For anyone having issues with the Search & Replace / Mirror, the option is gone in 5.3 for now. Simply change everything to the right equivalent and flip your primary axis and secondary axis. (-1 to 1) and (1 to -1).
Do you also have this problem with the SimpleMirrorFK function? Because it doesn't work for me. Might be that I've missed something but I double checked it multiple times, so I assume that is not the case haha.
@MadioxxUE I don't actually recall. I did this in a one off project just to learn but I believe I did most mirroring by hand when he did any Search and Replace / Mirror operations.
@@evansbohl hi thanks for the tutorial i was wondering if u can help ? The pelvis_ctrl is stuck to the bottom of feet and no longer slips up and down the body, instead it moves the whole charictor (rings aswell), i had it working and was fiddleing about and now i'm stuck any idea's, cos im about to delete everything and start again.
I know its late, but can I just say this is the best unreal tutorial I've ever seen in my 5 years of trying to learn unreal following countless tutorials. This is the best one hands down. First there is no rambling for 40mins about stuff I'm never going to understand. Second you keep it clear and direct so I can understand, not expecting me to automatically know what's going on. You got it split into sections so its easy to follow. You are better than mat Aspin by a country mile, please don't ever give up, keep going keep this formula, and even if you don't get rich, you are very very helpful THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
Oww thank you so much Thedon for this kind message 🙏💙 It warms my heart to know that viewers appreciate the fact that I go the extra mile with my tutorial 😊
This is one of the best explanation I see creating a rig, I love the finger rig method, have to go through this from beginning to end with unreal open when I have time. Thank you!
Hey thanks a lot Apixel for your feedback! Glad to know you liked it 😁 Hope it will serve you as a starting point for learning more about control rig 😊
I'm a disabled Vet trying to make good use of my time now that my lifestyle has drastically changed. You are an incredible and thorough teacher. God bless you, my friend, and thank you for your help. I have subscribed to you.
Hi Voxel Heart! I'm not an animator myself but it's great to know that this video is adapted for people that are already in the animation field 😁 Thank you for the feedback 🙏
This tutorial is pure gold! I wish there were more people with your motivation to teach! Everything from the explanation to the fine details where you put a smaller bloom around the mouse cursor makes this hour long tutorial easy to follow while being fun because you actually see the result right away! Liked and subscribed! Hope we see another great tut soon!
What I enjoy about your tutorials is that you explain why we do stuff, some tutorials just tells us how to do things without why we're doing it! Edit; Not only that also make sure we have context of everything we're doing
I've been studying UE5, and i agree with most of the comments about you being an excellent professor, you're very clear, you explain things in a logical order and repeat processes as needed to give absolute context. Congratulations and thank you for doing these.
My Dude, This is great! Epic needs to feature this on the their news page, This is the exact tutorial I was looking for. I have animated 2d Sprites in Spriter Pro, and was desperately trying to figure out how to do the same in UE5 so I could make my own, and here it is.
Wow thanks CreatingWorlds for this awesome feedback! Haha I hope someday Epic will feature my content on their page 😁 Anyway, I'm glad I could help you with the things I know about the engine 😊
Agreed, this is the 5tthvideo I've watched and so far the only one that's accurately explained. I'm modeling a centipede right now, but using this as a how to guide.. so far so good.
I have a bit of experience with rigs in other systems but needed to get set up in Unreal as quickly as possible. Your video was perfect! It covers all of the details and the pace is just right for me. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
Wow! I can only imagine the time and effort you must have put into the preparation for the tutorial alone. And imo it really paid off. Very clean and easy to follow for beginners like myself. Easy recommendation for anyone who might ask me about rigging/animation. Good job! 🙂
Thank you very much idd kfa for this awesome feedback on my work! Indeed, it took me a huge amount of time to create this haha But seeing feedbacks like yours makes me want to create even more tutorials 😁
I've seen every video about control rig, and this was the first to explain primary axis and secondary axis. I was beginning to think I was going to have to make a video on it myself. Good job man!
Hey thank you very much Antreges! Yeah I'm not an animator so I struggled to when trying to undestand what these were doing haha Glad to know you liked my video 😁
@@EdddSpeedruns If you got a shit-ton of time you should check out Gabriele Pellegrini's videos. The series is only 6-9 months old, though it has become outdated since 5.0.1 released, but the theory behind most of it still remains relevant. Also now that I think about it, he covered axis too.
