How to get Realistic Animal Locomotion (Turning Left, Right etc.)?

[Tarrum]

Hey, been learning UE5 for a month now.

How can I make smooth, realistic movement when my Animal moves right/left, and properly turns in place for a quadruped?

Something that looks like this deer locomotion.

I bought a great asset on the marketplace (this Boar) with 100+ animations, all ready for any turn, event etc.

I can’t find any great tutorials on this compared to bipeds, and most animal movements look wonky, where turning left/right rotates their whole body and doesn’t fit a realistic game vibe. Are there any plugins that could help with this as well (like DragonIK etc., not sure).

Thanks! I’m not sure whether I need to go fully into blend spaces, state trees or what is required for this.

[Psychocist (foreverastudent)]

Have look through the following thread, it should give you a good place to start:

How to create a responsive but realistic locomotion for animals?

I start this topic because seems impossible to find any kind of tutorial, guide or topic about animal locomotion (apart from rootmotion). I’ve tested rootmotion and isn’t at all what i need (no flexibility for movement speed, turn or pivots, hard to replicate, etc). I’ve tried distance matching, but all the tutorials, guides or plugins are focused on humanoid characters, usually 8 direction movement (i don’t want strafing) and aren’t even complete, so i find myself on a dead end at some point …