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Yeah no problem.

Yes I am aware and I'll be addressing this later, it's solely due to differences in Anatomy.

Thank you, you too.

The reason why is because if you want a crosshair on the screen you still need the two lined up, and having an offset crosshair or one that moves is not something everybody is into, in fact I might go so far as to say most people wouldn't like that.

@@unrealdevop aaw, lol

@@unrealdevop well you can try add arrow to the camera center, then use its location and forward vector it to get an end point to use and start can be the weapon?

@@ArazStudio-op4cg The camera manager already gives you the aiming rotation of the camera, the rotator points towards the center of the screen, getting that information isn't a problem. Ensuring the weapon actually points in that direction is. You have to create your poses carefully to get it to line up properly. Even a slight offset and it may be noticeable. Also, I should mention if people wanted to use it for First Person and it is offset, this will become much more noticeable if that's the case.

@@unrealdevop aw i see, your actually creating an aim system lol, thats sounds tough

There is no simple way to make random animations, meant to be played across the full body, to blend perfectly in/out without modifying them in some cases. The nature of animation, even with motion matching, requires some amount of matching between animations they are meant for. This means that where in some cases depending on how they were designed they may blend out and in well, in most cases they won't without actually modifying the animations themselves or creating some kind of transition to bridge the gap.

Yeah used to people used Distance Field Shadows for distant shadows.

Yeah the offset root bone creates like 12 or more problems, and yet it only fixes one....I really feel like it's more of a hack and I don't like it at all. If they don't manage to fix that I'm not sure that their Motion Matching will be widely adopted. I can imagine they are catching a lot of flak for how it currently functions and so I'm hoping that it's enough to drive them into either fixing the problem with it or offering an alternative solution. If you can get around the problems it would possibly be do-able, but you need to know that there is really no way to calculate an aimoffset without considering the Offset Root Bone, Root location, into the equation. This is because it's both offsetting and counter-rotating the Root Bone to prevent foot-sliding.

lol

Yeah for sure, I accidentally uploaded the wrong one several hours ago but it has been fixed.

Not sure what you mean, you should be able to transfer the heightmap of any Terrain, even if you didn't import one. That's my assumption anyway, I don't do this often.

Yeah for sure. I plan on doing some more videos on Motion Matching eventually. I just have to get some things out of the way before I'll have time for that.

@@unrealdevop amazing thank you. Let me know how I can help. I can offer the perspective of a successful entrepreneur/software engineer switching into game dev

@@ThePlatypotamus Yeah for sure, you can always drop me a message on Discord. My name on there is J0hnC0nn0r. My channel is in the Description.

Yeah I try to disclose things as best I can to help other's where I struggled.

Yeah, These issues seem to be difficult to overcome in ALS honestly. It's a great system but it really requires retargeting and modification of all the animations. There is a way to do it with Live Retargeting but it's a bit of work and I haven't fully tested that yet.

@@unrealdevop i understand man im trying to give my game a last of us feel but set in war torn vietnam its crazy how i got him to stand up but its like he was to tall or stretched

Yeah, I don't remember that part and don't feel like going back through lol. I can tell you though that there are some issues with properly passing around variables in State Trees and I believe this will be fixed in 5.5

Yeah I don't know about collision, I was using their default collision settings so if it was then that could have some effect on it. As far as doing another one I did and when you actually look at how long the Animation Instance takes to process on the Game Thread that part at least I can confirm took just as long for both. So from what I can gather at the Very least, Motion Matching was not heavier then ALS. That much seems to be apparent given the actual Profiling I did.

Actually no, I'm not sure about that and I guess I never noticed it either. I wonder if the Mode you set it to plays a role in that as well though.

Yeah idk, I haven't considered that approach, I suppose you could possibly connect a Collision Capsule to your Spring Arm and handle that from the Begin Overlap and End Overlap, I don't know how else you might handle that honestly. I'm not even sure how that would work, or what problems might come from it.

Damage system isn't really that hard to understand, there is already a basic framework for it built into Unreal. Effects are just fired alongside the animation or from the animation. I may eventually setup a damage system but I will keep it simple enough for it to be easily removed because I don't want to bloat the project. As far as Effects, I don't make VFX, so it would be hard for me to add anything like that unless I grab it from Lyra or a Royalty Free Project like that, which I may do.

Yeah at one point I really needed it too but there were simply no good videos out there and the decent ones were locked behind paywalls.

Yeah that's actually an interesting idea that would very likely work.

If it disappears then likely you are applying it as if it were a Mesh Space additive, but it isn't a Mesh Space Additive. either that or you have it setup as a Mesh Space Additive but your not Applying it as one.

I'm taking it you haven't tried to use a custom character with ALS then.

But yeah I agree, that's the reality though, if you want good animation then you need to understand animation and you need to be willing to put in the work. The problem is that 99.99% of everybody want a Plug-N-Play animation system that blows $500,000,000 budget AAA game studios out of the way and make peoples jaws drop to the floor.....it's never going to happen though. There will always be some amount of work involved and those that aren't willing to put in the work just simply won't make it.

