animation

[potent thunder]

• If you want to stay in 3 looping, you'll have to make another loop, like as long as you hold the "Z" key one bool stays in true, and when that bool turns false you skip to 1

-Or use an animation montage with different sections

-Also If you are more specific about what you want to do I may be more of help xD

-Also if you just want a dancing loop set those animations in a random sequence player, you can set the transition time and the frecuency of triggering each of the dances

[warm island]

I give... what the heck happened?

I retargeted it with similar bone structure

AH

it wasn't in A pose

A pose fixed it

[vast hare]

any idea why an mesh snaps back to initial start after playing an animation with root motion activated?

https://i.gyazo.com/7b43c5dd0c706e3fe829dec0b1ead24b.gif
i enabled it in my animation

and this is the result:

https://i.gyazo.com/3695a3d467a431eeeabd1a816e1c9f9e.gif

[tiny granite]

Yup! You need to tell the next animation to use previous root motion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBZeoIdYhB8

Explained here. :)

[ashen junco]

This is not Blender server, sir.

[vagrant halo]

sorry.

[elfin field]

Hi guys, I am with a custom character and it have multiple meshes. All of them are sharing the same skeletal but not using the same bones. So I have no body part that can be the Master Component if I try it, other parts of body dont animate. Anyone have a solution for this?

[ashen junco]

Do you have some kind of "proxy" skelmesh that have the barebone bones in the skeleton, for the visual skelmeshes to follow?

||pun is not covered by insurance||

[elfin field]

Sadly not. I've tried to get the full mesh version I have and hide it in game but, when I hide it in game it broke.

[tiny granite]

How can u have the same skeleton and not the same bones?

I mean we have a shared skeleton as well for like 50 different meshes for characters and some of them use additional bones, but they are all the same base.

[elfin field]

like this.

In this example pic, I can animate the hand_r but not the index to children

[tiny granite]

Gotcha. So the bones are there on the skel, your mesh just isn't using them.

Idk if you can, but you MIGHT be able to use control rig

I think it can bind directly to the mesh.

I haven't tried it yet, just normal CR setup.

[elfin field]

I will give it a shot

Copy animation on anim bp also didnt worked

and I dont want to merge meshes, because I use morph

[ashen junco]

Define "broke"

[elfin field]

stop working/not work anymore/work on blueprint but not while play the game

[ashen junco]

There is an option to have the animation tick even if the skelmesh component is not visible

[elfin field]

in anim bp or character bp?

[ashen junco]

Character BP

[elfin field]

its set for always tick already

[strong forum]

Hm, I see.
So Mr Mannequins has the default UE4 Mannequin already rigged (rigged means it can be posed/animated)
Rigify allows you to create your rig on humanoids, but you have to set it up
That means if you're going to animate on the UE4 Mannequin then you use Mr Mannequins
But if you have a custom character (for example, short height or long arms or something), then you have to use Rigify
Alternatively you can create the animations on the UE4 Mannequin and then retarget them (I never used retargeting but I heard it's inaccurate)
Does this sound right?

[ashen junco]

Yes, but I don't recommend Rigify that much due to its finicky setup

[strong forum]

What would you recommend instead of Rigify?

[vast hare]

but i am using states, is that then still valid?

cant do it that way like in that video explained sadly

[ashen junco]

I recommend Auto Rig Pro, paid but worth the time saved in rigging work.

I'm sure someone's going to scold me hard for not recommending Rigify + Uefy again lmfao

[strong forum]

Uefy is a python script made for Blender 2.8x that enables rigify addon to export an Epic Skeleton compatible bone hierarchy. You can quickly rig and export any character and create new animations for Unreal Engine from Blender.

What is "Epic Skeleton compatible bone hierarchy"?
You can't export directly from Blender/Rigify into UE?

[ashen junco]

You can, but you will have way harder time using it with UE's anim workflows.

[strong forum]

What kind of issues?
Like for Mr Mannequin, I can export from Blender and import to UE and then it works fine
What kind of issues would there be if I used just Rigify then import it to UE?

[zenith sapphire]

how can I tell this to always play the locomotion state machine unless you are shooting (a boolean)

edit: and if you are shooting then play both of them combined like I have it now

[zenith sapphire]

lookey there, I'm new when messing with animations, but I just decided to throw my own thought at it, because I have been struggling for a couple of hours, and I got something that works.
edit: I know its probably not optimal

[ashen junco]

If it's not "Epic skeleton"/UE4 Mannequin compatible, you'll have hard time retargeting animations, using it with IK nodes/control rigs, etc.

[fleet willow]

Blend Poses by bool is pretty fine here.
Yet you should properly name your cached animations xD

[whole blaze]

A question about Blend by Bool , the blending time doesnt work for me if i set it like 1 or 2

[worldly swan]

Hello everyone, I would like to ask what can be the different ways to handle a blocked melee attack animation (a sword blocked by a shield or a wall for example). I have no idea on how to handle all possible scenarios. Should this be a dedicated animation made for each attack animations?

[ashen junco]

Just make a sword blocked animation and call it a day?

I'm sure it doesn't have to be super accurate, right?

[worldly swan]

Yes of course, so I should play it as a montage?

[ashen junco]

Yes, the same as attack anim montage you have

[worldly swan]

Ok thank you

[fleet willow]

I think the scale is rather from 0 to 1, so everything above 1 would be treated as 1 i guess

[zenith sapphire]

Oh yea I did, I just was excited I finally got that working
edit: and took the pic

[deft prairie]

I am looking for Female Locomotion Animations for walking idle and running.

Can anyone recommend me a Pack from the marketplace and had good experience with it?

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/female-locomotion-animation-pack
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/female-movement-animset-pro

I found this 2 and the both work in UE5 but the 2nd has like a lot of bad reviews lately so i am not so sure how well they work.

If you know any other animation packs that work in UE5 with the Female Manny Queen please link them here.

.

[ashen junco]

Considering you posted this twice, I can't recommend anim packs to buy - I make anims from scratch.

[tiny granite]

Either of them work. I am not quite sure what the question is.

It's about the way the look, does it match what your going for. Both have in depth videos.

[deft prairie]

Yeah i wasn't sure, since i was asking first in marketplace but i realised they talk more about "how to setup the marketplace products" so i was thinking maybe i should ask in animation.

[deft prairie]

Its mostly about animation packs are usually more MANLY so they walk rather strong, but i was looking for feminine walking animations, but i found only this 2 and was usurious if there are more then that.

[ashen junco]

I think there's not much when it comes to reference for feminine locomotion anims, also considering most of animators selling those in MP are likely male, and can't have female friends and relatives record video references or even setting up mocaps.

[runic sundial]

It's impossible to make these things look tidy :'C

[bleak ruin]

in the default ue5 control rig example, when moving the right hand all the finger controls move with it but when moving the left hand they all stay in place

i cant for the life of me figure out why

[fleet willow]

In UE5 you can*
There's a thing called "State Alias". It has pretty much the ability to remove the old UE4 spider webs in the animation blueprint

Must say there is really not much information about it, but i somewhat understand it with that dangling amount of information by playing with that

[vapid glade]

How do i get that blend space blue thingy on UE5?

[fleet willow]

Right click on such a node, then you can select - under the property window (i think?) - whenever you want to expose the animation as pin

[vapid glade]

Sorry what shall i do here?

[fleet willow]

Sorry, right clicking it was probably the wrong move here.
Just selecting the node should be enough to get the property window or however it was called to show up somewhere at the right side

[vapid glade]

yeah the details panel

[fleet willow]

Ye

[vapid glade]

But its nothing here, The video im watching he has something just called "blend space" and he checks it and it will pop up

[fleet willow]

Let me quickly start the engine

[vapid glade]

alr 😄

[fleet willow]

So seems like that node is called AnimOffset Player in UE5

[vapid glade]

wait how did you find settings?

[fleet willow]

Not sure what you mean

[vapid glade]

I do not have something called Settings

[fleet willow]

It's under the Details panel at the bottom when you select that node

[vapid glade]

I only got Sync on the bottom

[fleet willow]

You've probably created the AnimOffset node and not the AnimOffset Player node

[vapid glade]

ahhhhhhhhh

Cheers man!

[outer trellis]

How can I fix the rotation of the mesh? it doesn't rotate according to the editor live preview. It only moves around X|Y|Z and scales by X|Y|Z but isn't rotating along the axis, any advice? ( didn't find fix online )

[fleet willow]

Sounds to me like you either have set the input code wrongly or you are not using the right setting which was something like "Use controller yaw" or something like that in your BP when selecting the capsule component (i think?)

Could be also just an attachment issue

[outer trellis]

after playing with this a bit, all i needed to do is add another skeletal mesh and put the skeletal mesh there

i feel like a fool damn it...

[fleet willow]

Well yeah, attachment issue xD

[outer trellis]

So if the mesh \ skeletal mesh is attached to the mesh that is inherited it doesn't feel like being in a fixed axis

wth mate

[fleet willow]

This has actually nothing to do with animations, might be better to ask continues question about it in #ue4-general or #ue5-general

[outer trellis]

i mean i use the mesh for animation ^_^

[fleet willow]

And once you actually add animations this would be the right channel :P

[outer trellis]

but ye, i tried and the channels seems dead so i tried into a different # that's somehow related

but ye alright sry ^_^

[fleet willow]

Dw, just letting you know xD

[lone wharf]

Anyone know of a method to handle joint orientations / axis conversion in blueprints? One skeleton is y-forward vs z-forward

[bleak ruin]

can you add a preview asset to a bone while in the sequencer like you could while viewing an animation?

[round grotto]

Quick question, I'm not an animator and I'm just trying to put something together, can i use control rig instead of making animations in blender?

[bleak ruin]

yeah im doing it right now

it will be easier in blender though

[round grotto]

How do you save the animation assets? the tutorial on the unreal channel used a level sequencer to animate

to be honest first time seeing the level sequencer, my head is spinning

[bleak ruin]

what i do is duplicate an old animation, usually idle because its a good base, click on it and up top go to bake to control rig

[midnight thorn]

Does anyone have an opinon on which montage node to use? MontagePlay vs PlayMontage?

[bleak ruin]

this button actually saves the animation

[round grotto]

ahh so you bake to control rig , animate, then bake back into the asset.

[gleaming vale]

Hey dudes. So I set up a rig and a retargeter in UE5 to import Mixamo animations. In both the rig and the retargeter when I preview animations, it looks great. As soon as I try to use them inside of my anim blueprint though, the legs tuck up inside of the model. Any idea what might be going on?

[rose prawn]

What does it look like when you drop the retargeted animation into the world?

Anyone compared the Lyra animation to something like MoveIt or even ALS?

[ashen junco]

Just attach any actor to the bone

[gleaming vale]

Hmmmm. I haven't done that. I'll try it when I get home later. In case you're not on when I get back, what do you think it indicates either way? If it looks fine when I drop it in vs if it looks wonky.

[rose prawn]

If it's fine in-world but not in the anim BP, the difference would be in the anim BP. It's not an additive animation, right?

[rancid horizon]

Does anyone know how to make a C++ function accesible in the Anim Graph too? I've got "UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)" on it and it works in the Anim BP in the Event Graph but is there a way to make it visible to call in the Anim Graph too?

[ashen junco]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/custom-animgraph-node-c-templates/90698

[rancid horizon]

thank you!

[snow orchid]

If you don't want to use Rigify + Uefy that is your preference. However it has worked perfectly fine for me and many other people for many years. It gives me access to Rigify and I don't want to use a different rig in blender.

[crystal imp]

Say, I have this root motion animation I made and I was trying to 'Force Root Lock' but it isn't working...any idea what I did wrong with the animation?

[gleaming vale]

No. They are just standalone animations from Mixamo.

[tiny granite]

Do the back legs need 2 different IKs and somehow link them together?

This is the best I was able to get them. But it's not right. The front legs are working well, just not the back legs.

[glacial pelican]

I exported my mesh to unreal, but not all the animations are coming with it. Im using Send to Unreal. Anybody know why this is happening?

[glacial pelican]

fixed by adding animations to the stack

[stark gate]

Anyone had issues getting the control rig in ue5 to work in build? Seems to be an issue with the forward solver in animation blueprints. Works in editor, not in package

[stark gate]

Good morning, does anyone know? Please

[ashen junco]

Personally I see it as upper fold part as the knee, and the lower fold part as the ankle. Treating a quadruped as if it's a biped

[strong forum]

Dang. $40 for Auto-Rig Pro
It's tempting and I understand it'll save a lot of effort and time
I think Uefy 2 also costs money (but Rigify is free)
I'm currently just using animations for mannequins... so I guess I'll stick with Mr Mannequins for now

[ashen junco]

Unfortunately I don't use UE5, so yeah.

