animation

[copper sigil]

Ahh, base pose 🙂

[deep pond]

How do I create an animation sequence?

[flat sluice]

Is it challenging to remove a portion of a model? I'd love to remove the chest or head of this but still have all of the animations work
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/sci-fi-humanoid-mech

[merry summit]

is there no way to play slot animations with a time input? eg. play it from half way through

[dense rock]

Hey I'm wondering if there's a way to change how blendspaces interpolate animations. I have this issue with some of my animations where the regular animation has no clipping of the skateboard, but the halfway bits in the blendspace put my skater's feet through the board.

Or would I just have to make a whole new animation for the midway bits?

[merry summit]

is this going to be a 1d blendspace @dense rock ?

[dense rock]

It's a 2D one

[merry summit]

so two approaches, one way is using IK, so the board interpolates however, but you lock the feet to the board using IK (and IK target bones on the board)

but something I've done in place of blendspaces, is the animBP can convert an animation to a "single frame" of an animation where you input the time

so you can make the keyframes in whatever program (blender / maya etc) where frame 0 is the start, frame 100 (for example) is the end

export the animation, then you just lerp the frame you're showing

eg. show frame 50 to be at 50% blend

then no matter what, it will use the same interpolation that you have in the animation software (which presumably uses IK so the feet will stay in place)

you could also blend that with a second animation for the other axis, eg. leaning left/right additive anim

[opal torrent]

Guys I'm having a problem.
Basically, WASD movement with Mouse rotation with fixed camera angle.

I disabled yaw from the PlayerController and I'm using Mouse Location on viewport to find the rotation for the Character. The problem is this results in animation for movement like running backwards but animation runs forward (because Capsule Component rotation is changed by mouse location)

I think I have to do something like interpolating a vector from Find LookAt Rotation and Character's Velocity. Then feed it into my BlendSpace

these are how I do movement and rotation for the character

[merry summit]

you want to get the 'forward' part of the direction (relative to the rotation) and the 'left/right' part separately, and feed those in to the blend space

so you do the dotproduct of character rotation and velocity, that'll give you the 'forwardness' of the velocity vector

then the dotproduct of the characters right vector, and the velocity, to get the 'rightness'

and feed those two floats into the blendspace

[opal torrent]

Thank you, let me try that!

[merry summit]

is it not possible to transfer pose snapshots from a BP to the animBP? it seems it can save/load them internally, but i need the blueprint to be able to save/modify it

eg theres no 'set pose from snapshot' or equivalent that can take a PoseSnapshot struct

nevermind, realised theres a tickbox for a snapshot input pin

[opal torrent]

@merry summit It worked, thanks a ton!!! I've been pulling my hair for 3 hours

[heady olive]

Hey so I'm trying to animate my npc to look towards the character and am using the Look at node but despite the interpolation time the npc's head just snaps around.

If anyone could give me help that would be much appreciated! Please @ me 🙂

It could also maybe be the interpolation type?

[short summit]

does anyone know if it is possible to get the length of a section in a montage

without using c++

[toxic thorn]

unless the functions that give you length of a section in c++ are exposed to BPs

then you're probably shit outta luck

(not familiar with the montages well enough to give ya more info than that)

[trim vigil]

do we have to use the same skeleton as the parent for all of the children when doing a group party rpg game?

[fringe trellis]

two of my animations have anomalies. in blender the animations look perfect. when i export to ue4 the animations are the same but a couple of the frames within the animation have a bone rotating or changing postition when its not supposed to. Any ideas what is wrong or a fix?

[open valve]

hey does anyone know how i can save out a camera sequence from gameplay?

[trim vigil]

do not move bones of the armature around when in object mode when working with armatures in blender or it will set off the scaling, rotation bug.. It won't show up in blender, but the bug will show up in unreal engine during the animation or in the skeleton editor.

[fringe trellis]

@trim vigil how would I go about resetting that?

Also it only happens with 2 specific anims not all of them.

[trim vigil]

you can try toggling under Advanced Settings in the Targeting Properties of the Skeleton, to change the settings of the bones to skeleton or to animation or to scaled in unreal engine to see if that fixes the issue.... The other way is to go into blender with the armature and reset the armature scaling, location and rotation values before animating those two animations. The last way I know of is to load the troublesome animation and manually adjust the bone in the skeleton editor and then add in a keyframe to save its position to the animation. That may or may not fix the bone if the bone is just out of position.

[fringe trellis]

@trim vigil i checked the scale and rotation in blender and everything is ok. I tested out your final suggestion of keyframing in engine. that seems to be the fix. I guess it was just an export glitch. Thank you for the help! now i got to key frame all this 😦

[trim vigil]

ok

[flat sluice]

I'm trying to set up these animations for a character that I purchased which is rigged with the epic skeleton:

• walking
• running
• crouching
• holding & aiming a rifle

I don't know where to start with this.

Should I use the Advanced Locomotion System?
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/advanced-locomotion-system-v1

Link to character that I have:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/sci-fi-humanoid-mech

[sullen lynx]

Is there a good way to blend 2 montages together? For example a melee attack anim -> take damage anim. I'm currently not doing it in the animation blueprint, but doing it in the character blueprint. Would I have to setup state machines and blend spaces in the animation blueprint to blend these together? If so, how do I control how fast an animation plays in a state machine since I can't use a montage in a state machine?

[trim vigil]

ALS is ok for outdoors movement, but for indoors, and narrow spaces you have to modify it.

[cloud wing]

is there a way to modify a recorded sequence?

I recorded my character running for 10 secs and want to add another 10 secs from the last point but I can't figure it out lol

[worn marlin]

May I know how to export blender animations like these to unreal engine? In this example I made a looping displacement to create the pulsing object. When exporting to unreal no animation are included. Thank you
https://gyazo.com/9b1a04c563d24bc12c8d5550f8132fdd

[trim vigil]

have to bake animations before exporting them

[worn marlin]

may i know how to bake the animations? is that in fbx?
I tried exporting in alembic and it works. Which one is preferable baked animation in fbx or as an alembic? Thank you

[trim vigil]

i only know how to bake it in blender, bake animations should be checked in the exporter.

[worn marlin]

yes i achieve results with rigid bodies and other simulations but for using displacement with keyframes currently alembic is the one I used, thank you

[nocturne ocean]

I can't figure out why my turn animations aren't playing
https://i.gyazo.com/5836cc825e2a1292cfa46fa9ae7ac419.gif

Anim Event Graph:

Blend space

Is anyone able to see where I've gone wrong? I'm still quite new so I'm having a hard time spotting it

[random aurora]

I am trying to do some IK animation for directing a toad warrior's shield towards the player's weapon

https://twitter.com/BearHammerGames/status/1290737241992695808?s=20

Brian Allen (@BearHammerGames)

Doing some work on enemy #ai today for shield blocking with IK animation on the arms. #unrealEngine #ue4 #indiedev #gamedesign #edinburgh #scotland https://t.co/8E2cRkizgL

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I had some success, but I've been working on improving this to move the angle of the shield hand to face the weapon directly

but the issue I have is at some angles, the shield static mesh runs into the skeletal mesh of the toad

I tried doing a CCDIK node to restrict the rotation of the bone, and that helped a bit, but there are still some positions where I'd like to move the arm holding the shield where it starts colliding with the toad itself

if I do physical animation with the toad arm and simulate collision with that mesh, it gets all glitchy looking

does anyone have any experience doing anything kinda similar?

I suppose I could do some math and just extend its arm further for the conditions where it is reaching across

but just wondering if there is some system or plugin I should be considering

also if anyone has any suggestions, I'd also like to slow down the speed of this so it doesn't track position so instantly--not sure how to do that

[jade hare]

Hi all. Without spending all day trying to explain our setup, we're a MOBA and we're trying to setup things in a way that whenever a spell is following by a move, that rather than blending instantly into the move, we want the spell cast to hold a few frames of animation further (only on moves). So youre moving, cast a quick spell, and resume moving, we want you to continue to play that spell cast animation. Right now, we have an animation cancelling system set up and its causing that anim to cancel as soon as we allow it and it looks choppy

We have our animation cancelling on like Frame 3 of the montage, so the character is BARELY starting to reach out to cast by the time we let it blend into move. We want it to still be able to have new commands at Frame 3, but if there is no new command other thna move, we want the character to continue reaching out for a few frames

[mint wind]

@nocturne ocean Is root motion on?

[robust spear]

https://youtu.be/lTe9sTgXgIo

Having fun and pain with control rig in unreal.

[simple shuttle]

@robust spear that pretty good

[south lotus]

@robust spear haha that was awesome, would love to get this series in a late night talkshow slot 😄

[obtuse parrot]

@robust spear lol

[robust spear]

The real challenge was being able to avoid all the bugs in the control rig. I will try to make a video showing the bugs that are easier to replicate. here an example of one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2fe1XlDeMc

[fleet willow]

Anyone know how i could get an stable camera which is attached to the head of a mesh while the animation moves the head ?
Like that the camera wont follow those many small up and downs of the head animation

Don't mind to ping me since i'm about to sleep now ^^

[upper relic]

Hey guys, I hope everyone is doing well today! I have a question for an issue I can't seem to remedy with the help of google... I'm not sure if I'm not animating properly, or what. But I have a reload animation for a double barrel shotgun all done and working in Blender, when I import it into UE4, I get 4 separate animations, pretty much cutting up my animation. I'm not an animator so some help would be greatly appreciated!

[misty crater]

I can't seem to import my anim clip from Maya into the correct Z-up axis. I export it as Z-Up using the game exporter just like my skeleton mesh export. It comes in Y up. I have even tried to force Z axis on import and that doesn't seem to work either.

[random aurora]

I am trying to add a physics impact to a skeletal mesh based on collision with an attached static mesh

I have this toad--and I am able to hit its arm, part of its skeletal mesh, and fling it left to right, if I set the bones from the clavicle downwards to use physical animation

I want to attach weapons to them, but hit the weapon, and have this fling the arm backwards in the same way

is there a way to attach a static mesh to a skeletal mesh and have it be treated as a new bone?

[bronze osprey]

@robust spear yea look pretty cool, i also find there is a lot of bugs in controll rig, that decompile of the rig is an annoyin one tho

also i can only feed floats into Crig, transforms or rotations mess everything up and have to be redone every time u boot up the project

If u have the sequence open and compile all rigs by hand it stops decompile em tho i think

not 100% sure what the workaround is but it stops decompile when i mess with em a bit

right now u have to break a transform into 9 floats and recombine en in Crig

thats messed up when u wunna feed like 20 transfroms inthere

[sweet reef]

anyone know how to do aim offsets?

i need help with

it

[edgy token]

Anyone have rigged fps arms in maya I could have?

[misty dagger]

Hiya people, this might come off as really noobish, mainly bcuz I am noobish.
I get it that Anim Montages can be used to create well montages of different animations, but is there any benefit of making a montage if it contains only a single animation

[sick field]

hey guys, trying to create an aim offset for a small game that im making for me and some friends to mess around in but I got an issue

any idea why this pose

turns into this when I put it into an aim offset or a blend space?

