Thanks, I'll take a look.

@KonvictionTV it's a fair point. The crouch speed is movement speed regulated and the objective is to prevent collisions (both physical and visual). In my own project, I have also been slowing character movement based on extent of crouch. I think an element of this is level design and more natural changes in height, such as in the cave, should be favoured. The dev can also disable the auto crouch (there is a function for that) activity in particularly difficult, low crouch areas, requiring a player to start with a planned manual crouch.

Always appreciated, thank you.

Thank you.

If you are manually crouched (button press) it stays that way until pressed again. When pressed to stop crouching, it will transition to standing (but will stop if an overhead obstacle appears - now you are in auto crouch mode). If you were crouched by auto crouch and the overhead obstruction goes, then it auto stands.

@@MiddleAgedGameDev naise! been waiting for it to appear on fab since I saw the first video. looks promising.

Thanks, I'll take a look at making that customisable, or making it clear how to do it.

Maybe do something with the hands on top grabbing surface above​@@MiddleAgedGameDev

@@tylercathey Hey, thank you. I don't know if you are familiar with my other asset 'EnviroSense: Immersive Hand IK' (kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXLQfmdvmNmhrck), but there is no reason why they wouldn't work together and deliver this kind of functionality (in fact that was intended).

You are very welcome. Drop into discord if you have any questions.

@HanaXbanana hey, thx for the question. If you mean during the sensing, then yes, it has checks built in so that if the character has ik engaged and the character turns 'through its own arm' as the ik ends then it will abort the ik more rapidly to prevent bad visuals. Of course appropriate level design and character setup also reduce tge risk of this.

@hirojiokada3899 At its heart, this is two bone IK, with associated calculations to determine where to place the hands. You can see my pinned comment for a link to the marketplace.

Then I'll keep doing them! thanks

Thank you!! you too.

@maskedrecruit4571 Yes, this is planned, I am likely to use curves so the pelvis is engaged for lower stooping only. This video is really just showing all components work and now I need to make it realistic! Thanks

@UnrealAdventuresPlayground Thank you, sometimes a break helps you value something!

Thanks.

Thank you.

The base code comes from this asset: www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/motion-scanner although I have adapted it to my inventory and model.

Thank you. Actually it has been a rolling process. Starting first with one controller, then adding the procedural first person arms and seeing some limitations (or rather need for substantial modification of) the first controller, so switching to a simpler movement controller now that the aiming was handled procedurally. Whilst I am integrating specific assets, including my own, I have never been a fan of all inclusive assets/frameworks as they often need more customisation, so I have been aiming at adding modular assets that meet the specific need and when happy moving on and if something isn't present making it myself. It's definitely something I can consider when I have hit all my primary character milestones.

@christopherfrancique9912 thanks, I have put this on hold for now. Most of what I do is for my own background project and I am currently testing a first person setup. This motion matching test is more in anticipation of what I expect to be asked in EnviroSense support. I am happy to discuss how this works in discord if anyone wants to.

Thanks, but I have a demanding day job so I am not a good collaborator and I work on my own project solo in the background so I don't let other's down.

@@MiddleAgedGameDev Oh.. it's okey.. but.. can you help me achieve the result in this video with motion sample?

@@Syncr0noss So this uses the EnviroSense asset which is available in the marketplace: www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/envirosense-immersive-hand-ik I provide support in discord.

In this case I drop the linked anim graph in after the pose history node in the Motion Matching ABP. The rest of the setup is as per the EnviroSense Asset.

I think it's a little early to commit thoughts. At the moment, the sensing is overlaid on the movements, but from what I understand work in progress parts of the motion matching, such as offsetting the movement of the mesh root from actor root, may create stability issues for EnviroSense (although it seems OK now and I expect there will be a fix down the line if it becomes a problem).

I have only tested it with UE5, UE4 and metahuman, but given that it is primarily working with two-bone IK, it should work with many skeletal setups. Happy to discuss details and maybe test if you want to come to discord.

Hi, thanks for the question. Generally the design and the code that determines where to put the hand should prevent this. There are 2 things to note here: first, if you have a consistent issue you can add an object specific offset to change how the hand interacts with that object; second, animation post processing and good quality 3d models deliver the best quality as twist bones are utilised to ensure the arm (mostly wrist) adapts to the positioning (and this is dependent on the weight painting of the model). An example of what can happen without animation post processing can be seen in the documentation under 'important notes' (drive.google.com/file/d/1PM4D_ftMSLAuLEujUGm_JWHM9DsWYPI2/view?usp=sharing)

Thank you. The asset is replicated. There is very little work to do character side for replication it is mostly about replication for interactable objects, which will generally be game specific. This door is not currently in the asset, just because I don't own the meshes and haven't made replacements yet.

Thankyou. If you come into my discord, I have already explained to someone how I avoid camera clipping in first person and I can flag it for you. It is simpler and more appropriate for full body first person than the avoidance third person stuff and it is in the public area of my discord. Happy to share that for free.

It's a bit tricky to do that, what I have done in this video is entirely dependent on the core asset, but this will be included in the next update: www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/envirosense-immersive-hand-ik

@@MiddleAgedGameDev no , um not talking about this one the very beginning one in which if a character detects something it snaps his hands on it , not the wall some specific object like lever or switch and stuff . I would be very helpful.

@@BattleHVT If you search out tutorials for two-bone IK, that is basically what is under the hood. On your switch or button, you would place an empty Transform that marks the desired position and rotation of the hand. Then use a method to detect when the target is in front of the player and target the two bone-ik to the Transform, turning it off again when out of range or not in front. Again, this is largely built into the asset.

@@MiddleAgedGameDev ok thanks bro now I will dig into it cuz now I know what's under the hood 😅😅

Thanks, here is a marketplace link 😉 www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/envirosense-immersive-hand-ik

This is on pause at the moment as I am working on too many other things. I don't think it would be included with envirosense as the integration will be different and it will unfocus the asset. Not sure how I will distribute this and it will ultimately depend on QC testing.

The basis of this is Advanced Locomotion Component (ALC) which is already an asset. I have only overriden a couple of methods on the weapons class to achieve this modification to the targeting so there is nothing for me to sell. Maybe take a look if ALC by CT game is good for you.

I am happy to discuss this. I suspect it will work, but haven't tested on more unusual skeletons, Do you want to discuss in discord prior to purchase and I can maybe run some tests for you.

@@MiddleAgedGameDev Thank you for respond i will join discord, Thank you, Regards.

thank you

Thank you. I could talk for a while about the pros and cons of different approaches I tried, balancing more body movement with the accuracy of the ik! and the feedback from testers that they preferred that their underlying animations were not messed with too much. These are excuses though, and I do agree there is more can be done on realism.

@@MiddleAgedGameDev Mmm, that is a very fair consideration, though, about the tool preserving the underlying animation. It is an asset, after all, not a final implementation. Perhaps it would be best to make it in a way where these additional adjustments can be optionally layered and blended over the top, as well as totally disabled if the user would prefer to work from a clean slate.

I will think about this more. Certainly the user is free to do whatever they want to underlying animations and the asset is primarily controlling the hand positioning. @@joa1401

@@MiddleAgedGameDev Really the main thing I was thinking of is just including a way to make the hand move to the position along a curve, instead of a straight line. It wouldn’t alter the underlying animations or require authoring new ones. It would just interpolate between the unaltered hand position and the target position using a basic arc instead of a basic lerp. It’s a trick to keep the IK from looking too mechanical. But again, totally up to you, this is already a complex project