UE4 - Mantling System

[@ezekielhabegger]

Thank you for such great tutorials! Was a huge help, looking forward to pt 2!

[@MrWhiz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@blexdesign]

awesome stuff, keep creating..

[@MrWhiz]

Thank you ...🙂🙂👍

[@quinn-zx5jd]

Hi first off, amazing tutorial this was very needed. However we are still waiting on part 2 for the height calculation🙂. Also found 2 bugs where if you hit space to start the mount then press space again right when animation starts it can get pretty weird, and then I can mantle into the wall might be my problem or height calculation but its pretty weird. thanks again!

[@MrWhiz]

sure bro... currently working on ALS weapon system... i shall upload an update video soon

[@quinn-zx5jd]

@@MrWhiz Awesome thanks and yeah Ive seen the als weapon system videos they are great, will probably use that aswell :D

[@witar.]

Wall bug is easy to fix, just gotta check if your trace hit "is walkable". That's the way it's done in ALS too.

[@skd0074]

great video. I got some ideas to do some trace stuff wathcing this video. super

[@MrWhiz]

Great to hear! Happy that its helpful

[@BetaMastersSIDECHANNEL]

I have a problem, I switched to ue5 and am currently re-creating my mantling system. I converted some old settings over so everything is fine except for one thing, the red mantle height detector is not following the front of my character, and is instead stuck in one direction on the side of my character. Did every setting perfectly 3 times over, I don't know how to link it to face the front of my character and only detects the one specific side. Please help if possible!

[@MrWhiz]

UE5 has a different orientation when compared to ue4.. i think thats the reason.. let me try to post a video for it

[@BetaMastersSIDECHANNEL]

@MrWhiz I found the reason. Sorry, I forgot to delete this comment. I made a mistake during the tutorial and found the issue

[@BetaMastersSIDECHANNEL]

Had an issue at 15:45, even when setting root animations for my player and flying mode after climb, I still get pulled back down and then start flight mode while on 1st level ground. I see your still responding to messages on here so I thought I'd try to get some help. I'm on UE4 and had no issues with the tutorial up to this point

[@MrWhiz]

trying playing around with the root motion settings bro.. such as force root lock etc.. i hope u downloaded the animations from ALS as shown

[@BetaMastersSIDECHANNEL]

@MrWhiz Turns out it's not working because the Root bone in the skeleton tree isn't on the top so it's not tracking the motion root to the correct bone. I've been looking online for help but I don't know how to fix this unfortunately

[@MrWhiz]

@@BetaMastersSIDECHANNEL are you using ue4 mannequin or any other skeleton?

[@BetaMastersSIDECHANNEL]

I figured out the issue, the Root Bone wasn't on top in my skeleton tree on my character model so motion root wasn't working and kept resetting my character anyways. I'm new to ue and blender development so it took a LOT of online learning and wasted time to figure it out. But thanks for replying to help anyways!@@MrWhiz

[@shivamgarg5030]

please add a video with height calculations

[@MrWhiz]

sure bro... will upload soon

[@GBluer]

Would Like to see this also. Great tutorial, thank you.

[@SatyamYadav-kt2uk]

hello @MrWhiz, I am not able to mantle, my character is just playing animation montage while standing & it just remains there standing. can you please help me, I have retargeted als animation to ue5 skeleton.

[@MrWhiz]

Please make sure u r the setting the movement mode to flying

[@davi3789]

great tutorial

[@MrWhiz]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ruzgar-so3dy]

I'm new to this and I don't know how to transfer the drive file. I would be very happy if you could make a video about it.

[@SotirisBenekos]

Hello this is amazing tutorial . I have a problem I follow everything until 14:34. I try to create AnimNotify_MantleEnd and doesn't exist (there is no in the list). Can you help me ?

[@MrWhiz]

MantleEnd anim notify is created in the montage at 13:55.... if thats created then in animbp it would show

[@SotirisBenekos]

@@MrWhiz the problem was that I use wrong skeleton when I import these .

[@unrealengine3d466]

Where can I change the "W" movement key to "Z" and the "Q" menu key to "A"?

[@MrWhiz]

in input settings under project settings

[@leandroreis6552]

How could I replicate?

[@MrWhiz]

I would be a bit long process bit doable

[@michtrns3396]

Hi! i have follow your video from start, but i got a weird issue. My character is only playing anim Montages with arms and torso, but the rest of the body is not moving, and not jumping? what could be wrong here? :/ in Amin Montage is the player moving as it should be btw.

[@MrWhiz]

Hi... please check if root motion is enabled and also check if any slot is defined in the montages... it should be default slot... and are you using alsv4 animations?

