How To Crouch In Unreal Engine 5.1+ (Tutorial)

Hey guys, in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to how to crouch in Unreal Engine 5 with animations using the new enhanced input system.
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🔖Topics Covered:
00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Overview
00:53 - Tutorial
12:10 - Final Overview
12:27 - Outro
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[@0xJarry]

In 5.3 I had some funky interactions / timing with the 'automatic rule' for the animations for both transition and crouch. Worked better for me to make a blend space for the crouch transition and just use 'is crouching > not bool' for all the exiting crouch parts

[@PatrickTheDM]

Great tutorial. I plan to add it in to part two of my maze game. It adds the potential for a lot more dynamics to the puzzles and such. (Exactly why I left it out of my first game.) 😁

[@MattAspland]

Oh nice one! Sounds great!!

[@penguinlord9984]

Hey I literally need this for my game and wanted to impliment it this week. Awesome! Hey I’m not sure if you take requests, but if you could make a video on how to turn quicker in the third person template (so you can make sharp turn at fast speeds quicker) that would be great.

[@larxvfx]

Hey! You're tutorials are amazing! Can you make a video of the topic kill him or spare him choices?

[@That_Random_British_Dude]

I only discovered your channel the other day by looking for how to create a crouch system. Really easy to follow and makes total sense

[@MattAspland]

Thanks for the support!

[@simondelguste]

Hey Matt ! Thank you for this tutorial ! I just have a quick question : it it possible to connect multiple variables from the Event Blueprint Update Animation node ? Because I already have something connected prior of this tutorial. It crouches well but then it cancel my other animations. Any idea ? Thank you so much 🙏

[@galaxyboyck]

Thank youuuuu!!

[@Uncle_Fred]

I've got a good one for you Matt: How to take a crate lid and body and make a physics prop with an attached lid that flops open if tumbled around.

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

would be really nice if u can add to this foot sync and control rig for the skeleton to adapt to the elevations

[@mr.morningstarplays3188]

Matt Aspland I have A question maybe you or chat gpt can answer: 1. So do I need to create retargetting from x-bot to many queen like you shoved in the video: A.} for every other x-bot animation. B.} just for one, and the other like crouch to stand, crouch to jump, stnd to crouch, or will they be already retargetted? 2. Why did you use Quinn instead of Manny? 3. If I want all animations to be done on male and female or Manny and Quinn should I choose only Manny or would I need to do double the work by needing to work on both of them? 4. Xbot animations retarget to Many and or queen. If I add meta-humans to the project will I need to retarget bones, animations and everything again?

[@KostasOreopoulos]

If we want to add a movement, that is not in the predefined list of movements (walk, run, swim, crouch etc) how do we do that? Lets say, punch, kick etc, When we add a state to the state machine do we automatically get those functions (like Crouch and Uncrouch)

[@SergeyBel]

thank you for the tutor, how would you make the camera change less abrupt when player enters crouching state? right now camera jumps to fast to other position

[@VITREOUS]

Is it possible to upgrade this tutorial to 5.3 ? :)

[@TheLazyFinn]

How difficult prone and crawling would be to add?it seems that many games leave prone out

[@user-vm4xk4xy7b]

many questions, how do you get the stand crouch animation and the walk animation in thing and how do you get the is crouching? node

[@maze7873]

i cant seem to find the animations presented in the video specifically the crouch to stand one would you mind linking them please?

[@antoniobanderas1287]

Goooooooooood job ;p

[@yeetingbin]

thx

[@AcesWorld]

only my camera goes down? ive tried multiple tutorials do ou know what i might be doing wrong?\

[@aethylwulfeiii6502]

I couldn't follow it from scratch character becausethe movement component part. Will have to use gorka instead for this one.

