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Unfortunately I am not aware of any plugin :( I would search with terms like "Blender reference editor" to see if anything comes up. Best of luck finding one!

100% I should have included that!!!

Of course! I'm hoping to continue this series once my schedule frees up more. Stay tuned :)

Of course! Hope these resources help.

Thanks so much! I appreciate the feedback. If you use other resources for animation, please let us here so others can take a look :)

@@ZeroToAnimator The only other book I've been looking into getting is Character Animation Crash Course! by Eric Goldberg (30yr+ animation veteran).

Nice! I have that one too. The section on smear frames and cartoony animation was so helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

Of course! Glad it was helpful :)

Interesting. So my weapon static mesh did have a few sockets I created, one of which was at the tip. But since your weapon is already a skeletal mesh, perhaps there is bone data which creates the rig differently. I would experiment with your weapon skeletal mesh. Maybe try adding socket at the tip and re-creating the rig to see if the tip becomes the root in the control rig. The default settings at 01:03 used to create my skeletal mesh probably have something to do with how my rig worked. I am not too familiar with editing rigs or skeletal meshes, so I would have to play around with it more to see what could work. Sorry I don't have a solid solution for you.

@@ZeroToAnimator Thanks for responding. I will keep testing.

Yay so glad this helped! Happy animating!

No problem! Hope it helps!

To my understanding, Unreal doesn't allow Motion Trails to track any object except a control rig control. There are a few ways you could handle this which unfortunately aren't a simple fix: 1) edit your control rig to include an additional control that you then constrain to the tip of the sword via a socket in the sword (probably best to rig the extra control in one of the hands) or 2) you create a simple control rig of your sword and arc track controls on that. Your sword would need to be a skeletal mesh, so if it's a static mesh, you would need to convert it via a plugin called Skeletal Mesh Editing Tools. I have not personally tried either of these methods, but feel free to give it a go. Or you can use the old school method of drawing on your monitor with dry erase marker. I did that in school 😂

Thanks for the suggestion. I thought it would be helpful to figure out how to arc track weapons, so I made a video about it: ruclips.net/video/3IQ0k9EFe5c/видео.html Hopefully it helps!

So you can use an image sequence made from any program. All you need to do to create the textures is drag the photos into the Movies folder. Whether the image sequence is made in Unreal, Blender, or another program is irrelevant, as long as you have that image sequence. Yes, I am using 5.4. I am not sure if the Media Framework Utilities is available for older versions. But you can definitely use a regular image plane and apply the texture to that instead.

Yes! I am actually going to do an in-depth tutorial series on using the Animation Blueprint System for character movement. I need to finish my game this month first, and I will create the series in November. Gorka Games will have some great beginner tutorials on using Animation Blueprints, but stay tuned for my more detailed one soon!

But to answer your question about assigning an animation blueprint to your player character, I do have a lecture going over how it works conceptually. ruclips.net/video/Nguo0E9123s/видео.html

@@ZeroToAnimator ok ya cuz im a bit confused with using blendspaces and state machines so ya would be amazing if u can cover those areas

@@Beanbag59 Yeah no worries, it's confusing at first! It'll make more sense when you practice. The video I linked should help as well.

@@ZeroToAnimator ya it helped but actually doing it in a video would also be amazing but ya with time with time

Thanks so much! Glad to hear you find my tips helpful :)

Thank you! It's great to see your play throughs :)

Thank you so much!!!

I have not! Is this character reminiscent of it?

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :D

Hmmm so I think the way the picker is set up is to swap the character in the picker from the drop down box. You could duplicate the actual editor utility widget file, run that one, and then use the drop down box for the other character.

@@ZeroToAnimator Thank you

@@hotsauce7124 No problem!

As long as the control rig has similarly named controls the same as the Metahuman/mannequin, it should work. If the controls are named differently or if the character has a slightly different skeleton, the buttons won't work, since the buttons' functionality are coded directly to the name of the controls. Hope that helps!

@@ZeroToAnimator Thank you

Possible to change the code?​@@ZeroToAnimator

@@SuperMontana2008 Yes! So instead of right clicking the editor utility widget to run it, double click it and you'll open the code. You'll use the Designer tab for adding extra buttons and use the Graph tab to write the logic for the button.

@@ZeroToAnimator what about applying it to procedural control rigs?

Well yes, this is an animation channel, and keyframes are our bread and butter! This was more to show animators the workflow set up, since Unreal is a bit different than Maya, which is our standard animation software.

