animation.

[lusty venture]

yes but in game is there anything running blueprint or code wise that could be affecting the way the animation looks?

[inner drum]

hey I am trying to change the orientation of a socket specifically for one animation, i am trying to do this with additive layers but I cant figure out how to add the track. Ps if there is a better way to do this please let me know

[inner drum]

how did u add those additive layer tracks? Edit: figured it out, select the bone move it and press add key

[cobalt sparrow]

why do all my custom animations break, and the mixamo animations are perfectly fine? I made an AO for aiming my gun and my character started throwing it back. Why does ue5 decide to break the armature when in blender and mixamo its fine?

[lusty venture]

from this screenshot it looks like you haven’t set up a root bone correctly, it’s just taking the hips as the root which could be contributing

[short kettle]

Nope! Just have a custom event to play an anim montage when interacting with my terminal.

I’m very new to the animation side of things and it feels so frustrating lol.

My other issue is that when my character is idle, he is standing straight, and the camera (first person) is straight on! But when I start running, the camera stays straight, but the animation looks about 20° left for some reason.

I’d be finished with my terminals if I could figure out why the animation montage won’t use the updated animation.

[lusty venture]

hmm quite a tricky thing to debug without more info - so you’re editing the animations in the animation sequence window? if you take a look at the anim details for the animation and montage, is it set to additive or anything?

[copper moat]

Hello, I have animation in 3D max and I want to use it in UE. After exporting animated keyframes, UE doesn't play them, any ideas why?

export settings

In UE5 objects doesn't move

[misty dagger]

Hello everyone's!

I'm an expert 2d, 3d Animator 3d printing artist expert at creating character for film, game, avatar, vfx artist, animation etc. I have experience in texture, rigging, sculpting, game assets, prop's, game environment etc looking forward to seeing your message! Thanks

[cobalt sparrow]

everything looks fine in blender though, so how do I fix it?

[short kettle]

I’ll take a look and let you know. Are there anymore screenshots/information I can give you to help?

[misty dagger]

Hi guys, I have a question. Is there a way to know how long a montage was played before being interrupted? For example, I have a 3-second montage but it was interrupted at second 2. What should I do if the montage lasted 2 seconds?

[ashen wyvern]

Hi, so i recorded this animation using mocopi and i need it to use root motion. but as you can see in the picture the root is all messed up. does anyone know why that is or how to fix?

[lusty venture]

unreal doesn't particularly like bringing in animations that aren't on skinned meshes. you might have better luck animating this in engine, depending on what it's for

[lusty venture]

i think looking through the things i mentioned first is a good starting point!

[copper moat]

yeah I probably gonna do that

[lusty venture]

this is a pretty complicated thing. i'd read through this section here, read the section about the root bone to get a better understanding: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/root-motion-in-unreal-engine
mixamo skeletons don't have a root bone, you may need to create one in blender and re-export for unreal

[polar geyser]

nat - wow, you have solved a huge issue for me. I've been trying to place additive sequences into my Sequencer, but the option just wasn't there - thank you!

You noted that they dragged in animation shows up purple - it looks the same color as the track I dropped it on.... I was hoping these additive ones would somehow be distinguised (visually) in the Sequencer. Can change color manually after, but if there is something further I'm missing there, then do kindly advise.

[lusty venture]

when you're adding the new layers, you can rename them in that side menu, or you can actually change the colour tint of the track when you right click > properties:

just change the alpha slider and black slider and it will show up tinted (here i've just made it pink):

[polar geyser]

Got it - thanks. Manual approach works for me !

[short kettle]

okay, so i even made a new animation out of the old animation (with keyframes. So those keyframes are now apart of the animation.

BUT WHENEVER I press the E key to start the anim montage, it just plays the animation that was imported initially. I am gonna lose it LOL.

Theres the new anim montage.

Also if i play just the animation, then the animation looks correct. But the anim montage, even though correct in the editor and previews and everything is not correct in game.

I also only have one section which is default.

[lusty venture]

hmm okay so this sounds like it is something to do with what animation is being referenced by your blueprint, or whatever you're using to control the animation swapping?

[short kettle]

Also heres the code that is calling the anim montage! if that helps..

[fathom lagoon]

can somebody help me fix this, I believe I broke it without realising and now my characters animations aren't working

[short kettle]

It could be! but i am inputting "Final" as the anim montage that should play, and that is the most recent one. Is there some sort of weird way that i have to save or bake the animation?

