"Step by Step" Procedural Animation 

"let me know in the comments and I'll delete it" Underrated humor right there.

1:33 Open paint :> . 3:24 Create Control Rig file, set Pelvis. 5:49 Animation Blueprint: Set Control Rig 7:30 Set first leg. 11:00 Set settings for all legs 13:41 pelvis 19:13 individual index. 20:32 Calculate velocity 25:30 to world location. 31:37 Random. 33:00 Foot timing. 55:32 Calculate average

😢that photorealistic drawing blew me away , ur drawing skill is Noice

We need more content like this. Such quality deserves recognition. Well done.

Do not ever even think about deleting this video, I tried making exactly this and I failed, then I saw your awesome video! Please also show the spider tutorial in blender, that would be awesome!

For anyone sturggling to figure out why the imported skeleton won't stick to the ground, just delete the import PhysicsAsset. Took me about 2 hours to stumble into that solution, lol.

You're really good at drawing "photorealistic" spiders. Can you make a tutorial on how to draw next? Bits aside, incredibly helpful tutorial just like the control rig gun tutorial you made. :]

Great! I have a suggestion. Instead of creating lots of variables to make a correct index you can use search for bones with a name containig "foot" and only after this make a loop command without making branches. Index of loop will be fine.

Thank you god of the Algorithm to show me this Masterpiece right in the moment wher I need it 🙏🏽

That final scene reveal was a big old jumpscare, god knows why I want to replicate this as a big arachnophobe! Thank you for the in-depth tutorial, I'm hoping to take this knowledge and apply it to my own little critters.

The absolute king of spiders in unreal engine, everything worked fine, thank you ♥

Amazing tutorial! I learned so much here as it's my first time with control rig. I did it with 5.2, and as already mentioned the main difference is that the "Construction Event" replace the "Setup Event". Otherwise everything works perfectly. As you said at the end of the video, a tutorial for the Blender rigging part would be great! Thanks for your work!

Holy shit dude, thank you so much for this. Not only was it a fantastic intro into control rig, but you also talked about the methodology in a way that was easy to understand.

It's awesome that you made this. Thanks!

Currently studying to become a technical artist and wanted to dive into procedural animation so this is exactly what I've been looking for! 10/10

UE5.3 Update - Debug: ControlRig.EnableDrawInterfaceInGame 1 - Rig Node: Use "Construction-Event" Node replace "Setup-Event"

Loved this Tutorial! You clearly explain everything and I learned quite a bit. :) Can't wait for more. Couple suggestions: Add chapters! At almost an hour this is an epic length tutorial. It is really hard to navigate if you mess up and need to go back to an earlier part. Also, slow down a tad. Particularly near the end you really sped up. For someone who doesn't type quickly it was hard to keep up.

I never ever thought of doing this until today so this video is an amazing drop! You even dropped the 3d model! big thanks!!

Awesome tutorial! thanks for posting this. procedural animation is on my "must learn" list. I was using the simple procedural walk plug-in up until now and although that works well I wanted to do something a little more bespoke for my current project. I'm using 5.3 and so far so good.

Giant. Enemy. Spider. *Starts singing*

What a great tutorial, thank you for breaking down the control rig a little bit. It's pretty hard to get an idea about the potentials of control rig and you brought some light into this room

Recreated this successfully thanks!

I've been looking for a good guide like this! Looking forward to more content like this!

This was one hell of a ride but the end result was so worth it! Hopefully in the future you could create more procedural animation videos for like sticking to walks!

You are a God and i wish nothing more than endless happiness to you, keep it up, you don't know how much you're helping ppl!!

This was great - made it to end... mines a jittery but good nuff lul. Wish I had a blueprint png to scrutinize to find my failures

I'm loving your great course on procedural animations, thank you so much!

This is so inspiring. Thanks for taking the time to make this video!

What a beast of tutorial!! Looking forward to your new deep dives, learned really a lot, really appreciate it

Wow, dude thank you so much for putting this up, this is exactly what I've been looking for!

Just bought the course, seemed like a no brainer. 10/10 tutorial!

Great work, breakdown, and end result. Been hoping for something like this ever since I saw your "Procedural Walk System" teaser video. Take my sub!

Awesome tutorial, best explanation I have found so far for foot IK! Wish there were more of this kind of "step-by-step" tutorials! thank you for your time making this!

Thanks you for this. That debug line tip is something i have been desperately needing!

