animation

[gaunt tartan]

Thank you 🙏 we’ve been building it for 3 years. Hit me up with any questions 🙂

[novel viper]

Does anyone know how to fix the calculate direction node for AI characters? For human controlled characters the calculate direction node works perfectly fine, but for my AI it gives incorrect direction results making the AI characters use the wrong blendspace animations. Why is this and how can I fix it?

[opal galleon]

Hi, I would really appreciate it if someone could help me understand how to diagnose the root cause of an animation issues in UE.
I would like to use a Breakdancing animation from Mixamo in my game, but the legs are twisting the wrong way when I play the game, and I’ve been unable to understand why it is happening.
I started my project with the Lyra Starter Game template, and I believe that it’s some part of this existing animation code that is causing the problem, but this is where I’m stuck.
The animation works correctly when viewed on the Skeletal Mesh in the editor, and in a brand new project based off of the Third Person template, so that’s what has led me to the conclusion that part of the Lyra animation logic is conflicting with this imported animation.
How do experienced animators go about debugging these sorts of issues in UE?

[wraith goblet]

How do you guys Vinterp when all you have is a Vector that updates on the tick? Do you do a delay and set a 'Delay Variable' that you can Vinterp to?

[high musk]

Does anyone have a good idea for bouncing an object using control rig? I have an actor attached to an animal and I want it to bob up and down when i pass it an acceleration value

[mellow urchin]

animating in ctrl rig apperently still broken. how is 0,0,0 in world space not 0,0,0 in world space

if im doing something wrong let me know but this seems pretty straightforward

seemingly animating it in worldspace still somehow translates to local space

[last dove]

I have a lot of robots for a game that will have the same or slightly different animations. I'm thinking of using Cascadeur to fine tune animation as there is a live link. Any thoughts on this solution since the robots have to have interchangeable parts and use the new rigging and motion matching in unreal. It has to be procedural but still have good animations.

[mellow urchin]

#animation message funny using spaces also doesnt export to the animations

apperently this is 0 in that bones space. sure

[lethal blaze]

is there a reason this menu in the ikretargeter is greyed out?

[rose mural]

If I have an animation notify state in an animation and that animation stops playing before the end of the animnotifystate, does the animnotifystate get its "end" called?

[sleek mantle]

Hi all, sorry for if this notification bothering you, I want to convert the animation file that I have made use cascadeur and blender into a VXA type animation file, is that possible or are there other applications and techniques so that I can convert the animation file to VXA??

[coral sequoia]

Hi! Quick question. I'm working on creating a worm in a modular rig in UE5.5. I need to animate the worm, but not just from the head like a snake—I also want the tail to affect the head dynamically.

I've made some progress. Using Chain modules, I can animate the worm dynamically from the head down. However, I can't figure out how to make the tail's movements affect the head with the same dynamics. Essentially, I'm looking for something similar to Unreal's Cable Tool, with two anchor points.

Any advice? Thanks

[distant cave]

Hello, Quick question. I am trying the GameAnimationSample in my own test project and I am having some hard time understanding how to make the character ragdoll once it's dead. The issue comes from collision settings as far as I see, if I leave the custom collision Epic left, it goes trough the floor. If I change the collision to Ragdoll, it becomes like a wood. Any ideas on how to transition from the custom collision to actual ragdoll?

[tardy seal]

Hey people so I saw like this sick livelink thingie that epic used in one of their fortnite videos where you could do animations in maya and it would directly stream it into unreal and I was wondering is there something for blender aswell? I did find one plugin but it only has support for ue5.0.0 and when moving it to 5.4 it works, but Ik doesnt work which is just scuffed

[eager yarrow]

so I saw all these questions not getting answered so I figured I wouldn't pile on. Hope you guys figured it out :)

[empty granite]

I'm trying to make a character mod for the Unreal Tournament Pre-Alpha project from 2014, the uproject file of which uses UE4.15. The base skeleton for most of the character's in the project don't use the base third person skeleton from UE but their own instead called Base_3p_Skeleton.

The mod I'm doing it to try and port a character named Motig (an alien character) from an older Unreal Tournament game (Unreal Tournament 2004 to be specific).

Using Blender, I updated the model to be a bit more compatible with modern skeletal structures and then used an addon called GameRigTools to create a rig for the Motig model based on the Unreal Engine Mannequin skeleton. I made sure that all of the transforms in blender were applied and set at 1, exported the FBX with -x forward and z up, etc, and etc. Got the model imported into the project just fine, opening the skeleton has everything moving correctly - all seems well. I then use the retargeting tools to in UE4.15 and set the rig for both the Base_3p_Skeleton and my Motig skeleton to humanoid, saved them, and then went to the animation blueprint for the Base_3p_Skeleton, right clicked, and selected to duplicate and retarget everything, chose my Motig skeleton as the target and set all naming conventions from "base" to "motig" and hit retarget.

The results are disastrous...

Putting the newly created animations on my Motig model deforms the model in the most destructive way possible with the faces and vertices stretched and repositioned so chaotically that the model no longer has any structure whatsoever and completely destroys and explodes it making it take up a total space in the world of at least 2000x the size of the level it's in and I for the life of me cannot figure out what the problem is. I've spent 3 days on just trying to get the retargeting to work already and I have made absolutely 0 progress. I've tried everything I can find online and everything I can get chatgpt to suggest to me and nothing fixes the problem.

What do I do? How do I make this work? Is there maybe a way to bring both my Motig model and the Base_3p skeleton into UE5 and use the newer retargeting tools to basically get Motig a version of the Base_3p skeleton and then backport it to the UE4.15 project or maybe something else I can try? I'm beyond frustrated trying to figure this out because ofcourse there's very little information, 0 youtube videos even, on fixing the exact issue I'm getting.
Thank you in advance for any help at all that you can provide....

As a side note: I know that my motig model has a tail and also has those reverse joint legs. The Base_3p Skeleton also has tail bones actually since it's not just used for the humans but also a different alien race called the Skaarj who also have tails. I made sure that my tail bone names matched those in the Base_3p skeleton and that I was using the same number of them too in order to ensure the heiarchy is compatible. As for the legs, I actually just ran the calf bones from the knee to the ankle and then weighted the entire reverse joint hock to those calf bones to ensure that everything moved accordingly. My overall hierarchy of bones is identical still despite the model difference to that of the UE mannequin.

[hidden grove]

any one else seeing a crash... when you delete all the locomotion states from the statemachine in the animation graph then when you add a new one it instantly crashes ??

ah ok i saved it .. let it crash and now its ok again

[hoary rivet]

Does anyone here want to participate in a Brazilian Open World Project?

[hoary rivet]

voluntarily

[tribal chasm]

I'm trying to use "Animation - Getting Up 01" (free asset) and it imports and plays fine on the UE4 skeleton, but if you create a montage out of it and play it, at the end your character dips into the ground and lerps back up. I've checked root&pelvis positions and orientations, everything looks good. Anybody have an idea?

[hoary rivet]

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[rose moth]

thanks a lot for your help will watch the tutorial

[hidden grove]

any ideas why that isnt working?

[rare fjord]

was the animation sample updated for 5.5 already? just downloaded but I don't see crouching or sprinting and in the infos it says those should be there already

using 5.5.1

I am missing something?

[ashen junco]

Yes, it's already updated for 5.5, you may need to download the sample again specifically for 5.5

[rare fjord]

lol damned fab

thanks @ashen junco

I don't see any version options

I have only 5.5.1 isntalled

apart from source 5.6 main

had to remove local content

ok

[hidden grove]

if any one else has a similar thing check if the animations need looping

[rare fjord]

does anyone knows how in unreal engine I can remove the translation inside an animation? for instance the jog animation, Iw ant it to stay in place https://github.com/readyplayerme/animation-library/raw/master/masculine/webp/locomotion/F_Jog_001.webp

[rare fjord]

using root lock leads to small postion changes

[stark hare]

Hello everyone. I'm new here. Please let me know if i'm asking in the wrong channel. I'm strugling with Moduler control rig. My rig doesn't have Sockets automatically pop like all the tutorials that have popped up on the topic. So I've gone through and create my sockets. I thought I was done but when i Tried to edit an animation 6 bones that I added which were Eyebrow bones, pop out of the head. the arm Geo is completely broken and the Spine is disconnecting from the Pelvis. I can slowly figure all that out. but is there a way to edit the spine control locations?

[stark hare]

Anyone know why A control rig can break an existing animation?

[gleaming vale]

What's up y'all. I'm trying to use an anim notify state to start and stop some audio but I can't set the reference to the spawned audio from the overridden functions in the anim notify state. Says I can't set in this context. If I wanted to start and stop audio, based on what an animation is doing, what would you guys suggest?

[pearl iron]

i dont ask questions in here but im a little stumped

has anyone ever seen this when it comes to movement ?

[prime vale]

disable orientation warping debug draw node if you use one

[echo finch]

is it possible to add some kind of wiggle across this 2 points? im animating on sequence

[tribal moth]

Hi everybody, does anyone know why Look at node looks snappy (like low fps), maybe the tick does not match, in which case how to change the group tick in AnimBP.

[twilit stream]

Hello, I'm animating a vehicle (tractor) skeletal mesh. I have setup 2 animations sequences: one to open the cabin left door and one for moving the wipers. I want to play the wiper animation in loop when its raining and play the open door animation when i call it in my player blueprint. How to setup this with an anim blueprint? animations need to be controlled and played separately, like sometimes it will open the door while wipers are running and sometimes only wipers will run for example

[daring whale]

Does anyone know how translation/rotation speed can be set for motion warping? There doesn't seem to be a property for that.

[faint marsh]

Hi can anyone tell me how to import this .mesh type of model to ue5?