[gleaming vale]

Awesome. Animation isn't my main thing so thanks for showing me this debug method. It looks fine when I drop the animation right into the scene so I guess I need to look at the AnimBP.

[gleaming vale]

ok so it's something to do with the Control Rig node

It seems in step 5, something isn't behaving correctly with the IK

[tiny granite]

What's going on?

IKs can be.... Finicky. Lol

[gleaming vale]

The legs are tucking up inside of the character

[tiny granite]

How is your IK Setup?

[bleak ruin]

it'll do

[fleet willow]

Anyone ? 😅

[bleak ruin]

this doesnt work for you?

[fleet willow]

I was using that, but none of the pre-existing poses you can select match the hand/finger positions which ends up with the results i've posted

And well, the pose editor in there is really.. bad compared to the old UE4 ways where we had more options than just rotating the bones

[misty dagger]

hi, im sorry if this is the wrong channel but is there a video on how to add a wind to trees in ue5? ive got a low poly tree and i want to add wind physics to it

[fleet willow]

#graphics fits the most for your question as it's related to materials (which #graphics covers)

[ashen junco]

By materials, which is #graphics domain

[misty dagger]

👍

[short wasp]

Hi! Quick question, I've made a model in Blender with some animations, imported them into UE5 and it was fine, but after making more animations and attempting to reimport the asset, the new ones don't show up. I've tried a few things, but nothing works.

[autumn venture]

Hi all. Can anyone point me in the direction on how to set up marketplace characters with the UE4 skeleton? Or do I always have to use Retarget Manager to create new animation files if that character is not based on the UE4 mannequin skeleton?

I'm watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io76DagpS-8 which says to do that, but it would result in a lot of duplicate animation files.

It would be a lot less work if I could just convert humanoid character models to use the UE4 mannequin, I think.

Some packages make that work out of the box but things like Mixamo don't match.

[arctic fern]

Yikes, the new UE5 retargeting system is way more work

Like, why did they not ship with an auto-retarget tool to sort out all the chains automatically is beyond me

[gleaming vale]

The retargeter has a button you can press that attempts to sort the selecte chain

[arctic fern]

If there is I can't find it

The only way to set up an ik rig from what I can tell is purely manually

[gleaming vale]

In your retargeter, look in the Chain Mapping tab. Above your chains is a button with a green circle that says "Auto-Map Chains"

Yeah you have to manually add them still you're correct

[arctic fern]

There is no such tab

[gleaming vale]

there is... I'm looking at it. Maybe you need to look in window to make sure it's checked

[arctic fern]

Oh nevermind you mean the retargeter

[gleaming vale]

Yes. I said retargeter

[swift edge]

Yeah I think they mean the automation of setting up the IK Rig.

[gleaming vale]

Right. Yeah that's still manual unfortunately.

[swift edge]

And even the auto chain mapping feature only works half the time for me

[ionic merlin]

Is there a IK that could be an equivalent to the one in blender or is there some tutorial on how to achieve something to a simple IK chain? Man, IK in ue5 is hard. xD

[ashen junco]

You could just change the skeleton of the animation, but expect mixed result.

UE4 Manny has slightly weird proportions compared to more anatomically accurate or slimmer humanoid models

[frail nymph]

Uhm, for some reason whenever i switch the default manny skeletal mesh with a new one that is fully compatable, he just ends up t-posing..?

i tried it with a female version, and that worked fine too

Anyone know of a noob solution for this?
i just switched off 2D development in UE4/5 so would very much like some help

[sand cliff]

Anyone know how I can stop my root motion animation from rotating the player controller but still move it? I want only the mesh to rotate that's the problem...

[digital aurora]

Retargeted Paragon Terra animations to Gideon. Why it's hand is deformed?

[muted kite]

can u change the mesh of a character and keep its skeleton/animations etc ?

and get the mesh from another characteR ?

i think i got it by exporting the asset and then import it as basemesh from it

[slender sierra]

Just wondering if I'm doing something wrong with the setup of this montage. Whenever I trigger the play anim montage from the event, the montage starts from the beginning instead of the Blocking section. Are there any settings I might be missing?

[warm island]

@slender sierra there are 2 play montages, try the other?

[slender sierra]

Seems to have the same result. The montage still starts from Default instead of Blocking.

[warm island]

Mind showing other node? AFAIK there are other parameters to play with

[slender sierra]

Just thought of something. The animation sequence goes from a stagger animation to the blocking montage. Could it be that the animation blueprint goes to the idle animation before starting the montage? Included the AnimGraph if that helps.

[arctic fern]

For some stupid reason UE5 literally won't let you do that unless you delete the animation's original skeleton, and even then you gotta do it individually

And considering all the animations and meshes I'm currently working with are based on the UE4 Manny, just changing the skeleton would hardly be a problem, but nooooo

You can't even use the bulk property matrix to do it en-masse anymore

It's really stupid, Epic feels like you gotta do things in a very specific way for some reason

[opal sentinel]

nobody ever recorded an edit? to use as gameplay animation?

[white galleon]

Running into a weird bug after upgrading from UE4 to UE5 with my anims, my legs are suddenly running away on their own

[halcyon sail]

Is there a way to change the skeletal mesh of a control rig? I have multiple characters (but same skeleton) and dont want to have to copy the control rig over and over. Can I just use the same control rig somehow?

[halcyon sail]

nevermind, found the import option

[vapid glade]

Why does this work

But not this?

This si what CurrentAimoffset is set too

No need to respond, I forgot too set some values 😄

[vast hare]

any reason why when my anim (with root motion) is playing
it snaps back after done?
using animation blueprint by the way

this is my anim, to ensure that my root motion is enabled:

https://i.gyazo.com/b583ff1af7bdfbed400857b1ecd16bbf.gif

there you can see that the caracter is snapping back when done:

https://i.gyazo.com/9fa57c8f17257b64d176c7c9c5d8686c.gif

my base is UE5- ThirdPerson Example if that helps

[covert gate]

In the documentation for UE5 it says: "Using Control Rig, you can bypass the need to rig and animate in external tools"
So i exported a static mesh in unreal.
Reimported it with the skeletal mesh tickbox ticked.
Then created a control rig from the skeletal mesh.
Started adding bones in it. (as the skeletal mesh does not have bones)
Added control point in control rig and set it up like in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WzNvJZk0E&ab_channel=UnrealEngine
When i move the control, nothing happens.

So im thinking that because there is no original bones in the skeletal mesh, also no weight painting.
That it cant move the bones and the mesh. Making this statement untrue ( "Using Control Rig, you can bypass the need to rig and animate in external tools")

Am i missing something here guys?
Im not a fan of blender, so being able to rig a character fully in unreal is what im looking for.

[covert gate]

Ok so the bones are actually moving, its just the mesh that does not follow the bones.
Any suggestions?

[ashen junco]

<@&213101288538374145> crosspost

[jade hound]

Please don't cross post, see the #rules

[crystal mist]

So I'm making a first person game and until my animator and modeler give me the final assets I need to dev using just a scaled floating cylinder as a stand in for a sword, what's the best way to animate that? I could use a timeline but as far as I can tell I can't use a preview and viewport editor to edit on the item itself, is there a way animate a floating object like this?

[ashen junco]

Personally I used skeletal meshes and rough blockout animation

[crystal mist]

is there a way to make a skeletal mesh right in unreal? I dont need anything fancy just a long cylinder with a single bone

[ashen junco]

No

But then again, you can do that quickly in Blender as well

Well, at least after setting Unit Scale to 0.01

[crystal mist]

ight tyty

[ashen junco]

Consider deleting the post here, so it's not mistaken as crosspost.

[crystal mist]

ight maybe I'm just stupid but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to create a new animation in unreal, Like how to create the animation sequence asset itself, I can muddle my way through the sequence editor, but I cannot figure out how to get into the editor itself

[ashen junco]

You could either make the anims in DCC tool or use Control Rig + Sequencer

[crystal mist]

well yeah I know how to do the animations

I just couldn't figure out how to get the asset to edit

I figured it out though

[gleaming vale]

Hey dudes. So I have some turn left/right animations for turning in place but I only want it to play from the waist down. I'm doing a layered blend per bone using both thighs and this seems to be working for keeping the rest of the body from using the turn animation but the rest of the body still gets in the pose of the turn animation when I want it to stay in idle

[ashen junco]

Typically lower body serves as the base, due to Epic standard skeleton have pelvis before spine_01

Layered blend per bone worked its way down to the hierarchy

[gleaming vale]

ok. So is there any way to get the upper body to stay in the idle animation/pose while playing the turn-in-place animations? Maybe I just have a weird setup for this.

[ashen junco]

Do the layered blend per bone but the other way around

[gleaming vale]

hmmm. So like, swap which animation goes into Base Pose and Blend Pose?

I'm trying that but it doesn't seem to work. I'm probably not understanding what you're saying exactly. Sorry

I think I figured it out. Thanks. I think it's actually a problem in the animation itself.

[gleaming vale]

nope. Hmmm.. So @ashen junco ... if I just want something to play on the legs down using Layered Blend Per Bone, I should put the idle pose in base pose and the other animation in blend pose and in the layered blend per bone node, use spine_01?

[ashen junco]

Well, I mean the base pose being the lower body part, and upper body being the blend pose

[gleaming vale]

ok. I think I have it now. Sorry that took me so long to figure out. Appreciate your patience.

[gleaming vale]

Question for anyone using UE5 now: Anyone get a crash when you're retargeting and you uncheck the "Retarget IK" box?

[vapid glade]

Cant open my project, It crashes instantly for some animation blueprint cast, Im just wondering how i can fix this error if i cant open the project

[vapid glade]

Is there anyway i can fix this dumb error or should i just throw this project to the side

Omg this is so annoying, An issue on bp side and i cant even open the project to fix it, Best engine 👍

[rocky remnant]

You are Right. retargetting is DIY thing.
If want to rigg character to UE 4 Skeleton i can do that. Also i can provide mixamo animations with UE 4 Skeleton...

[vapid glade]

Just have a question, When doing weapon animations. Is it smart to do like everything inside the Locomotion and just use alot of blendspaces? And like for pistol animations how would you do there, Would you just make for every gun?

Why is idle/run still playing?

[cyan furnace]

How could i make birds flying in the distance for a short animation?

[vapid glade]

Why does my offset look like this? Even tho i only have 1 animation inside of it that looks straight?

[vapid glade]

i got it np

[dark light]

Howdy, the epic learning portals' added alot of videos lately, what's the recommend one to start with to figure out Control Rig?

there used to only be a few, and while more examples are great, i kinda don't know what to look at now.

[umbral radish]

What do you want to use it for? Real-time or for animating in engine?

This is a bit older but shows different usages. https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/talks-and-demos/7Pd/using-control-rig-in-unreal-engine

I tested some retargeting stuff tonight: https://twitter.com/andidev_/status/1528816191308976128?s=21&t=rCcg4EGHJsHoVlW0twgitg

Andreas⛵ (@AndiDev_)

More quick retargeting fun in #UE5:
I downloaded the Paragon character "Iggy&Scorch" from the marketplace (free!)
Added an IK Rig and made a Retarget Asset.
Created an AnimBP to blend idle animation and real time retrageting together.
It's based on this:
https://t.co/9GTDIATz8h

▶ Play video

Twitter · May 23, 2022, 7:12 PM

[swift edge]

If I have something like forward walking animations where the left and right steps are separated into different sequences. I want to alternate between them. I'm not sure if there are any resources that could help or if anyone has done anything like this? I'm not sure if I should try montages, blend space, composite, etc. Or I suppose just merging them. Any help is appreciated.

[fathom lark]

Hey there! I'm having a problem with Blender -> Unreal, and I'm wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. When I make a new animation and export to FBX, and then reimport into Unreal, it's not getting the new animation.

I've done the Google, and so far the handfull or so of results I've tried don't really give me any working solutions

[vale storm]

I completed the gamedev.tv unreal C++ course on udemy, in the process of adding an options widget for performance. Including Frame Rate Limit for example. When i set the frame rate limit to 30 FPS, and then jump, the falling anim loops and doesn't stop. Doesn't occur on 120 FPS for example.

[dark light]

@umbral radish Animating in engine, and i'll def take a look at those. I saw them before, but in a sea of options i wasn't sure which to go with. Much appreciated.