Holy shit Thai video is amazing bro keep up the great work and I promise you your gonna grow big in absolutely no time 🔥

One of the best tutorials out there. Fantastic work man, thank you.

if you get to the end of this in 5.2 and your mesh starts sliding forward, clamp the value you plug into average location on the return in CalculateAverageFootLocation between something like 1 and 150. I got errors that the value wasn't normalized. that's the fix. you can also use the hit normal in a vector to vector quaternion to automatically handle the rotation for you as well

Lots of problems in 5.3: Arrays must be dynamicaly created - otherwise they cause error. 36:43 get worldlockedfootlocations - the array is empty - causes problems. Still stucked here, because with empty array all legs aim towards zero

Was quite an adventure making this thing to work. It was my first time using Control Rig. Now cool buggy jittery thing can follow my player)

After I brought in my spider it looked fine. Once i put imported the hierarchy it was so broken like every bone was is crazy places

Let me get something to eat while watching this video

Thank you so much for your generous sharing,This tutorial is the best I have ever seen.Please keep creating~~❣

yess please show how to make spider in blender (and how to import properly to ue5 if you dont mind)

58:05 love that kind of humor, like

Thanks for the video, leveled up my control rig understanding :)

Thanks for the chalk and talk, really appreciated.

This is the only tutorial that I could find Thank you so much

What you could do is to limit foot projection to calculated length of one leg IK + some fixed offset, that way it would not stretch that much. Also optionally clamp that distance so shorter legs have chance to catch up on movement of longer ones. Other than that, good stuff! Thank you.

Not sure if anyone else has had this issue but when I move my spider all the legs shoot way off in the direction of movement and don't actually land with nice steps, it sorta stays in the squid shape. If the footTimings Greater Than operation in CalculateNewFootTargets is set to greater than 1, the legs kinda shoot off in the other direction after movement stops (kinda like a boomerang, going one direction then back again). My setup is (nearly) identical to yours (eg all world/rig space conversions are in place, everything in loops are getting the correct index) but I'm using unreal 5.3 with full body Ik and I've got my spider oriented facing +X instead of +Y (but I don't think that's where the issue lies). It also happens regardless of scale. I don't think that adjusting numbers on timing or interpolation is likely to resolve it, I think the problem lies somewhere in the velocity and foot targets array maybe getting given some infinite value. I've just bought your udemy course and I'm gonna go through that and then return to this, but man it's been a real head scratcher. Amazing tutorial otherwise, insane this resource is available for free on youtube.

Get it? Step by step? Because it's walking animation? On a serious note, very good video

Really brilliant! Many thanks Lincoln

this is just amazing !!!! thanks a bunch for making this mate. cheers !

Brilliant tutorial!

This is such a good tutorial that I'm using it just for Manny. The Basic IK Axis for Manny are as follows: Primary(x-1).. Secondary(Y+1).. And then just set the pole vetors Y+100 Z+100 just to start. Its not perfect but its close!

This is such a good tutorial. Been meaning to get into procedural anim in Unreal. Keep it up!

this youtube recommendation..i dont know why im watchin this, but dayum, this is interesting xD

Incredibly amazing.

For the sake of avoiding getting into bad habits, running a string search in a loop that's running every frame (for every instance of a creature) is absolutely a horrible idea

You can right click on your skeletal mesh(skeleton), and create a control rig from that :). Save ya a step. Also, @5:38 I connected mine exactly as yours, and it did NOT pop to the floor!!! Mesh, is also not snapping to the floor :(

Exactly what I wanted! very good stuff

10/10 stopped me from pulling my hair out

Look as if they are just playing catch up with the body as opposed to the legs carrying the body.

This was such an awesome tutorial, but the control rig only seems to be working when within 15000 units of 0,0,0. Am I doing something wrong? UPDATE: For anyone having the same problem, increase the greater node at 50:17. I don't know why but this part makes it so it can only be so far from the 0,0,0 in world.

Thank you ive been looking for a video like this one

Brilliant tutorial! Please make more like this😄

I laughed way too hard at "And now we can see we've made a squid."

Video is very helpful indeed. Thank you muchly

Can we get a updated version for 5.4?

Bro all things aside i love your drawing skills like best easy han total mess free.

Very well!! first of all, this is the best tutorial of Procedural Animations in Unreal that I have never found, Incredible Work! But I have a small problem, at Minute 52.55 you add the remap in the "IncreaseFoot..." and then the next remap in "Calculatenew ....", my question is the following: Everything perfect and identical to yours so far, after this my Spider makes very short and fast steps while your's seems to soften! having exactly the Same values as you, any ideas? (I assume that the "0,1,1,5" of the first remap and the "0,500,1,2" are the final values?) or you got some change that not see on video? Thanks so Much and Keep doing these , thats amazing!

