Character jerks right when firing

Development Character & Animation
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Hey everyone, I have been playing with UE for a couple days now and i didnt notice till now. But every time i fire my “weapon” (it just spawns from my hand) the character jerks right. Only on the press however, if i hold it down, i can continue firing without any jerks but if i press it rapidly it becomes readily apparent. Any ideas? or do i need to take pictures of anything?

EDIT: if i fire while standing still the jerk does not occur and if i am moving when i fire (the base third person movement animation sequence) then the jerk occurs

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is there a new animation that plays when the button is pressed(shot is taken)? like a kick back or something?
or is there no new animation triggered?

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No new animation gets played currently.

Although i did forget to put in that if i fire while standing still the jerk does not occur and if i am moving (the base third person movement animation sequence) then the jerk occurs

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do you play that with animation montage. if yes, try to adjust the blend in and out time. and don’t forget, if you also use the Montage_Stop() function to stop your animation. set the correct blend out time.

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Are you spawning the projectile mesh too close to the muzzle. Needing collision on the muzzle might be causing a collision momentarily until it outdistances the player. You could test for that by spawning the projectile out farther.

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Thanks a lot! ill check when i get home, but its effectively an “auto” weapon and only the first click causes it, not every spawn of the projectile, so im not sure.

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It’s the basic blend space speed=transition through animations, that comes with the starter content. I’ll check once i get home from work.

Out of curiosity though, as i said i’ve only been using this for a few days now.

what is blend time, and how would one change it :slight_smile: lol

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IDK why it only happens on the first shot but this was it, apparently it needs to spawn farther out. Thanks man!

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That’s good news. I’ll put it into an answer form then for others. It happened to me and took me forever to figure it out.

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Are you spawning the projectile mesh too close to the muzzle. Needing collision on the muzzle might be causing a collision momentarily until it outdistances the player. You could test for that by spawning the projectile out farther.