That was, in total, one of the best Epic livestreams I've ever seen. You had the correct talent present. The community manager, the programmer, the technical animator and the animator. You were mostly unscripted, but you bounced from one to another really nicely. I really enjoyed how you added the crouch support live. Then Caleb solved the unknown bug from the chat, live on the air, using the rewind debugger and the montage editor. That was all really amazing. He even circled back to the exit animations topic and covered a detail that usually would go uncovered. I was super impressed with your presentation. This entire project is a nice gift to the gaming community, and it will definitely raise the animation floor for all but the largest studios.

Caleeeeeeb I love you since ALS 3! From the moment I opened the GameAnimationSample blueprints and started reading the comments I had a strong sense that you were involved in this. Masterful craft you done here buddy, congrats and THANK YOU SO MUCH!

This is a great livestream. I'm having so much fun listening to this, even if i'm listening in intervals. The explanation is concise, to the point, goes deep enough for people who know the previous animation tech to actually follow and learn this framework. Jumped to 5.4 this morning, stumbled on this video, and threw my locomotion system out the door to implement my own new motion matching based system. This video is expanding knowledge i picked up from shorter tutorials. Great job guys ❤

I've been waiting for this, now I have to come up with another excuse to pospone finishing my game

Caleb is a beast, ALS has been amazing to learn unreal in 4 and seeing this in engine in 5 is awesome, cant wait to see more in this project so i can focus on other mechanics of the game/demo i wanna make without having to make animations myself

Inside Unreal is a sight beyond insight. Lots of inspiration and motivation. You guys rock!

Very nice livestream and an amazing project. A suggestion to include the final project as a ThirdPerson template replacing the current template would be a plus. Thanks again for the Livestream and I hope this type of Livestream continues especially since Epic does not release a lot of animation livestreams. I wish to see more of these.

Unreal Engine, I love watching your videos!

Damn, the ALS king himself.

Thanks very much for this live stream!

1:32:49 - How to use it for your character.

It's a great thing to look forward to.

If you could also add audio to text tool + implement animation search for phrases like in this GDC talk "Procedural Generation of Cinematic Dialogues in Assassin's Creed Odyssey", that would be super cool

1:10:09 - "something cool about how to extend the system". Hands down for this great walkthrough.

I was guessing that the comment boxes might be what all that makes me lucky enough until I got this stream watched all over and get inspired by so much spotlights. I am currently simply hoping that what the presenters expected at the end of the show happens in this industry. And the whole industrial chain can be so got growth.

Are the crouch movement animations available for all characters or just for the orange model? Does the DCC content mentioned have any documentation or tutorials to recommend to me?

awesome love it

wow this is good!

Thank you guys you are all amazing, I was worry about this but once again you all nail the whole thing, thank you

Awesome project and stream. Really appreciate the work you have all put in and loving the ease at which we can access motion matching now. I wonder if you could explain or do a video on how to add attack animations into the motion matching system. I tried creating an attack database linked to an IA but that didn't seem to ever trigger the attacks, and when I tried doing it as a regular attack, it breaks the motion matching as soon as the attack is triggered. Not sure if I'm thinking about this wrong, might need to create an attack state machine but I thought it best to ask before I sink more hours into this. Thanks again

Starts @10:03

Thanks. :)

Thank you.

Tony’s introduction was awesome. It made me smile. 🎉

luv u so much Unreal

FANTASTIC

Hi, there was a Game Animation Sample update. Does anyone know if there are release notes or what changed? I already integrated the first version of GAS in my game. I was wondering if there are either bug fixes or improvements I should be looking for.

@LongmireLocomotion (same comment as the other videos post, but imma leave it here too) Hey, So this is really cool! from watching this, as we all found out, its reasonably complicated, so what would you say to making a video that showcases more specifically how to modify this system to fit a variety of needs? Specific examples might include, - Provide a flowchart of how each of the blueprints/functions are connected - Add on a double jump (with say a single motion) - Switch out the character to a custom character, (the various ways) - Connecting this to an AI controlled character - Adjusting to add a shimmy motion set instead of automatically climbing up. - Add a new state, based upon user input, maybe a roll dodge or something? - Change the current states, so this could be adapted for say, combat, or a differently driven group of animation sets. - Show how it looks with many less motions and exchanging the animation data for a different set. I'm pretty new to the engine so I'm sure some of the above can be done with a bit more basic knowledge, but I bet a lot of people would like to figure this stuff out, especially the more complex stuff! Open invitation to any other you-tubers as well!

When you just wrote another 10 thousand lines of code and you can't remember where you put anything. Traversing those lines of code, And talking to yourself when you found out that your marathon has a bug in it. And finally your debugging inner-self finds the bug for you and re-emphasizes how brilliant you in-fact are. 😆

These guys know the animation pipeline DEEP. One can tell this is more than "just a job" to them. When we transition out of capitalism to something more sane, these guys prove what taking pride in one's work looks like, and why the propaganda that "greed is the only effective motivation" is just plain stupid.

How do you reach or do what begins in the livestream?