Like what convert to what without losing the texture or having to re map the textures

[hushed jolt]

U need .fbx

U can try to import it to Blender and then export as .fbx

[faint marsh]

Tried that didnt work it didnt get exported with the textures

When i imported it to ue its just a white mesh with no texture

Im still waiting on a solution or ill just make the game and map the textures manually later whenever that is

[hushed jolt]

U know when u importing mesh u getting window

Check if Materials is set to true

[faint marsh]

Aint gonna work i imported the fbx back to blender too and its still the same all white mesh

The only parts that have textures are the parts i replaced xps shader with principled bsdf

So either i get a way to export with texture here or ill have to map that stuff manually later

And its really tedious

[tender flicker]

Has anyone tried using motion matching animation sample with mover 2.0? I have everything working except the offset root bone node which seems to just make the root bone jitter, when the translation mode is set to interpolate it just jitters back and forth when the run/walk loop is playing

[fringe hamlet]

I'm trying to get an imported skeletal mesh I made bones with in Blender and retarget Manny animations. In the IK Retargeter, my characters head and bones is all the way up here.

and his body and the manny are all the way down there

[silent ruin]

set your scene scale to 0.01 in blender, then make sure the character mesh and armature are at the right size after applying possible scale changes.

[fringe hamlet]

i have it converted to centimeters and the scale is correct. The mesh looks ok in the UE5 scene. Its when retargetting this happens.

[silent ruin]

I know, but convert to centermeter still causes scale issues you are not perceiving. If you inspect the scale of the root bone, it will be 100

Meter with scene scale of 0.01 is the way to go

[fringe hamlet]

I see. thanks. will do it first thing in the morning.

hopefully it works

[fringe hamlet]

I decided to try it out real quick. it worked. Thanks

the retarget is now taking the head with it along with the characters skeleton, but the body doesn't seem to follow for the animation. I'll leave it at that for now until tomorrow. The Target chains seem to match up somewhat in the skeletons.

[silent ruin]

looks like your skeletal mesh's weights didn't setup right.

The bones are following exactly they way they should be.

[meager igloo]

Has anyone else experienced an issue with the default mannequin animations flipping the root forward on X 90-180 degrees? I've imported the rig with it's own skeleton (which is just the Manny Simple hierarchy), set up compatibility, done a full IK retarget, exported and reskinned the actual Manny skeleton, retargeted all of the animations and set up custom Animation Blueprints and blendspaces with the retargeted animations, and nothing is working. There's no root motion enabled (other than for montages) but if I use the Manny blueprint, the character flips foward when you move, and if I use the custom blueprint, he flips foward when changing direction (but is otherwise upright). I can't find anything online about this.

[ocean mesa]

Does anyone know why this is happening?

[hollow moat]

Hey guys im trying to make a anim montage of my fire animation but the hand placement is messed up?

[ocean mesa]

@hollow moat Needs Left Hand IK https://zaggoth.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/ue4-tutorial-the-right-way-to-do-left-hand-weapon-ik/

And it will always look like that in the anim preview unless you use it in the post process anim bp

or you could key it manually

[hollow moat]

i have left hand ik alreadly

[ocean mesa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeVQ4VU7cKc

[fringe hamlet]

Are you using the Manny animation blueprints? I had this happen to me when I used the old Manny ABP. There were 2 selections for me for Manny, so I chose the newer one for UE5 and it worked.
Edit: just reread your whole message, you have a custom ABP, so maybe it's a different issue. But try and see if you have multiple Mannys. One of my Mannys flips like this and the other doesnt in my project. No idea why.

[meager igloo]

Thank you! I'll take a look and see. I know there's the Manny blueprint and the Post-process for sure. I'm using 5.5 but I'm getting the same thing in 5.4, too, so I'm wondering if it's something hard-coded? But for now, I'm just doing a runtime retarget, so that works int he meantime.
Update: completely rebuilding the blendspace and animations blueprint with the retargeted animations (baked from the Manny Anim Blueprint) worked for me. I had to force lock the root on the animations that were rotated, also. Initially, I duplicated the Manny ones and input the updated animations, but something with those causes the root to rotate when blending, so you have to build them from scratch.

[hidden grove]

any one know how to stop or reduce the neck bone motion

destroys the fps view

spine_05== which you would think is the most stable is the less stable .. spin 01 which is literally on the pelvis is more stable spine_01

the spines are in reverse

so yeah that does not help with the insane animation rotation being fully inhierted

what can be done about this

that damn camera woble on fps mode

cant stand it

as if any skeleton is going to be so wobbly #unrealdevs

[hidden grove]

and yeah that whole clamping thing jaming up

[brittle pier]

Hi im trying to use the two bone ik node to move the legs of an animal to match the ground height while walking, i've made a function that casts a trace below the leg and returns the z of the hit point. I assume i need to set the 2 leg ik effector Z as the Z of my hit point but whats the effector location space I need for that to work bone, world, component, or parent bone???

[blazing oriole]

Is there a way to "delegate" animnotifies to another mesh component? I have a sword attack animation which needs to enable a trail, play a slash sound, and various other effects on the sword rather than the character. Since the weapon is a unique mesh instead of part of the character though, I don't directly have access to it or its sockets in the animnotifies. I could:

1. Cast to my custom character class in the animnotify & directly access the weapon mesh -> no good. Weapon can be used by many different character types
2. Play animation on both character + weapon -> no good. For performance reasons I only want to be playing one animation, and I can't merge the meshes since that would interfere with instancing the same enemy mesh over and over again if they have different weapons equipped
3. Get component by tag from character in animnotify-> seems like the least bad option? Doesn't depend on specific character implementation but a bit icky to be iterating through all components each time I play a notify. Would be better if I could somehow pass params to the AnimMontage when I play it from the character (e.g. WeaponRef) which then get passed to the AnimNotify
4. Characters implement BPI for GetWeapon(n) and animnotify calls that (still feels weird)

[fringe hamlet]

So I need to rename bones to match the Unreal Manny bone names. How do I hide bones in the IKrig? I cant see anything. This character has too many belts and dont get me started on whats going on in the face area.

[hollow moat]

Hey does anyone know how to fix my left hand clipping thru my gun when i look up and down?

This how its suppose look normally

[obtuse storm]

Hello! I have a weapon's anim blueprint and the weapon animations contains some hand bones that represent the hand location that the characters should have relative to that weapon (reloading, inspect, etc.). I pass down to the character's anim blueprint those bones location in world space to be used by the IK node. Now the problem I face is that since the anim blueprint updates at the end of the frame, the character receives the hand bone transform one frame late, so there's a noticable delay between the weapon movement and the hand location when both anims are combined together. Is there a way to update the bone transform earlier than after the tick has ended for the weapon?

[hidden grove]

what do i need to do to make the animation update

I cant see Set Key its greyed out

my current Anim is showing a different pose

[hidden grove]

thats defo not the same pose 🙃 .. its like there some step i've miseed to make it update the animation?

[fringe hamlet]

I am trying to retarget some animations. I created IKs and a retargeter and everything looks good when previewing the retargets. Once I click export animations and select the new Retargeted Animation Blueprint for my character, He is facing downwards, even though his orientation looked fine in the retargeter.

[silver badger]

How do I stop an actor attached to a socket copying the socket's owner animations?

[blazing oriole]

When you attach an actor to another's socket, you're telling it to lock itself to wherever that socket is. Of course if the transform of that socket moves due to animation, the object you attached will follow. If you don't want it to follow the object in the animation, then you could create a different socket on the object root that has the same world position as the original socket. While the original socket moves due to animation, the new socket does not since it is attached to the root, and will only move when the whole primitive does

[unique path]

Hey everyone! If I wanted to combine ik with a montage, what would be the best way about doing that. For example a character opening a door in true first person. Would I use a control rig and have an ik weight or bool of some kind that overrides the hands and fingers? or would it be a pole and limb setup? and using events in the montage to trigger the enabling and disabling of the ik in ABP? I haven't really done much in the way of animation in unreal so the more detailed the response would be greatly appreciated, if not just to know what path to go down would be great.

[blazing oriole]

so On Interrupted plays for any montage that is interrupted rather than just the one you are playing through that function call, with no way to tell which montage got interrupted. Nice. AAA design Epic

[fringe hamlet]

I am trying to retarget some animations. I created IKs and a retargeter and everything looks good when previewing the retargets. Once I click export animations and select the new Retargeted Animation Blueprint for my character, He is facing downwards, even though his orientation looked fine in the retargeter.

[wind latch]

I'm having trouble identifying the problem with my motion matching setup. I've retargeted the "Magic Locomotion Pack" from Mixamo to the UEFN_Mannequin, fixed the walk animations to be in the 4 cardinal directions, and added all the walk anim sequences to a Pose Search Database.

For some reason this is the result, and I can't pinpoint why. The normal animations work fine. I'd love to be able to have separate pose matching for the upper and lower body so I can use the GASP footwork with the Mixamo magic stance, but I'm not sure how to do that

[mellow urchin]

anyone knows how to disable that you can key "location" of a certain control in sequencer

[vital holly]

The turn in place animations should be in their own database

[daring tiger]

Does anyone have any tips on the best way to implement a camera animation in game. IE the game is in first person but when you use this move it changes camera and that camera does some movements while you're in the animation.

[brittle pier]

Im trying to use the two bone ik node to move the legs of an animal to match the ground height while walking, i've made a function that casts a trace below the leg and returns the z of the hit point. I assume i need to set the 2 leg ik effector Z as the Z of my hit point but whats the effector location space I need for that to work bone, world, component, or parent bone???

[odd thistle]

Is it possible to transfer skeleton from one mesh to another somehow in UE5?

For example let's say i have 2 dragon models with same features and same bone layout but two separate Slightly different rigs

one rig has animations another one doesn't

Can i somehow use the rig that has all animations in the other model?

