4.13 Animation Features Part 2 - Sept 15th - Live from Epic HQ

[iniside]

@LDelayen;595340

Regarding #1, this is something where I don’t have a precise ETA on, unfortunately. Releasing a new Hero every 3 weeks keeps us very busy!
But I did move our LegIK node into engine and it should make it into the next version of the engine. That IK node supports any number of legs with any number of bones.
We had to overcome a few technical issues to move that down to the engine level, so now that this has been done, the future nodes should be a lot easier. (SpeedWarping, OrientationWarping and SlopeWarping).

I’m still figuring out how to port the motion prediction part, this is done in our AnimInstance in C++ and is therefore not very portable/modular. I’m thinking about turning this into a node that would be fed root motion animations. I think that would be a lot friendlier for market place type assets and more portable and modular. But that is work that is not done yet, so hard to put an ETA on, as it tends to fall to the bottom of the list.

If you have access to the AIGameDev website, I recommend watching my talk on the Paragon Character Animation. There is a lot of useful UE4 info in there:
https://archives.nucl.ai/recording/bringing-a-hero-from-paragon-to-life-with-ue4/

-Laurent

Hey thanks for the info.
I’m not sure about the root motion part. Although I understrand that root motion would only be used as referece for frame extraction. The nice thing about this stuff was fact that it cloud use in-place animations and make them look like root motion was used (without usual root motion downfalls like poor responding to player input).

Wouldn’t it be possible to just integrate it into anim instance, and just make possible for users to opt out if they don’t want to use it ? It’s working similiar with root motion now (we can just simply turn it off for everything in anim instance).

Unfortunately I don’t have access to the videos on this site.