UE4 Tutorial: Footstep Sounds on Different Materials (Request) 

Wow thanks so much for this!

I like this tutorial, but there's just one thing I want to make mention of. When alternating between feet, instead of using FlipFlop, go into the sound cue and mix at least three footsteps of the same surface, but different pitches by using a Random node. From there, you can set the 0 input to a value of 0.9, and set the rest to 1. Realistically, your feet never impact a surface in the same exact position or pattern. It's always random, and that has a tendency to affect the way your feet sound. Additionally, if you want to add a bit of thump (like the sound of boots), you can repeat the same process with grass variations 0, 1, and 2, then use the Crossfade by Param node to mix that with a type of shoe or boot variations. Again, use Random and set the 0 input to 0.9. Plug that into the Cue output and you're good to go.

If you're applying these to a Landscape material you need to do so within the Layer Info you've created for each material instead of in the Material node.

Thanks, this is Awesome ! If anyone had the same problem as me not finding the animnotify trigger, In the animation BP, events can only be used from the Event Graph. So make sure you are on the event Graph and it should work.

These are things I have wondered about for years. Thank you!

Yet again mate, you amaze me with your indepth knowledge on the engine! Well done mate for bothering! I love watching your channel. Top job! =)

Add some pitch and volume variation to this and you are all set

That was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Awesome!

You can use a sound cue to use just one footsteep for each type and use the Modulator node in the sound cue to make different pitchs and volumes for a one sound

Exactly what i was looking for, quick and to the point too!

This has saved my butt in so many ways, thanks!

I have tried this now and it works great! Thanks for this tutorial

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Thank you so much i had a lot of trouble getting to work on my own but your tutorial helped out a lot.

Excellent, thanks very much for this tutorial. Super concise and works perfectly!

thanks for the fast clean and well done tutorial!

Thank you. this helped plenty!!

I wanted more than 2 sounds. I made a Cue sounds file tied all my sounds into a random node then to output. I then removed the flipflop and tied the play sound directly and selected my cue file in the play sound node. I now have 6 variations of footsteps for one material.

very informative and simple to understand thanks a lot

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Helped me lot! Thanks!!!

You legend, thanks man

Epically useful.. thanks a million!

nice and clean! awesome

Thank you !!!

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nice work

Thanks alot mate, great video ... straight to the point , one more subscriber here ;)

Awesome dude, my game sounds so much better now!

Thanks for this, hopefully it still works on the recent version of unreal.

perfect dude

Someone that speaks fast and zero "um's and "ah's".. You just got a "Briliant!" approval :D.. Cool stuff.. Using the scalar function on UV's was something i have not seen before. very useful.. I am more into C++ programming in Unreal i keep wondering while learning if the BP Anim notify approach is an efficient way to call soundfiles or if this ends up beeing a bottleneck when using tons of different soundfiles for left and right foot, different filtering when walking, running, crouching e.t.c.. Have you experimented with this to have any knowlegde? Subbed your channel.. keep it coming Cheers

new subscriber, great channel

just to let anyone know doing it in a newer version of ue4, you need to tick the boolean to true for the branch in the animBlueprint, otherwise it won't fire

What if we wanted to use different sound cues for walking, jogging or running on each of the surfaces?

Awsome. I used your technique with others to compile a full blueprint footstep module for 3d characters with jumping noices etc. Quick question: How would one turn this into a 3d audio sample for other players?

How can we set this up with landscape layers?

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Brilliant tutorial! Everything’s working fine for me with floor surfaces (specifically with solid wood, creaking stairs and a creaking attic floor), but I am also trying to trigger different footsteps for when the player walks on various carpets, rugs, mats and other thin-layered dampening objects on top of the floor surfaces. As you may have guessed, it isn't working when I set the phys material of a carpet to ‘PM_carpet’ to try and trigger the corresponding footstep cue in the anim blueprint, so what do I have to do to get it to work? It seems as though it’s only working on floor surfaces so I imagine that it’s because I need to get the carpet to recognise the third-person characters’ feet in order to make a trigger possible? I’ve tried a lot of strategies so far with no progress since getting the main footsteps working (which I’m really happy about), so I’d really appreciate some advice with this if possible 😁

New subscriber here. This is awesome! Can you make a texture that shows quills or spines coming out of a character randomly?

Hey @underscore when I go to type in animnotify it doesn't show up as add event animnotify Fixed - i created an animation blueprint off my skeletal mesh and dragged into into my animations folder

will this work on a object with multiple physical materials? Multiple material id?

Can you teach us how to make it in a landscape material with multiple textures that are painted on it?

Changing volume of it in game setting

hi there, very helpful vid. but im noob and i need to know, for exemple, if i have a full map already finished, and it's whit a lot of meshes i need to apply whatever surface sound to each mesh? especialy many of them are placed with the brush (rocks and others). and what if i want to apply on a voxel plugin where is different landscape material... if its not to much

3:20 what does the multiply do? I'm using my own materials imported with the assets, and I don't have a texture coordinate node either, so do I need to do this step?

great tutorial, how to tell my ai that i'm making noise while walking on the surface? thanks

how would you do it for terrain because I added the psychic material but it only works for geometry

i added a notif on jump land idk if its needed but seems to work how i expected

I have a material that has multiple layer blends that I use to paint my landscape but they all hook up to one M_LandscapeMaterial node and only accepts one physical material. Is there a way I can have different physical materials for each of my layer blends?

