How to Animate Your Character in Unreal Engine 5 - Animation Blueprints and Blendspaces

[@GorkaGames]

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[@SingingBaws]

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[@nook2726]

this is literally perfect for what I'm trying to do. I appreciate you explaining stuff in depth and saying what key you pressed to make a action happened as a lot of other tutorials just are doing a bunch of random tapping and idk the key binds for it so thankyou.

[@reedheadable]

Brilliant, concise and straight to the point. One of the best tutorials that I have seen so far. Thank you

[@beatwrecker7343]

bruh... i love how step-by-step your tuts are.

[@GreenStreamDev]

I was having a problem for such a long time, and after watching your video, it is finally solved! I couldn't be any more thankful!

[@bennicus4901]

Epic recommends using the 2d blend space by default anyway - the cost of an unused axis is minimal, and its much easier to upgrade in the future if you decide you need to use the 2d space after all.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

1D is tucked away and marked "Legacy" for a reason.

[@joshymcsquashy]

I have been using this tutorial all year ang it is still amazing!

[@mugenxiv]

Finally managed to figure out how to implement my run animation properly. You're a legend.

[@miken2208]

This channel has everything I am looking for keep up the good work

[@Punisher1992]

Like i said in my last Comment, instead of creating "isCrouching" you can use the node "Access Property" and get the value directly from you Character blueprint, its ThreadSafe, and you dont have to make a fat sphagetti mess in your Anim Blueprint.

[@ericwoot2]

wow this is amazing thank you for this comment i had never heard of "Access property" this is a game changer. So cool

[@diddykologaming]

Actually what I came to the comments hoping to find lol

[@MrInternetMan]

Would love some more specific details on this.

[@IoSkyBoyoI]

I was hoping for more of a "From basics tutorial" As in, we would make the idle animation and the walk animation for example and then blend them. But this is basically just taking two already made animations and putting them together.

[@gemnik]

You have to create them in blender

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

It's a very tricky topic. Even Gears - a flagship UE game - has janky locomotion where what you've described isn't implemented well at all. Although I must say that replaying Gears and GTA V made me feel better about my own attempts because in both games character movement is cumbersome and doesn't look good.

[@erksipa]

There are many such tutorials. For many of us, this is just the level needed.

[@tianamaycry]

Funny, I actually looked up this tutorial because I don't want to go through that part, I have some assets I want to use. Eventually I will look into doing my own animations. I'd recommend looking into Mixamo, as it can help you rig your unrigged meshes, and provide animation assets you can use. Either that, or once you've rigged your assets, you can make custom animations with them yourself.

[@Surburis]

This video in the title says its teaching blendspaces and animation blueprints, quit complaining

[@sir_kronos_mc]

this guy needs a promotion! why on earth does he have only 104k subs! he deserves more!

[@blackmythdev]

its not too small haha

[@queseraseraozi]

Boiiiiiiiii, that is an awesome tutorial!

[@Thebaker3]

Man I love you! Very easy explained

[@playbyan1453]

If I knew this from the start I will finish earlier, thank you so much!!

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Please make more advanced tutorial for this. Great simple demo thank you ❤

[@GorkaGames]

yeah I will make more advanced tutorials on these!

[@hobbyhater6244]

You saved my day. was wondering 2 days now why it wont work my way haha i missclicked just one thing holy moly. Thanks haha

[@TheHumanoidX]

Wow, the guy that did the running back flip to dodge the missile. 🤘

[@akaragdollsvids]

This is what i neaded thanks mann 😃

[@GorkaGames]

I`m glad you found it useful!

[@joekrivoski]

that cast node is tanking ppls frames per second I use an interface instead of a cast node works awesome by getting a ref object of my character

[@joekrivoski]

getting 120fps instead of way less like 80 with casting

[@CaptainPickletron]

Gorka games can have broken english sometimes but MAN can i understand him more then any other youtuber ever other youtubers are like "do this this and this" doesn't tell the game bind gorka games says it like "do this this and this and press this key to do it"

[@AudreyYoann]

Very clear, thank you so much :)

[@KrissieFox]

I'm having an issue at around the 5:56 mark, I'm on Unreal 5.4.4 and there is no longer a blue print node for just "get velocity", what should I use instead? (thank you for this tutorial, it's exciting learning how to put my own animations onto a game character!)

[@HorrorGameplaynocommentray]

hey i hope you fixed it if not watch the video again cos i just did exact the same

[@joshua42777]

Thank you for sharing!

