animation

[keen minnow]

im jk

but it is funny

RAY do you know ANYTHING ABOUT TAKE RECORDER?????

[clever hollow]

negative sir

[keen minnow]

lool

[clever hollow]

im trying to learn this shit too bro

it's a hard life

[keen minnow]

no problm man

i get it

it is very hard

when i finally finish this video.............. i will be so happy

did you ever think it woudl take this long to learn bc i totally

did not

[clever hollow]

i did

but my work is making me do it

so if they keep paying me i'll keep learning it i guess

it's awful

[keen minnow]

lucky

i am doing this on my own

so it is absolute pain and hell

[clever hollow]

rip

[keen minnow]

took a very big chance on it

[clever hollow]

wut r u trying to do

[keen minnow]

Now I am dying.

L

[clever hollow]

r u trying to get a jerb

[keen minnow]

not exactly

I am trying to make a channel for tutorials and shortfilms

but also a lot of stuff at the same time tbh

[clever hollow]

let's private chat cuz ppl snooping and will get us banned for spamming in the animation channel

[keen minnow]

I have a few plugins and content packs I want to sell on marketplace too, and a service for virtuasl production

TRUE

[clever hollow]

ya if u jump to my live stream i can load a shot up

[keen minnow]

I think you did the same thing i just did and went to this chat instead of dm

[clever hollow]

sry i had to answer some linkedin msg

so if u join my stream u will see the shot im working on

[nimble sonnet]

oh no, what did epic do to retargeting....

anyone have a good resource for these changes? what I'm finding cannot possibly be for ue5 final

[keen minnow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Or8yQ_QecQ

[dense gyro]

@potent thunder when i perform that animation it stuck on reference pose unless i increase it z axis it legs get bit bend as well

[keen minnow]

I used this and it helped me

[wanton vapor]

trying to retarget the anim starter pack onto the 3rd person mannequin in ue5. anyone have experience with this? I seem to have gotten this far but some parts of the mannequin don't seem to be right - e.g it's shifted the whole position up

it's like the pelvis is fixed in place or something?

[ripe bay]

Did you try making the pelvis the root when you retargeted?

[wanton vapor]

i'm guessing this is what you're talking about? how would I do that? (i am not an animator so i'm very new to this)

don't worry I just found it! thank you!

also trying to create an aim offset following this tutorial:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/AnimHowTo/AimOffset/

for whatever reason when i delete the frames, there's still one left over where it'll reset itself back to the forward position (aim_centre), so i don't have a clean frame that I can use for the blend space. from the inspector it looks like there's one frame but two keys - i'm wondering how i can access and delete that second key, since i think that's the issue.

[sharp grail]

Does anyone have any experience with creating looped garment animations in Marvelous Designer/CLO3D to UE5?

[sharp river]

hello. How can I get this time? I need it for transition rule

[ruby ridge]

has anyone ever found a way to change the playrate of an animation (faster/slower) without the animation restarting from the begining?

[empty pulsar]

how much would it cost to higher someone to make animations for a character I have rigged on ue skeleton or would it be easier to buy the animations as a pack

[ruby ridge]

Hiring someone to do animation is expensive

unless if it's a short clip

[empty pulsar]

its animations for one of the npc's in a game

[ruby ridge]

You can probably download animation from the market place and use retarget manager in the engine to put it onto your character

I use maya to do that stuff but I think that you can do it in engine too

[empty pulsar]

wouldnt animations made in engine be a bit better at least from a game creation prospective

[ruby ridge]

it doesn't really matter to me

either one is fine

[empty pulsar]

so it doesnt actually matter?

[ruby ridge]

whether the animation is done in engine or done outside of unreal? I don't think it matters much

[ashen junco]

I think it depends.

Personally I done both in Blender and in UE with Control Rig. The former is mainly for making anims for games, the latter for making anims for machinima.

[empty pulsar]

i see i think that would make sense yeah

[sharp river]

u can do it with animation notify

[knotty current]

this is for pose watch manager

[carmine wraith]

Hello, does anybody know how I can make the character look at my mouse cursor ?

[ruby ridge]

Do you know which kind of notify to use?

[ruby ridge]

Maybe an aim offset

[carmine wraith]

good idea

[knotty current]

you can use control rig

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

[ashen junco]

Control Rig will do just fine

[carmine wraith]

its not just that the issue the problem is getting the mouse values and converting

thats the thing I failed

[ruby ridge]

You need to do some kind of screen space projection.

Or plug the x and z values of the cursor into the aim nodes transform

[carmine wraith]

did it without control rig

rotating one value of parent and looking at the child location

maybe someone would need it

[naive mountain]

i retargeted and my animations are now all in slow motion...is this common?

gravity too

[vernal haven]

Hello, what is the best way of checking if a character want's to move, while he is playing a root motion animation?
(root motion animation blocks normal character movement)
The character moves with the help of MoveTo(...) (Ai Controller) and AddMovementInput(...) (Player Controller) functions
Is there a function with this behaviour Character->GetController->WantsToMove ?

[naive mountain]

idk what you mean but i have Antimation Notifies which toggle root animation ON and OFF. so only specific animations utilize root anim

[vernal haven]

While a root motion animation is playing the functions AiController:MoveTo(...) and PlayerController:AddMovementInput(...) have no effect (root motion blocks normal movement)
I need to check if those functions are being called (if the player wants to move normaly)

This check is need so that i can cancel the gameplay ability that is playing the root motion animation
The animation in question is 90/180 degree turn in place, that is replicated with the help of the gameplay ablity system

[naive mountain]

unfort. the ai:move to function has severe limitations. i would probably change goal posts and look into a workaround involving some extra code

[heavy kayak]

Hey guys do anyone know if its possible to save moving images (gifs) into a pdf file while showing the moving frames in pdf ?

[naive shadow]

I have 2 animations, one is an idle animation and another an animation that plays when idling for for a while, the idle action animation only animates one part of the mesh but when playing it overwrites the idle animation and makes the rest of the model T-Pose

How do I make the Idle Action animation play and only overwrite the bones its transforming rather than making the rest of the model T-Pose

[olive willow]

Hey peeps, sorry to bother you. I have this happening in Unreal and Maya after downloading an Animation from Mixamo. I have no Idea what the problem is or how to fix it :/ Just trying to mess around in my free time, but already stuck on the first step. Kinda frustrating 😄

[nimble sonnet]

OK I understand UE5 retargeting now and Epic did not screw this up, this is amazing --- 100x better than retargeting in UE4 😄

[keen minnow]

^^

Agreed

Hey does anyone know why my dynamic animated material isn’t being captured by Take Recorder? I have a drone and when I record the gameplay, the thrusters/animated material do not show in the recorded sequence

[ruby ridge]

How does it work now? Is it still using the retarget manager or is through control rig?

[ruby ridge]

It looks like either your missing bones, or your spine bones are at the origin

[nimble sonnet]

it uses IK Rigs- the biggest benefit ive seen so far is that you can actually preview all of the animations you are looking to retarget in one view alongside the original animations, which makes it really easy to get all the mappings right and to get a good result in the first pass. It does take more work, because you have to set up bone chains yourself- apparently Epic is looking to make that workflow smoother. This video covers it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Or8yQ_QecQ

[pastel onyx]

how should I plug the anim offset to completely override specific bones?

[olive willow]

I know how to make a custom rig in maya, so I'll try that. Import and see how it goes

[silent iris]

how would you go about retargeting mixamo root motion animation to the ue4 mannequin in ue5?

[low pebble]

I'm trying to recreate a character controller from a game to learn UE, and I'm having a hard time understanding the root motion setup. The root bone doesn't move, but there's a "ref" bone that does move and is supposed to act as the root, is there any way to get root motion to use that bone?

Not sure if this is the right channel

[past hatch]

Anyone have some good resources on control rig

[spring karma]

Can anyone inform me on how animation blueprints are in comparison to the Animator component on Unity? I'm coming from Unity and never did animation blueprints on Unreal, so I'm a bit confused on how to connect animation to components.

[vast trellis]

Thanks

[hazy inlet]

i dont even know what this is

[ashen junco]

I don't use Unity for 6+ years, but basically animation BP is where you make animation logics for skeletal meshes, from event graph (which is almost the same as UObject BP), anim graph, to state machines. AnimBP is per skeleton, so if the skeletal mesh doesn't use the same skeleton, it'll not get executed.

[spring karma]

I see, so the animation BP is more skeletal focused, to animate characters etc (or any mesh with rigging), correct? Then how can I animate simple actors? Like doors opening and simple things?

[ashen junco]

If you want to animate static meshes, you can either use Level Sequence (especially if it's for cutscenes) assets, or use Timeline node in your Actor BP to interp from one transform to another.

[sharp river]

you need to create your own notify. You can use set time dilation and notify state. Notify begin will be - mesh-->get owner->set custom time dilation

it's not play rate but you also can control animation speed with it

[steep dirge]

Hey I'm trying to render my animation (it looks correct in the preview) but when I render it the metahuman's arms go back to the default stance

Not sure why the metahuman's pose is getting reset in rendertime

First time posting here so lmk if this is the wrong channel for help or something

[red ferry]

I've got a character model, I'd like to rig it with the default ue5 skeleton so all the animations, control rig, full body ik will work.
When do I start? export the skeleton from UE.. and fix the vertex painting?

[vast trellis]

You could try autoweighting, then fix, or try transferring weights from the bare metahuman/Lyra character and then fix

[red ferry]

is it ok to load the ue5 skeleton rig, and move some of the bones to match the new mesh exactly - like fingers... or do i have to fix the mesh?

[vast trellis]

Before weight transfer I think you need to rotate and bone scale the metahuman bones to match your proportions as much as possible

[red ferry]

So in this case, it's ok to move the bones to match the superman's A pose exactly?

[merry loom]

i have no idea how well it is going to work but before you spend time lining up everything it is probably better to Do a quick and rough skinning and export it to unreal again to check that the skeleton still matches the standard one.

[red ferry]

yeah, the bones seem to be in the wrong orientation in blender

[ashen junco]

This is actually the "intended behaviour"

[merry loom]

It is probably fine. But i am more concerned with scale/extra bones being added.

[cunning locust]

does someone know why my anim montages always loop and dont stop? in one project it loops in another not

[candid knot]

Does Unreal Slackers hold any animation jams or the like?

[misty dagger]

hi, im trying to retarget a skeleton to the standard mannequin skeleton but most of the models ive downloaded are from sketchfab and their sekeletons are broken, any idea how i can fix this so i can retarget the model and use them?

[vast trellis]

I'm trying the new IK retargeting node and Lyra ue4 ik retarget asset to move from ue4 mannequin to the new ue5 one, hands don't match up for holding objects, anything special to fix that? I'm attaching to the ue4 mannequin skeleton currently so the item ends up floating with the ue5 one:

[ashen junco]

No.

[elfin vine]

Open "RTG_UE5Manny_UR4Manny". In the Chain Mapping panel in the bottom right, you'll see a list of chains. Click on "LeftArm" in that list to get options in the details panel. "Blend to Source" is currently set to 0, but it should be 1.

This will tell your Left and Right hands to follow exactly the animation graph rather than trying to match the general pose.

[vast trellis]

thx! somehow I just stumbled on that I don't know how but I had arm accidentally selected initially and then was confused when I had ik hand and nothing changed

[vast trellis]

should we do the same for feet or will they stick pretty well regardless?

[midnight perch]

Anyone one know much more about what the the animation post-process blueprint for manny in Unreal Engine 5 does? Or what the benefit of it does? At the same time, does anyone know much about the "Procedural Control Rig" that's inside the manny blueprint. I've been getting pretty familiar with control rig but I don't know what these two animations do exactly and I would like to figure out where I could read more about it

[clever latch]

Right.. now for todays very dumb question.. How did i make Play Animation in BP Work again? There was one-step in animBP to do to make it work that i cant remb

[ashen junco]

Post process anim BP is basically another anim instance in per skeletal mesh, that runs after the main anim instance. Usually it's for something like twist bone rotations, anim dynamics, wrinkles/muscle morph targets, and whatnot.

[midnight perch]

cool, yeah that's what I figured. I set up a control rig for a custom character and it seems to be working alright. It's not bending or moving as well as the Manny skeleton control rig and so I was trying to figure out to set one up for my own characters to help with the bends and twists whenever I use control rig but I haven't found much documentation on how to set that up

[tidal wharf]

https://youtu.be/2M2iXVNCx1Y

Hey, anyone have any idea what could be causing this montage on the player character to distort like that, when the original animation asset (the example to the left) is fine on its own?