Also i really appreciate your responses! Youtube, and ChatGPT have been 0 help.

The only thing i have edited in the animation are the bones in the legs. I moved them from sitting down to standing up!

[short kettle]

Actaully, I wonder if its something to do with my keyframing. Because I edited a random body part and it showed up correctly in the animation. I just cannot seem to get the legs to stand up.

[short kettle]

Well, I checked and the animation still looks good. Something with the anim montage is breaking it.

[lusty venture]

could you take a screenshot of your asset details? panel on the left

hmm

this is very strange hahaha

[short kettle]

Heres the animation:

And the Montage:

Currently, becuase i am about to go insane, I have it set to just play the animation, instead of the montage. Which works fine. However, it just isnt smooth like the anim montage is, so it will bug me lol! (entering and exiting the animation)

[tepid sundial]

I'm having an issue with importing some animations into UE from blender. Looks like some sort of gimbal lock problem adding this extra rotation/flip to the wrist. Animations are authored with Quats in blender, but then I get this issue when importing. Anyone know how I can resolve this?

[viscid willow]

Instead of playing the animation with all the additive layers can you save that as a new animation that is clean of all additive tracks, and use that in your montage.

Also your root being translated off the ground is troubling.

[cobalt sparrow]

I created a root like bone for one animation to test it out. Applied everything to the bone, and it still didn’t work.

[lusty venture]

what do you mean by applied everything lol

[cobalt sparrow]

Like I applied the whole model to the point, vertex groups

[lusty venture]

you shouldn’t need to do that?? just adding the root bone so that unreal understands where to place the capsule, it should hopefully not effect any of the animation or skinning for the rest of your rig?

[cobalt sparrow]

okay it finally worked, one thing, how would I make this new bone apply to all the rigs and unreal processes it as all the same rig? because I cant make multiple rigs that are similar because unreal BPs can only hold one rig.

[tepid sundial]

Still looking for help with this issue. No one else authors animations in Blender?

[tender elk]

hello, forgive the crazy question, i am wondering, can i create an animation state machine in c++?

[inland ridge]

guys, I want to convert the game animation sample to top down camera and everything. but I want to convert the turn animations to turn-in-place, like have the character turn its head to follow the mouse and then turn in place. any tips for this? im thinking construct controller yaw from difference in player orientation and mouse position? Pls

[serene fiber]

hi all

i have this issue where these nodes dont have any effect

can someone help me, because i think it belongs to animation section

i think current animation is overriding the setbonetransform but i want to be able to smoothly add the 60 to the pinky_01_r bone and then let it stay that way until i tell it otherwise

[timber summit]

Does anyone have any tips for handling sitting animations? Getting a little muddled when it comes to playing a montage and switching to a sitting idle state in the anim BP so they anims sort of line up when the montage finishes.

Some sitting anims will start where they jump/hop up onto a ledge.

[sand rover]

Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to Unreal and I had a question about sending characters to Unreal from Maya. When sending character meshes that have multiple parts into Unreal, is there any benefit to combining all the meshes into one single mesh vs keeping unconnected parts separated?

[plain marten]

Iam doing animations with ALS and Iam having a very tiny trouble with my code
Iam trying to add Random Idle animations that will work after 5 seconds from idle animation , in random idle I wanted 4 different animations.

1)THe logic in state machine is working fine
2)I connected the layer itself to output and
3)made an (On Update ) binding

but not sure how to add the animation itself

how can I add the sequence in a way that it chooses one of 4 animations?

wether randomly or incrementally

I used Enums for Cycle
like this, I managed to make it work with directional animations but idle_random is my problem

[wanton ridge]

Question for the gang: what should I look into if I want to trigger my Manny's arms to move to a particular location in front of them procedurally, without baking a specific animation sequence for that motion, but instead letting the engine figure out the best solution for me?

There are so many options in the tools now that I'm not sure which one to even start with. I want the arms to reach to spot x in front of the character when a key is pressed, and retract when it's released, that's it.

I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eH-1Ma1a_s is wha I'm looking for, but it's from a couple of years ago and a lot of videos on that channel are marked as outdated now that we're on 5.4

[cobalt sparrow]

So I added a rootbone to all my animations, and merged them all to one rig when I reimported them to Unreal, but when I import one animation, another animation breaks, and vice versa. Why are they breaking? They may have merged bones, but all I added were root bones. Please help.

