Dynamic Footstep System | Different Sounds On Different Surfaces - Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial

Hey guys, in today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to create a dynamic footstep system in which you have different footstep sound effects on different surfaces. You can use as many different sounds and surfaces as you like.
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[@SanneBerkhuizen]

Another great tutorial! For how is wondering, you can plug the physics material right in the "Layer info" of your landscape. And will work. This also means you have the ability to have different effects like impact VFX. Oh and you can change the damping values of your surface. So i.e. grass could be slippier than concrete when driving om it.

[@MattAspland]

Oh nice, yeah they're great ideas! Thank you for posting :) Adds that extra level of detail

[@warfighter4129]

Note for people working in Unreal 5. At 12:20 where Matt types "Vector - Vector" nothing will appear for that. Just type "Subtract" and you`ll get the correct result. It`s one of those things they changed I guess. As always informative and effortless tutorial Matt, and Goodluck Gamemakers!

[@CrouchingOVME]

Worked for me, thank you :)

[@SwordArtUniverse]

Thanks!

[@thoughy5039]

You are the best!

[@waltermoura8441]

Thanks!

[@jutuberzklockowlego1118]

yeah, it took me some time to realize

[@CactusQuade]

2 years later and still incredibly useful, thank you so much for this easy tutorial!

[@barx3218]

Good to hear you credit the sound authors man! Well done, wish more people would follow your lead

[@AramShelton]

Another great & concise tutorial that is remains relevant for UE5. I was able to apply this to my first person steps no problem. I've tweaked the logic to route all of the audio to one metasound which swtiches between different wave players (& their associated arrays). Much thanks!

[@ItsFink]

This one was super informative; I never knew how to add great sounds for steps in game.

[@xyonix5193]

Thank you! I was really amazed and suprised I got everything working seamlessly with blended landscape materials I created in UE5!

[@kritikalskillz5437]

if it wasnt for matt i would have given up on game dev a long time ago you deserve so many more subscribers i ALWAYS look to see if matt has a tutorial for what im trying to do and SPOILER usually he does and within minutes I have learned something new thank you so much for all you do matt

[@caylemdriessen2093]

You never miss, thank you

[@maxgregory3452]

great video dude, explained very well thank you!

[@Soul_Hunter4200]

Thanks a lot mate! You helped me fix my trouble quite efficiently!

[@xiaobai7060]

Great tutorial!

[@SilklessSound]

Perfect! Thanks very much again :)

[@AICandii]

excellent tutorial!

[@r_e_d_squirrel367]

just works. when i have a problem i re watch th video and find where i messed up lol. good stuff

[@BunnyCookiie]

thanks, this helped a lot!

[@rana3dstudio149]

very much helpfull. i did and it works great

[@El-Hombre-Random]

exelente simple y sin tantas vueltas

[@bigangryskygames5281]

Brilliant!

[@MattAspland]

Thank you!

[@NinjaThug]

Just perfect!

[@Torbulous]

Heyo! great tutorial on getting dynamic footsteps. Very easy to follow! I recently implemented footstep sounds as well, however instead of using a line trace, I got the floor the character is standing on out of the character movement component. You can get the current floor you're standing on from the Character Component and then searching for "current floor", and from there you can break the hit result just like a line trace. I'm not sure if there is any performance difference in doing it this way. I imagine it's probably the same or negligible (I think the character component might use a line trace anyway to get the current floor). Anyways I wasn't sure if you knew about that so I thought I'd chime in.

[@xiaobai7060]

I wish i could see exactly what you did... for me, it says "only exact matching structures are considered compatible" when i try to connect nodes to "current floor" . :\

[@Torbulous]

@@xiaobai7060 hmm, I wonder if something has changed. I'll have to check when I get home if I remember. tbh, nowadays, I just use a line trace like the video now. I think I had an issue doing it the way I mentioned where sometimes the sound failed to play for whatever reason.

