How To Create A True First Person Camera In Unreal Engine 5 (Tutorial)

[@jacobduncan7495]

Wow junior dev here, my last UE5 game I released I just did it from scratch as I prefer real FPS (without fake arms) however this tutorial was so much easier than I thought it would be, props to epic for that and of course props to you as well mate!

[@RyeBre4d]

To fix the camera glitching when u walk backwards u gotta uncheck orient rotation to movement which is located in character movement

[@jacksonlucido7128]

Good tip

[@alejandrogomez1698]

super helpful man, thanks

[@randombleachfan]

THANK YOU so much for this wonderful tip, the camera clipping was driving me nuts. But this helped me out a ton.

[@rerixv1]

Thank you sooo much.

[@SketchyGameDev]

Thanks!

[@oh-cpt-my-cpt]

You are just the best. Just... the best. I mean, after all these years of searching for a decent tutorial my long journey has finally come to an end. A wanderer not in heart, cursed to seek a colder sky like smoke, has finally settled in a place that warms his feet and soul. A cloud doomed to vanish has finally poured its waters in fruitful rain of knowledge on the long deserted land of evergrowing incapability. Thank thee, thine filmroll and thine blissfully fulfilling voice of wisdom!

[@lcdcstudios]

may I ask if your last name is Tolkien?

[@BridgesProductions2024]

cringe ass

[@Mdogg2005]

I would love a first person / third person toggle tutorial. This video is so well done, thank you!

[@pinoybgmusic]

It exists

[@MrSpy13011]

You would keep your 3rd person camera and create a flip flop node activating one camera at a time.

[@finegamingconnoisseur]

Your video was the clearest and most well-explained that I've seen for making the true first-person camera. Thank you.

[@krevesstcreps2398]

ive been trying to solve this problem for 3 days now, your telling me all i hade to do was check that one box! thank you:)

[@chickenslips]

Solid tutorial! Thanks so much for this. You've got a great format. A tut that I'd be interested in seeing from you would be how to do two renders for multiplayer. One render that just shows legs and arms, and a render for other players that shows the full character model. Anyway, thanks again!

[@idk_something301]

I hate that it was so simple. You have so much idea on how much I overthought this before finding this video, thanks a bunch 👍

[@CommanderColson]

Could you do a tut on taking Lyra's player character and putting it into other projects? I'm having trouble finding the Lyra player character itself. I'd really like to use Lyra as a base for a project, but there isn't a lot out there that breaks down how to extract that stuff out of Lyra. I've seen a lot of people put stuff into Lyra (how to make lyra and open world game!) but not a lot on how to take stuff out and add it to other projects (the player character, weapon spawns, bots, ect)

[@shinin645]

Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge with us!

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Really like the quick tips format and yes please first to third person camera tutorial. Thanks Matt 👍

[@desertdriver2207]

Thank you for this, simple and straight to the point.

[@einJFK]

Thanks, I'm new to Unreal and I have it hard following some tutorials, but this one was greats thank you.

[@IDanielWaleczek]

Thank you for this short, yet powerful tutorial! :)

[@CemBYldrm]

Next, If you could add rotate body animation while rotating the camera it would be nice. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@Yannnus]

Perfect, works great in UE4, too. Thank you so much for this!!

[@polychimp]

What are you’re thoughts on a video about retargeting a metahuman to an Advanced Locomotion character? I’m having a pretty tough time with it. Thanks for the videos

[@MattAspland]

Great idea, I could look into it

[@v8matey]

I wish UE5 had a rigging or skinning system. Like mixamo does.

[@hamzehjafari2823]

@@v8matey Idk if this is what you meant but I just combined a Mixamo Animation with Metahuman Character through rigging in Unreal Engine 5 and it worked like magic.

[@DanFalcs]

Amazing video man, so straight forward and how you explain everything is so helpful!

