Project M | UE5.4 | Motion Matching

Project M
This is something really new and not even out of my comfort zone...it's waay beyond that.
Over the past 3 months, I've been trying to learn how to move characters for games inside UE5 with the most natural way possible.
I want to thank Bassem Banna, because he is the person who put me on track and opened this new path for me.
I am using only Keyboard and mouse to control the movement, this is a WIP as i am waiting for the Sample Project from Epic to see, study this new method of moving characters and also read more documents about motion matching as am still new to this.
Hope you like it, and am open to discuss and talk to anyone about this topic.
Cheers ✌
#UnrealEngine5 #MotionMatching #UE54 #Games #characters #animation #testing

[@play-good]

That's Siiick yep unreal is getting better and better everytime

[@ohheyvoid]

Very cool! Thanks for the side by side comparison.

[@megitsune714]

the transitions arent perfect but pretty good honestly, definitely integrating this system in my project!

[@zanyarkamaran7436]

R.I.P Unity

[@caiocabral7355]

I'm gamedev thats uses Unity. Unity cancelled the Kinematica, the Motion Matching system of Unity. Unity is so dumb. Terrible CEO. Terrible terrible! Unity has to be open source!

[@zanyarkamaran7436]

@@caiocabral7355 You may not believe me but after using Unreal Engine 5 for 2 days i decided to use it and deleted Unity for ever!

[@StanielBG]

This is really cool! Good job!

[@PaprikaParade1]

This reminds me of For honor smooth animations, great job

[@Drakmour666]

Looks great. Very smooth.

[@deepelements]

Wow Epic is doing great things.

[@TigraPolosatiy]

I have no words...... Gorgeous!

[@YunusTayc]

Nice job! I hope we watch this motions tutorial we are new from this program thank you for your sharing 🌟

[@MomenElwan]

sure ... i will try to make a tutorial .. but need to make a better and stable version first stay tuned ;)

[@yogawarrior845]

wow i remember that technique used in LA NOIRE when going upstairs

[@itsMBWAAA]

I'm really interested in motion matching, it looks sooooo damn good

[@user-kb2qz3gj6k]

pls make tutorial

[@MomenElwan]

sure ... am just waiting for the official version of unreal to release so i can deliver a stable system

[@cnnhean]

@@MomenElwan Really looking forward to that ! Looks great! Would be amazing if you add strafing aswell

[@MomenElwan]

@@cnnhean On the way ;)

[@_3Leon]

amazing, looking forward to it!@@MomenElwan

[@skydrowdev]

​@@MomenElwan subbed.

[@cordellbriggs4984]

would love to see a tutorial from you on this! Subbed for future content! Cheers!

[@MomenElwan]

Sure .... thnx alot for the sub I am still working on a better motion system and will make a tutorial for sure about it ✌️

[@lecastlevania]

Wow this is awesome! I'm trying to learn to make a nice natural 3rd person character movement system like this as well.

[@MomenElwan]

you have to try Motorica Ai ... you will be able to generate all the animations you need

[@egretfx]

​@@MomenElwanis it compatible with unity?

[@MomenElwan]

@@egretfx it hink unity has it's own system ... idon't have any experience in unity :(

[@gameclips5734]

he's enjoying ice skating

[@MomenElwan]

🤣🤣 Yea , bad animations , my bad. I am trying to update the animations...excuse my animation experience. I am not an animator 😅

[@abelathanos3803]

1:50 The way he changes directions and stops is littt

[@abelathanos3803]

Maybe too much side leaning when he is turning tho?

[@MomenElwan]

@@abelathanos3803 thnx alot ... am still working on it ;) and also it's the preview version of unreal ... it's soooo unstable :D

[@Dilligff]

@@abelathanos3803 I was about to post similar. Overall this looks sweet, but the lean is a tad excessive for a humans mass at that speed. I particularly like the 'backtrack' before turning around, though. I've never seen anyone do that before and it just looks infinitely more natural than a sudden turn-around.