[strong forum]

I'm still a newbie about this myself but from what I gather, the two ways to export an animation from Blender to Unreal:

1. Auto Rig Pro addon ($40), creates a rig and then you can animate and then export from Blender and import to UE
2. Rigify (free from Blender) to create a rig, and then Uefy 2 (cost money) to export it into UE-compatible something

Alternatively if you just want UE4 Mannequin animations:
3. You can use Mr Mannequins plugin (free). UE4 mannequin is already rigged and easy to export and import animations into UE
I don't know the details about #1 or #2 and why you have to export it specially or something, but I have used #3 before and I can confirm #3 works easily enough

[strong forum]

Here are the details for #1 and #2, apparently you can't really directly export animations from Blender and import it to UE, or else it'll cause some issues
I'm not sure

[modern gorge]

Have a Treb that have been working on in MODO. is there a good way to convert the effects to import into UE5. Thinking may have to just redo again with bones. CHeers. Freezing don't seem to do anything. 🙂

[jagged quest]

I love this new animation retargeter!

its so easy to use

[nimble sonnet]

ikr?! i was so pleasantly surprised, after curmudgeoning on having to learn it

on the other hand, last week i saw someone saying that "IK Rigs was the biggest mistake unreal has ever made" and my eyebrows went to 11

having not dived into IK rigs themselves only so far having been exposed to them via the new retargeting, im not sure the complaint

[jagged quest]

i literally sat here and just messed around for like 10 mins and figured it out... i never did figure out UE4's retargeter, who ever said that must have really not understood how simple this is

[loud nimbus]

Can anyone help me with my blueprint, i want my character to play an animation when interacting, should i do that in the state machine or somewhere else?

[ashen junco]

Montages and slots

[fringe flare]

Did you figure it out?

[ashen junco]

You cannot rig character from scratch in Unreal.

I repeat, everyone, you cannot rig and weight character or any skeletal meshes from scratch in Unreal.

[fringe flare]

What's a good place for an easy rig and weight?

[ashen junco]

Blender
Maya
Mixamo (if you're masochistic)

[crystal mist]

Is there a way to change a variable during a state change in an animation graph?

Or would I just setup an animation notify at the end of the animation?

[ashen junco]

Okay, I gotta rewrite my post, so that it won't look off if it's pinned.

Clearing up misconception about Control Rig

What Control Rig does:
☑️ Make controls for existing skeletons to drive procedural poses, anim curves, and IKs
☑️ Making animations of existing skeletons with the help of Sequencer
☑️ Compliment anim BP to make procedural poses (can be used to replace aim offsets)

What Control Rig doesn't:
❎ Making skinned/skeletal mesh from scratch, including:
❎ Weighting mesh to bones
❎ Making skeletons from scratch

[arctic fern]

I'm actually having this problem as well and I'm not sure how to fix it

[vapid glade]

I fixed it, I just added a base pose or something like that

[keen minnow]

hi guys, i have been stuck on this mixamo problem all day, literally 7 hours of research and idk how to fix this.

anytime i import an animation onto this character only, it looks so jiggly and weird. not sure how to fix it. does anyone have any possible solutions?? No matter how i retarget, if its from the IKretargetter or just the default retargeting method, it always looks so weird. https://gyazo.com/e6465fd98ac7d17d658e76ddb83e8106

i thought it was the root motion but root motion is working just fine

i just don't even know how to word the problem tbh LOL

besides that when importing the animation it looks off, root jiggles all weird compared to how the mixamo xbot looks

[arctic fern]

I tried something like that and this happened:

Additive in general seems to completely screw up the skeletal mesh for some reason

[vapid glade]

Does it look like that ingame?

[arctic fern]

Yep

[vapid glade]

Ah idk, I used something with animation frame on additive settings

I need better animations tho, One for fps and one for tps, Does any1 know some nice free fps anims

[snow orchid]

When you import the FBX make sure you enable "Import Animations" checkbox. It is off by default.

[ashen junco]

Personally I'd avoid mixamo altogether

[ashen junco]

This free sample only have two
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/low-poly-shooter-pack-free-sample

Considering how FPS animations can define the entire game and how each FPS games can have wildly different requirements, it's very understandable that not many FPS animations are free

[real birch]

Hi all - Anyone know of a UE Auto Rigger tool/plugin for rigging skeletal meshes to the ue control rig?

[lone wadi]

how to correctly calculate the Locomotion Angle so that the animation of the character's legs is correct in all directions?

[vast hare]

so i have this anim bp:
i use the punch animation:

https://i.gyazo.com/1ebc18236342cb1ec7b08b80e08407db.gif

but when i use it inside the animbp it looks weird like that:

https://i.gyazo.com/f2c45b40ab73cf847c8a45b2ea101c6f.gif

does this behaviour has something to do with blendspace?

[hollow wagon]

do you need bones to create a control rig? (i'm basically have a robot)

[vast hare]

i know i had seen this issue sometimes, but cant remember if i ever solved that issue

[stone harbor]

Hi everyone. I'm trying to simulate a collision between a truck and the standard mannequin. The mannequin is walking and at the end of the path i'm enabling the ragdoll mode. But i got this strange result. Does anyone know what could be the problem of the ragdoll? why it keeps moving and bouncing around. (I'm on UE5 ). Thanks

[red sage]

HI guys, i need a little help here? please some one

How i can make this trails in animation, in siquencer?

Car drives through mud, and leaves this trails. But its not car simulation, simple static mesh in sequencer

[rare venture]

Yo so like in a gamedev workflow, is it okay to have models that consist of multiple meshes?

Like for example, a gun. Is it okay to have a asset that consists of like 3 separate meshes, the stock, body, and barrel?

[strange nebula]

Literally couldn't have set this up any worse. Why are you using a blend space with orientation warping?

[elfin axle]

so guys

i want to make the character stay at the end pose of an animation when its done, how can i achieve that?

[arctic fern]

I'm trying to add an additive animation to my animations but for some reason when the animation activates the whole character (or just the upper body) shrinks until you can't see it anymore

[mortal scarab]

jo guys i just tried to add the metahuman control rig to my character but somehow only the head is working properly the other contols are stuck at the feet of the charakter and arent appying to any bones. Does anyone know how to fix that?

[dark light]

That's extremely common fwiw, i mean, that's what games with modular weapons or that let you take bits on/off often do. Gmaes with character creators are often 5-10 different meshes held togehter via a parent object telling it where the head/arms/body should be each frame to look like one part.

There's def ways to do it wrong or do it right, and the details of implimentation vary (and i'm not super up to speed on them atm), but that's usually fine.

[rare venture]

Okay good I was just making cuz I used to merge all my things into one asset but was then confused how to animate and stuff

so yeah thanks for the response!

[dark light]

yeah, i'd presume you'd stick all the parts to a root and move the root around as needed, with the children objects just inheriting it's location or moving in local space if needed.

Howdy, just wanted to quickly confirm something before i chase an issue down. In ue4, this chunk of code woudl cause an ai to move around and also animate. However in ue5, the model just slides. I'm presuming that something changed about animation input, and i need to edit the velocity or somesuch?

[regal orchid]

Anyone ever experience a root motion animation not being centered when you enable root motion? Where the gizmo is the actual origin. If I disable root motion in the asset the character does start from the local origin. But not when enabled.

Hm seems like it isn't the animation but the asset itself that I screwed up.

Oops!

[rocky remnant]

I think you used blender... It's the rigging issue...

[regal orchid]

I used maya but it was just a minor issue. I just assumed it was the animation that was broken and not the skeleton itself.

[rocky remnant]

@regal orchid i can rigg character to ue4 and 5 if needed.

The issue is with your rigg.

[mortal scarab]

Hi I just got a character from mixamo inported and I like to animate it with a control Rig. Can Anyone tell me what the fastest way to do that is?

[keen minnow]

Hi can anyone help? I am trying to bring a character animation from cinema4D (mixamo skeleton) to UE5 but the hands keep having weird flipping. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[grand whale]

Hey everyone! im trying to use the new IK retargeter, but no mater what I try I cant seem to get the ik goals to transfer rotation from the source goals to the target, is this intentional or am i missing something?

[crystal imp]

Could somebody please, for the love of god explain to me what is going on here with my Root motion Animation? I've tried everything to fix this and looked everywhere for answer's but I'm at a complete loss...I've spent the past week trying to figure out a solution to this issue

The problem is that when I force root lock on the 90 degree turn animation it begins turning 180 degrees

I retargeted it in iClone 8 and it looked fine in Blender after exporting it from Unreal Engine, it's an ALS animation

I was trying to fix them all in iClone 8 so that I could import them back with my character and replace the ALS animations with the fixed versions I made.

[elfin axle]

anyone?

[crystal imp]

Drag the Animation out, right click and 'Convert to Single-Frame Animation then put the number in parentheses that shows up on that animations timeline into the field labeled 'Explicit Time'

You'll have to decide how you handle when and how it play's that, more then likely you'll want a state machine and you'll have that play after that if the State Weight == 1

There's probably a better way to handle this put since no one here is answering you I figured I would offer something at least

The State Weight will == 1 when it's fully blended into that state

[soft crown]

Is there a way inside animation blueprint to tell it to reset all non looping animations so they can play again? or even just one at time is fine.

[elfin axle]

thx man!

[vivid roost]

Is it possible to make an empty animation of a particular length? I need something I can use for anim notifies

[ashen junco]

You could have some control rig, sequencer and just keyframe same pose from one frame to another

[vivid roost]

I need a proper animation montage, not faking it with sequencer.

I need to use the timing for anim notifies, adding the actual bone movement later.

[ashen junco]

Control Rig is the key to baking it to anim sequence asset

[vivid roost]

Control rig?

[ripe oak]

Hi folks, I've tried finding this on YouTube, Docs, the FAQ here, but I'm stumped getting my actor to keep running (looped run animation in sequencer) in the one direction instead of returning to his original position and running again. I know this is going to be something basic but I can't for the life of me find it.

[ripe oak]

Just changed it to an in-place animation and eyeballed the movement in

[small leaf]

Hi there! Stumbled upon a particular issue in which SkeletalMesh's animation ends between the frames when put in LevelSequence Editor. Has anybody experienced this before and if so, is there some kind of documentation I can look up anywhere? Since I really can't find an answer as to why it happens.
Edit: Yes, the start of the animation track is not misaligned, it starts at the 0 frame.

[crystal imp]

For sure

[carmine berry]

Can I get a IK rig solver into a control rig? I can't get an IK limb solver in control rig and moving stuff around in the control rig seems to work so much differently than in the IK rig

[frigid hamlet]

Anyone with experience with RIG for FootIK to step on slopes let me know. I have essentially followed a tutorial and everything looks perfect.. However, even though my Character mesh matches the Control Rig I cant verify its affecting the spawned character through that mesh. It also shows in the animation blueprint also using that same character mesh/skeleton that the default rig is bypassed and mine is selected... However if I try to trace my Rig live in debug nothing shows and it also does not seem to be working or effecting my character once I hit spawn and my pawn/character walks around the world..... Please PM if you have 5 minutes to help me its been a long night and I am sure its something simple. No one really covers how to apply a rig to different characters with the same skeleton or its my lack of understanding of how to control what exact character instance is spawning in outside the project settings and pawn/gamemode controls which sometimes show all available meshes and sometimes does not. Happy to share screen in lobby too.

Ty in advance.

[rocky barn]

Ok can someone really quick help me with a learning path? I just came out of first hour in animation and wish to work my way up to working with control rig and IK, what courses would help me best make this transition?

Where should I look into next?

[frigid hamlet]

Youtube of course is chalk full. Even in UE5.

But you may get stuck as I am without someone to actually ask it's a stop and go process as you work out your own bugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6eehFvJGBs I have found this newb friendly =]

[rocky barn]

thank you for the link, I'll check it out

[unkempt echo]

Guys i have a problem with camera shake. When i stop moving, the camera shake starts blending out. So when i start moving again while the camera shake is in the process of blending out, it snaps right back into the start of shake. How do i make the transition smooth?

[misty dagger]

Hello wonderful people,
I want to play level sequence on keyboard action. The problem is that I only can play a sequence that is open in editor. I'm using this method to do that https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/play-cinematics-from-blueprints-in-unreal-engine/
How do I set up a sequence before playing it that it would not need to be open in editor (I want to play multiple sequences on different clicks)?

