Unreal Engine 4 - Blending Animations

[@Fettman89]

How could you teach me in a 5 minute video what others couldn't in videos twice as long? You're awesome dude!

[@Beardgames]

You're awesome Fettman! Thanks for supporting the channel brother 😎

[@LDT7Y]

So if I want to create an animation in UE4 (since I can't use Blender), I can use the default pose to create a new pose and save it as an animation. Do that several times, moving the skeleton a bit more each time, until I have a series of animations. Then for each one I have to turn it into a montage. Then I can use a blend to 'stitch' those montages together to create a seamless animation that I can set up a trigger to play on my character model in the game at set points. Am I understanding that right? I just wanted to be clear of the process, as I've watched several videos now and they all seem to do things a bit differently.

[@CYPHERNATURE]

3:50 blend depth info

[@blanketparty5259]

another great turorial ! So I set all this up but I already had been using montages prior to this video. I had a roll, and climbing mechanic. But when I messed with the Animgraph and switch things around with the state machine now those animations dont work. I figured out it was because of the deafult slot. the other montages use the same default slot as this new blended animation. So that when i climb the upper or lower body wont work /: How can I have them function independent of one another ?

[@Preirin]

Hmmm.... my montage animation does not trigger when the key is pressed. Even with 'consume input' check OR unchecked.

[@supjay3945]

really like how you zoom in, and take the time to add extra detail to you explanations.

[@Beardgames]

Thanks Jay I try my best!

[@TheWindFall777Official]

Thanks alot for your tutorial man i serch the entire youtube to find your video Thanks Alot ! ;)

[@darkmagic543]

I'd suggest to use bone like spine_02, the animation looks better to me.

[@irjayjay]

Clear and concise! This is the 4th video I watched, now I get it! I wish more people made tutorials like you do. Subscribed!

[@Beardgames]

Hey JJ thanks so much! Really appreciate you supporting the channel 🙂

[@MortalShores]

How would you use this in a sequencer-based cinematic way that doesn't involve gameplay? Finding it hard to understand how to apply animations to body parts outside of an Anim_BP.

[@II-er7gj]

Great tutorial! I wish some more things. I wish if you can make tutorial how to make possible that AI when dies from be killed in some way - it automatically respawns in random location in game map - so the idea are creating AI that never ends - that is because if we will shoot all 100 AI for example in game then game will be soon over and that is very booooring plus need to be set current AI amount that respawns automatically when killed. We need to find some way how to trigger that AI are respawned when killed - or maybe if one AI killed that 2 AI instead are respawned - can yo mae in blueprints such simple AI respawn logic please as tutorial?

[@angads.9819]

Hey so I have a hit animation that shows full body animation when played so I blended it with the lower body and it works fine when running but I want the character to play the full body animation when not running I.e. idle. Can u please help me with that? Thanks.

[@Juri-xz8qv]

and what if i have two animations and i want for example the lower body from default unreal engine bp and the upper body from another animations blended together even if i am jist normally walking

[@curtisnewton895]

awfully complicated just to merge anims you dont need cached anims anyway

[@CalbDoesStuff]

Helping out a friend make a game right now (I'm his animator/modeller) so I clicked on this video hoping to help him make the process easier. Just want to say this was a great tutorial, even though I have never used unreal in my entire life, I was able to follow along the whole time. Thanks for making it simple :)

[@sssembler]

it does not work or me, they dont blend - I get my character sliding when moving and punching.

[@descendantsonline221]

so either the legs or the pistol gets tweaked. neither play smoothly with this technique . missing other edits/changes

[@st.enbious]

Hi! I was wondering if it was possible to get an anim montage to loop? Like until the button was released? I really love the video, and thanks so much for the help!

[@Beardgames]

So for each animation state you have the option to loop the animation. By default it's on so it should be looping automatically, just check the details section when you click on a state :)

[@_siegmeyer]

How do i can manage more animations in animbp? How the structure should looks like?

[@HeartsintheWind]

3:53 is the thing that I've been trying to figure out!

[@sa3adman]

hi, great video, just 1 question, when i play the montage, it dosent go back to the default pose, it keeps repeating the montage, any ideas ?

[@alejorives6231]

that montage needs a variable for example (isCrouching?) at one point you need to set it to false

[@sa3adman]

@@alejorives6231 yeah i kinda understand it now, i guess the tutorial dosent show every single step, some you should already know., but thankyou i solved it ^^

[@Barrel-Scraper69]

Followed this tutorial twice, Didn't work. I have no errors in my blueprints, but nothing happens when I press "R" to test it...

[@Barrel-Scraper69]

Found the problem. I was applying the animations to the wrong character. I would have to retarget these animations to apply them to my other character.