[@g-dojjo]

Thanks bro!!!Really helpfull for starting Ue5.Please continue for this tutorials ^^

[@MattAspland]

Thanks, will do!

[@hazemsy2797]

man u are a Masiv L egend, when i search for a tuturial and click on a video and see ur intro, i know that i will finish it 100%

[@DonaldDrennan]

This is a great tutorial! Thanks! Now I need to know how to make the character do things with its hands, like pick up a box and toss it. Also, I'd like my character to stand facing front, at ease, not ready to run. How do I add animations? This is very helpful though.

[@2bkkev661]

Thank you I was looking to make this for a long time

[@slivermidknight4650]

this is a great tutorial it's actually helpful unlike others which don't make any seance or unhelpful :

[@MrTreeGuy]

you need to make a vaulting & climbing tutorial thats new for UE5

[@chrisjohnson6199]

Very Helpful Video, Thank you!

[@AGreatMordhauPlayer]

Hi , does someone know how to keep camera shaking but with yaw enabled please ?

[@BrianHuether]

Great video! Do you know how to automatically have the same camera used as a cine camera actor? I am using UE 5 for film production, not game dev, and trying to create cine camera animations that are like a first person view. For instance walking from point A to point B. So telling UE 5 "create walking animation from point A to point B". thanks!

[@PirateWasHere]

Awesome, Thanks 🍻🍕

[@v8matey]

Thank you for this. 👍 How do you add in a mouse look. In fps mode click a button an you can look horizontal left or right while the weapon or gun still faces forward.

[@MattAspland]

I could look into that as a tutorial!

[@wesss9353]

Prone and crouch using this model. Thanks

[@mickeybowles9743]

Fantastic! Now how would one go about Aim offet, aim down site in this orientation?

[@NebMotion]

yesss thanks for this

[@Stoermy_]

This is a good small Tut. Thumbs Up for this ;)

[@func_e]

thansk mate! this is the first thing i did to start my first project. man, unreal is a breeze compared to unity :D

[@HixxyDubz]

Amazing thank you so much!!

[@mastercarpes]

I liked it, got a subscribe and a like

[@MartKart8]

I had some problems in some of your older tutorials, it was when text appeared on the screen and when I moved back the text would remain on the screen, even though the clear parent was attached, it was for interacting with a block? At the moment I'm working on a third person Cat game, so it's no biggie, as the problem was for a different project being First person game.

[@MattAspland]

Ah okay, could you email or DM me on Discord with some more information?

[@emptybruh]

What about Camera clipping with mesh? And any tutorial on how to clamp up and down look?

[@mansnotprot1544]

Is there a way to make the Head part of the mesh invisible but still cast a shadow? I know a lot of games that use this method to have the camera a bit further back so that the hands are not so in your face, but I cant find how to do it. Thanks.

[@fearthesmeag]

Hey Matt, awesome video - how would I go about adding this to sequencer to render out. I would like to do a FirstPerson PoV, render - rather than key framing a camera actor.

[@arian6565]

this is a treasure

[@LORENZOCOLALONGO]

hi friend, could you create a first person walk to switch to drone video? Thank you very much

[@TSB191]

Great tutorial. I managed to set up the camera but the Z Rotation does not seem to be working. I can't look up and down when in Play mode. Am i missing something? I did check the Pawn setting for Yaw Rotation.

[@natlasmines]

this actually looks alot better than i expected! how can we smooth the movement out? it's stutters alot i've noticed.. :( other than that it's good thanks! :)

[@uglerod60]

thanks bro, useful video

[@punchline1729]

one thing I noticed is those parts of the mesh which are so close to the camera get cut off. is there a way to prevent this, other than moving the camera itself?

[@v8matey]

Yes there is. Go to project settings. General settings. Near clip plane. Change it from 10 to 1.

[@punchline1729]

@@v8matey Thank you for your help

[@v8matey]

@@punchline1729 your welcome

[@CelalBey.]

