How to Blend Animations in Unreal Engine 5

Hello guys, in this quick and simple tutorial we are going to learn how to blend attack animations with your walking animations (Locomotion) from a specific bone in Unreal Engine 5.
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[@GorkaGames]

If you found the tutorial helpful like the video and subscribe! I would really appreciate it!! Here are the animations: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4C1dGaPn9GVkLM

[@brendanstocks821]

FIX: Anyone curious as to why the animation is facing to the left, Gorka forgot to check the Mesh Space Rotation Blend box in the Layered Blend Per Bone function. That should center it correctly.

[@Somordorp]

Finally, thank you after hours of searching 😂

[@Baleur]

"This is gonna be very easy and fast" My man thats what i like

[@GorkaGames]

haha I always try to make my tutorials easy and fast to follow!

[@azrhyga]

Very good tutorial!! Thanks for making it!!

[@soadindakhor3932]

great Tuturial, exactly what I needed

[@gamingxrelic]

Great video, very informative with great pacing. Well done!

[@alexandremageau-petrin3821]

Awesome video! Thank you so much!

[@zeramavis]

This worked perfectly, thanks :)

[@dephoro]

Stuck on this for well over 2 hours. My problem: My character would just... stop... when I hit the animation key as if it did play, but it didn't play. Set up print strings and the animation was firing, it just wasnt showing up. If this is happening to you, and you have an unusual character setup and no other videos are helping... use the more in-depth "anim montage" function, and conditionally target body parts with it. In my case, I had to "if body is visible, animate body" else "animate to mesh". Second stutter I had was linking the anim montage to the anim blueprint. Set your basic locomotion into both in slots, with locomotion assigned to full body (as a default). Suppose you are trying to inject an upper body punch while using lower body walk. Add an "upper body" call to the lower slot on anim bp, with locomotion plugged into the back, and in the slot above. Then in your montage's graph, within the editor for the montage on the track area for "slot", to whatever body part you need. If your toon freezes, add another slot and delete that slot you just added and the initial slot will re-animate. This montage will be injected in the associated call within the anim bp. In this video he uses a locomotion graph that was already there and wasn't explained, or easy to find other videos about... that locomotion tree is arbitrary... you can just use your same locomotion graph for both inputs with an "upper body" interjection for the the lower input where you add a punch, for example. My cosmetics force me to use multiple body instances and only one was being animated, which happened to be the default hidden one. Ironically, live retargeting doesn't work from metahuman to metahuman as well as it works for metahuman to quinn... so can't live retarget the anims. They have to be split. Cheers to branch nodes. Also HUGE thanks for these videos Gorka. You are my lifeline, and I'm beyond grateful for it.

[@SAMAR_178]

thank you soo much buddy. it was really easy

[@SlenderIsReal1]

Hey i’m a new subscriber here! Keep up the beautiful tutorials! I’d love to see another forest tutorial but maybe a full one with bushes, grass, rocks maybe ?

[@GorkaGames]

Thank you!! I really appreciate it!! I always try to make the best tutorials possible 💪😀. Yeah good idea! I will note that idea down for a tutorial, making a forest but with lots of vegetation

[@rodgerseulem3193]

Thanks bro. Most helpful. Is this the same approach you used to blend the animations in your recent third person shooter game tutorial?

[@abdulalgharbi8784]

Thanks a lot very helpful

[@BACO1029]

thank you dudee

[@CultivationPath]

Thanks! it was really helpfull.

[@GorkaGames]

Thank you for watching!

[@shingAMarie]

thanks for this tutorial. urs is the only one i could find that used the template with manny and quinn and addressed the CONTROL RIG part which was causing me confusion. do u do private tutoring?

[@Karlush]

Bro! Thank you so much for this. You explain things so well in such a short time frame too. Thank you!! Just a small tip regarding the pronunciation for "cache", unless you've already figured it out by now: It's pronounced the same way you say "cash" (as in money). The "e" is silent. Cache = 'cash' Cached = 'cashd' Thanks again! 🤟 0:01

[@user-my4nb1he8p]

YOU SAVED ME

[@mmmmm1438]

perfect 🔥🔥

[@GorkaGames]

thanks! 😄

[@Ftradorex-oficial]

Keep the effort👍

[@GorkaGames]

Thanks man!!