[keen minnow]

oh my god

is this a common glitch to have UE just CRASH when you create a new animation sequence

bc it keeps happening and is in fact WORSE after this update

i hope its not just me bc then its my drive malfunctioning or something

[vapid glade]

Hey i need some help with my IK, as you can see the rotation is right but the location is not near right. Does anyone know why? Im very new to ik so yeah

[vapid glade]

hm okay weird, Now the location works but not the rotation

[modest cargo]

i have 2 identical face skeletons.
one has morph targets, the other does not

can i retarget facial morph targets between them?

[waxen jungle]

Sorry, in a rush.

I am trying to animate a character using the sequencer for the first time. I've added the animation track and selected the animation but the character hasn't left his default pose and he isn't moving when I play

[ashen junco]

No, even the name has to be matching (I think)

[ashen junco]

If said solver doesn't have Control Rig node, then no.

[modest cargo]

thanks
thankfully my project doesnt require it

[vivid roost]

I have an animation that is 3.5 seconds long. How can I edit a montage that contains it to last only 1.5 seconds? I'm okay with cropping it.

[vivid roost]

Found it. I can open the Details panel to set the end time.

[tranquil lark]

I have a weird issue. I just replaced the model for my main character. Uses the same skeleton. Now, when the model has the spear weapon, it slowly drifts away from the model. No code has changed. It's like it's just leaving the socket. Any ideas on what could be causing this?

[ashen junco]

How does the spear being attached?

[tranquil lark]

Attach to socket

Sword doesn't do this.

[ashen junco]

And by drifting away, you mean it shifts over time even if the anim is looping?

[tranquil lark]

Yeah.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/904072333604577393/979239382391328800/unknown.png

This is how far away it got at one point

[ashen junco]

I had a suspicion the spear itself is problematic

Is it a skelmesh?

[tranquil lark]

Collision is ignored.

Spear is static

[frigid hamlet]

Anyone with experience with RIG for FootIK to step on slopes let me know. I have essentially followed a tutorial and everything looks perfect.. However, even though my Character mesh matches the Control Rig I cant verify its affecting the spawned character through that mesh. It also shows in the animation blueprint also using that same character mesh/skeleton that the default rig is bypassed and mine is selected... However if I try to trace my Rig live in debug nothing shows and it also does not seem to be working or effecting my character once I hit spawn and my pawn/character walks around the world..... Please PM if you have 5 minutes to help me its been a long night and I am sure its something simple. No one really covers how to apply a rig to different characters with the same skeleton or its my lack of understanding of how to control what exact character instance is spawning in outside the project settings and pawn/gamemode controls which sometimes show all available meshes and sometimes does not. Happy to share screen in lobby too.

Ty in advance.

[tranquil lark]

So - I just reverted back to the old mesh and the issue persists. No idea how it wasn't showing before.

@ashen junco Found the issue. The Spear has a projectile component. When simulation is enabled, it'll do this drift.

[ashen junco]

Ah, figured.
Yeah, you could have just the static mesh, and then swap it with projectile when the character throws it

[hollow wagon]

creating a control rig, my model is jumping in position when i hook up the ControlTransform to the BoneTransform...any suggestions?

[hollow wagon]

okay i see whats going on now, how can i change the default root bones position?

[tranquil lark]

I just turn on/off the simulation as needed.

[misty dagger]

How can I switch between BS_IdleWalkRunSide and Sprint based on IsSprinting? Is there a node for this like Branch?:

Solved it by creating another StateMachine within

[arctic fern]

Okay, I've realized I can save a ton of time that would otherwise be used setting up IK Rigs by just using the included IK Rig for the UE4 skeleton for the IK Retargeter when retargeting animations from what is basically an identical skeleton, the results from what I can tell are pretty much perfect

[ashen junco]

#graphics

[mighty otter]

Yo, i've setup a punch animation montage. Retargeted a mixamo anim. Everything works as intended except that the feet jumps up from the ground during animation 😅

Anyone have any thoughts on this issue ? 🙂

[hollow wagon]

Can you drive a morph target through a Control?

[remote spire]

I'm trying to import anims from blender to ue4 but keep getting a 'can't find bind pose' error.'

[frigid hamlet]

How do you add in the rotation variable to get character lean to activate, I already have the blendspace but lack the code or how to hook it up in UE5

Tried to plug it in the old wayish but unsure how to do this in the new default Manny mannequin. Then plug in the rotation to the overall blendspace.

[modest cargo]

a control...what?
like control rig? or sequencer control? or anim BP?

[rocky remnant]

Instead of retargetting rigg character to UE4 or UE5 Skeleton. because retargetting have so many issues...

[jolly hatch]

Help! I have been trying to solve this frustrating issue for weeks ,. I got my metahuman to track this box . by setting the crtl_C_EyesAim TO ITS LOCATION. works great Until I move the MH from the world origin. then it breaks . Strange thing is up down works fine still . just left right seems to be based on world origin ( video of issue: https://youtu.be/C6czUmgPsRQ Really need to solve this or I will have to scrap this idea 😦

[split parcel]

hi i am trying to make an animation for my level sequence yet i have this error sog does exist and is currently the white cube for now. So i do not understand this bound missing issue

[ashen junco]

Assuming it's control rig, yes.

[misty dagger]

Hi everyone. How are yall?
Anyone sufficient with root motion issues??

Made a ticket but no replies

[crystal imp]

https://youtu.be/DnhRTDzQQYg

[misty dagger]

Hi there depredor. You have any ideas about root motion??
Simply: after animation finishes, character goes back to starting position. So i activate root motion on the animation, but nothing works

So stuck for more than a week. Dozens of tutorials and unanswered tickets

I was asking on discord a few times, nobody seems to wanna touch the subject

[ashen junco]

Does the root motion works at all?

[ashen junco]

Well, you started with "anyone sufficient with root motion issues" instead of asking the issue directly

[misty dagger]

Thanka for reply! Yes, it actually does. In the animation i see the root bone following the character.

But when i play it in the sequencer, my character walks around (its a walk around thinking animation from actorcore). So he walks, when animation finishes, he flies back to original position.

[ashen junco]

Okay, I mean, is the root motion really moving root bone and extracting root motion actually moved the actor?

[crystal imp]

Yeah So I don't know much about root motion animations but I know that so far iClone 8 / CC4 and the Lyra Control Rig are all screwing them up....that's about all I know

The only method I have found that doesn't break them is the FK Control Rig built into sequencer

[misty dagger]

Yes

[crystal imp]

The Only problem with the FK Control Rig is that it's extremely painful too work with.

Also I can tell you that if your retargeting them in UE5 the Root has to be set as the Root on both IK Rigs

[misty dagger]

Mmmm interresting. I was also reading ue5 has a bug with it. One solution was to activate root motion in the animation, then export the animation as a new one and retarget it. That did not solve my problem. Instead the character does the animation while staying in place. So it might work for you. Because it does make a difference...

[misty dagger]

I see...its annoying as all hell for sure. Been stuck for a week. Watched 50 tutorials...nothing

[crystal imp]

I'm not sure that's UE5 though, I tried exporting them from UE4.27 to Retarget in iClone 8 and I still had the same issue...at least in their case it's a software bug

[crystal imp]

Yeah these Root Motion issues have driven me to the edge of Insanity

[misty dagger]

Damn. Terrible 🤣

[crystal imp]

I'm in the same boat as you

I've retargeted, setup, and replaced every ALS animation with retargeted and fixed animations....but the Root Motion animations have not been working

It was only about 2 hours ago I realized that the Lyra Control Rig was also screwing them up

[misty dagger]

Right, im about to turn my laptop into cereal with a blender and eat it while listening to my little pony songs. Its a spirit killer 🤣

[crystal imp]

For sure, finding anyone that knows jack about Root Motion animations and resolving issue's with them is practically impossible

[misty dagger]

Man, im just gonna play around more with it myself. If i find out anything, i will update you

[crystal imp]

it's almost like Root Motion animations are some kind of Insider Secret

[crystal imp]

That would be great

[misty dagger]

Noooobody wants to touch it. I saw you had issues in the convo history so i reached out. Thanks for replying bro

[crystal imp]

For sure, I've been asking around on forums and all over the place and I have yet to find one Root Motion Animation question ever answered....and I've found some that are around 7 years old

[ashen junco]

So it's for cinematics?

[misty dagger]

Well, at least with these types of issues, in the end when you DO find the solution, youll be the expert on the subject.

[crystal imp]

Yeah, I can only assume no body knows much about them and that's why you can't find help on them.

[misty dagger]

Actually yes! Not for character controlling. Im just making an in game cutscene

[crystal imp]

In that case have you tried Recording in World Space?

not sure if that would help

[ashen junco]

I guess one way to do it is to relocate the player to where it's supposed to end up.

[misty dagger]

That would work, if not i need few animations after each other

[misty dagger]

Mm...im going to screw around for sure

[crystal imp]

Yeah when I get to this point I just start punching buttons randomly to see what happens.

[misty dagger]

One question to debug a little here.... You also use metahuman??? Or you have the issues with anything?

[crystal imp]

Nah, I'm using Character Creator 4 Chars, and I'm trying to retarget and fix IK bone placement

I wouldn't have to if CC4/iClone8 weren't screwing up the animations...they look fine but a 90 degree left turn will turn 180 degrees when I lock my root

it's supposed to not turn at all when I 'Force Lock Root'

[misty dagger]

You probably know its better to first retarget them to the default unreal character right (third person blueprint)

[crystal imp]

I tried that

Didn't help....Even tried retargeting them to my CC4 Chars and then Exporting them

They seem to leave Unreal Engine just fine....I checked in Blender and they worked as expected

[misty dagger]

So could you try a 45 degree turn instead?

(just thinking out loud)

[crystal imp]

it's when iClone 8 Retargets them that the pelvis starts rotating twice as much and the root rotates in the opposite direction to fix it

[crystal imp]

a 45 degree turn would become a 90 degree turn

180 a 360

90 a 180

I've tested it

[misty dagger]

Right

[crystal imp]

100% predictable

I can only assume that my software is messing it up

It automatically retargets animations to my characters....so it uses a setup similiar to what Maya uses to define skeletons

[misty dagger]

Thats the thing, if someone could point out a bug, that would at least make sense. But now we dont know

[crystal imp]

Yeah

[misty dagger]

Oh well...im going to just screw around. I will let you know. Ill keep the turning also in mind if i stumble upon it

Cheers guys!

[crystal imp]

For sure, good luck

[misty dagger]

Hey, if it was too easy, we have too many devs making shitty games lol

Good luck as well man

[crystal imp]

Lol, yeah

[dull sun]

Without retargeting, is there a way to replace the skeleton for an Animation Sequence with a duplicate of the same exact skeleton?

I imported the Animation Starter Pack, but I already have a Mannequin rig in my project, and I'd like not to have to go and retarget everything for the exact same skeleton.

[dull sun]

Ah, I guess I can delete the "bad" skeleton and replace references with the "good" one.

Oh wow, the upperarm_l flips 180 degrees on Death_1 and Death_3. That's... not great for official content.

[nimble sonnet]

yeah if they're identical should be fine. it's annoying how many Manny skeletons you end up with on the marketplace

should be a rule that animations targeted to UE skelly just reference engine content

also when will we get proper animation blueprint inheritance

it gets so incredibly old rebuilding them

[ionic merlin]

Does the chaos vehicle absolutely need a skeleton? Or a good way to handle 1 skeleton for cars with different wheel base etc?

[misty dagger]

Hi folks, anyone experiencing problems with boolean operators not working in ue5 animBP? I've had == returning false when 2==2 or a couple of true in AND returning false. Same strange behaviour with OR. And I could not find a way around it.

[misty dagger]

Guys im having some problems with animating a cat. I have bought a pack with amazing cats, but I cant seem to change their animation

it just stays idle

And I have this animation

[ashen junco]

So you want to make cinematics with it?

[misty dagger]

yes

I use blender for all my work, but i started using unreal and the workflow with characters is soooo different

[hollow wagon]

Yes trying to activate a morph through a control rig. do you have a link or pic of an example?

[ashen junco]

#animation message

[hollow wagon]

thank you kindly!

[misty dagger]

FIGURED IT OUT! 😄 I had to use the cat control rig, not the character

[hollow wagon]

also for a control rig or bone manipulation...is there no other way to restrict a rotational axis (between 0-30 degrees) than with physics?

[misty dagger]

Is there a way to make the transition between two animations smooth (in the sequencer)?

so like, I have a cat that is idle lying down, and I want him to get up without the animation jumping from one stance to the other

[ashen junco]

Just have them overlap for few frames on each end

[misty dagger]

I have tried that, but it still has some weird jumps

Am i doing something wrong?

