Unreal Engine Tutorial: Animation State Machine

[@jasonelliott729]

Pleasant voice. Much nicer than hearing "Ok bruh, click ummm this bruh then ummm click this bro" with some techno music playing in the background.

[@theJellerShow]

I’ve watched so many animation blueprint tutorials on KZbin and this is the best one by far. Thank you.

[@henriquemodena6826]

Eu tambem achei.Muito bom!

[@KittenisKitten]

Agreed.

[@Rehd66]

This has got to be my 100th one at least and I've never seen anyone use a conduit :/ Edit: Or enums lol. Is this pre animation blending or something?

[@manbroskyrides6559]

After watching so many tutorials you are the only one that explains how these other tutorials have preset Variables that don't exist in the engine by default and how to create them. Not knowing that aspect of the process has broken the learning process in most of the videos I've watched so far as it's always overlooked. Thank you!!!

[@dragonzlayre4238]

This is what I needed! I have been keeping track of items in my game using Data Table based on a Structure and Enum. I can't believe that I didn't think of using Enum to control my character's states! Thank you so much!

[@rwongspelling]

This is by far the best tutorial on animation state machine blueprints that I have come across. Thank you!

[@martoonz]

This workflow is great! very easy and well organized and directed to the point to understand how it works Blueprints, animation and enumerations all in only 12 minutes. Thank you very much for the share.

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

Great to hear!

[@deathica3346]

this tutorial is exactly what i was looking for. i spent 8 hrs trying to find a solution to triggering animation blueprint states using a box trigger object, and i just took the key press logic shown here and replaced it with the onactorbeginoverlap logic, and it worked like a charm.

[@bobbyjonesss151]

Very useful tutorial, and it's under 15 minutes!!! Would recommend, thank you for being such a life saver I was able to use this alongside streaming facial mocap data to the character, really helpful!

[@haliluzdil]

I’ve watched so many animation blueprint tutorials on KZbin and this is the best one by far. Thank you. too =)

[@Piru2000]

Nice Tutorial, just what I was looking for, the way and pace you explain the subject, is perfect for us, the beginners, Thank you

[@marcoseliasmep]

Wow that's very easy! I'm considering a new project on Unreal. Many things are completely different from my previous base on Unity so it is a bit scary at the first moment. But with this video I'm able to do it in a few minutes, I was stuck procrastinating with 2 hour long tutorials hehe. Thanks a lot!

[@Neo_Mk]

Really different approach than the others tutorials about SM, learned new things. Suscribed !

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

Welcome to the channel :) I'll have more videos this summer!

[@epicwesley9090]

This is the exact video I needed to help me put the pieces of what I've learned elsewhere all together. I sure would've saved a ton of time if I had found this earlier! Thank you so much!

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

Glad it helped!

[@derek8376]

Your channel has been so helpful, I like how you focus on a subject and get right to it. This is a great guide!

[@yadav-r]

This has been very helpful, thank you for sharing.

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

Glad it was helpful!

[@basvandervegt7338]

Perfect thank you and also for a change its nice to hear a womans voice in a tutorial👍

[@LadyBrightcynder]

This is amazing, thank you! This is exactly what I need for my honours project!

[@laurensdesmet70]

Very insightful. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@howardprice9992]

This is a great and simple tutorial on animations (and was really helpful) - it worked straight away when I tried it. The only issue I have is that it casually describes getting the Anim BP from the level then casting it (via a skeletal Mesh) to get the Animation Instance and THEN casts it (back?) to the same Anim BP it started with - but at this point (automagically?) it now has access to member functions and variables of the Anim BP. I would love to understand why this convoluted step is needed as part of learning how to navigate the complete system called Unreal Engine (rather than just being shown the magic to reproduce)

[@soadindakhor3932]

wonderful explanation…easy to understand and very good example

[@rossgribben3001]

This is exactly what I needed and your delivery had perfect pace with great explanations! Thanks! +Subscribed

[@pick8695]

Animation doesn't loop? I FOUND THE ANSWER! Double click on the box you connected to the Conduit (in my case the Running box). Single click on your Sequence Player so that you can see the Details panel. Do not double click to open the sequence player. In the Details panel select the Loop Animation checkbox in the Settings dropdown. TADA If however you decided to double click to open the Sequence Player then you will see a Loop Animation checkbox there too. Idk why its there but it does nothing. It took me about 20 minutes to find the other Loop Animations option in the Details panel. If this helped you, please like this comment so that more people dont waste as much time as I did in finding this solution. Good luck!