[stable patrol]

Hi, does anyone have tried to implement Orientation Warping ? I need some help. https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/pose-warping-in-unreal-engine/

[rancid sparrow]

Hi folks! I'm having a problem importing a character from Blender. He's rigged in blender using AutoRig Pro. The blender rig exports an armature that has offsets between (for example) the pelvis bone and the thigh bones. When importing to UE5 , this offset is replaced with an actual bone , which takes on the name "thigh". The result is that the end of those chains ("toe" ) disappear entirely. Anyone know how this is fixed? Not sure if the problem is in the import or export, though. Thanks!

[knotty current]

whats the problem

[ashen junco]

Are you using ARP's exporting function?

[rancid sparrow]

Yes, I am. In fact i've tried regular Blender export too. Tried toggling most check boxes, tried both UE4 and UE5-

[ashen junco]

Then no need to use Blender's exporter. Well, ARP do, but it nondestructively does things before exporting to FBX on its own.

[rancid sparrow]

So you think it's in the import (UE5) part, then?

[stable patrol]

My feets are pinned into the floor after implementing this system.

[knotty current]

can you show it ?

[ashen junco]

Not sure about UE5, as I'm still use UE4, but at leasy in UE4 it works flawlessly.

[rancid sparrow]

WITH an offset between , say, spine and thigh bones? is anything inserted in this space in UE in your case? Here are images of the discrepancies on my part .

[ashen junco]

Not sure what's wrong with it, all the bone heads seem to be in correct position

[rancid sparrow]

They're in the right position, but the marked bone in both pictures is the "thigh_l" bone, and are at different places. You can see the "toe" bone missing from the UE image.

[ashen junco]

It might be misunderstanding on your part, because UE bones doesn't put bone tail positions into account, it only consider the bone's direction, which in Blender is dictated by the head and tail of it.

If you toggle parent of selected bone being drawn, it draws "connection" from the parent bone to the selected bone.

[rancid sparrow]

where is that toggle?

[ashen junco]

I'm not opening the editor atm, but in the skeleton previewer viewport, there should be one in the top buttons

[rancid sparrow]

Cool! cecking it out... ;9

[knotty current]

does ur animation have root motion, because orientation warping have 2 method manual and graph

for the direction, if u use manual u need to offset the angle for each cardinal direction

[rancid sparrow]

Aha! I think you might be right in my misunderstanding...So the "ball" on each bone in UE is actually a representation of how a "whole" bone looks in Blender?

[stable patrol]

This is the implementation that I made and all jog animations have root motion enabled.

[knotty current]

does it play correct animation

when you walk right i think it still play backward animation

[stable patrol]

Yes, it's playing correct animation.

[knotty current]

i see

i saw your video again

with slower speed, does your animation have root motion?

[stable patrol]

Yes, they have root motion enabled.

[knotty current]

not just enable but the animation need to have root motion

if you want to use graph mode

try open your sequence then click loop
does your character walk away when animation is playing

if not, it mean your animation dont have root motion, and you need use "Manual" mode in the orientation warping node

[stable patrol]

Ok, I understand but when playing jog animation my feets are still pinned to floor.

[rancid sparrow]

I think I'm getting to do what I wanted to, now. Even though I'm still slightly confused! hehe! Thank you very much for your time and help! Have a fantastic day!

[knotty current]

sorry i dont understand what you mean by pinned, i dont see anything wrong from forward jog from the video

do you mean sliding?

[stable patrol]

I mean, when I add leg ik the feets does not move like in this video.

[knotty current]

ah, thats stride warping not orientation warping

it will scales the stride (gate) of character's legs base on speed

[stable patrol]

Ok, thanks I understand now.

[wild flare]

how difficult do you guys think it would be (as a beginner) to take the ALS v4 framework and make it work with a monkey / ape character?

[astral nebula]

Hey, does anybody else have the issue that the control rig ik is working in editor but isn't working in a standalone window (ue5)?

[mortal violet]

is there any way to retarget an animation from a mixamo rig to the UE5 rig without creating an ikrig? cause rn all I want is to retarget 1 animation and that seems excessive

[young urchin]

@elfin vine Hello. Sorry for poking I'm looking for a way to ask about iPhone's Live Link Face app. We've been testing it with different models, and it seems the curves provided by the app are bugged.
Specifically browouterupleft and browouterupright always providing the same value even if only one eyebrow is lifted. Where should I ask this question? Thank you.

[tender cipher]

#blueprint message

Do you know why my character does the random animation landing in loop ?

[rain sluice]

beginner question: i understand you should animate your character in blender, but what if i want my character to interact with another character or pick up an item like the phone that is in the game world?

[ashen junco]

You can make some runtime adjustment with IKs in engine.

[glass basin]

how did i can fix my rotation?

[signal pagoda]

Does anyone have any recommendations for re centering a number of animations that are all off for various reasons? They are targeted to a different character aside from the UE skeleton.

I am thinking of targeting to the mannequin and trying a retargeting plugin to speed up the process, since I have hundreds of animations that could potentially need fixing. Am working with a custom database created before my time.

[desert river]

Certain parts of my model stretches ridiculously in unreal engine when exported from blender. Would anyone know how to fix this?

The second picture is the same part of the animation but screenshot from blender

[ashen junco]

This is perfect

[desert river]

true but i can't give the player all of the powerful moves off the bat

One of my 'def-spine' bones seems to be shifting in scale erratically which isn't something i did in the original animation
Ended up re doing part of the rig and after some modifications it seems to be largely fixed, apparently the bones in the head weren't big enough from the looks of things...

[misty dagger]

how do I access this in UE4?

[nimble sonnet]

that is either a Blend Space or an Aim Offset, you need to make them

if you started from a template it probably already has them, filter your content for those two types to see what's in there, and use Reference Viewer to learn how they are applied, or otherwise if you have more info about your question, shoot

[misty dagger]

Yes I know I need to access these alternative methods. Our computers aren't getting UE5 until next year and the default triangulation method doesn't give appropriate results

[nimble sonnet]

Looks like its UE5 only, sorry 😕 id expect it to be listed here if not: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/Blendspaces/Editor/

Might be another way to work around the triangulation issue I guess (though I don't have one)

[misty dagger]

This is an issue I've had for a while despite using supplied UE assets from the content example. They must have some alternate interpolation method in UE4 since creating a blend space from their own animations doesn't lead to the same content they have in their examples

[nimble sonnet]

There's nothing special about the blend spaces that they have in the content examples- but they may have tweaked particular settings to get it to work as well as it does

There's definitely no magic though

[misty dagger]

They must have some alternate interpolation method in UE4 since creating a blend space from their own animations doesn't lead to the same content they have in their examples

[nimble sonnet]

You already said that

[misty dagger]

or some other settings

[nimble sonnet]

Maybe import the ones that work really well from the content examples and compare the ones you've made carefully

[misty dagger]

This is an issue I've had for a while despite using supplied UE assets from the content example.

[young olive]

Before i do this Again.. Is there any way to replace the skeleton in an IKRIG reference map that has identical bone structues so i do not have to Again, and Again, rebuild the same IKrig for all my character variants

[serene plume]

my character is switching to a strange animation automatically which isn't even referenced by the character or referencing the character

[tropic basin]

I have a character dashing blendspace set up with the lyra dash animations(all looks good in the preview). In game the character physically moves in the correct directions, but the animation plays very late and then swaps to an animation that isn't even in my anim BP
Anyone have any idea why?

[young olive]

for either of you, i do not really know ,but i am assuming montage

[tropic basin]

No montages in the project yet. Only sequences, blendspace, and the animBP.
And he gets stuck in the animation too, not like its being played somewhere

[arctic wing]

If I want to create IK for a skeleton should I use the "IK Rig" or the "Control Rig"? I can't find the difference. Is the Control rig the "new way" to do it or is there a reason one might use the IK Rig instead?

[tranquil lark]

Is there a way that I can remove some keyframes from a montage?

I feel like I've done this before - but I can't recall exactly.

[keen minnow]

How do I copy a camera's exact location/rotation to another camera? I am trying to start one scene from the end of another, yet when I copy the transforms the camera is at the origin of the world. Any suggestions?

I am using sequencer with a virtual camera actor.

[tranquil lark]

Ended up solving this by going back and removing the keyframes from the animation sequence and then making a montage out of that.

[vague owl]

Hi guys im trying to import animations from may into unreal but I am struggling. I wanting to copy this pose onto the Mannequin using Art v1.

[gilded rock]

Hey, I'm wondering how do I make this function run in a clean project? I can't seem to set it up correctly in a new anim bp

[zenith adder]

How do I keep root motion on animation I edit in sequencer/control rig

[stable patrol]

The LyraStarterGame documentation cover this. https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/animation-in-lyra-sample-game-in-unreal-engine/

[mortal violet]

hi, I tried retargetting some UE4 skeleton animation with root motion to the UE5 skeleton using the RTG_UE4Manny_UE5Manny retargeter, but the resulting animations have their root bone stay at 0 0 0, any idea how to fix it?

nvm fixed it by modifying the retargeter, the root thing had translation set to none instead of globally scaled

[jolly viper]

Hello ! Just downloaded "Battle Wizard Polyart" in the store. Created an anim BP to do some testing. But the little wizard blueprint is a "skeletal mesh actor". SO i cant use it as Default Pawn Class. What am I missing ? 🙂

[burnt spruce]

Hi. I am planning on buying Shadow motion capture suit. I have a query. For the animations like walk, run prone. The movements will be natural only when you walk or run or prone forward while capturing the movement. So, is it possible to turn this moving forward in the motion capture data to in place motion as for the games it should be in-place.

[tropic basin]

@jolly viperI think someone messed up. Just assign the mesh to a character class and use that for your default pawn

[mint grail]

I don't think there's a perfect channel for this question, but what would be some rough rates if I wanted to have someone create some general-purpose humanoid rigging, a full set of basic movement and interaction animations, and also setup animation blending/maps?

I'm working on all the other parts of the dev process but these things seem like they would take up too much of my time to learn.

[vague owl]

Struggling to port call of Duty animations into Unreal.

[still cipher]

Hello, I need to import this simple keyframe animation in UE5 but when I export from 3DS Max with the bake animation option it doesn't seem to work, any ideas?

[soft crown]

can an IK rig be copied (for a slightly different rig) or if you add an extra bone to a rig you already mapped you have to manually re-map it again?

[jolly viper]

Thing is it seems that is has reasons to be a skeletal mesh actor, as it is a blueprint where you can change the outfit/staff of the wizard. But then ?

[soft crown]

Does unreal provide a UE4 Mannequin IK rig?

[tropic basin]

It's for the demo map.
You cannot directly control a skeletal mesh actor. Has to be atleast a pawn class.
If you want it to be a usable character then you'll have to make a new BP or swap the mesh in an existing one

[fossil tinsel]

I have trouble with retargeting root motion. As you can see, the root bone isn't moved, instead the pelvis is

EDIT: I found the source of the problem.
You have to DEACTIVATE "EnableRootMotion", otherwise the rootbone is always 0,0,0. Kinda strange, that you have to disable rootmotion to get rootmotion

[midnight jolt]

For animation blueprints, is there anything like random sequence player, but it only plays the selected animation once? I'm having an issue where my death sfx is on my death animations, and i notify at the end of the death animation to remove the actor, but it seems sometimes the animation loops and can call the sfx again before the actor has been removed.

Basically i just want a regular sequence player that will randomly select one of my death animations to play.

[ashen junco]

Why not randomly select montage to play in your actor BP?

[midnight jolt]

hmm, i don't think i've used montages very much. my work flow atm has basically been import animations from fbx, then selecting which animations to play in the state machine of the anim bp.

it sounds like i should learn more montage features then.

[ashen junco]

Montages are better for one off animations, that way you don't have to make messy state machine graph.

[ionic merlin]

Quick question, not at PC that has UE installed, is attachment of objects on skeletons done on bone head or tail? Rigging a vehicle suspension for animation.

This is my current rig for the vehicle. Y'all think I got all I need for a drivable vehicle with proper suspension? 😅

[ashen junco]

Bone head. Bone tail position doesn't really matter.

[strange nebula]

I think you don't really understand what root motion is. If you did, the option would make perfect sense.

[ionic merlin]

Thanks! 🙂

[sharp ridge]

hey all i have a question i created a from scratch world with no characters and then later added one and i cant figure out how to assign control over to the character and not the default camera. If anyone could help that would be amazing i can stream and also go in voice if needed I'm completely new to all of this.

