Request: Intro to animating characters tutorial

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I’ve dug around as much as I can and I think I have the basic grasp of animating characters, but I’d like to see a more fleshed out tutorial on how to get a character animating. I’ve got a mesh, a skeleton and a couple of animations (walk, run, idle, etc), but I have a lot of trouble figuring out how to set it up so that in either code or BP I can switch said animations.

Best as I can tell I make a blend graph for the walk/run and put that into an animation state system, and put that into an anim graph that determines final pose…but how do I get the animations switching? Say I have my character whos either idling or running around and I left click to swing my sword, how do I tell the blueprint to play the sword swing animation? Where do I even store that? Locally in the level or will the BP pull it from assets?

It’s all a bit ambiguous and I’d love to see a tutorial for it

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[=Lawlcat;5073]
I’ve dug around as much as I can and I think I have the basic grasp of animating characters, but I’d like to see a more fleshed out tutorial on how to get a character animating. I’ve got a mesh, a skeleton and a couple of animations (walk, run, idle, etc), but I have a lot of trouble figuring out how to set it up so that in either code or BP I can switch said animations.

Best as I can tell I make a blend graph for the walk/run and put that into an animation state system, and put that into an anim graph that determines final pose…but how do I get the animations switching? Say I have my character whos either idling or running around and I left click to swing my sword, how do I tell the blueprint to play the sword swing animation? Where do I even store that? Locally in the level or will the BP pull it from assets?

It’s all a bit ambiguous and I’d love to see a tutorial for it
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There are millions of tutorials on YouTube, (literally millions) but here’s one in one of my many playlists - [SIZE=3]Animating a biped[/SIZE]

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[=LexLuthor1;5168]
There are millions of tutorials on YouTube, (literally millions) but here’s one in one of my many playlists - [SIZE=3]Animating a biped[/SIZE]
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I’m not really looking for the asset animation part, but the actual integration part into Unreal using the animGraph/animMontage system :slight_smile:

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An AnimBlueprint tutorial series is pretty high up on my list to do, especially after the success of my AnimTree tutorials for UDK. I need to dig up an asset that I can use for it and then I’ll definitely be working on them.

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basically look at the examples, you can go from fairly simple to quite complex depending on what your character needs

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I would like to take moment to point out that we have a tutorial that covers some of at the Unreal Engine Wiki: A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements - Epic Developer Community Forums

I hope that helps you with animating your characters! Feel free to contribute your own content to the Wiki as well! :cool:

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[= ;5673]
I would like to take moment to point out that we have a tutorial that covers some of at the Unreal Engine Wiki: A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements - Epic Developer Community Forums

I hope that helps you with animating your characters! Feel free to contribute your own content to the Wiki as well! :cool:
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oh, I didn’t see that thanks for the head up! I’d still love to see more video tutorials on “Persona”.

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Wariyth ,Please do an animBlueprint tutorial faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast , i cant really make any sense of the animblueprint system . thanks .

PS. , love u mate . you and all the other guys who helped me alot on the UDK forums are great.