How To Switch Animation States in Unreal Engine

In this video we go over the process of adding in a customer character and their animations. Most importantly we learn how to switch between animations states with the touch of ONE BUTTON!!! This was a tutorial suggested from one of my Subcribers!!! Thanks for tuning in hope yall learn something from this!

[@Soul-gf9vv]

Your tutorial is so clear and to the point, thank you! Your voice is also chill and calm! Makes it easier to listen to! I appreciate this! 😁🙏

[@quinnanthony]

Thanks 💯!!

[@minusnine5036]

Been looking for something like this. Thank you for the tutorial!

[@tonywood2283]

This is very helpful. Thank you sir.

[@johnremp3470]

Super useful and very well explained. This deserves more views.

[@quinnanthony]

Thanks fam!

[@rsk-smiles]

Great video. Love the clear and seriously chilled voice.

[@quinnanthony]

Thank you kindly!

[@dude531]

This is exactly the video I needed! Thanks so much for the tutorial I've been stuck on how to do this for DAYS 🙏🙏🙏

[@quinnanthony]

Glad it helped!!

[@shadergt2610]

Thank you!

[@michaelderosier3505]

Yes 🤩🤩🤩🤩 Thank you! Is it me or is UE missing this documentation?

[@ademolaadegun9008]

This video is what I have been looking for to blend several animation states and thanks for the precise explanation of each steps

[@quinnanthony]

Of course fam!

[@ademolaadegun9008]

Good day, I have a quick question. If I want to have an animation montage play before changing to another state in the beginning and also when changing again, how do I go about that? A reply will be appreciated

[@quinnanthony]

@@ademolaadegun9008 if I understand correctly one way is you can set that up in the character bp add a node called play anim montage to the button press on started. Then a delay and then the rest of the code

[@ademolaadegun9008]

@@quinnanthony Thanks for the reply, I will try this out and see how it goes.

[@talhaylmaz1151]

Bro, you saved my life oh my. Thanks for the tutorial

[@quinnanthony]

Bet!!! Glad I could help

[@habibal-jarrah5822]

You are Gr8 !!! Keep going :D

[@zombienationz2939]

You are very helpful I'm struggling to find out what's available for example today i found relevant animation time remaining for holding a state until anim completes. Not useful for landing i think or jumping but very useful for actions imo but idrk.

[@coolermintmint]

top notch!

[@quinnanthony]

Thanks !!

[@brianworden7022]

And if you want the State to also switch without moving, plug it into the base Idle and the Walk/Run... now you can equip your weapons when standing in one place and moving.

[@shirakuyanai4095]

Basically if you want to do something from something (e.g equip weapon when standing), you'd have to connect them together. And this is why my animation blueprint is a mess lol.

[@muneebhero1159]

Thanks bro I subscribed to you

[@MatrixNetworx]

This was top-notch dude it was so clear most people over complicate this. Did you make the video with adding the weapons I don't see it on your channel?

[@quinnanthony]

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[@krasnavin]

Great tutorial I am using in my UE5 Mars (humanoid) Bot Battle: Tesla vs China.

[@quinnanthony]

that sounds EPIC!!

[@user-oi6xs8hk3r]

Arigatou sensei

[@youness-atlas]

thank you so much that helped a lot. +sub +like

[@quinnanthony]

ayyee thats whats up thanks!

[@GrimsinxGaming]

Awesome tutorial.. Thank you. I don't know if it's me and I can't follow simple instructions but I can't seem to make my character move.. he either runs away from the camera not using root motion or my blend spaces and animations blueprints are all wrong pls help

[@StaxKarratGang]

Let’s go you the man fam

[@quinnanthony]

Great Suggestion!!

[@StaxKarratGang]

@@quinnanthony when part 2?

[@quinnanthony]

@@StaxKarratGang coming soon either tonight or tormorrow morn!

[@StaxKarratGang]

@@quinnanthony noice can’t wait for it 🔥

[@JoelFernandoMediaLab]

coolie mane

[@quinnanthony]

Thanks

[@nc1246]

Please how to change a state when you pick an item? like an umbrella? 32:44 Like this sword state. Subbed! and how to add rain drop effect on umbrella when a rain system is on?

[@quinnanthony]

I’ll see what I can do! For your rain you may want to make a small investment in the ultra dynamic sky from the ue marketplace and for picking up the umbrella just make sure to add a variable to your player char when the umbrella is picked up. Also make sure that variable is tied to the state tree in the event graph. [e-mail] is my email feel free to ask questions there as well

[@ritikX1999]

how can we add different sate for idle anim , like gunidle, swordidle

[@brandonsharp1495]

So Question, When doing that transition, is it possible too play a holster animation in between?