[primal perch]

Hey guys 🙂 How would I go about making animations that involve things like throwing a weapon? Im aware of sockets and have used them so far, but they only really work assuming that the weapon is not supposed to leave the hand. Im also aware of projectiles, but I dont want the weapon to be a completely seperate thing, only inside the animation itself if that makes sense...Like, in the animation itself I need to have the weapon dynamically change its parent relation from the hand to none so that I can animate the sword directly if its out of then hand and have it follow the hand accurately if its being held.

How would I set this up, so that I can make such animations with weapons?

[daring tiger]

in sequencer you can change the space of the weapon object right as it leaves the hand so you start working in world space instead of parent space

[primal perch]

I dont want to handle the switch in unreal. I want to be able to animate an action completely in a prefered animation software. Im having troubles explaining what I mean...

may I show you the animation perhaps it becomes more clear

[daring tiger]

I think I know what you mean in terms of what you're going for. I've done all my animations within the unreal sequencer so I thought that's what you meant

you can show it tho

idk how much I will be able to help

[tiny mirage]

I migrated my project from 5.4 to 5.5 and for some reason none of my animations play when running the game, but they play in their preview windows. Is this a known bug? I've migrated this project every version since 4.27 and I've never seen this before.

[primal perch]

Basically I have this animation. The sword is supposed to be thrown into the ground than picked up. before and after that its fine to just use a socket on the hand and attach the weapon mesh to it. But things become tricky once its thrown as the parental influence keeps moving the sword.

[tiny mirage]

example

[primal perch]

and its supposed to work with other swords aswell, so ur able to switch weapons in game

I guess for that I would use a socket on a dedicated weapon bone and animate that bone independent from the hand. But it also needs to be dependent on the hand while the weapon is held to follow it precisely

Kinda like the paragon characters have it done witha dedicated weapon bone. But I cant figure out how to animate a weapon bone partly dependent partly independent from the hand

[daring tiger]

if you have a weapon bone you can animate it independently of the hand bone initially

and if you do it right it should work

but it will require animating in world space in whatever animation software you are using

for the sections where it's mid air

and then it's just on the hand bone when the character is holding the sword

[primal perch]

if I do it independently the weapon is not following the hand properly between frames (when interpolating)

[daring tiger]

ah

yeah

can you change what bone the weapon is bound to in a blueprint?

and the weapon bone is not parented to the hand

but it's only in the weapon bone when mid air

[primal perch]

not sure but I dont want to handle that in UE. I want to be able to completely animate character and weapon in the anim software then "bake" the entire animation, import it into unreal and only attach the weapon mesh to the weapon bone. Perhaps this isnt a topic for UE in particular but for the anim software I want to use and how to dynamically parent a weapon bone to the hand/root.

[daring tiger]

If that's what you're looking for I think that's more of a problem of your animation software

[primal perch]

[daring tiger]

also i'm not an expert so there could be a way

[deft tusk]

Hi Guys, I`m trying to make a modular control rig so that i can edit animations but after i bake the animation to the rig in sequencer, the legs get misplaced.
I had a similar issue with the arms but i fixed it by changing the parent on the controll rig. Im trying to do the same with the legs but nothing seems to work.. anyone know what im doing wrong?

[gentle kestrel]

I don't think you're doing anything wrong. I think it's bugged. Same thing happens for me and not just with the legs.

[hidden grove]

hey I have this strange issue .. any ideas why its offset in the game .. i've tried different component->component attachment options like snap/keep relative ... but it weird that its correct on all the mannys the retargeted mesh and inside the animation just not in the game

[jovial creek]

Anyone interested in retargeting some animations/ meshes?

[strange snow]

hello guys is there any way to call transform modify bone in cpp?

[primal perch]

Hello 🙂 I have an animation that involves animating the weapon_r bone of the mannequin. But for some reason the bone is not moving the way it does in my animation software. I assume it has something to do with the bone being greyed out and "This bone is used by the current mesh, but has no vertices weighted against it" message.

How can I fix that?

[mellow urchin]

Spawning a control in modular control rig and doing something like this here to the name of the control causes it to not properly recompile on interaction

its specifically the name, which unreal seemed to have previous problems with

tbh im not fully sure but there seems to be some update errors going on regarding construction script and interactions

[novel viper]

Hello. I'm encountering a strange blending issue. I have set up a locomotion blendspace using mirrored animations for the right side. Everything works as expected except the blending between strafing to the right and walking sideways backward to the right. As you can see in the video when the keyframe is between strafing and walking sideways backward on the left it works as intended, but on the right the legs act weird and in between strafing and walking sideways backward to the right it seems as if the character suddenly walks forward. What could be causing this? Been breaking my head over this for several days. Can't figure it out. 😦

I don't understand how the blending can be different while the animations are exact mirrored copies

[native minnow]

are vertex animation textures useful for gameplay based things vs just making scenes / film based stuff ? learning a bit about it, but not sure if this is even something that can be used in a gameplay setting

[tiny mirage]

for sure, makes it simpler to do a zombie horde for example

[ocean mesa]

does anyone know how to use death animations like lyra that can play the left death anim if im to the left?

[wintry niche]

Why is this twitching out? the orginal animation dosent have this and it works fine on others. Is there perhaps a way i can just stop this bone from moving as a potenial fix?

[lavish inlet]

hey guys is there a way to handle blend states or animations that change over time without blending?

snapping immediately to each new pose

[undone arrow]

You can use choosers

[undone arrow]

Can you elaborate?

[ocean mesa]

Like motion matching?

[lavish inlet]

yeah - so my animations all have stepped interpolation on them. In UE5 if I create a blend space, the transitions are smoothed out. And I can't find a way to immediately switch to the next animation state.

[undone arrow]

You dont need motion matching for choosers. Theres a chooser player. Lemme find it for you

[undone arrow]

you can change the blending smoothness. Lemme find it

[undone arrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-03Xm2oZK_Y&t=1469s youll have to do more research on how to actually use it but its powerful stuff

[undone arrow]

Set the value to the number on the next state. Can I see your blend state?

how are you changing the value on your blendstate?

[round grotto]

i have this hand model that i rigged in blender and when i import them to ue5 the hand and the bones get imported at different scale, basically the bones are super small, i applied transform on all of them in blender and the export scale is 1.

the hand gets imported at scale 1 but the bones are at 0.1, does anyone know why that is? im on latest ue5 version

[undone arrow]

change the unit in blender to .01

then reexport

Do make sure that your Character is the proper size still

[round grotto]

well thanks, that did it.

[undone arrow]

Anytime

[rose mural]

If I'm using control rigs for procedural animation, is it more performant to have 1 control rig for all my procedural animations (for different parts of a character, using blend per bone to select only the parts of the character being controlled at the time) or many control rigs, each only containing the code needed to run the animation they're being used for?

[kindred stratus]

so I'm trying to make an animation blueprint and I'm banging my head up against the wall because for some reason, in this freshly made blueprint, even just connecting my blendspace to the output pose directly does literally nothing, the BS works on it's own, but literally nothing I do will make an animation play through this blueprint. any ideas what's wrong? am I dumb?

[undone arrow]

Try just putting a regular animation in it

[kindred stratus]

did that already, nothing

[kindred stratus]

do animation blueprints just not work with retargeted animations?

[undone arrow]

can you click this for me

It should. Its showing up on the skeleton

[undone arrow]

and your animaitions are working outside of the abp

[kindred stratus]

yup

[undone arrow]

hmmm

[kindred stratus]

I even tried restarting unreal

[undone arrow]

Do you have the right skeleton attached to the abp

[kindred stratus]

it's using the same skeleton that I retargeted the animations to

[undone arrow]

howd you retarget the animations

[kindred stratus]

an IK Retargeter

[undone arrow]

hmmm

try resetting the skeleton again maybe

[kindred stratus]

like, make another animation blueprint?

I did just now and yup, same thing, no matter what I plug into output it just doesn't do anything

....... so I went to see if I just edited the retargeted animation in the sequencer and saved it without changing anything that would fix anything. and I'd discovered that it appears IK retargeting somehow creates 0 key frames? like I'm getting a blank animation when I press on "edit in seqeuncer with FK Rig"

and now it's just crashing anytime I try with any other animation... fun

[tame dove]

Hey, I'm fairly new to unreal engine. I pressed R thinking I can scale the keyframes in the graph to make the animation faster lol and it ended up making the whole graph flat. I tried undoing but didn't work. The animation didn't change. And the transform location and other parameters are missing

[ocean mesa]

what looks better direction based death or locomotion based death...

[lavish inlet]

is there a checkbox or node that transitions animations once the previous animation is completed?

[undone arrow]

Theres an easy right click retarget animation option. Well it depends on the engine version you are using.

[undone arrow]

Howd you end up doing it

[undone arrow]

If you are using play montage node yes

[pale elk]

hello, does someone know why the animation preview in my anim BP is not working ? I have this yellow message and the apply button does nothing. The only field that is working is isFocusing. Otherwise, my character just wont move on the preview. It works "fine" in game ( there is some issues but thats why I want to use the preview )

this is how i set my variables

[lavish inlet]

what about in state machines?

[undone arrow]

Maybe this maybe????

[pale elk]

I dont want to edit defaults, just preview

[undone arrow]

Can you elaborate? Im not seeing any animations being played there

[pale elk]

here I cant edit the speed and direction variables and Idk why

[lavish inlet]

so lets say you have a punch or w/e and then once the punch is over it returns to idle (using a state machine)

the return looks for a bool

[undone arrow]

How are you punching?

through a montage?

[lavish inlet]

state machine

[undone arrow]

Can you show me your punch code

[lavish inlet]

just actvating it thorugh a variable

lol its not an actual punch I'm speaking hypothetically

[undone arrow]

One off animations are usually played through montages

can i see the statemachine where you use the bool?