[@dufwine3621]

You just saved my life! Thank you so much. Great tutorial!

[@MIKELENZTIPS]

Thanxxx Kat - Conduits ... who'd of thought it! first example I've seen - much appreciated!

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MelvilleG]

Thanks for that tut. UE4 is a new discovery every day.

[@georgerobozrecursivedigita207]

Amazing presentation and explanation, perfect pacing!

[@nicolaykoriagin]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial and extremely friendly tone, this video has really helped me to understand how it works. Thanks again!

[@AustinThomasFilms]

Enormously helpful!! Thanks so much

[@HaykapSupays]

Thank you! You have a great teaching style, very clear and helps a lot... I wish are considering making tons of tutorials. :) Best!

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

More are coming soon!

[@alexruas6235]

Great tutorial! i spent far too long not using conduits, which is a crime, because there was no fair tutorial on the subject

[@navidumardaraz7163]

Really well explained. Thank you.

[@mehmetalpakut5667]

Wow, that was very informing! Thank you very much!

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ScytheriaReborn]

There's a really nice workflow I use to do animations which totally removes the need for any logic in the Anim Blueprint (it ends up in the character BP instead). I simply define 'AnimStates' in the character BP and pass these (along with pin variables like speed) to the Anim BP. Transitions to/from states in the Anim State Machine are called by a single boolean (AnimState = State or AnimState not= State), all connected to a single hub (a conduit). This means you totally avoid the spaghetti of states linking to other states.

[@tampajoeyz230]

Good video... BUT, how do you efficiently add multiple state machines? I'm currently using the "SavedPose" and "UseCachedPose" nodes with the Blend Pose by Bool (or Int) into my OutputPose node for multiple state machines. Is there a better way? I've heard that it is also possible to seed state machines inside other state machines, but I haven't tried that yet. Having possibly hundreds of different animation states, there has to be a good way to efficiently add multiple state machines. My state machine already looks like a spider's web on steroids, and it can get very messy with hundreds of transition rules. Any insight or feedback would be appreciated.

[@evanderthewise279]

I love the use of the conduit most videos i watch have such a messy state machine I will def be using this. Thanks

[@GPT-City]

Awesome. Clear. I feel smarter already. Thank you very much.

[@anferneeee92]

This is pretty helpful but is there a way to set up a way to add a layered animation, like the walking on the character lower half and reloading on the upper half? I'm trying to figure out this 'layered blend per bone' but I'm failing miserably.

[@olimpia8286]

hello thank you very much for your tutorial, I have a question... what if I want to make the character repeat the same action, once is finished, by pressing the same button? (the action is not looped)

[@badgames7109]

Great video, learned a lot.

[@christopherfarrell-artist3557]

Thank you. I now have animated states for my characters....the only difference is they are activated with OnActorBeginOverlap instead of key presses. One more thing checked off the 'to do' list. :)

[@iDentityUS]

This is a very great tutorial! Is there a way to trigger the animations based on an enemy NPC taking dmg instead of triggering them with a button press? Because I want to have this on an enemy NPC

[@26magicman26]

Does this not work in firstperson on UE5 ? Struggling to get an attack animation to play :|

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

Have not tried with UE5 yet!

[@linyafernandez3444]

Thank you for the tutorial! It is incredably helpful

[@Gravedrinker]

Thanks for the tutorial Kat! Is there a way to have each animation go back to the idle state once it's played?

[@ARORUDDO]

you already resolve this? i´m in the same problem. I have an idle and a jump, and my character stay jumping forever. I already uncheck the loop checkbox but my character don't come back to idle either. thanks in advance

[@Gravedrinker]

Yeah this took me a while to find out. You need an animation blueprint and have the logic in the animation graph. There you can basically draw arrows from one animation to another and set what condition has to be fulfilled for it to be able to make this transition. You add something like "If in idle and jumping = true -> transition to and stay in jumping animation" and "If jumping and jumping = false -> transition to idle". @@ARORUDDO

[@thebrian4175]

Hey Kat. I tried your tutorial but started with the Third Person Character. I connected the existing Idle/Run State to the Conduit and added my other State animations. It will Compile without errors, but after setting up keyboard triggers and Play the Level, the character only has idle/run attributes with the W/A/S/D keys. What am I missing? Or, will this approach not work? Thanks.