[@truonggiangleho4906]

many thanks

[@Alex00m]

This is what I need bro😃😃😃 thanks 😋

[@MattAspland]

No problem man, glad I could help you out! :)

[@digimikeh]

Thanks for this.. just curious about the physic material usage... it will use some extra physic engine resources?

[@wellendowedstudios]

Just what I was looking for! I seen both of your videos and combined them and modified it a little bit to work how I wanted it.

[@andrewmartin8612]

Great tutorial! I like it when you take the time to explain why you do things.

[@MattAspland]

Thank you! Glad I could help out, and thanks for the feedback

[@jaywalker9756]

Matt, ur truly a wonder, for the fact that you take time out of ur day Bro, mad respect💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@MattAspland]

Thank you so much! Just want to help people like you, glad it’s appreciated, so thank you! :)

[@jaywalker9756]

No, thank you

[@jaywalker9756]

Sorry to disturb but can you do another flight tutorial, I learnt how to make the character how to fly in the direction of the camera, but he never actually faces the direction of the camera, I checked it out on Excalibur studios, but I got lost along the way

[@MattAspland]

Hi, don't worry about it :) So one on flying towards the camera, I think I could look into it :)

[@GrifChan]

Tanks!

[@hariharancarry2181]

thanks bro

[@SageX85]

While it is a functional way, if you have 8 types of surfaces (wood deck, wood plank, grass, water, watter puddle, metal hard, metal soft, concrete A, Concrete B, etc...) if you need to change or add elements, you would need do changes to a lot of places, not to mention the spaggetti it would end up being with that switch, i prefer to use a cue parameter, is cleaner and you handle everything in a single place.

[@SketchyGameDev]

If you want to make it work without a player mesh or animations it’s pretty easy, just use a timeline with an event track inside the player event graph

[@ZimMabu_GameDev.]

thanks

[@TNTMEKKI]

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[@MattAspland]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that!: )

[@HutchstarEnt]

Works great excellent tutorial :)

[@rifat.ahammed]

Thanks

[@elvilleneror2]

perfect

[@giuseppegioi9659]

Great video man! Keep it up!

[@ALIENSNCOFFEE]

Hello great tutorial. Have issues I put a new footstep notify in the animations clicked save but when I try to add the event in the ABP it will not show up and removed context sensitive but still does not show the anim notify footstep

[@TheIslandFarmer321]

i have same issue

[@notendervn]

Thank you so much

[@MattAspland]

No problem!

[@mehdiayed3466]

thanks

[@sonny_c6355]

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[@MattAspland]

Ha thank you! I'm just mind-reading lol :)

[@nagybalint1474]

*making no need for the e after the i btw no hate just letting u know 😅

[@sonny_c6355]

:D ya.... my bad...

[@JustZiReacts]

Awesome work man❤❤ Another necessary part for my game

[@MattAspland]

Thank you! Glad I could help you out! :)

[@brucegillispokemon4446]

Hey Great Tutorial but ive hit one issue im not sure how to resolve. When i start the project the walking sounds work fine but after running for some reason when i go back to walking theres no footsteps. Any help would be appreciated

[@2fixtv619]

Everything works perfect till i reload the project, i dont know wh the physic material unbinds and i have to select again all the sounds, some clue about whats happening? everything else saves correctly. Thx for all ur work and help! Love ur videos :)

[@xiaobai7060]

If something isn't showing up(in my case "get actor location") in the event blueprint, just uncheck "context sensitive" in the top right of the search window.

[@trumpfbam2094]

One of the best videos (shortTUTs) for footstep stuff. thx and keep it up pls.

[@phantomgaming5199]

i did set it up for running fast running and walking but sound only works when i fast run otherwise no sound edit: i was using a blendspace. so make sure u use correct animations in the blendspace on which u have set up notif

[@alexsaiago4147]

Hey i did your locker hiding tutorial, and it was great, but i dont know how to stop the steps sound when inside the locker help would be apreciated :(

[@nikolistary]

What about landscapes with blended materials? I have a mountain with grass and rock (automaterial), will the rock interfere with walking on the grass?