[@AliBounds]

Awesome video

[@GorkaGames]

thank you!

[@deheane]

Thanks to you I was able to finish my Sociology work and now I count on you again to finish my course completion work. Thank you very much Gorka!

[@GorkaGames]

Great to hear!! I`m glad that you found my tutorials helpful!! Much appreciate it

[@Zax_Black]

Massive Clutch thanks

[@RealBelugaMusic]

Thank you so much!!!

[@zjgamerz]

thank you for this i try and it was working it is worthful

[@motsu9497]

great video slow down a bit though my guy i had to rewatch the same section several times just to get it but i got it thanks!

[@gaigelarock3970]

do you have any tutorials on how to give ai characters specific turn animations?

[@jytreus]

please don't take this video down, i use it very often

[@williamminnaar6311]

Hi there - 2 questions How do I make the character switch to idle while following the spline - ie: Like patrolling - walking for a while, looking {I have motion for this} then continuing to walk. How do I attach a Camera to the head-bone and make Unreal 'One Play' look through that camera?

[@livecleo]

at 5:25 I dont have that option

[@antonds]

Could you describe in video how to make character from zero (to Hero, huh)? In other software, Blender for example.

[@GorkaGames]

do you mean like model one?

[@antonds]

​@@GorkaGames Yeap! May be in more simple way without great details. For understanding entire process :)

[@ChezComics]

@@antonds Hi! Just wanted to pop in and say you can either model or sculpt your character. You can model in Blender, it’s free. Z-Brush is the most popular sculpting software which has a paid license. After you model it, you’ll have to give rig it. Give it some bones weight those bones to the mesh. You can do all of that in Blender. You can then animate yourself or pull some mocap data from something like Mixamo. Cheers!

[@eddielonestar7962]

Excellent tutorial amigo! Really helped me out. Could you do a tutorial for an Animation Blueprint for monster AI enemies? Two legged and four legged.

[@detroitAR]

Bro, since you are a game developer why don’t u create an battle royals game for pc and mobile you got nice skills 😊

[@GorkaGames]

haha thank you man, I am currently working on my survival game which is on Steam, so that has me pretty bussy

[@detroitAR]

@@GorkaGames oh nice is it available rn

[@thefaulenzer677]

@@GorkaGamesHow is your survival game called? I’d like to check it out :)

[@djh345]

​@@GorkaGameswe would still like to know about this steam survival game😊

[@Mattdeath25]

Cuz that genre is out of date .

[@thedevilchild18]

Video title "How to ANIMATE your character" video content "how to use ready animations"

[@hamburgerfrenchfries3777]

how can I apply it to a non player controlled asset? Like an enemy?

[@peacelee95]

Unfortunately, the node called 'Cast To BP_ThirdpersonCharacter' does not exist in my unreal engine, has anyone managed to solve it?

[@mrscrewu1199]

Same for me. I think it's jus the blueprint for your character but I can't seem to find that either. I think the video is outdated

[@katiekaliber]

You need to just cast to the character you play as since it's trying to get information from that blueprint. If it has a different name, then you need to use that instead of his default 3rd person template name.

[@zayggaming7544]

at 6:20 im using a metahuman and i want to use the default mesh i dont want to change plz help

[@nomino3697]

best i like your kontent

[@GorkaGames]

thank you man!

[@mongolzman1]

Hey please help me Cast To BP_ThirdpersonCharacter is missing i cant find following the your lesson its a bug or not? I used by UE5.1

[@jairetrim1516]

same here any solutions yet? unreal (5.2)

[@roccoloria9241]

@@jairetrim1516 Hey guys, in more recent versions of the engine it's just "cast to character"

[@epicbrowndragon]

So with 5.4 can you not rig and animate like blender in timeline with no blueprints? What about facial rigging/animation?

[@nathanrobidoux2049]

I love you!

[@nuttboj]

any idea on how to change the animation from walking to sprinting?

[@abdelrahmantolba5732]

if its giving you an error in the anim BP when setting up speed , validate the character variable ..

[@herofilmsandgaming5969]

is there away to make a map or a compass to guide the player to the objective

[@GorkaGames]

good idea, i will note it down for a tutorial. There are many ways of making a map or compass, one of the most common ways of making maps is to place a camera on the to p of the map and then pass the render texture into a widget

[@herofilmsandgaming5969]

@@GorkaGames cool i put that in there abought a map or a compass is to help guid the player

[@LemmingAttack]

I still don't really understand transitions from animation states

[@ERAK_Aenyegames]

Hey! I have a question for u, if i create blendspace for move forward, backward and strafe, what nodes I need to put in on this animation blueprint ?

