So how would you do this if you want to have an equip animation> Say when you swap to pistol, you take it out of a holster? Would you just add it to the database? Or have a sequence that plays when you press the equip button?
The presenter in this tutorial is very precise when he says something and seems to know exactly what he's talking about unlike a long list of UE tutorial presenters who seem to be reading instructions written down
00:28:45 idle animation seems to play abnormally fast. Mine starts after about 0.5 sec when stopping. First it runs at normal 1.0 Rate Scale and then it's like quick forwarding a video. It doesn't help to edit the Animation itself (Asset Details > Animation > Rate Scale = 0.4 for example). 🤔 Mind you I'm using my own idle animation but these pre-made seem to have the problem too. Unreal version 5.4.3.
And to save time of other UE 5.4.3 enthusiasts: Putting your own animations in the Trajectory of your own project and trying to get a smooth blend effect between them = nightmarish failure with strange problems and absolutely zero documentation or tutorials. The official docs and everybody in RUclips just tells the same: "Copy these 500 free animations or put your own character in the example project". Nothing about using your own animations 😑 Camera behaves like however it wants to. You have to create extra script to control backwards walking and prevent your character switching sides constantly. Legs go crazily possessed by the Devil itself etc... 👿🦵 Unless you can magically figure out a way, stick to State Machine for now. Hopefully in the future versions we get a more robust Motion Matching system 🤞
Thanks so much for this tutorial! If I wanted to use all the pistol/rifle crouch and jump animations, would I just need to set up PSDs for each of those states?
@@UnrealMadeEasy Thanks again for your help. Your videos made it easy to follow along and I managed to get all the states added with the rifle/pistol crouching and jumping. I am running into a few small issues I was wondering if you encountered. The main one is that when standing still and doing a rifle jump, my character disappears for a split second when he lands. I only have two animations in the PSD (the looping rifle jump start/fall). The other issue is that the idle animations appear to play really fast, so the character isn't actually doing the 'scanning' motion. Any ideas? Thanks again!!!!
You kept things very simple and easy to follow along. I need to rewatch to understand the why some things got deleted. I thought crouch stuff had been fully deleted early on? So when I seen you dragging crouch animations into the motion match databases it somewhat confused me. I think it will make sense if I go through it a second time.
Around time stamp 5:15 I deleted the Pistol/Rifle jump and crouch animations. I did this reduce the time of the video. I only used the unarmed animations. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching the video.
I say there is a strong possibility I will make another Motion Match video to deep dive or cover what I have missed in these videos. Also if Epic makes more updates to the motion match system. Thanks for watching the video.
@@UnrealMadeEasy The only video I found related was this one ruclips.net/video/48r2O4VqfEQ/видео.html He explains but doesn't go into depth and doesn't teach how to do it.
Thank you for this brother, two quick questions. How would you implement the actual shooting animation with a simple montage or would you make a separate animation container to hold all of those animations. And also will your response to this question also work for something like when you're holding a sword and want to do more of a melee gameplay. And my other question would be could you essentially replace the blend poses by bool with just using the chooser's system that works with motion matching?
Okay I think your asking if you can add combat animations. Yes you can but you need to create montages for each animation. The container your refer to is the PSD which is the database. That is used similar to blendspaces.(Only for movement. so no container for combat animations.) Also Yes you can the chooser plugin. I excluded it because I was just trying to focus on 1 plugin instead of two to teach the motion match concept. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching the video.
Hey, I really enjoyed the video and I learned a lot from it. I also have a question. Do you think this could be useful to make the character turn towards the input direction with a bit of "lag" (like a smooth transition instead of instantly facing the input direction) AND drive all the motion with root motion instead of in-place locomotion? An example would be something like the following: -> Character facing away from camera -> Player inputs the "down" direction, instructing the character to come towards the camera -> The character begins to step backwards (moving towards the camera while still facing the other direction) using root motion, then gradually turns their body to one side, shifting into side-stepping (still with root motion), until finally transitioning to a forward walk towards the player's camera. Hopefully that makes sense. This style of movement would be very fitting for a solo project I'm working on, and I've been exploring options with custom-made math and components but I haven't had any luck coming up with a solid solution so far. I'm still in the animation stages, making all of my own custom root motion animations, so I haven't had a chance to test much. I'm just in the planning stages currently while I work on the animations and I noticed that this video seemed potentially relevant to it.