[@ty1978]

Excellent and works in 5.3. Most of my surfaces play the correct sounds but I can't seem to get this running on a landscape material, anyone run into something similar?

[@Si-Toecutter]

awesome awesome video, Anyone wanting to make different sound for crouched then run a branch after the branch from linetrace by channel, then get is crouched as the condition, which can plug into the get player character, then from true just duplicate everything from switchEphysical surface and add other sounds for the crouched condition.

[@MattAspland]

Nice work Simon, thanks for sharing your solution here for others too!

[@stormstudios1]

for running, could you just make a animnotify2, only play it on run animation and copy the code and put different sounds? or is there a more optimized way?

[@darg8995]

you need a lot more subscribers

[@MattAspland]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that. But hey, we’re on our way there :)

[@gamermanmitchell]

at 10:48 that node doesnt come up

[@ayoubtouaty8255]

Sooooo helpful 😍

[@50meters20000tons]

Matt! not sure if you check these but its worth a try. I implemented this tutorial and it works as described. I run into a bug when I then try to implement a rolling/hard landing animation together with your tutorial. If I jump and cause the roll/hard landing animations to trigger, once the player resumes walking, the sounds will be played doubled up causing an echo effect with each footstep sound. This is resolved by jumping once normally but the bug will return if the player attempts the roll/hard landing animations. Got any idea where I can even begin to fix this? I added a "jump" node after the hard landing animation and sure it fixes the issue but then you have a random jump each time the player rolls or hard lands so its not a proper solution. *the animations are montages if that makes a difference

[@TheosResearchDiary]

Any chance you shared the jump SFX?

[@sudanemamimikiki1527]

is it possible to apply these to material functions? i have an auto landscape so i cant add any sound effects to it this way...

[@fallenhorizon7592]

If it doesn't work for you try putting 150 on the vector - vector return value!

[@Xandra3D]

This fixed it for me thank you! Hit wasn't found and couldn't figure out why 🥲

[@dean_read]

sound for jump

[@lucaselias6520]

I’m trying to get this to work with the third person template on ue5 but it doesn’t have a third person bp only a manny BP how do I fix this

[@topmysteryexpert1276]

bro please make a video on how to create this same dynaimc sound effect in "Advance Locomotion V4 Unreal engine asset ". It will be a great help for me.

[@NoxnYT]

How would I fix my footsteps sounding like they're JUST behind the player character?

[@MercGT63s]

my grass one does not work but i did the exact same thing as cement

[@rkid2605]

im doing this in UE5 and its working when my player lands and when he takes off jumping, but the running sound isnt working, think its because its using a blendspace, anyone know how to make this work with blendspace

[@ericmatthews9894]

Worked good first time...except on my stairs

[@leonmisoulis7953]

Hello, using UE5 now, im having a small issue. I think it might be an issue with my animations, but for some reason, when i jump, if it is a long distance and the animation ends , the footstep sound of "landing" doesnt play. Same with my double jump, if the animation runs its cycle and i havent landed yet the animation sound wont get triggered, and im trying to find out ways to solve it but im not sure what to do. Would appreciate any help :)

[@EosoSss]

how can i do it for first person?

[@josephvanwyk2088]

I assume you do this for the first person as well? Or is the coding different?

[@VELIR-jw4bb]

You can do it in same way for first person only if you have lower body animated too. If your FPS character has hands only and has not animated movement legs then you do footsteps in different way and no via animation notify

[@RealFireballStudios]

It shouldn’t be that different

[@EosoSss]

for fps?

[@DeeDeeYoker]

Great tutorial i am looking for a way to hold a certian button to walk and it will mute these walking sounds just like sneaking in "CSGO/VALORANT" how would one go about this

[@DenisZaharenko]

just dont add the notifier in the animation for sneaking

[@hazemsy2797]

@@DenisZaharenko but what if i want to make make sprinting has sound effect, and walking has it own sound effect on the same material

[@DenisZaharenko]

@@hazemsy2797 add different notifiers for every different sound too.