[burnt sleet]

I have been searching this thread to see if the question has been asked and answered- In sequencer, how can i have a model use one animation for the head, and totally different one for the body? Using Additive Settings to local space didn't do what i wanted because it averaged both animations.

[queen matrix]

I think Layered Blend per Bone could work here. Just add the bones you want your second anims to be affecting.

@burnt sleet

[versed monolith]

Just troubleshooting my skeletal mesh's leg bending in the wrong direction using Basic_IK (control rig) and I found this thread: https://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24527

As shown in screenshot, for rigging in Maya you need to make a natural bend in the bones in order for the IK solver to orient pole vectors correctly. Is this also true for UE4's control rig Basic IK? I didn't have this in mind when I rigged the skeletal mesh in blender however mine does have an ever so slight bend in the correct direction but maybe it is not enough or their are other problems with it.

I've actually found - what appears so far - to be a solution to my problem where if I assign the pole vector space to the spine (root) specified as Location and then plug the translation of that bone into the pole vector. Not perfect as if the foot is too high it will cause the leg to rotate unnaturally. Just curious if this is a really roundabout way of doing it.

[merry loom]

You could use a control floating in front of your knee as the pole vector

[shy flume]

i can't find manager retarget source that shows the video, where is it?

the second image is my screen

[queen matrix]

Looking for someone experienced with expertise on IK and UE4 anim systems. Have an issue with how my global locomotion / weapon anim system works at the moment and I've ran out of ideas.

Don't need you to code it for me, but if you are able to help me and figure out a system that works, I'll be happy to compensate you for your time within reason.

DM me for more details.

[versed monolith]

There's an interesting idea, I'll give it a try. Thank you 🙂

[midnight perch]

anyone have success setting up a postprocess animation blueprint for their control rig?

As well as have any idea as what the difference between the procedural control rig and the regular control rig is?

I am trying to have my character rig to get the same results as the manny manniquin control rig. I'm sure lots have seen that setting up the control rig to your own skeletal meshes is mostly not getting you the bends and twists the manny skeleton has

[long olive]

Quick question, what are the requirements for importing a skeleton properly?

Have been having a slight issue with importing lmfao

[indigo gulch]

depend, if you have your own skeleton or you are use UE4 skeleton

[long olive]

Own

The animator made a IK rig for the skeleton for animations and I don’t know if that doesn’t import or something

[cedar pewter]

guys, should I use Root Motion animations for monsters that walk strange? like, sometimes they are going fast, sometimes slow or just moving chaotically

[mint snow]

I'm trying to learn animation and working with some others on our team to learn as well. We're using Blender. How do we go about making sure our skeletons are compatible with UE5 or use those skeletons for easier retargeting? Or am I just off on all of this?

[zealous fulcrum]

Hi guys, new around here...I have a problem with the jump animation...before doing the "right one" the character goes a bit into the air...any suggestion?

[potent thunder]

To be honest if you want to make your life simple buy autorig-pro it tailors the rig to be compatible is totally worth it and it will save your team from many headaches.
Now for other options, you really can use any skeleton you want, as for retargetting you can mark which bones are equivalent to the ones on the unreal manequin.
Even the mixamo or rigify rigs (though rigify tends to be more complex as it has two bone chains but just search in youtube how to use rigify for unreal and you will find videos on how to do that even by unreal themselves).

[keen minnow]

Does anyone know how to apply physical animations to a modular character?

This is how I am handling the physical animation but somehow they are not staying connected

It is a metahuman, but from the crowd sample

[merry loom]

No idea what went wrong but i would say try import a cube with 2 joints and get that to work first 🙂 and increase complexity from there

[long olive]

The mesh is in pieces it seems

[untold marlin]

having a hard time converting a characters relative space transform to ANIMATION/Mesh COMPONENT SPACE transform on the anim bp.. is there documentation on how to go from 1 to the other

basically I have the VR controller location, I want to send that to the AnimBP to drive hand animation/ik.. using world space works fine for my own character but I want to use relative so I can do some other things (like make "mirror pawns" that can mirror my animations)

[harsh oyster]

Hello, does retarget manager has been moved to elsewhere from 5.0EA to actual version ?

[ripe bay]

For the fingers retarget chain, does it start from the first finger bone like index_01_l to index_03_l or does it start from the hand like hand_l to index_03_l? It looks like it's hand_l for all the fingers but just confirming.

[keen minnow]

Piloting the camera and animating my movements is now causing my camera to just 360 spin, anyone know why this happens?

You see? It just does a 360 spin rather than doing the rotation I wanted

[high dune]

AI Random Roaming get stuck on trees in the world is there a way to fix it?

[full pumice]

Anyone have any good retargeting videos for ue5 with other animations with lyra?

[uncut pawn]

hey everyone, i'm extremely new to animation and one of my friends sent me an animation to import into our Unreal project. the animation looks fine in engine but unfortunately doesn't have root motion, even if i try to force root motion in the details of the animation. in Blender however, it does appear that the animation has root motion. are there any videos explaining how i'd go about fixing this? i'm not sure how to look up this sort of thing online.

[coral jasper]

is there a way to get rid of the slopes? like the anims on the bottom only play at 0 and dont blend even a little bit

[ashen junco]

Show the skeleton structure in UE.

[ashen junco]

https://twitter.com/unrealengine/status/1031579200317259778

Unreal Engine (@UnrealEngine)

Smoothly interpolate between two rotations with Sequencer's new quaternion rotation support in 4.20. Learn more here - https://t.co/5oAwMe1Sxq - #UE4

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[fiery tulip]

Hello guys! I have an issue where I have a character from the epic store, but I can't place it over the the UE5 Manny and have the animations play. Is anyone willing to help, I can pay for an hour or two of your services. : )

[serene fiber]

hi, does anyone know if there is an animation blueprint for the default ue4 mannequin inside UE5? I can switch to the UE4Mannequin skeletal mesh but there is no animation blueprint. im unsure whether the animations for Manny and Quinn work for that type of skeleton.

[craggy knoll]

When importing a FBX animation into unreal, bone transforms aren't exactly the same as in Maya or Blender. As a test I had a bone constraint to the root and it was static for the full timeline, but when importing it into Unreal, that bone is not static anymore. Maybe something with Animation compression or something? I'm struggling here 😩

[ashen junco]

Bone constraints in DCC tools are not carried over.

[craggy knoll]

I bake the bone transform into the animation.

[ionic merlin]

Jo... o/
Probably a weird question but anyone know of any resources on where to lookup bone naming conventions etc?
I have a vehicle I want to rig and animate later on and I'm rather lost on how to name all the dampers and other moving parts. 😅
I'm afraid if I mess this one up from this point, it's going to be a HUGE hassle later on.

[cunning locust]

is there a way to assign multiple animations to a skeleton when all dont have any assigned?

[ashen junco]

Just make sure it's clear enough that you in the future or anyone else working on it won't get confused with what is what.
Personally I derive from UE4 Manny's bone naming conventions

[gilded rock]

https://www.loom.com/share/d5db98fafb04470daf053f04973e3d0d

Did anyone find a solution to IK bone retargeting issue using the new IK retargeter?

[nimble cradle]

Question: should the 3D model for a gun be done before animation?

Or is it possible to use a prototype for doing a blockout animation and then adjust it for the final 3D asset later?

[cedar pewter]

thanks for mentioning AutoRig Pro, I'm thinking of buying it rn, seems pretty useful

[cedar pewter]

I think you can find free gun assets somewhere

[nimble cradle]

Yes I can, but I'm wondering if a game studio is creating a gun from scratch...

[ashen junco]

Most of the times they do.

[nimble cradle]

If a reload animation is made before the final version of the 3D asset... then I would imagine the animator might get frustrated because they have to re-do a bunch of work

Since the dimensions or something might change slightly

[ashen junco]

For prototyping reason, rough blockout of the model and poses could work.

[nimble cradle]

Ok so...

1. Blockout model
2. Blockout animation

Then later...

3. Final model
4. Final animation

[ashen junco]

Yes, if you want to prioritise the gameplay code first and perhaps figuring out the timing.

[nimble cradle]

Ok makes sense, thank you!

Another question: do animators also do 3D modelling or do you usually work with a 3D artist for that?

[cedar pewter]

I think in most of the indie studios one person does the animations and models

[ashen junco]

Depends on your team/budget.

[nimble cradle]

Ok sure. I guess I'm asking COULD they do it?

Or what do they prefer to do?

[ashen junco]

Personally I do both, but I do need to eventually hire a modeller and coach him/her.

[nimble cradle]

Ok got it

[cedar pewter]

does somebody use AutoRig here btw?

[ashen junco]

Yes.

[cedar pewter]

and how is it?

[ashen junco]

Life saver.

[cedar pewter]

haha

[ashen junco]

Saves a lot of time re-rigging VRoid models that I use

[cedar pewter]

I didn't rig any model yet, should I use AutoRig for my first time?

or do it with rigify

[ashen junco]

Definitely Auto Rig

[cedar pewter]

ok

[ashen junco]

Rigify is a broken, difficult to use piece of crap.

[cedar pewter]

hm

[ashen junco]

Even that Uefy plugin won't save you much.

[cedar pewter]

after I saw tutorial on UE's YT channel I thought maybe Rigify is better xD

so after all the things I heard about AutoRig, and after what you said

I need to buy it

[ashen junco]

And as someone dealing with Rigify first hand before, AutoRig Pro is like a breeze. Worth the $40 for the time saved.

[cedar pewter]

aight then

thanks

[ionic merlin]

Yeh, characters are easy, cars are hard tho. xDDD It was in regards to vehicles, that's why.

[lavish plaza]

Anybody know if Control Rig variables can be accessed either on the Sequencer track (to keyframe the var) or in the Details panel similar to BP variables? Because I made a bool var and set it to public but I don't see it anywhere

I'm in UE5 btw

[merry loom]

use a bool typed control is probably better

[keen minnow]

Confused; I edited an animation through FK Control Rig and now when I go to bake the animation to sequence it just creates a blank animation of the character in reference pose. Does anyone have any suggestions?

These are the settings I used to export the FK control animation to sequence ^ using Bake Animation Sequence

I did it once with the character you see above this one, and it worked just fine, but the next one does not

[celest crane]

Anybody run into issues retargeting anims from the UE4 Skeleton -> UE5?

Specifically with root motion anims. Using a Lyra based project, and the UE4 anims look proper but after using the Retargeter the UE5 ones all move off the root

[misty dagger]

Can someone recommend me tutorial for creating animations with UE5 ?

[lavish plaza]

I'm trying to attach a static mesh to a socket in my Control Rig. I created the sockets on the skeletal mesh and they show up on the control rig but when I try to "Attach to" on the static mesh it doesn't show my control rig that's in the scene. Is this not supported in UE5 anymore?

And if attaching to a socket doesn't work in UE5, what is the best way to have a character hold another actor in the level? This is actually for a short animation keyframed on the sequencer. I need the characters to be able to pick up various props on the set

Ok, so it looks like the only issue was that my static mesh wasn't set to "movable", nm!

[misty dagger]

Can I even create animation sequence ? Or only edit imported(existing) ?

[misty dagger]

fine, so there is control rig for creating animations

[gusty rivet]

Guys I need help
I was following an Aim Down Sights tutorial on Youtube
and somehow suddenly my project crashed
I restarted it and since then my AnimBP is broken
I have recreated it and I get the same issue
The movement is somehow broken
I press Space to Jump and now the player is thrown backwards
and sprinting is glitchy.
and player is shifted to left while sprinting
And UE5 randomly crashes when I try to switch the AnimBP in my Character Bp
I didn't change any sprinting code so idk why this happened
https://www.file-upload.com/w1ip7aaxrfzb
Here is the video

[steel orchid]

I don't suppose anyone is able to help me with this? I am trying to retarget the default animations onto a new character. I cant seem to figure out how to change the default pose so that they both sync up. The voxel character turns from an A pose to a T pose when i import it into unreal as an .fbx so i'm not sure what to do. How can i change the default pose of the characters so that they have the same pose in the most recent version of unreal?

[elfin vine]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/ik-rig-animation-retargeting-in-unreal-engine/

[steel orchid]

Ty

[iron thicket]

Guys, why does the character return to its original position at the end of the montage, even though I delete the last frames?

[stable patrol]

Hey folks, I have a weird issue. Every time when I open or restart my project all functions from Animation Warping and Animation Locomotion Library disappear from my Animation Blueprint. It happens every time, I also tried to create a new Animation Blueprint, but still does not work.

[ashen junco]

Remux the video to MP4 first.