From what I understand Motion Matching works with root motion. So as far as moving a character with a little bit of lag in comparison to camera and movement you may need to look into adjusting lag from the spring arm, camera or movement component. This video is merely designed to help understanding motion matching and changing states without worrying about Chooser/ selector plug in. (but his plug in may help you with what your asking.) I hop this helps. Thanks for watching the video.
Why Aren't you Using chooser tables ? You could get rid of of the blend poses by bools nodes, the select node, and it'll be so much easier to add new states later on if needed, as you wouldn't have to go back into the ABP again
Great point!. I tried to keep it simple for beginners by not using a second plugin. I wanted to make it easy to follow. I'll consider using Chooser Tables in a future video. Thanks for the feedback.
Honestly it's very new for all of us. Here is how I understand it. 1. PSS= The characters body or skeleton. 2. PSD= Is the collection of animations that is used by the skeleton. 3. PSNS= This asset is used to position the skeleton(PSS) and collection of animations (PSD)to line up these assets in the most natural way to interact with the game level. I hope this helps more than confuse you. Thanks for watching the video. *Cheers*
Sorry no I did not include replication. I was concerned about making the video to long.(Maybe later I can make a video on replication.) Thank you for watching.
Yes it is challenging. I created motion matching videos to get people who are interested in learning this new feature to have a starting point . Later I may need to do a deep dive. Thanks for watching.
![Motion Matching - My Thoughts [UE5]](/img/1.gif)
So how would you do this if you want to have an equip animation> Say when you swap to pistol, you take it out of a holster? Would you just add it to the database? Or have a sequence that plays when you press the equip button?
Something about this guy voice is so dam funny lol
The presenter in this tutorial is very precise when he says something and seems to know exactly what he's talking about unlike a long list of UE tutorial presenters who seem to be reading instructions written down
underrated channel
00:28:45 idle animation seems to play abnormally fast.
Mine starts after about 0.5 sec when stopping. First it runs at normal 1.0 Rate Scale and then it's like quick forwarding a video.
It doesn't help to edit the Animation itself (Asset Details > Animation > Rate Scale = 0.4 for example).
🤔
Mind you I'm using my own idle animation but these pre-made seem to have the problem too.
Unreal version 5.4.3.
Yes I agree this video was just to teach a concept. I can possibly do a deeper dive later.
And to save time of other UE 5.4.3 enthusiasts:
Putting your own animations in the Trajectory of your own project and trying to get a smooth blend effect between them = nightmarish failure with strange problems and absolutely zero documentation or tutorials. The official docs and everybody in RUclips just tells the same: "Copy these 500 free animations or put your own character in the example project". Nothing about using your own animations 😑
Camera behaves like however it wants to. You have to create extra script to control backwards walking and prevent your character switching sides constantly. Legs go crazily possessed by the Devil itself etc... 👿🦵
Unless you can magically figure out a way, stick to State Machine for now. Hopefully in the future versions we get a more robust Motion Matching system 🤞
get Character Trajectory Variable doesn't show itself in my ABP
Make sure you enable plugin.
Thanks so much for this tutorial! If I wanted to use all the pistol/rifle crouch and jump animations, would I just need to set up PSDs for each of those states?
Yes that is the way I would do it. I just posted another motion match video. I hope this helps. thanks for watching the video.
@@UnrealMadeEasy Thanks again for your help. Your videos made it easy to follow along and I managed to get all the states added with the rifle/pistol crouching and jumping. I am running into a few small issues I was wondering if you encountered. The main one is that when standing still and doing a rifle jump, my character disappears for a split second when he lands. I only have two animations in the PSD (the looping rifle jump start/fall). The other issue is that the idle animations appear to play really fast, so the character isn't actually doing the 'scanning' motion. Any ideas? Thanks again!!!!
I suggest using a chooser instead of using a select node to manually switch the psd
I feel like this can’t be this easy
Nothings complex if you break it into smaller parts. Thanks for watching this video.
OMG thank you for making this tutorial. I was so lost on how I would add animations and states. This cleared up so many disconnect that I had.
Glad it helped!
You kept things very simple and easy to follow along. I need to rewatch to understand the why some things got deleted. I thought crouch stuff had been fully deleted early on? So when I seen you dragging crouch animations into the motion match databases it somewhat confused me. I think it will make sense if I go through it a second time.