[@avr4080]

Hm Howcome vector minus vector is missing? Is this function not available in Unreal 5 engine?

[@MrPangahas]

just type in minus when u drag out from it

[@hunter7777]

I've now done this in UE4.26 3 times & I cannot get any sound on the footsteps. And, yes, I have assigned a physical material slot, but not sure if I'm even in the right place because the video shows things in different places than in UE4.26. He never tells us which version he is using & that would be helpful so we can use the same version.

[@Anonymous-mf8ip]

But I don't have an animation my player is a floating torch

[@MercGT63s]

why is it just playing sound whe i jump but not run

[@Fabi_1987]

I think it´s only playing one sound even i put both of them like you with that random thing..so it don´t loop one sound

[@glitchman9579]

my first project for students is %95 done I watched you a lot of. everything works fine for last product. but now I'm having a little problem with dynamic footstep system. I just changed my mannequin to a paragon character and now footstep sounds gone :(

[@DenisZaharenko]

i dont have the anim notify thing in the event graph. it just doesnt exist.

[@rkid2605]

make sure ur in the Animation BP and not the third person character BP

[@refrizor]

Thanks for the tutorial! Just wondering, for some reason when I enable occlusion the footsteps get very muffled. Is there some way to work around it? Goal is to make far footsteps, like behind walls, have a muffle effect so I use attenuation, but regardless of how close you are, it still is muffled for some weird reason

[@ak-gi3eu]

great video,,,very help ful,,,,plz make a 3d character lobby ui like pubg,,plzzzzzz

[@MattAspland]

Thank you! And I could look into doing that. If it were to be like PUBG, could you not just have it so the players spawn there, and then teleport them away (Set their Location) when the game starts? Just an idea :)

[@ak-gi3eu]

@@MattAspland do u play pubg?

[@MattAspland]

Not anymore, but I have played it yeah

[@aliahmedgaming6083]

I want it in First person please

[@MattAspland]

Hi, this should still work perfectly in first person too. You would just open your animations and place the footsteps where they would be on your character

[@Yokitolakaka]

@@MattAspland But what if we dont have legs? like we have only animated hands for the fp.

[@DirtyBird01]

I have done this and for some reason I randomly cant move in any direction. I can still look around but all of the sudden I cant move in any direction what the hell?

[@hanythabet4027]

Are you available for freelance on my project?

[@MattAspland]

Hi, I'm very busy, but I'd be happy to discuss it further :) If you got to my about page on my channel you can find out how to :)

[@DarkRodFR]

Thanks , but don't work with landscape :(

[@iNteractiv3]

why isnt it working

[@louisjames4691]

im right clicking on notifies and nothing is happening

[@hunter7777]

Hey...I found out you have to right click in the space where your move the line that moves the foot of the character. I also was having problems with this until I figured this out. Hope that helps.

[@quizplz]

If you end up with a lot of surfaces an array can be your friend...

[@SurprexGames]

I watched the video ten times and for me no audio comes out, I've watched many tutorials and none of them resolved :(

[@YT_twiggFN]

Did you assign the physical material? You can click on your landscape and find a physical material slot.

[@fallenhorizon7592]

hey, i know its been 9 months but did you find a solution?

[@scottcastle9119]

I've done everything in the video but no sounds for me either, working in ue5

[@fallenhorizon7592]

@@scottcastle9119 put value 150 on vector return value

[@scottcastle9119]

@@fallenhorizon7592 cool I'll try it thanks

[@THEGUMP-]

This only works for 3RD Person

[@scottcastle9119]

I've followed this but don't hear footsteps

[@nagybalint1474]

funny the guy made the grass sounds effects 5 years earlier than Minecraft and it seems like mc just took it from him

[@MattAspland]

Wow I've just looked into it more and apparently it is the exact one, apparently it's in the credits. Didn't know I found that haha