Absolutely incredible! I can't believe how clearly you speak and especially how you were able to go on for so long, at such a pace, and without drinking several liters of water!!! I can't even begin to tell you how helpful this has been as an UE noob
Hey thank you so much for your awesome feedback 😁🙏 It took me a lot of time to record this tutorial, and seeing these kinds of feedback is rewarding and makes me want to continue on making new tutorials 😊 Thanks!
Hey Eddd! Thanks a lot my friend for your feedback! It's so rewarding to know that I can help a lot of people with my knowledge of the engine 😊 I hope that my next tutorials will be useful too 😁
This is probably the most user friendly tutorial I've seen for UE5. Im a massive noob at this, only been using UE5 for about a week, but this video shows a great way of making animations. Thank you sir!
Hello, we are having problems finding "Search & Replace / Mirror. 29:26 It does not appear in version 5.3. There are quite a few that have the same problem. Is there a solution to fix this?
I kinda got stuck on that for far longer than I would like to admit. Stopping the tutorial to scourge the net for an answer for these missing tools. But there's an apt military phrase I've been trying to internalize that works here too: "There are two types of people; the ones that try to find their missing glow stick batteries and those that move on to the next task".
For someone that has just started the blender and Unreal dive of exploring how the two software's work you do a great job showing step by step and i just want to say thank you so much for showing people like me how it can be done in a way even new people can understand!
Hello Evans, this tutorial is amazing. Un grand merci! I have no idea if others are encountering this as well but I've got two issues: When applying this to UE5 Manny and exporting linked anim sequences, the anim sequence preview shows a lot of stretching of the mesh (but does not do so after retargetting UE5->UE4 and it does not show so in-game). Second issue (might be solved, read the EDIT): you can not see it in the video but the arm IK leaves the arms a bit wrangled. You can see it if you use a human mesh. Did you notice that and did you find something for it? EDIT: For the second issue, i noticed leaving the secondary axis empty solves the problem and IK works 100% In any case, un très très grand merci.
Hi RA! Thank you for your feedback on this tutorial! Hum... unfortunately I've never encountered an issue like this one... Maybe it's a bug with UE5? As for your second issue, maybe it's because I've mixed the secondary axis in my tutorial? Someone told me that I didn't put the correct value, but I didn't see it lol Thanks again and have a great one!
Hi DH! Thanks a lot for your feedback 😊 Indeed, when working on this tutorial, I wanted the viewers to learn things and not necessarily replicate everything that I'm doing ^^ Thanks again and have a great one! 😁
Yeah, excellent! Love how you showed all our options. Really good. Can I ask you to enhance this with Part-2 on how to implement joint constraints so the model does not break in Level Sequence. Also, do metahumans already have a control Rig build on import? Look forward to seeing more ControlRig from Evans!
Hey thank you so much Ivan for your feedback 😁 Unfortunately, since I'm not an animator, I must admit that I don't know what a joint constraint is 😕 Can you explain what you mean by that? If I can, I'll do a second part! And yes metahumans already have a control rig. Thanks again Ivan and good luck on learning more about this wonderful tool!
@@evansbohl hey !!! U kind of already show it … it’s the limits on the range of motion in the transforms of the bones. I am just looking for a more in depth version of that. For example the Rotational values of the arm and pole vector break my arm model. … so, 1st how do we zero xyz transform values enabling me to know more accurately how much to limit and it what direction to set the values.
I have an error using the Parent Constraint node. This causes the arrays for the FKChain to be out of range without reason. Even having the node in the graph with no connections causes this error to prevent the FKChain node from working. To resolve this, instead, I had to match the example third-person control rig and use the Set Transform - Bone with the pelvis bone and the pelvis control. Has anyone else experienced this error?
Just double-checked, and this makes the SimpleMirrorFK function unusable; any solution to this sort of error would be greatly appreciated! Edit: This must be some weird experimental bug. Creating a second parent constraint node, and deleting the one with errors on it, fixes the issue. Copying the Parent Constraint node is fine, but I can never right-click and make a Parent Constraint node without having that node create errors.
Hey sorry for the really late reply, I didn't see your comment! Unfortunately these kinds of error happen a lot in control rig. Like you said, they are some kind of false positive due to the fact that it's still at an experimental phase ^^
I love the tutorial. It's a great tutorial. I never had the same axis in the settings. Every time he'd say "and put 90 degrees on the Y" I'd just sigh, pause, put 90 into each axis one by one until something worked or didn't and then move on.
