Aiming Down Sights - #14 Creating A First Person Shooter (FPS) With Unreal Engine 4 

Years later, hope this helps everyone...You can spawn a blank actor BP, with just a camera component. Do it at begin play. Attach actor to the same mesh and socket as in this video. Except now, you can use 'set view target with blend' from your player controller. Now you can smoothly move the camera from 'aiming' to 'not aiming', instead of just deactivating and activating it. I was stuck on this a little bit, and this random devsquad vid helped me get there lol. thanks!

Today, We are going to learn about "all that good stuff". :D

when your aligning ads change the field of view to around 50-70 makes it so much easier

Hey Virtus. Loving your tutorials. everything works amazing. in one of your upcoming videos can you show us how to fix the animations some of the transitions can be jerky mainly while changing direction in crouch. but also going backwards in the standard walk/run and also when you hold two direction keys at the same time. appreciate the help. Thanks mate :)

Congrats Virtus you just won the award for most times "Good Stuff" was said in a youtube video

These are great guides, I've followed along so far and with the knowledge i learned here i managed to fix all the little things like preventing the character from sprinting when crouching or aiming.

if anyone is having issues with ADS camera no following the aim down sights, make sure that when you created the ak dummy skeletal mesh, you made the parent socket the "weapon_attach"

the best thing about your tutorial is you never make them complex

Hello, I have a question: I follow this course from the beginning but I did not want to put the camera on the character's head, but leave it as a third person. All good until when I "aim" the character moves the weapon only in the Z axis but when moving sideways does not move. Any solution or idea how to achieve it?

When lining up the ADS-cam you dont actually have to compile and click play again, you can just keep the game running while lining it up and if you temporarily disconnect the RMB release socket in the event graph you will be able to see the changes live ;)

Looks so good! Nice!

Hi Vertus. Could we add camera for each gun_baseBP and activate it when we want, instead of adding to CharacterBP?

I had a few issues with this one when pinpointing the aim and figured a way to make it easier. Click on the new AK mesh(The one we made invisible). Set the scale to exactly 1 and just match the AK placement to the one in game (If you run the game and then in a separate window drag the weapon to the exact placement in the view port, then place the camera, it's spot on). Just a tip for anyone who struggled with the positional values on the weapon like me. If you do this, remember to make the view port AK invisible again then. Great tutorials overall! :)

Qucik Question, Im following along your tutorial but for some reason when my doesnt walks but just keeps running and when i try to aim and run it moves the camera all over the place and if i shoot it fires the bullets in all direction because the camera is moving with the hand

Tip: When you change the walk speed while ADS'ing, subtract a value from maxwalkspeed then add that value back in when not ADS'ing. Do the same for crouch and sprint (except add a value to maxwalkspeed for sprinting then subtract when no longer sprinting.) This allows you to have each movement state (walk/run, sprint, crouch, and ADS) affect maxwalkspeed in any combination without having to deal with all the combinations of movement states. I used 200 for all values with a default walk/run of 500. Therefor spinting goes to 700, crouch is 300, ads takes whatever state you are in and subtracts 200 from max etc. Sprinting while crouched and ADS'ing puts you back up to 500, but I plan to implement a fatigue/stamina system so that sprinting always depletes your stamina.

Hey Virtus, I'm not able add iron sights because whenever i turn my weapon from left to right the camera moves but it isn't in alignment please someone tell me how to fix it. Thank You

nice job Virtus :D

BTW can you make that when you press the ADS button you deactivate the sprint, I tried with some conditions but it messes up with the max walk speed :)

Cool, this gave me a great idea to implement for the vehicles I'm implementing.

Want to have some fun? Hit Shift and Right Mouse Button to get some motion sickness

When I switch from left to right movement the weapon's aim gets fucked up, is there a way to always keep the weapon aiming at the center of the screen?

when i go close to my mesh it starts disappearing from where im looking even tho im not that close

Nice Tut Virtus. Do you know of a good way to use prone for characters, or pawns as it's suggested. Always been a sticking point for game devs using Unreal. Would be nice to get a tutorial on that at some stage. Many thanks for your time ;)

Does anyone know how to fix the issue where when my rifle "unscopes" it doesnt go back to the first cameras original view but instead some random spot in the middle of the characters body?

Hello Virtus, I use UE5, I had done these stuff days before. Today I open the engine but the HUD doesn't show anything. I compiled the FPSHUD and it said "Binding: Property ' /Script/UMG.ProgressBar:PercentDelegate ' on Widget ' ProgressBar_0 ': Member:GetPercent_0 Unable to bind DoubleProperty, unsupported type". How to solve it?