[@ParikshitBhujbal]

Hey Gorkha, already liked and subscribed , but can you tell me how we can add multiple layered blend per bones for multiple animations? Like one for holding up the shield / blocking while running, then equip sword when running and same for sheathing sword when running. The output pose node can accept only a single input, so are we limited to just one layered blend per bone? Thanks in advance Gorkha

[@delko000]

"In a cashay "😅😅😅😅 Thanks for the tutorial

[@nighthawkgaming1962]

Oooo so if i wanted i could make a bunch of animations moving each joint by 1 degree and be able to make an nested array of animations and allow the player to make custom animations in game this would be super usefull for what i want to do

[@ryanjdevlin87]

Now that's ambitious, I like it. Good luck brother!

[@nighthawkgaming1962]

thx XD im sure ther'e better ways of doing it but im not there yet XD @@ryanjdevlin87

[@Rapter891]

Love the content! I've already learned so much as a beginner! I can't get the animation montage to play when the key is pressed for some reason. It works if I use "Play Animation" in the event graph but for some reason it doesn't work if I use the montage I created off of the animation (I am using an animation I created via the add level sequence option. The montage works when I click into it with no issues but it does not work when I have the key pressed. Any ideas?

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Cheers 👍

[@GorkaGames]

thanks! 😀

[@angads.9819]

Hey so I have an attack animation which displays full body movement when played and when I blended it with running, it worked perfectly fine but I want the animation to play as the default (full body involved) when the character is in the idle state. Can you please help me with that? Thanks.

[@GorkaGames]

Yeah, so you will need to changet he "Blend Weights 0" of the "Layered blend per bone" node. So create a float and assign it into that node. And then in the event graph, you will need to get the current player speed, and check if its greater than 1, if it is the blen is "1.0", if not its "0.0" Hope this helps!!

[@Zetapodius394]

Hi! I want this to specifically ignore one animation. is there a way for me to do this?

[@mrxcs]

How I speed up the transition? I want to get to block pose faster.

[@ianmaluf9307]

Very nice! However, I do have a question: Can you create exceptions to this rule? As in, certain Anim Montages can't be affected by the blend so they can work properly? In my game, I have a system were you can withdraw your sword or bow, and it worked perfectly with the blend, but it broke my rolling!

[@LogHorizon4]

You need to use just a normal blend between your layered blend per bone and the cached animation state with a default slot added then you adjust the alpha value to which one you want to use i.e an Branch in event graph with true or false that for example get a variable is rolling and sets alpha to zero to use without layered blend and when not rolling set alpha to 1 and it wlll use Layered blend per bone

[@GameDevAraz]

​@@LogHorizon4we need a tut.

[@GameDevAraz]

Hi, yes, this is easily possible, you just need to use slot default full body for certain animations, pretty simple, check my channel for tut

[@galenhegarty6785]

Do you have to use animation montages?

[@oswingunnarstedt]

thanks but i have just one question, why does the animation go to the left a little bit when playing it?

[@jakelevitt7245]

Is there a way I can get the left and right clavicles to move but not the head and neck?

[@comandoarroyo]

Dude i had a diferent problem , im doing an animation that my thirdpersoncharacter kicks a soccer ball but when i use play anim montage in event graph only moves the top of body the legs stay stoped , my animation use full body but dont work the bottom body what can be?

[@mg3dartist]

Do you have a tutorial, how to unmask the legs so they could do the original full body animation when is not moving ? Because now legs are permanently masked from doing attack animation and only upper body does it when character is not moving and moving... :( Please help

[@Cosmifire]

hey how do you set up the control rig?

[@heirapparent4802]

Can you do this in sequencer?

[@keagansettle7962]

Anyone know what I would need to change to allow an animation of the legs to run and revert back, I can get it or my upper body animation working but both seems to freak it out and it just prioritizes one of them each time

[@GorkaGames]

if you are wanting to reverse the animation, just open the clip and set the speed to -1

[@nunomp]

hello, i used your tutorial on blending animation on kratos and now, when i try to make the animation play with anim montage, nothing happenes, is it something to do with that tutorial or is any of my stuff wrong, im super super new to unreal engine 5 and im using you "how to make a rpg" series to make a mortal kombat style game, its going super rough but it is what it is and i wanted to add this to the game, could you help me or, better yet, make a fighting game series, i know you did one but, and updated one? mortal kombat inspired, thank you very much, gracias

[@simplyastery]

Hi! I'm having an issue where my montage won't be played when I press the "1" key, I'm not exactly sure what I did wrong. I followed the tutorial.