Around time stamp 5:15 I deleted the Pistol/Rifle jump and crouch animations. I did this reduce the time of the video. I only used the unarmed animations. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching the video.
Great video, the pacing is really good.
Hey, thanks!
can u do a tutorial on how to give create ai characters w motion matching
You requested it. I just posted it. Thanks for watching the video.
Will you ever make a video putting it in 8 directions? ♥
I say there is a strong possibility I will make another Motion Match video to deep dive or cover what I have missed in these videos. Also if Epic makes more updates to the motion match system. Thanks for watching the video.
@@UnrealMadeEasy The only video I found related was this one ruclips.net/video/48r2O4VqfEQ/видео.html
He explains but doesn't go into depth and doesn't teach how to do it.
@@UnrealMadeEasy And congratulations on your videos, I'm learning from them and my project depends on it!! ♥
Thank you for this brother, two quick questions. How would you implement the actual shooting animation with a simple montage or would you make a separate animation container to hold all of those animations. And also will your response to this question also work for something like when you're holding a sword and want to do more of a melee gameplay. And my other question would be could you essentially replace the blend poses by bool with just using the chooser's system that works with motion matching?
Okay I think your asking if you can add combat animations. Yes you can but you need to create montages for each animation. The container your refer to is the PSD which is the database. That is used similar to blendspaces.(Only for movement. so no container for combat animations.) Also Yes you can the chooser plugin. I excluded it because I was just trying to focus on 1 plugin instead of two to teach the motion match concept. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching the video.
Hey, I really enjoyed the video and I learned a lot from it.
I also have a question. Do you think this could be useful to make the character turn towards the input direction with a bit of "lag" (like a smooth transition instead of instantly facing the input direction) AND drive all the motion with root motion instead of in-place locomotion?
An example would be something like the following:
-> Character facing away from camera
-> Player inputs the "down" direction, instructing the character to come towards the camera
-> The character begins to step backwards (moving towards the camera while still facing the other direction) using root motion, then gradually turns their body to one side, shifting into side-stepping (still with root motion), until finally transitioning to a forward walk towards the player's camera.
Hopefully that makes sense.
This style of movement would be very fitting for a solo project I'm working on, and I've been exploring options with custom-made math and components but I haven't had any luck coming up with a solid solution so far. I'm still in the animation stages, making all of my own custom root motion animations, so I haven't had a chance to test much. I'm just in the planning stages currently while I work on the animations and I noticed that this video seemed potentially relevant to it.
From what I understand Motion Matching works with root motion. So as far as moving a character with a little bit of lag in comparison to camera and movement you may need to look into adjusting lag from the spring arm, camera or movement component. This video is merely designed to help understanding motion matching and changing states without worrying about Chooser/ selector plug in. (but his plug in may help you with what your asking.) I hop this helps. Thanks for watching the video.
Why Aren't you Using chooser tables ? You could get rid of of the blend poses by bools nodes, the select node, and it'll be so much easier to add new states later on if needed, as you wouldn't have to go back into the ABP again
Great point!. I tried to keep it simple for beginners by not using a second plugin. I wanted to make it easy to follow. I'll consider using Chooser Tables in a future video. Thanks for the feedback.
umm i'm a beginner so i may have missed something but what does the pose search normalization set does here?
Honestly it's very new for all of us. Here is how I understand it.
1. PSS= The characters body or skeleton.
2. PSD= Is the collection of animations that is used by the skeleton.
3. PSNS= This asset is used to position the skeleton(PSS) and collection of animations (PSD)to line up these assets in the most natural way to interact with the game level.
I hope this helps more than confuse you.
Thanks for watching the video.
*Cheers*
@@UnrealMadeEasy Ah I see, Thanks that helps a lot. Keep up the good work :D
Thank you very much :>>
Your Welcome!
Can i add my own animations?
Yes you can. In motion match they must have root motion to work properly.
its replicated?
Sorry no I did not include replication. I was concerned about making the video to long.(Maybe later I can make a video on replication.) Thank you for watching.
Aimoffset?
That's actually THE issue I have with motion matching.... I'm creating a TopDown and it is a nightmare to get the offset right...
Yes it is challenging. I created motion matching videos to get people who are interested in learning this new feature to have a starting point . Later I may need to do a deep dive. Thanks for watching.