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It's usable in a game, some of the changes were things I had to add support for crouch. Some of the changes were to make it more easily scalable for large projects.

You can, I do that in my videos but you could just re-parent it, that's actually what I did with those. I may do another video where I just show how to do that since this approach doesn't work well for them due to the problems that Leader Pose Logic Creates, which is one of the reasons I crashed twice while trying to make that video on setting them up.

You can but there is no easily formula for Animation. Layering will only get you so far and will only reduce the number of animations. You can bring in new animations, but it won't be Plug-N-Play. It will require some understanding of how animations need to be designed for games. With Cinematics you don't need to worry about technical design requirements for animations, you can just play them as they were made from specific angles and just cut the camera away to avoid showing the blend between animations in case they look bad. With games you can't do that though, the animations need to be made for the purpose in which your using them and they must be designed for the underlying animation system in which you intent to use them with. That's why Animation is one of the hardest things for Indie Developers, you can't simply solve the problem using Logic or sophisticated blending techniques, at some point you will actually need to either have custom animations made, or you will need to modify them. Modifying animations can sometimes be rather difficult to do well.

@@unrealdevop Thanks for the reply. I'm experienced on the animation and 3D side, I'm not a programmer though, and am trying to figure out how to customize the blueprint with my assets and animation.

@@unrealdevop Are there general points or guidelines for authoring animations for Motion Matching style of workflow? To be honest, I am kinda surprised that Epic didn't cover this at all when they released GASP. Seeing that they said they moved all characters in Fortnite to use MM. Another point: do you think it is possible to backward engineer animations looking at the 500+ anims they provided to us or without advanced knowledge of animations this won't be possible?

@@michaelvaughan2986 Well, mostly you'll be playing action based animations as montages. In some situations it may make sense to simply play them as an Additive, this will generally give smoother blending but will require the animation to be made for that pose. For Example, you could use layering to have him holding the weapon, and then you could have an Additive Montage play that has him coming out of that idle pose where he is holding the weapon, for the most part this should give decent results, I have the reloads setup so that the Montage is playing on the Upperbody, but it's first being applied to the lower body Additively.

@@RomanTimm As far as general guidelines I haven't had a chance to really dig deep into that to figure out a good workflow but during their Live Stream they did briefly discuss how they handled the authoring of those animations and it basically involved matching the root motion to the capsule movement settings they chose ahead of time, at least from my understanding. As far as how they extracted that into a curve I'm not sure. They showed them bringing the curve into Maya though and transferring it to the root bone (I believe they actually constrained it to the curve or something like that). They then (I am assuming) corrected the motion of the animation so that it fit that motion and felt grounded. It may be possible to record that motion to a curve via TakeRecorder.....Idk how they actually did it though.....that part is a mystery. It's important to note though that despite popular belief, they didn't just make animations and then they just magically worked with Motion Matching lol.....Motion Matching is not Sentient yet, so It can't just figure things out.

Yeah, thanks for clarifying that. I wasn't exactly sure what it was doing but I did end up realizing you just need to give it some time.

Yeah I'll look into that. Some people have said they had trouble figuring out how so I'm not sure why. I haven't heard of the Metahuman Ragdoll sample either.

Lol yeah, quick update

Appreciate it. I was still somewhat struggling to explain the concepts in that series when I made it.

It's one of the next videos I plan on making. I started to make it today but ran into some bugs so I released a new update and I'm going to redo it.

What do you mean it only fixed them for short and medium? They should look fine for all 9 Male Body Types and all 9 Female Body types. There is 1 Female Tall Underweight skeleton in there that has problems with it's skeleton, that was an oversight by the guys that imported it into GASP at Unreal Engine. So if you see that it's their fault and should look fine for the Metahumans you import with that Body type.

@@unrealdevop My metahuman is a male ! do i need to adjust the gun position manually for tall character ?! because i fixed it with no issue for medium size body but the gun and hands are displaced in tall one

@@Louis-v8m It shouldn't be displaced, I tested and manually configured all 18 character body types. If it's displaced on them then it may possibly be a bug. You'll have to join the Discord and I can walk you through checking to make sure the correct Data Asset is being loaded for the Tall One's. It could be that for some reason the incorrect one is being loaded for some reason.

@@Louis-v8m You know what, from the way your describing this, it sounds like you may have actually missed something during the setup. You shouldn't have had to fix ANY of them

@@unrealdevop Ahh probably ! because i didn't changed the Data Asset and just duplicated the BP of that default DAO metahuman, I will check and see if that will fix the issue

If your manually adding them to the Sequencer and baking them and root motion is being removed it's probably because you have Force Root Lock enabled.

Yeah thanks, I don't plan on offering support for multiple versions of the engine though. I can barely find time to keep up with one version, so it would be unrealistic for me to try and do that.