@@ZeroToAnimator ik lol im just messing with you :)

@@denberz711 lol well you got me XD

Thank you! Yeah there was nothing in the chest and shoulders in the original animation, had to change that.

Of course! Glad it was helpful. Happy animating :D

Of course! :)

Thank you!

Thanks! I kinda ended up overriding the entire mocap haha oh well, the original animation wasn't all that good to begin with

Thank you! Trying to improve my audio quality of my videos... it's a wip

Of course!

Thank you :D

@@ZeroToAnimator my co workers loves it.

@@wolfyrig1583 Yay glad to hear it! I would love to make a high fidelity Loony Tunes style game, but I need to get more practice in Unreal before trying something that ambitious haha

Wonderful! Glad this video helped!

Nice! That works too!

I'm relying a lot on the tweener tool, with the overshoot and ease in out. Feel closer to my experience in TV

Me too! I cannot work without tweener. My go to are 80s and 20s after I've made my breakdown pose. I'll often use copied pairs but hit the pose with a 90/10 to get a pixel drift instead of copying the exact pose. I didn't showcase much of the tweener tools in this video but maybe I will in a future one!

@@ZeroToAnimator can you make tutorial for tweener tool for beginners pls

@@burak3d Yeah sure thing! I'll try to get one made in the next two weeks.

Just posted it! Hope it helps. ruclips.net/video/QsoDDB61u3g/видео.html

Of course! Glad you found it helpful :) I'll be adding more to this series in the fall since my schedule opens up more then. Stay tuned!

I haven't tested out the other formats myself. I used .mov file and it seemed to work! I'll test out different formats and make another video about it.

@@ZeroToAnimator Thanks for responding. The smoothness of the playback seems to depend on the UE version a person is using as well.

@@steinmov Ooo good to know, thanks for sharing! I'm using 5.4 if that helps.

An update: for me, I found image sequences to be more responsive. Just made a tutorial video on how to set it up, in case that's helpful for you.

Of course! I want to share as much as I can to help others improve. As a student, I had a lot of animators show me the ropes when starting out, so I want to do the same :)

Thank you so much! Glad it was helpful! Many more videos to come :)

Thank you Jérémy!

Strange! Maybe that's due to different Blender versions? I see it in 4.0, but maybe in other versions it's not available. If you want, you download themes from the blender extensions website: extensions.blender.org/themes/theme-maya/ I haven't used them but hopefully it provides what you're looking for.

Thanks so much!!! :D

Of course! Happy animating :D

Just one question, I just tried it and when I switched to ik using the bool, the arm snaps to the "origin position" said. I'm just not getting how to fix that. I opened the sequencer curve editor like you have open, but am unable to add key frames using the enter key. Edit: I figured out how to add keys but the arm still snaps to origin pose whenn I switch the bool on Edit 2: alright so the left arm works fine because when I key the ctrls, the inherit the position and stuff from the fk. But keying the ctrls for the right arm causes them to be stuck at the same key value throughout, resulting in a straight line rather than a curve. Pls do help, I'm really enthusiastic about this, have been cracking my head for the last two weeks

@@LordJayde Oh that sounds so annoying. So just to be clear, you key both the right and left FK arms, and the IK only gets keyed on the left and not the right?

@@LordJayde Also is the right hand constrained to anything?

Exactly what you said. And I'm pretty sure the hands aren't constrained to anything. Although the problematic hand does have a socket equipped with a weapon. I have keyed fk for the entirety of the time that the ik should be active, is that right?

Awesome! Glad it helped!

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Of course! Glad it was helpful! Happy animating :D

Hi! I'd be happy to help! Here is my email: libbypetersonart@gmail.com

Glad it was helpful!

Oh dear, that sounds super frustrating. Can't say I've run into this issue myself. How are you adding the animations to the mannequin? Are you importing them as an animation sequence and selecting the correct skeleton? Not sure if you're having a import issue or trouble editing the animation. If you're looking to edit imported animations in Unreal, you can right click on animation sequences in the content browser and select the option "edit in Sequencer." If you provide more details, I can try to see if I know of a fix.

@@ZeroToAnimator you know a month of frustration countless videos messing with settings and plugins. I JUST HAD TO DELETE THE SKELETON ON THE SEQUENCE BAR! 😭 Heads up your can take premade sequences and over lap them for autob blending make a single sequence then make small adjustments (for compounding animations) thank you!! Also subbed

@@JesusChrist-holyghost Awesome, glad you figured it out! And thanks for the tip!

Yay so glad it helped!