[stark gate]

Guys just a quick question, are animation blueprints only for characters like pawns and npc's etc..?

I have an animation, a simple train that rides by and I just want to pause it for a moment and let the animation continue on and then loop again

instead of creating about 2000 frames for the pause, I hoped I could do this in the blueprint/ animation blueprint

[ashen junco]

AnimBP applies to skeleton/skeletal meshes.

[stark gate]

I know, my train is a skeletal mesh rather than a simple spline animation

it has two bones, root and train body

essentially I've just animated the train doing its thing inside blender, but the train needs to stop at a station for longer than it is. Instead of adding more frames I thought I could just freeze it at that frame for a period of time and then let it continue. it's inside a standard blueprint actor atm

It just didn't make sense to put a train/ inanimate object with simple animations inside a full blown animbp since it isn't controlled by key inputs and doesn't need to blend between different states

but our sound designer is asking for all animations to be put into an ABP regardless, and I'm not really sure how or why

I'm beginning to think I should have probably just used the level sequencer for this..

[ashen junco]

You can apply animBP to any kind of skeletal mesh, not just humanoids. And by any, I mean any skeletal meshes.

And the actor using the skeletal mesh doesn't have to be Pawn either

[stark gate]

ok cool, so say I have this train, in world space the train is on a track out of sight, then goes by, stops, then continues on and out of sight again. Then it loops. It's the bone doing the movement, so the pivot location itself is always at 0,0,0

all I need to do is just pause the animation on a specific frame for a length of time

could you give me a nudge on how I would approach that please?

it's literally just 1 animation on a loop

I'm a bit lost because any guides I'm looking at are all using character pawns and talking about animation montages and it's all pretty unrelated

[deft timber]

hello, I have exported a rigged mesh that has a proper root bone . After i imported this mesh to akeytsu for weight painting. It rotates the root bone at x axis as -90 . the model created with maya but its root is set to zero in unreal. but in akeytsu for some reason it is rotated to -90 , what do you think about this?

[keen minnow]

Hi, how do I bake transform animation data to an animation sequence?

I tried using Bake Animation Sequence but it just plays the animation in place

[full pumice]

Is there something different about the animations notifies in UE5? I tried to create a anim notify on the montage but its not showing up....

[snow orchid]

On what basis can you say that? As the developer of Uefy and a user for last several years it is very viable to use Rigify in a Blender to Unreal workflow

[ashen junco]

Sorry to break it to you, but me and my collaborators had much more struggle and unpleasant times dealing with Rigify and applying it to the custom modular characters, even with Uefy enabled. We had to deal with false deform bones which broke the weighting, putting the physics bones, and all that for an epic of a month wasted. That's just one character, we would have to do the same for the rest 5 of them.

One day decided to switch to Auto Rig Pro and it's smooth sailing since then. Rerigging took less than an hour, and lesser tweaks overall. Making it UE4 Manny compliant and importing it to UE is also much more straightforward. Got 5 of them done in a week, and now I can focus on the technical anim side of things in UE.

I'm sorry for being too honest and frontal about it, but it's how it goes for us.

[snow orchid]

I have used Uefy with CC3, Daz3d, Paragon Characters, Mixamo, Fuse, Makehuman, custom characters and others. All of this over many years with none of the issues described by you.

[snow orchid]

Because you could not figure out how to use it doesn't mean it doesn't work or doesn't add value to the ue ecosystem.

[ashen junco]

More likely the issue in the anim sequence itself, you might have the starting pose baked as the last keyframe on the last frame.

[tame nova]

Hi, can you help me, i make the anim_BP and the blendspace_BP for my character but won't work

[sick raven]

Hello, I am using the "advance locomotion system V" (ALS) in unreal engine 5. I want to use that system for my "ready player me character" (RPM) that I got in MIXAMO. Does anybody have any idea how where I should start?

Would appreciate your help a lot.

[ashen junco]

You plugged nothing on Is Valid, it'll always return fail.

[tame nova]

Damn, you're right, what i need to plug there in the blue ping?

[ashen junco]

Try Get Pawn Owner, though the IsValid should be replaced with Cast to Character.

[tame nova]

Makamoto your have some video tutorial that explain this part?

I am all day trying to get work the anims, i am a rookie

This help me: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/HowTo/CharacterMovement/

Thank you @ashen junco

[coral wave]

Anyone know what this whole new analysis section is in aim offsets in ue5? https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/aim-offset-in-unreal-engine/ docs dont mention anything about it

UE forums seems to be dry of any info as well

[fair mango]

random animation question: if I want to animate 2 characters fist fighting for example, should I think about it as 1 animation between 2 characters or 2 separate animations that fit together like puzzle pieces?

[ashen junco]

The latter

[velvet atlas]

Probably this was already shared but I found this a nice read about AnimToTexture (Japanese, used google translate)
https://qiita.com/marv_kurushimay/items/b3d98f208fa494f1ddec

[iron thicket]

Guys, hello. I wanted to find out what is the difference between a locomotion built through regular animations and a locomotion that is built only with root motion animations? It's just that I've often seen that basically root motion was used for anim montage

[ashen junco]

<@&213101288538374145> pin worthy? Though it's in JP

[ashen junco]

Root motion locomotion uses the root bone animation to move the character. For the base locomotion, it's more difficult to setup, but good for characters with fluctuating speed in every step

[velvet atlas]

I always forget there are pinned messages in discord...

[swift edge]

I know this is vague but after I play an animation montage my character won't move. Like running in place. I may be missing something simple otherwise I'll have to come back with more context later. ty

nvm I got it

[iron thicket]

Thank you

[iron thicket]

Can I combine regular animations with root motion animations?

[median gyro]

For what reason motion warping could not work in UE 5.0.1 if root motion enabled in animation sequence and in anim BP and warp target update it's location before anim montage start?

[rare eagle]

Any idea why the begin play event isnt called in my animator?

[iron thicket]

Not valid owner or dont cast

Did you choose this AnimBP in your character?

[rare eagle]

Yes I should have it selected. It works at runtime and the update animation event is actually called.
it doesnt pause at the breakpoint of the begin play event though.

oh nvm it seems its called (added a log string element) for some reasons breakpoints dont work there

[median gyro]

It's important for you to use exactly Begin Play event? There is an Event Blueprint Initialize Animation that called at the beginning of the game too

[rare eagle]

Ill try using that

[iron thicket]

Guys, I divided one whole animation into two parts and handed over Anim Montages from them. Is it possible to reproduce them one after another so that it looks like a whole animation?

[long olive]

This probably is a stupid thing to ask about. How would I get a animation blueprint to run off a boolean in the player? Such as first person animation with a flashlight. How would I get it to set to transition?

Since I don’t think cast to works in transitions

[median gyro]

You can use Play Montage on character mesh with On Completed pin

[subtle jacinth]

Hi! I am trying to retarget animation from one skeleton to another. The two skeletons are in two different reference pose (one is in A pose and the other is in T-pose). I want to set the target skeleton in T-pose. Is there a way to set a new reference pose for both skeleton and skeletal mesh?

[iron thicket]

The fact is that after the first anim montage, for some reason it returns to its original position, although the playback of the next anim montage should start from the end of the previous one

[median gyro]

@iron thicket maybe blending cause the problem? I would set blend out on first anim and blend in in second to zero

[iron thicket]

Sorry, but where do I need to install this blend out? 😅

[iron thicket]

I did, it almost worked, but for some reason he twitches right at the end

[median gyro]

I meant Blend Time that above in Blend Options x)

[toxic basalt]

after adding bones to my skeleton in blender, i imported them to unreal and i get this message from the bones:

will this cause issues?

[ashen junco]

It's what it says on the tin. Bone used by the current mesh, but no part of the mesh actually weighted to it.

Pretty clear that I barely rephrasing there.

[iron thicket]

I did, almost the problem was solved, but it twitches in the transition between 1 and 2 anim montage☹️☹️

[toxic basalt]

@ashen junco i followed a tutorial on making IK on my skeleton, the only ones without mesh weights are the IK bones, should i be fine or should i add weight to them?

[ashen junco]

It's fine

Though I personally would rather use Control Rig to set up IKs.

[median gyro]

Sadly, I don't have any more ideas now.. But it's definitely blending issues

[novel rivet]

Has anyone run into an issue where a Play Montage node is fired but the animation doesn't play right away?

[ashen junco]

Check the slots, and make sure your animBP uses it

[novel rivet]

I should mention it does play after a 2-3 second delay

[ashen junco]

Bone tail positions doesn't really matter in Unreal. It only determines the direction of the bone.

And yes, do not add leaf bones.

It IS the real bone that you're rotating.
Again, bone head matters more than the position of the bone tail, except to determine the direction.

Okay, so if you're enable show bone and parent, Unreal will draw the in between from the parent bone to the selected bone.

[ashen junco]

My point here still prevails. @long locust

Exactly what I thought it is.

Bone tails doesn't really matter, except determining direction of the bone.

One last rephrase, hopefully this get the point across, because it's EXACTLY what I thought.

Unreal draws the Blender-like bone shape starting from the parent bone head to the current bone head. This applies to ALL bones being visible in the preview.

Unreal does NOT consider bone tails, except for the bone direction. Look closely to the small axis gizmo on each bone head. In practice, bone tail location doesn't matter, only the direction that the bone head points towards that matter.

[stark needle]

Animation FAQ
https://forums.unrealengine.com/docs?search=FAQ Animation&topic=493405

[iron thicket]

But thanks anyway))

[tall inlet]

Why IK is breaking all animations? My foots cant work properly, they collide with the floor and cant move,,

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/retargeting-and-ik-problems/544153

I create a topic to explain better

But in general, my feets dont "slide"

[nimble sonnet]

really depends on how you are selecting your IK target. Normally this is done by taking the bone location and conforming the Y while leaving X and Z as animated-- are you perhaps setting the IK target to the exact X,Y,Z of your trace instead?

[tall inlet]

I just import some animation of UE4 and retarget to UE5 mannekin

Character have IK now working, but animations not

Im trying to follow another way of retargeting

when I open the UE4 retarget to UE5 mannekin of unreal, my animations are not showing on asset Browser. IDK why..

[stone geyser]

Having the same issues @tall inlet

[tall inlet]

Im since morning trying to fix this 😢

[stone geyser]

Yeah spent 14 hours on it so far 😄

This is my problem. IK foot and hands arnt attached to the player like they are in the mannequin

Not got an issue in UE4 so its something UE5 is doing to me 😄

[tall inlet]

yes

Im almost giving up to use IK

Maybe the problems are the animations

animations pass through the ground on the Z axis. But the IK doesn't let the feet go to the negative. The foot limits the movement of the other limbs.

[long olive]

How would I get a animation blueprint to run off a boolean in the player? Such as first person animation with flashlight with F. How would I get it to set to transition?
Since I don’t think cast to works in transitions

[ashen junco]

Why not just set a bool variable in the animBP's event graph with the one from character reference, then use that var for the transition?

[muted lion]

anyone run into this issue with Metahumans? Trying to body swap the head onto a custom rigged body. Everything goes well until I parent the face to the body and use the Faceanim_Bp anim blueprint.
Then their necks get broken lmao

[long olive]

Ok, now I have another problem lmfao. The blend space is constantly running the sprinting loop instead, any ideas?

and it works fine with previewing it

[fathom vapor]

What awaits animators in ue5? Chaos locomotion system? Advanced locomotion system V5? New tools? Or maybe a system worse than rockstar's euphoria? Or warped rootmotion? motion matching? What awaits animators in the coming years?

[ashen junco]

Improved Control Rig.

ALS is pretty much dead

Motion Warping too for runtime root motion adjustment

[fathom vapor]

Maybe there will be some chaos locomotion system, I don't know what epic has prepared for animators in new versions

[ashen junco]

Doubt Chaos has that kind of thing. If anything it'll be just the physics handler for the physical anims or ragdolls

[somber rover]

Since I'm focusing mostly on animation these days, I'll be sitting here for a while, contributing if I can, but probably asking a lot of questions too 🙂 ... I noticed many people talking about Advanced Locomotion System already here, so I downloaded it, and it's a very interesting system which I will reference. So, my first question; Are there other preferably free resources, or plugins for animation which I should be checking out?, excluding animation asset packs.

[void oracle]

Is there a way to toggle IK on and off in some way?
I have this setup where IK is used to place the character's hands and feet while riding a bike, but if I want to unmount the bike and go back to showing the animation with no IK, how would I do that?
Is there a way to set the animated socket location into the vector used by the IK?