[@PhillipsWilliams-gt1vm]

Please a tutorial on how to put sound of stepsfoots in the landscape and on different terrains, grass, sand... In UE5.1.1

[@AlbertonBeastmaster]

So am I right in thinking that you need to download a mesh from Mixamo, and not just the animation, so you can attach the animation to that skeleton in UE5? I was hoping I could just use an animation from Mixamo and retarget it to the UE4/5 skeleton.

[@TheSilverFoxLP]

You'd have to download a character from mixamo to be able to retarget the animations to the UE5 mannequin

[@kurtisharen]

Is this tutorial simply not compatible with UE 5.2? I'm getting a weird result when I apply the animations. Lots of creepy-looking stretching, and the feet kind of slide along the ground when I test it and try to walk while crouching.

[@bradennichols3154]

Did you retarget

[@rifat.ahammed]

Please make a video on full key remapping system in enhanced input system

[@dark11demon11]

For me Crouch is the most painful thing I still haven't solve yet... Third person is ok, but first person in multiplayer... The true-first person kind of ok. The only problem I faced is in crouched position usually the head is too forward so you clip trough walls. But I didn't want to have head bob and body awareness. So I did the classic first person. And I noticed that the crouched camera position changed in one frame. I tried some tutorial how to smooth it but they either custom functional in this case you can uncrouch where you not supposed to.. or they smooth camera movement only and you hands go crazy. So I already had full body mesh for multiplayer view and hands mesh for first person view... I decided to add 3d mesh - a camera holder. I put it behind so player never see it.. and it didn't work I guess because it outside the capsule. So I ended up to use bot mesh as camera holder on player position just with invisible material.. but in slow situation when game loading player can discover that bot body for a second.

[@TheChosenJuanLopez]

Great tutorial but I have an issue. The animation works but if I don't crouch immediately it doesn't let me do the animation anymore. It's almost as if the animation has an expiration time is the best way I can explain it, if I crouch after like half a second or a second it only does half of the animation and then gets stuck in that pose. If I wait a few seconds and try crouching the animation doesn't play anymore.

[@Zireael_Daifuku]

In the "crouch transition", in the "asset browser", I don't have and I don't know how to have the crouch things like "stand to crouch" and "crouch to stand"... Please, can someone help me? ^^' 😰

[@revilorere]

Its his own animations that he named like that, basically just animations that goes from standing to crouching and reverse. Can be anything though

[@Mellow4202]

He imported those from the website. Your animations might have different names if you are using different animations. All you have to do is just look for the animations you imported into the project.

[@One1ye19]

hey can anyone help me i did all the stuff in the video but the animation of (crouching to stand , Crouch walking ) does not work its like there is no transition even the blende space i check it and couldnt finde any problem the crouch walking the character just slides away and the crouch standing just teleport the character from crouch to standing without any animation . CAn anyone help pls ?

[@balicosoliam]

my crouch animation doesnt work even in the blendspace shows that is working but on the gampley mode no

[@cristophermora4177]

Hi @Matt Aspland, thanks for the tutorial! I am a bit stuck at 9:08 So those crouching animations that you have available, are those from Mixamo and then you just retarget them the UE 5 Manny? I have attempted this by following the other videos, but I think I may not be doing this correctly.

[@peanutbuttergaming3329]

Yo same, i cant seem to find any animation packs anywhere tho & i suck at animation (yes i tried to make my own, but becouse im new and i dont know how to animate in ue5 i made it in blender, and boooy was the skeleton messed up.😬)

[@cristophermora4177]

@@peanutbuttergaming3329 Hi there, I was able to figure it out through a different tutorial, a paid one unfortunately, but if it helps, I can provide a written summary here at a later point on how I got mine to work.

[@SchugarDaddy]

so I used print string to test if crouch and uncrouch was working and it did, but when i connect it to crouch/ uncrouch the camera does not move, what are the steps to troubleshooting this?

[@donhoolieo4896]

Check to see if your camera boom is parented to the mesh, collision, or etc. Me personally, I have set to the collision capsule atm.

