Unreal Engine JUST made Animation blending TOO EASY 

the idea is basically to make a state machine with different data bases, so as you would usually make a walking state and have a blend space for that, and then a crouching state and have a blendspace in there, and a crawling state with it's own blendspace. you simple replace the blend spaces with these databases instead

@@thegamedevcave simple enough thank you

I'm curious myself. Not bold enough to try, as I'm already far enough in my own project

Dependes on tuning, motion matching is a "reactive" system, it reacts to the movement of the capsule, it can basically be instantaneous (see Fortnite).

To cleat things up, motion matching doesnt use root motion to physically move the character. Your character still moves through its usual means, the root motion is just used as infomation to find the animation thay matches yout cuttent movement best. So the animation utself doesnt move the character

It’s just animation not actual gameplay mechanics

@@ario9907 animation itself can be pretty process heavy - which would cause lag, and some animation can be used to drive gameplay effects which would cause input lag though as said above, Epic seemed to make it work quite well on Fortnite, so I'm sure this implementation is actually well-optimized

it just outputs a pose like any other animgrph node so if you want to do anything else to that pose like blend/override/add you can!

@@thegamedevcave This is so good!

it should also support start stop animations as far as I understand,i think they jsut need to have a small amount of root motion and it should blend between idle->start->walk->run->stop->idle as you move.

Completely possible, there are many current games that use it, two examples would be For Honor from Ubisoft and Fortnite from Epic Games.

i haven't tested it enough to see if there are any major downsides to it but from what i can see, blendspaces will probably become a more obscure niche tool with this motion matching system being a thing now. The most important thing blendspaces are used for tends to be locomotion, and I would argue that this will probably take over for that in most cases. Of course if you use blend spaces for other things, blending programatically between animations that may be more gameplay related and dont have much to do with movement, this won't replace that, so there's always a use for legacy systems! And i am sure that as more people start to sue this, some bugs will pop up that need ironing out first too still As for your animations, make sure that you have a dedicated root bone and that it is animated for the root motion (of course with the root motion settings shown in this video then enabled), that should be all there is to it i believe

Nice, that's helpful to hear you say that! In that case, I'll keep tinkering and figure out where I'm going wrong! If this is all the case, then would you consider doing a tutorial on how to implement combat using motion matching?

@@diaryofjane22 i think for combat animations you're probably still best off using animation montages instead This seems like you'd only really put it to use for locomotion animations

I've seen some people use them so yeah i think so

darn, i knew i would forget! here you go terribilisstudio.fr/?section=MC

make sure your animations have root motion and in the settings for each animation make sure root motion and root lock and set to true. if you're using your own skeletons, make sure they have a proper root bone

of all the clickbait BS on this website to get mad over, i'm not sure i'd focus my efforts into this one tbh. Obviously there is no such thing as something being too easy. This being easy is a good thing..

But if you have been making games for 10 years and you discover this now. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ kinda different scenario

@@searbhreathach9762 to be fair, unreal just added this a few weeks ago :) I've seen similair systems made in the past as plugins or in other engines though so it's not a whole new concept, but unreal only got it recently and it's awesome :)