[ashen junco]

If you're on 4.26 or newer, check out Control Rig. With it you have easier time setting up your own advanced animation system.

ALS V4 was a monolithic mess of animBP, and was made before Control Rig become more usable.

[ashen junco]

Blend pose by bool?

[void oracle]

Oh, doh.
Thanks.

[somber rover]

Thanks!, I've been checking that too. As I understand it's a better way to generate animations. I'm trying to stay away from that for now, just using mixamo animations. My main focus at the moment is deciding how to handle the Animation Blueprint within the context of GAS. There are many options but I'm leaning towards creating a state machine which responds to ability changes. Then the BP just responds to that one state.

[placid relic]

hiya ive got what i assume is some basic noob problem, i tried to implement roll in 3rd person as in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6NfpUzYLmM but im using UE 5 manny and the torso streches as seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J6zCuqlP1Q. anyone know whats going on there? thanks

[paper imp]

Hey, can anyone help me with chaging T pose of the character to A pose? I can't retarget some animetion without that

[midnight tiger]

Anyone know a fancy method of doing fingers in control rig? I've been experimenting with a bunch of stuff but haven't found a better method than just rigging them normally. I really wanted to make a system that parents and constrains the rotation the first knuckle of each finger to the first knuckle of the fingers beside it, but that locked up due to the paradox of having a parent being parented by its child.

[ashen junco]

FABRIK might be what you're looking for.

Though be warned that it may not work well if the fingers rest at straight line as opposed to curving downwards (usually on T-pose)

[keen minnow]

Hi I am importing the mixamo xbot from cinema4d to ue5 and this keeps happening to the skeleton, does anyone have any suggestions? on cinema4d skeleton looks fine

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

[midnight tiger]

Crys in T-pose model

[keen minnow]

following this tutorial

[ashen junco]

Yeah, I'm afraid you either have to make it A-pose with relaxed finger position, or use hacky Basic IK setup

[midnight tiger]

is this relaxed enough? if not i guess i'll try my hand at the hacky setup bc im lazy.

[ashen junco]

That should be enough for FABRIK to fold more reliably

Though not sure about the thumb

[midnight tiger]

I'll give it a shot, Thanks for the suggestion btw.

[tidal sparrow]

if I'm not mistaken, those are just the end joints. I've gotten the same thing in Maya. Maya needs an end joint for the tip of the finger to point to. But for unreal, it doesn't need that last joint to point to the tip. The best way to see this work is to throw it into control rig and attach the controls to the fingers and it should work. You won't see the bones any way so if they get left behind, no worries. (at least from this one picture, that is what it looks to me)

[lavish plaza]

Is it possible to constrain/attach a control rig control to an actor in the world (i.e. a static mesh)? So for example, I could attach an IK handle from one hand to the handlebar of a bike

[ashen junco]

You could pass in Vector variable to set the location of the IK effector.

[lavish plaza]

that's a good idea - but what's the best way to pass in a variable? It seems like the vars in control rigs are only used internally and can't be made public

[ashen junco]

You can expose it to be used in anim BP.
Also I'm talking about the variables, not the controls. At least in 4.27, My Blueprint tab that contains the variables are hidden by default

[lavish plaza]

so would I have to somehow nest my control rig into a blueprint in order to access those variables? I thought to animate a control rig character you just drop the control rig asset into the scene

I'm using 5.0.1 and they give you access to the variables but even if you make them public they don't show up in the Details pane in the Outliner

I guess my question is, what's an "anim BP", is that just a regular blueprint?

[long olive]

My blend space is only running the top animation. The speed variable should be more in the middle

Advice?

[ashen junco]

Can you provide context of your anim BP?

[long olive]

I’m not home so I can’t grab much photo wise. Here is a photo of the event graph from the video I followed. It’s for first person animations and also player animations. The middle is the walk anim. Very bottom is idle, and very top is running

[flat sluice]

Hey everyone, I am at my wits end and would really appreciate some advice. I've been trying to mock a nice "shake" animation of a cockpit and I just absolutely suck at it, whether I try it via keyframed timelines or applying force to a physics constraint. Does anyone have some advice?

[ashen junco]

Have you tried using camera shake assets?

[flat sluice]

@ashen junco Can that be used to drive the shaking of an object that isn't a camera?

I looked and couldn't find a way to do it

[ashen junco]

Nope, but just the camera shake should sell the effect of sheer velocity

(along with directional motion blur)

[flat sluice]

@ashen junco That is a great suggestion. Unfortunately, this is VR so those are both big no-nos in my situation

I appreciate the input

[ashen junco]

Yeah I'm hands off when it comes to VR.

[bitter shard]

I noticed that the new UE5 Mannequin skeleton has a lot more bones than the previous one, mainly twist bones and other corrective bones. Has anyone compared the performance difference between the new and the old one? I remember the Metahuman skeleton was a lot more expensive because of all the extra bones

[ashen junco]

Performance wise, barely significant enough for you to worry about. And I'm not inclined to think that's the reason why MetaHuman is taxing on performance, when it has strand based Groom hair all over.

[bitter shard]

Ah good to hear, thanks. Well I remember hearing that from someone who did a performance test, but he may have been wrong about the source of the problem of course

[marsh ether]

Hi

How can I get it so my reload state doesn't effect the legs and lower torso because this makes it so when the character moves then starts to reload, his legs stay still

[ashen junco]

1. Why is the reload a state?
2. show the state machine node in the root anim graph

[long olive]

I just realized the screenshot is very low res and I apologize. This is the video I followed https://youtu.be/A6L_8vAx-M0

[toxic basalt]

is there any way to ajust the head offset in animations to always be looking forward?

[earnest vale]

you'll have to use a transform bone node and set it to the mesh forward vector

[earnest vale]

Does anyone know if it is possible to layer IK with physical animations? There's a lot of twitching if I try to blend them together

[spring karma]

Guys why my rig looks like a plant on Unreal 😔

(How it looks on Blender)

It seems Unreal created some extra flying bones? 🤔

[ashen junco]

It seems you have non-deform bones getting exported anyway

[spring karma]

Hm let me take a look

Yeah it seems that is the issue

I have no idea why though D:

[void oracle]

How would one hide bones in an animation clip?
I know that there's this way to hide a bone via script at runtime, and yes, it can be triggered by an animation event, but I want to be able to hide the bone during editing the animation so I can see what it will look like while editing, you know? Is there not a way to do that?

Doc of the node says that it just sets the scale of the bone to 0, but that doesn't seem to hide it when I do the same in the animation sequence. Even if I set the scale of ALL the bones in the model to 0 it still remains visible, although distorted.

What's interesting is that setting it to scale 0 in the Skeleton asset directly DOES work, just not through the animation sequence.

[weak acorn]

I've made a custom animation using control rig on the Quinn mannequin (because I'm using a metahuman with that skeleton) but the animation isn't playing, ik there's a way to change the animation played during a button press using nodes but idk where to find those nodes (idk if i need to look at the skeleton, static mesh or soemthing else), can someone help me?

I'm using the third person game mode if that helps

[clever latch]

I shtere an easy way to convert a FPS Animation to a TPS? or is the skeleton completely different

(both epic)

[misty dagger]

how would it be advised to do walk cycle. I'm having issue, either in UE5 it's foot sliding noticeable or

I know some say do it RM in blender then just disable RM in ue5 but I can't get RM to match up with the feet movement it causes even more foot sliding

[grizzled narwhal]

has anyone used the IK retargeter here yet? I have 2 skellies, one is in the A pose and one in the T pose. I've edited the pose in the T pose skeleton so make it into an A pose but the IK retargeter ignores it. Any ideas?

[full sequoia]

Does anyone know how to access this node?

[tranquil steeple]

I don't know where to put this question so I will put it here 😄 Im kinda newbie to UE4 and im trying to make little adventure first person game and I have problem with making a shaking camera while running. Does anyone know how to make this kind of animation?

[vapid basin]

how to combine a skelelton with static meshes via sockets in blueprints?

[small dirge]

You know that there are ABP_Pistol ; ABP_Rifle ; ABP_Unarmed etc.. In Lyra sample project. Me I wana make ABP_Sword but I dont fill all animations in the animation layer child bp. I just dont have them (ex : pivot etc..) I would like to do a layered blend per bone with my upper body idle animation for example but there is no anim graph in anim layer. Anyone know what should I do ?? ^^ Dont tell me to create all the animations

[drifting wolf]

Okay so Sequencer doesn't always animate material properties it seems.

I have some material properties to animate particle effects. Set the material properties? Nothing. Set the transform of the object? Moves.

I have another level sequence that adjusts the same properties, and it works.

Oh interesting... if I duplicate the existing level sequence, then it works. If I make a new level sequence, and add tracks for those material properties, then it doesn't.

At least that seems to be the pattern that I'm struggling on right now.

I'm wondering if that proxy dynamic material instance that Sequencer makes is not assigned correctly.

Also might be related to why I cannot adjust the parameters in Blueprints. Ahhhh that could be it.

(4.27 btw)

Yeah. There we go. Looks like I just need to keep duplicating that level sequence.

[high dune]

having an issue where i can no longer move my mount once im mounted is this right area?

[unborn tide]

So in unreal 4.27 was playing with a mannequin for school i did Save as and saved it as a level but not i can't access my rig controller anymore or my previous animation

i tried switching it to animation but it didn't do much and my sequencer opened but empty

[ashen junco]

Any errors when you try opening the CR asset?

[unborn tide]

i think i forgot to save it lol

welp i'll just redo it

[tight stone]

I tried setting up a skateboard blendspace 1d. Had a left right and central stance animation set up. But when i tried to test out how it looked it was stuck in one of the turning stances. Is there something simple i might have overlooked? I have it set as a third person character as im planning on adding a skater to it when i sort the movement out

[digital aurora]

Retargeted Paragon Terra animations to Paragon Gideon character. But look at his hands.

How to fix it?

I changed it's pose properly before retargeting by the way

[toxic basalt]

why are my meshes bending like this?

[ashen junco]

How is it related to animation?

Is it just lost UV mapping imprecision, or defective morph target?

[toxic basalt]

There’s no channel for meshes so I thought I’d put it here. As for what you’re trying to tell me, I have no idea what you’re talking about. The meshes in the preview look fine and not wobbly, but when they’re on the character they deform

[fickle heath]

Is there a way that would allow me to change the skeletal mesh of an animation blueprint??

I retargeted all the animations with IK retargeter but I don't want to create the same animbp from scratch

Ok IK retargeter can also be used in animbp retargeting and it automatically retargets the animation assets too that's nice

[fickle heath]

After retargeting from UE5 to UE4 mannequin I realized that the feet are placed lower than the ground. There seems no problem in the IK Retargeter because both meshes have the same height. Does anyone know what is causing it?

[woven hill]

So I imported a Mixamo Character into UE 5 and the mesh and texture look fine on the skeleton. But when I imported the animation I got this: Anyone got any idea how to fix this?

[misty dagger]

anyone know wht in blender my animation with Root Motion is fine, but then imported into engine the root motion is extreme in terms of root bone

when it's no where near in Blender.

My blender unit is 0.01 then all scale is 1,1,1 exported blender as 1 and imported into UE5 1 scale etc

[grave drift]

Is there a way to make sure I can begin sprinting at a section of my rootmotion montages, i.e after a swing, so you dont feel like you lose control after a swing?
Right now I use an attack, and have to wait for it to finish before I can control my character in a direction again

[gritty ice]

hi, im debuging my Anim BP and for some reason they stop updating(at random places) and the meshes get stuck, in anim Dbugits shown as "Update Counter = -1". Any idea what could cause this ?

[buoyant warren]

Is it possible to have 2 different skeletal meshses share the same skeleton? In my case I have 2 different mixamo characters (different size characters) that I have imported into Blender (so that I can make some edits or custom animations). I have then exported the first character with a bunch of animations and imported into UE5, this works fine. But when I try to import the second character using the same UE5 skeleton it creates all kinds of problems. Firstly it gives a "Failed to Merge Bones" warning and i need to regenerate the skeleton (but i don't want to mess up my first character so I say no). Then to open the 2nd character skeletal mesh I says I must regenerate to skeleton, or it will not load. So I regenerate it works ok, but then it has screwed up my 1st character (looks like he got sucked into his own butt)

The bone hierarchy is totally the same between the two characters. I could make it a separate skeleton for each character, but then do i have to create separate animations and separate animation BP for each character? I would have hoped I could just reuse everything for all characters if they have the same bone structure

[hearty folio]

hi,
how do I make the character to face the camera when he turns from left to right?
https://imgur.com/wykOUlX

[muted flint]

Hello, after moving some files in UE editor I have all my animations "with an additional angle", any idea what went wrong and how to fix ?

