If your character is stuck in the punching pose or only punches once, you need to adjust the IsStillPunching1 and 2 notifies in the punching montage. You probably have your notifies too close to the end of each punch. Adjust the notifies to the left until your punching issues are resolved.

Thank you for doing these videos, they are very well done and helpfull to starters.

This tutorial series is still good to go back to when doing other things!

If anyone has gotten to this step and their character punches but does only one punch when pressed and held I have found the solution. If you are using version 4.25.1, like I am, a lot of the menus and things have changed. In the montage section when selecting the punches to be played one after the other you have to set the punch 2 to play back to punch 1. So the order looks like this: "Punch Start > Punch 1 > Punch 2

Probably not a great place to ask, but what causes the character to dip into the ground before you blend from the pelvis? I'm doing a tutorial on custom weapons and ran into this on camera and could not find a reason. I saw the root bone is rotated in the source and when I import animations into 3dsMax, parts of the mesh get squashed and requires retargeting. Is this all due to the fact that this is NOT the original character that was animated?

If anybody encounter character not punching when select UpperBody Slot you probably forgot to set slot in PunchingMontage in video 17 around 16:34.

This tutorial is gold .

Thanks! I love UE4. You are the best!

6:28 Just a reminder, to display bone names in the latest version, click on Character button (beside the Show button) then Bones > Bone Names.

Just FYI in v 4.18.x Blend Depth found at 7:20 can be found under Config > 0 > Branch Filters and click on the + sign. If the UI isn't the same, you can check out the Unreal docs on their site, they have updated screengrabs for what you need. ie: Search unreal's site for blend depth and you'll see it.

Awesome! Easy n smooth!

Setting up all of the different sockets, combined with blending the montage, etc., gets a bit confusing.

I am using this tutorial to make a cast bar for a spell. So it has to loop the casting animation and when the casting is done it plays the execute animation. But when I test it in game and the casting time has finished it first waiting until the casting animation loop has finished before playing the execute animation. How do I make sure the montage immediately plays the execute animation when the cast time is done? Thanks

I solved a small issue of the character stuck with his arms in a T-pose. I had simply not connected the Animation Pose from the "Slot 'Upperbody'" node to the Blender Poses 0 in the "Layered blend per bone" node. You can see Wes briefly connect them at around 4:01

IS there a way to have the full animation montage play when speed is 0? so that you can have a strong looking stance if you are standing still (feet placement makes a difference in animation)

Any way to ignore a bone that is higher up? The Head for example whilst still manipulating the rest of the upper body.

Hello there, I encountered a problem with UE 4.10.4. My character won't punch at all, I've re-done previous part of the tutorial some times, I've check every part of my montage, of my CharachterBP, of my CharacterAnimBP, and I can't figure out what's happening. :( Any help is welcome !

my character is stuck in the punching pose he ould start to punch then will stop when his arm is fully extended but i can run jump and everything else

Even though everything works, I don't get the pulsing circles after compiling at 7:34. Any idea why?

Hi! I have a question I hope someone knows the answer...please help =( I am working with a custom character and I want to get my punch montage to only affect the Idle_walk_run section in the locomotion, but not the jump, since I implemented a double jump a while ago and it does a flip, the flip combined with the punchMontage breaks the rig during that moment. The upper body stays in its axis, but the legs do the flip. =/ I manage to tell it to stop the punching once the player is jumping, but since it doesnt stop inmediately only after the punch animation goes trhough PunchEnd, it still mixes the flip with the punch sometimes Unchechikng the Mesh Space Rotation Blend (in the Layer blend per bone) lets the upper body follow the legs during the flip but it displays the animation in a broken way (the joints rotate in a weird way) I hope someone knows what to do, as mentioned, ideally I would like the montage to stop inmediately playing when the character is jumping.

And how can you make the body also turn in the direction that you need?

can anybody out there tell me how I can make it so that clicking once doesn't play the entire montage? I'd like to set it up more as a combo where you have to keep clicking each time you want to attack, yet each time you attack it plays a different animation until the combo is finished.

