Timeline Tutorial | Easy Animations In Unreal Engine 5 

Ahhh that makes sense! Thank you for sharing that

ChatGPT stuggles with blueprint in my experience. For what you’re describing I would definitely look into using physics constraints. Also, because you’re a beginner you may want to do it yourself and learn buttt there is a free open source plugin called the vrexapnsion plugin that has stuff like this built in. I use it heavily. The creator is also super helpful and active in his discord. Would definitely check it out at some point if you’re making vr stuff. Best of luck!

@@TylerSerino For simple tasks, it seemed to do "ok", but me being a beginner and all... it often times couldn't help and be vague like saying "now, you can further customize it with nodes that do this and to that etc" and Im like... well, how? :) lets just say, 8+ hours, I tried everything with it. Anyway, thanks for your suggestion, I will MOST definitely look into that, as I am keen, hopefully it will be easy for implementation :) In terms of "my little project", basically, I've re-created the bakery we used to own back in the late 80's-90's... as back then we didn't take many pictures of it at all, and I thought it would be nice to recreate it so my elderly parents could see it again in VR.. :)

@@TylerSerino I've looked up vrexpansion, thats EXACTLY what I need! wow, what a nice guy to make all of that happen for free for the community! I can't wait to implement like, most of the stuff (minus the driving) 😂 If you'd like to have a look at the bakery "demo" I've made, let me know and I'll shoot you off an email with the link to the unreal build...

@@Valitzu777 yea sure I love seeing peoples projects especially vr, serino.tyler@gmail.com

@@TylerSerino a tad disappointed, reached out on discord for a bit of help, and just being ignored. Ignored is worse then "Sorry, no time, too many people asking for help"... ya know what I mean? All good, at least, I tried :)

When you create the timeline, you get a variable for it. When the timeline plays in reverse, get that variable, call "set playback rate" and set it to .5

Would you be willing to hop in my discord and share the code? There are a few reasons I can think of as to why this might happen, but it would be easier to debug if I could see exactly what you are doing. Link: discord.gg/SGc5SQZqcq

Hi@@TylerSerino - Thanks! Will do.

Sure, you can rig and animate outside of unreal in something like blender, you can use control rig on a rigged model inside of unreal to do the actual animation if you want, you can also take other more programatic approaches such as using timers and math.

There's more than one way you could do it. You could have 2 timelines for each morph target, use the finished from the first one to trigger the second, then the finished from the second to restart the first. You could also have two float tracks in one timeline, and manually check the values of each one to determine which morph to set. I would probably go with the first option though tbh

@@TylerSerino Because of my very limited understanding of blueprints, I did it it the second way you suggested. So I added 3 float tracks to the one timeline. So eyeblink 1 set key values of (0,0 : 0.2,1 : 0.4,0) and then it is used twice so key on (.8,0 : 1,1 : 1.2,0) of the same track. Eyeblink 2 uses a second float track and has key time and values of (0.2,0 : 0.4,1 : 0.6,0) essentially making ^ (upside down V) shapes so that when one morph target starts to move to the next it blends between them. Then in the Event Graph I just told the timeline to Update and then made a series of Set Morph Targets with the morph targets connected to their respective track on the timeline node. Hope I explained that clearly, tough to explain it all with words haha. Anyways, thank you for your tutorial, my character is now blinking!!!

Unreal engines 2D systems are a bit outside of my realm to be honest. Look into the paper 2D system. Also, there’s a free asset on the marketplace called paperZd which I’ve heard is really helpful in the creation of 2D stuff in unreal. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help there

@@TylerSerino ok don't worry :) I'll look into paperZD, thank you.

For this I would use an instance editable array of vectors with the 3D Widget turned on. That way you can set your points easily, then you can use the timeline to lerp between them. On timeline finished, you can increment the index of the array to go to the next point

Yea, noted. Sorry about that, and thank you for the feedback

@@TylerSerino pleasure!

FWIW, I enjoy that speed myself, as I’ve used timelines a lot. It’s good to be able to learn more advanced concepts on this sort of video. @inhuman12, if you are a beginner, Matthew Wadstein channel is very good as it goes quite slowly: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v7bdcvGlgIg.htmlsi=NPHSu53tDHFhYBD2