Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial - Root Motion in Animation

[@nicor5776]

4:36 Hi, the root motion work, but when I change the root motion mode to root motion from everything (I use States Machines), nothing changes: nothing move except the character mesh. Root motion is enabled on every animation used. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

[@mothanaemad4773]

bro thanks alot for that explanation i cant thank you enough for what u did. u solved my problem with my car entry animation i just disable that root motion and everythink work fine ❤

[@ffabiang]

Hey I just wanted to thank you a lot for this video. It put me on the right track to understand if the root motion in my anim was set up correctly (that skeleton bone movement check was key). In my case, root motion was not working because I wrongly disabled the movement (CharacterMovementComp) in the pawn right before firing the animation. I got rid of that and now it works as expected, the capsule moves along with the animation.

[@roryobrien6655]

Thank you - this was very helpful

[@giperborey1980]

Hi. When I do root animation, the character does not move along the Z axis. What could be the problem? The skeleton is custom. I do animation in blender 3.5. or UE5, the result is the same. The root movement is triggered on the X and Y axes, but not on the Z axis.

[@赵勇-d9v]

maybe caused by control rig?

[@heavenseek]

Thank you, James, for saving my life!! Where the hell's the Thank$ button?!?

[@赵勇-d9v]

thx, my guys,good done!

[@SeanMaxhell]

Is there a way to ensure that root motion can also be applied to a pawn and not just to a character?

[@shadowcoffee7661]

thanks alot! for the video

[@juliesong2271]

That helps a lot!!!!

[@Trickster2j]

Clicking on the enable root motion does nothing for me, any ideas?

[@ArtofficialEntertainment]

Your animations have to have a root motion animation track. Double check the root bone is animated by opening up the animation, disable root motion, select on the root bone in the rig list, and play the animation. If theres a red line from where it started to where the animation moves to then there's root motion. If there is no red line then there's no root motion and as such has no info to use the root motion movements

[@曾馨辉]

Thanks!!!

[@IberianInteractive]

i clicked on enable root motion but my character goes back to the original position after finishing the animation

[@blacklord3212]

can I ask for advice ? if I am creating game should I use premade animation and just retarget them in unreal engine , or do u advice me to learn animation on specific software like blender or iclone and create my own animations ? which work flow is better ?

[@ArtofficialEntertainment]

Honestly I suggest starting with retargeting, but during this process you will find that some animations don't line up perfectly or need certain modifications for different needs, and in these moments you can slowly learn about animation by making small tweaks and adjustments (either in unreal directly or in another software like blender). Learning animation is a long road.. take it from me... Been doing it for 10 years as a hobby and it still takes me forever to get smooth animations together and for this reason I use asset packs as a base. Making changes will teach you a lot about bone manipulation and rig setups and these are opportunities to learn while still making progress on your goals instead of taking a several year long trip to make the custom result.

[@blacklord3212]

@@ArtofficialEntertainment cool thank u so much

[@GabrielVez]

wouldn't it be better to show how to do it with the new input mapping system? If I try that this with it it doesn't seem to work and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong

[@ArtofficialEntertainment]

Root motion as a baseline doesn't change with the input system. The purpose of the video is root motion animations and how they work. From there how you use them is up to you :)

[@adventuresinhomeschoolingwithb]

my line is green not red does that mean it has root motion

[@ArtofficialEntertainment]

If you have the option "Use root Motion" unchecked and the line is green when you highlight the root bone (by just clicking on it in the skeleton list) during animation play, it means that there is no animation track - Red indicates that there is modification happening to that bone and will generally follow the movement of the animation.

[@gabromedia92]

Awesome! Any hints on what if an AI_MoveTo is called, and so NavMesh is part of the story? The root motion seems to interfere with the AI character that is (attempted to) being moved to waypoint.. I call AI_MoveTo, but with root motion, the character walk speed and etc. seems to be interfering

[@ArtofficialEntertainment]

Root motion includes speed and locks rotation. Usually for walk cycles or something that is going to need to change in speed or direction it's better to ignore root motion rather than use it. Root motion is best for things like attacks, vaults, interaction animations, ECT.

[@gabromedia92]

@@ArtofficialEntertainment This makes total sense. Yep, using root motion for attack jump works, moving around would require some serious manual input with waypoints and rotations.. Thanks! Great vid btw!

[@virtualmovies]

I cant really see the texts, font size is too low.

[@KulTheSwordsman]

Thank you.

[@StillSameSharkk]

Life saver!

[@naosabes2589]

thanks alot!

[@Utopia2023Game2]

tHANKS

[@darkestdaysvideogame]

Yeah, enabling root motion doest nothing for me