This Project btw wasn't meant to replace ALS or any other Free Marketplace Animation System. The only reason I started this project was to teach people these advanced animation techniques, my goal was never to provide people with a Plug-N-Play animation system. Although I am fully aware that some people have assumed it to be such.

@@unrealdevop for sure man. I'm personally making a cartoony game because I fully understand animation. What you're doing requires a team. It looks amazing though bro.

@@nawhz6292 Compared to making a normal animation system, it's actually quite light. The only thing people have to focus on is making single poses and simple animations.

Yeah I got it at like 98-99% that last 1-2% is going to be difficult. I think 98-99% is pretty good though.

That's pretty tricky. I may eventually get back into showing those things, right now I just don't have the time.

​@@unrealdevopI'd rather see you develop this further to near perfection before any of that.

@@johnremp3470 Yeah I feel the same way, I still have a lot of problems to work out with this project before I start extending it any further. I was reluctant to even add replication because it adds several more levels of complexity to it. The Replication is there but I probably won't really be too focused on working out the problems with it until I finish working out the offsets with the Aim. That is going to require me to modify or completely redo a lot of those. Now that I have a control rig setup though it won't be that big of a deal. That part is something that I can actually do fairly accurately inside Unreal.

@@unrealdevop ty for the rep, im here waiting for your amazing videos

Yeah that's coming next update....but it won't be a procedural system, it will be an example of how to achieve it given the current state of the Motion Matching System.

I mean Anatomy has it's limitations. Just like in real life you can't expect a child to be able to hold the barrel of a 50 cal Sniper rifle and walk with it the same way that a larger person can....you have to approach these things in that same manner when choosing the weapons that your characters are supposed to use.

To answer your question though, when anatomy is a limitation your only options are to not let them use that specific weapon, scale the weapon down, or have custom weapon poses specifically for that character that allows them to hold it differently.

@@unrealdevop That makes sense, thanks

Yeah I plan on adding Ai eventually but there is still so many requests. I'll try to find the time to setup an example of that but it's just as likely that I'll run into the same issues if it's related to the Offset Root Bone....which is literally screwing everything up.

@@unrealdevop I'm happy to contribute in the discord assuming what I come up with is useful to what you aim to achieve 😉

Any advice, workaround, solution or other way to do it yet?

@@chaqsilent Some people been looking into it. I believe that at least for the Traversals he may have found a solution or so I've been told. If this is the case then I may have misinterpreted what I seen. I'll update you guys if I find out I was wrong. It really did seem last time I checked that it was a Replication problem directly associated with how the Motion Matching was being replicated.

@@unrealdevop Thanks a lot for your full explanation and quick response. Hey, when a tutorial maker makes little mistakes, the people watching it will also learn what NOT to do. It is good if it happens. Buuuut, who knows.. maybe you are right and he is wrong.

@@chaqsilent Yeah we shall see, I believe the creator was under the impression that the Traversal Desynchronization we due to a Database issue. It's still up in the air though, we shall see.

Yeah sometimes it's as simple as changing the translation retargeting settings

Yeah, I know a lot of people are not a big fan of it. I do believe over time it will get better, but we will just have to wait and see. Unreal Engine has becoming quite bloated over time. They have had to make some tradeoffs in performance to improve things though.

Glad you found it helpful man

lol I hear you. What kind of rig you got?

not a very good one lol I got it as a prebuild, so the best thing on it is an rtx 3060. I'm just new and ignorant to unreal engine.

@@justinsane7832 Yeah I think right now the Motion Matching isn't really multi-threaded and not much of this logic is currently thread-safe....so it's a bit heavy, that will improve in the future though. When 5.5 comes out if they haven't refactored their code I will.

@@unrealdevop ahhh, yea that sucks but understandable. I really appreciate your work with this channel. you've shown a lot of important stuff and leave out all the cliche crap lol

@@justinsane7832 Yeah but it's not heavier then ALS from what I've seen during profiling.

I don't have the option bake to control rig. How did you create that CR_Mannequin_Body? 6:10

@@Deculayn I brought it over from the UE5 Manny.

That may be coming soon.

There is no real foot IK, just Leg IK, there are some problems with the FootPlacement system and they are working on it. If your having problems in there try re-downloading it. I have to do hot patches like 3 times within 30 minutes of release. The Foot Placement shouldn't be connected.

no problem

Yeah I tried setting up some logic for a foot locking system that would have worked without the Offset Root Bone but won't now because of that. I'm not exactly an expert in Vector Math, it's a weak point of mine and it's hard for me to find the time to properly learn it. The reason they use the root bone rather then the skeletal mesh I would assume, is likely because the skeletal mesh is easily accessible from the anim graph....but idk there may be some source code reason behind it.

Thanks, like I said though I'll be reluctant to do these often....it took me nearly 2 hours lol

@@unrealdevop If so take your time broski, but I will be one of those people to thank you for taking that time out to release this.

Glad you liked it.