How To Set Up The Ultimate... Ultimate True First Person Camera - Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial

In this new and updated tutorial I'll show you how to set up the ultimate true first-person camera in Unreal Engine 5, with zero camera wobble and set up for multiplayer replication. If making True First-Person games interest you, I highly recommend checking out my series on How To Make A True First-Person Shooter in Unreal Engine 5 - • How To Make A True Fir...
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:51 - Project and character/camera set up
5:03 - Use camera rotation to make character look up and down
11:02 - Set up pitch replication
15:20 - Demo and outro

[@MizzoFrizzo]

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[@k3rm173]

This was Amazing !!Added!! divided by 8 and added the 2 neck bones and the head with 3 "transform (modify) Bone"s, then I added 2 more "transform (modify) Bone"s for "Upperarm_L" and "Upperarm_R" and multiplied the Pitch Rotation variable by -3 to the transform rotation. !!Result!! More natural looking bend and keeps arms pointed to ground.

[@knitejax659]

This is something that I'm learning to do, but it messes up my aiming down sights animations 😂. Still much for me to learn

[@knitejax659]

Oooo, i think i just figured it out while playing DayZ 😂

[@dynastic926]

Thank you so much for the new video! I've been waiting for it! Please continue this True FPS Shooter series, I love it!

[@StudioVacant]

All of your tutorials are explained really well, Thanks man.

[@fallingsappy]

Thank you for all the work you put in to it. I know it is quite hard to make videos like this!

[@JinxSwe]

Thank you. Hope you continue on this one. Had a really hard time to convert this to the Metahuman one and had to scrap it.

[@HixxyDubz]

Perfect tutorial, however, i seem to have an issue when looking down, i can see through my body, is there a way to stop this please?

[@BobBaguetti]

Hell yeah, another MizzoFrizzo banger just dropped!

[@MizzoFrizzo]

You're very kind. I feel like since my subs went over like 2k I don't hear from my early followers as much. I'm still here! 🥲

[@fallingsappy]

It would be nice to put it on top of some Lyra locomotion to make use of its in place rotation and other goodies

[@forged_wolf]

Love your tutorials! I have implemented the true first-person camera and it looks great, but when the character is close to an object, like a wall, and bends downwards or backwards the mesh clips through the wall. I was wondering if there was a solution for this that didn’t require hugely increasing the size of the capsule component. I have also tried creating a sphere collision for the head, since it is the part of the mesh that goes through the capsule component, but that doesn’t seem to work either. Thanks!

[@GrantCraftGames]

Any solution to this? I followed this guys video, but the first version. All works well except the head or camera, whatever, going through the wall. Especially if my mesh plays an animation. The only way to band-aid fix this was to drastically increase the size of the capsule so the animation "stays" in the capsule.

[@MatadoresXD]

I made the character hitbox bigger to decrease the cliping

[@VioletBeamGames]

Working really nice! Thank you! Is there a way for the rotation to not affect the arms?

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Just multiply it by maybe -2 (play around with the figure) and apply it to upperarm_l and upperarm_r

[@symnx]

I have a few questions as this is all new to me. First of all, two things to make sure I've understood it correctly: If I don't want the character to lean so far down and up, I just need to remove a few spines and I've solved the problem, right? And if I want the camera to shake, I just have to select the default head bone, right? Now for the problems I can't solve: If I run completely against a wall and look down, you can see through it, the same thing happens if I run completely against a second player and look down. How can this be solved? Another thing is that I want to be able to see my upper body when I look down. If I move the camera itself in the viewport, my result looks terrible. How can I adjust this so that it works properly? I still have a lot to learn, for example how to add the animation that you can sneak or crouch, but I wanted to start with the camera rotation problem and was immediately overwhelmed by how complicated it all is. The only good tutorial is the one from you and all the others don't fit my ideas at all, because they do it with Aim Offset animations, which I don't need because I don't want to hold a weapon but a flashlight, but that's another topic. Do you have any tips or youtube videos that cover such topics well so that I can learn the right things?