@@unrealdevop that's understandable, youve already done so much great work, you really are making ALS V5

@@ss-kw5sr Lol, thanks. It just started off it was just going to be a preliminary setup in preparation for doing a video series on it, I ended up realizing that it was going to be too time consuming to do a step-by-step video so I decided to just make it a project and do videos covering it along the way. For whoever is interested I probably have well over a dozen videos covering this series by now. Every time I do an update I briefly cover the changes. I probably don't go into as much depth now as I did near the beginning though. I've basically made everything from scratch though except a few retargeted and modified animations from ALS as well as those 2 weapon meshes.

Appreciate the feedback man, thanks.

Yeah I'll get around to that as soon as I get all the minor complaints and issues out of the way. People seem to prefer a polished template before I start expanding the functionality of it. The Holster/Unholster animations I am likely going to make myself, so it will take some time. I'll try to have those ready by next weekend.

@@unrealdevop cool. I personally prefer functionality and features over polish. I like modifying things always anyway and am aware things will break.

@@x64vfx Yeah I hear you but people want polish so I have to get it polished within reason before I move on, then I'll start adding more features like Ai and Equip/UnEquip

Yeah so you took that out of context, I said Motion Matching was designed for high fidelity, that still stands true. I did not however say that Layering Techniques and Aim Offsets were. As far as what you see with the Aim Offset, the reason it need to do a full spin is because it has reached it's limit, it can't turn anymore. If your ok with your character spinning around like something off the Exorcist then it's ok, you can remove the Interpolation and it will just do a 360 instead.....taking the shortest path.

Lol, yeah I have an Intel CPU too, so maybe it's an Intel thing who knows.

@@unrealdevop 13900k? I think there's a lawsuit coming up against Intel over it.

@@RenegadeRukus Nah I have a 12900k actually. I wouldn't be surprised though, I've heard these last 2 generations have had serious problems.

​@@unrealdevopnah! I have amd processor, abd having the same issue where some tab doesnt open. Even thoguh it open.... I guess its a bug from window! Because it hablppen in other application too

@@KIRA-kz8pn Ah, yeah so I had suspected it might actually be Windows. Good to know the source at least.

Just go to the GASP DAO UPDATES playlist: ua-cam.com/video/upWIKxX9KsE/v-deo.html&pp=gAQB

Appreciate it, when I noticed the problem I didn't really want to move on until I had fixed it.

It just provides a way to allow the character to hold items using only poses. Otherwise Achieving things outside of that actually requires advanced animation modification skills or the ability to make them from scratch and the technical knowledge to make them properly for the situation. Animations you find in these packs are not plug-n-play, some animations are done properly, but are incomplete sets. What people don't realize and what I'll be doing videos on soon is that animations have to be made a specific way for them to work in games, there isn't an exception too this.

@unrealdevop essentially, GASP doesn't showcase a "recommended" way of doing layered animations (for example, like Lyra does provide a showcase of that), yes? Also, the guy thay developed ALS is also part of the team that developed motion matching. I would have thought that they would showcase MM+layered animations with weapons... Last question: youll showcase how to author the animations in future videos?

@@RomanTimm Lyra uses Motion Warping techniques, it doesn't layer anything actually. I don't believe the guy that built ALS developed the Motion Matching System, he's not a programmer from my understanding. The Sample Project though he did play a major part in setting up. I don't expect him to provide any examples of layering though because that wasn't the goal of the project it was to showcase Motion Matching.

Yeah the details haven't changed much. I'll be doing some more up-to-date videos soon, was going to do some today but I had something come up.

Yeah I originally looked around seeing if someone had figured it out but then came across a twitter tip that I looked into and it turned out to work.

Yeah that's what I normally do but I didn't feel like messing with it to be honest.

@unrealdevop been there lol.

Oh yeah appreciate the feedback, not a bad idea, I may do a video covering how to set things up so that you will be less likely to lose anything during upgrades.

Are you talking about the Character Blueprint? I mean you can call them classes but unless I set it up in C++ and I'm deriving a blueprint from that Class I normally just call it a blueprint. Everyone has their own preferences. There is more then one term for something and this isn't exactly Stanford, lol. So I'm not really to worried about it.

Just go into the Ready State in the Linked Anim Layer and bypass all that logic that Pose is driven by.

I would have to look into that, I didn't actually migrate that turn in place logic over to this one so I'm not entirely sure how it's looking in 5.5 it may be back to the speed it was. I sped it up be adjusting the Motion Matching settings for those animations. you could also set the play rate to something like 0.5 to slow it down to 50%

I'm not entirely sure what you mean to be honest, but all the logic for each weapon is setup in their own linked anim layer so that you can easily modify the logic to suit your needs.

Nah I'm moved it over to 5.5 already, also this isn't actually ALS, I did use his weapons and modified some of his poses but everything else I made completely from scratch. You can go back and watch all the videos I did which basically turned into a Dev Blog.

@@unrealdevop oh nice dude your a legend. love your work you've helped me a few times with your vid. So i can go ahead and buy the GASP-DynamicAdditiveOverlay Direct Download? it has the 5.5 in it and all?