[fleet willow]

Anyone know an easy way to mirror animations ?
I do see something on the marketplace, but i really don't wanna pay 55-65€ for this kind of plugin

[junior geyser]

@nocturne ocean i think because you are getting speed and direction in begin play. you would need to use tick event to constantly update those vars

[nocturne ocean]

I'm unable to find a Tick Event

[grave hawk]

QUESTION: is there any difference in performance between animations that deform a polygon vs those that just move [rotate or move or scale] polygons but dont change its shape?

[static falcon]

Has anyone dealt with animated obj sequences or similar in UE4? I'd like to use a replacement mesh technique

[heavy fulcrum]

Hi. New to Unreal and this discord community. Probably already asked but is there a way to loop between keyframes in sequencer? I have 3 keyframes in rotation parameter and want to have a continuous loop.

[reef agate]

Hey all re: control rig mannequin example. The example has the control rig in the level and then added to the sequencer, but is it possible to use an actor blueprint for the control rig / skel mesh asset?

or i guess we're meant to bake that animation in the sequencer?

[bronze osprey]

@reef agate nah u can use em at runtime

dunno if its stable enough for it tho

[reef agate]

I don’t need runtime though I’m jus wondering how I can have the control in sequencer in a way where I can have multiple skel mesh comps for clothing. They all share the skel but I need to use a blueprint to have all those comps

So I’m confused because the example project drags the control rig direct into level

[bronze osprey]

you can use an actor using a skel using an anim bp using a Crig

the seq is just there to keyframe it

[wraith nova]

Question is their a tutorial series on how to setup marketplace animations

[grave hawk]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267118610143641601/741679782185402378/ABC123B.gif

QUESTION - for a hard surface anim how would one implement the movement of the ring over the geo shown here in the bottom portion of the gif? Morph maps?

[royal sorrel]

Can I not play animation montages on modular characters?

[grave hawk]

@royal sorrel https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/WorkingwithModularCharacters/index.html

[royal sorrel]

@grave hawk blend space work, montages don't.

[grave hawk]

i cant help sorry - im ignorant on the subject and merely happened to have that page up as a coincidence

[royal sorrel]

Anyone?

[onyx sigil]

Hello ! I'm trying to do a basic Rolling action. and i want to make thee animation transition from "Roll" to idle" once the roll animation is over. is there a simple way to do it ?

[versed jetty]

I don't think I've seen answers in here

[onyx sigil]

:(

[versed jetty]

I think this Discord is great for feeling part of a community, but you may have better luck using the forums for answers @onyx sigil

[urban gate]

Hey does anybody know how I can retrieve the names of anim curves that exist in an animation sequence?

I can get the animation track names, but that just returns the bones and not anim curves

[sick field]

@onyx sigil if you know how to make attack animations you can reuse that knwoledge and apply it tothe dodge animation

[onyx sigil]

i know nothing :p just begining yesterday

[sick field]

lemme hook you u^p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ7X01SmQJA@onyx sigil

[onyx sigil]

@sick field i was just looking for a good guide for an attack. thx :)

[sick field]

ahahahaha

two birds with one stone heh@onyx sigil ?

[onyx sigil]

yep, dirty birds

[sick field]

ahahahahaha

[onyx sigil]

next i need to add a trowing animation

[sick field]

the video will teach you abotu animation triggers, you can use that for your throw timing

[onyx sigil]

to trow rock at birds

[sick field]

ahahahahaha

[onyx sigil]

hmm, his model has a "montage". with mine i got nothing on "montage to play"

[viral moss]

I have it so that the animations in my ABP change depending on what is happening within the game. Ie, set a blend space based on a variable. The problem is that the change is instant instead of blended. Is there a way to force the transition to blend?

[obtuse parrot]

Hi, has anyone had a problem with Copy Pose From Mesh kind of freezing on a few frames in a loop? I have a bunch of modular meshes that use it in the animBP but one of them seems to just be looping on a few frames of the animation.

It looks fine in the viewport.

ahh forget it. Must have been a Maya thing. I rebound it's skin and now it is fine.

[split void]

Hi guys, I have a complex problem. Is this the right place to talk about animation blueprints?

(and any regular blueprints involving animations?)

I'm making a third person controller and, well, I'm not an animator. I'm a game designer and software engineer. But I need animations for climbing, jumping, hanging onto rope, and a bunch of other things.

I'd continue, but first let me know if I'm in the right channel to discuss. ^^;

[royal sorrel]

Sure @split void go ahead

[split void]

Lol it's late, I will ask tomorrow in the morning. Thanks!

[royal sorrel]

ok, no problem

[tropic sphinx]

anyone an idea, what to do here?

[young pine]

Hello guys! Why after a sequence is finished the character is not possessed? This happens only if I use a cameraActor inside sequence. If it's a simple sequence with fade in/out it's working. At the end of the sequence I have a character event with set view target with blend but it's not working. It's stuck on the camera sequence

[arctic spindle]

https://twitter.com/GloriaAnimator/status/1294259712750428160?s=20 i hope you like this cute mermaid i did from an awesome upcoming game

GloriaTheAnimator (@GloriaAnimator)

One, Two, Tree, PEACEEEEEEE!!!!!

Sayu is definitely my favorite character from #NoStraightRoads, even tho all the characters are amazing!
this animation was very fun to do and she turned out so cute ❤️ i love the way the eyes turned out ❤️

@ikkinsnommis @NoStraightRoads #s...

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[devout dagger]

I noticed an issue with anims imported from Blender (UE 4.24-4.25, Blender 2.8x.x, FBX) - in some animations root bone is offset in UE4, while in any FBX viewer and in Blender it's dead at 0,0,0. Has anyone had this kind of issue ?

[arctic spindle]

nope not at all

[devout dagger]

😦

[onyx sigil]

why, when i add a "motion root", my preview begame all chaotic, insterad of just moving the root ? https://i.imgur.com/XYi3kTQ.mp4

[simple shuttle]

@onyx sigil Character > Animation > Process Root Motion

[onyx sigil]

@simple shuttle Thx you, sir !

[fickle geyser]

im trying to build a rig to use unreal's animations and I always wondered about this: Shouldn't the lowerarm be under the upperarm twist joint?

from how i learnt rigging, the hierarchy normally looks something closer to this?

Is there a reason why the twist joints are separated from the hierarchy? Im looking to understand the process behind this. Can anyone help me with this?

[fickle geyser]

I have managed to figure it out. Thanks 👍

[split crescent]

I'm having an issue with importing an animation from Blender. I'm using Rigify (custom rig). I've animated the motion, and keyframed the bones' first/last frames. The motion looks great in Blender. But when I look at it in unreal, there's some weird sliding of IK's, and some random glitchy rotations of a few bones. No idea why...

The animation makes use of the graph editor in Blender... That shouldn't affect anything though, right?
Also, none of the deform bones are keyframed, only the control bones, then the deform bones are keyed automatically when I export deform bones only. According to my understanding.

[split crescent]

Been troubleshooting for two hours and still haven't been able to figure it out. Anyone encountered this before?

[split crescent]

The wing issue seems to be partly related to the bones being rotated so close together, I think. If I open the wings up a bit they don't glitch out as much.
The foot-slide thing is weird though. IK related it seems.

Still no clear solution for either.

[royal crane]

Hi anyone got experience with FSkeletalMeshMerge . I was looking at doc (https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/WorkingwithModularCharacters/index.html) but didnt get what is meaning of "When using FSkeletalMeshMerge, your main "body" has to contain all the animations because the merged mesh will only use the Skeleton that's set and it has to contain all the joints you'd need to animate. I"

[gloomy fable]

so I have two state machines, with one controlling locomotion with a sword and locomotion with a bow. Is there a way to make a boolean selector to pick one to use within the animgraph?

wait nvm

I forgot blend by bool existed for a hot sec

[patent laurel]

Does anyone know why "Control Rig Hierarchy" is not appearing when I search it?

[reef agate]

Hey all i'm struggling with getting my skel mesh components to follow the control rig animation in sequencer. just can't figure out how!!

they all share the same skeleton and for normal animations i would use copy pose from mesh

but when using control rig, copy pose from mesh doesn't work. Adding the control rig node to the main anim bp creates havoc

Control Rig asset in sequencer doesn't seem to play well when you have your skel mesh in a blueprint

[patent laurel]

@reef agate Im confused on what you mean. I don't have any rigs in a BP except this one.

[reef agate]

You know how it's standard to put a skeleton mesh in a character bp for example? or an actor/pawn whatever?

I have my skel mesh in an actor BP now I want to animate its control rig in sequencer

even that alone seems buggy

everything is fine if it's JUST the skeleton mesh asset in the level

[patent laurel]

Oh sorry... I thought you were trying to solve my issue

Im currently having rig issues too

[reef agate]

ah wish i could but i dunno the answer to your issue

well

you want the heirarchy to show in the tab w the bones?

you need to create it

[patent laurel]

I want the hierarchy reference for the BP

[reef agate]

You can see the bones in your screenshot

that's a hierarchy. What else do you want? the control hierarchy?

ah i see i think. you just want that node

[patent laurel]

This is what im trying to get

[reef agate]

hmm i can't find that in the rig graph

stuff like that in the event graph is there

[patent laurel]

according to the tutorial im following i need it

[reef agate]

How do you add a keyframe to a curve in an animation asset 4.25?

it's impossible : (

i mean when it doesn't already have keyframes

where are the keyframes?

Kinda desperate to just add keyframes hehe

[hasty veldt]

Hey all, I have a question and issue with adding aim offset animations to an idle animation!

I'm using a test character for this example. When I change the aim offset pose animations to be Additive (Mesh space) they suddenly sink into the ground, but work fine without being additive (save for being unable to actually use them as aim offsets, of course)

I have a hunch this has to something to do with the root bone under the pelvis, but I have no idea

Is there any way I can fix this? They were working fine before as well, but other issues made me need to reimport it and that's when things started getting royally screwed

[hasty veldt]

Fixed by changing the Additive (Mesh Space) to Additive (Local Space)!

Or not

Welp

Now it's not blending with the idle

[reef agate]

Does anyone know how to edit curve keyframes in the 4.25 animation curve editor rework?

[cerulean ridge]

Anyone here have experience with AnimModifiers? Having trouble following this to apply the feet Notifies. What does one have to do to get the notifies's location relative to the feet in an adequate fashion?
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/AnimModifiers/index.html

[atomic wren]

Hey everyone. hoping someone can help out..

thats what happens when importing a new skeletal mesh into ue from blender. random parts of the mesh just stay behind when posing bones.

in blender itself I used Auto-Rig Pro and it is working beautifully there.. also, even though in blender the x-mirroring is on so everything is mirrored on both arms, this weird thing only happens on one hand.. not the other

any ideas would help.. been battling with this for a while.. seems getting any other mesh to work with the mannequin skeleton is a nightmare

[mint dagger]

Trying to create an easy animation just for start, trying to find a tutorial that tells you how to start animate, but can't find anything

Anyone can tell me what i need for start? Heard about control rig, it's the one i need?