[@calycheers5912]

Hello, thanks for the tutorial twice. How can I prevent to see through head? I notice that if I move the mouse down I start to see through head. Another thing: How can I acquire only 1/10 of the animation movement in the camera view? I dislike the full animation trottle but as well the static one, Thanks. Oh last thing I thought about: When camera yaw, the character "slides " on left or right, how can I achieve a simple stepping process in order to make it realistic? I notice that even the head doesn't move left and right but the entire body, it's my fault?

[@laoguru7235]

I've implemented basic crouching in my game but the can't figure out how to smoothly blend the camera with the crouch animation. With no additional code, the crouch anim doesn't affect the camera position however looking down takes the camera down to where it would be if looking down while crouched. I tried overriding the camera manager and doing a lerped offset with the out view target's location, however then the camera jumps on pressing crouch and when looking down it goes way further than the floor. Just was doing a basic lerp and adding the offset, works perfectly in third person. Any suggestions? I'm guessing I may have to do something with the transform of the virtual bone but not completely sure.

[@Braindeadorc]

for the bones, I made some personal changes since the bending is quite extreme to my liking so, I changed the bones to spine_04, spine_05, neck_01, neck_02 and I only used 4 transform bones modifiers

[@MizzoFrizzo]

That's good, but if you add a weapon you might find it tricky to keep it on screen...

[@LupusMechanicus]

@@MizzoFrizzo Good tip mizzo, love you upside down blokes so much.

[@pietlebrun5943]

I like how you removed the wobble when running and walking via virtual bone, but what if I want to play Anim Montage where I need the camera to reflect the animation? For example when a character bends down to pick up an object?

[@knitejax659]

I know very little, but my first thought would be to swap to a camera that is set to still be affected by an animation while said animation takes place, then swaps back to the normal camera? Is that a possibility?

[@alphamineron]

@@knitejax659 Seems perfect… but I read that having multiple cameras active, adds to performance penalties…. Perhaps some optimized approach of toggling/spawning the camera at runtime

[@nathangard5968]

@@alphamineron could try attaching current camera to head bone during said animation and then reattach it to vb head_root when animation is done. Only issue I really see is the camera snapping to each location, maybe lerp between the locations?

[@skippycode]

Thank you for this tutorial! Will the character's head go through walls when the spine is rotated? Is there a recommended way to avoid it clipping through the wall with this true first person setup?

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Apart from increasing the radius of the capsule component there's not much you can do. To make custom collision you need to make a custom pawn class and I think use some C++... 😬

[@skippycode]

@@MizzoFrizzo Thank you! I went with tuning the capsule component radius like you recommend and it does the behavior I'm wanting.

[@Rehd66]

This worked for the most part but I have zero idea why. Man, I need to be that good at this engine and it's taking forever to learn it all

[@vorRD]

hey mizzo! so i was watching your true fps tutorial and you know how before we had issues with the vertical movement being slower/faster than the hands? so im facing this rightnow but in the horizontal way... do u know what should i do and if the fix is similar to the vertical one? edit: i tried fixing it the way we did it for up/down but didnt work..

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Have you implemented the aiming deadzone system? Only thing I can think of is that your deadzone isn't toggling/resetting when you stop aiming. The only time we rotate bone's yaw is for the deadzone system, otherwise your character should just be rotating...

[@vorRD]

@@MizzoFrizzo well i dont believe i even reached that part yet! because i was still setting up the sensitivity and do math etc, but it looks like ill wait and finish the whole thing and see if it gets fixed eventually, by the way.. i appreciate your hard work, you are such an amazing guy mizzo, never stop being awesome

[@MichaelEmbers]

you're intelligence is uncapped, these are so good.

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Trust me, it's very much capped haha. Thanks, man. 🫶

[@lz4090]

Wow, its been years trying to find a solution for this, some have even tried using control rig to equalizr the wobble. Lol, didnt even think to use the vb from the root. Any cons for this? Ill have to try this using existing fps anims and procedural ads and stuff. Thanks

[@MizzoFrizzo]

There might be an issue when trying to add leaning or some kind of free-look by head rotation.

[@anthonydebruin4193]

Hell yeah

[@chronickev_]

This tutorial was great! But I have one question. Lets say I want to make my character only slightly bend when looking up and down, I changed the multiply by pitch from -1 to -.35 and this works perfectly for when I'm looking up, but when I look down it still does the original look down as if the multiply was still -1. How could I fix this?