[ashen junco]

Define "weird jumps"

I'm asking for the context of it

[misty dagger]

this

I think I just solved it, i found the animation clips have fades

[rough wasp]

When we play animation of stealth kill camera doesn't follow the character or uh can say it doesn't stick wid the character model....ANY FIX??

Your help would be appreciated

[lone wadi]

how to make control rig work with root motion animations?

[dull sun]

Yeah I got a taste of that trying to get several guns to follow the same set of anim rules.
Problem is, they have different skeletons, so I have to do some very cheaty things with the base ABP in order for the children to work right.

[trim verge]

Guys how do you retarget in UE5. I tried creating chains but fingers dont follow

[warped sapphire]

For some reason when i try to play a montage, it plays but just barely. my character is supposed to fully swing their arm but for some reason they just twitch their hand a little and then the montage ends. what am i doing wrong?

[ashen junco]

Either montage used wrong slot, or the slot applied to incorrect layered blend per bone

[warped sapphire]

blend pose 0 is set to spine_01 (default mannequin). i dont see what's wrong here

[lean tiger]

Hey all,

Do you know if there is a way to either scale the controllers of a rig or force them to be in front of the mesh ?
I'm using the mannequin rig for all our ennemies but when they get too big, the controls are hidden and it becomes a pain to animate

[opaque nest]

Where do I find Unreals standard skeletal rig?

(I would like to be able to retarget the rig manually for my character in Blender)

[warped sapphire]

okay it might have to do with the fact my mesh is clipping trough the ground in the montage

[dull sun]

It's called "UE4_Mannequin_Skeleton"
If you created the project empty and it's not there, you can add this starter pack, which includes the mannequin skeleton:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/animation-starter-pack?sessionInvalidated=true

Oh and I guess UE5 probably has a new mannequin skeleton, now that I think about it

[opaque nest]

I wonder if that will end up supporting more animations on the market place anytime soon though

I mostly just wanna use the Unreal rig to be able to use premade animations

I cant quite seem t ofind the export button in UE5 🤣

Does anyone know where it is?

[tall inlet]

Its the animation, or the arms of new mannequin are different? Elbows are weird

[warped sapphire]

for some reason my montage fully plays when i reduce the playrate to 1/10th, but it doesnt work at normal playrate

what could i be doing wrong? this is driving me insane

oh, it was blend time -_-

set it to 0 and now it works

which brings me to my next question: how can i set up an animation so it blends with another animation based on variables?

for example, i have an attack animation that either blends into a miss or a hit animation based on if the attack actually connected during the swing

[misty dagger]

There's something wrong, I'm trying to retarget animations from UE4 skeleton

[dull sun]

does it have anything to do with this thing?

[tall inlet]

The IK and retargeting are a pain in the ass

almost disabling the IK

Why in the AnimBP the legs are bending?

Only unreal animation works, all animations I have for like 10 packs

none of them work and bend the legs using IK

animation sequence file

[misty dagger]

I may have fixed it by using this option on the source and target bones

[dapper pelican]

Trying to retarget my animations in unreal 5 using packs I have paid for and they're not working anybody have a clue?

My character's body is turned inside out and I can't figure out what's wrong

[woven rose]

Hello, I have a problem with a sword attack montage. When my character attacks the montage doesn't play all the way through but instead goes from the beginning to about mid swing an starts looping. Anyone have a clue what's wrong?

[merry loom]

try shift + “=” ?

[flint thorn]

Hey guys. UE5.0.2. I cannot drag just one of the animation poses

I've tried to re-create it but not working

[scenic plume]

how can i make different skeletons use same animation bp?
i have 2 difrent skeletons i retargeted and duplicated the bp it works wonderfully
other than the animation bp being a difrent file
could i make the original anim bp work with the new retargeted skeleton?

can i retarget anim bp without duplicating?

[ashen junco]

Unfortunately no, at least not withot making anim instance subclass in C++ (which I have no idea about yet)

AnimBPs are bound to one skeleton

[scenic plume]

ah thats such a shame cause the only issue is the spine bone

[flint thorn]

Do you know why I cannot see Base Pose input?

[tall inlet]

output pose

[misty dagger]

I'm using autorig pro to place the skeleton but when exported to UE5 the model gets a little messed up in some parts, is separating the materials while ringing the bones should solve this?

[flint thorn]

But I need input pose

[daring reef]

Am I able to animate the player's followcamera to move from place to another?

Like in Subway Surfers when you start the run in the mainmenu

[hollow wagon]

I have two controls, red = GetTransformControl and SetTransformBone these are adjusting the Red wheel assembly, yellow = GetControlVector2D, this is adjusting the yellow Treads. Is there a way to tie these two together so when I move one the other moves with it? Hopefully you understand what I'm trying to say and can help.

[formal chasm]

Currently brainstorming some things. Im interested in creating a mecha type rig that is based on modular skeletal components. The catch is, I dont think I will be able to map a singular skeleton to it, due to the fact that different components will have different physical sizes that would impact the skeleton. The meshes will, however, be able to have the same number/named bones. How should I lay this out logically? Should I actually, in this case, have multiple skeletons relating to each individual part/component?

[warped sapphire]

excuse the awful recording, but could anyone please point out why my animation glitches out towards the end?

[ashen junco]

Okay, not scaling, that's a bad idea

[ashen junco]

If you build said mecha by attaching static meshes, you could move the bones to fit into the proportions and call it a day.

[formal chasm]

that sounds like it would work fine for a static pre-determined setup, however the idea here would be that it would be that the engine would have to be able to compose them somewhat programmatically. player picks up new legs, going from say a long and slender to short and stubby, the final skelly would be need to be recomputed.

[hollow wagon]

I got mine to work with a Set Relative Transform!

[halcyon sail]

trying to use the control rig by following epic tutorials but I keep getting some really weird stretching happening. Anyone else have this issue?

[halcyon sail]

if anyone else runs into this issue, this was fixed by setting my primary axis' x to -1 instead of 1

[radiant gorge]

just a quick question if i may, since updating the engine source to 5.0.2 no control rig i have will stay compiled. even if i make a new simple one, compile -> save -> close, after i reopen it then it needs to be compiled again... is anyone else having this issue?

[blazing wave]

I'm sure im the millionth person asking this but has anyone found a solution to get root motion on retargeted animations to work the same as it did in UE4? Everything I retarget never get root motion applied correctly now. I did realize checking it on and off in the animation doesn't do anything in the viewport but in game it works. But even still it doesnt seem to be working correctly.

[blazing wave]

Honestly the best thing Ive found is just to retarget in UE4 then just copy the files over to the UE5 directory I want.

[radiant gorge]

in reply to my own issue: looks like it appears to be an issue even in a new ThirdPerson project out of the box too.

[ashen junco]

Yes, I mean you offset the transforn in animBP after the pose.

[heavy hedge]

How do I detect if an animation is interrupted without using "Play Montage" node? It seems "Play Montage" stops all montage with no boolean to disable that behavior. I'd like to play a montage without stopping all existing montage, and to detect if it's interrupted.

[heavy hedge]

Figured it out, used the "On Montage Blending Out" dispatcher event in the anim bp

[devout spade]

is it just me or adding an additive frame to a sequence breaks the montage .... ?

[plucky osprey]

Hey everybody. Has anyone had an issue with aim offsets in UE5 jumping all over the place as if the offset is being reset and reapplied every tick?

[ionic swallow]

I'm trying to add a notify at the end of the last frame of a segment in a montage but it gets linked to the next segment in the montage (unless it's the last segment, of course). Is there any way to fix this? Specify the segment explicitly?

[weak acorn]

I've downloaded animations for a parkour tutorial I'm following but they don't actually work like they do in the video, they're all frozen like this, the video was meant for unreal engine 4 and I'm using unreal engine 5, is this the problem?

[ionic swallow]

Worked around it by adding an extra frame at the end of the animation.

[sharp trench]

Howdy fam - I'm trying to create a control rig setup with logic that does both forward and rig inversion at the same time, is this possible? [4.27]

• Currently, I'm using the Forward Solve method > Get Joint Transforms > Set Control Transforms (such that the controls follow the animation clip in sequencer)
• Then trying to pipe that through a traditional Forward Solver with the IK logic - so I can animate additively

My goal here is to avoid baking the animation clips to the control rig track before working additively, and backwards solving only works when baking. And by stitching getters and setters in the same solver the circular references make the character implode on itself

I've tried messing around with Interaction Rigs and Basic FK Control Rig and I've even seen references to an additive control rig that looks to be deprecated which sounds interesting

Curious if anyone has created a similar kind of setup, or has any suggestions for rabbit holes to go down

TIA ❤️

[leaden pecan]

Hi guys, an animation newbie here, I have a system where I have a combat mode and an exploration mode. In combat mode I have the character strafing Always rotated towards the enemy, in non combat I have the character that explores only with the forward locomotion anim, orientating its rotation to movement.
Yesterday a friend of mine gave me some new animations with root motion but I can't manage to Build the Anim Bp. I havent find any good docs or tutorials that can help me, can someone point me to one of those or point me towards the good direction?
I kind of know how to do the combat mode with the input values in a blendspace but i wonder if that's the good way, no clue for the exploration part though.
Sorry for the Wall text :) and thanks in advance

[vale magnet]

Does anyone know how hard would it be to retarget animations from the old UE4 Mannequinn to the new Manny/Quinn in UE5?

[warped sapphire]

is there a way to smoothly blend animations in a montage so they dont snap? or between multiple montage nodes?

[autumn venture]

Hi all, quick question. Can the Blendspace Player node be used with a variable for the blendspace? When I am in my AnimBP it only wants to let me place "pre-typed" player nodes. But I did find this blog which seems to show what I'm looking for: https://arrowinmyknee.com/2020/04/13/cache-blend-node-in-ue4/

Maybe his Blendspace Player node is a custom one?

I have a very simple anim blueprint with a single locomotion blendspace and trying to reuse it with multiple skeletons using child BPs with just variable changes. So I wanted to make the blendspace a variable and feed it into the anim bp that way.

The Blendspace Player is the only node in my whole anim BP which is specific to a skeleton and blocking me from doing this.

[lean tiger]

This only works inside the Ctrl rig window unfortunately not inside the sequencer, so if I scale the gizmos to the big mesh then they become too big for the normal mannequin

[mighty roost]

does anyone knows how to fix this kind of issues when retargeting in Ue5?

The root is not moving at all in this root motion animation.

[devout spade]

when using ik retargeter on the root chain make sure translation mode is set to globaly scaled

[mighty roost]

okay, thanks!

[devout spade]

np

[autumn venture]

Yeah makes sense. So that is a custom node? I'm not just missing something built-in to the engine like a noob?

[devout spade]

I don't think I have seen It in the default blueprint but i know in sequencer you can blend montages in a custom manner and export them as sequences

[devout spade]

scratch that It does let you promote to variable and change binding

[autumn venture]

the normal Blendspace Player node does?

this is what I'm seeing. It's a weird node because it doesn't have an input pin for the blendspace itself

[devout spade]

I thought you meant this one

[autumn venture]

yeah.. how do i get that one 😄

[devout spade]

right click and type in blendspace player

but

[autumn venture]

when i search Blendspace Player it doesnt show anything except these ones that are tied to an existing Blendspace file

[devout spade]

this one right

[autumn venture]

i mean... looks like what i want but i can't see xD i knew it was something stupid

[devout spade]

the way he has it set up in that link is the slot is a custom function he made

instead of x and y he has y not exposed

and the x is a get refrence to I think a function he made

[autumn venture]

see it only gives me options for specific blendspaces i have

[devout spade]

you might be too deep into the anim graph

sometmes when you get too deep into a system things don't appear

search for it in the root area

[autumn venture]

hmmm. still the same issue

what version of ue are you on?

[devout spade]

latest version 5.02

[autumn venture]

maybe its a ue5 feature

im still on 4.26... maybe time to switch

[devout spade]

ooof

[devout spade]

I don't get it why not just do a forward and backward solve to edit the animation if you did it right it shouldn't explode

you need to bake the rig with the animation to modify the animation using the rig

[warped sapphire]

sequencer? could you elaborate on this?

[timber star]

Hello,

I'm trying to understand and work with additive animations but don't really understand the difference between
local and mesh space additive.

I understand that local additive animation are calculate between a reference pose and a target pose which give us a delta to go from a base to a target pose.

So, if you have a base pose with a bone rotation of 10 and a target with a rotation of 30 the delta is 20 so if you apply this delta to an animation the bone will rotate by 20 is it true?