Thats crazy, is it possible only with UE Skeleton 5? Is it some way to retarget on 4th Skeleton?

So much great information! The background techno music is distracting though :(

Do they show the replicated version?

Is this Game Animation Sample free to use in my games? if i publish a game with these animations for example?

That's cool!Thanks for sharing! And I have a question. When the MotionMatching node selects the least cost animation sequence based on trajectory and is about to apply it, what happens if there's still some discrepancy between the animation's trajectory and the predicted trajectory? How is this resolved? 1. Is this minor difference simply ignored? 2. Is the capsule movement modified to align with the animation trajectory? 3. Is the animation warped to fit the trajectory based on the player's input?

Yes

Hello! May I use it with my usual animal character (4 legs) or it works just for character with two legs? Thank you

There are plenty of free tools that will do automatic audio gating, levelling, compression, and normalization, and YOU NEED IT.

Why do no controls work in client mode?

Is there a possibility to integrate these animations into the first person template?

❤️

Any chance of good tutorials on taking these animations and transferring them to a character and using them. Very long winded method to do so at the moment.

Good luck to anyone adding dynamic footstep notifiers and sounds to nearly 500 animations.... Just saying 😢 looks really good though😊

I'd like to ask if Unreal could put timecodes in the description or a pinned comment. A lot of this information is super useful but it gets hard to find a specific subject.

Als yeah

Realizing that a certain magic symbol recognizer concept could be applied to skeletons and an animation database to score and select the closest animation.

Hello!! Add in 5.5 swimming

I was hitting my head yesterday that it's not replicating. Now I know that it's not ready for multiplayer yet. 1:37:15

Where's the foot placement in this project?

Almost 5 minutes for entry? Wow.

Why the watchtower scene reminds me a lot "Days Gone"? 😅

no example on how to implment another database on the choosers ,for example a rifle run locomotion database ,because there is no documentation eighter ..Great work on the asset .but i gues intime people will start experimenting and find out things ...........

No body talked about how we build that conants onto our won assets when making levels

[SOLVED] Hi there community! Dealing with a couple problems here, When using the Rewind debugger tool my Mesh dissapears after playback. All I see is the moving camera, anyone else with the same issue? Also (I think it's part of the same problem) I can't access the Pose Search detail window after playback. Thank you!

CC4 characters crashes the project

Looking forward to this. I tried exporting a character from the sample into an existing project and it crashed hard. Multiple times.

I was very hyped until I opened the project and realised it' is impossible to customize the animation blueprint unless being an engineer senior lead designer animator with 30 years experience. I prefer using ALS at least I can add my own things

1:39:47 So we can't use it yet for most games except endless runner and walk-simulators?

10:02

Do they explain how to move these animations into my own project?? No clue how to use this in my own. Or did I miss it. Frustrating... Working on a project and don't know animating yet. I exported everything to a new project with Export All as a test but I don't think everything's there. No clue...anyway. Video seems more for experts.

oh that's great so what exactly do you do when you load up Epics project and there is no character in there? Maybe a walkthrough should be something more then a marketing event. This is the same promotion videos. How about an actual walkthrough. It's impressive until you actually try to use it. It gets so tiresome that Epic tools never work as they present them. How about just releasing a simple walkthrough video when you release a new feature not even your staff knows how to use.

It is still too complicate for me :( i have to study more.

5.4.2 motion design-The BUG that has appeared since the 5.4 preview version has not been fixed at all! ! The bug issue with the motion graphics function remains unresolved, the same as before; Especially when generating SVG models and opening them after saving, if the axis center point automatically deviates, the use of the animator function above is also prone to failure. When the animator switches to Sequence control, the effect is unstable or ineffective. Material designers cannot save multiple effects, and custom colors for material design become invalid after switching text parameters to semi transparent----Recently, text bugs have been discovered, text animation strokes, the preview window is normal, and the MRQ rendering output has no strokes. After the preview stroke is saved, it directly returns to the default first material when opened, as well as texture cloning, and the preview and rendering output effects are unstable.

Stopped watching as soon as the original dev of ALS introduced himself. Basically we can look forward to no replication ( unless the community takes it upon themselves) and a bloated system that is complicated to learn, Perfect! Sad thing is ALS and the new Animation Sample project are the two best locomotion systems out there.

This is nice and everything, but until Unreal Engine 5 is more like Replikant I don’t wanna mess with UE for now, UE is way too complicated, it’s missing out on a lot of features to make it user friendly. Replikant is user friendly 100%, I learned how to use it in one afternoon. Oh and Replikant is AI operated, it gives you scripts, voices, auto face and body animations without head detachment, it’s beautiful

1:33:00 and 1:37:55❤‍🩹💘💝💖 especially 1:41:35

Epic -----> Fortnite !

Your engine is layered, mixed up, check boxes for the same thing on 49 different locations.... fix all that before adding new features. Like seriously..... UE is so unnecessary layered and complicated it just wastes time.

You shouldn't need a team of 4 people to walk you through this. That's just bad engine design.

When I see pronouns next to a name, I immediately ignore anything you have to say