[@frankexe-em1ok]

How do you assign a key to update the animation from walking to running? I really can't figure it out 😓

[@SubrosaRose]

Project_Settings/Engine/sub_menu (input)/ action input or axis input ✌️

[@DjblackgameBlackgamers]

How set the condition for crouching with maybe a keyboard button?

[@GorkaGames]

I actually have a tutorial on crouching: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eH-YlqWKnahjaKM

[@DjblackgameBlackgamers]

Thanks a lot

[@heavenseek]

Hi Master G! Would you be interested in making a tutorial series for a (deliberately basic) mixed genre type of game? I will pay for it and it would serve as a nice playlist for your viewers.

[@GorkaGames]

hey!! Absolutely, do you mean on kinda making a simple but "complete" game on a generic genre in order to learn?

[@heavenseek]

@@GorkaGames Hola! :) Yeah, this would be a 'complete' game that would just have a basic foundation / template for now -- as a learning essential -- so we can gain the skills and confidence to develop / customize any part of it more deeply in the future. The game would have a simple premise / storyline, but the player is empowered with the use of some genre-crossing actions like: findable weapons, trusty companions, a basic vehicle, and some findable clues. This would be helpful to any viewers, but it also has special value to me as a film 'Previz' tool that I can make a storyboard from.

[@moisi4846]

can you do a tutorial how to setup multiplayer. I can´t see my other character

[@GorkaGames]

yeah I have planned for my future tutorials to make an multiplayer replication tutorial soon!

[@Alex-eu6rw]

How are animations made for unreal engine? Like you make them in blender separately and import them individually to unreal engine and then use blend space them to put them together? Like running and turning around

[@TimRoadley]

I've been trying to answer the same questions myself. The process is a bit awkward, however looks something like : 1) Create mesh in blender. Export mesh as FBX. 2) If it's a humanoid shape, use Rigify or AccuRig to create rigging. Export as FBX for unreal. (if it wasn't a humanoid shape, rig in Blender instead) 3) Import mesh and Rig into Cascadeur (it's an awesome free AI driven animation tool). Export character as FBX. Export animations as separate FBX. 4) Import character mesh FBX into unreal. This gives you the skeletal mesh. 5) Import animation FBX into unreal. This gives you the animation. I'm still working through some issue with 'root track' error when importing the animations, however I'm preeeetty sure this process is about right after hours of trial and error with different applications.

[@flaw4979]

thank you

[@peterjohnson8570]

I realize it's a newer feature and may not have been the case when this video was released, but when I read the title "How to Animate Your Character in UE5", I fully expected you to go over control rigs and actually creating the animations in UE... not just setting up a character to use imported animations. 😭

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

He mentioned montages which are a more advanced topic, but doesn't explain them. It's a case of cart before horse. Also the 1D Blendspace is deprecated and even Epic say you should just use the new one, because there is no requirement to use the vertical axis on there at all. Sadly, a lot of UE tutorials are a bit ropey in this regard. It's all "open up the third person template" and then watch as they don't explain anything at all - it's just clicking around in blueprints and ticking random boxes without explaining what they are for or what they do. You then copy it verbatim and it still doesn't work correctly. Locomotion is a very hard thing to get right and there are a whole pile of tutorials which explain the same basics over and over again, without going into more advanced topics. Things that should be "simple" i.e. you release the sprint button and your character slows down back to walking speed, just aren't ever covered and the UE developer forums seem to think that's unattainbaly advanced and won't help you. Even a flagship UE title like Gears has janky and clumsy animation in parts.

[@peterjohnson8570]

@@halfbakedproductions7887 Agreed, I tried to get into UE & game dev nearly a decade ago and got turned away by the horrible developer onboarding experience... I'm back with a deeper understanding of games and programming, but it's still difficult to find tutorials that teach you concepts instead of how to replicate something very specific (and often minimalistic). It took me a day to figure out how to create a basic Minecraft-like character, rig it, and create a few animations for it in Blender with 0 prior experience. It took me 3 days to figure out how to get that character in UE and wired up to work with walking, running, and jumping using Enhanced Input - only to then spend 3 more days trying to figure out why the running was so janky when testing multiplayer with network emulation enabled. I've yet to fix it, but the conclusion I came to is that the default movement component doesn't handle running/sprinting very well and you have to use C++ to get it to work well on anything more than a sub-15 ping - I was only able to find 1 tutorial that actually touched on this. I often hear references to the Lyra project too, which is absurd in it's own regard. If someone is trying to learn the fundamentals, the Lyra project is not a viable source of learning. I opened it up and it was so confusing, there's so much abstraction (which is good, don't get me wrong, as it shows best practices) that I couldn't actually break down how things were setup or working from a fundamentals standpoint. That's a project intermediate developers should study and learn from, not something to be recommended to beginners.