[@quinnanthony]

Yes they way you would do this is: whatever button you have to switch anims, you can add the code to play an anim montage when that button is ‘started’…at the end of the ‘play anim montage’ you can attach a delay which if hooked up correctly will delay as long as the animation montage last. Then you can hook up your set ‘(your variable)’ whatever u called the variable that makes the char switch ! Ps: to even work with animation montages the correct way make sure there is a “Slot” node added to your animation blueprint right after your State machine.

[@brandonsharp1495]

@@quinnanthony Sweet thanks for the reply buddy, ill try it later today.

[@d_Howard]

How hard is this to adapt to NPC Characters? If I'm making a solo game, I would like non-combatants in the world doing normal stuff. If I'm doing a cinematic of an animal, I would like the animals to do a predictable set of animations so I can film them properly. The only tutorials I can find are for the player character. Making a crowd at the mall, or at a basketball game who all do random animations would be cool! Any ideas? Thanks!

[@quinnanthony]

that would be cool! The way that i would think to do it would be to create anim bps and blendspaces for your NPCs....then you could make an array of animations for the npcs and code them to happen randomly or on a specific time! Or also there is the city crowd pack from the matrix awakens demo free on the Unreal Marketplace. They already have a lot of animations and coding already done!

[@d_Howard]

@@quinnanthony Thanks for the ideas! I'm pretty new to Unreal Engine. Not quite up to tackling complex coding or blueprints on my own yet. (I can make a decent landscape!) Following tutorials is my speed to this point. Plus every year or so, Unreal Engine gets an upgrade, and I can't always figure out how to modify older tutorials. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. Anyway, thanks for the ideas!

[@quinnanthony]

@@d_Howard for sure!! Keep going fam after a while you will be a beast!

[@Yggdrasil777]

It would be almost the exact same, but have an animation BP for the NPC or animal. There is a Random Sequence node in the AnimBP that allows you to put into an array various animation sequences and you can set it up to play randomly or shuffle mode. Right-click and type random, it will show up on the context menu. It also allows you to setup a chance (0-1 float) for the animation to happen, how many times it loops, play rates, etc. Very nice for adding in random idles and emotes, giving more life to the models that you use.

[@d_Howard]

@Yggdrasil777 That sounds great! I'll have to look around and see if any tutorials are available for that idea. I'm far too new to UE5 to manage something like that on my own. But that sounds like a good start. Thanks!

[@mspicer2852]

where do i get the input folder?

[@quinnanthony]

Be sure you are using unreal 5.1 or later and it should be there by default

[@joelarmour]

my normal mode works, I just don't understand why my fight blend space is not being triggered....it only works if i play the animations in the character blueprint.

[@quinnanthony]

Did you add the variable to your state machine event graph to let your character know when they are in the fighting state ?

[@joelarmour]

@@quinnanthony thanks for your response but i just solved it by making a blueprint for my fight mode separately and it works now. so on "IsInFightMode" it switches the blueprint. Your suggestion is right but at this point i'm just going to move forward with 2 blueprints. Thanks again!

[@MickyMiniAdventures]

vertical axis option is not shown my unreal engine

[@quinnanthony]

it may be in a dropdown ....

[@seth5064]

Did you ever do one where you add the weapons? Little confused about that and wondering if this will integrate woth a pick up system. Also can u shoot me your email I would hire you for a couole hours and pay really good to answer some questions for me

[@quinnanthony]

Yes here is the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZy8gJaEoZKIo7M

[@quinnanthony]

[e-mail]

[@michaelderosier3505]

I change my characters jump to match the locomotion and now the camera zooms into character mesh. I do I fix it?

[@quinnanthony]

I don’t know what you mean by changing the jump to match the locomotion…I think you are saying you added in a new state that is a jump state?

[@michaelderosier3505]

@@quinnanthony I'm setting up different fighting styles and each locomotion will have unique jumping, rolling, etc...Anyways, when my character jumps the camera zooms into the mesh. Does this have to do with root motion?

[@andristefanus]

it doesn't toggle back to false, confuse, help

[@quinnanthony]

how can i help you?

[@andristefanus]

@@quinnanthony solved it

[@ThatOldChalupa]

I want to like this video but the switch states is not working... overall great presentation though

[@quinnanthony]

What part is not working

[@tikal8746]

i have a similar issue where when i press the key assigned to an animation it is not working, i followed your steped for the switch @@quinnanthony

[@quinnanthony]

@@tikal8746 maybe try looking at your animation blueprint and making sure it’s hooked up correctly…also make sure the event graph is set up correctly. If that’s not the issue lemme kno

[@tikal8746]

@@quinnanthony i'm usind 1d legacy, maybe it won't work

[@quinnanthony]

@@tikal8746 are you doing a side scroller type game…if not you want to use the 2d blend space