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Swap the 'get control rotation' for a 'get base aim rotation', delete the checks and select float nodes and simply multiply the Y by -0.35 (or whatever other figure you like). Let me know how it goes! 🙂

[@chronickev_]

@@MizzoFrizzo Thanks for the reply! Could you explain what you mean by delete the checks? I just tried your response by using the Y return value from get base aim rotation, multiplying that by -.35, then dividing that by my bone amount which goes into make rotator which isn't working either. The new method I just tried is making my player face down by default.

[@MizzoFrizzo]

@chronickev_ That SHOULD work. I see no reason why it shouldn't and don't really no why it wouldn't. Maybe just go back to the original set up but multiply the Y by 0.35 then connect that into the 360 - Y, etc.

[@Pnkstraw]

This seems like a really good tutorial but whenever I try to set the arm length to 0 my project crashes. Does anybody know why this is happening?(im on windows 11)

[@zerohcrows]

how would I clamp only the animation? I want it to not look all the way down but still have the player able to see all the way down, or is this impossible and would cause clipping issues?

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Try dividing the float by more than 5 before the make rotator and see what happens? 🙂

[@zerohcrows]

​@@MizzoFrizzo this worked perfectly for the animation!! only issue now is the clipping 😅thanks for the quick response!

[@slimniqy4658]

I ran into an issue where I followed everything perfect but for some reason when looking down I was looking up. To fix this put a *-1.0 after the - 360 value and plug that into the select float A node to fix it.

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Probably because it's supposed to be 360 - not - 360

[@slimniqy4658]

@@MizzoFrizzo haha yep…

[@MizzoFrizzo]

@@slimniqy4658 Soooo you didn't follow everything perfectly. 😏

[@slimniqy4658]

@@MizzoFrizzo nope 😞

[@MizzoFrizzo]

@slimniqy4658 You're welcome btw...

[@FischersFritze12]

When is the next part due to come out?

[@MizzoFrizzo]

There is no next part to this one.

[@dimarosu]

How to apply this pitch for "play animation"?

[@MizzoFrizzo]

I don't understand your question

[@dimarosu]

@@MizzoFrizzo I made a pitch based on your guide, and I wanted to make two animations for jumping, and for them to be like in dying light 2, that is, first the right hand, then the left hand and then the right hand again. to do this, I used "play animation", but when the animation It is being played the character's pitch is not working

[@MizzoFrizzo]

@dimarosu Oh sorry I just make the videos, I don't really try to guide people in special applications as I don't have the time. Good luck though! 🙂

[@secret.message.]

There are problems, after the jump was made, the camera shaking remained. This method does not work when creating a project in C++ . And it was already mentioned in the comments that when tilted towards the wall, the camera goes inside other objects.

[@MizzoFrizzo]

👍

[@secret.message.]

Can any of this be fixed? Can you give me a hint?

[@MizzoFrizzo]

@secret.message. There's no way of know what's causing that. I just try to make good videos. ✌️

[@kevingodart7122]

nice video but i don't understand why my character make some weird thing when i turn a little on the right 😂

[@copisdesign]

+

[@MizzoFrizzo]

I also don't understand why. Can you explain in more detail exactly what's happening?

[@kevingodart7122]

@@MizzoFrizzo when I make sure to look up or down the character curls up on himself and when I look to the right while looking at the ground the character compresses his body sags

[@MizzoFrizzo]

@kevingodart7122 Sounds like you messed something up, maybe you didn't divide by 5 in the pitch rotation calculation??

[@kevingodart7122]

​@@MizzoFrizzo i did it I followed the tutorial correctly. I will look tomorrow and try to find out why I have the problem.

[@copisdesign]

thank for tut. But pls fix the bags

[@MizzoFrizzo]

What bags?

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Nice post-and-bail lol

[@blackhole6958]

The tutorial was fine, but I think you should give better explanations on how things interact with each-other, because as a complete beginner I feel like I've learned nothing about what I was actually doing a moment ago.