[atomic wren]

Anyone can tell me what i need for start?
@mint dagger animation is done outsid eof ue4. you use 3rd party program like Blender or Maya in which you animate, then you export those animations from them to ue4. in ue4 you combine/alter add additional functionalities

[mint dagger]

Ok another question, since i won't "steal" a character from mixamo or other site, i can export the ue4 manequinn?

[atomic wren]

control rig, and I may be wrong here, can be used to some extent but requires understanding of how to set up your rig as a control rig.. im sure this could be used as well, I have just never really tried it like that

yes you can. as a matter of fact on Unreal wiki (if I remember correctly) Epic games themselves actually supply the mannequin file that is in Blender's native .blend file format

[mint dagger]

Perfect, ty for the help 🙂

[atomic wren]

its a pleasure

[magic lark]

hi, is it possible to have a root motion animation in state machine for only one state?
i want to play a root motion animation for only one state, but it seems when i use RootMotion from Everything it kinda mess other states up.

[reef agate]

can the cloth physics in ue4 the nvidia stuff do per poly collision or only on capsules?

[mental rose]

Can anyone help with Aim offset

[shadow lagoon]

Hey, I have retargeted an animation to another skeleton (using retarget manager ofc) and for some reason the model becomes wide and a bit offset when the animation is applied. Is there any fix for this or is that retargeting being weird and it isnt fixable?

[fallow pumice]

I am trying to import MMD mesh and animation to unreal as fbx but part of the arm always twisted or wonky. Anyone knows how to fix it? Thanks.

[orchid atlas]

yo guys can you please help me? i'm learning modelling and animation and these days i imported them into unreal engine to "admire" them. Satisfied about my work i thought about working on some more animations and here the problem happened. First, how am i supposed to import another animation for a model i've alredy imported? Second, how am i supposed to animate things like weapons, that require hands. (i mean, do i have to import an animation with the weapon with the hands or just the weapon animation alone. Also, if i need to animate the weapons with the hands, bringing back the first point, how can i import them over my alredy imported character)? If anyone got some links to some documentation or some valid youtube video i would be very grateful. I'm using Blender BTW

[keen fractal]

Here my last work :3

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0nlyZe

[split void]

Hi I'm back. Here is my problem:

Some animations I imported from Mixamo are blocked by the capsule collider. I gave all the animations Root nodes through the Blender conversion plugin, I retargeted them onto the Mannequin, Enabled Root Motion on the sequence, then set up the AnimBP to run all Root Animations.

I think the culprit is the Capsule Collider: it prevents the animation from moving the Mannequin any further because the CC's bottom end collides with the base of the tall step, acting like a wall.

I thought the solution would be to create a custom movement path for the Capsule Collider to lerp through. This way it would avoid hitting the step as the animation sequences run. But if the Capsule Collider is given its own animation curve, the mesh would inherit the lerp because it's a child of the Capsule Collider, correct? So then I should not enable root motion on these animation sequences...?

[proper perch]

Hey guys, Is there a way to get world location of a specific vertex of an skeletal mesh ?! I need it because I have a mesh with morph target animation. and I want to get the world location of the zone of vertex that moves in the morph target. Kind of like attaching a socket to a vertex. not sure if its possible at all ?!

[reef sky]

@reef agate noticed youve been using control rig somewhat. have you used it to create animation sequences at all? I tried out using it to create hand animations for vr but had some issues that I made a answerhub post about - https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/976021/view.html

[nocturne ocean]

Does anyone have any good tutorials for toggling between walk, jog (z) and running (holding shift)? I've noticed a lot of people do this very differently. My character currently goes no slower then a sprint

[reef agate]

@reef sky Heya ya I have been creating anims with it on a Daz character recently

I'd like to make hand animations for VR as well for a different project actually but i haven't built that hand control rig yet so i gonna read your forum post

The only issue (which i assume is my mistake) i've encountered so far is that I can't understand why when I bake to an anim asset from sequencer my character isn't always at 0,0,0 location even though I have no keyframes on the root/pelvis. Haven't dug into that yet busy busy

[misty dagger]

So if we look at something like this :
http://www.proceduraltextures.com/stuff/blogpics/poses.png

From Idle to pose 1 the foot that is stepping forward would be correct but the other foot would slide across the ground backwards unnaturally. Is this just kind of ignored or is there generally a transition animation where a character starts to walk?

[reef sky]

The only issue (which i assume is my mistake) i've encountered so far is that I can't understand why when I bake to an anim asset from sequencer my character isn't always at 0,0,0 location even though I have no keyframes on the root/pelvis. Haven't dug into that yet busy busy
@reef agate Yeah i found that I had to set the control rig/mesh to 0 in world space otherwise all animas were offset. Did you take a look at my post? I guess if youre making non fixed animations it might not be as obvious, for hand animations theres a definite difference between what control rig looks like before baking

[reef agate]

@reef sky occupied with work atm, but will check your post in a couple hours. And yes exactly about 0,0,0 world space! That's what i assumed the workaround is

So i animate where the mesh should be, then before i bake to the anim asset i move to 0,0,0 world

[reef sky]

👍 cheers. Yeah, I find it weird you have to do it like that, might well be some around it.

[cerulean ridge]

Is there a way to send blending between montage segment slots? Not the natural blend in/out of the entire thing, just individual samples

[crisp dagger]

hi im trying to make a FPS using third person character everything was going well till i added the idle gun poses to the anim graph now my characters legs dont move he kinda floats around what am i doing wrong

[split crescent]

Can anyone explain what exactly "Preserve Local Transform" does for importing animations? The documentation is vague, but the impact is huge.

[misty dagger]

I am importing some animations from Maya but in physical asset I have just single bone. How can I import rigs into unreal engine ?

[midnight thorn]

Is there anyone in here that can show me how to set up my turning animations in unreal engine? I have added my idle, run, and attack animations but I don't know how to set up my turning ones.

[timber star]

Hello,
I'm just checking the doc and can t really understand what is additive animation settings when you are in the anim sequence editor.
anyone could tell what this stuff really do cause i see lot of peapole using it so i think this is a import stuff and found the documentation really vague about it.
Thx for answer if any and plz think to tag me

[patent laurel]

Does anyone know why It won't let me spawn in a control rig?

[misty dagger]

Lets say I've updated my .fbx file with a new animation. How do I reimport the .fbx over the old one so that everything using it works but it has the new animation on it?

Nevermind I figured it out - kinda weird theres no straightforward way to do it but

[static zodiac]

Can anyone here rig in Blender? I'll pay someone to rig a obj file if someone's willing

[misty dagger]

@static zodiac try #looking-for-talent and #looking-for-work

[crude kettle]

i have a weird error in my animation blueprint, for some reason my character has to get to an extremely large number in speed to move, (17369282560.0) to walk, and his max speed is 1200, while his walk is 600

[royal sorrel]

Any good resources/assets for a lot of movement animations?

[limber venture]

Hi guys I have a problem but i don't know how to solve it. In 3dsMax i did a rigg and skinning on a boxer robot. The gloves in 3dsMax looks great and aligned

when I import it to UE4 the gloves are more in the left side and I don't know why

if someon can help to me I would appreciate it 😊

someone *

[hearty mantle]

#graphics

[copper sigil]

I appreciate this is more of a "learn how to rig/animate" question, but I'm wondering how viable it is if I already have a model/rig with animations in UE4, if I wanted to change the mesh to something else a little higher quality from my original marketplace purchase, is it relatively straight-forward to swap out the mesh associated with the rig? Or do I need to rig the new mesh (something I've never done before...)

I have the original marketplace asset, and I guess I'm asking this because I'm considering buying a higher quality model, but unsure of the process to combine the two

(Worth adding, this is a horse, not a standard bipedal human)

[limber venture]

@hearty mantle THX

[feral oak]

@copper sigil the model and the rig go together so if you got a new model you would have to rig it again

[radiant kestrel]

Has something changed since this guide? I've followed every step, triple checked everything, but calling the montage to play isn't resulting in anything. I feel like something might have been changed since this was written? https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/AnimHowTo/AdditiveAnimations/index.html

[radiant kestrel]

Okay. Deemed that it's not the guide. My Montage seems set up correctly since it'll play on a copy of the SkeletalMesh that's not in a Character class. But if I try to directly play the montage on the character's mesh asset or blend in a montage, it breaks the animation?

[radiant kestrel]

Whew. Always a relief to realize that you're just dense. I didn't realize the function playing the montage was being called repeatedly from an AItree. Making sure it's not firing nearly every frame solved that.

[serene lake]

What are your guys' opinion on Alright Rig vs Control Rig so far? I've been dabbling with Alright Rig for the past year and it has a lot of nice features. Is there any reason to use Control Rig over it (for animation rendering only).

[flat sluice]

I'm trying to use FABRIK in the animation graph to have an arm point towards a location. Is this possible? Or should I have a scene object at the pointing towards the direction and have use fabrik to match its position?

[misty dagger]

I don't got gif but I like to show off something we did

[eager smelt]

I´m starting to flip out, can´t seem to find a proper workflow for Blender to Unreal, is it better to animate on Unreal or to import animations from Blender ? And if so, what would be the proper way to rig

[dreamy badger]

Is there a way to force a character to make a footstep at each stair on a staircase?

[serene lake]

@eager smelt In my opinion, if youre using Blender you might as well stick with it. That new Blender to UE4 feature was literally just released and is extremely convenient. There's no reason to animate straight into UE4 unless you have a good reason to (such as all your assets are already in your project). I've been using Maya for the last 1 - 2 years and I might be using Allright Rig to animate straight in UE4 because it may be more convenient for me to animate straight on the map. I don't have time to learn blender right now otherwise I would probably be making the most out of Blender to UE4.

[eager smelt]

@serene lake Ye, thanks just watched the How to Use Blender with Unreal Engine tutorial, and those add ons look amazing

[crisp dagger]

hi im trying to make a FPS using third person mannequin but wen i edit my anim graph he stops doing the run animation and kinda floats what am i doing wrong ?

[gaunt sky]

Weird question but is there a reason you can't add a socket onto a virtual bone?

[nova monolith]

i am trying to construct a transition rule in an AnimGraph that only transitions after the previous state runs for X seconds

this node says it is the accumulated time for the most relevant anim ... but this doesnt seem to work. any ideas on how to achieve my goal?

(basically if you fall a long way i want to run a different landing animation than if you fall a short way)

[steady pond]

After adding physics body to the skeleton, I can no longer set rotation of the bone the physics shape was added to. What could be causing this?

Removing body - rotation can be set again.

[steady pond]

ahh nm simulating physics seems to turn off any kind of manual transform settings

[misty dagger]

What transformation values should I apply to the default mannequin when i am trying to use it with objects oriented regularly for ue4?

