Aim & Roll Additives in First-Person Animation (like Overwatch)

Development Character & Animation
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Hi guys,

I’m in the process of creating a fps game and something I would love to have as an extra layer of motion is something Matthew Boehm explains he and his team used in Overwatch.
He explains it in this video: Animation Bootcamp: The First Person Animation of Overwatch - YouTube

He talks about aim & roll additives where the player’s arm drags along the rotation of the camera. How would you guys achieve this? Is this only possible through C++ or also some smart Blueprints?

I’d love to hear what you guys have to say.

Greetings,

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Yeah, i’d like to know if someone has found some solution for this. it would be great

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The easiest way in my opinion is to use a spring equation and then make the gun look at it, imagine a box infront of the weapon that has a active positional spring when you rotate the camera, then the gun is using a look at constraint and it appears to jiggle rotate towards the goal.

At least i think thats one of the easier ways to do it.