[@KostasMachete]

This looks great! I wanted to use Motorica as well but I read that there is no commercial license so I opted to wait for Epic’s animations but seeing this made me rethink that. Are you using their plug in? Also, did you make one walking animation with start and stop and cut it or different ones (one for walk start, one for walk etc.)? Again this looks great!

[@MomenElwan]

Thnx alot 🙏 Motorica is working on a new release in which you will generate the cards with one click "as they say" In this video i did each movement at a separate sequence animation... ended up working with like 333 animation sequences 🤣 But right now am trying to work with dance cards instead to see if i can get a good result using them

[@2up_2Down]

The best ❤🎉

[@allstar4065]

Need to make the character controller momentum based.

[@factchecker2179]

That looks freaking good. I'd like my game to use this new system but I don't even know where to start 😔

[@MomenElwan]

You can use Motorica ai website to generate the animations 😉

[@egretfx]

​@@MomenElwanthank you sir

[@SOFFtv]

Have you thought anything about how you would do locomotion on uneven terrain? Like steep up- and down hills?

[@MomenElwan]

well.... actually am a 3d character artist in the first place and am just knocking the door of game dev :D but surly i wll add this ability to the system ... am slowly improving the animations and dance cards at the moment to be able to do a better version ;)

[@Syberpunk_008]

Show 💥👊🏻😎

[@officialjmweh120m3]

I subscribe for the tutorials hope it release with replication system

[@Ben_CY123]

Will motion matching method require more animation compare with the traditional animation blending? I worries need much more work if want to keep the character style.

[@MomenElwan]

Yup... i think it requires more animations,because for example on lyra or locomotion you make the leaning with only one pose and leaning nodes... but here in motion matching you have make circle animations for it... so for sure it requires more animations

[@contentfreeGPT5-py6uv]

​@@MomenElwani dont know AI maybe data assets

[@RyMann88]

There is still a fair amount of sliding (look at the feet), but overall it looks really good.

[@MomenElwan]

Yup... am still exploring the possibilities... but will fix it in the next update

[@Jhtoastygames]

Did you make your own animations for this and do you plan to use it in tandem with orientation warping ?

[@MomenElwan]

yes .... i made the animations for this using motorica ai next i will add tthe diagonal movements

[@indianastilts]

When I see motion matching and smooth animation like this, I always want to ask, how many animations were created? Can I assume: Idle/Walk/Run/Sprint/Stop from run/stop from walk/turn/back walking. With this video example, or is there more?

[@MomenElwan]

Almost 500 😅 My plan is to edit this version with better animations because there is still some foot sliding , and will add crouching , diagonal moves a jumping and climbing and walking or sprinting when holding guns ... so there will be alot of animations, but the cool thing is you don't need to worry about how to connect them because here the power of motion matching come into place

[@indianastilts]

@MomenElwan oh....my....wow. amazing. Well you have some fantastic talent...last question...how many does a creator have to do for idle/walking and running only for example with motion matching. Just wondering to make it smooth but save on time

[@lorenfulghum2393]

Did you use "dance card" animations for your pose DB or just clips? And how complicated is the state machine underneath? Also, any tips for getting rid of jitter/push-pull motion? I've gotten pretty far by adjusting the Motion Matching AnimBP node params, but it still doesn't seem to be looping quite correctly during a long walk or run. Thanks so much!

[@MomenElwan]

i used Motorica ai to generate all the animations ....i can't afford motion capture suit to do dance cards :D

[@lorenfulghum2393]

@@MomenElwan I'm pretty sure I've seen people sequencing dance cards IN motorica using splines...? I'm about to look into it tonight.

[@lorenfulghum2393]

@@MomenElwan every time I go to turn on root motion on the motorica animations, it loses any transform information, and the animations all face the same ways. Any idea what could be happening?