FIX: I ran into my character continuously punching non-stop after first click. I checked the "Montage Set Next Section" and it had the right name. What didn't have the right name was the Montage itself under the trackers you put down to track the punch animations if we are still punching. I had named them "Punch 1" and "Punch 2" but I entered it in "Montage Set Next Section" as "Punch1" (no space) like this guy did. Which caused me to have a continuous punch.

my person doesn't punch, I followed what you said but doesn't work, I checked the control inputs and the graphs but still doesn't punch at all. please help

when i set "Spine" my animations are looks incorrect: left punch in left direction,the right in front, but why left not in frond? can't understand, because before this both punched was in front of character

My character was not punching when I press LMB, but now I fixed it! I accidentally skipped 1 step and that is in CharacterBP > Event Graph, at the 'Punching' Comment, I just need to tick the Pressed -> Is Punching? [ / ]. Hope this helps~

when you selected layered blend per bone it changed 'defaultslot' to upper body. Mine doesn't do that lol

I was surprised how much simpler this is without actually using an animation montage for me. I've switched to using an additive state machine (mesh space additive node needed) and have found that much... okay easier is a strong word but it has less limitations from what I have seen. Though I also don't like the montage editor while I really like logical graphs like the state machines so that also affects my judgement. Edit.: Did some more testing and honestly I didn't find any real difference outside my own preference as apparently I can just use additive animations Inside a montage and reach the exact same results through LayerPerBone (ticking mesh space) as i would with AdditiveBlend. So whichever floats your boat. Probably best to use both as montage is obviously more situated for playing something on an event interrupting things you are doing currently. To do the same thing with anim state machines you would need a secondary state machine and even that should be quite big if you wanted to manage all different types of weapon animations etc. I still don't like the montage editor, sort of hard to position sections and some other things though maybe it will be patched in later updates.

but what if I don't want to use Montage but Random Sequence player for attacks ?

I don't know if I missed a step earlier in the tutorial series or something, but when I tested my punching at around the two minute mark, my guy didn't punch. After troubleshooting for about twenty minutes, I tried checking the "Always update source pose" in the details of the slot default in the anim graph and it worked after that. Don't really know know why, but that's how I fixed it if anybody gets stuck for the same reason in the future

also i knoticed with the vids uptill now, movement isnt proper, is there a way also to make the character move in the direction foward from the mouse, not the keyboard like default characters in unreal engine and every game ever made

are the punching animations available anywhere to download? or are they a paid asset?

Hey there, absolutely fantastic tutorial, even with a quick google search to find differences in the 2015 build compared to the 2018 one, these tutorials still hold up great. Im not sure this is the best place to ask however i did notice that everything works smoothly while holding down the mouse button, when i stop holding it down he goes back to the blended pose. However if you click rapidly the montage will keep resetting until you eventually start doing the chicken dance. I was just curious if anyone knew a fix for this? I know this is just meant to be a beginners guide to Unreal Engine so i dont expect everything to be perfect, i was just curious :)

Something that isn't covered in this, wonder if anyone would know the answer. If you spam click after setting all this up, it will always restart from the beginning of the montage. How could I get it to finish playing the current punch before looking for input again? Maybe it'll be later on, idk.

Just a heads up if you're using custom animations for the punching and punching looks weird, as in your punches fly out to the sides and aren't centered. Under your Animation Blueprint Anim Graph, click the layered blend per bone node and tick 'Mesh Space Rotation Blend', this should help.

Hi, For curiosity purpose, I want to allow the character to end the animation on PunchEnd1 OR PunchEnd2, currently, the montage causes the character to end its animation with PunchEnd2 section (because it's after PunchEnd1 in the montage). Is it necessary to end the animation completely or is it possible to cut the animation after a defined section ? Have I to create multiple montages to do what I desire ?