But what is the difference with mesh space additive?

[devout spade]

you can open up a level sequence drag your character into the level sequence and then add animations from there you can blend them and edit the blenduing and stuff after that just export/ bake into animation sequence

you can also do this inside an animation bluprint using nodes

[warped sapphire]

i need to be able to play a montage for my GAS attack ability, so i cant use an ABP. ill check out the level sequence, thanks!

[devout spade]

from what i've read from longmire locomotion they just pivotpoints for the blending algorithms, some body part blending works best with mesh space and others with local it's a matter of just testing both see what looks better

[devout spade]

yea baking it should be enough, but if you need a proceedural pipeline then some play montage nodes do have a "on blending out" pin to add logic to

[warped sapphire]

yeah and when they blend out they reset to the idle pose for a split second

so its not working great

[timber star]

@devout spade so what is the pivot point in mesh space the root?

[devout spade]

hmm sounds like a bug , did you uncheck the stop other montages checkbox?

[warped sapphire]

stop other montages? where do i find that?

for context, im using a series of play montage nodes to play them

[devout spade]

Not too familiar with their algorithms but I'm sure if you open the engine folders you'll see what variables each property changes

[devout spade]

are those custom c++ nodes? should look something like this

oh wait

since you using play montage and wait maybe that node doesn't react well when blending out?

[warped sapphire]

i think it tries to blend out to the idle pose and not the next montage

is there a way to make a montage hold its pose on the last frame?

[devout spade]

#animation message

you can change that with a variable depending on your circumstance I suppose

or just have different ones

[warped sapphire]

err, im not sure what that has to do with holding my montage's pose

[devout spade]

your issue is that on blending out it blends to the idle pose right? you can change what happens there

[devout spade]

if you want to do that you can set a pose as a state in the animbp

[warped sapphire]

i dont think i can use a state machine for this since its all done inside an ability

i might be wrong though

[devout spade]

you would just change the enum within the ability to get to that state,
another way is to loop a montage/sequence frame

[warped sapphire]

i am reading up on how to loop montages now

i think this is what i need 😄

[devout spade]

[keen inlet]

~~Hello, is there anyone here that made a control rig with blender exports?
I feel like I have some settings wrong...
My imported skeletal mesh is at correct scale when it is imported with the default scaling settings.
Bur when I make a control rig and make a new control, the control is 10x bigger by default then what it is in tutorial that I follow.

I can still make a functional rig, but it is annoying to scale down every single control to 0.1 or less just so it is close to dimensions of the character and makes sense proportionally.

Did anyone else encounter similar issues?
What would be ideal export settings from blender specifically for control rig in UE5?~~

NWM seems like the unit scale was wrong, i believed that the issue with that was fixed.

[vale magnet]

Any ideas what might be the cause of this?

The only IKBone that is moving, is this one... and that is built in UE5 animation

and in like the opposite direction

[crystal imp]

In Unreal those bones are only constrained too the root so if your retargeting them you'll have to Modify the animation too fix their orientation and location in the animation.
I'm proud to say that I'm the first one that has done this successfully using Control Rig and I will be releasing an ALS Project where every single animation was fixed using my Control Rig for Character Creator Chars
https://youtu.be/XStCFRnnxK8

I fixed not just the hand ik bones but the ones for the feet as well

[vale magnet]

Ehm... it's kinda happening in every animation I try to put on that skeleton

Changing it in every animation would be kinda ehhh

Or does simply replicating your blueprint solution put the IK bones in their place?

[zenith adder]

broken knee- when I bake (untouched) anim from sequencer - any ideas

[crystal imp]

I tried using a procedural method and it works but will screw up any two handed hand placement that uses virtual bones such as they use in ALS.

The IK Bones have Virtual Bones attached too them so that any additive animation overlay's won't displace the hand since they aren't effected by additive animations like regular bones are

I have my Control Rig constraining all the IK bones to the hands and feet accordingly...so all you need to do is bake the animation to the control rig and save it as a new animation...that's all you have too do

for anything requiring hand placement though...it will require you to disable the auto-constrain for the IK_HandGun bone so that you can properly place it using an Additive Animation Layer on the Control Rig.

I couldn't make handgun placement procedural since it's placement will vary with the scale of the player and their hands...I may attempt an approach like that sometime but I'm not sure it will be possible since it also depends on the fingers and how they would grip the object...considering both will vary infinitely I don't see how I would be able to pull off a procedural system for that.

[crystal imp]

Looks like your Leg Twist bone, probably the calf_twist_l_01 or it's equivalent is incorrectly rotated.

Considering the new rig has about as many bones as an actual human if not more....I can't be sure

[zenith adder]

the bone is forsure out of place its just I did not touch it

[crystal imp]

May want to check your Control Rig and make sure you didn't accidentally overlook something...I just spent 2 weeks looking for my issue everywhere but in the Control Rig and the entire time my problem was with one where I set the Translation not the Transform...so my bones weren't being aligned properly...It's possible too that when you set your Controls you didn't set one of them properly

Controls are pretty sensitive so if you don't get them just right or forget to set their initial values you'll get stuff like that.

[zenith adder]

@crystal imp aw will do

[plucky osprey]

Is there anyone around that has gotten a 1D Aim Offset to work in UE5?

It keeps jittering every frame as if it's going back to 0 and resetting the pitch to match the input and I can't figure out why as I never ran into this issue in UE4.

[tall inlet]

after retarget, animation looks nice, but inside AnimBP the IK bend the legs, anyone know why this?

[vale magnet]

Check how did the IK bones come out after the retarget

[tall inlet]

well, how I check this?

Its happening to all my animation packs

15+ packs I have

I know is something about Ik when active

[misty dagger]

Hello. I'm currently working on an animation, and I need a model of a hazmat suit. i tried this one:https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/backrooms-hasmat-guy-textured-and-rigged-02a2b988c4d84074957f315a49d67d2d but for some reason the model gets cut up (for lack of better words) in mixamo. Is there any free hazmat suit models that are well detailed? thanks.

[stark wind]

Hey all, I’ve been messing with the new IK Rig and retarget systems.
I’m finding the retarget pose option to be frustrating. Is there a way currently to manually input rotation values when editing the retarget pose? Or is it eyeballing it only right now? Really trying to get the retarget pose 1to1 for finger animations to retarget properly

Or loading a pose?

[pale vine]

I need my rabbit to dance up and down. So just using a simple lerp of the Z.
But im doing something so complicated.
Basically, im checking with an array of bools, every time i move my rabbits up if my rabbits are above the Z limit I then send them down.
Is there a more simplistic way to do this? I feel like im reinventing the wheel.

[tall inlet]

You cant creat just one rabbit and make childs?

So you probably dont need array for each one

[tall inlet]

If I understand correclty what you said

[pale vine]

I have an array of bools just to check when they are up, then when they are up i send them down.

just for that

[leaden pecan]

Hey guys, silly question, how can I tell to the state machine to wait to transition between cycle and stop only when the current loop of the cycle animation is finished? For non loop I use the get time remaining node, but it seems to not work in loop animations

[tall inlet]

Yes, this is just code right? So better move your question to #ue5-general. Send a SS its more easy

you can use flipflop I think

[pale vine]

Okay. I did it. Here it is:
https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/4afwrlxk/
You see how overcomplicated it is and spaghetitious?
Im just dancing my rabbits up and down on the Z. I kind of wanted to avoid using the boolean array and all the silly stuff 😵‍💫

[slate tartan]

So, anyone have suggestions to smooth the transition in a 2D blend space?

[regal lynx]

Can someone help me create a sprinting and sword slash animation?

[broken oracle]

Hi, can someone help me understanding what "Update Idle State" does on update? It's Lyra's Project Base AnimBP

This is inside the function

I tried reading the documentation, but couldn't figure it out

This is the docs related to the function, can someone explain me that values and inputs?

[sharp trench]

Apologies for the delayed response - the usecase for my desired setup is that for Cinematics\Sequencer we may be hot-swapping the source animation clip a lot.

For my workflow, It's annoying to have to: bake the animation clip down to the control rig > add the additive layer > when happy process the tracks into an new animation clip - then repeat for each animation clip that I'm "auditioning"
When for example, maybe I just want to fix the height of a foot clipping the floor across all animations that persists as we swap source clips

So in essence I want to see the control rig follow the animation during playback (backwards solve), but also have the ability to manipulate controls without baking (forward solve) - without all those extra steps when I need to be quick

Hope that helps explain things a little better

[autumn venture]

Hi all. I'm not an animator but trying to work with one. How do I explain to them what the UE mannequin skeleton is and how they should set up Maya to target it? Are there any Maya files provided by Epic to get started? Can't seem to find anything on Google. But I'm probably not typing the right keywords.

[ashen junco]

Timelines, instance transform...

How many rabbits do you have on screen?

[candid veldt]

With control rig, sequencer and all other animation tools inside unreal, can you basically create animations from scratch? Meaning you don't need to import animation from an external program like maya unless you need more advanced features?

[ashen junco]

Yes.

[candid veldt]

Very cool, thanks

[devout spade]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/when-baking-an-animation-made-with-control-rig-and-sequencer-some-bone-translations-are-not-captured/491706/2

anyone have a fix for this kinda thing?>

[faint veldt]

Sup yall, never did animation before apart playing around and Ive got a question, can I just make quick very rough low poly arms now animate them with weapons in hands running etc etc. then down the road swap them into realistic looking high poly ones? Can I use same animations or it will break?

[devout spade]

yes you can do that as long as the underlying skeleton is the same

otherwise you would have to retarget

[sacred cloak]

So i was wondering, i have an animation but only want it to start at a certain point where i have it at, but once i render it, the animation is always playing constantly. Is there a way to fix it?

[devout spade]

move the starting and ending markers then bake it

[sacred cloak]

thank you

[devout spade]

np

[pale vine]

I have 30 rabbits. Yup thats what im doing, timeline with instance transform. But something tells me its not the best way, using the array of bools + checking every iteration for the z location.

[ashen junco]

You could use the same animations if the skeleton is the same (if not, you can retarget it), but I won't recommend to retain the blockout animations that you make using the blockout skelmeshes.
The point of making blockout anims is to have something to use as reference for programming the logic or getting the timing in place in-context.

[ashen junco]

I'd say that's the most janky way of doing it
It depends on whether it's important to drive gameplay or not. If you have the rabbits just as visual representation and not driving the gameplay, you could have them as Niagara crowd. Otherwise, if they drive the gameplay, best thing you can do is to use animations. And if you're in doubt with the performance, always profile.

[sacred cloak]

sorry to ask again, by chacne is there a tutorial that you know of for doing this? Im new with these as i usually work with blender keyframes

[devout spade]

Hard to find tutorials on sequencer but essenitally just set that into place

then

[sacred cloak]

ah ok

thank you again

[devout spade]

rightclick that and bake to animation sequence or create linked animation sequence

and that's it

two steps

dont forget to save

[sacred cloak]

trust me, i wont forget

[devout spade]

lol

[sacred cloak]

crashing is a curse for me on this

[devout spade]

yea before baking I forget and then have to rebake

linked animation sequences help but I noticed when making a montage of a linked animation sequence

one has to delete and re-add the sequence from the montage

[arctic fern]

Okay, so for some reason root motion has just completely stopped working

Oh goddamn it now I know why - it's a UE5 IK Retargeter thing. The IK Rig for the UE4 Mannequin by default uses the pelvis as the retarget root, and you need to assign the target IK to the pelvis as well if you want the animations to be retargeted properly, but this also prevents the retargeter from copying over the root bone motion.

[arctic fern]

Okay, I figured out how to fix it. You need to set the translation mode of the root target chain to "Globally Scaled" or "Absolute" in order for the root motion to properly be retargeted.