[@MomenElwan]

@@lorenfulghum2393 i tried but Motorica only support 10 seconds animations and you want to do this inside unreal not on the website as the website is a bit laggy but i didn't do it because there are no control over the movement of the character using dance cards for now ..... however they will a huge update to generate all the animations for motion matching by one click soon

[@MomenElwan]

@@lorenfulghum2393 you need to only turn root motion whenever you need them ... like when your character pivot only ... it will not work if your root motion are ON all the time

[@znqbl459]

Would you please tell me how to make it wok? The motion matching node in 5.4 doesn't have a "Trajectory Pin" (which existed in 5.3), so I coun't figure out how to pass the trajectory information into the motion matching node. Could you tell me how to deal with that? Thanks in advance!

[@MomenElwan]

you can add it in the pose history node ;)

[@znqbl459]

Thanks! It finally worked!

[@line1686]

look cool

[@rvrmarco]

One thing that I keep failing at understanding is how to achive forward facing animations with motion matching. Because enabling orienting the character to rotation conflicts with root motion and I don't understand how they fit together

[@MomenElwan]

You need to fill these movements with hand made animations using motorica , you need to make splines for the movements and feed them to motorica to generate the specific movements

[@levitycreations]

I really like the animations you used. Which animations did you use? The motion matching seems to make movement look less choppy: start, stop movements. Good job, you’ll get it dialed in before most people. Don’t let the haters discourage you.

[@MomenElwan]

thnx alot :D i used Motorica ai to generate the animations ;)

[@cornflake2563]

Is this omnidirectional or 8-way movement? Like do you have strafing mechanics or does the player turn to current direction

[@MomenElwan]

This is only onmi directional one Am working on both right now where you can switch between the two options .

[@garaxd]

😮👍

[@itzDrizzyyyman]

yo bro, use a little interpolation on the input and you set for good stuff.

[@RayaneAtd]

Awesome. Did epic realized this new technology as a plugin or something like that ?

[@MomenElwan]

it's free within the unreal since version 5 i guess i am sure it's in 5.3 because i used it , but not sure about 5.1 or 5.2

[@user-tt6bw5xe9m]

Would you talk about where did you get these animations?

[@MomenElwan]

Motorica Ai

[@user-tt6bw5xe9m]

@@MomenElwan Thanks

[@arcturus2685]

@@MomenElwanthank you!!!!

[@DeanWinchester-ow2ug]

it might have been easier to watch if you recorded it with bandicam or the built in microsoft xbox recorder. I think its Windows Key + G button but looks good

[@MomenElwan]

I agree with you... but i was facing problems while recording, that's why i recorded it like that

[@stormrisestuido]

Hi, I am doing this technology with different plugins but all of them have motion delay. In sudden turns or sudden reversals, the system reacts 2-3 seconds late. Is this also the case in your system?

[@MomenElwan]

I think you have root motion on on all movement, you have turn them on only when you need them

[@SamuTheFrog]

I'd assume blend time got cranked or something. Or maybe the animation's lengths themselves are just too long. Try trimming perhaps

[@stormrisestuido]

@@SamuTheFrog thanks. im waiting epic demo motion matching template

[@lawrence9713]

There is a game, released maaany years ago that did that already, but better

[@goochygoochoutdoors.1913]

What assets did you use, I do like the plane material.

[@MomenElwan]

I used free stuff from epic marketplace... for the floor material, i only changed the color or the base material that comes within the 3rd person map and reduced the roughness a bit

[@user-eq6vs7tl7r]

Это круто, 🤟

[@CGYI-zb3ho]

The thing is what would u do when the 5.4 comes out with 500 animation motion matching ? Are you still going to use this anyway?

[@MomenElwan]

hmmm... i actually can't answer this question now because i don't know what we are going to get but yea , i might generate the animations by my self and not using those 500 ones , because i am afraid that these 500 animations will not fit to every character you have , what if you need like a heavy character and a female one and another cool guy , how do you can achieve all of these variety of characterization?

[@CGYI-zb3ho]

@@MomenElwan yea i see. How long have you been learning motion match? And where did you learn it? Can you recommend some good videos you might know?