[dusky lotus]

Maybe u moved a bone and applied it somehow?

[muted flint]

But if I re-import the animation, this works...

the issue is that I cannot do it manually for all my animation and I'd like to understand wtf :p

[dusky lotus]

hard to tell 😛

[rustic gull]

If you were to chat about the Animation & Rigging Tool here, is this channel the most appropriate?

[onyx pine]

Can anybody recommend a good quality third person animation pack to compliment the animation starter pack. Specifically looking for walk/jog animations without weapon and rifle hip animations.

[buoyant warren]

Use the Set Actor Rotation blueprint. Set the New Rotation Z parameter based on the Find Look at Rotation between the actor and the camera

Here is a function I wrote that makes the actor look at the camera (this function actually makes an actor or an object look at something, you can just look at the top part for actor). Pass the actor into the "Actor" input, and the camera into the "Look at Object" input

[tall inlet]

Did you fix your problem?

I did that and it solved my problem.

[stone geyser]

I will try you legend thank you

[hearty folio]

thank you!

[cunning moon]

Is it possible to do a turntable that spins greater than 180 degrees? I key it start at 0, end at 360 but it just sets the end key to 0. it will always snap to the shortest path for example if i do 0 to 359 it will snap the end key to -1 and the animation will move 1 degree making it impossible to animate anything greater than 180 degrees

nvm

[misty dagger]

I don't know the proper place to put this, but I have a number of story ideas that I want to get animated. Is anyone looking for some practice especially with over-the-top fight scene animation?

[indigo palm]

It looks like UE5's remapping does not carry over root motion

for whatever reason

I use the duplicate / retarget, pick the RTG_UE4Manny_UE5Manny option, everything converts ok. When I open the new animation, it says RM is enabled, but no RM is actually carried over

not sure why. The option to retarget root bone is checked

Ok, welp, apparently epic doesn't do a good enough job testing basic stuff

Because anyone that uses their retarget system with RM would've seen that it is most definitely broken

It just strips the root motion data from the converted file

[tall inlet]

Hum I didnt test root motion

But I saw some tutorials explaining how to do

If you look for Jubotsu channel on YT

[ashen junco]

See #instructions on how to post #volunteer-projects vacancy

[indigo palm]

@tall inletWhile I appreciate the reply, the issue here is their tooling. I've used RM many times with no issues. The RM also applies to the old animation. It only breaks once it has been retargeted

It even keeps the RootMotionEnabled as true in the retargeted copy. But the root bone does not move.

If you export out the broken animation to 3ds max, then it (expectedly so) has no translation set on the root bone

The original animation when exported to 3ds max (again, expectedly so), does have the root bone translation data

[boreal otter]

hi everyone, I am trying to recreate this effect using UE material. Does anyone know how I could do this?

this is what I have so far

any tips or ideas on how I could get this to work?

[ashen junco]

<@&213101288538374145> crosspost

[boreal otter]

i wasnt sure where to post stuff about materials so I cross posted

I can remove if I can be told where to put it

[neon zenith]

Aight, so... general question...
Do the character systems in the Lyra project have the same type/level of functionality as ALSv4?

If I left ALSv4 and went to the Lyra setup would it be an upgrade, a sidegrade or a downgrade?

[ashen junco]

Upgrade.

ALSv4 is a messy monolithic anim BP, and it was made before stuff that makes tech anim life easier, like Control Rig, came out.

[sterile warren]

Hello! I'm retargeting from UE4's mannequin to UE5's. I'm specifically retargeting a root animation and I've fixed the most common problem due to the root not being set to "globally scaled" on the retargeting asset. However, I have an issue with all of the bones related to the "gun" floating in space after the animation has been retargeted to the UE5 skeleton. I can't figure out why. Is this normal?

[neon zenith]

@ashen junco hmmm... interesting

guess I better archive all them ALSv4 tutes I never got round to doing and start hording Lyra ones 🙂

[woven rose]

Hello, how can I use the metahuman pose asset in the ik retargeter to match metahuman pose to mannequin? I'm having some problems with wonky arms when retargeting.

[median grove]

hi. someone can explain play rate clamp?

[ashen junco]

Well, ALS is a bitch to customise, not to mention some weirdly hardcoded stuff in it

[thorn tendon]

Using metahumans, my fingers are all contorted, any tips off the top of your head to fix this? I'm using marketplace asset packs as well.

[sterile warren]

Hi Chris, are you retargeting?

[thorn tendon]

Thanks for answering @sterile warren , I have already retargeted...I think haha. I also tried to do the "View pose, hide pose, modify, use current" Still no changes

[sterile warren]

You just have to edit your Chain Mapping and set "None" for the Source Chain assets that don't have mappings (first image). For example, set "None" for all of the "Metacarpel" chains as well as some of the "Twist02" chains.

[thorn tendon]

Rock on, I'll give that a go

[sterile warren]

Delete your current retargeted animations and retarget them again after you made those changes and you won't have the creepy fingers.

[thorn tendon]

Hell yeah, I'll give that a go. I have a BUNCH of anims that I already retargeted but I'll nuke them and try again using this

[sterile warren]

Select them all in the actual IK Retargeting window and you'll be able to do them all simultaneously. However, if you've already used them, then I think you'll have to manually replace each one if they're in sequencer or in AnimBPs etc. I'm not positive on this part.

[thorn tendon]

That's fine, I'll just retarget the anims. It won't kill me.

Just have to make sure I do it clean

[thorn tendon]

@sterile warren They work! Hands are fixed! Dude, this solution is so much easier than most stuff online, even the official documentation. Simply change the chain mapping, retarget anims again and boom, fixed

[sterile warren]

Awesome! Yeah, it's weird that they didn't ship the default IK Retargeting asset like that but I think it auto loads "Auto Mapping" which gets things wrong.

[thorn tendon]

I made a forum post for anyone who has the same issue, this might help them fix it @sterile warren . Thanks 1000% man
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/fix-for-metahuman-fingers-being-broken-v5-0-1/547821

[misty dagger]

hey does anyone know how I can play a part of a clip in reserve

[sterile warren]

That's awesome, thank you 😀

[misty dagger]

anyone?

[thorn tendon]

Assuming you're doing a level sequence instead of a character anim?

[misty dagger]

oh I actually had to change the rate scale to -1

thanks tho

[thorn tendon]

Next question, in UE5, Blendspace, I'm trying to preview what the anim will look like but the usual green preview slider dot is x'ed out. What gives?

nvm, I see the message in the top left of pic now hehe

[sterile warren]

Can someone please help me with a Stride Warping problem, perhaps @trim pawn? I've recorded a video of my issue and my settings. I can't find much documentation online. If someone knows of any, please let me know 😀

https://share.vidyard.com/watch/BvqWGsWcsp8Zb5DcHSDw3P?

[misty dagger]

hey would anybody have any ideas on how I can make the detection animation smooter and somehow turn towards the player when he moves?

[small dirge]

is there a function or a way to get the current output pose of an animation blueprint ?

and check if it has a valid output

[trim pawn]

force root lock on all animations is a must for it to work properly. stride warping type is automatic so its good. your character accleeration and decelerations are huge numbers i would assume as the velocit arrow snaps isntant when you add input and ends almost instant. its good to make the accleeration and decelration a bit smaller than default for fluent movement.

also.. your speed can be MINUS value from what i can see on your blend sapce being -140 to 140... stride warping doesnt take kindly minus values. make sure your velocity varaible youre feeding into the system is just linear velocity vector lenght without bias if its right left front back... just raw value. it is taken to calculate agains the root motin extraction value.

[strange nebula]

use math, how do you think

[ashen junco]

At least you edited that insult out.

[strange nebula]

is this your job? you just read this discord and check for naughty words?

[hearty folio]

@strange nebula ok, you create a project in ue5 using 3th person template and use only math to make that work.

[lost burrow]

Is there a simple way to flip a pose made in control rig to the opposite bones?

So a rig looking right can be flipped left and then exported as an fbx?

[toxic basalt]

can anyone help, my rootmotion is wobbly when i enable it

this is a mixamo issue isnt it

[ashen junco]

Don't use Mixamo lol
Especially root motion in UE4, they'll punish you for it

Personally I make them from scratch, by hand

Trained myself animating since the 'rona pandemic first hit

Though if you want to look for one, Unreal Marketplace has several anim packs for sale

[ashen junco]

Or the Argonians

[near timber]

anyone have some tips for adjusting the left-hand IK position in Lyra when using different shaped or sized weapons? been having trouble figuring out the hand ik setup

[gloomy pike]

hello guys,
do you also encounter crashes when unlinking anim layers? 😦

[zenith adder]

Someone have an understanding of why this is happening?

[sterile warren]

Thank you! I made the changes you suggested but I'm still having issues. I recorded my viewport and printed out the values of my "Ground Speed" and "Direction" variables. It seems to be a problem with both Leg IK and the Stride Warping nodes. Thanks for anyone's help 😀

https://share.vidyard.com/watch/dUpqoMuvoxQQ6Uy5RhKUbH?

[quasi atlas]

You guys have probably seen this a hundred times before but i'm having issues importing bones from blender into unreal.
I think it works fine if my bones are 'normal' size. But i have a small object with bones that are 3cm long. Unreal is failing to create the physics asset due to the bones being too small.
Any ideas? I told unreal to scale it up by 100x and that didnt work.
I've been reccomened not to screw with the scale in blender anymore. (that used to be a fix apparently)

wtf: apparently its a known and comfirmed issue in blender since 2015 - https://developer.blender.org/T47043

i blame unreal for tthis one though

[ashen junco]

Screw the scale in Blender - set the unit scaling to 0.01

And as for why Blender won't make it default... That is not to be questioned

[quasi atlas]

... I dunno what happened earlier - i was just testing to figure out what the smallest bone woudl be allowed - and it works fine - even at 3cm. I Swear i applied the scale and rotation when I had the issue.

[trim pawn]

sems like your ik target is 0,0,0 so the left hand is trying to reach the root of your character.

[trim pawn]

your velocity arrow for some reason is longer when its not forward? you also seem to have no blend in between states or directions.. aniamtions are extremely snapy.. i would haev to see the entire setup including how you get the varaibles.

it seems like a problm not in implementation of morphing animation but anim graph itself. if you disable all the warping nodes - how it looks?

[sterile warren]

Hhh thank you so much for your help! I'll try to fix this but think I have to do some more research first to understand what I'm doing better. Are there any videos or resources you recommend?

I saw that you posted a new YouTube Live recording, do you think that would be helpful @trim pawn?

[thorn tendon]

Can someone explain why there is a yellow wire coming out of this blend space but not the other. They are both the same, in theory, yet one has "attributes" while the other doesn't

[sterile warren]

If I disable all the warping nodes it looks good, except it's snappy. I believe I know how to fix this part though.

[minor terrace]

How did you learn to memorize the bone naming heirearchy in Unreal? Was there a visual poster or something that you've seen that helped?

Something like this

[thorn tendon]

You can take the standard mannequin Unreal provides in the third person template and use those bones as a reference chart

[trim pawn]

its already setup in projec tim woring on right now 😉 i wil lbe odnig mroe aniamtions later on

[sterile warren]

Looking forward, thanks!

[knotty pike]

Hey, can anyone help me I cant figure this one out anywhere... How do I get my own custom 3rd person character's arms, and with the arms retarget it to ue4_mannequin_arms?

[minor terrace]

That's the best idea, I've been such a dope and going the hard way aroudn this

[thorn tendon]

Happens to us all man!

[blissful shadow]

hey guys, i need some help with additive animations. i've exported some animations from a game that uses unreal, and most animations seems to have exported like this, https://gyazo.com/b6d39cbb57f66400175c012f769e9aba

I do have the idle animation and from reading the exported data from umodel it seems its using meshoffset additive

now this is where i am stuck. i am not familliar enough with unreal to know what to do know, i have set the animation to mesh space and selected animation frame (same as the game itself it using)

ive tried making an animation blueprint, but the end result is the same as the animation itself

i'd appriciate some thoughts of what is happening here and what i am doing wrong

[misty dagger]

Hello! Could someone help me get some animations translated/retargeted to another character?

animation starter pack attatch to a different character

[thorn tendon]

Metahuman, why is my torso, feet and legs not moving with my body?

