Unreal Engine 5 RPG Tutorial Series - #2: Locomotion - Blendspace, Crouching and Procedural Leaning! 

PROJECT FILES ON PATREON! Patreon➡ bit.ly/GorkaGames_Patreon So excited about this series! 😄 So in here we started out creating the base pillars of the locomotion system, which will grow a lot as time goes. If you want to see a video on how to create a Git Repository for this series let me know! Also animations here! bit.ly/UE5_RPG_Loco_Anims Check out MY NEW Unreal COURSE with GameDev.tv ➡bit.ly/UE5_StealthCourse_GameDevTv_GorkaGames

Just a tip for everyone watching, @GorkaGames cleans up his blueprints by selecting them and pressing Q. He explains this in a later video but it might be nice to know for now.

can't explain how grateful i am, for not only this tutorial, but the entire RPG playlist. learning so much and really helping refine and correct the janky movement in my game :)

I’m very happy with how simple and uncluttered this tutorial is, it’s like the apple of RU-vid tutorials.

Oh boy, i hopped into UE at a great time. Am very new to all this but you explain it very well and i'm looking forward to run through the whole series. Can't wait to see what you have in store for us. Thank you for the amazing content!

This was fantastic. I started the course, hoping your guide would help me sort out some locomotion issues I have been having with the enhanced inputs. You did that, found more issues I was not aware of and, sorted those too. Great work, much appreciated.

I follow some of the other guys (Aspland, Laley, Beard, etc.) and those guys are really good, but watching this right here takes it to a whole other level. I'm really excited to see what you do in this series, your work is amazing. I've watched some of your earlier videos and man you have leaped into a known name now. Keep up the great work, I'm excited especially for this kind of gameplay to see what you do moving forward!

Extremely impressed by the tutorial so far and feel like this is the best UE5 Unreal tutorial I've seen. Thank you so much for making this. Especially loving all the extra care to details and added movement such as leaning and stopping.

You are insane, thank you SO much for this tutorial series!! I appreciate your hard work so much and how easy you make it! Please keep it up, definitely got my follow! :D

You make some of the best UE5 tutorials out their on RU-vid pls don't stop uploading

Man, you are one of the most clear and concise tutorial makers I've been able to find. Thank you for this, you make learning this complicated engine a bit more tolerable.

man this guy is so nice to watch. informative, smart, friendly and throws a bit of fun in there. 10/10

Another excellent video bro, keep up the amazing work. I'm honestly following along with the series and enjoying it a lot. It is helping me a ton on learning to use UE5 :)

Dude from the bottom of my soul, you are amazing! I have only just stumbled upon your channel looking for a RU-vidr who is willing to teach high quality UE5 content in relation to an RPG and I have finally found my guy! The way you explain everything you do, your debugging and even your humour with your typing mistakes is just on point and you have instantly become my go to channel. Only one thing though I hope for the future, please don't stop producing content! Especially, don't quit making an RPG series half way through like many RU-vidrs. I understand not wanting to burn yourself out and you have a life to live but please please pleeeeease continue the series you make all the way through to the end! Thank you so much, and have an awesome day 😊

Dude i'm looking forward to this series, thanks!

Just what I needed! :) Very simple to follow and to apply to my own game. Thank you so much for this tutorial series!

Hearing you say Cash-a was the highlight of my day

I'm starting to develop game. It's a course I've been looking for years, this is the first time I've seen such a detailed course. Please don't stop making videos.

You are the best! This series of video are fundamental! Thank you a lot! :)

So glad I found your page at this time in my learning process. I have a lot of experience with this stuff via other tutorials but I'm ready for the next step in more intermediate faster paced stuff. Very excited to continue on with this. Joining the discord and subbed. Thanks!

This is the first time I'm using Unreal, and you made this so simple. Everything was clear, and I have a great project to look forward to when I am done.

I love your whole tutorial because of all of them are soooo clear and easy to understand love you man

I started with the first game tutorial and once I finished I was so hiped I just keep going with the RPG series you are an amazing teacher keep it going!

Thanks to share your experience with this great collection of tutorials!

Amazingly efficient results with super concise explanations. Subscribed! thank you for the content!

Just found your channel. Getting back into UE after a long lay off, this course looks awesome. Just what I was looking for, thanks you.

I'm really excited to see where this goes.

Very good tutorial, it was really good, you managed to explain many new things of UE5.1 in a simple way. I look forward to the next part and I would appreciate a tutorial explaining how it works and how version control is used

Amazing tutorial! I just finished following along every step of the way. Learned so much. Thank you!

You got a new sub man, thx for the serie. Keep the work up!!