[@MizzoFrizzo]

I try to include some additional information here and there, but I'm also trying to be efficient and not waste peoples' time. If you need more information about certain things there are loads of readily available resources out there, such as the Unreal Docs. 🙂

[@boombyte8849]

Nice. But it gives a lot of limitations. And the character extremely looking stiff one, like a robot or something else..

[@MizzoFrizzo]

What limitations?

[@boombyte8849]

@@MizzoFrizzo Hard to explain. It's more flexible in procedural offset but it looks robotic.

[@MizzoFrizzo]

@boombyte8849 Uhhh okay so it has limitations but you can't say what. You can add some lerp and interpto nodes and adjust which bones are rotated... The point is to introduce beginners to the principle. ✌️

[@LupusMechanicus]

Based thanks!

[@Rev0verDrive]

BRUH, BASE AIM ROTATION! You DO NOT NEED TO REPLICATE A PITCH/YAW VAR!

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Oh nice, I'll look into that. THANKS. 🙂

[@MizzoFrizzo]

I see what you mean about base aim rotation, it seems it is replicated by default as part of how unreal replicates movement, but it unfortunately still causes this kind of horrific blurring of the characters across the server. You wouldn't know how I can fix that, would you??

[@Rev0verDrive]

@@MizzoFrizzo I've never noticed any blurring with it. Simulated proxy movement is approximate. Floating point precision errors don't allow for exact matches in computation. Maybe look at motion blur?

[@ghostwriter205]

Bro where did you hear that "true first person" means that when a character is looking down he bends over and stares at the ground like he's looking for a bug in the grass, and when he looks up he leans back almost like the girl from The Exorcist? Who came up with this perverse concept anyway? I mean, why not take a cue from the real world where if you want to look up or down you just turn your head - why use a pelvis instead of a neck? It just doesn't look realistic... I saw this is same games like Phasmophobia and it ruins the atmosphere of the game because it looks so ridiculous. I don't understand who came up with this and why it took off and other developers are using it.

[@MizzoFrizzo]

Bro, where did you hear that this is an acceptable way to talk to someone? You can just apply it to, say, the last 2 spine bones, the neck, and the head if you'd like (or any other combination of bones). True first person literally just means that there is a full character model (as opposed to just a pair of arms) and the camera is attached to the head. This is a beginner's tutorial lol smfh

[@ghostwriter205]

@@MizzoFrizzo This isn't about technology as much as it is about philosophy. And it is precisely because as you say it 's a tutorial for beginners that I am writing this - I understand that it is a free tutorial, but you understand that you are educating people and teaching them new techniques, teaching them to think and approach tasks. I was hoping that you could at least defend your "disfigured true first person" approach, for instance you could give examples where it might make more sense from gameplay to use it than the "old fashioned model", but I see that you probably can't. And it would also be a good idea to get rid of the mindset that "when I do tutorials for free there is no room for criticism and you shouldn't talk to me like that". I mean what's wrong with using the word "bro" in an internet discussion? Is it something vulgar or offensive to you?

[@MizzoFrizzo]

😂

[@xxlemonvenomxx3181]

@@ghostwriter205 He is showing a basic form in which you can achieve a simple first person type perspective. And as a beginner it is extremely simple to see what i could change if i wanted to to make lets say just the neck move down. The entire structure of the bones is laid out in a super simple way. If you want more in depth tutorials on animation, and skeletal structures, then there are many more videos on KZbin. Widen your approach to gaining knowledge and suddenly you gain a larger sample size to choose from. Developers and other people use this only BECAUSE it is extremely manipulatable and customizable.

[@knuckles7410]

@@ghostwriter205 Short answer, he is lazy. The way real men does it is by creating different controls for different states. For example, his whole body movement is justified for when holding a weapon since you want to keep your whole upper body properly aligned with the angle you're aiming at, but as you said, not necessary for when a character just want to look around. So the answer is to integrate a free look option where the character would only move his head and neck to look around. When released, the head centers itself again. He should also differentiate the amount of lean depending on if the character has a weapon or not. Without weapon, the character could do the same leaning movements as shown in the video but heavily tuned down. It's just about putting in the work, not be lazy and designing properly before doing.