[@fujin_lib]

Buenísimo, mil gracias

[@GorkaGames]

Gracias a ti!

[@AniReactz]

I don't have my animations in Place how do I bland them? like running and walking is not in place

[@pocketblaze5913]

enable rootmotion

[@marcapouli7805]

I have been discouraged with animations. I tried to play a new montage in the ALS character, but since I'm not engineer in animation, i just wasted my time trying to integrate it. I need to give up my project and find an other one with no anim bp involved (and ideally also no AI, no scene and no camera)

[@Jacqueline-oh3mn]

Digger does not really work, for the simple reason that the skeleton avatar does not read the animations in the Asset Browser. There's definitely a mistake in my thinking, it only works if I use the skeleton avatar of the third person character, but that's no longer the basic idea behind it.

[@NextGenMultiverse]

6:09 Full Event Graph Screenshot

[@DimitryArsenev]

i not have asset browser panel in anim blueprint, its was been removed in 5.1?

[@enthusiastC]

i cant find" get velocity "node how i can change this node for corectlly using

[@GorkaGames]

make sure you have context sensitive on

[@BobyTobii]

make a video on how to make a simons says puzzle in your game

[@GorkaGames]

great idea, I will note i t down

[@mpcepoxy7453]

Hello, great video. A question about the animation loop. My character loops back to the start of his walk and run animations when I play in game? How do you get the animation to play/loop without noticing it? Thank you

[@GorkaGames]

That is probably that the animation clip itself isnt exactly correctly made for looping. So I guess that you are using cutsom ones, so what you want to do is edit them in Blender to end in the starting point

[@wildmillardz8934]

if you got your animation from mixamo make sure to check the in place button. so it does the run etc in place.. i was having the same issue

[@Burandoccc]

@@wildmillardz8934 Where would you find the in place button? I checked on Mixamo and didnt see anything there.

[@adventureswithdeclanandesm8777]

@@Burandoccc the button is at the bottom of the animation settings

[@Justlivin00]

Not a bad video but it would have been nice to see you actually implement it and show it being used by the character. Thanks though

[@StreetArtist360]

Thanks.

[@jlssculpturedesign8140]

Thank you for video , beginner question, with the walking,crouching jumping ,camera view on mouse . How do you set the keys on keyboard for it?

[@SubrosaRose]

Project_properties/input/action input or axis input 👍

[@W00H]

I don’t have cast to Bp_ 🤦🏾

[@ZoellyYT]

how do you set up jump?

[@99.googolplex.percent]

I have been in this industry for 10 years and possess a strong command of English. From my perspective, there is potential, but I recommend either writing a script before capturing the video or refining your style for non-scripted explanations. You tend to use many unnecessary words and sometimes construct incomplete sentences, causing a mismatch with your actions. I hope you receive this feedback gracefully and professionally. This comment is not meant to be harsh; it's intended to help you improve. Overall, thank you for your contributions to the game development industry.

[@gavindell6682]

It would also be great if you showed hiw easy it can be. Instead of spending 10 minutes typing in coordi ates and dragging around models and numbers. Just start with an idle already imported and then show how to add a walk animation. Drag drop, set speed and play. Then people can see a simple starting place and then go deeper.

[@UsfCodes]

just a question how did you learn unreal engine, did you watch vids or is there a website.

[@MartKart8]

In one of his early videos he talks about how he was teached how to code from a teacher, when learning Unity.

[@lilolero4841]

I want to access the variable of "is crouching" from my character. how can I do it?

[@ARY824]

Does anyone have a tutorial link to a blend space for multiple directions and not just 1?

[@OriginRow]

Hi. Is it possible to make random animations for walk/run in blendspace.

[@Merowings]

How can i add my own animation to to the "asset browse" ?

[@JBsoloman5000]

So, then where in game development the c++ coding fits in? It looks like walking simulator does not require any coding, is that right?

[@JBsoloman5000]

lol I found answer to that in your other video :D Thank you! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fn_JoX58erdlnqs

[@quebirt]

When you don’t really understand the system and you’re just walking people through copying what you’ve seen done.

