I am working on a 2.5D Side scroller. I have animated my characters run so that the front of his torso is facing towards the camera. The problem I am having is that when he moves left the model flips and his back is facing the camera. I would like his front to always be visible to the viewer. I figured the easiest solution is to have two Running animations with the run animation flipped. However I am currently struggling to get it to play the different animation dependings on if the character is moving to the left or the right.
I’m sure this is simple, but I am new to UE4 and have not had any luck finding an answer via googling. Anyone able to help?
What I would suggest is that you make a 1D animation blendspace and in the blueprint of the character, you check the X velocity (or Y velocity, it depends on the direction the level is facing) and you use that value to control the blendspace.
The way you get the velocity of the character is like this:
If you’re not familiar with blendspaces, check out this Unreal engine 4 official tutorial (it’s old but it’s pretty straightforward so, you’ll be able to follow it pretty easily):
Then you'll have to plug that velocity X or Y value into the blendspace node in the Animation Blueprint State
PS: I don’t know your current CharacterMovement settings so after doing what i’ve said, even if you did it correctly, you might have to make sure Orient Rotation to movement in the character movement component is disabled and Use Controller rotation Yaw in the parent is also disabled