[@LupusMechanicus]

Amazing!

[@acgl3219]

Can I use it in character blueprint instead of level blueprint? I can't connect to the enum node

[@KINGDOMSONSTV]

Wish I found your channel sooner - Great content

[@PalurdasArts]

Nice but do you have a tutorial on how to apply this to the third person character and how to automatically return from the animations to idle etc.? This would be cool!

[@Frank-cw5dg]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

You are so welcome!

[@LavaOcto]

Thank you thank you so much for this!! So straight forward and very clear :D!

[@kpp4463]

Thank you very much for a great tutorial ! What would be the process of setting the enum state machine variable inside of a C++ component ? Is there a resource that covers this . Thanks again

[@dierichent]

Thank you

[@michaelmoss1515]

Whenever I get to th "Edit Preview" part where you choose animations from the "Action" dropdown, it doesn't play the animation for me. I even compiled twice and it still did not work for me. Any suggestions ?

[@newglobalmediaproductions7355]

Thank you! exactly what I was searching for. :)

[@clifftonicstudios7469]

Make sure the variable for Anim BP is public

[@simonbreeveld4200]

You saved my life. Thank you soooo much

[@ThinkWiselyPlease]

very helpful

[@velvetoscillator]

thanks for the video! this helped a lot.

[@amigoface]

excellent ! can you do please a tutorial on how to make a complex state machine that include , unarmed, armed, crouched, clmbing, cover, attacks .... etc . not a working example but just how the different state machines can be structured and connected , especially with this conduit node (wasn't aware of that ) . i am not asking for a full featured complete example with all the animations ...etc just some talking explaing how to create different state types and how to structure and connect everything . thanks .

[@nobodyimportant4778]

Can you give states priority levels so that one will be favored over another in the event they're both valid at the same time?

[@ronsronshirt4177]

how would you communicate an enumerator or variable to the transition rules from another blueprint?

[@NathanClearyMusic]

Ah this is such a good and concise tut! Subbed and thanks Kat! ;)

[@ronsronshirt4177]

1: doesn't deferring to an enumerator invalidate the entire point of using a state machine? 2: why doesn't paperzd have an alias state option? 3: what does the jump node do?

[@amplifyingpixels2196]

ty for this

[@yakoublarbi599]

Very clear , thank you !

[@francpujolar2481]

this was brilliant

[@boombyte8849]

Kat, Is there a way to preview State machine transitions (realtime and detailed) like in Unity? Unreal preview is terrible.

[@alparslankeskin9621]

Thnx

[@clifftonicstudios7469]

Good video. It helped thanks

[@habibal-jarrah5822]

Thanx aloooot ... this helped me for real :D

[@habibal-jarrah5822]

How do I switch back to idle wehn the animation ends?

[@d_Howard]

Hi Kat, and thanks for this! For zombies just standing around waiting for an unsuspecting victim to wander by, how much work would it be to have these "standing in one place" animations play randomly until a victim is spotted, and then the zombies chase? There are at least 3 or 4 zombie idle animations on Mixamo that are all slightly different. Plus there is the agonizing idle, the screaming idle and the scratching idle. The usual locomotion tutorial involves idle > walk > run. How can I have one of several idle animations play? Then 1 of 2-3 walk animations, etc.? Also, for that fall_back then jump to standing idle that you played twice, (grin!), there one called stand_up that looks like it is supposed to be linked with fall_back to get to standing_idle. How can they be linked together smoothly? There are lots of marketplace products where several animations look like they are supposed to be joined together to make a smooth sequence for NPCs. (not player characters) Like the free Animal Variety Pack that has a crow in it with idle, walk, hop, eat something, stretch, scratch. These all look like they could be put together in a randomizer so that if they were played in any order, it would look smooth and natural. I haven't found anyone who has shown to put 3 or more animations together for animals or pawn idling. Feel like taking on a tutorial to cover this? Thx!

[@luonghanh8012]

very good. thanks

[@gokupiske5965]

Thanks for your video!!! I learn a lot~ Your voice is beautiful!!!

