Reload and shooting in ALS v4 (part1)| Adding upper body animation -Unreal Engine 4 ALS v4 tutorial

[@Cloroqx]

You are killing it with these tutorials. These are going to become the backbone of the community and get you loads of views over the years.

[@michaelc3963]

Agreed!

[@WunnSEN]

I'm having an issue with changing the "Default Slot" Im not getting a option to change it to anything else like the "Layering Override Slots" an such .. Any ideas?

[@mrah_clem7021]

Thank You for this. ALS V4 is tough to get my head around but your Vids are a life saver. Thank you for doing the hard work of figuring this process out and then sharing it with the world. My hero.

[@metalbor]

I love you, that's all I'm going to say haha, hours of work summarized in this video

[@RprtBak]

This is PERFECT. Thank you so much. Definitely earned a sub, I'd love to see more ALS videos please!

[@DeadByteGames]

Literally came here for the hand IK, you da man!

[@maniacb0y]

Excelent video. Thanks for it! I am going to share your video in the Official Discord, I hope you get a lot of new followers!

[@ki_9936]

Thank you so much : )

[@BaseRealityVR]

huge thanks for this , It was exactly what I was looking for :)

[@tineasgia9124]

thank you very much brother

[@BudeRoy]

Couldn't find the animations, even from GGs comment. Tried to upload these mixamo wonders into UE and it broke all the bones from the ALS_AnimMan. So basicly this tutorial wrecked my 1 week work since i gotta start over now :) Thank you.

[@BudeRoy]

Maybe add some IMPORTANT infos and really the things to do if you're doing tutorials. You cannot expect that people watching your videos know these stuff already. We are fucking beginners, not DEVs for fuck sake.

[@BudeRoy]

Seriously.. Thanks a lot for destroying my project...

[@YouWillDoAsYouAreTold]

lol why would u not save your work before trying this. ur blaming someone else for ur own stupidity

[@YouWillDoAsYouAreTold]

u need to make backups of your work dude. and btw im also a noob, no excuse

[@YouWillDoAsYouAreTold]

@@BudeRoy hehe nice ;)

[@v8matey]

Not really combat related. But how would you walk up to the pink box and carry it and drop / throw it. Could do the same for the barrel etc. nice work on these tutorials.

[@Zarrar2802]

You'll need to add a key mapping (or whichever way you want to drop the box) which will change the overlay state back to default, and at the same time, get the box's "transform", and spawn it's mesh separately at the exact transform by setting it's transform value to the box's transform. This will ensure when the ALS box is destroyed, the new seperate box is spawned in the exact location, rotation and scale. You'll need to have "physics enabled" in the box's details panel. Idk how the ALS box works with physics enabled, if it gets wonky while in hand, you might need to create a duplicate of it and then enable physics on that duplicate box so as not to disturb the original ALS code :)

[@UnrealEngineDevBrasil]

onde estão as animações de reload e firing que você utilizou?

[@kalkutafr]

Thank you for this tutorial it's really great. How about an animation that will impact the whole body and not only the arms ? Like a double jump or a dash ? I'm on it right now but it's pretty hard to find a good way to do this

[@theonlynafester]

This was enlightening :) I had a go at following along using with the animations from the starter pack for reload rifle hip and reload pistol, and it works pretty well but I must have missed something because I ran into some issues, I wondered if this was anything you or anyone else has seen while experimenting with this? - my character crouches when I reload ?! - for my reload animations, the enable hand IK stuff doesn't seem to work for me on all the overlays, only on the pistol 1H (I did add the extra blend nodes for modify curve for overlay state override #4 in the overlay states for rifle, pistol 1h and pistol 2h in the anim bp, I promise)

[@ki_9936]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHSvh6Nna7tlbMk Hi, I just uploaded a video about adding the reload animations from starter package. I recorded it from scratch. I don't know what is the bug in your project so I cannot tell you the way to fix it. If you have time, have a look at this video. I hope you can find the solution in this video. : )

[@WunnSEN]

Hey! I'm having an issue with changing the "Default Slot" Im not getting a option to change it to anything else like the "Layering Override Slots" an such .. Any ideas?