[reef agate]

Hey all, I'm super comfortable with retargeting, but this is the first time i've tried to also include the IK bones setup just like the mannequin in the retarget. For some reason I just can't get them to line up with the hands/ feet after retargetting. They are set to animation as specc'd in the docs

everything else is perfect.

Is there something I'm missing?

by the by i'm referring to animation retargeting

[stark needle]

Hmmm, so when importing my multi object fbx, i plan to animate it with blueprints but their anchor points matter greatly to make this happen. However upon importing, none of the objects are retaining their achor / pivot points or their orientation. Any way to make sure they import correctly? or what are my options?

[stark needle]

ok, gave up on that idea, what about non-rig PSR animation fbx, i tried importing. Does eu4 require a skeleton mesh in order for it to animate?

[stark needle]

ok, got something going using sequencer

however, how do i get the sequence to play on duplicates of the objects? it's only playing on the one

[static falcon]

Is the spring controller rotation broken?

it works with position but not rotation for me

I would like my character's legs to rotate away from it's movement, like an octopus' legs trailing behind it

[lilac vortex]

Does anyone know why my Control Rig will reset portions of it's pose randomly (or when I hit save)?

[reef agate]

@lilac vortex in the control rig asset editor? you're not meant to make poses there, but it is there for testing

if you wanna make poses, put the control rig in sequence in your level

Does anyone know conclusively if there is any benefit to using actual bones vs virtual bones for the standard mannequin style IK setup? I've read conflicting views on the forums, but some say adding bones (not virtual) is legacy

[bronze osprey]

i added a bunch of virtual bones but thats cuz ControllR aint fully working yet

[timber star]

anyone know difference in animation aat local space vs mesh space?

[lilac vortex]

@reef agate I was posing it in the level sequence when this occurred, it was my Sequencer resetting it. I didn't realize keyframe that was saved was resetting right after I was letting go of the transform control. Im updating my keyframes now and it's all good, thanks for the input

[somber briar]

anyone have a compiled maya live link plugin for 2020?

tried recompiling it from previous versions but it isn't working

[fresh oar]

guys i made this reload animation could you give me your feedback

[misty dagger]

@fresh oar pretend you have a gun in your hands

or steal one of your little siblings toys

now reload it and pretend you have to dink somebody in the head RIGHT NOW

[fresh oar]

dink?

[misty dagger]

zoomer

[fresh oar]

yeah sure but now could you pls explain what does dink mean

[misty dagger]

pop

pow

bullet to the kissa

[fresh oar]

ah ok

[mint comet]

hey guys im layer animations so my characters can run and fire at the same time but when i set it up and fire they turn 90 degrees for some reason anyone able to help

in the support voice chat maybe?

[misty dagger]

@mint comet what skeleton are you using

@fresh oar did you do it?

[mint comet]

a custom made one

[fresh oar]

@misty dagger yes i diid

[misty dagger]

cool

what do you think

[fresh oar]

that i will never keep my right hand like that, and that there is a lot more motion

[misty dagger]

expound

keep your hand how? what kind of motion?

[fresh oar]

the right hands in my animation has the same position for almost all the animation, while in reality it should move a lot more, and there is a lot of small motion going on like fingers motions, and when i put the mag back in there is a lot more attrition than what you see in my animation.

[misty dagger]

@fresh oar check this guy out if you haven't somehow https://youtu.be/gJp7a_muHs0

[fresh oar]

i already watched almost all his videos

[misty dagger]

he also mentions in one of his videos somewhere the idea of having a hand to hand mag reload like on this gun

cool

i gtg, have fun

make it bounce around a but, but not toooooo much

it looks very "csgo" to me currently

specifcally the speed of the hand movement from the mag to resting back on the front

just something I noticed

[fresh oar]

yeah it's my first animation i will try to improve with time

thanks you for your advice

[misty dagger]

hello guys, newb question here. I haven't started yet and I'm planning to make a cinematic animation for practice.

Should I animate in animation softwares first (maya/blender) then export them to unreal for tweaking and final result?

or is the animation/rigging in unreal advanced that I can animate from there without having to do it in blender/maya?

[zealous bone]

@misty dagger you better use softwares

they have much more functions

and editing possibilities

some things you can't undo in ue4

so use a software

[peak bane]

Hi, I am making a 3rd person shooter game, and I have 2 states, Standing and crouching, and the player can reload and shoot in both states. This is my current solution:

ReloadCrouched looks like this:

I am wondering if there is a way to just plug in both the result of the Standing and Crouched state into the Reload and Shoot states, instead of having to make a separate state for each stance

[misty dagger]

so use a software

got it! thanks for clearing it up :D

[young shoal]

@peak bane could you make the reloading and shooting each into a montage in a slot and then blend the slot onto the pose rather than the animation itself?

If I have 4 animations I want to play in a montage all with root motion, is there a way I can sync the start and end positions without having to set up a full root motion setup?

[boreal plank]

does anyone know how to create assets for the animoffset?

[young shoal]

eg the first anim the guy walks forward 5 steps, when the next anim starts it jumps back to the origin. I kind of get root motion but this is all new

@boreal plank I think you actually have to have the anims for it, there's nothing that will create them automatically

[somber briar]

How can I attach one bone of a skeleton to another bone of another skeleton at runtime?

Im trying to get the grip bones in the glider to follow the hand bones

ignore the backward animations

[somber briar]

I guess the best weay is to make another blendspace for the glider and animate both same time

[bronze osprey]

with earth gravity i doubt that wil save ur life 😛

mythbusters tested that with an inflatable raft and it was barely enough

[somber briar]

oh ya that cloth wouldn't let you glide irl lol

[young shoal]

Have a look into IK solvers for thhe hand placement maybe?

Kind of like how you hold a rifle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P3X1fpU4fw

[somber briar]

thanks, Ill check that out

might be a little different because both of my objects are deforming, but I'll see what I can figure out. At this moment I'm just having it run through 2 separate blend spaces and seeing how that works

[somber briar]

there's too much layering happening to match the animations correctly with 2 blendshapes

[real hound]

Im trying to export a skeletal mesh, then unbind it, subdivide it, rebind and weight paint it and then import back to ue4 but when i import the engine cant recognize the skeleton because there are 2 bones added from maya somehow

How can I solve this problem?

1 bone is parenting root and 1 is a child

[mild bridge]

I'm wondering if anyone is getting choppy results with the Live Link plugin on the Face AR sample? The frames are smooth, however, every few seconds Live Link doesn't seem to receive enough data from my iphone, the icon goes yellow and the animation freezes while waiting for data.

[misty dagger]

is there a way to preview how a mesh will look on a character?

how much animation do you guys do with c++ over blueprints?

[misty dagger]

to clarify my first question, I want to see how other meshes look in relation to my character's mesh

[young shoal]

not sure what you mean by mesh, to me the character is the skeletal mesh. What's your setup?

[simple shuttle]

retarget animation in blender
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/699292555350769754/746462498479407204/retarget_dino.mp4

[brave shoal]

I need help learning how to animate. I tried the blender discord but their advise was less than ideal.

[unkempt sorrel]

why would when I import from blender my animations movement direction be swapped

[dusk dove]

@peak bane yes, you can use nested state machines

[vapid ibex]

Just wondering

How easy is it to replace the default UE4 Mannequin with a customized character (as long as it has the same human structure of course) later on in development?

I want to work on my character's base atm, and I don't have my character assets just yet

Is it a bad idea to use the mannequin for well, pretty much everything? Am I wrong to assume I can make the swap in about a day's worth of work?

[sudden sedge]

@somber briar it'd set an attachpoint on the glider then set the ik goal to be that attachpoint

[somber briar]

ya that's what I'm going to try next, I guess I'll do both, glider blendspace and an ik that moves the glider attach goal into the hands

I want to have some control on how it's bending and moving the glider bones

[sudden sedge]

https://i.imgur.com/vZSKY8c.png

could just do the animation in the player space

then make the glider bones ik to it

[somber briar]

ya like that

[waxen forge]

Can anyone help me figure out how to make my character mesh turn based on keyboard input direction (WASD)? I'm using the same code for moveright/moveforward as other projects I've worked on and yet on this one he stays locked forward. Can't see any difference that would cause it.

Tried messing around with various variables such as bUsePawnControlRotation and bUseControllerRotationYaw ... no change

[jagged parrot]

Did you mess with the one in camera boom?

[waxen forge]

Yeah, that's the one i was changing

[tawny wasp]

Is there a way to smoothly remove an item from parent with UMG? This is a part of a vertical box, and when I remove a widget all of the other children of the vertical box immediately bounce up.

[tranquil lark]

The amount of information out there about setting up IK for foot placement on a hill is too damn high! It's like it's the only thing people think they can use IK for, lol

[young shoal]

@waxen forge have you got this checked on the character movement component?

[exotic shoal]

hi, is anyone using parallel blendshapes exported from Maya to Unreal? When I export the fbx, and reimport, just into Maya, the deformation order is changed, overriding the blendshape for the face with the parallel corrective shapes

[inner bloom]

Does anyone know where I can find a skeleton mesh character that will work with imported animation data fom a kinect? Ie has the same bone names and hierarchy

actually it's a kinect azure...

[spiral cloak]

Hi all, got a really strange issue where our skeletal mesh has suddenly just started twisting one of it's bones.

As the character moves around, the bone is randomly twisting and of course contorting the mesh. It's only 1 bone that's twisting, the child bones are all at correct orientation.

Any idea what might be happening?

It's almost like an angular motor is turned on or something. We briefly added physical animation component to the character, but removed it again. I don't recall this issue happening before we added the component, so I'm worried there is some corruption in the blueprint

[waxen forge]

@young shoal I just looked, and no it wasn't checked. I checked it, and still no change. Character mesh stays locked to the controller view regardless of input dir.

[young shoal]

I actually switch between both of those movement type when I'm aiming

[waxen forge]

I've given up, I guess I'll just worry about it another day. This is a project I'm converting from pure BP over to C++... I've checked that all the camera/spring arm settings are the same across both, yet mine is always locked to view while the other rotates based on WASD. My input code is super simple for now. Have used this on multiple other projects as well.

void AMainCharacter::MoveForward(float input)
{
    if (input != 0.0f)
    {
        AddMovementInput(GetActorForwardVector() * input);
    }
}

[mint dagger]

the character movement is all fuc#ed up, if i press W the char goes left, if i press D the char goes up, ect, why? [Project setting input is ok]

[young shoal]

is your character rotated correctly

[mint dagger]

yep

u mean here, right?

[young shoal]

That arrow is what is thinks forward is

[tall seal]

um

I downloaded a slide animation from mixamo

And when I export it to unreal, my character goes full blown distortion

I tried to import the character to mixamo and I did, it worked just fine there

so I guess the problem is with unreal

[craggy coral]

Uhm... how do you create a control rig sequence in 4.25? The docs seem to be out of date perhaps? I don't see a button for it like in the docs 🙂

[craggy coral]

Oh, there's a sample project available

Nice

[misty dagger]

What would a proper way of doing facial animation with procedural characters? (All characters will just be human using same base mesh)

Morphs only to affect appearance, and create the facial animations by adding bones to face, and use pose assets and blend those in animations?