[@Ruebler1]

Awesome Video, really well explained where others didnt explain at all but just made you follow along

[@TheF4c3m4n]

Very good job! Subscribed and will be watching more! Thanks!

[@matejturay2620]

Amazing, simple and straight to point. TYVM

[@Beardgames]

Anytime Matej thanks for the kind words :)

[@deanh22a]

I ended up just blending two animations with the cache. Didn't use montages at all.

[@Beardgames]

if it works don't try fix it😎

[@SocialNerd-lp7hb]

thx bro u are a legend!

[@flypiggames5988]

WOW I have to say this was an amazing tutorial. Exactly what I have been looking for thank you.

[@Beardgames]

Really awesome to hear! No problem at all :)

[@mahdis9316]

Wow u did great man, especially the foot sliding i love it.

[@polar1991]

I need this, thanks :)

[@Beardgames]

No problem dude :D were finally onto the good tutorials so will be many more to come

[@sajid2272]

very nice but my character got already his animation (idle, walk witouth weapons, run, juymp ...) but i would like that when we get a weapons the animation change to a suitable animation

[@sajid2272]

like in the picture

[@FigureZ]

Pls tell me if you find a solution I need help as well.

[@dev_mauricio_unreal]

something that would be a differential both in your channel, as in the resource issue because I didn't see anything like that, neither in the unreal marketplace nor in tutorial videos, it would be a blueprint to find secret doors or devices that disarm traps. this feature in any game could make the player's experience a more immersive adventure

[@Beardgames]

That sounds cool dude but most of that tutorial is just to do with door blueprints which I've already covered! Appreciate the thought tho :)

[@circlemantm1]

Great tutorial, just one question, how can I play animations that move the characters full body?

[@Beardgames]

Use a montage which uses a different slot to the default slot :)

[@circlemantm1]

@@Beardgames bug how can I connect it to the output pose?

[@DaRealXXLSlayer]

Hey would this also work with a Flight animation

[@Beardgames]

Any animation my friend :)

[@GamerGadget]

who can help me.. Need to assign 3 keyboard keys to force some facial expressions to my UE4 model whilst still in Live Link... that will work under PLAY without changing my head movement.. will pay for help

[@Rehd66]

Wow. I finally understand this. Thank you

[@SebbyRed]

Please help, how do I play an animation montage now that will play on the lower half of the body as well?

[@Beardgames]

This setup plays on both sides of the body my friend. Just change the layered blend node settings. Pelvis bone for both, spine_01 for just upwards and then tweak the number I talked about with the scale :)

[@SebbyRed]

@@Beardgames I figured it out, thankyou so much for the reply I hope you're doing well :)

[@MugTheDev]

Thank you!

[@galaxymemer]

This tutorial was great and it helped me a lot with the one thing I had trouble with in terms of my reloading. Just one question, is it possible to apply the animation montage to multiple skeletal meshes (with the same skeleton) inside the same actor?

[@Beardgames]

Any mesh can play an animation montage as long as it uses the same skeleton that has the animation on :) So if you've got a skeleton which can play a reload animation, any mesh which uses this skeleton can play that animation montage! Best of luck my friend

[@galaxymemer]

@@Beardgames Thank you!

[@bbcat-3972]

Very concise and useful summary. Thanks!

[@Beardgames]

Anytime BBCat!

[@heidyngamer5820]

I was using 4.20.3 so this may be wrong. I am thinking that it is using a Play Animation, technically putting it off of the Anim Blueprint, meaning that this code doesn't even run.

[@フランク-e7f]

Is there a way to change the “layer setup” of a LBPB-Node at runtime? There are no pins to use… By code maybe? I want to add/remove elements (bone name + depth) dynamically.

[@phillcampora6451]

really like your tutorials and what not, however the music is very distracting. You might consider having the volume lowered or not having any music at all. Just some food for thought, great video by the way.

[@Auti3D]

Hai, what if i had an animation that used the full body to work, but i want to blend the animation to the idle/walk after the animation plays. to be specific, the animation i want to play is a ground slam

[@odinzai4769]

i have everything exactly how its shown BUT, my guy is acting out moving forward but stop movement when I use the anim montage

[@llYuki0okami]

this is not how you do this, you should set bone above pelvis so that the upper animation does not affect the legs

[@Beardgames]

This is just an example to teach people how to merge animations my friend

[@llYuki0okami]

@@Beardgames I'm not trying to be over smart. What I'm trying to point out to you is that being a teacher is a great power that comes with an equally great responsibility (you know this sentence). By showing how to do something wrong, you mislead people, creating bad habits, causing them frustration and lost hours of work.