Hey that's a great video and it helped me a lot, but I am using a metahuman if you know can you tell me how am I gonna hide the head when I hide it shadow disappears too but I don't want shadow to disappear.

[@Thermal3D882]

is there a way to may the skeletal mesh fade to 0 when you zoom in all the way? I want to create a gradual gradient where when you get really close to zooming in the skeletal mesh becomes transparent and then no longer shows, similar to WoW.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

You can actually keep the SpringArm, and in fact doing so gives you access to things such as camera lag and more fine-tuned controls depending on the experience you want. But it's a personal choice on how you want your camera system to work. There's no right or wrong.

[@mal1n778]

How attaching SpringArm with Character?

[@_jeffrey_williams]

Awesome tutorial as always. Do you know how to smooth the camera motion?

[@TheKr0ckeR]

Can we do that with First person character blueprint by changing its "arm" mesh to mannequin? My FPS character has a a lot of methods, i dont want to transfer them for TP character blueprint

[@nwhite8623]

How did you change that parent socket? I can't seem to figure that one out.

[@nwhite8623]

When I click on the folder it just doesn't pop up anything.

[@ryantactics9968]

Thank you for these amazing tutorials. Could you possibly do one that allows you to toggle freelook mode, but that freelook mode is limited on far you can rotate the camera? I'm trying to figure out how to do it in combination with toggling between first and third person. I just can't figure out how to toggle freelook mode then limit it on top of that.

[@MattAspland]

I can look into that for sure :)

[@1FootBallChannel1]

​@Matt Aspland I did this and when I stop and look around my body stays still how do I fix that so the body rotates with the camera please help

[@Derknomicon]

Could you make a video showing how to have a first person pov that only shows arms/weapon(s) but if an ability was used, would show a full body mesh in third person pov?

[@Surburis]

is there a way to keep the animations you get before checking "use pawn control rotation" while still being able to control the camera how you do after checking it?

[@angeltrujillo426]

Hello Good tutorial. You could do a course on making a top down shooter style game, for example similar to a game called Alien Breed, greetings

[@zack6155]

Thank you!

[@Alternatywny_1]

Thank you to help me improve my game! :'>

[@eligijuspranskunas3509]

brilliant!

[@flatinumfox]

This is a good basic introduction, but true fps would have the IK follow the camera instead of the head so you can mitigate motion sickness

[@Minecarftable]

oooooohhh that sounds amazing, how do i do this

[@JoshIsCool894]

For my game when ever i start it and i have rotated the camera and aligned but when ever i start the game the camera automaticly snaps back to that half position and i am lost trying to fix it so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the great tutorial otherwise!

[@eligijuspranskunas3509]

can you please help, when scrolling mouse wheel from third person to zoom in and then switch to first person camera like you did in here. i mean how to do swap at the point you want to switch from third to first?

[@GoblinFang_ENT]

I have a quick question I've been setting up the game in third person and animation set up the first person camera it works but I don't know how to make the camera rotate with animations that are already made for the third person

[@GoblinFang_ENT]

If you can give me any tips or let me know how to fix that would be amazing

[@antiprime4665]

awesome

[@therealorbit]

hi there, it seems im using unreal 4 and my camera can do a full 360 and see backward whilst my character is still looking forward! great video though.

[@Vkcomedyentertainment]

how to fix animation when you look down and move left or right the animation for player is set for forward

[@LuRybz]

Why can`t I delete the camera boom in Third Person BP? It is disabled

[@M-gf9gu]

Most FPSs basically have a second viewport that is being rendered on top exclusively showing your arms, which lets you have separate contol over FOV of the arms versus your actual vision FOV, which also makes the hands never clip through objects and such. Is there not a way to handle it this way in UE5?

[@anatolio8689]

Thank you

[@timowiest4580]

Oh yeah motion sickness ahead ;-) Maybe using a separate Bone and a Control Rig for that might be a better solution. With the benefit, the player could choose how fast he wants to get sick ;-)

[@happyswedishguy7951]

When i die in my game this setting is resetted to 3rd person (default) is there a way to keep it at 1st person even after death for the people that enables it?