[fathom junco]

Anyone know if it's possible to"walk up" a skeleton tree with blue print

As in getting the next bone in the chain (child) given it's parent

[gloomy fable]

yo, is there any simple way to get a character made in blender onto an unreal rig?

[gloomy fable]

@tall seal the mixamo skeleton does not have a root bone, so it will use the hip as one and screw everything up

@tall seal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY24XPdnd9s
this video should help

[deft prairie]

I used a TPS package from unreal store and tryed to reatach an other Character to the Rig. The problem is it looks like its OFF i tryed it with paragon charachter.

What i wonder is how do i fix that problem? is there like keyword i can use on google / youtube? since i mostly searched for "fixing animation" and similiar words but nothign really was for that problem. its manly like the colar that is out of hand.

[paper cobalt]

paragon character retargeting mamby?

[dreamy badger]

i'm driving an ik target with a boolean to decide which hand to stick to a target in my level. So it would be like - walk up to a door, and if it's on my right, stick my right hand onto the door knob, and if it's on my left, stick my left hand onto the doorknob. The code that decides which hand to choose just outputs a boolean, which means that the switch back and forth in my anim graph is instant and not blended at all, it's either ALL left, or ALL right. Is there a way to easily smooth/interpolate an instant change like that or do I need to output some sort of alpha instead and use that to blend between which hand reaches out for the door?

[deft prairie]

@paper cobalt thanks i found some tutorials and it looks now lot better, the hands are still littel bit fucked up but jeah

[paper cobalt]

Is there a way to preserve momentum after a montage is played? I have a roll animation that plays but it resets all momentum afterwards which makes it feel bad

[gloomy fable]

use a launch character to jank some momentum in there

you could have a variable that will also save the momentum from before the roll and then use that in the launch to make your momentum going into the roll actually matter

[paper cobalt]

how would you get the momentum

ive been trying

to make the variable

just kidding

wow im dumb

[tame thicket]

Hey guys, this must be a very stupid question, but I'm probably doing something wrong. Why can't I add a second animation?

[young shoal]

@tame thicket Where are you trying to add the animation from? to the right of that panel you should have an Asset Browser tab that shows all the animations available for that skeleton. This looks like (could be wrong) that you're trying to use an animation imprted using a different skeleton from the content browser itself.

Does anyone know anything about physical animations specifically if I can turn them off once applied. I'm trying to use it to add some impact so turn it on when they get hit, aply some force in the general area of the bone that was hit, then turn it off so they recover back to their animation

[tame thicket]

@young shoal This animation is from the shared folder where I add the animations to other positions.
I haven't encountered such a mistake yet. I can add only one animation of any kind. the second one I can't.

[young shoal]

were the animations all imported using the same skeleton?

[tame thicket]

Yes. Everything as usual.

[young shoal]

does the animation apear in the asset browser tab?

[tame thicket]

Yes. all without changes. I do the same with dozens of other sets of animations.
In this case, for some reason, it does not work.

it allows only one animation.

[young shoal]

maybe try recreating the blend space

[tame thicket]

@young shoal no. It did not help.(((

[tame thicket]

The problem has been solved. Found a solution on the Japanese site (probably, they are the only ones who solved it).
It was necessary to specify a mesh.
For an unknown reason, he blacked out.

[young shoal]

I'm glad you managed to figure it out

[misty dagger]

What are the best practices about seperate objects like jar and lid

Am I have to export them like seperate objects?

[vapid ibex]

any way to make my character's mesh not rotate with the root component?

[wide pulsar]

So I just noticed UE4 has this

Anyone here used it before?

Can't find any information about it on the web at all.

[static falcon]

Hey guys. I've never understood how to do things like Vaulting over a ledge... does anyone know how I can learn this? Any tutorials or examples?

How do you get the player into the right position, how do you define the ledge, etc

@wide pulsar (westworld voice) "that doesn't look like anything to me"

[wide pulsar]

xD

BTW, vaults overs can be done with a bit of math D_D

[static falcon]

but I hate math

[wide pulsar]

Have you seen the AdvancedLocomotionSystem v4 on the marketplace?

[static falcon]

I have... I tried to understand it but it's way too complex for my pea brain

I need a simpler system

[wide pulsar]

It has a mantling system, if you study it, you can make vault over with more or less same logic D_D

Well then you first test if you hit an edge D_D

You can do that by doing a capsule collision check.

Then you check if there's enough space for your character's height to pass through? If yes, you play a montage.

[static falcon]

how do you define where the montage plays?

gotta lerp your capsule to the right spot?

[wide pulsar]

You only play the montage after you've checked that you've hit a climbable ledge and that ledge has enough room veritcally on top of it to let the player pass.

So in that case, you don't need to lerp.

More or less, you'll be in the right spot when the montage plays D_D

[static falcon]

hmm

and how do you path the animation of the capsule?

Through montage too?

since normally the animations are in place and the capsule moves

sorry I meant sequencer

I wish the paragon assets weren't so simple

[zealous bone]

guys can we play an animation reversed if we need something like opening and closing ?

nvm

[supple lynx]

HI there, I'm using anim curve for a turnin place animation and it seems that the value is always 0 on the client that own the character ... I can see the turning animation from other character in the map ... anyone is familiar with those animations curves ? I tested multiple compression settings.

[craggy coral]

Does anyone here happen to know why the Control Rig examples parent most controls with space nodes in the Rig Hierarchy? The controls themselves have transforms, so it seems kind of redundant... but it's in the sample project even, so I guess there's a reason?

Can't think of one though..

[lunar lynx]

Would it be to 0 out the initial transforms on the Controls?

By any chance has anyone come across the issue whereby they are creating a ControlRig and the engine crashes each time a control is deleted from the hierarchy? I have been having this issue repeatedly now.

[honest phoenix]

I have a weapon swing animation where the start-up on the animation is too fast. Does anyone know how to slowdown only one section (the beginning) of an animation, while keeping the playrate the same for the rest?

[vapid ibex]

Any way I can make parent bones move to respect the angular limits for when setting a rotation target to a child bone?

For example a head -> spine scenario, so the spine moves up/down in pitch only if the head is past some threshold?

[random rune]

I like having my camera anchored to the mannequin's head. but I don't like the camera jostling about when I run. How might I fix this?

[honest phoenix]

Have you tried anchoring the camera to the capsule component instead?

[vapid ibex]

I have very high hopes for it, once it becomes more stable. Many of its nodes seem to have more functionality / options than ABP nodes so it's possible to do "more with less" rather than stacking a few ABP nodes to do a single thing. Did a quick test in it to recreate my realtime posable rig made in ABP, and got some nice results, I actually can't wait to be able to use CR at runtime
@steady ether I really love that mp4 you sent, is this an animation blueprint, or a physics simulation? If it's animation, what core approach/concept did you implement to get this result? It seems so flexible and handy

[steady ether]

It's control rig! @vapid ibex

[vapid ibex]

Thanks, I don't know what that is, but now i have something to google :D

[steady ether]

@vapid ibex it's a new realtime and in-engine rigging system, still in experimental I think. But it lets you rig characters like you would in an animation package like Maya

[vapid ibex]

Ah right, thanks!

[misty dagger]

Hi people! Can you helm me to understanding how I can divide my animation for open and close instances. I've it all in one animation. Thx.

1-60 frame:
0-30 - open,
30-60 close states..

I thinking it can be done by anim montage sequnces, but I can't understand how it works

[wooden valley]

my animation doesn't have the notifier track thing what do i do?

[misty dagger]

look to the windows property menu

Hi people! Can you helm me to understanding how I can divide my animation for open and close instances. I've it all in one animation. Thx.

1-60 frame:
0-30 - open,
30-60 close states..
@misty dagger help

[split crescent]

Quick question on Root Motion from Blender. Does the rig really have to be called "Root"? Can't it be called something relevant like "SK_PlayerCharacter_Skeleton" or something? What if the root bone of my rig is already called "root"?

[misty dagger]

omg

D:

[zealous bone]

guys what if i use that type of skeleton with blender's bone constraint modifications and animate the character, will ue4 accept it ? i dont think that ue4 going to create me problems but i anyway want to ask to you too guys

[split crescent]

@zealous bone The exporter should (theoretically) automatically bake the animation to the bones regardless of constraints/modifiers, and you can tell it to only export the "deform" bones. So it should be fine.
Doing a humanoid rig in Unreal though, it could be useful in the long run to make sure you're using the same bone names as they use in the default mannequin. That way you may have access to some additional functionality, having the same standards.

[dark axle]

How can I use blender for animation and graphics for charactors

Please dm or @ me with response

[bleak mural]

need help

so it says animation stack does not contain a valid key, try differant time options when import

and it also says this does not contain any valid information takes

[peak bane]

Hi guys can I use the retarget manager to retarget a mixamo skeleton to another mixamo skeleton? Or does it work only for retargeting things to UE4 skeleton?

[misty dagger]

Anybody works with Maya locators in Unreal Engine?

[craggy coral]

@lunar lynx I'm trying to use control rigs now as well, and they are buggy af. Updating a control rig does not update the controls in the level sequences, adding new instances to the level can delete sequences etc etc. Not a pleasant experience so far, I have not seen crashes like those though

[zealous bone]

Guys i need help. I imported a skeletal mesh and then assigned two meshes to that skeleton.First one assigned properly but at second one head bone a lil bit moved ahead. Why is that happened and how can i solve that

Thats first Mesh. This is correct

Thats second.Incorrect

[zealous bone]

NVM solved

Why does it imports more than one animation when i try to import an animation ?

why no one doesnt helps

[eager meadow]

Any animators looking for a project?

[random rune]

alright this might be the wrong place to post this but it's semi-related to animation, how would I change my camera angle via. blueprint? I have 2 animations, a run and a swim. the run animation works fine, but the swimming animation changes the location of the head. I can't anchor to the head, because then it'd wobble all over the place. any solutions?

[rare junco]

Hey everyone! Back with another question from my art team, didn't get a reply on the Maya discord so hoping for something here. We've been having an issue on Maya 2019 & 2020, where when trying to export frame ranges (5-337 of 2000 frames) Maya will just export all 2000 frames regardless of the selection. It was working fine a few days ago but we've been unable to find the culprit since then. Does anyone have any ideas on what have caused this or have any experience with similar issues? Any help would be appreciated!

[ancient coyote]

Need an animator who can animate ue4 mannequin especially unique Combat animset. Anyone Intrested can DM. Rigged UE4 Mannequin character will be provided.

[wooden valley]

Guys my rig is in different mesh parts and i want to export it what the hell do i do?

[severe gorge]

good morning, i need help, i made a curtain animation in max and exported in alembic, when importing in unreal i cannot control the mesh and when using translucent material for the curtain, even in dark areas the mesh is not dark , how to solve this problem?

