How To Create An AFK Idle Camera Spin In Unreal Engine 5 (Tutorial)

[@colonelb]

You mentioned not remembering a game that does this - Fallout 4 does this almost exactly the way you have it here. Good job.

[@PatrickTheDM]

An excellent pro addition to any game. Thanks!

[@MattAspland]

Glad you like it!

[@ARMORHOUS3weplay]

Absolutely Brilliant!

[@B4TM44N]

I managed to edit it to work with Enhanced input system and the TopDown setup which has the camera in the character blueprint instead. Really happy that I am starting to understand blueprinting better and can start editing stuff myself to at least make some things work haha Thank you for your tutorials they have been very helpful!

[@D3kryption]

Had to rewatch it as I thorght you were trigging the camera spin on key press but no, this is quite a clever way of doing it. Didn't think of doing it this way. nice job! :D I was going down the horrible route of binding the bool check on every single key press 😂

[@Paintrap]

thanks for your tutorials, and the support to the community

[@VoodooAnimation]

High quality tutorial, as usual 🔥

[@MattAspland]

Appreciate it!

[@Fransitsch]

Awesome stuff man! I'll apply this to my game later, thank you so much. My game is improving tutorial by tutorial :)

[@MattAspland]

That’s great to hear mate! Keep it up!

[@RSProduxx]

awesome, one more for my playlist. thanks :)

[@MattAspland]

Great to hear!

[@Leomerya12]

0:23 Assassin's Creed. It only takes about 10 seconds before the camera drifts in that franchise.

[@oksemgo]

Thanks for this idea!

[@TakiGamesOfficial]

Thanks for this! Its also a good way to do random idle animations and auto-unequipping weapons when standing still for x amount of time. I found this to be better and easier than the animbp method.

[@MattAspland]

Awesome! Great to see people use my videos for other use cases, it shows a deeper understanding!

[@osirizz29]

Nice tutorial :D !

[@MattAspland]

Thanks!

[@MilanKarakas]

That is soo cool feature. Thanks.

[@Eternity1770]

love your videos! can u make a tutorial how to make fracture fragments disappear with animation(fade away) ? all guides are for characters only

[@Alternatywny_1]

I have a blueprint setup where the variable Wants to Strafe is set to true during specific gameplay conditions. However, when Wants to Strafe is later set to false (for example, during a camera rotation or other logic), I want to ensure that if the player cancels idle spinning (via the IA Cancel Idle Spin input), the character automatically restores the previous state of Wants to Strafe to true, but only if it was true before being set to false. Do anyone know how can I implement this logic in the blueprint so that the character correctly returns to strafing after canceling the idle spin?

[@matheusrudo]

Hi matt, nice video. Could you teach us how to create a rogue like game?

[@zucchini3D]

Love your tutorials, but I feel like using delay nodes are a bit of a bad practice, especially if your game is multiplayer-focused. Bry (a dev who has made a lot of ue4 replication tuts) explained to me that delay works based off of your PC’s hardware rather than a fixed tick like the game’s physics update, for example. So if your PC isn’t great and your game is packed, a 2 second delay could be 4-5 seconds instead, which could really cascade into broken blueprints if they’re all relying on delays before getting setting references, running other code, etc. Set timer by function/event is a great way to get around this, plus it makes the delaying process a little more modular in the long run! Apologies for the nitpick, I LOVE all your tutorials and how easy and to-the-point they are, so I mean no disrespect! Just something to maybe keep in mind, as a lot of these tutorials are aimed at beginners who may be unaware of the inner workings of the engine, which could lead to some seriously painful debugging Dx

[@kenalpha3]

1) Can you link me to a tutorial that teaches "Set timer by function/event" (not just an "explanation" vid - I need to see how to setup the red square Pin if I dont have 2 Events). 2) Is there a countdown Node or Function that hooksup a white In pin, and I set a 4 sec value. Then when fired, it will count to 4 before executing the Out pin. But if it gets Triggered again, it resets the countdown to 4 secs? (e.g. I want my player to put away his gun 4 seconds after firing = Input Action Mouse1. But if he Clicks again before 4 secs, then the Put away gun code does not execute. Im thinking this is what the Delay node does? But I think I used it for this, and it didnt work.) Ty

[@zucchini3D]

@@kenalpha3 Can't think of a tutorial off the top of my head but the node is pretty simple, I promise! You hook a custom event into the "event" pin. The time is how long it will take before executing the event. Looping indicates whether or not the whole thing will fire again after the same time passes. What is VERY important to understand, though, is the timer handle return value. You can do a lot with it! Once you store it as a variable, you can get the elapsed time from it, check if the handle is valid, or even clear and invalidate the entire timer. For example, say you want a light to turn on after pressing E, and after a 3 second delay (the custom event turns on the light). But if you press E again before it turns on, you want the timer to reset itself. Once you store the timer handle as a variable, you can do a branch right after E press, and use the "is valid timer" node as the bool condition. If true, that means the timer has already been set and is running, so you want to use the "clear and invalidate timer" node, THEN connect to the original Set Timer by Event node. If false, that means the timer hasn't been set yet, so connect to the same Set Timer node. BAM, now you have an easy timer reset. And to complete it, in the custom event, clear and invalidate the timer at the end of the code so everything resets itself. Sorry for the wall of text, but I hope that helps a little bit! Honestly, the documentation on the node is very nice and straightforward. Would definitely look at further tutorials/documentation on all the things you can do w/ the timer handle.

[@kenalpha3]

@@zucchini3D Thanks for the detailed instructions. I'll reply after I try. I was hesitant to use that node because it requires me to make an extra event. Is making many Custom Events performant?

[@zucchini3D]

@@kenalpha3 I’m not an expert, but I would say no. Blueprints as a whole are more performance-intensive, though. If you want maximum efficiency, you have to use C++ to do a lot of the heavy lifting (vector math, for example). In a lot of professional settings, BP is used as more of an ease-of-use tool. So while a lot of complex code is done in C++, the values are in a nice, easily editable blueprint! If you are new to the engine though, I wouldn’t really worry about it. Blueprints are a fantastic way to understand Unreal Engine, and knowing them will absolutely make the C++ side easier

[@rifat.ahammed]

Great

[@the__jive]

First! ❤️😎

[@ErrRationale]

It only works for me as soon as game starts but ONLY if I never move the pawn. Idling attempts after that, I get no cam movement...

[@snikerq]

did you solve the problem?

[@ErrRationale]

@@snikerq I did not, I just moved on to other more pressing tasks. It might be my pawn, its not the same as third person bp its a floating cam pawn

[@_iskihi]

Anyone wanting this to work without having to move first, add a custom event to the retriggerable delay, and call the custom event through event begin play

[@Joel-bg3cf]

Camera doesn't spin...

[@Ser0zine]

GTA V is an example

[@elganzandere]

please migrate future tutorials to Enhanced Input. it's time.