[@prince04170]

Not showing "add new state machine" in animation blueprint could you please help me 😭

[@gravitstudio]

if you went a little slower you wouldn't eat your words, anyway great video!

[@lukasshultz8668]

Asset details not showing up on the left even with the blendspace selected...

[@GorkaGames]

go up into Window, and you will find it in the dropdown

[@lukasshultz8668]

@@GorkaGames Thanks!

[@aumpatel7724]

When I import the animation of walking and running if i place the key the animation plays weirdly. The character plays animation from the same location where it started instead of moving forward.

[@adventureswithdeclanandesm8777]

Make sure in mixamo you check the in place box.

[@zleepyMatt]

thank you for this video! ive a quick question: when I jump or fall from a location, i heard the sound of the steps delayed from few seconds, it seems that the animation of the fall creates this delay, did you know how to fix it?

[@Obaquer1]

When my character it runs before me and im making first person why?

[@arrexu01]

but how do you actually get them to crouch when there is no "button" to press Like where is the settings for that

[@MiroslavGeorgijevic]

Thanks for the great tutorial. I'm facing the problem to set my character to be aligned to the surface. It is pre-recorded mockup animation that I need for a video, but when I import it and retarget it with the Mixamo character, it doesn't collide with the ground. I made the ground of Quixel objects and set a collision on it. Can you explain how to set a pre-animated character to collide with an uneven surface or some objects? Thank you!

[@pythonhtm]

tnks

[@mahersabit9265]

im having an issue when importing an animation from mixamo, and when when i add it to the offset its not letting me add it, saying something about additive animations

[@Ukraud]

Have you already done the retarget animation to the animations you want? Because if they are different skeletal mesh, you will get that error, I only used the retargeter of UE5 and it disappeared

[@Phoenix4_Trade]

from where this character

[@JustDopey]

Probably Mixamo or Free Unreal models from the internet

[@GorkaGames]

from sketchfab, it was called "Fortnite Kratos" i believe

[@JustDopey]

@@GorkaGames Would you be able to make a tutorial on how to make custom buttons in Widgets? I liked this video and I wanted to learn on how custom buttons or Text works in Widgets UE5

[@Kaijuwarrior01]

Can anyone offer help with a problem I am having. I have followed the video exactly however for some reason I can't select my animation blueprint for my character, can anyone offer any help?

[@clashface]

Hey I just made an animation but it's working very bad the animations work like the player is sliding and then coming forward pls help I got 9 days deadline for my project

[@taneishajane7902]

Great tutorial! Can this be done with Unreal's Metahuman's as well?

[@CaptainFei-r1s]

Yes it can - works the same way - make sure to assign the same skeleton to all, MTH, character (mesh), anims and anim BP

[@ScrxtcH_]

this is impossible, i dont have any assets in the asset browser for some reason and idk how to add anything in there

[@RobCardIV]

animation takes place inside blender. this tutorial should be renamed "how to use animations inside animation blueprints with blendspaces." the more accurate your title, the more people find it while searching specifics.

[@GorkaGames]

I get what you mean, as you thought that this was an animation blender tutorial or something similar. But inside UE it actually makes sense between devs to call the creation of Anim BP`s and Blendspaces to animate a character. As it is also ncluded in the title...

[@pyroflash64]

I insert the animations but the green cursor doesn't move for the preview, why?

[@АлинаБолдырева-щ7д]

Press and hold CTRL button in your keyboard and move mouse

[@FunnyGuyTimmy]

Didn't work at all and I watched this video 5 times. Matched everything exactly and can't get the character out of the idle pose.

[@alzearafat]

I like this toturial, but I do not think it's a beginner-friendly. If only you explain it from the beginning (Like exporting and importing the mesh/character), that would be much better. Now what I see is you magically have this Kratos model inside your UE editor, out of nowhere. But thanks anyway.

[@katiekaliber]

If he had to do that for every single tutorial then every tutorial would cover the same and also be way too long. Maybe just watch a tutorial on importing first and then watch the next step. Don't start cooking if you don't even know how to turn on the fire. Importing assets is really not that difficult, it's a drag and drop most of the time, but if you want the animations to work on your character you NEED to watch another tutorial that covers animation retargeting, which is an entire different subject. So no he shouldn't do that, i don't want to watch him repeat the same tutorial over and over bc you can't be fucked to just look one up.

[@CrypticNord]

Ok a couple things, great work. But slow down when you click on the items in the menus. And you dropped the ball big time when it came to implementing Crouch. Got to watch someone else. Didn't work.