[stable sinew]

#animation

@stable sinew #animation

/aniv

[blissful linden]

If i'm using the cloth paint tool for a part of my characters clothing, do I need to make sure the clothing isnt rigged?

[lunar lynx]

@craggy coral It's my first time using unreal for rigging but it seems that by disconnecting everything in my rig graph I was then able to delete the controls. Thankfully lol

Would anyone happen to know if there is a way to add a pole vector in controlrig to a fabrik leg for example?

[craggy coral]

@lunar lynx The two Bone IK node has a pole vector field, although it's not very well named

I'm pretty sure all FABRIK nodes do too

[latent condor]

Is there anyone here who could help me with a rigging problem? I'm trying to add some controls in Maya to a skeleton that has pretty messed up joint orientations, but if I change the joint orientations then it breaks 200+ existing animations

When I add ik controls to the legs the bend in weird directions, or don't bend at all. Similar issue with arms I think

[cursive cobalt]

hi guys, 3d modeler/texture artist here, but new to game development/animation/rigging/programming...my question is for a game i'm working on - i want to make character models without the inside of their mouth modeled in and no facial bones, then animate them with no facial expressions or open mouth animations...then fast forward in time a bit and i'd be able to finish the game that way by cutting this corner, then once i've collected some money i'd either come back when i have more energy and rig facial bones and add facial expressions to animations and add new animations OR hire someone to do this with the money the game makes....then add this stuff into the game as a update/patch - how feasible would this be?

[woven pendant]

I have a fpp character with camera attached to its head bone. The animations all are non root motion some are just played some are blendspaces. When I move my character to the right vector with -1 or 1 he rotates a bit hence creating a weird movement that sucks for UX. How can I remove this little rotation and just make him move in a certain direction without it?

[finite temple]

I need help with NPC actions. i'm trying to make a npc that attacks and i'm wondering if you guys had any recommendations for a tutorial?

if anyone has any recommendation's it'd be a huge help, trying to get this done by the end of next week so i can send it off to my player designer and environmental designer that are helping me out

[reef agate]

In control rig anyone ever seen this red square?

it's not a control in the outliner 100% certain

i can't click it

ahhhH! i was drawing limits on one of my ctrls and that was a visual of the limit

[karmic marsh]

hey guys, I have a question for you.
I'm trying to get an ABP running for the fins of a thruster as in the picture attached.
I'm not exactly sure how I could go for this

basically i would need a node or a bone setup that affects all of those fins with a look at or something

but im struggling thinking of a way, maybe someone has an idea for me

[robust urchin]

Hello, I'm having an issue with control rig and i've watched so many guides and yet i still cant find a way to fix it. So my end goal is to create animations inside UE4 since I can't really work with blender or other similar programs. And on every guide its always the same recipe: Go to plugis, activate Control Rig, Restart UE4, Click animation (shift +6) and then create a Control Rig Sequence. But after I click the animation button there's nothing in there and if I go on my workstation I can't create Crontrol Rig Sequences since that option isnt there. I'm on patch 4.25 Any idea how to fix this? 😦 Thank you in advance!

[lunar lynx]

@craggy coral i havent been able to find a pole vector for the fabrik node unfortunately. i had been hoping to use it to control movement of the knees. i found the fabrik was very effective but that it kindve makes the knees act weirdly

[craggy coral]

@lunar lynx Then I would probably go for the "two bone IK" node instead of the FABRIK node. It has one. They call it "Joint Target" in UE though 🙂

[latent condor]

Total rigging noob here, does anyone know why a skin would lose its vertex weighting all of a sudden?

I'm trying to rig a character and I just noticed that the mesh is acting like it has become unbound from the skeleton

[lunar lynx]

@craggy coral it was actually the 2 bone ik I went with first but it completely mucked the whole leg up. I found the fabrik worked perfect but had no control over the knee. It's frustrating at this point lol

[still obsidian]

How can I rotate bones in my skeletal mesh using an array of rotations?

[mint comet]

hey there im using root motion on a rolling ability but the capsule is not moving anyone know how to fix it

[robust spear]

Here is the second chapter of my animated series ¨The mannequin Talk Show¨ I hope you like it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaoA6lzY7dM

[weak bone]

@robust spear huh, looks good!

[delicate junco]

@mint comet Can you elaborate, where does your anim come from ?

[mint comet]

thanks for offering ur help but i fixed it 🙂

[delicate junco]

👍

[sage parrot]

I seem to have a problem with my skeleton, instead of my Tpose it takes the pose of the animation I have active in blender, (to fix this I tried to add a tpose animation with 1 frame, but then all animations have the tpose too)

I honestly don't even know how to explain it

[atomic steeple]

@sage parrot Do you have an animation blueprint connected to the mesh? If so, what does your anim-graph look like? Whatever animation is attached to output-pose is what you get

[wooden valley]

guys

my animation

is literally nothing

what do do

there's no mesh

@analog field help

somebody help

@analog field

my animation mesh is super small

wtf

[analog field]

stop tagging me please

[wooden valley]

ok sorry

but why is my animation mesh so small ?

i can scale up the thing in the viewport

and it shows up

but other than that what do i do

i need it to be big

[analog field]

import a bigger mesh to unreal

[wooden valley]

but this is for my animation

[analog field]

it only gets small when the animation is playing?

[wooden valley]

No like

the animation itself

in the viewport

when i click it

its like invisible

and when i put it in the world

and i scale it up

its there

but really small

like i can scale it up and see it

in the world

but

when i look in the actual animation itself

[analog field]

import a bigger mesh to unreal
@wooden valley then do this

[wooden valley]

it really small

hm

but will it work with the animation

[analog field]

all you'd have to do is scale up your mesh and import

[wooden valley]

ok ok

[analog field]

i dont see why it wouldnt work

just fix anything that may be broken when you scale

[wooden valley]

ok

but it looks smaller now

i don't want that

@analog field sorry for tagging, it looks smaller when i play the animation it changes in size

[analog field]

🤔

[wooden valley]

it looks a lot smaller

[analog field]

im not much of an animation expert

so i cant help you 🤷‍♂️

sorry

[wooden valley]

it looks like this without animation

and this

when animation is on

somebody help

there is an error when i import but yeah

[analog field]

i think that the animation itself is scaling down the mesh

so you'd have to fix that in the 3d animation software you used for the animation

[wooden valley]

this is an error that pops up

@analog field help pls

[analog field]

whats in your output log when you get this error

i think that the animation itself is scaling down the mesh
also this ☝️

[wooden valley]

how do i get to the output log?

[analog field]

window->developer tools->output log

[wooden valley]

ok

btw what does the error mean?

@analog field

[analog field]

the bone transforms are being imported with a different transform from the original

(which is what the error says)

[wooden valley]

So is there a way to fix it?

is there?

[analog field]

im not much of an animation expert idk how to fix lots of these issues

[wooden valley]

):

[wooden valley]

mannn

[wicked parcel]

Can I apply animations bought from the marketplace onto characters I own that are rigged in the project?

[mental badger]

Anyone use Uefy 2.0? I can't figure out how to import an animation

[robust spear]

@mint comet I used control rig and mixamo animations. Control rig is is still triky but it's still beta so it will be better.

[heavy needle]

Hey guys

a little new to rigging

when I try to bind the skin to the rip, I get "Skin is being bound to the FK rig " in maya

any hits?

[misty dagger]

How can I attach grip rig with item in correct way

[heavy needle]

you go where you attached it

and place it manually

where you want it to be

as you have to bind it

[bold cloak]

Hey I have some ideas for creating some animations that I want to sell on the marketplace, I don't have all the tools yet, but I have highly confident that I can do it, however I wanted to know some finer details, like how much should I price the animation pack, I'm planning to have a lot, but what is a good price, 100 dollars seems steep, but i see when someone has a lot of animations that are good quality they do it a lot, or is something more 60 dollars a better idea

wait this is a better question asked somewhere else ill post it also in marketplace

[vapid ibex]

How can I expose a variable on a control rig?

And later manipulate it from my game logic?

[misty dagger]

Hey guys, how can I achieve an effect like this with mouse transitioning between animations?

[paper cobalt]

i have a normal 2d blendspace with speed and direction which worked fine untill it randomly started making the charcters legs spasm when backing up. the direction is going very quickly from 180 to -180 and back again. is there a way to fix this?

[simple shuttle]

@misty dagger you can blend 2 animation lie face down and up and some aim offset

[half parrot]

Hi All, Please shed some light for the noob! Looking for some advise with regards to animations and whether I should do them in something like blender, or whether I should work with UE4 tools? Could someone give me an example of where you would use UE4 over something like blender?

To give a little context, my first model is a lightning tower for a tower defense. It's going to have build animations and particle effects

[fossil bear]

Hi. I was wondering can anyone point me in the right direction. I need to make few medical equipment animations. Giving injections, using various tools etc.
I have some animation knowledge in Maya, but i have never done any animation in UnrealEngine other than some cameras sequences.
What would be the best way to approach this?
Model, rig and animate in Maya then import to UE, or animate in Unreal? Or perhaps Arnold or Keyshot would be better to render this? Any help, advices, tutorials or articles regarding this would be highly appreciated.

[half parrot]

i guess my question is kind of the same in a way

but you wrote it better 🙂

[snow orchid]

Anyone use Uefy 2.0? I can't figure out how to import an animation
@mental badger As I posted on the forum this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-NPCh01DwE shows process to transfer animations.

[vapid ibex]

@steady ether You mentioned you can't wait to be able to use control rig at runtime, something that I was thinking of doing. So I gotta ask, is there anything preventing it from working at runtime?

[vapid ibex]

Is it that you can't edit the control rig controls at runtime through gameplay code?

[nocturne ocean]

Does anyone know what this Maya window is?

[mental badger]

yes

[lunar lynx]

would anyone happen to know what would cause the skin to detach itself from the skeleton when ive created a basic ik using control rig? the leg joints themselves are fine but the mesh has completely moved away from it. the ik functions correctly

[hushed stratus]

if you know the answer please help, Thanks in advance

( i am newbe to unreal engine ) ( I just started to learn it )

so, the problem is i import mesh and animations from mixamo and every thing is work fine with basic movement animation except it's not stooping animating when i release the key.

for Example

=> When i press w key it's moving forward and play running animation.

=> but when i stop pressing w key it's still play Running animation and would stop until plays whole animation.

==========

if anyone know solution ( OR )
Need more details let me know

Thanks in advance again.

got a solution.

[woven pendant]

My animation rotates a bit to the left and right when I move my character in these directions how can I make it not rotate?

[steady ether]

@vapid ibex I think until 4.26 it doesn't even package, according to some tests of a friend

Also you yeah can't input any external variables reliably

Seems like if you wanna control any control rig parameters, on an engine restart you have to link them all up again since they unplug themselves lol

[fickle citrus]

Hi everyone, I'm having problems calculating the direction of the character. Going backward never reaches -180 or 180.

https://gyazo.com/37b181b68319b6fa8385c922f71dcf51

[hard relic]

Would anyone with Blender animation experience be able to help me with an issue i'm having? I have imported a baseball bat two times with two different animations, and want to be able to play each animation on each bat. Basically I don't want to have to import one model with all the animations from blender because if I want to add more animations right now it seems like I would need to reimport the model with all the animations again, if that makes sense.