Hey there! I see you published this a while ago but i have areally quick question that coud help clear up my understanding of global vs world space. At about 22:35 you set a variable after converting it to world space, but then directly compare it against the value before its conversion. Therefore, you are comparing values that live in two different spaces. Can you touch on that? Would you not want to compare the values all in world space?

anyone else not have the legs separate back out? if so how did you adjust to fix this. for reference talking about the split at roughly 13min.

how much of processing power does this cost in comparison with traditional animations?

Zeekers 100% watched that video

I'm using 5.3.2 - the foot timings are increasing by delta time, but the "set at" after the branch in the CalculateNewFootTargets won't reset them back to 0 for whatever reason - it just keeps increasing infinitely. Does anyone know of a different way to accomplish this?

Awesome, thanks a lot for making this! Lost it at the squid lol

Really, thanks for that tutorial! Though, I still have some issues with the "CalculateVelocity" function : when I move on X axis, the vectors goes on -Y, and when I move on Y, it goes on +Y and it seems to be good on Z. Thank you again, it so hard to find anything on procedural animations, you're really make some people save a lot of time!

Please do tentacles that flow/move alone next!

Great stuff ! Just one question : Can it work with, let's say , a creature which has more than 3 joints in its legs ?

I’d love to try and make the legs also go to walls when the spider is close to the wall 😮

I can't help but feel as though I've seen this spider somewhere...

Sorry for the lag, you get what you paid for lol. thx for the tutorial mate.

How to make it crawl on the wall or upside down??

did they get rid of the setup event? im not finding it. Update: they replaced it with construction event, and if the editor crash when you hook anything up to it, go verify your build of unreal engine.

Thanks you very mutch !

Damn bro. Keep up the good work.

I don't know what to say. I'm newbie in all of this and this "control rig" makes me crazy as shit. Video lost me somewhere near 33:30 where i'm trying to attach CurrentFootIndexLocal to GetFootTimings in the node At. System writes an error "Array Index (7) out of bounds (count 0)" and not compiling at all. I reviewed video several times and can't find the difference. This broken shit exhausted me completely. What can i add if when you're compiling the blueprint it suddenly can't go through and after you're "shaking" your monitor, the code succesfully compiled... P.S. Using Unreal 5.3.2, looks like in every new subversions this plugin gets new view...

Thankyou for this guide so far im really enjoying it, however at around the 31:00 min mark I'm getting an error a few others have in the comments and cant seem to solve., even after you fix your compile errors. "Array Index (0) out of bounds (count 0)." I think it has something to do with the "WorldTargetFootLocation" Array being out of range or inaccessible or something.. Any help would be really appreciated!

the giant enemy spider do do dododoododooo

I notice in one scene with landscape, the procedural animation is behaving extremely jittering, its not working properly at all. Any idea what might cause this? I am also using a rig with much smaller legs and having some issues with that, and i am also not sure why. I am trying to add this to a school group project and would be really grateful for some advice.

this was some serious hardcore wizardry. your kung fu is strong

Thanks for the tutorial. What to do if the limbs of the skeleton have only 2 bones, and not 3? Should I use something else instead of BasicIK?

Dude, ain't no way you drew that spider, that's clearly just a photo of a real spider

bro I thought that was a real hand at first then was like wtf lmfao

I want to function as an AI-powered enemy in a game. Can I apply it immediately after this study?

Спасибо. Ты замечательный человек.

When I do the Basic IK thing (min 9:30) my mesh ruin it self, but I cant fix it... Can somebody help me? I want to cry

Very High experience, i watched all , i will study for months on it. Thank you very much, Purpose i wanna learn deep control rig is i want to ride on ground and hover vehicles which are with control rig to simulate physics with it not with chaos car physics. Chaos car is heavy and buggy not completed plugin. With this generally Control Rig is an undiscovered area in UE. in UE 4.26 it was very buggy and was impossible to use, it has crashes and annoying fails-> for that rare people continued to use it. now it is good but still there is issue on graph editor, While first close after doing job it crashed 5.1 version again like in 4.26, There was issue when closing Control rig editor it was giving "Null" . i see this isn't solved yet.

Hi! Thanks for sharing such a powerful technique so accessible. I have a problem with Foot timing calculation. For some reason array elements don't set from its own function at all, so I moved the calculation right into CaculateNewFootTargets, before the branch. But values I receive from delta time added to cached array element are too small, and never become greater than 0.01xx. Looks like the array doesn't cache the previous value and just writes a new value from delta time on each call. Any advice on how I can beat the issue?

Hi! No idea if you still (or ever) checked these comments. First of all, GREAT vid! it helped me a lot. I applied your logics and it works for the most. my question is; after moving the character for a couple of seconds the front and back legs start moving at the same time (sync'ed). how do I get rid of this? Is it a hard coded timing issue? Thank you very much for your help!