[@Forest5]

Thanks, this was a big help.

[@cpeppler01]

My goal is to animate machines, not characters. I want to trigger an animation on the transition between states, with a static position during the state. Example: Open Doors. Idle state is closed. Open trigger causes open door animation, on completion you are in Open state. Trigger Close action, run Close animation, enter "closed" state (no animation). How do I run animations on transition, with non animation during states?

[@soirema]

Oh my love I hope this still works! I just need to set up some animations to show off and this seems excellent! Thank you so much.. fellow girl here too :'D go us! XD

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

!!!!!

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Wow Kat, thanks so much ❤️

[@jairabu]

Nice Tutorial! I gonna use that way, thanks =D

[@pranprotim3932]

What if I want to do these animation for a nonplayable character. For example an ememy ? BTW great tutorial.

[@yk-lz3nr]

Yea that's simple and nice setup but when you want to make some locomotion the state machine would looks different because the blend space dudes come to the game

[@infinithoughts4002]

Hey I'm looking developers knowledge about state machines so I can pay them to fix a problem. I have a functioning blend by enum state machine, but only for single wielding. For example ; I have a sword in my (left) and (right) hand. So theoretically my dual-sword state machine would play. Another example - Shield (left)hand , Sword in the (right) hand. Think you could help me code something like this?

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

hello! you can inquire about my freelance rates by emailing me. my email can be found on my about page.

[@infinithoughts4002]

@@KatSullivan_Unreal I sent a email to you - just to be safe, did you receive it? Sometimes I mess up and doesn't properly deliver lol

[@JumboTTV]

Hi this video is amazing thank you!

[@rightself7326]

😎Hellooo... Kat

[@virtualproductionengineer8158]

you are great

[@CommanderColson]

State machine doesnt seem to exhist for me? I search it an its literally not an option

[@archcast5550]

subscribing!

[@marcusmanningtv]

Nice

[@curtisnewton895]

you know you can go to asset browser and drag drop animations ...righht ?

[@33Records]

hi! amazing tutorial, for some reason i followed every step several times, but my keys are not firing on play :(

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

One - make sure to click inside the viewport before clicking a key. Two - if you set up an event to be triggered outside of the level blueprint you need to enable input

[@33Records]

@@KatSullivan_Unreal it was something else, one of this times, i just pressed something, suddendly works! saved..hahaha thanks! amazing work

[@alekjwrgnwekfgn]

Hi Kat and Internet friends. Has anyone ever found an in-depth animation course. Something to the level of the free Advanced Locomotion asset? I would love for someone to work with Malbers to get their Horse animset working with a riding system (like he has in Unity) in Unreal, but he hasn't got a UE developer to help him. I would like to get the skills to do that, but can't find the tutorial resources to that level.

[@LuciousKage]

first of all, Thank you! , Can we PLEASE have this for 5.1?

[@ones1ghtproductions18]

Stupid question? But is this how I control my in game character?

[@videorowtv5198]

No, these are just animations that react to your controls. The movement is something else. here is how to make your character move, if you're not using the pre-made one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWXRe2htbb2Dapo

[@RafaelG92]

How do u do that for ai

[@blackswan6386]

i watched 10 tutorials about Event Graph and state machine to se up my Animation. But everybody makes it different way. I tried o combine some codes with this but no chance. UE coding makes me really sad. thanks for your way. bye

[@KatSullivan_Unreal]

I'm sorry to hear that! But if you just follow this video and don't combine different tutorials it should work!

[@mikeholmes3203]

@@KatSullivan_Unreal sometimes we need things that aren't used in tutorial, I.E I have tried for like 5 months now to create a butterfly playable character, I have the mesh and animations all work in UE4, but all tutorials are running and jumping, I need Idle Walking, flying, Landing, take off, at min. I have blendspace of animations Idle, Single Flap, Slow Flap, Fast Flap, Left and right, No need for backwards

[@王柏芦]

good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ReubenAStern]

nice voice.

[@superschizoscriptures]

if we agony... and then we go to SAMBA!.;..,

[@nitroneonicman]

This is a decent tutorial up until you control the character in the level blueprint...this should pretty much never be done and it makes me cringe just to see it.

[@megtwin]

How would you do it, if not in the level blueprint?

[@cybercrook]

doesn't work