[fickle citrus]

This is the script:

[vapid ibex]

@steady ether thanks for the input! I couldn't even find where I can plug in parameters, I ended up adding virtual bones to feed transforms through them instead, is there any special button I might be missing, do you think?

[misty dagger]

@hard relic you can parent multiple meshes to the same armature and export them separately, they will be separate Skeletal Mesh assets sharing the same skeleton asset

[steady ether]

@vapid ibex Errrrm hmm, I can't remember the exact workflow, but it's something like you add the CR node into the Anim Blueprint and then should be able to expose the params you've got in the Control Rig

[vapid ibex]

Alright, thanks!

[steady ether]

No probs!

[sudden sedge]

@misty dagger just looks like a complicated blendspace

[open grail]

I have seen many users using virtual bones for ik and the place them in the desired position for the requirement (ALS has them for legs).

How does one do that cuz it keeps getting reset to local origin for me.

[dry glen]

first time exporting animation the tracks dont spin they just move

but they move correctly right here

[brazen canopy]

I'm using Control Rig for my character. I've set offsets and rotated specific bones. While editing rig everything runs good, but after reopening the project it doesn't works until I manually press the Compile button in Control Rig window. Otherwise the rotation and translation that was made in CR doesn't works. Does anyone had this problem? Any tips about fixing it? Thanks

[ripe yew]

I'm trying to retarget mixiamo animation. THis what happens.

https://gyazo.com/e0ffc562cb41c195158a65f8ced88bca

[fringe moss]

you can clearly see i only have 2 animations and the vehicle turns with the character (character leans sideways and the vehicle turns as well), but when i import into ue4, there are 3 animations that dont even have the proper names and the ghost doesnt turn.

[misty dagger]

hey guys, question on what "type" of animation this would be?
https://youtu.be/Ve8scxL6ySA?t=342 a lunge attack?
I'm looking at learning some animation but wasn't sure if there was a particular method I need to look at for the above?

[magic geyser]

Anyone use blender....

Why am I getting so many duplicates?

I also havent figured out how to remove action stashes so there's two extra there but they have no actions in them

[magic geyser]

Ah - apparantly in my export settings I was exporting NLA tracks and Actions both...god sometimes I hate blender

[magic geyser]

@misty dagger The first attack there? I would call it an overhead in most games.

[misty dagger]

Does anyone know how animation curves work when multiple animations edit them.

I am currently learning how the Advanced Locomotion pack works but I dont understand what happens when it blends multiple animations editing the same curve

[dry flame]

Hey can anyone point me to a Control Rig example with the hands rigged? I'm working on figuring it out myself, but if I can cut short the workflow, all the better.

[sharp linden]

Anyone knows how a similar cloth configuration can be done in UE4? In render the character seems to mostly keep its original shape, but still move along with it.
I am struggling to find any decent material that explains cloth sim in Unreal properly. Most of them are just for regular capes and nothing really serious. And over here it even has a few layers (chain armor on top is a cloth as well)
https://gyazo.com/22302fc921cbfdac196cb297110ae4c6

[robust spear]

@ripe yew try set the twist bones to none

[heavy needle]

@wicked parcel yes and the process is called "retargeting". there are resources online.

[wicked parcel]

@heavy needle thanks, I don't know any terminology so I apologize if that was something everyone should know.

[heavy needle]

@wicked parcel no problem, thats the server is for. you can tag if you have more questions.

[ripe yew]

@robust spear Thanks

[crisp bluff]

@ripe yew follow this method to fix : https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/RetargetingDifferentSkeletons/index.html#retargetingadjustments****

[ripe yew]

I just found the fix. Thanks anyway

[wicked parcel]

thanks again!

[brazen canopy]

Did someone managed to fix Propagate to Children bug in control rig?

Control Rig should be manually recompiled on each launch, otherwise this parameter doesn't works (when enabled)

[misty dagger]

I am trying to use unreal engine maya live link but when I trying this hand scales are corrupted like this

[vernal estuary]

Hi it is possible to animate something whithout rig (bone) whith blender and exporte animation to UE4?

[brazen wharf]

idk how people even work with controlrigs, i have to detach some nodes and reconnect them after each engine launch to make it work again

and their inputs get messed up, too. so i've given up

[bronze osprey]

yea feeding data in CR can only be done with floats, not transforms

or u have to redo em everytime

workaround... turn ur transform into 9 floats

so instead of puttin 4 transfroms in ur rig for arms and legs, u feed 36 floats in 😄

gg

[topaz portal]

how many bones do typical AAA game characters have these days?

[bronze osprey]

about the same as paragon characters i guess

[brazen wharf]

does anyone have the editor open and can check if ShowDebug ANIMATION in the console (TAB) does anything for them?

OR does anyone know how to get the current playing montage name? "get current montage" node returns something like AnimMontage_123 but i would like to know which animation it actually is

[magic geyser]

In UE4, my imported animation has a weird effect where the feet are stretching out along the y axis (not moving, stretching). In blender, my animation does not do this. Any idea what would cause this? Confused bone hierarchy?

[peak bane]

Hi, is it possible to retarget animations/skeletons from a mixamo character to another mixamo character? Or does the built in retargeting only work for UE4 skeletons?

[blissful linden]

when doing IK setups is the IK foot bone supposed to be parented to the FK Foot Bone?

atm my ik bones are not following any animation and as a result my character's feet are fixed in position when running

[urban skiff]

Hey everyone, My attack system has 8 animations based on position, the parameter is just "x attack = true" to play and != to go back to idle, My question is how can I play an attack animation in it's entirety before allowing the next to play? because right now the attacks can be interrupted and spammed and I don't want that
Is there a way to take in 7 bools and say != in the transition?

[open grail]

Hi, is it possible to retarget animations/skeletons from a mixamo character to another mixamo character? Or does the built in retargeting only work for UE4 skeletons? it is possible you can just use a common skeleton on import. othetwise you will need a profile similar to the humanoid rig thing but it is possible
@peak bane

[limber osprey]

Hey everyone, My attack system has 8 animations based on position, the parameter is just "x attack = true" to play and != to go back to idle, My question is how can I play an attack animation in it's entirety before allowing the next to play? because right now the attacks can be interrupted and spammed and I don't want that
Is there a way to take in 7 bools and say != in the transition?
@urban skiff You could do something like what is done in the third person controller jump exit for every return to idle.

[urban skiff]

@limber osprey Thank you I didn't know I could find the time remaining, it works perfectly I really appreciate the help 🙂

[open grail]

hey guys is it possible to apply ik to a characters hands in sucha way that the animation keeps playing relative to the target position? like say i adjusted the left hand and it play the reload animation relative to the position without getting locked in place?

[median light]

what would be considered the equivalent of unity animator in unreal?

[reef agate]

anyone dealing with really weird shite w Control Rig in the level sequencer? When I move around w WASD, sometimes my Control Rig just rotates or contorts for no dang reason

[delicate junco]

@urban skiff If you want to preserve fast path you can do that with a notify on your animation using a boolean

@magic geyser Your NLA tracks had the lock enabled so you weren't able to delete them. But yeah just put everything you want to NLA strips and just choose NLA tracks in the options, that's the best way to do it imo.
The Blender to Unreal plugin does that too

[ornate sluice]

is there a way to take 2 animations that aren't align exactly and interpolate the alignment in a montage?
I got fall back animation and get up animation but the legs and the hands aren't exactly in the same spot when the 2 switch, is there a way to fix it in the engine?

calling them as 2 montages kinda work but I rather have only 1 montage for this animation sequence

[swift heath]

Not entirely sure this is the right place to ask, but here we go:
How do animations really work in UE4? If I have an anim imported from an fbx, how fast will it be, and is there any way to set that? I know you can set the rate scale, but what is the default scale of 1 supposed to mean in terms of time? Or is the animation instead dependent on the frame rate? For instance, if I have a 10 frame animation and run at 30 fps, it will run tree times a second, but if I have 60 fps, it will run 6 times per second?

[ornate sluice]

not sure but it just take the exported time, tho u can change it in the import settings

[swift heath]

If I understand correctly, exported time refers to the number of frames in the animation, not how long it is in terms of actual time (seconds).

Basically I just want to know if a higher framerate means animations finishing quicker.

[cerulean ridge]

is there a way to make a 3D Blendspace?

[misty dagger]

How can I export multiple mesh parts with animation from Maya
My model have lit and body parts, they are both mesh. I rigged it but when I am trying to import into unreal animation is not coming

[vernal estuary]

Restore Package when UE4 crashed never work right?

[uneven wigeon]

I have a question about animation bp and anim states. Is it possible for an anim state to have multiple animations and pick based on some condition within the state or transition rule? Or does each animation HAS to be in separate state?

[split void]

@uneven wigeon you'd want to use a Blend Poses By Bool node.

Or a Blend Poses By Int node. (In your state)

[uneven wigeon]

but how would that work?

[split void]

That way you can use variables to control which animation will be outputted.

You can use a variable in the Actor's BP (or its AnimBP) to track the Actor's state.

[uneven wigeon]

hmm alright ill try that thanks

[split void]

So there's also "sub states" @uneven wigeon . You can have a substate machine with its own entry point, states, and transitions.

If those nodes I mentioned don't work, then consider making a substate machine.

[uneven wigeon]

how do i make one?

[split void]

Same way you made the first state machine, you just add it inside the state you want those different animations to play. It will have a Pose pin on its right, and you can feed that into the first state node's "output" node.

And when it's created, you can open it by double clicking on it.

[uneven wigeon]

you mean animgraph?

no

like that ?

[split void]

Close. Go inside the Default state machine.

Then go inside the state you intend to house multiple animations.

In there, add the New State Machine. :D

[uneven wigeon]

ooooo

interesting

pretty cool, ty @split void

[split void]

you're welcome

[uneven wigeon]

ill be trying blend by enum, looks the easiest but then idk what to do with transition rule

[fair lance]

Trying to see if this is the right channel for my curiosity: I want to animate my UIs a little by making it so that when certain buttons are in focus, they scale in a cycle (ie get bigger and smaller) as well as alternate between 2 cover images.

[uneven wigeon]

@fair lance #umg is probably better room

[fair lance]

k

[karmic marsh]

hey guys, i'm trying to set up a spline IK in ABP to animate some cables like a pod racer has

in the pic you see that somehow the spline doesnt mvoe where i want it

the debug spheres are both getting the same value (white gets the socket TRA from the pod - this value gets send to the ABP into the last control point of the spline IK - the purple sphere is the same, just after it was passed to the ABP, to check for any changes/errors)

this is the abp graph

the float im passing in is some offset im using for slight movement variance, also tried without it

any help greatly appreciated!