[@MomenElwan]

@@CGYI-zb3ho it will depend on your hard work ;) can follow this channel Outcast DevSchool

[@ShadowOps15]

Do you think this will work with a VR full body system?

[@MomenElwan]

I really don't have any experience using vr ,sorry 😕

[@BryanMilos]

does this work with replication? for multiplayer games?

[@MomenElwan]

Am working on a better and more stable version.... and after that i will make it work with replication

[@M_E204]

لأ بصراحه على سلاسة الشخصية في الحركة عاش عليك بجد .لكن لو اشتغلت على نظام ALS مش كان وفر عليك مجهود

[@MomenElwan]

بالعكس ، ده الجديد و اللي مستخدم في الالعاب ، هي node واحده و بتعمل كل حاجه

[@M_E204]

إزاي نود. وحدة تعمل ده كلو . هو أنا معاك بس بردو عايز تعمل كرف لكل انمشين وتبديل بين الوضعيات بس بردو أنا مش عارف أن لسة مجربتش آخر تحديث في الانميشن بصراحه ومتعمقتش فية

[@M_E204]

بس هما هينزلو بكج انميشن لآخر تحديث متعرفش امتة هينزلو

[@kuchukboromdebbarma2117]

ALS is outdated and unnecessarily complex, unscalable and resource hungry.

[@M_E204]

@@kuchukboromdebbarma2117 I agree with you, but for a while it was better because it was free 😅 and the animation was a bit smooth.

[@mohamedalmala]

1:46 😂😂

[@dagonmeister]

Is that model available to buy as an asset?

[@MomenElwan]

Unfortunately, no... this a personal project 🙏

[@zirabroker]

ได้อยู่

[@Linkk99]

Is this somthing your planning on putting on the unreal market place? This is amazing!

[@MomenElwan]

thnx alot ... this is very basic and WIP system ... and not stable yet ... maybe in the future when i finish it ;)

[@Punisher1992]

you will get a full content example with over 500 animations in some months for free from epic games.

[@MomenElwan]

@@Punisher1992 the sample project is a general thing ... if you want to make a game or something you can't just depend on the same 500 animations for all the characters, where is the personality of each character ? but it will be useful to check and understand the motion matching better

[@Punisher1992]

@@MomenElwan i know, but its a very good foundation, and its easier to edit animations, than make them from scratch if you dont have access to motion capture.

[@dmitrydagaev2750]

shit man, this is amazing. Are u gonna publish it for $?

[@MomenElwan]

For now , no ... because it's not 100%stable, and am still working on a better version

[@hardway777]

Please Use OBS ))

[@MomenElwan]

hahahahaha :D i tried but my pc was sooo laggy :D will try in next time

[@Got2Learn]

what is this about, looks like nay other game to me.

[@2slick4u.]

I think you got 2 learn sum more

[@GameDevAraz]

its about a robot 🤖 in a distopian future, where they are considered a risk to human life and are being exterminated by the worldy forces, thats where our here comes in, part robot, part man, he fixes the law, by showing them his gun is bigger, and peace.

[@youngjojo3052]

Everyone is doing the same Tutorials I see. No one can show how to switch states yet. From normal to combat I guess y’all waiting on epic 😂😂😂😂😂

[@MomenElwan]

You mean holding a weapon or something?

[@youngjojo3052]

@@MomenElwan that or other things. Don’t get me wrong this is impressive but I wonder how it’s going to hold in multiplayer games etc….

[@MomenElwan]

This is very new and still experimental thing .... so , as you said ,we are still waiting for epic to release the smaple project or even making this a production ready And there is no much info on the internet about it , beside that am a 3d character artist after all and not a technical ,or even an animator, so am also searching, studying and learning the process 😀 ✌️ But i am sure it will be easy thing to do 😉

[@Zachemmnepsevdonim228]

Your feet slide like they're on ice. Redo it, it looks bad now

[@MomenElwan]

already working on a better version ;)