[hasty edge]

Hello there!

I am desperate and hope here somebody could help me…

I am working on a video and try to get familiar with sequencer and animations. I am coming from Unity a when importing characters from Character Creator, there is no problem regarding sharing animations between them in the timeline (sequencer in UE).

In UE, I am not able to do such thing right now. I checked the option "show incompatible skeletons" in animation tab in sequencer and I am able to adda animations from another character, but apparently it will stretch othe other character, which I do not want. 😄 The characters share the same bone structure, They only vary in size.

Did I overlooked some checkbox or something which could make my wish possible? I hope there is a workaround… Thank you!

[azure roost]

is ANYBODY here using lead pose component for modular characters and experiencing editor crash when also activating hardware raytracing?
I have this issue, I can reproduce it 100% even in a new empty project and it doesn´t seem to register anywhere in the bug database...
I created a thread (originally in blueprints, as it started happening in my blueprint):
https://discord.com/channels/187217643009212416/1234406400957091840

I woudl really apreciate anyone trying to reproduce this issue and confirm that its nothing related to my current hardware/unreal setup.

[steel badger]

Hello, does anyone know how to make a metahuman skeleton for your character (mesh)?

[azure roost]

Doesn´t make any sense though to be a general bug with lead pose component and raytracing...metahuman uses lead pose componen and that would crash for a ton of people then who have been using it...

[frank tapir]

hello there i'm a new unreal user from blender and i was animating the camera of my scene and i was wandering if i can manipulate more this keyframe, like have 2 handel to increment an is in is out like blender,

[astral wadi]

I got an ask at work today about creating animated gifs in BINK format that can be used in game in unreal engine. Does anyone know this work flow ?

[ashen junco]

It's basically the same as other video file, just bring your video file into the Bink 2 tool that is in the Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\Bink directory.

[night rover]

probably want to look at motion warping if you need to align the character at certain frames

[astral wadi]

Ok ! So I can just use the tool that’s in there to convert an already processed gif or avi for that matter?

[ashen junco]

For .gif file, you may need to convert it to video first (or use the source video file)

[astral wadi]

Got it so say I have an avi with transparency how would I need to treat it in bink converter to play in unreal ? Like just process a gif? Trying to understand difference between a gif out of Bink from photoshop for example

[ashen junco]

Yeah, transparency is supported with Bink, not sure if there's additional settings to check, though

[astral wadi]

And purpose for using BINK over photoshop is that it converts it to unreal spec?

[merry loom]

Does right click the keyframe give you anything? Change handle type? Just a guess

[uneven axle]

Does anyone know how to change the default Compression Settings assets for an animation sequence? I was looking in the Editor and Project Settings but couldn't find it

[timber summit]

Motion warping is on my mind but I think my issues are down to not having the animation aligned properly for the sitting idles so when the transitional anim ends (stand to sit) it looks like it snaps to the idle position which isn't actually where they ended up.

[proud horizon]

having a super weird bug, the animation plays correctly once then for some odd reason changes direction?

[lusty venture]

check what your root bone is doing, it could be rotating

[coarse crater]

why Location is not baked?

I get animations without changing the location of the bones

[lusty venture]

you're in luck, there is actually a checkbox that fixes everything! on the animations you're importing, check your asset details panel and set your retarget source to the skeleton that you created the animations for

[finite bobcat]

do you guys know the hotkey for saving skeleton edits/transforms during an animation?? i used to be able to edit a skeleton to make my weapon face the right direction during an animation, press a key (forget which one) and itd save the edit to the animation. i thought it was "s" but after i edit the bones and press s, it creates a track like i expect it to, but doesnt save anything...

in this video it shows the previous edits that worked (right and left foot). im trying to make edits to the right hand now and i thought i found the hotkey but its not saving the edits when i run the project... the top line on the track is blue and not red... no idea whats going on T-T i just want to edit bones and save them during animation.

oh i think line color is just rotation direction

still dont know why its not saving

[cobalt sparrow]

how to fix camera zooming into character so much when moving camera around and colliding with objects?

