Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial: Create 8 Directional Dodge

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an 8 directional dodge in Unreal Engine 5 using a montage and a select node. The montage will contain the animations for the 8 directions, and the select node will be used to decide which animation to play based on the player input.
This tutorial is for beginners and intermediate users of Unreal Engine 5. No prior knowledge of animation or Blueprints is required.
Animations if you want to follow along: (the link is broken as I await google verification!)
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[@awcapproachwithcaution5655]

The result at the beginning of this video was very good however the end result is nothing like it and doesn't function properly, either finish the video so the animations perform the way they're advertised at the beginning or just remove the vid entirely as this is not what it says on the tin (no offence)

[@IPlayVideoGamesAndNothingElse]

Seems like all the videos for unreal engine 5 on KZbin are mostly kindergarten through second grade then suddenly they are senior in high school level and college level. Where is the 3-11 th grades of how to use this system and how this stuff works. For animations they show you how to wave a hand but don’t mention how you can bend the knees of the character which works nothing like the elbows. Go to how to build landscapes and you get island making with paint or PCG using gaea but no videos explain how to use gaea at all they just start from you already knowing how to use it and just need help. Then there is the height maps where the person downloads it into the engine and it magically work for them but you do the same thing it looks like a mess. Try and learn how to make materials look better than a ps2 game well you need 50 nodes of different types and a college degree just to make work at all. At this point I’m about ready to delete this crap and give up. I want to make a game but nothing I work on ends up working at all or I can’t follow along because you already have to have knowledge on other parts of the system. Can’t make animation blueprints for a dodge roll because I don’t have the animations needed to add it to the blueprint. So I look up how to make an animation and all I get is how to wave the characters hand and not how to make a non static animation. Can’t download animation from Maximo due to they only have 2 animations and they both have the character do a forward moon walk while walking forward and don’t actually do the roll.

[@TaKKeZ]

God bless you bro. Been trying to find a good video on 8 way dodging, but didn't succeed. Yours worked like a charm!

[@iggydus]

I loved the math! Thats just what i needed as i was using the input axis values but couldnt figure out how to get the directions to a stable int

[@w0tnessZA]

For the life of me I can't get this to work with any other character besides the basic mannequin character...I'm going to pull my hair out. It's the same for any animation I want to do...I simply CAN'T use any other mesh than the UE5 mannequin. Sigh FML.

[@danielaragao9696]

CRAP!! YOU ENDED UP BUGGED, AND BUGGED MY MOVEMENT, THINK I DIDNT SEE IT? BY THE END OF THE VIDEO YOUR MOVEMENT IS BUGGED!! HOW DARE YOU END A TUTORIAL LIKE THAT LMAOOOOO

[@johnny166]

hey everything works great but when i dodge then the player kindof rises so the feet arent perfectly on the ground during the animation.. i tried moving the root down in the animations but would i have to import it into the montage again? not really used to montages.

[@accessednone]

probably something to do with the animations as this just gets player input and feeds it into the montage.

[@davidwalker1781]

i had the same with my animations I just added the basic foot IK control rig from unreal into my anim blueprint and then my feet stuck properly to the ground

[@yosh1m850]

tnks

[@zane4103]

For anyone whos having problems you have to follow him very exactly, especially with the select node where you type you animations, you have to put them in the same order as he does and the forward dodge twice, even if using different anims. Great tutorial man really thank you for this, no other ones like it and works perfectly! :)

[@HuwRees]

I followed this to the letter, but the diagonal anims are broken - for example, LFWD playing instead of RFWD, RIGHT playing instead of LWFD. Anims in same order as yours, function identical. Changing the truncate to a round fixes of the them. Any ideas?

[@accessednone]

i made an update video. lemme know if that solves it.

[@GreiratoftheUndeadSettlement]

Thanks for the tutorial it helps a lot with my lock on system! It works perfectly for mouse and keyboard but for controller only the FWD, BWD, LEFT, and RIGHT work. The diagonal angles work sometimes but tend to get inverted or play the wrong one all together, any ideas on why this might be happening? Thanks either way!

[@djeb4292]

Everything work correctlly but the LBWD and RBWD animation are not play when i press my dodge key. It only work when I stop pressing one key ( when my character go LFWB without dodging i use the key S + Q but when i press X, my dodge key , I have to release for exempe S and then the correct LBWD animation dodge will be play) Any idea why ?

[@garonbos1452]

Where did you get the animations on the viking from ?? I need to get rolling dodge animations similar like that.

[@Fynmarr]

Conan Exiles.

[@steinmov]

Your Select node actually has 9 not eight options. You start with Zero and go to eight. Also, do you really want to add FWD twice in the select node?

[@accessednone]

yes i believe the second FWD is for when the player is not pressing any buttons

[@Adardardar1]

Hey thanks for the tutorial. The method worked out well, but it doesn't seem to work at all over multiplayer replication. It seems like the ForwardBackward and LeftRight variables don't replicate over network from Client to Server at all. What would you recommend for that?

[@Adardardar1]

Scratch that, with a bunch of banging my head against the wall i figured it out. I had to pipe the LeftRight and ForwardBackward values across a RunOnServer RPC *before* actually storing their values in the DodgeDirection function.

[@accessednone]

glad you figured it out@@Adardardar1

[@Bigbob508]

Abt to watch this video could I do it with only 4?

[@accessednone]

yeah it works with 4 directions too.

[@BassToLife]

This was super straightforward and exactly what I was looking for. My only issue is with the same default 3rd person movement input setup on a gamepad the character will only ever roll back as the right stick is the one that dictates the Y axis on gamepad. Can you think of any way around this?

[@accessednone]

Ill have to look at the dodgeangle function and see if i can get the math to work.

[@BassToLife]

@@accessednone Thanks! They use the same functions so it seems odd it doesn't work the same on gamepad unless it's just a bug.

[@accessednone]

I made an update to have this work with a gamepad. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4TOlGOXoMt-pbM@@BassToLife

[@BassToLife]

Did you update the video with this change? I'm not sure you sent the right link@@accessednone

[@thaddiusultsch5697]

P r o m o S M

[@vacyougod]

🥒 tnks

[@sandromaric6226]

Simple and ingenious! Thank you