How To Create a 3rd Person Character with Animations | Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints Tutorial

Hey everyone, Virtus here. In this video, I'm going to be showing you how you can create a 3rd person character in Unreal Engine 5 with ready made animations generated from Mixamo. The character will have movement animations for idle, walking and running. If you like this tutorial, make sure to leave a comment below and subscribe. Stay tuned!
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0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Importing the character
2:55 - Importing the character animations
4:55 - Replacing the default character
7:20 - Setting up an animation blueprint
10:10 - Setting up an animation blendspace
13:27 - Getting the character's speed
17:18 - Assigning the animation blueprint
18:54 - Outro
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[@TheRafaelAnimation]

Thank you for taking the time to clarify WHY you're doing things at each step of the process. It makes for a much better tutorial than others I've seen posted. Nice work !

[@BIGHAM_VT]

Thank you for your tutorial!! I was afraid to pick up character animation blending in an engine for a long time, and this video made it really easy to understand.

[@VirtusEdu]

Hey everyone, I hope you enjoy this tutorial where I teach people how to create a third person character with animations. Enjoy!

[@SnowBunny_Elle]

My pc crashes every time i try to change Variable on the Speed. Can you just tell me what to input for x/y/z?...or just another way that avoids the Variable change.

[@SnowBunny_Elle]

Nevermind I found a way to bypass changing Variable. I skip the "Get Velocity" and go straight to "Vector Length" then the Variable was already a Float. Still need :Get Velocity" though to make it all connect as you do. BUT.....when I use player....the movement is there but it keeps jumping back like in time/location. aka It plays animation but when animation is complete it returns me back to location previous animation started at.

[@christofferplatou2828]

Literally the best and most thorough tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you so much.

[@VirtusEdu]

Happy you found it helpful Christoffer :)

[@sam-psonsmith9951]

awesome content. Great job at explaining every step and why we do it.

[@nsr43d]

This one is the best tutorial. Nicely explained !!! Thank you for this video.

[@tc8464]

Excellent, clear tutorial with a great pace

[@LehushasProduction]

Best and straight tutorial!!! All worked, thanks!

[@ahmdshbz2267]

I am glad that I found your channel. Really enjoying the tutorials. This video is a good starting point for creating animations for a 3rd person game. However, you can also try to show us with a Paragon character from Epic as an example and how to implement a locomotion and combat system animations together.

[@elronrubbard4103]

Great tutorial. You make it so simple to follow. Thank you!

[@VirtusEdu]

Happy to hear!

[@coldavison7363]

Yess huge thanks for this, perfect timing as I was doing your RPG course (which is for UE4) and hit a number of issues during the character creation.

[@VirtusEdu]

Hey Colin, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I’m actually revisiting a number of my UE4 courses and remastering and upgrading them with Unreal Engine 5. Stay tuned!

[@coldavison7363]

@@VirtusEdu Thats awesome to hear and look forward to checking out the revised courses. For a complete beginner such as myself, I'm finding your courses very informative and great to follow. Keep up the awesome work.

[@grzegorzabedzki3466]

Ach just what i needed. A short tutorial showing exactly what i want. Thank you very much for making this video, you have earned a subscriber! I was really worried that i will have to watch a hours long tutorials to get my character walking haha.

[@VirtusEdu]

Glad you liked it!

[@psquarepeter]

This is the tutorial I was looking for. Thank you very much. It was easy to follow and everything worked out great.

[@VirtusEdu]

You're welcome!

[@TheoFilms]

thanks man! This was the best UE5 Tutorial I've seen so far!

[@VirtusEdu]

Glad it helped!

[@g.l8046]

Finally my character walk instead of sliding ... thank you

[@darkarps]

thank you so much for this

[@thelixx998]

Great video as always 👍

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you!

[@SilentSniperMamoru]

Thank you very much, this was a very helpfull tutorial! I did make a mistake while connecting the nodes to get the velocity though and was stuck for a while not knowing why the animation state didnt change

[@mpcepoxy7453]

Hello, everything works great after following the tutorial, the one issue I have is the character can be seen looping back to the beginning of the walk and run animations instead of continuing seamlessly. Thank you for the videos!

[@Crashsune]

excellent! thank you!! :)

[@libbyji8716]

very useful!!