[stiff rivet]

Hi, I'm trying to use motion warping to allow enemies to close the gap to the player. I'm using the setup commonly found in most tutorials -> add notifies, set warp target, play montage with root motion. When I apply a sphere trace it shows the warp target being set to the right location, and, well, the motion is definitely warping, but the overshoot is absolutely insane. It gets more accurate if I move closer, but there is still overshoot. Has anyone experienced this/have a solution? Many thanks.

[velvet haven]

does anyone know that how we can switch a prop between our hands? (for example i have a sword in my left hand and i want that sword in my right hand in between the animation in unreal engine viewport)

[gentle ore]

hello guys rate my recen model for

[vestal forum]

I got a few animations for holding, aiming and shooting a rifle that i'm trying to set up a socket for so the character can hold a rifle.
The shooting animation however held the rifle all wrong compared to all others.

I fixed the the animation sequence by adding a virtual bone, parenting the socket under the virtual bone and then moving that bone in only the rifle firing animation sequence. see the additive layer tracks
It works like a charm within the sequence.

However now that i am trying to make an animation montage out of that sequence the fix i made does not transfer. I haven't found a way to add additive layer tracks to a montage either to fix it that way.

Anybody know why the montage does not get the fixes made in the sequence?

[vestal aspen]

In UE 5.4.4, if I have a Bake Animation Sequence, is it possible to "Bake to Control?" Not bake to 'Layered' or 'Additive.' But "Bake to Control?"

[rancid frigate]

hello again all, i was wondering if anyone had anymore info on deformation graphs or controlling deformers through control rig. I didn't see much info from unreal fest so far

[vagrant falcon]

Hey there I want to figure out how to make a hamster run inside a ball that's controlled by physics, how do I make it so the ball rolls but the hamster stays upright? Thanks in advance! (esp if there's any tutorials/keywords to look for)

[vestal aspen]

The hamster ball can be controlled by the Character Blueprint locomotion. The hamster skeletal mesh would be in the same character blueprint with its own blendstates.

[sweet shard]

Hi! I have a simple AnimGraph setup that is controlled from C++ (we have other animation systems that don't use skeletal meshes so we want to keep the AnimGraph minimal, just set to blend between animations).
The problem is that, when passing an animation to the Sequence Player, if the sequence is the same as before and it's not looping, it won't restart the animation play. Ideally, the animation would play every time a sequence is set from the beginning, and freeze when reaching the sequence end.

[vagrant falcon]

awesome thank you I'll try this! should the hamster ball be attached to the skeletal mesh or should it be separate?

[twilit ocean]

Facing issue when playing montage(issue during blend in or blend out)

NPC go under floor for micro second during blending of animation

I've setup "On button press" to go from idle to montage.

when Blend in/Blend Out value set to 0, anim Montage works okay but just figuring out where the issue could be.....

[sweet shard]

Just in case somebody else has the same thing - I "solved" the issue by using a Sequence Evaluator node instead of Sequence Player. We pass the playtime directly from C++ which gives more control, and fits with our approach

[vestal aspen]

You can put the hamster ball and the hamster skeletal mesh in the same character blueprint. The ball will have its own state machine and the hamster skeletal mesh will have a separate state machine.

[merry loom]

They only mentioned there are some prebuilt deformer rigs in a plugin called “Animator Kit” maybe take a look there? I haven’t gotten a chance to look at preview 1 yet so just guessing

[merry loom]

Does your rig have the backwards solve event implemented? Backwards solve is responsible for taking poses from anim sequences and figure out where the controls should be to achieve that pose

[rancid frigate]

ty! found it and playing with it rn

[merry loom]

Haha nice! Show us how it works if you figure it out!

[chilly lotus]

Reposting my question from the general chat. Please let me know if I would be better served in a different sub-category.

Very simple question here likely, but I am out of my element in this regard. I imported, say, a tank model into Unreal - brought it in as a skeletal mesh, so I have the bottom (main body with the treads) and the top (swiveling bit where the cannon is). I have the swivel as a child of the main body. I want to bring this into a Blueprint Class such that I can have these different bits exposed (say, I want to be able to rotate the upper bit. Specifically I will be connecting that to a button press on the UI). When I bring my skeletal mesh into a Blueprint Actor, I cannot see a way to access any of the "bones." I am aware that I can convert my Skeletal Mesh to a Control Rig, and setup controllers for the bones - yet I am unable to bring my Control Rig into my Blueprint Actor. Obviously there's a ton of things I am unaware of and it's hard to figure out "what are the correct questions to ask?" I have been looking at tons of vehicle rig tutorials and such but nothing is getting me anywhere near what I am looking for.