@@evansbohl Yeah, i assumed it was because I was using a Mixamo character. It wasn't too much of a hassle, and the tutorial was still very very helpful.
Now that I've followed your instructions, I can't even begin to describe how grateful I am. Your tutorials are amazing. So much detail, so thoughtfully stated. I used to feel frustrated while I was learning control rig, but now it's whala. One more request Evans can you do same type for Face rig it will great. thank you
Thank you for taking the time to create this tutorial. It's helped me to understand how to create my own initial idle animation from which I can them learn more. thanks!!
Thanks to this tutorial (and a little experimenting) I finally understand how control rig works. What I have done is added nodes in the forward solve such that first the controls themselves are set to the locations of bones (turning off the ability to move the controls). This allows setting another animation in sequencer. I then make a key for every control, then edit the control rig so that just the controls set bones (and not the other way around). And finally this allowed me to make edits for animations using the control rig. It's a game changer since I can start animating with a set pose and make edits to existing animations.
@@becmuda174 Not 100% backwards solve but it's close enough for me. The fingers are not perfectly aligned but it's not really visible in game with montage blend times.
i was literally looking for a video like this about six months ago and i gave up but thanks to you i can continue what i was working on thanks allot man! I really appreciate tutorials like this. Your amazing man, thanks allot and keep it up.
Hi Winston! Thank you so much for this awesome feedback 🙏 It's always a great pleasure to know that I can help people with my knowledge of the engine! Glad to know I could help you unlock your problem 😊
Voilà! new sub. I loved it. I am pleasantly surprised that you showed so many ways of doing the same thing going from rudimentary to more a complex setup. It just helped to organize things in my brain. Great stuff, thanks!
This video is amazing and helped me immensely, few things they've changed but got everything working eventually, love your accent too btw. Keep up the good work, I subscribed because this video is so good.
Hi Metamorph! Thank you so much for this awesome feedback 😊🙏 Glad to know you like my accent too! I try to hide it a bit, but reading this kind of comments makes me want to stay like I am 😁
Oh my god, Im new to unreal engine and this tutorial has so much information and easy to understand. Please upload more videos any kind of tutorials, your explanation is a legend bro. Keep it up!!
Bro, you are an absolute legend! I am still getting the hang of Control Rigs and have watched a number of videos on it. Yours is by far the best! Thank you for all the work and time you invest in this!
Man thank you so much for this awesome comment 🙏 It's extremely rewarding to know that viewers appreciate the amount of work I put into each of my tutorials 😁 Thanks again and have an awesome one!
As a programmer, control rig is an amazing feature that makes it so much easier to create procedural animations without knowing much about animation. Of course it's better to still know these things still.
It was a pain to create a custom rig to some skeleton that was made really awfull (bones coordinates and positions were a total mess) but still was able to finish and create some animations. Thanks for the tutorial!
This is one of the best explanation I have seen , I've followed your tutorial now, and I have no words to express my gratitude. Love your tutorials. So much info and so carefully explained. Liked and subscribed 👍👍👍🌼🌼🌼🌺🌺🌺
Thank you Robert 🙏😊 It's awesome to know that my way of teaching can help people achieve what they want with Unreal 😁 This makes me want to continue on making more tutorials!
Hey Roman! Haha that's the first time someone call me a god 😁 Thanks a lot! I'm glad to know I could help you better understand how control rig works 😊
if anyone's getting tripped up at 44:30 when he changes the control type from "Euler" to "Float", Unreal seems to change the transform offset back to 0,0,0 when you change the control type. You have to go back to 42:35 and do that bit again. Not sure if this is just me, or a change in Unreal Engine since the video came out
Thanks Toupin for the info, maybe it's a problem related to the version of the engine? Anyway, thanks again, I think it will be useful to other viewers as well 😊
It's like you pick everything that I have a question about and make a tutorial about it! This is a brilliant video! I also loved the rapid map making tutorial! Looking forward to more - great job!
@@evansbohl It's clear that you do. Keep up the great work. I completed my character rig and have made 5 animation sequences already which I really didn't want to do in blender! Thanks you for this
for ue5.3, to lock the transform's min and max at 3:18, you'll have to go into the property matrix. To do that, you just select the root_ctrl, and in the details tab, up at the top, right next to the searchbar, you can find a small button to the right of it that kinda looks like the outline of a calculator, when you hover over it, it says "Edit Selection in Property Matrix" click on it, and it'll open a new tab, with a new details section that should have the min and max buttons listed. Now continue following the tutorial. This is the way that I've found, but I'm still new to ue5, so it could really do anything, hopefully this is the proper way to do it, if you have any other suggestions, feel free to reply.