[@michtrns3396]

@@MrWhiz ​ Hi again.. i don't know how. but this morning, i found the issues! - yes, it was the slot. i have added slot but the wrong place dooo'h! but thanks :) oh, if i want to jump at different heights, do you know how i do that?

[@MrWhiz]

@@michtrns3396 cool that you solved it... For height based jump, after successful trace we have to vinterp the capsule to the required height while playing montage .. i shall try to upload a video bro..

[@michtrns3396]

@@MrWhiz Oh nice, I will look forward to your upload. have a nice weekend :)

[@AlexFord-gp7by]

If I re- enable the collision while the mantling is happening then implement IK the character will correctly move his hand to the ledge and will not pass through objects right?

[@MrWhiz]

Yes... U can very well use IK... I have used simpler methods to achieve close to similar results... I thought for a mobile game this sufficient, as the player might not notice the result... For pc game, its better to use IK... For perfect grabs

[@MrWhiz]

Also, in this we are not calculting the height... If we are calculating the height, we can achieve better dynamic results, (even without IK) 👍

[@AlexFord-gp7by]

@@MrWhiz thank you, you did a great job in this video even without calculations it's a great base to start making a mantling system😁

[@itwasrajesh]

The Mantling system works Great.. but when I pick up a weapon the trace moves to 1m by default so even on a 1m cube the player does a 2m mantle. also after picking a weapon 1m mantle keeps happening every time I press the spacebar. any idea how to fix this?

[@MrWhiz]

So instead of using bone location for 1m trace, add a arrow to the mesh and try using its location

[@serkansevimlitv]

good tutorial but need height calculation thank you again:)

[@MrWhiz]

Will try for sure!

[@SurajAdhikaryimsuraj]

The Mantling system is awesome! I have an issue though, when my character moves from 'Set Movement Mode : Flying' to 'Set Movement Mode : Walking', the character glitches and then comes to the idle position. What could I be doing wrong?

[@MrWhiz]

Can u please take a short video of the issue and post in my fb page bro

[@MrWhiz]

can u make sure u r setting the right delay between flying to walking.. if you are using animations from alsv4 then 1.5 should work... else change it depending on ur animations duration

[@SurajAdhikaryimsuraj]

@@MrWhiz I just checked the notification, I don't actually use Facebook since a few years, but let me check if my ID is still active. Is there any other way to share the video with you, like on Discord?

[@SurajAdhikaryimsuraj]

@@MrWhiz I'm actally using AGR PRO Plugin and followed a tutorial to setup movement and running animations. I actually tried changing the delay and also tried changing animation from root motion to inPlace, but that didn't make any difference either.

[@MrWhiz]

@@SurajAdhikaryimsuraj Please share via my discord GBD#3636

[@AverageDev]

legs pass through the object at times

[@MrWhiz]

In this we haven't implemented mantle without precalculating the height of the object... So the animations would work on heights 1 pt and 2pt... I will be releasing part 2 with height calculation bro

[@AverageDev]

@@MrWhiz and also ane more thing..I added a big wal..my character went through it. Mine is not a side scroller btw.. Thank you for the video

[@MrWhiz]

@@AverageDev in that case, try moving the player characters in front of the mantle object, move actor to location, before playing the montage...

[@Melandowski]

Hello, how can this be implemented in my AI? I want them to follow me doing the same animations I would do runnning to scape of them. Great tutorials btw, like and follow :)

[@MrWhiz]

the implementation for AI is bit different... if you are using move to location to move ur AI around... the u have to use a trace on ur AI character, then instead of calling the mantle function in jump action, you have to add a branch in ur AI character bluprint and call it.. i am not sure if this explanation is good and understandable.. i shall try to post a separate video on how to do it, soon...

[@Melandowski]

@@MrWhiz Thank you for the quick response. I think I more or less understand what you say, it will be a hard work for sure. I would defenetly love see how you make an AI system that follows you anywhere you go in a side scroller game. Thanks again!

[@MrWhiz]

@@Melandowski sure bro... I shall try to make a video on this soon and upload

[@MrWhiz]

Please refer below video bro... i tired to make AI/NPC mantle kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHa2lWCdh7SJldU

[@AlexDDDDDDD]

23:15 )))

[@MrWhiz]

Hope thats a bookmark

[@raktimjs]

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[@MrWhiz]

yes...😊👍

[@raktimjs]

@@MrWhiz I felt that!

[@MrWhiz]

i hope you r too... 😊👍

[@raktimjs]

@@MrWhiz Yes! I'm! My sirname is "Sarma"! BTW, very efficient and easy to follow tutorial!!! Loved it!