It's a beautiful lesson. Thank you for what you do. This series of lessons is a huge help to young developers

This is one of the most comprehensive tutorials out there AND it's completely free, so I shouldn't complain, but just a few quick notes: slow down. Both speech and clicking. You will be able to better phrase what you are saying and the accent won't mess with intelligibility so much. Say what you are pressing (and ideally why) when you do. Add some transitions. Very often, you explain one screen at one moment, then suddenly press a button, move somewhere else through like twenty menus, and THEN, in one muttered superfast sentence, explain what you did. This results in us having to pause, listen to you again, pause again, go back to where you actually started doing the action, and only then follow the actions. Combined with the long video runtime, it is hard to hit the exact time you want to go back to, so there is a lot of unnecessary replaying and frustration. It would be better to slowly say "now I am going to press this button, which you can find here, in order to do this".

i finished your episode 2 and learned alot things ... more comming .. thank you Gorka

Just amazing. Good job. Continue like this please!!!

This is Awesome! I admire you are doing that for the masses and not trying to push it as a course to sell !!! Respect

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🎮 Setting up Unreal Engine 5 RPG tutorial series* - Introduction to beginning the RPG tutorial series in Unreal Engine 5. - Setting up blend spaces, animations, blueprint procedural leaning, and more for character locomotion. 02:15 *🔄 Importing and organizing animations* - Importing basic locomotion animations from the description. - Organizing animations into folders for easy access and management. 04:07 *🏃‍♂️ Creating blend spaces for locomotion* - Creating blend spaces to smoothly transition between different animations based on character speed. - Configuring blend space parameters for character movement. 07:30 *📝 Setting up animation blueprint* - Setting up animation blueprint to control character animations based on states. - Creating states for idle, walking/running, and stopping animations. 11:13 *🖇️ Organizing animation states with state machines* - Organizing animation states using state machines for better control and clarity. - Implementing state transitions for smooth animation flow. 14:52 *🛫 Implementing jump and falling animations* - Adding jump and falling animations to the animation blueprint. - Configuring transitions between jump, falling, and landing states. 20:08 *💡 Finalizing animation blueprint setup* - Initializing variables and optimizing code for animation blueprint. - Testing and troubleshooting animation transitions and character movement. 21:33 *🏃 Animation setup for smoother transitions:* - Additive animations designed to play on top of normal locomotion. - Smoothens transitions between actions like jumping and landing. 23:10 *🚶 Adding crouching functionality:* - Creating a blend space for crouching animations. - Adjusting movement speed and camera distance for crouching. 33:24 *🔄 Implementing leaning mechanics:* - Creating lean animations using additive setup. - Integrating leaning into locomotion blend spaces. - Calculating lean intensity for smoother character movements. 44:18 *🎨 Customizing character appearance:* - Changing character model to "Manny" for tutorial demonstration. - Adjusting material tint to give the character a blue appearance. 46:32 *💻 Setting up source control:* - Explaining the importance of setting up source control for project management. - Offering to create a tutorial episode on setting up source control and explaining its benefits. Made with HARPA AI

Dude this is one of the best tutorials. Thank you.

Just finished this whole video! Amazing job! Learned alot, dont really understand why I am doing what I am doing but I assume I will grasp it more as I go on.

For the timeline, plug the uncrouch part into reverse, not reverse from end. This is so that if you switch while in the middle of the timeline, it will still look good. i.e. uncrouch when the camera is still moving

Aight im deleting unity and gonna learn unreal engine with this series :D

I needed this locomotion section so bad. Can't thank you enough man.

i was struggling a bit with smooth locomotion on my project and this tackled all the little issues that I usually would wait for hours on reddit to solve. very goog

Very well done! Following along to improve my abilities in UE5. I used the crouched/Un crouched functionality that is built in like jump, that way I set the movement speed whilst crouched in the movement comp, and get the Is Crouched function from the movement component in the animation blueprint. I can then set the half height of the capsule whilst crouched to allow for traversal under low obstacles.

Great man! I am learning about animBP from many tutorials and this one is the best so far! Thanks. Ciao!

YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 😄 now this is podracing!

This man is god of Unreal Engine! Keep growing mate!

This series is very promising good work!

whe you are running and jump for the firts time the animation of jumping goes normal, but when you jump for the second time i row the animation jump stop and its play the run animation. i thougt could be the animation order i tried to, but i could not fixed it

Note: If your leaning isnt working, try switching from mesh space additive to apply additive in the walk run state in locomotion. Personally I turned up the division from 10 to 15 because I felt the lean was too strong.

This is a great tutorial so far, Gorka, you're awesome.

I LOVE THIS!!!

Great tutorial! I have a question, and maybe you address this later on, but when the character is crouching and you press jump the character jumps while still crouching. How do you transition from the crouch into a jumping animation?