@06:20 can we use that setup inside a state too? because I tried, in the animgraph I created a "LocomotionCache" and in the state I tried to use the setup at 06:20, cannot compile because: "Infinite recursion detected with SaveCachePose LocomotionCache and LocomotionCache" -.-

But how to exclude the Idle state from blending with a punch Slot? There was a lower body animation in a punch. But that is gone with that blending.

if my character is punching the running anim doesn't play

I had a problem where my character didn't stop punching after my first initial click. In my case the problem was that I typed in the wrong section name under Event Graph > Montage Set Next Section > Section Name to Change. I accidentally put a space between Punch1 (Punch 1) and Punch2. Seems obvious but just one more thing for you to check if you have the same problem.

all of this just for one animation programed to a key?

Adding on to the list of possible errors: Problem: Character would only punch once when left mouse button was held rather than continuously. Mistake: In "Punching Montage -> [Punching Montage] Tab -> Sections: I didn't do the last step of making Punch2 connect to Punch 1 to loop. Clicking Punch 2 in the Preview line then the green Punch 1 resolved the issue. Character now repeatedly punches while punch button is held.

I followed the 4 videos step by step and my Ant character is playing its Bite montage BUT stops in place everytime it does.. Anyone know a solution? i followed the tutorial 100%

How can I have multiple montages? For example, push one button for one montage and another for another.

My Character doesn't punch, he just start a little movement. I checked all the suggestions in the comments but i can't find a way out to solve this. Any other suggestions?

I can't stop punching to press mouse button...How can I stop punching? help me...

Ty very much

finaly find what i did wrong! There are 2 different blocks in character_animation_BP: "play montage" and "montage play", they look whery similar but we need "play montage". Hope it helps anyone.

I don't know if it will help anyone at 2:25 is not punching, it probably is because in PunchingMontage your notifies are misplaced DO NOT PUT THEM EXACTLY WHEN THE OTHER START!!! I almost killed myself out of despair while i was searching why it didn't work. Also, check in your punch event in event graph that your set IsPunching are not both checked.

thank you

As a thank you, someone needs to make a game jam game that is Zak vs. Wes, where they 'train' all these minions that do battle on an Epic battlefield B)

I wonder why my character always finishes with the right punch, no matter for how long I press the attack button.

I decided to restart my game because nothing was organized and after doing so I can't get my character to punch at all. I debugged my game and found IsPunching? does not fire in the true slot even after clicking the left mouse or left face button. Any help would be appreciated. I have rechecked all nodes to see if I didn't check the box for IsPunching? and I found no issues, but my character still doesn't punch.

Now the left and right movement is inverted? What have I done to upset the gamedev gods now!

mine only punches inthe slot"DefaultSlot" not upperbody

can someone hel my character does not stop punching

Hi. I am using unreal Engine 4.6 I don't have the option for Montage Tick Type inside the notifier event. Also, most importantly, I still can't get "IsPunching?" variable even after casting to CharacterBP. Pls Help Thanks.

my character wasn't punching , the error was the "exec" wires (white colored) were not connected properly in the characterAnimation blueprint, espacially from "casting" node to "set" node.

My character only animates through punching once and stops. I've watched the videos over and over and can't find what the issue is. Anyone else experience this?

Is it late if i leran ue4 now?

My character is not punching. I followed everything you did, what do I do? (I'm using UE4.9)

Can someone help me please the character stays with arms outstretched when he throws the punches, I have reviewed each of the steps several times and I have not been able to solve it. I'm using Unreal 4.15

All the animation related stuff in UE4 is an absolute nightmare.

3 more to go!

unreal engine 4 is beautiful its true

Did everything exactly like you did.. Not punching at all. Cant find my mistake :(

What is the button to punch?

Anyone figured out why the character doesn't punch?

This is buggy on newer version. At the 2 minute mark, you shouldn't change the name of the DefaultSlot like he says. I'm not sure why.

Have at portuguese???

my punching is infinite (UE4.10)

my character does not stop punching can anyone help??

I didnt know it was sooooo frikkin complicated to do all that stuff with animations. Are you sure there isnt an easier way???? im pretty sure beginners completely gave up on trying to learn all of this to just blend a punching animation.. lol. Ridiculous. Also what is the point on defining sockets in specific bones if later on we still need to adjust it anyways?.. :s

Wow it looks complicated and need some practice to understand

ummmmm... first!