@@dayton173 Yeah for sure, Appreciate the support.

@@unrealdevop Just wanted to come back and say WOW what an outstanding job you did!!!!!! I never liked how ALS added the overlays tbh and you have done exactly what I was wanting to do myself but MUCHHHH better. Thanks for this and can't wait for future updates!!!!! What would be the best way of editing things so it won't mess anything up with the future updates or having to restart from scratch.

@@dayton173 I've taken steps to avoid this, duplicate the Linked Anim Layers and Action Data and assign your own custom own to your child blueprint of the DAO one. If you do these things you should be future proof. Thanks for the feedback btw, I appreciate it.

I haven't been sleeping well for the past 2-3 weeks. Has a lot to do with the stress I was under on this project I just left. Guy had little experience and was constantly trying to argue with me against the advice I was trying to give him. That was only half of it though, not going to get into all the details but it's the only one so far that I have had to quit.

@unrealdevop Take care brother

ko-fi.com/unrealdevop I moved it over and charge $5 now so that I can ensure people acknowledge the EULA before downloading. I did this because I caught a few people selling my work and claiming it and I realized that without a EULA I'm unlikely to be able to do anything about that.

Thanks it took me a while to wrap my head around that layering technique.

Yeah I'm going to be doing custom setup videos this week

@@unrealdevop amazing!

Thanks but that's actually a marketplace asset, I didn't actually make it. It just seemed like a good one to show as an example.

@unrealdevop which asset?

@@JustJoshinYouBro This one here: www.fab.com/listings/d2921f94-205f-40ac-853f-403c0f4b2b7b

I'll be doing a video on that this week so don't worry. I'm updating all the custom setup videos this week.

That wouldn't be a simple task, I still haven't quite nailed down the Acceleration/Deceleration requirements for Motion Matching, and without understanding those your hard pressed to get random Start/Stop Animations to work properly with Motion Matching without some serious foot sliding problems. A layering technique would be the easiest approach which was why I started this project. Perhaps someday I'll show how to integrate my project into Lyra

@unrealdevop thank you, i will try to use GASP in lyra. It's good locomotion. Thank for reply🙏🏻

@@hosseinteimouri9369 Alright, I wish you luck.

I may look into that, I'm not by any means a Material guy. I only mess with them from time to time. Thanks for the advice

I may do something like that. I just have to find the time, currently I'm trying to wrap up some changes for the project.

@@unrealdevop Great to hear that!

You can still use it for that purpose but you might need to make some alterations to how the aim is handled. For example you wouldn't really need the Pitch anymore, just the Yaw. You would also want it to follow your mouse cursor rather then aiming based off the camera. I've done all this before in projects for other people (They did pay me though). It isn't awfully difficult to pull off.

Well you might want to use the pitch I suppose. Would probably be nice to have it look like he's aiming up at someone if they are on top of a building but yeah all that is up to you, what you would want though is to basically replace the Camera Rotation with a vector pointing from the character to the mouse and use that as the rotation. For example a vector pointing from A to B would be calculated as B - A

@@unrealdevop Thanks for the quick response.. I was just mainly concerned due to my lack of knowledge regarding the motion matching anims; but if that won't stand in the way for implementing it I'll give it a go :)

@@thenoobdev This system is designed to allow you to easily layer over the upper body. Most Action Based Full Body Animations are going to be played as Montages anyway. Honestly I can't think of an easier way for Indie Devs the handle the animation side of things, but there will always be challenges based around what you want in the game and what's available. It's almost always the case that if you want full body animations in your game your basically required to perform some amount of modification to get them to work well with other animations. Animation Studios have Dedicated Animators that make all their animations for their specific purposes. Animations are not Lego Blocks, they are more like puzzle pieces that are designed ahead of time to fit with specific pieces in the puzzle, in terms of animation this usually means that the animation starts in a pose that is close to the pose your coming out of.

Ok

Yeah I have a 1-1.5 hour long video just going over how the system works. I'm going to make a few changes to how I handle some things in the project soon and then I will so a video breaking it all down again. Honestly though, I'm not sure it's really possible to strip it down any more then it is. For this system to work and function properly you really need all those moving parts. I will likely make a written documentation at some point as well.

@@unrealdevop Any idea why the hands would be animating but the arms aren’t raised ? I realised it is being called from my weapon using linkedanimlayer when I noticed the fingers clenched, the trigger finger also noticeably changes when aiming 🤔 I’m perplexed 🧐

@@nathanmckerrow9059 More then likely your not adding Layering data in the chooser for that gameplay tag. I'll be doing videos on Creating Custom Linked Anim Layers, and Adding Characters soon. The Chooser stores the layering data, these settings are chosen based on Gameplay Tags. If you create a new Gameplay Tag that doesn't follow the structure in my project, then it won't find any Layering Data for the tag and your Linked Anim Layer will not be layered.

Yeah I take pretty big hits lol