If you get the crouch complier error, you forgot to hit complie on BP_ThirdPersonCharacter after you added that. I had the error and i was able to fix it thanks to ActiveShadowsGaming

Awesome Tutorial Gorka. Bravo and thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience with us.

Thank you so much for this series !!

are we making AC Origins? awesome series. don't forget faith of leap mechanic please 😄

Great tutorial, I noticed that I'm able to jump while crouching. Is there any part I may have missed, or will that be fixed in upcoming episodes?

Thank you! I was skeptical about the leaning, but I did it anyway, and it looks great!

Wow this is top tier content. Thank you for this.

At 19:28, what shortcut does he use to get the velocity variable from the node to the connection link? Thanks!

You forgot to set the capsule half-height in crouching. you will not be able to go under objects. This can be done by adding the functions "Crouch" and "Uncrouch", or setting "Capsule Half Height in your input action.

this has been great. thanks so much. im just starting this process and you are making it effortless.

This looks sick!!

Hi I can't seem to see the animations pack in the description. Thanks for the tutorial btw it looks insane!

I think theres an inbuilt Event for crouching aswell just like the jump Event

Having a quick épisode about how to setup source control, and more importantly, how to use it to go back to previous version would be sooooo nice 😍

This is so much fun! Thx for this vid!

not sure what happened during my jump and falling sequence, but my character continued to fall for way to long before landing. A quick fix was setting the priority of falling animations to 2. (he may have covered this and i just didnt catch it) but if its a problem somebody else runs into, there is your fix.

Si les pasa que si saltan seguido no se da la animacion de saltar, solo activen la casilla land en el State Alias "To Falling" 16:36

I have been following your tutorials for quite some time now and I just gotta say. DAMN, MAN - YOU ARE AMAZING! You are my main source if I need something to be done. Only when I need to modify it by my type of game, then I google it :D A thousand "thank you" isn't enough, so if I will make something profitable of what I will create (and create I will!), I will not forget to share some with you

Another great series initiative for noobs and advanced UE devs Gorka! Cheers!

You have been amazing and incredibly helpful. Your assistance has truly helped me sort through a difficult situation.

Its a good tutorial on how to set up a system and replace/tweak it. But theres sadly no explaination (i know the video would be 10 hours otherwise), what each function and step does. Because theres no way somebody learns how to build a game/animation system for different things with this if he does not know what each node REALLY does in depth. I mean you are pretty much just showing us how to connect nodes to make certain things work, but not how what they DO. We need to know the tools that we have and how to use them. And this is pretty much just a instruction on how to build something. You are telling a Carpenter on how to build a night stand, but not how he can do other things with his tools, for example a cupboard. We should be able to figure out how to do different systems with the locomotion system without needing a tutorial for each and every possible thing that can be done. Because i guess nobody would know after this tutorial how to implement a jump over obstacle system. I mean yeah you could do another tutorial on that, but we should be able to do it ourself without any tutorial if you would teach us how everything works here.

You can't believe how much you helped me today xD THANK YOU

Truly amazing content. Thank you.

Absolutely excellent, thanks man 👍

every time i start a new project i come back to this to refresh my locomotion knowledge thxs for helping me become a game dev.

Just finished that lesson! Thanks for the great source of knowledge!

Amazing and easy to follow video, thank you!!

Easy to understand! Thank you :)

You are great at this! After quitting Unity learning unreal engine has been confusing, this was really helpful can’t wait to make my first game!

this is a great tutorial, thanks a lot, keep up the good work 😁😁

I dont think this video was too long at all. Awesome video! Very informative and learning. Now that ive watched the whole thing, imma subscribe and take all this info in.

I can not thank you enough for this series

This is awesome your videos are very informative!

Great lesson! Thank you, man!

Legend bro! I am starting out with unreal and this helped me a LOT!!!

This has helped me so much! ThankYou!

that crouch camera, trick was lit!

Love this thank you man !! :)

Smooth series. Following along is easy.

New subscriber, Your way of working is very clean and efficient, the way you explain is very great, thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for sharing your content ♥♥♥

Thanks for your great tut. It helps me a lot

Amazing tutorial, loved it. easy to follow and implement.

Im a front dev and this made me feel confident to download and start learning unreal. Thanks man!

Watching this again a month later just to make sure I don't screw up the animations for my weapons and magic. Love this!

Amazing Video!!! Thanks!! Really useful

1 of 80 - done! Thanks for the tutorial!

AMAZING VIDEO, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING!!!!

Thankyou for this great tutorial, i am looking forward to learning more about UE5 from you, cant wait to see were this game tutorial takes us.