[lavish inlet]

I was just testing an anticipation jump animation to learn how things function

[pale elk]

solved it with a isvalid before setting all variables

[lavish inlet]

coming over from many years of using mechanim / unity

so in mechanim you can have an animation play then returns to the original state after the aniamtion is complete

[undone arrow]

With animation montages you can get back boatloads of information should you choose.

[lavish inlet]

oh wow

state machines and blend states are cool in unreal, but have really odd limitations

[undone arrow]

The limitation is within the mind

[lavish inlet]

lol.

dork

😄

[undone arrow]

But yeah your "punch" imo should be a montage.

you can still set the bools in your main characters bp and get the information in the abp

[lavish inlet]

is it normal to have some character animations using different systems?

[undone arrow]

the montage is part of the abp

[lavish inlet]

oh

ohhhhhh

[undone arrow]

here is where the montage is played

it overwrites all previous logic

You can choose to have upperbody only animations. hand only animations etc

[lavish inlet]

gees

okay cool - thank you!

[undone arrow]

Anytime man

[undone arrow]

No idea how that worked

[mellow urchin]

is there a way of baking "curves" into the linken anim sequnce?

[undone arrow]

Bake it into a new animation?

[mellow urchin]

no i mean

have it become a curve here

you animate using ctrl rig -> create a anim sequence and have the curve here

oh wait

i diddle do it

ofc the same moment i ask, not 1h ago

[undone arrow]

I dont use the control rig so not entirely sure how the curve thing you mentioned works

[mellow urchin]

hmmm problem is that there value is incorrectly key, they are just all keyed to 0

ha! there we go! you just have to make sure you have actual curves on your mesh and then set it from the forward solve. i think animation channels might not work for setting them for some reason?

[ocean mesa]

Blend spaces

[primal perch]

Hello 🙂 In my animation the weapon is weirdly shaking after being thrown into the ground. In my animation software where I made the animation, it behaves as it should and is completely stuck in the ground. I asume UE does some interpolation stuff on it from frame to frame, but I dont know why as there is no distance to interpolate in the original animation.

[undone arrow]

Its parented to something

[primal perch]

well yeah, the weapon_r bone is parented to the hand_r bone. I animated the weapon bone seperatly. In my anim software, while the weapon is in the ground, its constrained to an empty scene object in order to not be influenced by the parent hand.

[undone arrow]

It looks like your root bone is moving a bit much

try force root lock

[primal perch]

does nothing

[undone arrow]

are these bones still moving like crazy>

try reimporting with these bones not moving

[primal perch]

theyre moving because the root is constrained to the pelvis for root motion

[undone arrow]

what software you use?

[primal perch]

cascadeur

This is what it looks like there

[undone arrow]

show point controller mode

it looks like everything is parented to the root and the root is moving wonky. Plus i dont think your animation has root motion bc youd see a red line, unless you have the root motion enabled

[primal perch]

I do have root motion enabled

[undone arrow]

hmmm. pretty weird. I use cascadeur too

Can you send one more time with the joint mode

[primal perch]

was just about to do that

[lavish inlet]

which system do you recommend for a jumping sequence? Anticipation > up > transition > down > land

[undone arrow]

jump montage > You can set a bool from within the animation to finished jumping > is falling bool > event on land just set bool to false. I think the third person blueprint template handles that. But they dont use the montage.

[undone arrow]

Try disabling the root motion in cascadeur and see if the problem is in that area possibly

the jump animation would already have the anticipation and the up in it

I guess you dont even need to set a bool inside the montage. Just when it finishes playing set bool in air to true or something

[lavish inlet]

if you use montages or just a one shot animation, how do you return back to the idle / locomotion state machine?

[undone arrow]

You control your states. The jump just sends you into the state. I dont even use that state thing anymore so Ill probably need to see how you have it setup but just set a bool to transition out of it

when you are at the end of the chain. For example. When you are in the land. set a bool to take you out of that falling locomotion

what version of ue are you using?

[lavish inlet]

oh so you dont even use the state machine at all?

just call animations inside BPs?

5

[undone arrow]

5.what? And i use abp alot. Just not that transition thingy

ill show you when my ue boots up

[undone arrow]

I use motion matching. The highlighted box is all of my idle animations

I use motion matching and choosers.

I choose which idle I want based on the enums inside of my abp.

Inside of my purple overlay node is this

and this is just for my upper body animations mostly

I would have an enum for all my possible states. Falling, crouching, prone etc. And just blend pose by enum so whenever im falling it would just play the falling animation

and in my personal bp I would play a land animation through a montage

[fringe hamlet]

I am trying to retarget some animations. I created IKs and a retargeter and everything looks good when previewing the retargets. Once I click export animations and select the new Retargeted Animation Blueprint for my character, He is facing downwards, even though his orientation looked fine in the retargeter.

[undone arrow]

what version of ue are you using?

@fringe hamlet

[fringe hamlet]

UE5.5

[undone arrow]

Theres a one click retarget option

if you manually made your ik stuff

[fringe hamlet]

yeah that's what I'm using in the first screenshot. I tried both manual IK for my custom skeleton and the automatic one that generates those.

The animations play perfectly fine in the preview in both cases. But when I export the animations, the character is rotated facing down in both cases.

[undone arrow]

Im thinking your root bone is just probably rotated the wrong way

[fringe hamlet]

tried again. Still occurred with proper root bone rotation. I'm stumped.

[undone arrow]

Pretty odd

[vital holly]

Are you running any post processing?

[fringe hamlet]

not sure I understand the question. Like post processing volumes?

[vital holly]

Post Process Animation BP. They can be added to skeletal meshes to influence your pose/skeleton. Likely not the issue here but always worth checking out. Does your target mesh have a different skeleton than the source?

[lofty bane]

the fist needs to go to the head. I created IK to just this but I dont know how to add it without disconnecting everything else. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am copying the ik reaching target epic released in the content example project

[west nexus]

Hey Guys I'm looking for someone with 2D bone animation experience in Unreal Engine. Im trying to evaluate what would be the best way to get my customizable 2D characters working and would apreciate some help. ^^

[hidden grove]

Do you guys think the arms look right in this ?

side ways

amimating the fingers is kind of fiddly

why not just a simple control rig and strip it down @west nexus

[left rose]

Hello, quick question, is there a way to make a trace in control rig hit the simple collision instead of the complex one?

[left rose]

This is what I'm using at the moment, but it's hitting complex collisions instead of simple

[mellow urchin]

hmmm

for some reason when i make a actor blueprint and setup a control rig inside my skeletal meshes dont show up in the sequenzer

while in the metahuman example they show up

and i cant see how they did it

for the record, just click the pluss and add the component as track

still odd it works automatically on the metahuman example, would like to know how

ok got it, set default ctrl rig bp in mesh and remove ctrl rig componen

[sage bramble]

oh hey man. funny seeing you here

i finally got the turret control system doing ..... something

but at certain angles, the thing starts going crazy

nevermind. not worth worrying about today

[bright jungle]

Hey so I have an animgraph question, I have a bunch of different anim states for jumping, and I want them all to have transitions to the landing animation in case the player lands early, is there a way to simplify these transitions/combine them into one without having to create and set trasition ruels for every individual state?

Also, is there a way to "force" the animation blueprint to switch to a certain state, basically skipping the transition rules?

[acoustic grove]

Following this as I’m working on animation myself today. Wanting to add a dodge mechanic and I’m sure I’ll be working in this area today

[bright jungle]

I just achieved my dodge with an anim montage

[acoustic grove]

Nice. I got all of my regular locomotion down. My only issue now is my meta human looks like they’re walking in mud, knees are coming up a bit too high

[tame dove]

Would really appreciate if someone can help me with this

[acoustic grove]

Have you tried resetting your default view? Should be an option to like reset your viewports and such. Maybe that could reset your timeline too?

[tame dove]

Will give it a try

[acoustic grove]

Sorry you may know more than me. This just seems like an issue where you close/change something out by accident and can’t place it like it originally was

[tame dove]

Hope it is reversible

[acoustic grove]

When I hop on UE5 I’ll try to get into the same menu as you as see if I can replicate your issue

[tame dove]

Resetting it to default viewport worked!!

Thank you so much!

[acoustic grove]

🔥🔥🔥

[acoustic grove]

Yessir

[gaunt valve]

Any drawbacks of uniform scaling pawn actor holding skeletal mesh & stuff?
Im trying to decide if I should model/rig larger 'boss' units (which are 1.5x larger than standard pawn units) or just spawn scaled actors in UE which would be more convenient

[primal perch]

anyone with an idea what could cause this weapon shaking? Its working correctly and is not shaking in my anim sfotware.

[undone arrow]

What version of ue5 are you using?

[undone arrow]

Scaled actors would be more convenient as they share the same skeleton

[undone arrow]

Separate your root motion from your hip.

you have a root bone already. You can just make it proto

and animate separately.

[primal perch]

so like a camera"bone"?..

[undone arrow]

no. just add a proto thing

[primal perch]

whats a proto thing?

[undone arrow]

the blue thing

just select the joint. and your pelvis then click that

Root bones arent supposed to be moving that much

[primal perch]

I thought root bones need to move with the character

Ill try it tho

[undone arrow]

Yeah to an extent. Its not supposed to be so wobbly

You can still have it move with the character but just with smooth

[primal perch]

so would it be better to animate on a fixed axis?

[undone arrow]

for root motion yes. But it depends. Just as long as its smooth and not wobbly. (im not a pro so take with a grain of salt)

[primal perch]

should I put the root at 0.0.0?

