How to Make the NPC's Head Look At the Player in Unreal Engine 5 

I love that when he is doing it and when he gets an error he SHOWS the error and how to fix it amazing work I cant wait for more tutorials

Thanks mate! Used this tutorial to make player characters head follow the camera: camera world location, forward vector multiplied by some etc, from your line trace tutorial. Works like a charm

Excellent man,thanks for the great tutorial ♥

Love you Gorka! just what i needed! Aupa ahi!

Thank you so much for your work and help! ❤

Hey mate, good tutorial, I love how you explained some of the nodes too.

Your nuanced tutorials are easy to follow and help me understand these basic but immersive features. I don't even have a decent PC for unreal 5 but I'm watching these before upgrading and diving in. You've earned a sub from me sir.

Great and simple as always! Thanks Gorka! :o)

great as always

Another Banger Brother! Another Banger

all simple and cpntruct - good job bro!

Nice content Gorka, I love your tutorials, you come up with interesting content and you explain it very well! A few things, can you expand on the functions of this video tutorial to make the player character have a head tracking mechanic so the head of the character follows the camera? Also, I'm looking forward to more of your parkour mechanic tutorials like the vaulting video you made some time ago.

mindblowing as usual

I always wondered how to do this. Thank you for the guide.

Excellent!

great video, thanks! I was trying to replicate all of that on my own in my Anim BP, glad I found your video to show me a much quicker and more simpler way!

Your content is amazing for a starter in Unreal Engine like me. Thanks for taking the time to do this, legend! Subbed

Great thanks

This is so cool thanks keep up the good work, and congrats on 18k subs.

Can you give us an idea of how to set it by distance? Ive noticed it follows you when your across the map. Amazing stuff by the way!

Nice and easy trick! thanks

I know I'm a couple months late but do u know how to restrict that animation to distance?? As in I want the NPC to look at me when I get in their vicinity, it would be exceedingly weird if u just walk in a marketplace or just down the street and every single soul(NPC) is staring at u XDXD. Thanks in advance!!!

what can i do if the head rotates reverse???

You can forgo casting in the animation blueprint by replacing it with the "is valid" node (? kind not f) from get player character, and connecting get player character return node to mesh. It works even without the is valid node, but in all likelyhood, it will produce errors because the animation updates before the player character is loaded

Thank you

I was just playing street fighter the other day thought that was cool. Now im here

Hey, I've done this tutorial, but the character instead of looking at the player, it looks up and when I move around it, it avoids looking at the player, can you pls help?

Dope, thanks! How would I make this a variable so it wouldn't always be on?

First comment. Great video!

Just spot on tutorial thanks so much.. My AI character when he runs its a loop can help fix please

One question. I have an instance of NPC that I have coded to do several random anim sequences as they roam the level, and after assigning this new ABP_AI_Look anim to them, I find that the animation sequences that are playing are overriding the ABP_AI_Look code to look at player. They play normally without the head moving. How can I make it so those sequences are also affected by the Look To Code in the Animation BluePrint?

Thank you, look at.

Do you have one where your character could turn their head im trying to go for a realistic type of game but can’t find any videos on it

Niceee! does that work other way around too ? if i want my character to look at someone ???

Head seems to freeze in the position of where my player starts, and does not move after that. any idea why it's doing that?

nice

Hello, I just discovered you. I'm kind of new to the gaming industry. I am improving myself thanks to your content. I'm planning to make a horror game. Can you tutorial some more content about this? Things like jumpscare, moving objects, turning lights on and off, interacting with objects. + Subbed. I'm thinking about making a donation in the future for you. Thank you.

Is there a way to make him only use 1 rotation axis like yaw

Anybody knows how to implement it inside behavior tree, so that npc only looks at the player if he`s in line of sight?

Hola Gorka, no sé si puedes ayudarme. Me gustaría hacer una fila de personajes andando por un mismo recorrido (spline) y que paren cada 2 segundos y luego continuen andando y que vuelvan a parar y asi, todos en fila uno tras otro. He visto ya 20000 tutoriales y no encuentro el modo. Podrías recomendarme alguno? Te estaría enormemente agradecido tio. Un saludo.

Can you teach how to make score or points system

Maybe you already have a video but is there a way to make the NPC/Boss AI body always face the player

but how to Attach pawnsensing component to head bone?