[@thiagodev3255]

Great video! Thank you

[@VirtusEdu]

I'm glad you liked it!

[@robinsonanimation]

great video! thank you for posting , can you now add more animations to it? it would make a great Part 2; like attacks, slides etc.

[@denisliber]

good Char! thanks

[@ricadoom]

can you please do a video about how to add jumping, attack, crouching animations?

[@sirastr0114]

Hi, how would I create animations or adjust the character to automatically look in the right direction when shooting? At the moment he doesn't look in the direction of the opponent and can still shoot at him...

[@seangoodsell1662]

How would you add a jump animation with this method?

[@Marco-bj7ct]

weeks and weeks ... I was loosing my mind... thank you !

[@VirtusEdu]

Glad I could help!

[@xzitros8016]

Hey , I am trying to implement a jumping animation but it's not really working. Could you maybe make a tutorial for this subject .

[@BROCKSGAMING]

Nice tut

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you!

[@xecor4450]

the next step for me is to attach different weapon attacks and make them blend with movement and changing directions so that i can use weapons while moving to look good. I cant find any yt tutorial for this.

[@galenhegarty6785]

Great tutorial, but how do you create a jumping animation?

[@Arrkail]

man, i wish this was more in depth, every youtube tutorial about character animation is just like this.. why not go deeper and more stuff such as dodging, wall running, braking, multi drirectional movement and more. like deep animation stuff..

[@devcor]

Unfortunately, this is what Virtus seems to be these days (always has been?) - shallow genetic tutorials you can find anywhere.

[@Arrkail]

@Ever little you know...

[@theegust85]

How about the jump animation? How do we add it in?

[@Samsstuff10]

how do i fix UE freezing when i import my rig?

[@adventureswithdeclanandesm8777]

Hey, Im running into a problem where my charecter will move forward if anyone can help let me know

[@Project.Eternal]

Great tutorial ! weirdly for me it doesnt work, my animation is looping constantly from idle to running. Its like if the action is calculated on a specific loop and not the actual speed !

[@generalthegreat]

When you download your animation from Mixamo make sure the "in place" check box is checked before download

[@faze0ne844]

Hi, how can we add a swimming system from scratch like this ? i was sooo close with a tutorial but it was based on the manny mannequin .. at the end when he connected the swim nodes to the third person character i didnt have the same functions ...

[@ulysse4301]

Like me, do you find a solution then??

[@AlexWalker_Ghost]

this can't be UE5 version, i use UE5 and it does not have that Output Pose Option, they removed alot or changed the names

[@SnowBunny_Elle]

Why is mine so jumpy? I did everything u said. I quadriple checked. The slightest tap on controller puts toon is a fast run...no blend. And as it runs it disapears are reappears behind last location

[@VirtusEdu]

If you join our discord I'll be able to help you more in depth with this problem

[@Eduj5790]

Great vid but one problem i need jumping

[@OOOO-fb5gf]

Its nice but there is no jump animation now...

[@kagi852]

think you

[@VirtusEdu]

More to come :)

[@TheLoreLabs]

ahhh im stuck running in idle animation lol

[@applywithuspluss5931]

FRRRR all the layering n buttons i cant keep up

[@ezequielellena]

" Let's make a Rap record "

[@VirtusEdu]

Maybe I have one already 😉

[@dwarfda]

title: "how to CREATE a 3rd Person character..." this dude: "We will be replacing the default UE mannequin" completely misleading title showing the generic basic way. disappointing.

[@t3hPoundcake]

I downloaded some Mixamo animations, and it appears that the animation itself is changing the position of the character, instead of just a running in place animation where the movement of the actor gives the illusion of forward motion, the animation itself is moving forward and then jumping back some distance, same with when I turn and stuff, has anyone encountered this and does anyone know a fix? I would have thought the Mixamo animations were made with this kind of thing in mind but it looks like forward motion was added into the animations.

[@t3hPoundcake]

Oh god there's an "in place" check box on Mixamo that i totally missed. Idk why that's not on by default.

[@SandyM1993]

This video does NOT teach people how to create animations. This only shows how to import other people's animations. If people are trying to learn anything new, do not watch this channel's videos. They are NOT informative at all!