[undone arrow]

yes. Should be there already

[primal perch]

its currently still where the pelivs is on every frame

but with z=0

so only on the ground

[undone arrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9MuiikNe1c

Thats how I view root motion. Its just supposed to be the smooth z movement. No left and right of the hip

But im thinking you can just manually animate the root to move up when you jump up and then back down when you land

[undone arrow]

Its kinda buggy so doesnt entirely work. but just having the root be on its own timeline helps

I have my root animation be linear.

[primal perch]

hmm... I removed the root motion and put it at 0.0.0 on every frame. but the weapon is still jiggeling

[undone arrow]

can you send updated video

[primal perch]

sure

[undone arrow]

Can you send a pic of your skeleton tree where you have your sword

[primal perch]

like this?

[undone arrow]

I think I kinda see your problem. It’s all parented to the hand. When the hand itself moves I think everything moves with it

I’m the middle of the animation select the hand bone and move it around

When the sword is in the floor

I’m thinking a fix would be to take the weapon bone out of the hand

[primal perch]

The weapon_r bone in cascadeur is constrained to a independent locator at 0.0.0. the constraint is active for as long as the sword is out of the hand.

[undone arrow]

But inside unreal it’s parented to the hand

[primal perch]

but the weapon bone has the same poitional location on each frame in the fbx

[undone arrow]

Try this inside of unreal

[primal perch]

the weapon bone is parented to the hand bone. Both in Casc and unreal. the hand bone moves the weapon bone. I used a constraint in casc to suppress that parent related movement and be able to animate the weapon bone independently from the character('s hand).

[undone arrow]

can you scrub where your weapon is jiggling?

[primal perch]

what is scrub? ^^'

[undone arrow]

just move the timeline thing around the area to preview the animation

[primal perch]

in casc?

[undone arrow]

no ue

[primal perch]

like this?

[undone arrow]

yes

everytime the hand moves it jiggles

[primal perch]

on the keyframes its always back to where it should

like, the keyframes i set in casc

[undone arrow]

interesting

[primal perch]

theoretically even between those keyframes, the sword doesnt change its position, due to the constraint

[undone arrow]

Can you bake the animation in cascadeur

[primal perch]

i dont know how

[undone arrow]

just add a keyframe to everyframe

alt f

[primal perch]

ah

well. cascadeur bakes every animation when exporting

so it has already all frames keyframes after export

i figured that out a while ago when I tried to import an animation I made in casc but used in unreal. So like Casc -> Unreal -> casc. ansd they state that in the documentation

[undone arrow]

yeah but the key is still moving around. Ok try reimporting the animation into cascadeur and see if the problem exists there as well

If the problem is within the animation itself and your constraints arent working properly

If the problem still persists, you can always just drag the weapon out from the hand so that its not parented to the hand.

[undone arrow]

its still wiggly there?

looks wiggly

[primal perch]

the bone itself not

rather its orientation

which seems correct as the point constrainer seems to only constrain location. not rotation

[undone arrow]

hmmm. Im thinking it shouldnt even rotationg like that bc if you added back your sword it would be wonky

[primal perch]

its the complete opposite. In Cascadeur, it doesnt move, but rotates, in Unreal it moves, but doesnt rotate.

idk man. Isnt there like an "industry standard" way to animations with independent weapons/objects? I feel like im always trying to do some hacky stuff for some pretty basic things.

[undone arrow]

Just unparent it from the hand

attach it to the root

[primal perch]

I attached it to the root bone and reimported it but now the weapon is going crazy

[undone arrow]

Proof?

and you might need to reanimate it and possibly disable your constraint

[primal perch]

I tested it with the all-keyframe reimported animation. that one has no constraints.

[undone arrow]

ahhh i see the potential problem. you might need to reimport the skeletal mesh as well

its not updated on the skeletal mesh

[primal perch]

you mean detaching the weapon bone in the unreal skeleton?

honestly Im confused. The weapon bone seems to be there specifically to animate...well, a weapon. And it makes sense as its parented to the hand, so follows it naturally but not weighted to the mesh, so can move freely around if needed.

[undone arrow]

Yes. When its possibly attached to the hand. But as you see when send it away from the hand it loses its ability to look seamless

You see how your ik bones dont move. Im thinking youd have more control over your sword that way

as in it will fully follow the animation you set unless your root moves

[primal perch]

thats why I have looked for a way to be able to animate the weapon independently in casc by dynamically toggling the parent relationship between the hand and the weapon bone. They dont offer a natural parent on of toggle so what Ive been told on and read was to constraint the weapon bone to a independent locator to be able to "mimic" a parent toggle with a full constraint

[primal perch]

they dont have to move tho, no? the leaf ik bones need to move for the Ik system to work

[undone arrow]

Those bones exist in the ue skeleton. Not cascadeur I dont think

[primal perch]

they do

well

not by default

I exported the unreal manny and imported it into casc

so the skeletons match for every further animation

[undone arrow]

Yeah thats unreals stuff. But What I was saying was if your weapon bone was on the same level as those bones youd have full control overit. Even your togglable parent thingy you were trying to do

Ue does not have that togglable parent function. If anything to have extreme control over your weapon I think it would need to be its own skeleton

not bound to anything unless you tell it to

[primal perch]

The Ik bones should only be there for the Ik system. What Ive read and been told is that they're completely optional, thats why theyre parented to the root instead of the character so that If you'd decide you want to use them, all you have to do is animate them along with their normal counterparts. Which makes sens, as perhaps I dont need the IK system, but still want to animate a weapon. thats why the weapon bone is parented to the hand, but not weighted

[undone arrow]

You can still animate the weapon bone outside of being parented by the hand

whenever the hand moves your sword moves

[acoustic grove]

Sorry to but in between ya's convo, first time Im posting an issue here in the server.
Whats the best way to solve the awkward arm placements? I am able to manipulate the arms in a retargeted rig, but blending the chain mapping on the source or target doesn't seem to get rid of the T-Rex looking pose.

[undone arrow]

you can have that functionality with a toggle parent

[undone arrow]

Can you send me your animation?

[undone arrow]

Are you editing the right skeleton?

[acoustic grove]

That where I thought my issue was stemming from. I did find that error and its showing me the changes in real time

If I am following your question correctly

[primal perch]

I have to check something

[undone arrow]

Can you send a bigger ss of this

[acoustic grove]

Ofc

[naive mountain]

If I delete all of my face bones, will my blend shapes still work?

[naive mountain]

It would break my control rig though, right?

[acoustic grove]

One thing is I Think I dont have the source and target assets set up correctly

[undone arrow]

there should be a one click retarget option availiable. What version are you using

[acoustic grove]

5.5

[undone arrow]

then yes. one click retarget and you can extract the retarget ik thing they made

unless you already did that

[acoustic grove]

Pretty sure. I’ll check back with you in a bit! Thanks!

[undone arrow]

its unparented from the hand

inside the skeleton as well

[smoky shell]

PSA #control-rig now exists as of 15 minutes ago

[primal perch]

I took a look at how they did it with their paragon characters. They also had the weapon bone parented to the hand, tho they weighted it against the weapon thats included in the character mesh. Its the same as putting a socket with a mesh on the weapon bone just not as flexible in case the character should be able to switch weapons

[primal perch]

Its doing some funky stuff in the air tho...

[undone arrow]

its fine if they arent throwing the weapon

lemme see

lol yeah. i didnt eit your animation

That would need to fix inside of cascadeur

[primal perch]

but their approach to making the weapon independent in case they want to do something like throwing the weapon is the same as mine

or rather, Im using their approach. the only difference being that I dont include the sword mesh in the character, because I want to have more than one sword

[undone arrow]

They have both

THey have a weapon bone outside of the weapon hand as well

i think

[undone arrow]

no not that

[primal perch]

yeah the virtual bone. have yet to look up what exactly they are, but its completely animated with the hand bone. So it doesnt really have any influence

probably for some gameplay specific purpose

like that virtual bone is as if they straight up copy pasted the hands position for every frame. Its completely independent otherwise

[undone arrow]

I still think your case is extreme. Their weapons probably never leave their hands

unless they unequip it

idk how their game is played

[primal perch]

then why would they make the weapon seperate

like they made it like that to at least have the option

[undone arrow]

So its easily animatble. If i wanted to do a sword spin

you cant do that if the sword is attached to the hand bone

[primal perch]

yeah ik

(i know)

[undone arrow]

But for god of war. How he throws his axe

It would not be able to be parented to his hands

[primal perch]

thatss just a projectile no?

[undone arrow]

Its a weapon

[primal perch]

yeah but as a projectile.

[undone arrow]

I still think its just a weapon attached to a bone.

bc he can recall it

and spin it and all kindsa stuff

[primal perch]

projectile would need to just fly back to the hand

if they would animate the weapons air time, they would have no control over it in game

prett sure they just spawn a projectile at the right time and move that with code

and make the real axe invisible

[undone arrow]

Not if its its own actor. Its easy to make it spin on its own. at a trajectory

and possibly play a spin animation.

[primal perch]

yes but that actor would be put on a socket

[undone arrow]

Yeah. and detached at will

[primal perch]

the axe normally definitely is an actor

[undone arrow]

That thing has too much animition in the air to be a just a projectile

[primal perch]

just in the throw animation they either spawn a projectile and hide the real axe or directly move the axe

nah you can do everything with a "projectile"

advantage of the projectile is that it comes with very nice prefunctionality for air movement and targeting

stuff they would have to write themself when just moving the actor

[undone arrow]

They used ue4. Projectile is a type of actor?

[primal perch]

its an actor component

[undone arrow]

Im pretty sure I can make his axe without making it a projectile

[primal perch]

ofc you can. the projectile component is only there to make things easier

like the movement component

[undone arrow]

I could see it being used for his spear maybe bc that thing actually disappears and reapears

But yeah man. Gotta find your workarounds. I think you can just add a new bone and attach the sword to it whenever you throw it, and when its back in your hands attach it back to the hand's weapon socket

[primal perch]

sight yeah...I dont really want fo find a "workaround". But just because Im by far not the first one trying to do that in UE. So Im still looking for a standard work flow. I mean there have to be some commonalities between how all these games do it.