[@Beardgames]

@@llYuki0okami I understand what you're saying amigo I'm just saying that this video teaches people how to blend animations regardless of what bone they want to blend at so it does it's job, that being said this video is 2 years old if I redid the video now I'd probably talk more about the bone hierarchy 😁

[@tomkoren8122]

i cant find cached pose in ue5, there are a bunch of different options, is there a way to use this tutorial for ue5 or i need to figure this out by myself until a new tutorial comes out?

[@jaisemand]

This tutorial format is super useful. Super tight and precise. And I can follow along and pause as needed. Thanks

[@BROCKSGAMING]

If i want to use montage only if i aim

[@Bosko2k]

You are the king!

[@Beardgames]

You're the king brother😎🤘

[@primitivepatterns]

Thank you so much! Also the Recap was especially helpful :)

[@CyberRazeR]

Hey man I tried this on unreal 4.26 but everything else worked fine but the blend animation my character reload the weapon standing, I wanted to ask if something changed in 4.26 or it's a bug ?

[@Beardgames]

Hey amigo, I haven't tested this yet but im 99% sure there's no bug. Make sure you've got all the steps done correctly and it should work 😊

[@CyberRazeR]

@@Beardgames I have done this 2 time thinking I may have done this wrong the first time but still no effect a friend told me to make 2 default group one default and the other with new slot and try I'll try that and update this

[@CyberRazeR]

this works with brand new Project 100% working but with mine its does not even work as of 4.26 A C++ project its bug for sure

[@Beardgames]

@@CyberRazeR damn dude sorry to hear that. That must be really frickin annoying as blending animations is so essential 😭

[@CyberRazeR]

@@Beardgames it is 😭

[@TheGhos1Face]

Nice one mate!

[@Beardgames]

Cheers dude :)

[@IstyManame]

2:32 - this note made it so much easier to understand, ty!

[@Dort_Dort]

Thank you, the very clear and concise presentation!

[@xanderg1837]

Hi, great videos!!! One question though, I see that you have option "Locomotion" in the character_BP. I am using a top down preset for my game, so is this method still achievable, since I don't have this locomotion in order to build up the cache?

[@Beardgames]

The locomotion is just the default movement given to that template, you'll have your own locomotion for top down. Won't cause you any issues don't worry :)

[@slamm600]

I really apprecieates these explanations. Had no idea what the slots were for the longest time

[@Beardgames]

Hey no problem :)

[@GiMiat]

Hey I have a question, could you be using an animation from another skeleton assuming the bones are matching up? or is it strictly for animations of the same skeleton?

[@top_gaming]

i imagine you could retarget the animations you want to the skeleton you want to use then blend the retargeted anime with the base etc... im quite newish but that makes sense to me

[@BieAnimation]

Thanks!

[@zartsnarf6096]

I’m trying to make a first person melee slasher similar to Mordhau and I just need a little guidance in regards to the animation aspect. I’m thinking of completely isolating the top half of my rig from the bottom. That way animations from one half would not affect the other. This works to some extent but looks very strange. I was hoping for advice to make the my overall animations look more “ natural “ whilst keeping movement not impeded whilst attacking and a free camera, just like Mordhau. I’m thinking of having a set of attack animations all at different angles. I would use a 1d blend-space to decided the animation played based on the players mouse angle at attack. ( again similar to the 240* system from Mordhau) And the state would be ended based on animation notifies.

[@Beardgames]

Sounds awesome dude, in the next few tutorials we'll be covering everything you need to know except the 1d blendspace with different attack angles but I'll definitely look into producing a tutorial like this for the future!

[@zartsnarf6096]

@@Beardgames thanks a lot man :)

[@Beardgames]

@@zartsnarf6096 No worries amigo :)

[@BillyLegumbres]

Your videos are hand down the best of the best, there aren’t words to describe how happy I am for finding your top notch material :D

[@Beardgames]

Damn Billy those are some kind words thank you so much my friend! I put a lot of effort into my videos so it's nice to see people are enjoying them :)

[@dev_mauricio_unreal]

niiiiiiceeeee

[@Beardgames]

Did this fix your problem a little bit? Anyway it should be a good start, the next few vids should sort you out completely 😁

[@dev_mauricio_unreal]

@@Beardgames yes it is helping a lot! thank you very much

[@chosenonemedia8337]

You the truth bro!!

[@panpesek8036]

Really good tutorial

[@Beardgames]

Thabks pan!

[@NikolaTeslaReborn]

Tutorial sucks you didn’t explain how to get cach

[@Beardgames]

1:44 ... ?????

[@NikolaTeslaReborn]

@@Beardgames I was just very confused and frustrated at the time man lol I have watched this video 3 times now and I am now looking for the first video before this one that I thought I watched I am 1 of the newest people to unreal I said you didn't explain it because at the time (don't remember the exact reason) it wouldn't let me do what you were trying to accomplish