[@carlossuarez9272]

@@WunnSEN Do you solve it?

[@tanishqkookda9537]

Can you please give the link of the animations in the description box

[@Jen-R]

Thank! Please do the killing of enemies.

[@SebasMB]

i do the same but my character doesn't do the animations, he does nothing and i saw all your videos and still doesn't work, saw the punch video, the sword video, i did the retarget with your videos and doesnt work the "attack" can you help me?

[@magma5956]

I try to import the fbx assets (the firing and reloading animations) but I get an error that the animations dont have root? help!!!

[@GamesStudio313]

thanks for the video, the problem with these characters is that he does not hold the weapon properly in his hand where can you adjust it :)

[@ki_9936]

This is a method provided by yngmab You can create new sockets. Then inside the ALS_AnimMan_BP, there is a function called "AttachToHand", you can change the names ["VB RHS_ik_hand_gun" and "VB LHS_ik_hand_gun"] to your new sockets. Then you can adjust the position and rotation of your new socket. Or You can create sockets for your character's hands. Then create a new function to attach the weapon to your new socket.

[@HuseenMurad]

Awesome, thanks for the lesson

[@oo_atlas_oo]

Really helpful video! Easy to follow and brings clarity to everything. One question though: Where can I find the animations you used? Pretty sure mixamo won't have a compatible animation (to the skeleton) sooo...

[@ki_9936]

Hi, the animations I used are downloaded from Mixamo. I use blender's addon called "Mixamo Converter" to add the root bone and change the names of all the bones, so the skeleton is ready for retargeting. But the animations in this video is only for showing how to add the upper body animations in ALSv4, I think it is better to use your own animations. so I did not include those animation in the description. If you want to use mixamo's animations, you can check out this video, kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZLWm2akf6aNrsU from 0:00 to 2:06, after importing the animation, you can retarget the animation.

[@oo_atlas_oo]

@@ki_9936 Thanks for the fast response and the link. I've been trying to get ALS to work for ages and now that I have it working some custom anims would indeed work great

[@itsjay4700]

Bro this is amazing, You are are great developer. But can you please share the animations please I cannot find a animation compatible. So can you share your animations. Please, That will be a lot of help. By the way keep it up.

[@hillstudios1]

you can use animation starter pack animations

[@netanel8334]

7:00 thats exactly my problem, but how do i fix it without the slot?, cause i dont have the slot.

[@UnrealEngineTurkUE]

I also have an upper body mounting error when I select the upper body in the video part located on the upper right side, the video does not play and does not play the animation.everything is correct, but the installation is problematic

[@mahdigharaei1605]

How you could to retaget the animations, I mean i tried a lot of ways to retarget the animations but i could not to do it!

[@SaarNatanzon]

u can look for mixamo rig for ue4 and u find how

[@strikerhiryu]

Thank you very much pal!

[@808mike]

Hi after downloading animation from fbx Mixamo its says error check log message: Mesh contains root bone but animation does not contain root track

[@violetred4803]

Like how did you get it to work even with the og alsv4 mannequin?

[@hydrant3636]

thanks for the help

[@mihaiwilson]

Thank you so much!

[@afiqzak8345]

did anyone know why when we create anim montage for certain animation it does not play that animation and it just become idle

[@markdavies407]

Can anyone help me? Ive used the Anim starter pack animations instead. Pistol and Rifle reload animations works fine but i cant get the fire animation to work properly. When it plays its so miniscule that nothing happens, the only thing happening is the left hand moves slightly forward. If i look up and fire the head nods a bit back, other than that... nothing :/ EDIT: If i add a curve pin on the rifle state section for Spine it looks a bit better, if i add another to a part of the right hand it looks even better but then it ruins the reload animation.

[@DrDandD]

how did you do the thing in-between switch on asl-overlaystate and return node

[@pranava4245]

What about crosshair dude I am stuck in that my crosshair doesn't match with the guns aim

[@gamingchannel7989]

als tutorial, voiced, well done, subscribe and like earned!