[undone arrow]

Gotta find the games that throw their weapons as well

[primal perch]

thats not the problem. the problem is finding devlogs for them

I just want a magic button to solve my problems. is that too much to ask for?

[undone arrow]

Right. My advice is dont let it hold you up. if it works it works. The people that are playing your game wont care if you did it the right way or not.

Yes

bc then the market would be even more saturated

[primal perch]

I dont really care if other people play my stuff. It 99% for myself. But im trying to do whats proven working. I mean animating character and a weapon is nothing new. There are plenty of solutions I suppose, but I dont want to reinvent the wheel on something so standard.

[undone arrow]

I personally think my way is better bc it allows for more freedom. you can always just create a socket in engine if anything.

All you are exporting really is the animation itself. The path of least resistance.

I still think it has its downfalls bc the sword is going to move when the root bone moves.

So it all depends on how much freedom youd want with your sword

[primal perch]

I want to have the freedom to freely move it around

[undone arrow]

It might have to be its own actor.

I mean it probably already is

hmm

[primal perch]

or rather being able to dynamically toggle the parent relation for that in animation.

In a nutshell what I need Unreal to do is to stop doing its shenaningan stuff between my frames

my fbx is literally fine

its just unreal

10 bucks its a tickbox somewhere

[undone arrow]

Do you use blender

[primal perch]

sometimes

[undone arrow]

Can you send me this animation? Im going to attach a sword to the weapon bone and see if its fine in blender

[undone arrow]

the fbx

[primal perch]

if is use step instead of linear interpolation in unreal its looking exactly like in casc.

so unreals interpolation seems to be the issue

[undone arrow]

It works in blender too

[primal perch]

the frame data of the fbx is correct.

😮‍💨

Ill make myself some lasagna

[gusty lintel]

I'm trying to import a simple skeletal mesh into the engine, but it keeps scaling up the skeleton to stupid proportions. I've applied the transforms on all of the meshes and the armature, I'm not scaling it up in the import settings

I have no clue what I'm doing wrong and it is driving me mad

If I import it without the armature, the scale is exactly what I'd expect

But I need it to drive some procedural animations

[undone arrow]

change blender's unit scale to .01

[signal marlin]

Hi guys, i'm trying to implement motion matching, i've imported some animations from Lyra, but the moment i start moving, the player mesh seems scaling down for a bit. Have u ever seen this problem?

I've noticed that the scale speed decrease when I decrease the character movement max acceleration

[undone arrow]

You have some animations set to additive maybe

Motion matching for the win

Can you send a bigger ss of your abp as well

Use choosers as well. They are powerfully stuff

[acoustic grove]

Lol might get a kick as to what the issue was

Wanted to follow up

So originally we had..whatever was happening with the arms here

My issue stemmed from inside the MH Animation Blueprint

specifically this

I did not have the right Retargeter asset selected. After finally figuring that out

Her torso appeared inside her legs which was fun

That was a somewhat simple fix.

That issue stemmed from the capsule settings and where it was reading where the ground would meet the mesh

[acoustic grove]

More insight, once I figured out this was the primary issue, I was able to narrow down which mesh I wanted to source from and target next. All animations were reflecting in real time

So finally

We have this.

This is where we landed

[wintry niche]

How do i set up interruptible animations? When i interrupt my attack combo it doesn’t let me attack again, whats a way to fix this?

[grand condor]

Can someone help me out importing something I made in blender to UE5? I can't get it working for anything.

[prisma flame]

what file format are you exporting it too? unreal typically takes .fbx or .obj for 3d models

[undone arrow]

Can you elaborate? You mean when you get hit?

U can also use a retrigerabbpe delay and reset your counter and attacking

[primal perch]

The montage nodes have "on interruption" output. Why dont use that?

[primal perch]

@undone arrow How did you reparent the weapon bone to the root?

[hidden grove]

any idea why this is happening?

I dont recall doing any thing to it so wondering if its something that come down with 5.2

[wintry niche]

Yea when I dash or In future when I get hit, where exactly do I put the delay?

[wintry niche]

What do I put there?

[hidden grove]

Fixed by going to the particle emitter settings for the smoke .. cleared material .. and simply reset the material

[primal perch]

Whatever you want to happen when a montage gets interrupted.

[wintry niche]

I want it to reset completely, how should I do that with my combo system?

[primal perch]

Have a function that sets everything back and connect every montags on interrupted pin to it.

[wintry niche]

Is that by using a retrigable delay and then having a counter on 0 and reset attack?

[primal perch]

Do you have a reset function? Like a function that takes care of everything you need to reset, so that when you need to reset you can just use this function instead of writing the logic again every time?

[wintry niche]

In the screenshot is pretty much what I have, so I guess the comboreset on the right does that but I need something for interruptions, I got no idea 😔 also is the way I got it set up alright?

[primal perch]

Personally, I would create an array for your combo montages and use the combo counter to pick the needed animation than play that. This way you only need "one line" of BP code, instead of 4.

[wintry niche]

You got a video example for that by any chance?

[primal perch]

this resets only after the 4th combo attack or when not attacking anymore

For the reset on interruption I have a montage for the hit-animation and whenevery I get hit, this animation play and resets the combo counter

The base attack combo technically doesnt need any interrupted logic by itself

its the other montages/animations like dashing/being hit etc that should reset the counter

the interruption always comes from "outside". Like, imagine you doing the combo attack. It wont interrupt by itself. You're not hitting yourself. the counter only needs to reset once you're at the end of the combo or stop midway.

[wintry niche]

I'll give it a try making this one and I'll let you know sir

[primal perch]

In a nutshell its just

use counter to get next combo anim -> play that anim -> increment counter -> (if counter >= length(anim array) => counter to 0) -> repeat

and then you can add stuff to buffer input, so that spamming buttons doesnt interrupt the animations

[wintry niche]

Anymore screenshots to show of this by the way just in case I miss another part of it off screen?

[primal perch]

there is nothing else

the right side of the screen after the branch is just one node that puts my character into combat mode after every attack. regardless which

dont just copy tho. try to understand what it does

this is the basic scheme every combo attack tut will teach you

I just expanded on that

[bold flame]

Anyone know how to fix Unreal sometimes just not wanting to generate a Skeletal Mesh upon importing a rig? Switching to a different project always solves it, the import settings are identical for both

[wintry niche]

know any good attack tut? because the ones i find are the sloppy ones

[primal perch]

unfortunately no. What I observed is that there are pretty much only basic ones, which makes sense, since everything above that gets very individual and specialized. The core is usually the same.

I mean ask yourself, what do you actually mean with "good" attack tuts?

that term gets significantly more subjective after the basics

naturally people who make tutorials focus on the basics, as they live from views, and niche content doesnt give enough of those

[wintry niche]

i guess to me just play multiple attack animations in order and be able to have it interruptible : D

[wintry niche]

yea unfortunately but thanks for the help

[primal perch]

as said. just figure out what "outside" actions can interrupt you and whenever you play them (because of gameplay), you execute your logic for being interrupted(optimally a function you can reuse easily that, for example, puts the combo counter back to 0)

@wintry niche

[wintry niche]

ah yes this is a good example

[undone arrow]

Your dash can just call a reset attack function.

[undone arrow]

Just reimport your skeletal mesh with the animation that has the parenting changed

[undone arrow]

Choosers are even better

[primal perch]

so reparent in casc, export anim and import anim in ue?

[undone arrow]

Yeah.

Ish

[wintry niche]

could you guys show example what you mean?

[undone arrow]

On your skeletal mesh do reimport with new source and select the animation with the reparented bone

[undone arrow]

I think he did it here @wintry niche

[wintry niche]

im just not sure what you mean by chooser

[undone arrow]

I’ll have to show you that when I get home.

[wintry niche]

sure appreciate it

[undone arrow]

But it’s powerful stuff. It’s like a bunch of if else in one node

And you can easily add to it

[undone arrow]

I do think the retrigerrable delay would work better here bc you don’t want the combo resetting mid combo

Unless it’s an interupt then call the rest function directly

[primal perch]

if you get hit mid combo you probably want to

or use a skill or something

[undone arrow]

Playing another montage while the one is playing counts as an interupt

So his second attack would reset the combo

[primal perch]

hence the interrupt function rather then the exec pin

Input Buffers

[undone arrow]

It will still need to reset after some time no?

[primal perch]

I simply wont let it play another montage as long as I dont allow it

[undone arrow]

I usually play my second attack during the main attack so that it blends better

It blends from that attack

[primal perch]

I reset the counter naturally, whenver a montage finishes

[undone arrow]

So you don’t need to time your hits?

[primal perch]

I dont rely on timers no

[undone arrow]

As long as you attack four times in one second he’s gonna hit four times?

[primal perch]

you cant attack 4 times in one second

attack input is blocked until the attack reached its reset part

[undone arrow]

So you are hitting mid animation?

[primal perch]

you cant because input is blocked

[undone arrow]

Yes. Up until a certain point

Can I see how tou block your input

[wintry niche]

i did not realise how compilcated a attack system could be with this conversation : D

[undone arrow]

It depends on how you handle it. Mines is even worse

So you are hitting mid animation

[primal perch]

ah

yes

now i got what you mean

[undone arrow]

That’s how I do mines too. I’ll show when I get home. I use logic driver

[primal perch]

I couldnt get the skeleton to update

[undone arrow]

I use an on notify begin with a transition animnotify if I want to chain into a combo

[wintry niche]

you see with your montage do you have all the attacks in one anim montage?