It's working fine in the metahuman bp it creates for the character but not in a fresh bp. I hooked up the begin play and construction scripts to the T

Okay, well turns out I had something unplugged. OKay, next issue, why is it when I am close it does this?

[limpid folio]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/674462094753660958/970424261485408286/byug.mp4 Anyone know what's causing this?

[strong river]

Hi! I'm new to UE4 and trying to call a state machine enumerator but It never updated/works in the code. I'm using 1 and Space to call the enumerator states just for debug purposes

[thorn tendon]

Inside your animBP, you should have a ref to your enemy, then you pull from your enemy ref inside your animBP, get your enum, then set a local variable inside the animbp

Then you use that local enum variable for your state machine

[strong river]

I just did an oopsie

the ref was the wrong one

i just did it in the global editor and it worked

[thorn tendon]

Yeah, your anim bp works on a tick, so it's always checking that ref, which would change your anim

Glad you got it to work

[strong river]

actually, if I wanted to do this in the blueprint of the enemy itself, what would I need to reference?

[thorn tendon]

Depends on what you're doing

You change the enum in your enemy, but you need your animBP to know it changed, thus, via state machine, will change your animation

[strong river]

hm, I can get it to work in the global editor because it can reference the Enemy_BP2 but not in the Enemy editor itself because the only reference I see is ref to self, which doesnt seem to work

[thorn tendon]

Meanwhile on my end, I have to figure out why my metahuman's LOD is making it do this when I'm close

[strong river]

ouch, now thats a funny pose

[thorn tendon]

Yeah man, this is the stuff that makes you want to pull your hair out hehe

[toxic basalt]

can someone help me setup my root bone? in unreal, the root doesnt move with the armature, it stays put

[dark root]

my star wars fanimation project so far

may the fourth be with yous :)

[turbid quiver]

Hi 😄 I have a quick question. Can I blend two animations together inside an animation montage or animation composite? Basically I want to play an idle animation for x seconds and then an arm movement animation afterwards, but the transition between the two is not smooth

[strong river]

a state machine would make the transition smoother

as for how the state machine actually works...well... thats giving me trouble right now as well

[turbid quiver]

So a simple anim montage wouldn't work? I was hoping to keep it really simple. It's just one scripted sequence of these two animations

[strong river]

i have a similar problem, not entirely sure... a state machine makes them smoother, but now i have problems calling those animations in the way in want to

[turbid quiver]

Hm 🤔 I understand. My problem is this I have created a Blendspace for the two animations, which looks lik I wanted it to be, but now I'm struggling to use this Blendspace in a way to achieve the timed sequence

[strong river]

Now when I disable Character Movement my enemy doesnt take damage anymore... any ideas why?

[turbid quiver]

Oh no 😂 Maybe you somehow fucked up your hitbox?

[strong river]

thats a good point as well

but then again why would it disable he hitbox

man being a newbie in unreal sucks i have no idea what im doing 😭

[turbid quiver]

I feel you XD

[fickle heath]

How can I set my speed negative when I'm moving backwards? I have a blendspace that uses negative speed values for backwards animations. It worked automatically in my previous project but now it doesn't.

[ashen junco]

Is the character always facing against the camera?

[fickle heath]

Not always. It does that when I do aim down sights.

[fickle heath]

FIXED IT

used something like this

no negative speed values, just using directions

saw a similar thing in a matt aspland video

[high dune]

having an issue after i posssess horse i loose character equipment until i dismount then it reappears if anyone has any suggestions

[meager sedge]

Anyone had issues with animations created within UE upscaling the actor when played? So I go to my skeleton, click new asset, add a few frames, then save, and for whatever reason, whenever I try and use that animation, the actor scales to 30x the size or whatever

do I need to normalize the animation or something?

[ruby mica]

is there some way to sample an animation curve for a specific pose/sequence player? I would have expected the Get Curve Value node to accept a pose input, but maybe there's another context I can use the node to get what I want?

Also, what does it do as it is, given that there may be multiple animations being blended, each with their own version of the curve? I'm guessing it blends the curve values?

[severe escarp]

hi guys im pretty new to UE5 and know a bit of UE4. by using the same basics of UE4 i tried to make a simple AI in UE5. everything works fine except the AI is sliding across floor while moving rather than his legs moving. both the player and AI r using the same animation BP. i tried many things but still it dint solve the problem.

can any1 tell me why is this happening?

[sterile warren]

Following! I'm having this same issue.

[sterile warren]

Did you figure this out?

[sterile warren]

I am having this same problem with the exact same setup. The Leg IK messes up everything including Orientation and Stride warping. How did you resolve it?

[ripe coral]

hey guys, i've been learning modeling in blender, and was wondering for making animations, what makes you choose unreal engine over blender to animate, make short films, etc

[sterile warren]

It doesn't really matter! You could use either Blender or Unreal to animate. If you're planning on rendering in Unreal, then that's why you might choose to animate there as well. It's simply a pipeline choice. Hope that helps!

[ripe coral]

oh wow thanks! i'm way more comfortable using UE4 and new to blender. haha thank you

Gonna go with UE4/5 🙂

ive never used unreal for animations but i find rigging / apply animations there much easier

[sterile warren]

No problem! I'm learning too. I think the pipeline that's common is to model and rig in a DCC still like Maya or Blender etc., and then use UE's control rig and procedural animation tools to do the actual animating either in sequencer or in game.

[zenith adder]

@trim pawn Thanks, I guess these are not getting saved in sequencer.

[ashen junco]

Depends.

Personally I use Blender for making animations for gameplay (or for clients), and UE4's Control Rig + Sequencer for making cinematics.

Blender (and in extent Maya) has more straightforward constraint setup than Control Rig, and that makes animating holding an object more easier

[ashen junco]

#graphics

[coral jasper]

aa i thought that was for hardware thnx

[faint pulsar]

Anyone knows how to use this one? Not sure how to add a tag to an anim graph. Trying to use this to access a linked abp template from a regular abp

or if anyone knows of a better way to achieve the same aim. Hoping to run more code in the event graph of a template so I can make use of it in a modular way in other animation blueprints, but the blueprint communication setup seems quite different from what I'm used to.

Documentation seems to only cover working in the anim graph and not the event graph

[trim pawn]

Your retarget asset seem to not have proper chain config or is not for this skeletal mesh at all

[sterile warren]

Please help lol! I can't figure out why the IK Bones from the UE4 skeleton for a Root Motion animation aren't transferring properly to the UE5 skeleton. I've recorded a video to show all of my settings and the problem below.

https://share.vidyard.com/watch/y2LhqJ9RnEUt1P2QDir5Mm?

[weary ibex]

I am trying to make an interaction system where each object contains the montage to play when it is used. How do you typically setup the system so that the character is positioned correctly when the animation starts playing? I think this is a common pattern but I am making it up as I go along 😅 If anyone knows any good resources for such a system that would also be appreciated!

[shy sandal]

Anyone working with Lyra? Curious how involved or specialized animations need to be to work with their system. Would like to implement melee/magic animations.

[lilac path]

Hey friends! Do you know if it's possible to export an animated camera as a FBX? I tried and the camera comes into C4D with no keyframes - thanks!

[ashen junco]

Either move the character into position, or use IK to have their limb reach the object.

[weary ibex]

Thanks! When you say move the character into position do you mean something along the lines of take control of the player, disable input, and lerp them?

[ashen junco]

Yeah, pretty much that

[weary ibex]

Thank you 🙂

[ruby mica]

bump. In the meantime I'll look into cpp options...

[placid pagoda]

anyone tried using plask.ai to do motion capture and try to retarget the animation in Unreal? I've been in this rabbit hole all day, while the body animation seem to all retarget right, the arms are all messed up. Would love to hear any ideas. The following are what I've done so far:

• I've used a plugin to add root to the bone
• I've adjusted the mannequin to be T-pose since that's what plask is using
• plask rig doesn't have twisk bone so i set those to none

[ashen junco]

UE4 or UE5?

Probably it's because Blender's bone orientation screwing up, but in my past experience hard retarget should remedy that as long as reference bone is matching.

Duplicate Anim Asset And Retarget = hard retarget

Maybe the retarget settings are missed? Show what you have on it.

[ripe coral]

Ohh thanks! Yeah I want to make short films/cinematics so I think unreal would be the best route 🥳🥳

[ruby mica]

is there any way in BP to read the curve data on an animation sequence??

[ashen junco]

Maybe through anim montage? I'm not entirely sure about that

[ruby mica]

dang, with all of unreal's flexibility and animation tooling I really did not expect to have such a hard time with something this simple. Sadge

how do people normally determine how much to warp their locomotion animations? There are lots of resources talking about speed warping etc, but no one talks about how much warping

do ppl just tune it manually?

[bold lake]

Not sure why, but why does this happen to character when I retargeted it

[keen minnow]

Hey I have this animated door that only animates when triggered by box collision, is there any way I can use that animation in a level sequence? I am trying to render out a scene using that door's animation produced by the timeline in the door blueprint.

just not sure how to call it in the sequencer to activate

[ashen junco]

Trigger the event that runs the timeline in the actor's track.

[keen minnow]

I tried that but I am unsure how to tbh lol

I will continue trying to find tutorials on that feature though

thanks!

[eternal wagon]

Are there any extra steps in UE5 to get a animation Montage to play? My code seems find and I have the DefaultSlot

[blissful shadow]

is there anyone that could help me out with this?

[ashen junco]

I don't condone asset ripping, so I won't bother taking it further.

Also asset ripping is pretty much on your own to solve, including RE flaws.

[blissful shadow]

from what i've heard riot is okay with it. but thats fine

[keen minnow]

Hi I am still lost on how to get the events to attach. If anyone is skilled in attaching blueprint events to sequencer for rendering please let me know

I don't want to spam the chat with blueprint photos but I am just too new to blueprints honestly to understand how to call this event lol

[lost burrow]

I'm hoping someone here can help me. I'm trying to create an aim offset and I'm pretty close. But as you can see in this video the heads rotation is not exactly moving in the way id like in the blendspace and it looks very strange when played in game on the second half of the video. Currently all the additive poses use mesh space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UHYqEVIPR8

Anyone know what the issue might be? I created these poses using the third person character control rig

[quasi vale]

i have a question about blending animations

currently i have these animations of drawing a sword and running which work great

but then when i go to swing the sword it messes up and only does the top half poorly and not the bottom half at all

if i change it so it isnt blending everything works fine except you slide when drawing a sword for example and i was wondering what i could do to get around this

[spring karma]

Hey guys, how can I create an animation file so I can use it on my animation blueprint for my character? I want to create animations for my character but have no idea how to. (I'm coming from Unity)

[ashen junco]

You can set up an animating Control Rig and make animations in Level Sequencer

[spring karma]

So basically this is an animation file used on the animation blueprint?

It's a bit confusing because the level sequencer has the entire level/world, but I want to animate the player character, so I load the character on the level and play with it on location 0? (I mean, location zero so it doesn't mess with location on the animation itself)

[ashen junco]

Nope.
"Animation file" in Unreal is Animation Sequence

You can animate a Control Rig in Sequencer and then bake it into an Anim Sequence

[spring karma]

I don't quite understand it as I've never done this on Unreal, can you recommend me any videos showing the workflow? D:

[ashen junco]

Here's your getting started video with Control Rig in Unreal Engine
(video was made with UE4 in mind but should be applicable to UE5)

https://youtu.be/y2WzNvJZk0E

[spring karma]

That's really nice of you, thank you so much! I'll watch carefully.

[ripe coral]

I've been struggling on making a proper rig for my character in blender, is there an asset that will easily create a rig for unreal engine?

I looked into uefy but wasn't sure about it

Haven't tested it cause of the paywall but If I'm gonna buy something i might as well get something i wont regret

[spring karma]

Same here.

My character rig looks and works normally on Blender, but on Unreal it has extra bones which makes it all looks very weird.

[ashen junco]

<@&213101288538374145> permission to pin this

[spring karma]

That's mainly the reason I asked for a tutorial, maybe I'm missing something, the video covers everything which is great.

[ripe coral]

Ohh thank you!

Oh wait so I'd create a bone then export to unreal?

In blender

[ashen junco]

Personally I use Auto Rig Pro over Uefy. It does cost $40 but I think the time saved is worth the paying price.

[spring karma]

Auto Rig Pro looks awesome

[ripe coral]

Will autorig create the bone too and rig it? And rig to ue4/5 easily? 👀

Autorig does look good

[ashen junco]

Yes, though current version's Unreal Engine export is based on UE4 mannequin skeleton

[spring karma]

Doesn't the UE4 Mannequin also works on UE5? At least I think the preview used it.