[@Young_Drizzy215]

Do you know how to increase the height of the character?

[@ZrionDev]

This is so OP. you can make a Parkour game in secs. Becuse the controller loook like A parkour controller

[@saintmitt7123]

man i come back to this video very character lmao

[@wxwefr]

Hey when i got backwards the camera freaks out is there any fix?

[@nutterboui6848]

why does the cam vibrate when walking any way but foward? any tips

[@noisyether9211]

Hello, can someone help. My character's camera will not attach to the character in the world. In the blueprint it looks like it is. In the world is center to the middle of the world and rotates around the world but not on the character.

[@VerzatileDev]

How is everyone simply deleting the cameraboom and moving the camera around I need to delete half the code base to unlock it first ??

[@TommyTheHeist]

Ok so I imprted blueprint from starter content, made everything the way you told me but when I hit play, I can not control it. its just standing there and Im floating around. How can I fix this?

[@TommyTheHeist]

Ok nevermind, got it

[@cr0uchingtiger]

But what if you don't have a third person folder in your content browser?

[@katiekaliber]

Then you didn't make a third person project and you can click +ADD in your content browser/drawer, all the way on top click 'add feature or content pack' and you can still add it from there.

[@softic3d836]

Anyone know if it's possible to get rid of the view bobbing somehow?

[@MattAspland]

That is because it is parented to the head, simply remove this parent :)

[@fnero2998]

very nice video, can you make a video for connect source controller like github?

[@MattAspland]

I can look into it :)

[@TommyTheHeist]

Do you know why my character might be lagging / stuttering when walking sideways?

[@dozzzlydoezezzz]

so this is probably a rookie thing bc i'm just getting into unreal 5, but for some reason, i cant connect my camera to head because of something saying "clear the parent socket", any idea of how to deal with that?

[@lakyslav]

hi having the same problem how did you solve it

[@stone-t1g]

👍👍👍👍

[@emsido5932]

Thx

[@I.Tried.0k]

When I look down and jump my character starts gliding across the floor?

[@letsplaysquire3257]

Don't know if this has changed since you did the video but the boom and base camera in UE5 is now only changeable in C++, no issue copying the mesh data over into the blank one of a First Person Character base and attaching that blueprints camera to it's mesh. Also solves the jittering when running backwards issue (it's due to the third person controller trying to rotate the character in the direction they are running)

[@morphtag4872]

I dont get how to get third person in a first person preset, can you help?

[@Glare108]

My guy, if you haven't already figured it out by now, you go into your Content Drawer/Content Folder/right-click, and near the top of the list, you should see Add Feature or Content Pack. Click that, and Download Third Person. (Unreal 5)

[@CertiefiedFreak]

Works good but if you walk backwards your camera starts shaking wierdly

[@SupersRB]

Can't figure out how to do this on Mac.

[@SupersRB]

Ctrl Space doesn't work.

[@eeeeeeee543]

@@SupersRB try command space

[@S-17games]

When you go backwards it jitters a lot

[@film812studios7]

I doesn't work i deleted my camera boom and now my game won't run can you please tell me why

[@albn_johanssn]

I'm having a small issue with this camera setup. Whenever I move left and right the character starts to shake. Is there an easy way to fix this?

[@tacticalmythic7945]

same here

[@FlockersDesign]

can you make one with meta human because this is a pain in the ass and no information not even from Epic

[@Breh.]

There is an extra character when I start the game

[@qixckss]

what if I have a metahuman

[@joshlim8595]

There is an issue with this where you walk backwards, left or right will have jittering. Sadly you didnt address this issue

[@Shadylek]

I don't have a viewport at all i can't find it (yes i'm a beginner)

[@chris09423]

I run sideways lol