[undone arrow]

You reimported the skeleton with the animation that has the weapon parented to the root?

A risky method too, you be to import the animation with its own skeleton. Delete your previous one, and replace reference with the new one

[primal perch]

No. they're all seperate anims. But I have arrays for every type of attack, so an array for basic attacks, one for abilities, one for each element etc

[primal perch]

uhh...

[wintry niche]

could you show me the array, i hear this word alot but i dont quite understand it yet

[primal perch]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/blueprint-arrays?applicatio

its just a container for a number of objects of a specific type. So you can make an array of type AnimMontage and add Objects of that type to it

[undone arrow]

You should see a bones don’t match thing upon reimport and you would click something that says match bones

[primal perch]

I got a
Imported bone transform is different from original. Please check Output Log to see detail of error.
but no prompt to match

[undone arrow]

And the bone is reparented in casc right?

[primal perch]

right

[undone arrow]

Did you export the skeleton with it? There’s usually an option for just animation

In casc

[primal perch]

i did this

[undone arrow]

Include objects

And try again

You might need to alt double click your scene

Well i gtg

Hope it works

[primal perch]

should i pick none or mannequin?

[wintry niche]

@primal perch https://youtu.be/pAQL69KVkZ4?si=e34LQ0-v0HhofZBS
is this video on the right track?

[karmic tusk]

Hello, got a question: In my project, I am receiving tranformations for each bone individually. I cannot use PoseableMesh, so I have to use SKM. Is there any more elegant and efficient way of setting the transforms for each bone other than a large ugly series of nodes in the animgraph?

[hidden grove]

ah top tip for any one new to this game .. if your doing control rig animation remember to "save" in the sequencer other wise your going to have some dramas again 😄

and yeah save mucho time by using a linked animation to get things right

^ annoying cavet about that is.. if you do not key your control rig before autosave kicks in the auto save reverts the control rig 😂

[undone arrow]

That’s the wrong menu. But I think choosing the mannequin you using still prompts the bones aren’t matched

You supposed to right click your skeletal mesh and hit reimport with new source

[primal perch]

I just decided to remake everything

[wintry niche]

real

[undone arrow]

I guess you weren’t that far into it lol. At some point it becomes too late to go back

[primal perch]

I now have two SKMs. The default mannequin has magically changed its bone hierarchy to my custom ones. So despite them both having the same bone structure, the same animation has an offset for the weapon bone.

which is weird

On a sidenote - everything works as it should now. I have my updated skeletal mesh with the weapon bon parented to the root, and cleaned up my setup in casc. Im ready to make animations and simply import them on my custom manny.

I found this comment after hours of digging and they did it the way you did.

[primal perch]

Yeah, I messed up the default mannequin, so I have to xD

But I just made a new ABP for my custom manny and copied everything over. Now for the locomotion, the weapon is always at its default position, because the weapon bone is not animated in all these default animations. But I can make new ones (it was planned anyway at some point to replace the default locomotion).

The rabbit hole of animating weapons independently is insane...

[wintry niche]

@primal perch you know when you guys was talking about hitting mid animation, what is that about? how should i set up my notifies?

[undone arrow]

u can parent it in cascadeur

anddd, u can also just animate the weapon and the hjand at the same time

[primal perch]

Its about creating a seamless and consistent transition from one attack to another

[primal perch]

yeah, but having to change the default mannequin SK despite it being set up ideally already and still not working is meh

like I had it exactly like they did it in their own examples

and its obviously set up to do exactly what I wanted

[wintry niche]

bruh this video is basically yours no?

https://youtu.be/GEQ3f5Rfr_w?si=NQWAxYmnM0ntUr5f

[primal perch]

like the dedicated weapons bones, ready to attach a weapon to without influencing the mesh is really nice.

[primal perch]

no

[wintry niche]

at least a array so a good start for me

[primal perch]

@wintry niche I can recommend this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LewXWM7HDd8

[undone arrow]

I thiink you can have both. A weapon bone attached to the hand and one to the root

[wintry niche]

i mean i just need help with blueprints i animated my own animations and stuff

[primal perch]

yes you can. But its annoying that their in house solution doesnt work. despite being already "battleproven" (Paragon)

I see

you'd put the end of the input buffer right where you want the next attack to start

and the beginning depends on what you think feels good.

[undone arrow]

This is all my attack code

This is how I actually attack with logic driver

This is what happens when One of those states are entered

[undone arrow]

Choosers are your friend

It chooses one of the assets you chose based on the criteria you set.

One node

It chooses my idles based on the weapon I have selected and whether or not im crouched.

It can choose anything. Instead of a bunch of branch nodes. you can have one chooser node.

[spare kiln]

Hey guys, I have some animations I wanted to use with my character, they have some bones I was missing, so I've gone to the Mesh of the animations and assign my skeleton, which prompted me to add the bones, which worked fine.

The only issue, now I'm missing the bones for my mesh, how can I add them there?

[undone arrow]

Can you send pics

[undone arrow]

Have you tried reimporting the mesh?

How did you add that bone to your mesh>

[spare kiln]

So I assigned a my skeleton to the mesh of the other animations, that prompted me to add bones like Sword_Holder1, all good.

On the mesh of the animations (which now uses my skeleton) everything works fine.

But my original mesh is missing the bones.

They are not bones that need to alter the mesh or whatever but they need to exist on it

[undone arrow]

What app did you use?

On your original mesh, just try reimporting with new source and choose the animation that has the correct bones on it

[spare kiln]

None this are already UE5 animations with a ue5 mesh and skeleton, but I need to get them to use my skeleton and mesh, so now my skeleton hast the bones but the mesh still needs them.

[spare kiln]

Not sure what exactly you mean 😦

[undone arrow]

can you send a picture of your skeleton

[undone arrow]

The actual Skeleton

[spare kiln]

what do you want to see?

[undone arrow]

The skeletal mesh

[spare kiln]

I just want to add the missing bones to the mesh and I'm wondering if there is an easy way to add them or if I have to add each of them per hand

Especially since none of the missing bones will have any impact on the mesh (deforming it)

[lavish inlet]

how do I transition back to a state machine if I play a montage or one shot animation inside the character BP?

[undone arrow]

Does the montage take you out of it? It shouldnt I dont think

can you send a ss of your abp

[undone arrow]

Right click the main skeletal mesh and just try a reimport

[spare kiln]

but from what file should i reimport it?
It's just manny

[undone arrow]

You can maybe reimport it with this one

[spare kiln]

I'm not sure what you are saying

This is the mesh that needs the fixing

[stone kindle]

I have 2 animations: idle and eye blink. In my animation blueprint I want to play the idle animation and then have the eye blink animation play at the same time. I have tried doing this with a layered blend per bone but I am getting a problem where the eyes pop out of the head sometimes. When I play the eye blink only animation the eyes do not pop out of the head. Am I using the layered blend per bone node wrong or should I be using a different approach?

[undone arrow]

So where is your skeletal mesh?

[undone arrow]

is it a montage?

[stone kindle]

what do you mean where is my skeletal mesh?

idle and eye blink are both animation sequences

[spare kiln]

My skeletal mesh is missing bone from the skeleton and I need this bones on the mesh as well and I wonder, if there is an easy and quick way I can add them since there are no vertices weighted against this bones anyway. 🙂

[undone arrow]

You imported something into the engine right? what did you import

[undone arrow]

this thing

[spare kiln]

A package from fab, with the animations, another skeletal mesh and another skeleton 🙂

[undone arrow]

not you lol

[undone arrow]

thats what I want to see

[undone arrow]

So thats from fab?

[spare kiln]

yes

and I need the bones from it on my mesh 🙂

my skeleton has the bones now but the mesh still is missing them

[undone arrow]

layered blend per node should be working. Can you send a ss of it

[undone arrow]

Im thinking you may need to bind it to the mesh.

[undone arrow]

Why does the mesh need the bones

[spare kiln]

Yes I know 😅

I just want to know if there is an easy/quick way, since loading it into an external 3d software will be cumbersome especially if I add a new mesh and have to do it for each and every, and with the ue5 skeletal mesh editing plugin you can only add them one by one and this would be even more cumbersome especially for new meshes

[spare kiln]

because the animations are made that way

[undone arrow]

You can maybe try reimporting this mesh with your mesh. It might break it tho

[undone arrow]

can you show the acting weird

[spare kiln]

Not sure, also I want to keep my mesh and there is another animations set involved with it's own bones, so i need to fix it.

Maybe I'm on the wrong path, but I just want to know if I need to use a external 3d software to bind the bones to the mesh and then maybe have to do this for future meshes as well or if there is a quicker/easier way of doing it, espcially since there are no vertices weighted against this bones.

Maybe someone has a cool trick or something for this, otherwise I'll probably not get around it 😅

[stone kindle]

i can throw it on youtube if you dont wanna downlaod the video

lmk

in the video notice how the eyes pop out of the head

[undone arrow]

Streamable is an easy fast way to upload stuff too

[stone kindle]

ok

on it, give me a sec

https://streamable.com/9y1pr3

[undone arrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFBZiZ3PdI4&t=93s

i didnt watch the video but it seems like it may answer your problems

[stone kindle]

the eye blink animation was authored in local space so I am expecting the eyes to always follow the rest of the bones. the idle animation is the horse shaking side to side

[undone arrow]

It only pops out after a while tho

like it stops being connected

[undone arrow]

ok no. dont think this one helps hold on

would you mind sending me the files?

[lavish inlet]

which part of it?

[spare kiln]

Thank you very much for your help!

