Weapon Movement Animations | Unreal Engine 5 First Person Shooter (FPS) Beginner Tutorial | #2

In this video, we'll be showing you how you can set up an animation blendspace to play through different animations as you walk, run and sprint all based on the players speed.
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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Locating arm animations
2:22 - Technical creation of animation blendspace
5:20 - Creation of animation blueprint
7:29 - Communicating speed with the character blueprint
11:32 - Outro
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[@VirtusEdu]

Hey everyone, the FPS course is truly under way. Hop in and bring your shooter game to life!

[@natemmanning]

You got any advice for when people start game development?

[@jeronimocollares320]

Hey, what driver (nvidia) its the best to UE5, game driver or the Studio? (with Studio, that version 5.01 crash a lot of the time).

[@mchalo5982]

It would be great if weapon sways and the gun animations for jumping and landing would also be covered

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

I'm loving this serie, the parts where u show urself to point something out is really well paced and helps the viewer to notice the subjet change. Furthermore, I like ur personality and how u explain things, u also have the skill to put the complex things on easy words.

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying the course!

[@ZimCrusher]

always awesome, detailed videos. you rock.

[@ebubechukwunnamani]

this is really helpful

[@mrduck9774]

how did you make the left hand follow the grip when the run animation was playing

[@Zer0Flash]

this is amazing

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you :)

[@upcomingvillain]

Super cool is there a way to make the sprint animation its self speed up? It seems a bit slow for the distance the character is actually moving forward

[@diminishhart8978]

I have a question, how do u add the gun to the skeleton when your trying to make a new animation

[@leejay_0939]

Hey my animations aren't playing due to the character not getting to the correct speed was just wondering how i could fix this?

[@lovelearn341]

I'm learning to develop a game in UE. Originally First Person game. I would make weapon animations the same as in modern warfare or ready or not. But for that you need a lot of experience and creating it takes time. I've seen people copy animations from MW2019 and paste them into GMOD or Roblox. How does it work? And where do you get all these files from the game? Is there a way to take this file and paste it into Unreal Engine or Unity? I mean, if you can do it in GMOD, can you do it in other graphics engine as well?! Assuming it doesn't work, then you can also take this from Ready or Not, because it's based on UE?

[@sicegames8554]

can you not make it so sprint only when pressing shift whit the animation?

[@philippeeggert]

well would be great to show how to do the animation as well... how should I learn if you did already the important stuff and use already existing stuff...

[@ramreal276]

Вот бы сделать Shooter в стиле Джон Уик)Спасибо за Урок!

[@FMXamillion]

When I go to make the animation blend space the rifle doesn’t show up with the arms, is there a fix for that? When setting up the character I followed every step exactly as far as the blueprint went

[@alexandrawilliams4627]

In the Skeleton tab locate the right hand and add a socket (name it also). After that just add a gun mesh to preview and rotate/move it a bit until it looks right. I had the same issue and used this as a fix. Hope this helps!

[@user-qo2hs6fx9m]

Thank you, but it has disabled the sniping process, how can I solve it?🙏

[@snowbeat936]

Hello guys, i want to ask you which is the point to use just arms with all animation and then create another animation for all the another character like enemy because you will see all the body and not just arms?

[@joeydarden3778]

Hi I bought the corse but the fps assets in your drop box is a zombie shooter not the first person shooter assets like UI, EXPLODING Barals, an enemy charter model

[@manualzshorts3928]

I cant find the new state machine function used in 6:20 , can you please help

[@shadowmoonwalker1554]

Love the tutorial so far but I can't get the state machine to work. I don't have an option for that in 5.1 so is there anyway around this? Disregard what was aid above, another tutorial and I've fixed the issue

[@kezzaz]

How do you do it?

[@kezzaz]

Nevermind, it's just called "state machine" in 5.1

[@catan_ryoma5119]

Question: I couldn't find Blend space 1d, so I decided to use normal Blend space. And then, I did same process as you did. When I start testing, only showed arms_idle animation in display. How to display arms_sprint animation or how to make my speed up?

[@catan_ryoma5119]

I figured out this. I found Blendspace 1d in "Animation - Legacy - Blend Space 1D". After that, did same process and worked well when testing.

