Building a Root Motion movement controller?

[Sanchez1139]

@OEGInc;312777

I’ve seen lots of comments about using Root Motion that sound negative (terribly difficult to implement, doesn’t work with networking, etc). Some (or all) of which may not be true, but either way I decided to experiment with it a bit and I’ve come up with a nice looking movement cycle (I think).

Trouble is, I went thru heck implementing the movement (basically reimplementing UE4’s Movement Component in Blueprints) and I can’t help but to think there has to be a better way.

My BlendSpace is setup for reverse/forward and left/right from -1.00 to 1.00 (with 0.75 in either direction being walking speed, 1.0 being sprinting).

Take a look at the schematics below and tell me what you think…

Here is an example video of what I have so far…

Unreal Engine 4.8 Root Motion Movement Example on Vimeo

Also - Please don’t **** on my code, it was thrown together in haste to see if I could make it do what I wanted - it still needs a lot of cleanup if I’m going to keep it. I was really hoping for someway to just take the standard player movement stuff and pump the values into my BlendSpace.

Like it very much, ive been playing around but not got as far as this, would you mind if i used your code to play with ?