The AK47 that you have in the ThirdPersonCharacter ViewPort will not appear in the game since is hidden, in order to align correctly the sight you have to copy the "Relative Location" and "Relative Rotation" of the Weapon_Attach on the Swat_Skeleton and paste it into the AK47 (the one in the ThirdPersonCharacter ViewPort) "Location" and "Rotation". That's how I make mine work, if this is not true please correct me.

hi, great video. but i did notice a camara hop when strifing left and right using "A" and "D" whilst holding right mouse and aiming down the sights. the camera jumps, even though the iron sights stay in the same position, the area aiming at changes when press A or D, then reverts back

i try to add ak as the skeletal mesh and nothing happens but when i use another asset the load in

does anybody know the best location for the weapon attach socket? i cant get it to fit properly

When I did that too, a problem has come. When I aim, the weapon is not in the middle in the screen, but slightly offset to the right. Can someone tell me how I can fix that?

This is driving me nuts, but while I'm editing the thirdpersoncharacter in viewport, how do I make him STOP BOBBING AROUND in his idle state. Attempting to align the camera for the muzzle while ADS is damn frustrating to do while the entire model is slightly swaying. It's like trying to level a washing machine while on a boat lol...

Hey Virtus great tutorials , im stuck at a certain part though and cant seem to find the problem, after adding the sprint animations everything works but the animations dont activate so myy character is just gliding please advise what to do

The the scope camera is not properly synchronising with the ak47 rifle. I followed the video twice. However the basic camera does work. Please tell me what to do next.

how would you sweep between the two cameras? since using the activate/deactivate method produces a snapping effect?

Wondering if anyone could help? My projectile (bullet) fires forward, but when I link the ADS camera to the muzzle, it's facing backwards... really weird. If I face my muzzle backwards - so my rifle shoots projectiles back into the character - then the linked ADS correctly looks forward! This happened when I tried to re-size the rifle skeletal mesh to fit the character's hands more... no idea how to fix it.

my weapon when aiming down sight is to the left but when i change the rotation it doesnt change please help

Hi Virtus, Please please please reply me for I can't turn rotate left and right while aiming. How to fix that? and other than these everything is fine

3:05 - Gday . Love your UE4 tutorials

if you go to editor preferences>viewport> and scroll down to grid snapping you can disable the grid and align ur iron sights to perfection *chefs kiss*

i am saving my files closing the application..when i try to open it says failed to load assets

I found making an additional "sight" socket on the AK model alot easier for binding the camera

Great!! Could you show how to put a point on the HUD to aim the gun in the first camera??

hey virtus love the videos man been helping my friend learn game development and I recommended your channel to him but quick question with animations anyway to smooth out the transitioning cause atm when were in the project and move left to right etc its very very janky looking

Hey thank you so much!!! this is great! i got a problem that the animations are not smooth..when i walk left and right and move the mouse left and right the gun is jumping side to side and not staying in place. what can i do?

Guys i have a lil problem, first the ads is not smooth, it just snaps from lef to right depending on what direction I'm moving and it looks weird, plus it doesn't allow me to look down while ads is activated. Any fixes?

Helllo guys! --When make zoom with mouse Right click button then moved second camera only left & right. Up & down don't moved... --Please help me.

Between "Follow Camera Deactivate" and "ADS Camera Activate" you can place "set field of view" for ADS camera. 60-70 seems to have a good sight picture. (FollowCamDe)-->(SetFieldofView)"ADS"--->(ADSCamAct)

Hola Virtus, en este video cuando camino hacia la izquierda en el lugar, la camara se mueve bruscamente, es decir no se mantiene fija. como se puede solucionar eso?

Hey what if i want to make aim down sight for multiple weapon? Btw Thanks for great tutorials :D

Sir how to fix when I press my right mouse button then my camera doesnot movee

Hey guys, I am not able to choose 'Weapon_Attach' as a Parent Socket in the ThirdPersonCharacter because then the Option-window is too much fixed in the left-up corner, can someone help me? Thanks in advance!!:)

Hi there! I'm not too sure what I did lately, but for some reason my weapon has disappeared while playing in editor. Projectiles still spawn, and it snaps to the ADS camera. The only thing that is missing is the actual gun.

I used the fonction "Set view target with blend" instead of deactivate/activate this allows a smooth transition between cameras

I love your vids! They are great! Could tou maybe do game menu?