[@ZuperBytes]

my croushing sets back every time after anim is finished with playing.. how can is solve this =

[@daan132]

Question i dont get how i can get the get movement function

[@CraziestBoat]

I cant seem to figure out how to get the walking animation to work. The standing to crouch works great but as soon as the mannequin tries to move, he's sliding across the floor. Then the crouch to standing animation doesnt play at all and immediately sends the mannequin back to his idle state. Would someone know how to fix?

[@TheP1x3l]

Same problem here, so you're not alone lol

[@MrMixa994]

Same problem xD @@TheP1x3l

[@oscblade1691]

Had this issue too, for me I just did not go with the automatic rule and just put a not crouching bool on the return to idle or walking/run

[@ciastuch_plastuch]

I don't know what is happening, but when im trying a different axis of movement while crouching ( A+S buttons f.e.) the game mode is freezing and i cannot walking:( anybody knows the solution for this? Please, help :(((

[@crayonmayo8826]

For these who can't find crouching and don't want to pay for Simple Crouch Animations which author used and are not free anymore - you can take completely free Animation Starter Pack directly from Epic Games, despite it's for UE 5.2 still import it to 5.3/5.4 and then retarget animations to new Mannequins. However one downside - mannequins are holding guns in these animations.

[@BM0101]

9:23 where i can get stand to crouch and crouch to stand animation? because the crouch animation is not in the default unreal engine. :I Edit: My character crouch animation is just A pose 😭😭😭 I'm dilyng see my character is just A posing. 🥶😑🙃 Where some crouch animation??!! Edit: nvm evritying is now fine. 👍

[@Mike-F117]

How did you get the crouch animations?

[@doniyorkhakimjonov8364]

bro thank you for tutorial. but have a one bug, after playing game and crouch down and crouch up, standard walking movement system not working until you jump

[@Mellow4202]

Same here. Have you figured it out yet?

[@Mellow4202]

Hey I actually just figured it out. You have to go to your animation blueprint. Then go to locomotion and from crouch transition to crouch, you need to change the blend duration from 0.5 to 0.2 I made the mistake of changing all of the values for all 3 states. You only need to change blend duration for idle and walk/run

[@doniyorkhakimjonov8364]

lol I just gave up on this I maked it for short project so its okay for me @@Mellow4202

[@Azor-Fe]

how do I get the animations tho?

[@Mellow4202]

He literally says he got them off of mixamo. He said that within the first 120 seconds of the video.

[@harvzgames9622]

Would help a lot if you could link the animations you used

[@SweatyCubes]

I seem to only be able to crouch while mid air (jumping), and cannot jump while crouched. Fix for this?

[@KerryCronic]

did you find a fix for this?

[@shawnallbritton601]

Where do you get the crouching animations?

[@LANstptmn]

yeah. I dont have crouching animations too

[@ciastuch_plastuch]

EDIT: Ive noticed that it occures ONLY when I'm usin buttons + S (for example A+S and D+S) :(( Can anybody point me what I'm doing wrong?

[@OgSuda]

BRO HOW DO I STOP THE SPRINTING INPUT WHEN CROUCHED

[@SandyM1993]

Is that pose supposed to be Naruto when he first gets 3 tails?

[@greedlessnomad32]

at 8:56 what if i type in crouch and it don't come up

[@francescogeloso79]

when I'm down can I perform other actions?

[@MattAspland]

Unless you set it up otherwise, you can yes

[@serh007]

9:50 where to get it?

[@juancarlospaco]

Make a tutorial about Auto-Crouch.

[@samk8607]

😵‍💫

[@TechnoReverseChannel]

I didnt watch the entire video so im not sure about if you mentioned this as I just saw the beginning preview but some sort of lerp seems to be needed as the camera just pops to the new height.

[@loneleeworldsgaming2997]

how do you do this with your own character and not this mannequin?

[@peartearplayz2510]

Why do I not have the crouching animations in the Asset Browser? I have all content showed.