[@projectgg6730]

my attack animation is throwing a ball. after following all the steps my character now throws the ball 90 degrees to the right but the animations are all blended. im so confused as to what caused it

[@Tenchinu]

it works fine... but now all montages only work from the waist up :( how can you make exceptions so that only the animations you want are affected by the blend?

[@AsianXKiddo]

i don't see the anim set link bro... what you doing is dope af

[@GorkaGames]

Thanks man!! Yeah I missed the link haha, here its is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4C1dGaPn9GVkLM

[@darkpalmentertainment]

yeah, my animation doesn't play. Nodes are the same though. Any solutions?

[@shingAMarie]

I still don’t understand why you used default slot. Isn’t default slot the default animation? How would it do the push animation when the default is what you are overriding? Also, it doesn’t make any sense why you deleted default slot after the main states it’s gotta be a simpler or less confusing way to do this.

[@derdoctor1895]

I did everything step by step but it still plays the animation without moving legs

[@wiseman9285]

Hey everyone, please someone help me... so the things work for me when i punch it's cool but the problem for me now is that I also have a kick animation and when i m done setting up all of this the kick animation doesn't work anymore only the arm movements of the animation.

[@erhanyuzak513]

Can I exclude some animations while doing this method? I have a roll and dash animations that I dont want to blend.

[@GorkaGames]

Yeah, you will basically need to create a new slot for your animation montages, and added into the ABP on on the layer blend section. I can make a tutorial about it

[@erhanyuzak513]

​@@GorkaGames Thanks! A tutorial would be much appreciated!

[@mekbots]

@@GorkaGames I'd also appreciate a tutorial because I don't really understand what this means, thanks.

[@__Diaz__]

@@GorkaGames hey gorka i also need help understanding this, it would make a great follow up video to this one!

[@jadenratliff2634]

@@GorkaGames I need one too

[@_jeffrey_williams]

when i add first node to player BP, my animation doesn't play. Using ALS v4 of course.

[@GorkaGames]

What is exactly the first node? Also things might be slightly different if you are using ALS, but everything should be fine

[@_jeffrey_williams]

@@GorkaGames using 1 key to play anim montage. have key assigned to play montage, but no action.

[@GorkaGames]

@@_jeffrey_williams have you set up our blend layer per bone node correctly?

[@_jeffrey_williams]

@@GorkaGames I don't think so, beyond my skill right now :(

[@GorkaGames]

@@_jeffrey_williams 🤣🤣 so first of all you have to make sure that you have selected the right middle bone to split the animations. And then set up the cache`s correctly with the locomotion and the default layer to play the anim montage

[@Baleur]

Doesnt work for me, followed another tutorial before about a sword slash animation. I stop everytime doing the animation (evne if feet try walking). And following the other comment about how to set the blend weight based on movement, basically even with 0 blend weight the original feet animation for the attack never plays now.

[@GorkaGames]

you must be not using the cache layers properly, make sure that you have you locomotion in one cache, and the default slot in the wieght blend

[@LonelyDeveloper_]

@@GorkaGames hi after the input key then play anim montage, the animation doesnt play, help?

[@garyh100]

@@GorkaGames Hi Gorka, I don't understand your comment: It seems expected to me that changing the blend weight to zero will just play the Base pose (so not the Blend Poses 0 / push at all?) Don't we need to by-pass the "Layered blend per bone" node altogether if there is no movement?

[@GGOOSEO]

so what aout the shark game

[@GorkaGames]

I havent made any big changes to the shark game, and I will leave it for now like that 😄 But whenever I have some time, I am planning on making a live stream on it💪

[@sleepyjoe5380]

This is very simple and most game developers know this. Why don't you have a tutorial on how to stop an AI skating along when activating a montage or how to stop the AI snapping when rotating. There are many other thing to lecture on than this flogged to death how to blend an attack