[gilded rock]

UnrealEditor_Engine!UAnimSequence::GetBonePose() [D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Animation\AnimSequence.cpp:1559]
UnrealEditor_Engine!UAnimSequence::GetAnimationPose() [D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Animation\AnimSequence.cpp:1457]
UnrealEditor_AnimationBlueprintLibrary!UAnimPoseExtensions::GetAnimPoseAtTime() [D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Editor\AnimationBlueprintLibrary\Private\AnimPose.cpp:525]
UnrealEditor_ControlRig!UMovieSceneControlRigParameterSection::LoadAnimSequenceIntoThisSection() [D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Plugins\Animation\ControlRig\Source\ControlRig\Private\Sequencer\MovieSceneControlRigParameterSection.cpp:2621]
UnrealEditor_ControlRigEditor!FControlRigParameterTrackEditor::BakeToControlRig() [D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Plugins\Animation\ControlRig\Source\ControlRigEditor\Private\Sequencer\ControlRigParameterTrackEditor.cpp:1033]
UnrealEditor_ControlRigEditor!TBaseRawMethodDelegateInstance<0,FControlRigParameterTrackEditor,void __cdecl(UClass *),FDefaultDelegateUserPolicy,FGuid,UObject *,USkeletalMeshComponent *,USkeleton *>::ExecuteIfSafe() [D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Delegates\DelegateInstancesImpl.h:470]
UnrealEditor_ClassViewer!SClassViewer::OnClassViewerSelectionChanged() [D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Editor\ClassViewer\Private\SClassViewer.cpp:1825]
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Heya, I've used a couple days ago this ue5 functionality to edit an animation

I deleted the sequencer files afterwards because I found them redundant, now I always get this crash when attempting to bake to control rig, any way to fix this?

[severe escarp]

guys help pls.. im not able to play anim montages in ue5.. what is wrong in this?

[faint oar]

Hey! I'm implementing some Thread Safe functions in C++ by adding the meta tag to the Function tag. However I don't understand them very well, does anyone know what can and cannot be done inside those functions in C++?

[ashen junco]

#cpp

[faint oar]

My bad, thanks

[worn crater]

Just trying to figure this all out correct me if im wrong please

I make a model of a character in Blender, add the skeleton and bones, then make the animations for it in Blender as well, then import all of it to Unreal, and then make the animation blueprint from there?

[candid veldt]

I know with control rig you can create your own custom rig in ue5 to manipulate your skeleton. Does this mean you couldn't actually import any control rig data from an external program like maya? Wouldn't it be easier to import control rig data from the external program and use that instead of creating essentially two separate control rigs? One in maya and one in ue5

[leaden pecan]

Hey guys, I've seen that you can take an animation, then add to the sequencer an FK Rig, set it to additive and refine the animation directly in engine. Any way this could be possible with an IK rig? if I set an IK Rig in the sequencer the actor goes immediatly in t pose and if I add an animation it doesn't play

[mighty roost]

it solved the main issue, thanks!

I just saw that the IK bones chain need to have their translation mode in ABSOLUTE

[merry loom]

By default there is no way to do maya to ctrl rig import. However there are some maya rigging system that offers both maya rig and ctrl rig. I think one of them is called advanced skeleton. Though in general you have to know that there are things you can do in maya but not in CR and vice versa

[candid veldt]

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the info!

[old aurora]

anyone able to help me, when i crouch the animation doesn't play. This is my first time using unreal engine https://gyazo.com/8a6ddef22cdf4f4c30afd689b8d8fcfa

BlendSpace 1D_IdleCrouch has sample Crouch_Walk_Fwd_Rifle_Ironsights that is invalid due to being out of bounds. Recommend adjusting it. this error comes up

not sure how to fix

[severe escarp]

hey guys.. tranek has this montage where thers this "anim notify generic event by tag" im not able to get this class anim notify.. is it there in engine or is it a custom made anim notify?? if any1 is aware pls help..

[severe escarp]

try checking that blendspace.. it looks like the character is colliding with the floor n not crouching

[mental bone]

Does somebody know if the order of execution matters on the backward solve inside the control rig?

[exotic briar]

I have an issue with the shared animation plugin. If I have a character with animation dynamics and register him with the shared animation plugin and then unregister him at a later point, the animation dynamics nodes on the character all break. does anyone know how to resolve this? I can solve it by destroying and creating the character however I'd rather it just work.

[mental bone]

In fact, I have a more specific problem: When I preview backwards solve on my control rig via an animation, it works perfectly fine, but as soon as I put that animation in a level sequence and bake it to that control rig, it's all messed up. Any leads what that could be?

[crystal imp]

https://youtu.be/w7o_3uZquHU

[old aurora]

seems okay to me but then again i have little knowledge, can't seem to solve it

[ashen junco]

No.

[formal chasm]

Does anyone use blender to unreal workflow? I am having an issue where the bone length for a bone with _end (no child) is not at the right location, this is causing problems because I intend to attach a slot to it. See "Body Slot" in the following screen shot. Any idea how to fix this?

[leaden pecan]

What am I doing wrong 😭 Someone has a good resource on how to do a backward solve?

[brazen wharf]

so i have some animation for UE4 Mannequin, they work "somehow" but don't show up in the anim sequence choice for character for example

and opening them in sequencer, is also kind of buggy and they don't start until i change the animation controller forth and back to default

any idea how to fix that?

i've deleted the SKM Mannequin which came with the asset and replaced it by the one i'm using for all assets, and fixed all redirectors (not sure if that could contribute to the problem)

[vernal lion]

How would I pose a skeletal mesh directly in the world

I don't need it to be interactive or do anything.. just put in a certain pose. I have lots of these things

[ashen junco]

Control Rig

[brazen wharf]

did you apply scale to both the mesh and skeleton in blender before export?

and are the other bone locations correct or also stretched?

[formal chasm]

No, its just the auto-generated "leaf" bones that are longer then they should be, the rest of the mesh is just fine. I ended up getting the effect I wanted by creating a completely extra deformation bone.

[brazen wharf]

ok... but you could have also just used a offset on the socket?!

[formal chasm]

yes! however, the source of truth being in blender is rather important to me, particularly since fbx importation of an armature requires deleting the skeleton in its entirety, so any reupload and I would have to recreate those each time.

[rocky barn]

Does anyone have any particularly good resources on how to begin working with procedural animation? I looked at the video by Andreas Suika and I'm lacking understanding of how he is accomplishing the leg placement in blueprint. Is there a video that goes over this from a more beginner perspective?

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/full-body-ik-procedural-dragon-animations

Video I'm referring to

I guess I'm looking for a breakdown of how I would accomplish a similar leg positioning bp

[elfin pond]

Howdy, I have created a custom anim node, and I am trying to rotate a bone. But adding a rotation to a transform which is then added to the bone seems to not rotate anything. I can see that it does rotate the bone as the bone's orientation changes, but none of the children bone's update:

this is inside EvaluateSkeletalControl AnyThread

as you can see here I thinnnnnkk this is infact rotating the joint because of the orient mismatch, but its not rotation the actual joint. But I could be wrong.

[elfin pond]

There are two way to work on procedural animation in unreal I think: one is to use Unreal's control rig, and another is to use ik nodes inside the animation bp. I like to think of procedural animation as one of two objectives: either a) applying additive animations on top of your animation system, or b) completely authoring the animation within the engine.

His video it more the later where a control rig added the leg & Spine animation (this is then a node in the animation bp). My best advice is to focused on one body part at a time I think from a generic standpoint.

Try this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WzNvJZk0E

[severe escarp]

is ur problem solved?? or it still exists??

[sand cliff]

Is skeletal mesh slicing possible? If so what method would you guys recommend?

Dunno if this is the correct channel sorry

[mental bone]

Does anyone have an idea why "bake to control rig" behaves differently than the backwards solve preview inside the control rig?

[flat cedar]

Hello everyone! Can you advice me some Maya tutorial for creating animation for ue4 skeleton?

[ashen junco]

I think there is a plugin for that in the marketplace

[willow orbit]

What you guys use for random idle animations except Random Sequence Player because it's sadly not being exposed when inheriting from parent ABP..

[sand cliff]

Yeah I saw that, I was just kinda hoping I could whip my own up is all

[coral jasper]

is there a way to reverse an anim or anim montage inside ue5 ?

wat link is this

it just took me back here

omg im so stupid

thnx

[warped sapphire]

what's the best way to get a pawn's variable for my animation blueprint? casting or interfaces?

[ashen junco]

Personally I use casting, done on anim BP init phase

[warped sapphire]

i need to do it on blueprint update, since its to check if the pawn is injured and change animations accordingly

so i was wondering what the least expensive method was

[ashen junco]

No, you don't.

Cache the casted reference once, use it everywhere else in the graph.

[warped sapphire]

oh, right that makes sense lol

i dont know why i didnt think of that

thanks!

[coral jasper]

is there a way to keep replaying an anim montage ?

other than event tick

[warped sapphire]

for some reason the reference doesnt stick and returns invalid, am i doing something wrong here?

[ashen junco]

Even when actually playing the game?

[warped sapphire]

yeah, i get a whole log of accessed none errors

[brazen wharf]

will the reference ever be set? like... are you sure that you picked the right cast?

[ashen junco]

Might be the class casted as is too narrow

[warped sapphire]

it's the parent class that all my characters are based off, what should i be casting to instead?

[brazen wharf]

that should work, as long as your character inherits that class

[warped sapphire]

and it works if i have the cast executing from the blueprint update animation event

[quasi atlas]

hi all - i'm an animation noob - i have some 60fps animations i want to look at the animation blueprint i've created wotn let me change the target frame rate away from 30fps - how do i sort that?

I wasnt able to find anything on google to my surprise

[unkempt cosmos]

How could i make a wake up animation? Like the player starts the level opening the eyes and standing up

[radiant matrix]

hello

i think i did somethin wröng

if i do this apply additive thing my animation entirely freaks the fuck out

it scales 10 up

[placid inlet]

how can i add like a crough to stand and a stand to crouch animation?

and how does jumping animations work

[formal chasm]

Working with a blender to unreal workflow. Two questions.

Question 1. when importing an fbx with animations (named actions) from blender, occasionally the animation shows up as "model_Anim" and occasionally as "model_<ActionName>". I want/expect it to be <ActionName> variant but cannot figure out why it often simply loads as Anim. In blender these are saved with the shield, and named properly in the dopesheet/action section.

Question 2. when I first import an FBX, all is fine, it loads the skeleton, actions, mesh, and materials. When I re-export it, unreal loads the changes to the MESH ONLY. It does not re-import the skeleton, or load any new actions. If I want to get those to load up, I have been forced to delete everything from content (detaching everything), delete the fbx, restart unreal, re-import everything, then re-attach everything. This is a painful process, but I cannot find a means of re-importing this adjacent data. Is there something I am missing?

[woven rose]

Hello, is it possible to use the metahuman retarget pose asset in the new ik retargeter? I'm having problems retargeting from the mannequin.

[ionic swallow]

Is there a way to blend between two adjacent animation sequences inside an animation montage? Or do animations have to be created in sets that work together?

My issue is that I have two attack animations that sort of work together in a montage but there's some minute snapping that I'd like to blend over.

[bitter shard]

Has anyone managed to get data from Control Rig into Blueprint? The component has some functions for this (like "Get Control X") but they don't seem to work, it's as if they only give the default control transforms.

[devout spade]

You don't have to cast again even if the variable updates?

[narrow grotto]

How do I rotate the top half of a skeletal mesh?

I'm having trouble getting only the top of a turret to move

[ashen junco]

How do you even supposed to update the pawn owner reference?

I mean, it's not like the same instance of anim instance can persist in changing the entire pawn class.

[vale magnet]

Hi, I was just wandering if any of you happen to know what the f*ck is goin on... whenever the player character has to play the Manny_Land animation, it instead totally shrinks and then returns to normal.... It works totally fine in the Original anim blueprint... seems to be totally off whenever I put it anywhere else

A - Standalone animation

P- Player

Nevermind, found a solution in the logs of this channel

[merry loom]

What is your use case?

[merry loom]

I have no idea but have you looked at the modifybone anim node? Maybe there is something there

[wispy granite]

hey

i have a weird question

im not sure how to ask it though, give me a second

17 seconds in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQLGoLygo5U&ab_channel=AfflictionGames

the player accesses a booth that disables player control

and plays a mini scene

where the player can no longer control the character until said animation is over

i have no idea how i would begin to try creating this

not sure if this is the right place to ask

[novel blaze]

Sorry in advance for the pics, internet is out and can only use my phone.

I’m animating in control rig and while animating my pose looks great but baked it’s completely different. As if not all of the bone transforms were recorded Here’s the pose I’m looking at in sequencer

And here is what it looks like when I bake it down.. WAAAY off

[bitter shard]

Well, I have a skeletal mesh with physical animation and a control rig, and I need the original bone location (so before the simulation takes over, aka the target transform for physical animation) for some computations. This should in principle be easy but I've run into roadblocks in UE5.