[upper ruin]

Guys I'm looking for chopping a tree / mining a rock animations

does anyone know where I can find some

[timber star]

hello,
i m using ue blender tool and having issues with ue2rigify
bones rotates in bad direction anyone already solved that?
i tried to set direction inside meta rig to x manual wihout espected effect

[simple shuttle]

try move pole control

[timber star]

@simple shuttle that s not the solution

[simple shuttle]

@timber star i dont really know how blender calculate ik pole, sometime is just adjust the pole

[timber star]

i m using ue ti rigiffy addon and think that an add on problem

but can t solve it

@simple shuttle

in rig that stuff must be auto i tried to make rotation in x manual but doesn t solved the problem

[stark needle]

Can I bring in non-rigged fbx animations without having to use datasmith asset or sequencer?

also, not talking about vertex or PLA, specifically referring to PSR style animation

[ornate sluice]

Anyone know why my sockets add -90d on the X at runtime?...
if socket X rotation is at 0 it add -90
if -90 it add -90
if 90 it add 90

[river briar]

does anyone know why my attack animation is playing 90 degrees when its part of my anim graph?

its totally fine otherwise, even dragged into the level its upright

on the left its part of an anim bp, right its just attacked to the skeletalmeshactor

I'm mostly copying the default mannequins animgraph. not sure whats going on. Its not just the attack animation, any animation I place here gets rotated

[stark needle]

dunno, but, go to your animation that's causing this

[river briar]

made a quick video showing the setup

[stark needle]

then pause the animation, make sure you're at the beginning of the animation

[river briar]

i show the animation at the end, its upright, not sure why it rototes. If i add the same walking animation instead of the attack animation it rotates too

[stark needle]

so all animations are doing it?

[river briar]

yeah, its something to do with the graph I have to assume

[stark needle]

oh i see from your video

hmm

go to the blueprint that sets the is attacking boolean

my guess is it's happening there

as it isn't the animation

[river briar]

nothing is setting it currently, I'm going to set it later in code

its just using it to test the animations right now

[stark needle]

then how are you telling your state machine that you're attacking?

oh

duh

[river briar]

you can see in the video, im just changing the temp value

[stark needle]

wasn't paying attention for a moment there XD

[river briar]

nwnw

[stark needle]

is this an animation montage or sequence?

[river briar]

its super weird. If i use the attack as part of a blend it works fine

its a sequence

its this

[stark needle]

hmm

changne the root motion mode

in your state machine

not sure if that's causing it but

i don't really see anything that is wrong

[river briar]

where do i change the root motion mdoe in the state machine?

if i change it in the animation sequence its lies down

so maybe thats it

[stark needle]

well,you can check that just under your temp variabl thing

from the video you sent

[river briar]

oh that fixed it

tyvm

[stark needle]

my guess is your using root motion animations instead of in place animations

and root motion animations have their own quirks about them

[river briar]

hmm, i'll have a google

but it works now ty

[stark needle]

cheers ^_^

[river briar]

middle two work

[stark needle]

i'd recommend ignore root motion

[river briar]

ok, thanks

excited to have this horrifying creature in the game

[stark needle]

😛

custom asset?

or original asset rather?

[river briar]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/fat-mutant nah, im using him as a placeholder while I wait for my custom asset

dunno if linking assets is allowed on this discord

[stark needle]

#fab it's ok 😉

and pretty cool, definitely ping me with an update when you get your original asset going ^_^

[stark needle]

Can I bring in non-rigged fbx animations without having to use datasmith asset or sequencer? also, not talking about vertex or PLA, specifically referring to PSR style animation

[sand crag]

I'm trying to create a playable character that only moves his upper torso vertically and horizontally while the legs remain still until it hits a certain degree which then moves the legs. Anybody have any knowledge about that?

[crimson dirge]

@sand crag part of this post may be what ur looking for:
https://karllewisdesign.com/unreal-immersive-fps-part1/

Does anyone know how people make it look like the player is throwing something and then the object is actually thrown?

[sand crag]

I’ve seen that before. Definitely confused me the first time around. I’ll try again. Thank you @crimson dirge

[crimson dirge]

Oh, I know what u mean @sand crag , he kinda skips around and doesn't explain stuff

I'm using his stuff for my fps game tho

He has a good deadlock tutorial

[cloud lodge]

@crimson dirge that is called Turn In Place

[crimson dirge]

Ooh, the tutorial on deadlock aim rotation?

Or at least I thought

I actually didn't know that this existed before I started playing Valorant

[cloud lodge]

normally you keep the root bone fixed till X yaw ie -60 +60, then you trigger turn animations(which are in place), and rotate the root around

[crimson dirge]

I'm sorry for my ignorance, but I have not yet learned about Hand IK

[cloud lodge]

its not hand ik tho

you was on about keeping th legs still right

[crimson dirge]

Oish, I mean anim and bone stuff in general :(((

[cloud lodge]

ah shit

wrong ping

sorry 😄

[crimson dirge]

Oh okay

[cloud lodge]

but for throwing a grenade

i do it with a montage

[crimson dirge]

Ye, I started to get confused 😂

anyway, do you know anything about this deadlock aim rotation?

[cloud lodge]

you attach it to the hand, play wind up, then loop the holding, then trigger thr throwing

deadlock aim rotation?

like gimbal lock?

[crimson dirge]

Oh, oops, forgot I had a question 😬 my bad!

I mean the delay sway type movement

Or my bad, the second part

This one

https://mltr8n38rugc.i.optimole.com/w:auto/h:auto/q:auto/https://karllewisdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Result-deadzone-tilt.gif

It's the tilty movement

@cloud lodge sorry for the ping, but please continue w the grenade throwing system, I'm very interested :)))

[cloud lodge]

like i said its normally just a montage for the grenade

and you split it into sections

windup, hold, toss

where hold just loops the holding pose

some people put the hold in animbp to do additional stuff if needed

but you should always play a montage for gameplay things like throwing grenade, reloading weapons, etc

[crimson dirge]

How do they make it seem like the grenade is in hand and then thrown at a certain point tho?

It's like an illusion

[cloud lodge]

spawn the grenade in the hand attached?

[crimson dirge]

Like in valorant, when using a character you throw a little discus thing which acts as a cyber cage

The discus is in hand during most of the animatiuon

However at a certain point, the discus gets flung

[cloud lodge]

yeah ofc

its already pre-spawned

[crimson dirge]

Oh, so is the animation basically just the throwing and the grenade is spawned to a socket?

[cloud lodge]

or a dummy is spawned locally

and when thrown server spawns a proper one

[crimson dirge]

And then given some force to make it seem to fly out of hand?

[cloud lodge]

depends what you are going for

i use projectile movement component

for mostly all projectiles

just give it a velocity and off it goes

[crimson dirge]

Like this:
https://media.giphy.com/media/icPRnevTPCk5Zx4WrF/giphy.gif

[cloud lodge]

like grenades, when you aim it, i calculate a projectile path, then send this to the projectile movement component

[crimson dirge]

The little discus is in the hand and then he throws it

[cloud lodge]

yeah thats a projectile

[crimson dirge]

Ohh okay ic

And is the initial discus part of the animation?

[cloud lodge]

could well be

[crimson dirge]

Ohhhh

[cloud lodge]

more than likely is

[crimson dirge]

Okay I get it now

Thank you so much!

[cloud lodge]

the animation is probably synched to make sure the disc sits properly

i have done lots of synching of animations (for things like executes, etc)

and they are really fun to do 😄

[crimson dirge]

Ooh syncing?

never heard of it

This deadlock aim rotation stuff too is a little weird

Shouldn't be too hard once I get the hang of it

[sand crag]

@crimson dirge Found this

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/AnimHowTo/AimOffset/index.html

Take a look

[crimson dirge]

Oh yeah, I did that, only problem is I couldn't get the hand IK to work 😬

Since I don't have a clue about how hand IK works overall, I tried following a tutorial but it didn't cover the most important aspects

Thanks for that though @sand crag :)))

[sand crag]

No problem. Seems pretty detailed

This is exactly what I was looking for.

[crimson dirge]

Oh wow, the deadzone is much easier than i thought! :)))

[sand crag]

Right

[misty dagger]

Hey guys, how can I retrigger an animation in a state machine/event graph by pressing a button again, like for example doing a double jump

[ancient badger]

this has been bothering me for a while now but, where I'm suppposed to "paste" the "cuts" and "copies" of transition rules? Is this a bug or an unfinished feature?

[jaunty cosmos]

guys, after importing a skeletal mesh from Send2Unreal, the mesh is the correct size, but then when using it with an animation, it goes to a huge scale, 100x bigger i think. Any idea why this is happening only when an animation is active?

[meager mica]

Anyone got any ideas how I could animate braids? If there is any dynamic system or physics I can apply to them.
I have this simple looking character that has braids, but unsure how to proceed with them.

I will animate rest of animations like idle/walk/run in 3dsMax

Just unsure of braids : I So far I've added an HI solver from braid tip to root but unsure if that will be good?

[worldly ibex]

Hello! I'd like to add new poses for the hand in the default SteamVR assets for the Valve Index. I know very very little about animation in UE4, those seem to be animation sequence (which I guess are only one frame long?) that are being blended between. I can't seem to directly transform the bone since they snap back into place when I reopen it. I'm not sure which way I'm supposed to modify it to match the rest of the assets, any idea? https://puu.sh/GpdvS/3930bda381.png

I don't think any of the other animation sequences have keys or anything, just a default pose sort of thing

I've seen example of people using the record button, but I end up with longer animation and I'm forced to save it to a new place (and it just doesn't sound like a good workflow)

[misty dagger]

@meager mica I think you can use cloth physics on the braids and it'll be fine

[dense jungle]

Hi all. Has anyone experienced stuttering issues with the animation marketplace starter pack? I've tried in 4.23 and 4.25 and it's the same in both - if you run anything other than single player, the left, right and backwards animations stutter (I realise that crouch needs replicating, but this is just on movement). If anyone knows of a fix or a workaround, I'd really appreciate some info - searched google and can see no solutions

[meager mica]

Cloth physics in UE4? @misty dagger

[misty dagger]

@meager mica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK580JmywZQ&t=909s

Same principle

As this video

Except instead of doing it with a cape

You fixate the braids further down

And use just like the end half

To simulate the cloth physics

[bronze osprey]

prolly just do rigid body or animdynamics

[hybrid parcel]

Hi all. I am new to UnrealEngine so trying to understand this. Let's say I have got a model (human) imported into Unreal (mesh, skeletal mesh, physics) And I have idle , run animation setup. If I want to buy animations from market place, do I have to retarget them if those anims are targeted to mannequin? I am really newbie in this. Is there a good source for rookies like me to start with animation intake (definitely not creation)

[crimson dirge]

Hello @hybrid parcel, please give me a quick dm and I’ll send you some resources 🙂

I was stuck with this a while back too

Another thing is that you can’t retarget any animation to any skeleton

You would have to use the mannequin rig if you want to use mannequin anims

You can try out the art v1 plugin