THIS is how To use ANIMATION BLUEPRINTS in Unreal Engine 

Do you have any advice on using Blend poses by bool or int inside movement states?

Do you have any videos on using control rig inside the animation blueprint? I've seen (and failed to copy) the use of control rig in the UE5 mannequin character's animation blueprints, and currently struggling to find videos on this

@@peterburgess9735 same issue here, only UE content for the moment

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you!! very happy I could help out!

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Thank you! 😃

You're very welcome!

it's probably the blending between the states, blend times are set in seconds, so if you have a 0,25 blend time on an animation that's 0,3 long, it'll start blending into the next animation almost instantly

sounds like an issue with a variable type or the casting. could you go into a bit more detail explaining how you have your nodes and variables set up?

Glad to hear that

Thank you very much!

that's for my character's ledge grab. when you're in air and come near an edge, my character will grab onto it and when you jump from that state, a separate animation plays :)

ohh, thanks for explain that bro

where did you add that variable? it's probably on the actor itself, not on the movement component i would assume.

@@thegamedevcave Hi, I added it in same area as you showed, but I now see that you are using the built in Is Falling function. I have animal mesh, trying to adapt it here, but can't get it working. It has idle, walk, run, attack. Robo Animals Pack. I am new to all this, so probably not so straight forward getting the third person blueprint adapted around 4 leg animal.

i have to imagine youre just not in the animation blueprint or if you are, you're not in the anim graph, and instead you're looking in the event graph

i'm not entirely sure what you're looking for. like how to blend a running animation with an animation that leans into the turn? If that's what you're looking for you need to setup a blendspace. Usually for that you will use a 2D blend space that has all the walk/run animations. one axis for front/back movement and the other axis for left/right turning animations. then use your controller input as the value's for the inputs. I've added this to my list of video's to make but it'll be a while before I'm likely to get to that so for now hopefully this works as a good starting point for you.

Glad it was helpful!

what exactly are you looking for with "custom jump?" I'm not sure I fully understand. Of course you can just add a jump animation into the state machine, but I feel like you're asking for something beyond that right?

agree

for blending like that between segments of an animation you dont use a blendspace. a blendspace is used when you want to blend between 2 animations within 1 state. for a jumping and falling animation you would have your jump start in 1 state, then the midair loop in a sperate state, and so on. all feeding into eachother. animation states automaticlly blend to eachother (there is a while bunch of settings to influence that blending) so what you'd do is you transition to the jump start when the jump button is pressed, and move on to the midair one when that's finished. then when the Z velocity goes below 0 you can transition to the falling state and finally when your character is grounded again transition to to default state again

No problem!

if you look under " my blueprint" , the place you also have all your variables and such listed, you can find the animation graph, just double click to re-open it

@@thegamedevcave Yep, my mistake, i try find this on top but this was in blueprint

likely a blend space issue where you're not using the right value to drive the belending. what exactly I can't tell you with this information but look at how you're actually getting your character's velocity, make sure you set that to a varaible in your event graph of the animation blueprint (dont use it directly from the character momevemnt into your blend space). And make sure you're plugging that value into the correct pin in your blend space (Assuming you're using a 2D blendspace, there's a chance you've got the wrong input)

@@thegamedevcave it was the values I was using in the blendspace. Those blendspaces are a whole engine to themselves lol. Thanks for all the help.

@@aiglentinaa my issue was I had left the values unchanged to match the animation and character speed.

same issue, tried everything :( I dont get it...

I also followed the tutorial step by step, and same issue, when playing, nothing happened. But i figured out the issue. at 10:50 the red node (Event Blueprint Update Animation) is not connected, and he dosent actually connect it in the video, however, he in fact connected it, it is simply cut in the editing, and since the line is grey, its easy to miss this step. if your animations dont work, check if "Event Blueprint Update Animation" is connected to "Cast To BP_blablabla"

you're right, it's the square root of the cubes added together. which is a significant difference. I kinda glossed over and oversimplified that but if anybody is going to take away that bit of info from this video, that would be wrong so good that you pointed it out!

if your animation blueprint is loaded, your character class also will be laded so no, this doesn't actually have any memory impact. Casting creates hard references, which only are an issue because they load in classes (or keep them loaded) even if theyre not being used. if the class you're casting to is always in use when the class youre casting from exists (such as in this case) it doesn't really have any performance impact.

O.K. cool. I needed Input Action X value (-1 or 1) from BP_3rdPerson ➡ ABP_character to enable Strafing animation. Walking Blendspace was already using the horizontal value with Leaning Value so I had to find another way

i have a introduction course on my channel that'll help you get started from 0, if you follow that this should make more sense :)

​@@thegamedevcaveagreed