[@galenhegarty6785]

When i try to cast to the first person character it only shows me cast to BP_FirstPersonCharacter. How do I fix this?

[@118Mayo]

I got kind of a big question regarding blendspaces (or animations in unreal in general) : 10:58 At the end of the running animation, the transition looks like it snaps back too fast into the idle animation. Is there a way to smooth the transition to a more... Call of Duty-esque feeling? This question of mine stems from something I observed while playing with walking animations. The way the animations just snap back, is there a way to smooth, delay or refine it? Perhaps the question is outside the scope of this tutorial, but if anyone knows of a solution, workaround or can nudge me in the right direction, I'll be forever grateful. Thanks and good luck to all in your developing endeavours!

[@VirtusEdu]

Hey, there is indeed a setting for that. Within your movement blendspace there is a setting called interpolation duration. This will control the speed that the animation transitions from one to the other. Don't go too high as it'll start to feel unnatural though!

[@118Mayo]

@@VirtusEdu Thank you so much! Love your tutorials, they saved me plenty of time! keep up the good work!

[@willmorgan5465]

@@VirtusEdu FYI I could not find this setting, but "Smoothing TIme" in the Asset Details panel within the Blend Space produced the same effect!

[@Restrictz]

Love your content but i dont like the way of using pre made assets like the animations can you make a video of creating new animations that will work with you own made weapons

[@redfish3137]

Please help : anim arms_fire sequence works good. But when I add it to state machine (firing state) only the arms move, not the gun. Thanks for your feedback.

[@redfish3137]

I think this is a bug. I delete the animation arms_fire, I add arms_aim_fire, I delete this last and I add again the first animation and it's work!!!!!

[@mr.trickystudio]

blend animtion looked scary

[@diminishhart8978]

When I go to movement blend space, it doesn’t have the weapon in the arms hand

[@Dregunof]

Will the unreal 4 full body tutorial work on Unreal 5?

[@VirtusEdu]

It will!

[@xlolxi1386]

idk why but only my arms are doing the animation why?

[@love-ce5xq]

Lets implement an elevator to go up building floors...or..context sensitivity hiding behind wall

[@VirtusEdu]

We can definitely look into making this happen!

[@mr.trickystudio]

7:40 where is looking at

[@diminishhart8978]

I also don’t have a rifle walk animation and don’t know how to make one

[@bearskorner9790]

help I can't find the state machine I did the steps he provided and it's not in the menu

[@bearskorner9790]

just fixed it

[@UktenaProductions]

@@bearskorner9790 how?

[@bearskorner9790]

i found it but did not find some thing else and gave up@@UktenaProductions

[@alexandrawilliams4627]

Right click inside the AnimGraph (don't type it in) select from the list options Animation>State Machines@@UktenaProductions

[@_p4n0s_]

Why do we need 2 points for the walk-animation and not just one from 0 to 300?

[@VirtusEdu]

We do this because we need more control over when the walk starts and ends rather than it being a complete fade :)

[@elmo11080]

Anyone else having issues with the camera? There is no character assigned under it

[@dev_guyyy5772]

Ca you make a full game

[@VirtusEdu]

This will cover making a full game, from there you can build your own functionality and mechanics to make it however you like :)

[@mander3724]

couldnt get the sprint to work at all

[@dyotoe]

BLEND SPACE 1D DOESNT WORK, IT ONLY SHOWS 2

[@ratzer2734]

go to animation - legacy - Blend Space 1d

[@galenhegarty6785]

For some reason, I did everything right, but the animations do not play in the game

[@RG_aming]

did you complied the animations correctly.

[@mmmmm1438]

Are you continued

[@VirtusEdu]

We are indeed, the whole course is available on our website. We'll be releasing videos here weekly on Fridays!

[@mmmmm1438]

@@VirtusEdu thanks

[@abcdgamingandcreations2104]

2nd like first comment

[@VirtusEdu]

Good job!

[@Kozad-86]

Man you skipp ed so much at the beginning. I'm completely lost....was i suposed to import the entire tutorial world?

[@BROCKSGAMING]

55 sec ,1 st comment

[@VirtusEdu]

I love the competition!

[@BROCKSGAMING]

I remember my beginner days when I started ue4 with The FPS series of Dev Squad

[@proskill8668]

AI

[@VirtusEdu]

It's coming!