I have a problem where my character looks at me, but once he interacts or touches anything, he freezes in that position and nothing animates on him. This only happens with the look at player system, but it's fine when I remove it from the abp.

Great vid and when will you make the hotbar and what are the details just to expect a good video

I'm having an issue where look at, setting the interpolation time does nothing. its set to 3000 and the head snaps instantaneously.

My head bone is -Y down, +Z forward (eyes forward). And +X is left ear. What do I put for Look up Axis or Look At axis? (I tried all 3: X only (1, 0, 0), Y only (0, 1, 0), or Z only (0, 0, 1). But my AI neck is not rotating along the Y axis, it is tilting sideways.) [Edit 2: #2 solved. But #1 and 3 arent] 2) My AI is a child of my char BP (thus its anim BP uses same as Player). So what is the logic that if self = Player (human), then dont do the neck turn? Do I put that check in Event Graph or AnimGraph? I dont see the node (in AnimBP terms) to [get self] or [get is player] node, so I can add a Bool branch.) Ty Edit 2: The Bool in Event Graph has to be before the Cast To. So before his CastTo 1:38, add [Get Owning Actor] == [Get Player Character]. Feed that into a Branch. (If the Owning Actor of the AnimBP equals Player Character, then True for the Branch.) Then make and set a new Variable called "Is Player?" (this Var is needed to fix my problem of not being able to add the same == check nodes in Anim Graph.) So then in Anim Graph, add [Blend Posses by bool]. Drag in "Is Player?" at red pin. At True Pose, add a Saved CachedPose of BEFORE the head turn code. And at False (if we are not player - then we will use his head turn code), connect the Output of his Head turn code. Then the Output of [Blend Posses by bool] connects to your final [Output Pose] node (running guy icon). I also added a 2nd Look At node for Spine1, Clamped at 10. And I split the Z pin of "Look at POS." I subtract 50 before it plugs into the 2nd Loot At node (for spine1, since it is lower than head/eye height, I dont want the spine tilting up too much). ==============OLD Edit: I did try putting Blend Posses by Bool in AnimGraph, with a bool and [Get Player Character] == [self]? But it gives a warning for using [Get Player Character] node in AnimGraph: _"Node Blend Poses by bool uses potentially thread-unsafe call Get Player Character . Disable threaded update or use a thread-safe call. Function may need BlueprintThreadSafe metadata adding."_ I also put the Bool in Event Graph, but it seems to do nothing for true vs false.

How can we do in fps ? İ worked too much but cant do :(

Wait... how do you make a player turn its head on enemy and far away head turns with mouse?

Can you make a video about how to child collision components so they move together with the mesh as it animates, like if you have a bird and put a capsule collision on the beak and as the bird moves into different poses the capsule collision component moves and rotates with the beak of the bird wherever it goes?

Hi! Q: What settings should we change if we're using BP First Person?

hi, great tutorial, can you add how to limit his range when he start looking, because it will gonna look weird with a room full of people constantly watching you at every second :)

it works;... but it's all inversed. any ideas?

That's nice but how to you blend it into an existing animation?

Maybe locomotion system next ?

I dont know why but the way my character looks at player seems to be inverted? It looks to the opposite direction, when he is on my left side the character tilts head to their right side. Any idea how to fix this?

I hope will add it in the ai of the rpg series in the future?

cast to third is not showing up so its not working anymore.

how to do this with the character's head, the same mechanics do not work, it tears off the head

Is this video applicable for the rpg series??

Thanks for tutorial!! :3 but i have a weird problem with rotation way :D My AI looking at to reverse side :D When my player right AI looking at Left side :D

for some reason my character is looking up while tracking the player, pls help.

The head is looking in the opposite direction, how to fix it?

this technicle doesnt work if your target to look at is an object without head bone. The AI will look up in the sky instead of looking at target, even with the Actor Location. If someone know the tip to make the AI looking at a target instead of a head bone. Thanks!

Algo

My npc enemy looks with degree offset.

Casting in update animation is not a good practice, it will make you lose a lot of performance in the blueprint

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Nice but you forgot to mention how to do this within proximity, they're always gonna look at you even 100000 miles away.

like someone said before, the character just looks up at the sky all the time. this is disappointing...

For April fools, you should make a video that's hard to follow.

Nice tutorial but it didn't work