[@TV-mb4wf]

Thanks 👍

[@CaCaCaKK]

This is a great video but how i can find the fire animation in this video Would u share it with me? thanks a lot

[@ki_9936]

Sorry for being late, youtube hides your comment... You can download the fire animation in Mixamo, it is free, just search "firing rifle".

[@ki_9936]

www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=firing&type=Motion%2CMotionPack

[@CaCaCaKK]

Ki_99 Thank u so much , i can not find it without u tell me

[@michaelc3963]

OMG, If you do a tutorial on adding sword animation, I'm Nominating you for President.

[@maniacb0y]

Mr. Ki_99 already did one, I hope it helps : kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYC1on-Gn7RmjNk

[@Krozdar]

I am using basic animation pack from unreal engine market place for the reload and fire animations but the problem is i dont have the slots on my created fire and reload montages can anyone help me out?

[@markdavies407]

I think its because you havent retargeted the animation, right click the animation -> duplicate and retarget, then click the ALS skeleton on the left side.

[@KillerDudeT19]

@@markdavies407 nothing shows up when i try to retarget.....

[@markdavies407]

@@KillerDudeT19 if i remember correctly you have to click in to show uncompatible.

[@syahidbaddry3009]

I can't find get main anim instance

[@bkm1104]

me too

[@AhmedHanyArtist]

i cant make animations bro why u dont give us a link for this pls

[@letaylinstoysreview1879]

i don't have firing rifle animation help :/

[@anitaparmar9617]

How can i get fire animation

[@DC-rb6uh]

Hi Im kinda new to ue4 and been trying to follow some als tutorials, im using the anim starter pack rifle fire animation and following this tutorial, when i try to shoot it seems to only play the animation once and for about 1 frame, no matter what layers ive setup in the montage. any ideas how i can fix this? other than that the tutorial is great !

[@aliyildirim3640]

Same here, the shooting montage just plays the first frame and the reload animation hand gets stuck to the rifle even after override.

[@GucciFlexus]

Do you know the answer now?

[@Nysek]

@@GucciFlexus In the anim montage of the fire anim, you can set the speed of both "S_Reload_Rifle_Hip" (on the timeline) by clicking on them and changing the value of playrate for 0.65 for exemple, I think it looks pretty good

[@novaria]

Waiiiiit... how do you even correctly import the mixamo animations and retarget them to the ALS skeleton?

[@nagybalint1474]

lol it took me 2-3 min to retarget wdym

[@novaria]

@@nagybalint1474 lmao maybe things changed by now, gotta check it out. Thanks.

[@stephenkrzton6893]

how do i retarget animations???

[@VictorGO86]

Could you share the animations pls?

[@teaizy2128]

you can find in mixamo

[@KillerDudeT19]

how tf do you add these anims?

[@orivxdevlabs]

I know this is old but if you're still active here, I, for the life of me, can't get this to work. No matter what I do, the animation stops the movement.

[@kriskata7653]

when i go to mixamo how i am supposed to download the animation ? i mean how will mixamo know which my character skeleton is ?

[@Zarrar2802]

You can upload your character's skeleton and the animation will be adjusted to it, if it's a humanoid skeleton. When you preview an animation, there's a "Upload a Character" button on the right side, below the download button. Though if you are using a UE4 mannequin skeleton, mixamo animations won't work right out of the box because they don't contain a root bone or have a different hierarchy. Use mixamo_converter by terribilis studio (it's free and easy to use) to export your mixamo animations to UE4 and then retarget from their skeleton to your own character's. It's the easiest way by far to use mixamo animations.

[@nagybalint1474]

hey, my character isn't aiming at the middle of the screen any idea what i did wrong?

[@ifeverso]

nothing. thats how it works

[@msstudio2780]

I can't add the animation

[@Gg-nn8vw]

My animation came from maximo but it's a sequence not a montage. It won't let me put it since it's not a montage. Please help. @IK_99

[@Gabrieli2605]

in the unreal engine store you can download animation started pack where you can get the animations

[@WunnSEN]

I'm having an issue with changing the "Default Slot" Im not getting a option to change it to anything else.. Any ideas?