Maybe someone else has some insights on how they managed to add bones required by animations to there meshes 🙂

[undone arrow]

the state you trying to enter

[lavish inlet]

so i play a landing animation in the player BP, and when that fires it doesn't return to the idle in the state machine

[stone kindle]

yeah i am not sure what the problem is exactly. i am thinking i will just have to author the complete animations in maya instead of building the animation out of blends in unreal

[undone arrow]

what state are you in when you land

[lavish inlet]

it says idle but the animation isn't playing

so that's why I assumed it wasn't going back to the state

[undone arrow]

ahh are you playing a montage? or just the animation

[lavish inlet]

montage

can you bounce between both?

[undone arrow]

montages automically goes back to what was playing before

I need ss to see

can you send a ss of your playing the land in your bp

[lavish inlet]

actually I cant even get the montage to play

only regular animation calls

if I disconnect it the state machine starts and plays properly

just feels like the systems are communicating

[undone arrow]

you need a slot default inside of your abp

wherever you want the montage to play

And you supposed to connect your mesh to that spot

[balmy blaze]

Hello there 🙂 i have a tiny question regarding Morph Targets. Is there a way to create them INSIDE of Unreal? Without any third-party program? Because so far, i only can find videos and docs for importing them from other programs like Maya, ZBrush, Blender etc.
So i wonder, is it possible to create them purely in UE with f.e. the modelling tools?

[lavish inlet]

oh yeah I couldn't get the montage to work - so I had it hooked up that way temporarily

so that definitely worked but now it seems like the montage and animation state are blending together

[undone arrow]

so everything good?

[lavish inlet]

man...no I'm getting a few different weird behaviors

the montage doesn't feel like its playing fully, it's sort of blending with the state machine

[undone arrow]

Can you send a video?

[lavish inlet]

and my state machine is defaulting to my running state with the condition being met

sure!

[undone arrow]

It shouldnt be doing that until the animation is near completion

[signal marlin]

Yes that worked, ty!

[signal marlin]

What are for? I'm new to animations

[undone arrow]

Just to choose stuff basically. You can choose anything. If you have mulitple hit animations. you can choose which one you want to play based on certain variables

like you can have an enum for body parts hit, and attach an animation to each body part essentially.

[signal marlin]

Oh cool, i'll take a look. Maybe they can help me because now i have the problem that the camera is really shaky because of these animations

Since it's attached to the head bone

[lavish inlet]

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/23ym6jn9m5axmvmj0byib/2025-01-30-16-34-19.mp4?rlkey=tk5tifjspfb7hp4552x4583d6&dl=0

[undone arrow]

Oh yeah. absolutely. not sure for the head shaking tho.

[undone arrow]

You can disable the blending on the montage

just set that to 0

For the tilt. You can debug your abp and see if you are actually inside of the

[lavish inlet]

that's what is so weird!

when I debug its not firing outside the idle

[undone arrow]

interesting. Can i see what you have here?

But I personally think choosers would be easier to implement, seeing that your locomotion is pretty simple.

The only thing is that I dont think there is a > than sign

This is all your abp would look like

[lavish inlet]

=

this is what it looks like r/n

[lavish inlet]

its simple now lol

its definitely going to ramp up

[undone arrow]

👀

[lavish inlet]

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dudik6jv18sizwkeed11h/ProjectStylish_Blockout_2_WithMusic.mp4?rlkey=dm1au1vq4jmw8edn291aucyh8&dl=0

here's an animated gameplay mock up I made last month - this is the general direction I'm heading in

[undone arrow]

And here I thought your cube was looking epic

[lavish inlet]

hahahaha

so yeah having good animation systems is goign to be pretty important. I feel like I have a good general idea of the different methods, but definitely going to take time to put into practice

[undone arrow]

100% agreed. choosers are my everything now So i am biased. I dont like that old way at all

too many transition lines

not easy to iterate on

[lavish inlet]

mmmm

that one I hadn't heard of

[undone arrow]

Its with the newer versions of unreal. That and motion matching

[lavish inlet]

cool I'm on 5.5

motion matching sounds RAD

[undone arrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ag7fSlEeKA

its overkill for your game tho

[lavish inlet]

ah

probably lol

so is it best practice to call all animations inside the ABP?

[undone arrow]

The non oneshot ones I believe so yes

Punching, interacting, other one shot ones as montages bc you have more control over what it does

while its playing

[wintry niche]

i wanna be able to move around particle sword slash but it keeps on disappearing since it only plays once, basically making it impossible to line it up well, any way to make it easy to see or move around for a montage? i also have to keep on moving the time line back and fourth for it to update

[undone arrow]

Send video. It’s easier to visualize the problem

But you should just line it up when the sword is in the slashing motion no?

[lavish inlet]

got everything working!

[undone arrow]

Even the sprint still playing in idle?

[lavish inlet]

yeah that was a logic goof

cause I'm real smart

😄

[wintry niche]

its just so hard to do that as it disappears and to make it play again i have to rewind the timeline

[undone arrow]

I mean literally when your sword is mid swing place the beginning of the trail there

[wintry niche]

its not a trail, its a cylinder mesh particle system

@undone arrow alot of trail and error

[lavish inlet]

@undone arrow can I set an anim to play after another anim is finished inside the state machine?

actually even more important how can I interrupt state machine animations?

[raven pulsar]

Hello, very stupid question (I guess).
Just trying to use some animations, for the fun.
Got a punch one, and even though I defined a slot etc, the player body is moving completely when I just want the upper.

Any idea ?

[buoyant geyser]

you might be blending too much try just 1.0 on the layered blend per bone and make sure your value for the upper body spine is set to something higher like 1

im having an issue with GASP template where if youre on a moving object the motion matching snap to the side of the capsule

it only happens at high speeds

[undone arrow]

Swap your slots around

[undone arrow]

Montages. But can you elaborate?

How are you trying to interrupt your animation?

[undone arrow]

Actually it’s not even that. Swap the whole thing around. You have the wrong thing in the blend pose I believe.

The node coming out of the control rig should be the base pose

[vital carbon]

Hello! Being a beginner in animation I do not understand some things including what I am going to share with you, my animation works perfectly under blender but when I import it on UE then my animation does not work as under blender

Under UE it is all my object that goes from top to bottom and under blender it is just my spikes

[spare kiln]

How can I use a control rig, to retarget animations, that require some additional control bones?

I have some animations from fab that require additional bones for example to control sword and shield and I got told, that for this I could just create a control rig instead of having to add them to the skeleton and skeletal mesh itself, I'm just not really sure how to do that.

[wise hamlet]

Can someone tell me how to render as a video instead of an image sequence?

[undone arrow]

#sequencer or #virtual-production might be a better place to ask

[undone arrow]

#control-rig maybe? I haven’t even played around with it enough. The people there seem to be using it pretty often

[undone arrow]

Are you exporting the animation?

Can you send a full screen shot of your blender

[vital carbon]

I managed to do it all day long, but I had to separate my spikes from the platform that contains my spikes, otherwise apparently it won't work once exported.

[undone arrow]

You can keep the spikes and the platform together

[vital carbon]

Can I make a single object have an animation so that only part of it can move, and not all of it?

[undone arrow]

Yes

[vital carbon]

[undone arrow]

Have two bones

One for the entire object and one for just your spikes

[vital carbon]

I had tried with a single Bone that was assigned to only my spikes

So if I have to do it again it's two bones? One bone assigned to the platform and the second to the spikes?

[undone arrow]

Yes

[vital carbon]

Ok ok thanks you !

[undone arrow]

I think. But it should work like that

[wise hamlet]

It's ok I figured it out👍thanks anyway

[lavish inlet]

like lets say I have an animation that's playing while the player is in the air using the state machine - but then hits the ground which triggers a montage animation in the playerBP

[undone arrow]

Would montages not interrupt your animtion?

[lavish inlet]

no they are I figured it out

thanks!]

[undone arrow]

anytime

[wise hamlet]

This is my first ever animation. Thoughts? P.S. No Post Processing was applied to it and the video was taken as an image sequence in 4k and then sequenced into a video in blender

I might add spatial sounds to it

[undone arrow]

Did you use the cinecamera rig?

@wise hamlet

Looks blurry at some points because the camera is moving too fast

[wise hamlet]

yeah

i used cam rig

but tbf i used like 10 keyframes for 350 frames total thats why its blurry

dw im not a total noob ive done animations in blender before

[spare kiln]

is it true, that if i have animations, I want to retarget them for each skeletal mesh?

Even if they share the same skeleton?

[undone arrow]

If they share the same skeleton they all share the same animations

Your question is also kinda hard to follow

[spare kiln]

That's not true I have two skeletal meshes sharing the same skeleton but the animations are only available for one, also one of the skeletal meshes is still missing bones from the skeleton so that can't be 100% right or is it?

[undone arrow]

are you sure they are sharing the same skeleton? or just have the same skeleton structure

[spare kiln]

Yes I'm sure, I think you got it mixed up right?

[undone arrow]

Im pretty sure manny and quinn share the same animations

[spare kiln]

Because as far as I understood the skeleton is just a underlying part for a skeletal mesh but the mesh itself can also only partially implement the bones.

[acoustic grove]

Anyone know the root cause of the meshes not staying alinged? I figured it has something to do with the way the Meta Humans are imported and has to do with something with snapping/aligning the meshes together? I have a mesh for the feet, legs, torso, and head which makes sense as to why they are misaligned

[acoustic grove]

My mic was on my fault

[spare kiln]

For me it is still the same issue i have since yesterday and I have no good answer for it, I have animations that require additional control bones and my question is how I can have them for all meshes or if I have to alter all the meshes to implement said bones and if so what is the best way of doing it.

[undone arrow]

Would you mind sending me the skeletons?

[acoustic grove]

Hmmm. If I find a good solution Ill send it here.

[undone arrow]

or did you have to pay for the fab

[acoustic grove]

Yea like an actual file?

And I havent paid for anything in UE5 yet

[undone arrow]

Not you. Natsch

[spare kiln]

I already sent it yesterday to you ^^