[@TheRealGutty]

Same, don't know where the animation is.

[@peartearplayz2510]

@@TheRealGutty is the animation there by default or did you add anything? I have every single animation you have except for the crouching ones.

[@TheRealGutty]

@@peartearplayz2510 I ended up having to download the animations from Mixamo

[@peartearplayz2510]

@@TheRealGutty ok, thanks

[@M0nitor242]

wher is chrouch anims i need it 4 my gaem :(

[@user-gn8gr2qm4o]

4:50 HOW ?

[@ObamaBenAladdin]

That's not a croch, that's a gopnik squat

[@YoriPlayzz_Official]

9:08

[@Mayonetic]

this instantly crashed my ue5 lmao

[@michaelanthonygutierrez]

why is this a 12 minute video

[@mr.morningstarplays3188]

I think it would be great for Matt Aspland, to add a link to miximo animations he is using for the tutorial IN THE VIDEO not description!!! and how to download it and where he saved his animations in the same tutorial. So it would be continues journey no delay. Now I am stuck because link to animations as many people in coments pointed out they cant find them, or dont know where animations are, they get confused, frustrated, angry, that hey have to pause one video, and click on 4 different tutorials on how to use and save random animations. Matt. If people will be frustrated that they cant follow your last steps they will leave your channel and find someone who provides this complete tutorial journey.

[@soetdjuret]

So stupidly complicated just for a simple crouch function smh...

[@Mellow4202]

Yes, making a video game is a pretty complicated thing. Learn how to code. It's only very complicated if you have absolutely no idea what you are doing. If it was that easy to make video games everybody would do it. Logical thinking and abstract thoughts are not for everybody.

[@jasonrounds2989]

I got through 80% of it until 9:04 Then i realized YOU HAVE TO PAY to get the rest of the assets you need to finish this video! HORRIBLE never said anything about that at all in the start will be down thumbing

[@MattAspland]

You don’t have to pay. As mentioned in the video, these are free animations from mixamo.com In the description I linked free videos of how to use mixamo and then also retarget these animations to your own custom character

[@bradennichols3154]

😂

[@jasonrounds2989]

​@@MattAspland​@MattAspland It even says in the video description "to get access to the project files visit..." straight to a payment website so no the file for the SPECIFIC tutorial are not free

[@TheChosenJuanLopez]

@@jasonrounds2989 You're getting the tutorial and all the assets for completely free, but if you want the already completed tutorial project file from the end of the video because you didn't wanna follow the steps, you pay.

[@brokenworld542]

sellout time.... you said you will put the downloadlink to the animations somewhere.. but all i see is amazon sellout shit, social crap and ofc paypal patreon and kofi but no animations so cant follow this further, the first half was a really nice 8mins how to do it, but without animations...

[@MattAspland]

It is the top link, “mixamo with UE5”

[@MrJulyCrab]

@@MattAspland Hey, I followed the tutorial, but you are using another skeleton or another character, i'm using the Manny one, and I followed the retargeting video and yet still can't solve it

[@mr.morningstarplays3188]

@@MattAspland CAN YOU COPY PASTE LINK TO THE ANIMATIONS FROM THE WEBSITE FOR FUTURE INTERACTIONS. With frustrated viewers that cant follow your tutorial because you could not copy paste the link from animations to the video, and where you saved them. Lots of new people will just leave because they cant follow your tutorial journey.

[@MattAspland]

On mixamo you cannot link directly to the animations, otherwise I would. You can only link to the website. This is why I linked to my other video as that covers exactly how to use the website. If you already knew how to use the website you would go straight to it and find the animations as you’d understand I cannot link them directly. Sorry for any misunderstanding and hope this helps.

[@mr.morningstarplays3188]

​@@MattAspland Thank you for quick feedback. Is there a way you can create your own animations inside the unreal engine 5.1 / 5.2 ? If yes. Did you create a tutorial about it that I could watch?

[@greedlessnomad32]

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