When I press right mouse button it´s zoomes in to my gun, but i can´t move my mouse, can someone plzz help me!! Dont know what to do

You have the best tutorials! keep it up, please don't stop with this fps tutorial! I have so many questions, like will you make tutorials about Vertical and Horizontal recoil, attachments, how to add other weapons, how to customize weapons, actual bullets, respawn, AI, Death, Sounds for when shooting or when reloading etc etc and other stuff. and btw I have a question, I tried to change the way my character was holding his gun but it wouldn't change, it would change in the skeletal mesh weapon preview thing but it wouldn't change when I pressed play.

I am having the hardest time with the parent socket. I cant even change it & when I hover over it it says.. Select a dofferent parent socket - cannot change socket on inherited componentes.. Please I need some assistance

And all that good stuff.

why when i go to left(A) or (D)right my gun point at that direction aswell

thanks!

Learning so much through this series.. so much so I found a fault with the move speed in the latest engine, for some reason it came up with an error, so you have to get reference to the character movement, attach it to normal walking speed target, it might be just me but hey ho. thanks for the tuts

im on unreal engine 5 the camera is blury like it has focus blur how can i disable it?

Has anyone figured out how to create a smooth transition between views? I've spent days on it, combing the forums. Nothing seems to work.

Would you show us the position/rotation values for the camera?

You Are Amazing 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍.. Good Job Bro Keep it Up

Why is his idle aiming swat character higher then mine in terms of aiming the gun

it wont let me set the new skeletal mesh or camera to a new socket? cannot change socket on inherited components? please help someone lol

When i move the character up and down the camera isnt moving with it when im at iron sight camera...

What about having custom aights like holographic or red dot?

How do I activate and deactivate the aim of a specific weapon?

Hi Virtus quick one not sure if i missed anything previously but how do i get my character when aiming down sights to look up and down currently when aiming down sights can only look left and right while walking not up and down? Thanks in Advance

Today we take a look at setting up a simple aiming down sights system for our FPS. Enjoy!

When i right click and see toward left side i cannot see my weapon can anyone help me

thank you

I accidently deleted some steps with ctrl Z and now my Default Cam is the SceneCaptureCam and Aiming doesnt work at all now :'( plz halp

my camera is still cliping and i saw that only in that video pls help

I think is the best FPS tutorial of Unreal, Thanks a lot!! By the way, I have all running perfect but I have a shake on the weapon, I can't get to any solution, is there anybody that can help me please? Thanks

sprinting while using ADS is fun

Can someone tell me the coordinates of ads camera please

I added persistent aim, when you click aim it stay aimed, and when you click again it leave aimed, when you hit sprint, it get out of aim and run, pretty usefull in case of surprise. Damn this tut is so usefull !

it writes me (can't play in editor when performing duplicate component operation)

Having Trouble Looking Downward When i try to move the follow camera below horizontal (looking at the ground), it starts to move upward again. This happens even when aiming down the sights using then ADS Camera also.

My AK47 keeps going up when I use Aim Down Sights and I don't know how to make it stop. Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

Please! I need some help! My view is tilted when I aim down sights and idk how or why it's happening

for the material I just made a quick metal map so the wood isnt metalic and the same with roughness so the wood is rough and the metal shiny

I followed the tut perfect but when I aim in my character auto looks down I think it is because of something from the mouse aiming system but idk pls halp

When I aim up and down the ADScam my left hand raises and lowers while moving up and down

the ak isn't a skeletal mesh for me :/ how to fix?

Camera seems to be very shaky when the player moves sideways. How to fix that?

Virtus can you make a tutorial on how to switch between pistol and possibly a knife with animations on the next episode?

Also, another problem is that when you release RMB while crouching you can now crouch at 600 speed instead of 300.

For some reason after doing this it completely broke all animations and the control rotation. I went back to check to see if I messed anything up and I didn't its still the same as the control rotation tutorial. Can anyone help? Thanks.

my spine is moving up and down but not right and left while firing help??

When I zoom in, I cannot walk without it zooming back out. What did I miss?

May I know how long it takes to upload this full video tutorial approx?

When I ADS looking up and down doesn't work?

I need some help the projectile isn't firing straight how do I fix it???

To anyone not able to select the parent socket with spyglass, this is what i did: -Drag details panel to the left and then back to the right and see if it works (was a little bug) -Or drag the gun skeletal mesh and attach to the character skeletal mesh you have, then attach camera to the gun skeletal mesh and see if it works :)

The Character Walk every time backwards when i press shift to sprint, can you help me pls?

Very interesting approach I see, good job though