[@jovas65]

same.

[@Aleks_Sense]

Did you find any fix for it?

[@screwfish3]

@@Aleks_Sense hey did you have any luck?

[@screwfish3]

@@jovas65 hey did you have any luck?

[@screwfish3]

hey did you have any luck?

[@trueoriginsinteractive5901]

Hi, my retargetted character stops the montage when i turn in place, or stop walking, its like the montage keeps getting interrupted ( when i tried this on the als anim man its all good ) I have all the bone names and everything set correctly on my new iCLone7 retargetted character, what could be causing this? I even tried adding a layer blend per bone from spine_02 and upper body slot montage, but still

[@ki_9936]

Hi, I will try using an imported character later to see if I have the same problem.

[@ki_9936]

I don't have this problem. You can press "I" and see the curve value, maybe you can find some hints there.

[@trueoriginsinteractive5901]

@@ki_9936 Yes but make sure you directly retarget, dont replace skeletal mesh :)

[@ki_9936]

@TrueOriginsInteractive I duplicated the skeletal asset and then import my own character fbx. I do the same thing even my character has the same bone name as the Unreal skeletal. Then I retarget the ALS animBP to my new character . Do you add back all the virtual bones and change the missing virtual bones to the those new bones in animBP?

[@trueoriginsinteractive5901]

@@ki_9936 Well I followed your mixamo to als v4 char setup, it works fine now just that the jaw and eyes go out of place when he turns in place ( this is a cc3 to als v4 problem ) explained in another video explained here kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWXIq4Ovm82UZ7M

[@pondt.krongchai9824]

where can i get the fire and reload animation?

[@rickym7380]

look at gg gg's comment

[@ascension6699]

my reload montage isn't even working with the character. looks great in the animation montage but isn't doing anything in game after following this. he just fiddles his hand and thats it. lmao

[@Zarrar2802]

might be getting overridden by an ik or animation further down the line? Try checking the alphas of animations and set each one to 0 to see what effect they have. It's how I debug in the ALS lol

[@Mushwrezzy]

What game is this

[@violetred4803]

How did you get the animations in and the alsv4 mannequin retargeted? Like, I have the files converted its just when i import the animations, they are all glitched out! Here: imgur.com/a/j7hj5M4

[@ki_9936]

Hi, do you mean the animation from mixamo? I use a blender addon called "Mixamo converter" to add the root bone and rename the bones' name to match the mannequin. Then I import the animation and create a new skeleton asset. Then I can retarget the new animation to alsv4 mannequin. I you are using your own animation, as long as your bones' name are then same as the mannequin. You can do the same thing. If the names of those bones are not the same, you have to match the bones in the retargeting manager.

[@violetred4803]

@@ki_9936 when I try to create a new skeleton, it doesn't show up when I try to retarget it it won't show anything in the manager.

[@ki_9936]

@@violetred4803 Did you download your animations from Mixamo?

[@violetred4803]

@@ki_9936 yes

[@violetred4803]

Oh yea and do you rename the root bone the same as the alsv4 mannequinn's bone?

[@gil6970]

How can i switch the rifle with my own rifle?

[@tuatec]

In case someone steps into issues while working on custom character integration into ALS. I would recommend start watching my series. ALS Secrets - UE5 Manny Integration + Git Workflow kzbin.info/aero/PLslFX7TZAr8_kS1zdzEvrjBXI1gMRckZE

[@captainspaulding7476]

9:07

[@officialrhythmicthoughts]

This tutorial does not work

[@officialrhythmicthoughts]

Seriously could you at least put links to the animations via a google drive link in the description or maybe add more detailed information

[@doggodiggin]

its from the unreal (epic games own addon) animation starter i believe

[@rickym7380]

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[@fulltacticaltv]

When adding melee atack. Character always attacks straight forward. Like there is no aimoffest. Any help would be great.

[@Tony-kz1vx]

where do i get the animations

[@DrDandD]

miaximo