First I tried "Get Body Target Transform" for the physical animation component, which should return what I need. It's bugged in UE5 and causes an immediate crash.
Then I thought I could use the control rig to send the bone data. The control rig component is also bugged and doesn't work with physics, so I'm using the animation node version. I tried to get the anim instance -> find control rigs -> ... until I found some node which returned a struct with control transforms, but it seemingly didn't work either

[misty dagger]

Hej Guys! I am trying to animate a camera around an object, and I have everything set up right (I have an actor on the object that is parented to the camera, which orbits around it.) My problem is that everytime I adjust the rotation keyframe, it gets converted to another number. So if I put 500 on the rotation, it converts it to -160. I come from blender where this doesnt happen at all. How do I fix it?

[ashen junco]

You have to enable quaternion interpolation in the track to mitigate the gimbal locking

[misty dagger]

thank you 😄

[wanton surge]

hey I am trying to add some animal models and animations to my project but the animations when imported are empty, I get these errors

different assets from the same creator works fine, is there anything I'm supposed to check to fix this?

[proper grotto]

Are UE4 marketplace assets completely unusable on the new UE5 skeleton setup?

[hard geyser]

Hello, do you know why there are a lot of little green grains when I render my animation on unreal engine 5?

[warm island]

how do most people animate FPS arm animations?

like, I dunno, press a button and such

seems overly specific

like would you use an ik rig for this, an existing animation and tweak?

[ashen junco]

Okay, there's actually more than just "fake it" but the gist of it is to play two animations together

[warm island]

grats on the 6 years, getting close to that number myself 😄

Unity was worse than horse dung

[warped sapphire]

in my animBP, can i plug my blendspaces into multiple inputs or do i really have to duplicate it every time?

[formal chasm]

I understand enter and exit, but what is a "fully blended state event" in the animation state machine state?

[deft prairie]

Is it possible to mirror animations with a Control Rig, lets say the left and right arm are moving together so you can mirror the arm movement to the other arm?

[coral jasper]

what is the best way to get multiple different animation sets for 1 character and assign a different set to a character randomly on spawn? do i create multiple anim BPs is there a different way inside a single anim bp to play a random set of anims?

[novel blaze]

Was able to get my animations to bake properly. Been working on making first person animations again in control rig. Still missing some for the crouch state as well as other actions like fire and reload but wanted to make sure everything was looking decent before deep diving into animations. Excuse the visual bugs too I haven't converted everything over to first person quite yet! 😅

[marsh ether]

How can I make a shield blueprint allow players to vault over the shield to the other side

[novel blaze]

Anim layer linking.

[plucky ginkgo]

Does someone know how can i make Montage Play last infinitely? In other words, how do i loop AnimMontage?

[next berry]

u are really good. 🙂

[novel blaze]

You can choose which section of the montage to play if you choose the section that is already playing it will loop.

[novel blaze]

Thanks.

[next berry]

i havent tried animating yet

is it hard

[ashen junco]

Easy and hard at the same time

[next berry]

weird

i like that

to think i do this coding club at school

i learn nothing

but when i get home

i learn everything

[ashen junco]

Join the chess club instead, and you'll make The Elder Scrolls

[next berry]

EXACTLY

i like chess

they use this weird software called mu, like at least use visual studio or smt

[novel blaze]

Animating is not hard just tedious and requires a lot of attention to detail. Even for rough animations. I usually just do block outs. Polishing an animation could take hours 😫

[misty dagger]

Hi guys is it possible to export collusion for skeletal mesh from UE4?

or from FBX to UE4

[ashen junco]

No.
You have to make the physics asset in Unreal.

[coral jasper]

i have multiple zombie models which i want to animate using mixamo. is there a way i can rig them using mixamo all at the same time instead of having a different skeleton for each? even if the bone hierchy is the same sometimes the animations mess us the mesh and contort it.

[merry loom]

Seems complicated. Sry cant help😵‍💫

[faint oar]

Hey! I'm having a couple of issues with the Retargeting of the IK Bones from UE4 to UE5. I been following and trying many combinations but they don't seem to work. Here are some pictures, does anyone has success in retargeting these bones? All other bones work fine.

[hoary egret]

hey guys if UE has Z-up and Maya has Y-Up should I set it like this?

[vestal fiber]

i imported my model as .obj and animations as .fbx because fbx model was fucked up.. but now i cant find those animations anywhere even i put em in same folder. and trying to drag and drop em to state machine, but no.

asset browser cant find em, even they are in same folder.. what to do? maybe it was about that baking fbx in first place, but .obj model seem to work nice, but .obj wont export animations, fbx imports animations and xxxcked up model

how you guys handle this learning stress? i hope i dont have lung cancer before i learn this

[limpid robin]

I'm trying to get my character to point their arm in a variable direction. Any suggestions on how to do this in a somewhat simple way?

[modern compass]

do I have to make an IK Rig and type in the chains for every individual SK_mannequin that gets imported from marketplace asset packs if I want to use their animations

they all share the same skeleton and same bone names and hierarchy but the animations can't be just used as is

[coral jasper]

are there free alternative for mixamo to get character animations ?

[vestal fiber]

Yeah should use same bone names as basic char?

[modern compass]

woot it works

[keen lintel]

animations from this pack I got off the marketplace are deforming my mesh (specifically the hands and neck) in weird ways, despite me using the skeleton that came with the mesh. anyone know a fix?

[scenic canyon]

Anyone happen to know how to get Sevarog's shoulders to appear properly in his animations? (Paragon assets).

[lime yew]

Hello can I get some assistance as to how I can solve an issue im facing. I have an alembic cache from Maya and I am trying to import it into UE5. However I was told to check off "Flatten Tracks" to get more material tracks, however when I check it off I lose my animation. When I have "Flatten Tracks" on, I have animation but only 4 material tracks. Is there a way I can get the best of both worlds?

[somber rover]

Hello, I'm trying to mirror an animation on the X Axis. I know there is a Mirror Data Table. But I would like to bake the animation for use in a blend space. Is there a way to do this?

[rough shale]

Hi, I'm currently rigging and animating a pistol in blender, to be used in ue5. This will be for VR, and so I want to have a more complex weapon interaction where e.g. pressing the trigger axis will only animate the trigger, and then at maybe 0.5 distance fire off an event which will in turn (and depending on states, like ammo etc.) activate more animations.
Now my question is, is it possible to only animate the single bones in blender, and then depending on state play different animations simultaneously in ue?

[onyx pine]

What is the best way to rig and export a character model from blender to unreal these days? Need good results, don’t mind paying for something

[ashen junco]

Unit scale set to 0.01, compensate everything for the scale, export as FBX, import to Unreal.

Works everytime in my case, for years.

[fossil crane]

Don't forget z-axis

[ashen junco]

Never had to modify Z-axis, though granted I make animations from scratch in Blender

[obtuse adder]

Hi all, im making my character go ragdoll but i only want the top half to go ragdoll, how do i make the bottom half rigid

[ashen junco]

Look into physical animations - you can blend ragdolly physics with the animations. Useful for stuff like physical hit reactions and whatnot

[obtuse adder]

ive done it before without animations. i just need the top half to be ragdoll and the bottom half to be rigid so u can still walk around

[ashen junco]

Physical animations can do that.

Lower body can do its walking animation while upper body go ragdolly

[obtuse adder]

hm ok ill look into it

[ivory blaze]

Hello guys,
I removed all the bones from a full character model to extract its hand mesh for my VR hand...but the problem is when I import the new mesh into UE4, the first bone is root not the hand_r any idea how to fix this?

[coral ruin]

Has anybody ever encountered this sort of low poly puppet on an animation asset sent from Maya?
Our animator is exporting the animation FBX but the animation inside is animating but a couple of bones of the facial rig (original should animate everything in the rig) and has this strange mesh applyied on top of it

[ashen junco]

Change the armature object name to Armature before exporting.
Anything but that will use the object name as the root bone

[north heron]

This might sound like a dumb question, but I want to know if UE5 supports shapekey animations as is or do I need to use bone transform drivers to make those shapekeys to trigger and if UE5 can read them properly 🤔

[ashen junco]

You can animate shape keys, or as Unreal calls it morph targets, using the anim curves

[keen lintel]

so I'm retargeting an unsheath anim, the weapon in my retarget source is parented to the root bone of the skeleton, but the weapon in my target skeleton is parented to the pelvis

I'm guessing this is the reason why the animation isn't playing on the target weapon

how would I parent the weapon to the root in editor?

[ivory blaze]

Thanks, Fixed.

[static falcon]

Does anybody know of a guide for an up to date method of Slope Warping in UE5

[radiant matrix]

@ashen junco 2 quick questions as a maya artist

is that armature important, can i rename it anyhow i want?

[onyx pine]

Thanks. I should re-phrase though. Is there a good workflow to get decent accurate automatic weight painting and auto-rig.
Currently im using auto-rig pro which works well but I need to spend a lot of time messing with weight painting to get everything working nice. All of my models are based very closely on the ue4 mannequin in stance and shape etc.

[ashen junco]

You can rename it anything, but before exporting, if you want to preserve the hierarchy without adding another root bone, the name has to be Armature.

Personally I make a custom Python script to handle the automatic renaming before exporting, so it renames back once it's done exporting

[radiant matrix]

i see

so armature is the name of the root bone

that is something i have to keep in mind

thx

[ashen junco]

Ah, Auto Rig user too. Well, I do some manual fixing on the weights even after using the auto rigger

[hollow saddle]

Is it possible to enable animation blending between different anim montage pieces? I know how to set blending per anim montage in general but here I have a few animation that have different starting and ending poses and I'm wondering maybe there's a way to make a smooth transition i.e. blend

[worthy surge]

fellas please explain to me how NPCs manage to combine different forms of animation together, like aiming at a certain point around them and walking in some direction, I'm a total beginner and would like to know how it's usually done

since it's used in almost every game it shouldn't be too complex, right?

I want to make NPC enemies but don't even know where to start

[warm kayak]

I'm getting crazy.... I have some 3D asset I imported to blender with standard options...everythings seems fine ... but when I import an animation that is supposed to work with this rig it just fucks up... any ideas? 🙂

[nimble sonnet]

id say just roll with it

[warm kayak]

new experience it seems that every bone has a 90° roll

[ashen junco]

good old Blender.

[warm kayak]

😭

[radiant matrix]

the forbidden technique...

crashed my engine

[nimble sonnet]

you knew what you signed up for

[little wyvern]

Hi hi, got an interesting issue - my mesh interpolates to match the required rotation every tick independently of the actor. Unfortunately, the physics simulated parts of the mesh really don't like that, and explode

However, if I set the node to teleport, instead, it actually freezes the physics simulated components entirely. Any idea how I can deal with this? I really want to simulate these in world space, it adds a lot of dynamic feel since its a movement heavy game

[nimble sonnet]

better to work with the physics than against it: you could apply a correctional angular force instead of just setting the rotation

[little wyvern]

angular force? The mesh is kinematic though. Maybe I don't understand exactly what you mean

the bits that are physics simulated are set in the animation blueprint

[small dirge]

Hello guys !

I have a montage "Punch"
and a montage "Take Damage"

I want take damage to be additive. I tried a lot of things but my "Punch" animation keep getting canceled by the animation montage "Take damage"

The raw montage is set to additive from selected frame 0 in animation "idle"
The anim montage Punch is set to default slot " FullBody"
The additive animation montage TakeDamage is set to default slot "AdditiveDamage"

What do I miss ?

[little wyvern]

Maybe... I remember there was a way to make physics simulate AFTER gameplay logic, could you remind me where that setting was?

[nimble sonnet]

actually i believe it is default to run your blueprint ticks in PrePhysics

[little wyvern]

Hm, maybe then if I run it after physics it'll be under the radar. I'll try playing with it - any clue where you set the order of the updates?

found it!

[radiant matrix]

Quick Question: Can i use control rig to control the rotation of a head for instance INSIDE a animation blueprint

[radiant matrix]

and if yes, links or how please*

[nimble sonnet]

@ashen junco is the control rig expert

[little wyvern]

no change 😭

[nimble sonnet]

i didnt think it would

sadly gotta do physics if you wanna use physics

[radiant matrix]

is he 😮 nice!

cant wait

[ashen junco]

Yes!

[little wyvern]

Yeah it was a shot in the dark

[radiant matrix]

and if yes, links or how please*

@ashen junco go a link? 😄

i wanna know how!

[ashen junco]

At least in 4.27 it's the matter of putting a Control Rig node in the anim graph and pass variables around.

[radiant matrix]

in ue5

[ashen junco]

I don't think it changed in UE5, but I don't use UE5.

[nimble sonnet]

shouldnt be different i think

[radiant matrix]

dis de node?