[ashen junco]

Final UE5 version of the mannequins use different skeleton, that closer to MetaHuman's.

[spring karma]

I think they're already working on it?

[ripe coral]

THANK YOU

[ripe coral]

I can try it out and let you know

I'll get it in a bit haha

[spring karma]

Thank you so much! I would love to know if it works well with UE5 :)

[copper compass]

Anyone know if it's possible to put character animation into a widget? (e.g. A portrait of my dumb character's head bobbing around). 10 minutes of googling has not proved helpful

[ashen junco]

Do you mean showing the skeletal mesh in widget, or just animating texture of the portrait?

[copper compass]

Skeletal Mesh

[ashen junco]

If you already have the animation going, then it's just the matter of setting up scene capture and render target, and then use the render target as image on the widget.

And that'd be topic for #graphics

[copper compass]

Ok I'll try. Ty

[weary ibex]

What montage slots do you typically have in your game? Does UpperBody, LowerBody seem like a sensible place to start? Then if it is a full body animation play it in both slots?

[ashen junco]

Typically it'd be Upper Body and Lower Body slots goes to layered blend per bone, then followed by the Full Body slot.

[weary ibex]

Thanks 🙂 So basically Full Body animation always gets highest priority. Makes sense!

[copper compass]

Yep that method worked. His dumb head is bobbing around. TY

[ripe coral]

Auto rig pro reallllly makes things easier. But for some reason my characters eyes (which is just a smooth sphere) and the UV texture images on my item doesn't show up in unreal

I also get a failed to merge skeleton error when importing with unreal mannequin skel

[solid viper]

Hello guys !

New to the unreal engine pipeline for artists, and I come on their behalf !

They're asking me if you guys have a great pipeline to export unreal animations (specificly, the new ue5 mannequins anims) from unreal to maya in order to add some modifications or tweaks and then reimport them to ue5?

Feel free to ping me if you're willing to help and give some insights, thank you to anyone taking the time to do so!!!

[sharp grail]

Hey, I'm extremely new to 3D animation & Unreal.
I cant find any info about recommended poly counts for animating in unreal 5.
I'm not sure how large the poly count on my characters, garments, scene etc can be.
Can anyone point me in the direction of this info?
Thanks

[ashen junco]

Largely depends on hardware you're targeting and/or art direction.
Can be as high as 100K polys, can be as low as 1K polys

[sharp grail]

Thanks for the advice

[misty dagger]

my AI isn't activating his walking/running animation
he just hovers over to me
i'm guessing his animations are tied to some other movement input or event?
if anyone is good at that stuf

[ashen junco]

Check the character's anim BP, make sure speed values used for the locomotion isn't something set by the player input

[misty dagger]

Hm, it's pawn owner > get forward vector > vector length = variable Speed

[thorn tendon]

@ashen junco Are you open to paid freelance work by any chance?

[golden lichen]

I've setup a simple move to location for my character, which works perfectly in ue4 but for some reason it just slides in ue5. Any ideas what could it be?

[crisp bluff]

what mean by inertialization node?

[warm island]

i am trying to make the look at function in the anim bp lerp when not needed, any way to do so?

[pseudo tangle]

Anyone have an idea why my notify trigger not in my game but in my animation blend it trigger? I checked is in my blend I have the notify trigger mode a highest weighted

I work actually in ue5

In ue4 the notify trigger correctly

[storm pilot]

I have an animation/montage that I can drop into a scene and see it working. I cannot call 'play montage' from my character to make it play the animation. what am i doing wrong?

[rustic blade]

Hey all, Im using sequencer to play animations, and the animations have root motion. Its working well for individual animations, my skeletal mesh in the world moves to match the root motion, but when its done, it snaps back to its initial spot. ive tried to use the "KeepState" checkbox, but it still snaps back. Can anyone think of anything I might be missing?

[rustic blade]

Found the answer, in case anyone else was wondering https://youtu.be/CBZeoIdYhB8 🙂

[hollow delta]

Anyone know what’s causing this

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/fM9AE6EF425AVqWIUj_ajecvZjdHgkPmYV8TIUVA_mE/https/media.discordapp.net/attachments/911220074482896926/972190198236577832/agt.png

The animation is stretched but in Blender it appears fine

[short wasp]

@hollow delta Have you tried applying all transforms to the model before exporting the animation?

[tiny dune]

In this form, he looked, to be honest, also not bad ... Unusual, to some extent even mysterious) U can use it as an "easter egg" )

[nimble cradle]

Hey all-- non animator here. How long does it take to animate a weapon... like a pistol? Firing, reloading.

[short wasp]

@nimble cradle That depends on how proficient you are with software and how detailed and complicated your animation is. I've seen a video of some not overly detailed, but ok looking reload for a rifle reload made in about an hour, that was from someone who knew blender tho. I would say maybe a few hours at first for something not super simple before you figure stuff out? Very basic placeholder anims can be made much faster.

[nimble cradle]

@short wasp thanks for your reply! I'm asking from the perspective of someone who would be paying someone else to create animations. I'm trying to ballpark costs for a game design document.

[ashen junco]

What kind of work?

[short wasp]

@nimble cradle I'll honestly say I have no idea, but my guess is it's a matter of how complicated you want them. I think the smartest move would be to ask a potential contractor about estimated costs and time for the most accurate answer.

[ashen junco]

If you're speedrun it, around a day

Depends on the weapon complexity as well.

[short wasp]

I guess I can try asking something as well, I've made a placeholder animation and am trying to make it work in UE5, but it doesn't. Attached vid shows the difference. I've prepared the Blender so it exports to UE, and have a preset for it.
Any idea how to approach animating 2 objects that are connected at first, disconnect at some point, and connect back again? Am I doing something wrong?

[ashen junco]

As in left and right arm have separate anims? Or the knife is a separate skelmesh?

[short wasp]

@ashen junco The knife in Blender and in UE rotate in a different axis

[ashen junco]

Blend pose by bool?

[short wasp]

Also separate skelmeshes, yeah

[hollow delta]

The transforms are already applied

[warm island]

it's not really a pose but i found a workaround

between 40 degrees and 90 degrees it smooths the range between 0 and 1 and this is used in the alpha so it looks like a smooth transition

[thorn tendon]

Just need an hour or two screen share with me to help set up a solid animBP that solves some weird jitter I have with my character.

Might not even take that long

[quasi vale]

How can I blend animations but keep some unblended. For example keeping my running and unsheathing a weapon animations blended but the swinging animations unblended

[short wasp]

@quasi vale Playing animation as a montage lets you set blend in and out time for that specific montage

[quasi vale]

Ohhh I see, I think I was already using montages but I didn't set the blend in and out

It's been a day or two so I forget off the top of my head

I'll go check that out!

[quasi vale]

yeah no after messing around it didnt change anything because im blending overall animations through the anim bp

so i probably missed something but idk what it is

[ashen junco]

Yeah, sorry, I can't take screen share at the moment.
Feel free to post the problem in question in here tho

[thorn tendon]

Ohhh not today man, some other time though haha.

[quasi vale]

does anyone know how i can fix this problem?

[quasi vale]

im trying to figure out different ways to word it x.x, basically my animation mont is only playing from my blend point up and i was wondering if there was a way to fix that

[ashen junco]

🎰

Er, no, I mean, Slots

[quasi vale]

sorry for spamming so much

slots?

ohh

so do i add a new pin in the layered blend perhaps?

[ashen junco]

Yes, Slots.
You can define what slot to use in an anim montage, then in your animBP, make use of the slots to layered blend per bone.

Typically full body slot goes last, after you do the upper/lower body layered blends.

[quasi vale]

ok i see

1 last question before i go do that, how do i define what slot to use in the anim mont?

nvm

[ashen junco]

There is the option in the anim montage asset.

[quasi vale]

i change the default group

[high dune]

looking for help with showing my inventory items after i posses a mount it only shows my rider mesh https://gyazo.com/d3d841b8149bcd2d5f06348da133a214 https://gyazo.com/b51a2c920610e2f6a92d992201f2126b

[quasi vale]

i figured it out! thank you

[unreal stump]

How does the node Blend Poses by Enum work exactly? I'm trying to blend from one stance to another, half the time it works and the other half of the time the character just snaps into the new animation

[unreal stump]

Never mind, I figured it out, I had to many state machines. Way over complicated it

[shut bane]

So anyone else had issues where animation notifys aren't firing? I manage to fix it before on another animation by recreating the notify but it appears to not fix this one

I assume it's a 4.26 bug

right yeah, fixed it

just dump another animation on, I think it was my error because of these dumb naming conventions

[median grove]

hi. i wanna create some additive head animations like blinking. how can i export head animations like body from maya to ue?

[crude bloom]

trying to learn some more about rigging/skinning

whats the best approach for the skirt/waist area? does anyone know of any good resources for skirts etc?

im working in blender and unreal btw

[ashen junco]

If the waist area isn't supposed to be as flexible as a cloth, you can have the thigh area kind of influence the larger part of the skirt

[bronze osprey]

this looks like a metal skirt tho

so i would weight each segment 100% to a bone

[cedar rain]

at least each ring should be rigidly weighted to the same value ( not necessarily to a single bone)

[full pumice]

for some reason my hands are not retargeting in ue5

I am using character creator

The hands are off

[hidden crown]

Try to disable 'apply modifier' when export from blender

[stone creek]

How to transit from one animation [Idle] to another animation [SuperLazy] after some seconds like 10s...

[stone creek]

ok solved it never mind!

[fickle heath]

How can I blend two animations in a desired duration?

Curves can also work too

[bitter shard]

Does anyone know a good place to get motion capture animations, specifically for action such as guns or close quarters combat? There are only 2 mocap animsets for rifle/pistol on the marketplace (Kubold and Mocap Online) and they're both from several years ago, surely someone else has made such packs during the last couple years?

[ashen junco]

surely someone else has made such packs during the last couple years

If it weren't for how expensive mocap setup is, and how those packs won't fit one's specific needs and have to be "generalised", there would be dozen more being sold.

[bitter shard]

Yeah I know it's expensive, but it's possible to rent a mocap studio for a day and capture what you need for a fraction of the price, I'm sure you'd turn a profit from selling it later on.

[ashen junco]

Easier said than done.
But you put it that way, so you should do that yourself then.

[dawn schooner]

Hi! I am trying to animate my custom rigged character from maya using motion capture (the perception neuron 3 suit). Does anyone have any resources / advice on how to do this? Thanks so much

[bitter shard]

Nah, I'd rather spend my time on the actual game.

@dawn schooner It says on their website they have an integration with Maya, have you checked that out?

[dawn schooner]

Shoot thank you so much! I dont know how I missed that hahaha

[hallow elm]

https://i.gyazo.com/cc17a4f93701b85c7b7721336af2b66a.mp4
I have a problem
when I jump, my animation will be broken
it's child of 3rdPerson animation BP, and I override it by 1stPerson animations
I correctly override it by the 1stPerson walk animation, but didn't be shown

[thorn galleon]

I have a mesh with a morph on it. I have exported the Mesh from Blender via FBX and gotten it into UE successfully. Now I want to create an Animation Sequence that will use the morph. Its all just testing ATM so very simple.

In the animation editor, from the Create Asset drop down I chose Create Animation, which it does

but its 0 frames long

how can I set the time of the animation? I don't see it anywhere in the interface

I was able to add a Track for the morph, all seems pretty simple but, I just have no length to the animation.

Set the Length, more specifically

[split mist]

I got a question more so about trying to do some good design practice

I'm currently doing a small personal project in UE4 to learn more about it, and so far have all my character's animations happening as animation sequences in the anim graph. I'm making a player for an action game with "normal" attacks, a couple "special" attacks, shooting, and the ability to cancel certain moves into others at certain times (copying ideas from Devil May Cry). A lot of it is done but some bugs need fixing. So far I've just used animation sequences in animation graphs and it's getting pretty busy

As I look into animation montages (which I haven't touched yet) I'm thinking it might be easier to mostly use those and run the attacks in my anim bp's functions or event graph rather than setting so many flags to get the anim graph state machine to do what I want.

My question is, is it appropriate to make all my "attack" animations to montages to take them out of my anim graph? Part of me feels like this is hacky workaround but then again idk what's appropriate since my character's logic is feeling pretty complicated by now. Idk where something like this would usually belong (or whether there's a suggested place to put these anyway)

tldr: for my action game character should I make my attack animations into mointages and call them in the anim bp instead of just using animation sequences and the anim graph

[ashen junco]

Is the jump animation a state, or a montage?