[viscid willow]

For something like this, one way you can approach it is to have your skeletal mesh in your blueprint with an animation blueprint assigned. In your Tank Blueprint Class you would calculate the facing angle you want for your cannon. You can then pass that information to your animation blueprint and use that value to drive the rotation of the bone, either with a Modify Transform node or through control rig.

[chilly lotus]

Thanks. A lot of that stuff is brand new to me, but at least now I have a little idea of what direction to start looking toward.

[viscid willow]

As a general approach any kind of bone modification and ofcourse animation setup will be done in the ABP. While variables can be passed from your actor bp and used in your ABP to drive states or perform any other kind of bone manipulation.

[coral sequoia]

camera rotation problem. what is the right way to animate it that i do not become rotating wildly

[dense harness]

I have a simple shooting animation linked that is called in the character blueprint, when shooting. However it lowers the position of the weapon once I shoot. I don't get why. Do you guys have any idea?

[boreal lintel]

Hello all.

I'm trying to make an IK rig that allows me to move a dogs head towards a destination point (as an interaction trigger). The rig also has IK for the feet to align with the ground when the dog walks. When I move the 'mouth' IK goal to the target object, the whole body morphs towards it (see image).

I only want the head and neck to go towards the target, don't want the rest of the body to be affected. How can I achieve this?

[wintry niche]

poor dog : (

[topaz narwhal]

are u using control rig?

for example with feet, whatever offset you want you have to set it up before the last nodes of ik

I imagine something like passing a reference or variable from bp char to the control rig

[boreal lintel]

@topaz narwhal No, I think just the IK setup for now, sounds like I need to learn Control Rig

I think one of the other team members may have set that up for the feet already, I'll need to check

[topaz narwhal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UmbrhV5oDc

this tutorial has something good, that is more beginner friendly copying the control rig and the editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZgxv3jy8Zw this guy also has some interesting approach for a first timer, maybe too long tutorials as is not so prepared fast tutorial format, but also goes in detail usually

the contorl rig has several interesting nodes

and this kind of key words like control rig + procedural can bring you good resources as references

[mental bone]

Hi all,
I am getting somewhat puzzled with the basik IK setup in control rig; in particular with the primary/secondary axis.

Setting my pole vector like in the first picture:

And the bone orientations on thigh, calf and foot look like the second picture:

Based on what I learned, the primary axis vector needs to be the one pointing down the chain. I conclude that it should be Z -1. But I get a tiny offset/snap on the joint when I hook it up and it puzzles me.

Any help I would greatly appreciate.

[merry loom]

Each of your joint probably should point towards its child. Maybe try taking a look at manny’s skeleton? The way it looks like in your screenshot, non of the calf axes point to the foot bone

[mental bone]

Point how ? I did look at manny and I tried to match the orientation to Manny’s axis, but then I still did not find a primary axis in the rig so that there is no snap.

What do I need to point at what exactly I wonder ? :0 @merry loom

Basically so that in my case the blue line would go the same angle as the bone itself?

[mental bone]

Found the issue in my case.
Using this checkbox "use plane as secondary" was causing the slight 'misorientation'.
I understand nothing about it, but orienting my bones correctly by not using that checkbox makes it a perfect, snap-free IK in the control rig.

[jolly hatch]

So after switching over to a threadsafe animation system. Now My Ik targets that were attached to Simulated objects are lagging behind the positions where they should be locked to.

[jolly hatch]

Seems that using a physics Position ref directly from my character hands in the AnimationBP for the Ik target everything is 1-1 but creating A TRANSFROM of that ref in my character and using that in the AnimationBP causes lag, because the physics stuff is ran on the game thread and the animations are on the anim thread. so Is there anyway so solve this or should I stick with my original method. I was hoping to have the whole system move over to the Threadsafe method but this would not be possible as you cant use component refs with it :(😮‍💨 somebody correct me if thats wrong

[lost verge]

Long shot but does anyone have a meta human ue to rigify template for blender 4.0 and above ?

[wild hill]

Do someone know how i can animate that scissor lift to go up and down

[copper stump]

Hallo Guys, Can anyone help me with this

When the animation shoot work it doesn't return to move animation until click shoot button again.

This is event graph inside Animation Blueprint