You have created 2 differente geometries for the ground. What if you have a single ground geometry and use a brush to paint different materials on it, would it also work?

Hi how can i add this into landscape auto material ? where i use material function

hello ---- how can we do Footsteps Sounds on slope based landscape material ??

Gave the 1000th like yaaay

How do you program backpedal walks?

How would you add it to a Material Function that's blended in a Master Material? The Physical Material option isn't there in the Material Function.

could you please make a tutorial on making a certain object following a specified path for a specified time, thanks.

Hi I'm new to game development, do you need to apply this to every single NPC/ enemy etc or is there a way to trigger specific footsteps sounds specifically to the landscape?

Hello, with flipflop can I add 2 sounds only? How do I add more than 2?

You can erase the flip flop and use an sound cue y'know ?? 😃

i alread set physical material in layerinfo,but it still doesn't work, i can't print physical type in blueprint,nothing shows in printed

Great video can you show this in first person would be great

i restarted twice and i can't find/place the PM into the material settings

is there a way to do this without a character just by adding a timeline?

great video but i have to ask something i cant seem to do it with my material due to having a number of layers any idea on how to do this ? thanks and keep up the great work

Very nice.

i’ve got the notifiers and stuff and i’ve done things correctly but theirs no sound. is the line tracing incorrect?

is there a way to add more footstep sounds?

I follow ALL your steps but for some reason, the ADD ANIM NOTIFY EVENT doesn't appear in my character blueprint. can you help me please?

Are you able to do this for an FPS? I thought it would be much easier as animation isn't an issue, but I cannot find where to trigger the footstep noise.

I've added the notifys to the end jump animation but it isn't working. Do I need to do something else?

What if it's not player character but AI? what command should I use? 5:53

hello, i had it running yesterday and now in multiplayer replication it wont work :/

I does everything like you for mu FPS but i didnt hear sound effect. I have animation for my character and i added notify in walk and sprint. Any idea?

I don't have a default wood or grass physics material and when I try to make one it doesn't show up in the blueprint please help

Great tutorial! I'm wondering what adjustments would have to be done if it's to be applied on a floating camera representing a first person character, I mean, there's technically nothing to animnotify? Thanks!

i cant get this work in my landscape,i uesd version 4.24,please help.....

@3:47 It sounds like you say, "our grass have a scorpion from before", and the closed captioning also says it LOL!

Everytime I run it sounds like a hundred footsteps behind me, please help!

If you have more than 2 footsteps make a cue and select them all and create a Random node and connect it to the output. Don't put flipflop in the animationbp and you're ready

Im using the landscape layer materials, I have the sound working on meshes, and on dirt, but when i try to play a 4th sound connected to it to grass, the sound refuses to play for some reason. the first 3 sounds connected work just fine, but the 4th one refuses to work. How do i fix this?

Can u make a camera where it changes in Combat Mode and Comes normal after the combat like in Batman games plz request

Hey, This would be great for my project. However I am using sprite animation. Is there any way to do this with sprites? Please reply

Great tutorial, but I'm using splines for my streets in my game and the ray traces seem to ignore the spline meshes and go to the landscape terrain underneath. Any ideas?

why are you adding the line trace? I can see it for a decal but why for a sound?

If I drag from the Out Hits off the Line trace I don't get the option to Break Hit Result.

I'm trying to get this to work in my landscape, it works on solid surfaces like wood and if a place a rectangle down a give it a grass physical material then it also works. But it doesn't work in my sculpted landscape, I've set the physical material for all the different layer infos and I've tried other things aswell but I just can't get it to work. Please help!

I am using the new unreal engine so I can’t add notifys for the animation how do I do it

I dont have notifiers?

Does this also work for first person? I used a template from scratch without any character in it. So I'm trying to do this from scratch.

can you make a model of it

Awesome tutorial! There is just one thing not working right; I used two physical materials, Wood and Rug, but only the first one is working, which is the wood. Meaning that whatever sound I play when dragging off the first pin in the switch on EPhysical Surface node (which happens to be the wood one) always plays, no matter what surface I'm actually on. Even if it's a material that doesn't have any physical material applied. Does anyone know the fix for this?

Use "Try Get Pawn Owner" instead of GetPlayerCharacter if you want a AI to footstep. Wondered why I hear my bots so clearly :D Thx for this guide

Is there a way to make it work on landscapes? EDIT: Change landscape thickness to 1

why it doesnt trigger the sound? on 4.20.3 theres no skeleton notify on it simple add notify

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I don’t know what I did but it’s not working for me

LOL i was watching this tutorial, and i thought i will request bev to make a tutorial like that xD , then i saw it is you. wtf m i doing? :D :D I hope particles effects will work the same, it will be good if you make a tutorial for that too, i mean dust on the ground, water splashes while in the water ,,

Hey There , How Can We Set Footstep for a Firstperson without any animation ?

how do you add a scaler? I don't even know what it is...