Hi Robin! Merci beaucoup! Yeah I tried to put as much knowledge as I could in this video so that viewers can keep learning control rig by themselves. It's great to read all these kind feedbacks 😁
Hi Activemotionpictures! Thank you very much for your feedback! I agree, chapters are a great way to find your way in each tutorial and watch only the parts that are the most useful for you 😊 Thanks again and have a great one!
Just getting into game development and trying to get familiar with the basics, and it is impossible to find tutorials with both good content and someone likeable sharing it. You are awesome! Please dont stop making videos!
Hi Casey! I'm so grateful for reading this kind of feedbacks on my UA-cam 🙏 I must admit that, due to the fact that English is not my native language, sometimes I'm afraid that people won't understand what I'm trying to say haha But reading comments like yours makes want to keep uploading new tutorials! Thanks a lot Casey and have a great one 😊
@@evansbohl No problem at all! and your accent is the last thing I would worry about, I think its an important part of who you are and it only adds to the value of your content, keep it up!
Hi, I really liked your video, your approach is awesome, as some commentators said you don't hurry and don't make it unnecessary slow, it's super easy to listen to to you because you dont stumble every 2 seconds. I would really appreciate if you made a series of videos on advanced locomotion system. I know it would take a lot of time, but Im getting desperate, there are tons of videios on this topic, but they explain easy stuff and leave out things like curves etc. anyway I wont stop searching for a good tutorial but if you made it, it would be great. Thanks again
FYI, for the fingers, instead of dividing by the max value, you can also use the "remap" node and plug the maximum value of the get control float to the source maximum value of the remap node.
Thank you for that tutorial! Trying sporadically animating stuff in different applications since 3d studio max 😀This is the first time I managed to animate a character. So happy I found your channel!
Hey Markus! Thank you for this awesome feedback! I'm so happy to know that I can help people from our community learn more things about Unreal Engine 😊
Ever since getting into game dev I have always wanted to learn how to make animations. This is such a huge help and I very much appreciate your detailed tutorials. Could we possibly get a tutorial on how to create a walking or running animation, this would be a huge help.
Hey! Thank you so much for your feedback! It's awesome to know that I can help people with my knowledge of the engine 😊 As for your request, unfortunately I'm not an animator so I won't be the correct person to teach how to author animations. Maybe you can search for blender tutorials on the subject and try to replicate it in Unreal Engine?
Hi TechnoKratZ! Wow thank you so much for this awesome feedback on my tutorial 🙏💙 It takes a lot of time to record these kinds of video, and seeing comments like yours makes me want to go even farther and create more content 😊 Thank you!
Very good and complete tutorial, thanks Evans! But I found a problem with the upperarms and lowerarms and to solve that I created upperarm controls and parented to the arm nulls, then the upperarms parented to lowerarms, then lowerarms parented to hands and then hands to finger nulls and finger controls. I also change type of kinematics to the fingers and added FK instead of arrows to the fingers to bend them, so I have created controls to all the bones 1, 2, 3 of the fingers and used forward kinematics instead of the type of your tutorial, just for more accurate fingers movements and bending, that I prefer that way, but we can use also your type. THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL, I really appriciate your video, it's the most complete one, thanks.
Very good video! well explained, very didactic. As a programmer, I have some difficulty understanding modeling, animation, these more artistic things and I had no doubts with your video! Congratulations. I wanted to ask you for a logical continuation of this video. It would be very interesting to have a channel that shows the connection of things. You showed how to create the control rig and how to create an animation sequence, now I could continue showing how to use these animations in a blendspace for example. Thanks.
Hey General Novais! Thank you so much for this feedback! As a programmer myself, I totally understand the struggle you can have with these artistic parts of the engine. I'm really glad to know that I could help you with my tutorial 😊 As for your request, I plan on releasing more animation tutorials in the near future, especially one for how to setup a third person character with all of his animations 😁
Immense thanks! I already have played with the control rigs in the past, but didn't know how to make ones for specialty creatures and characters. Also, I can't believe how simple the animation mode is now for making custom anims! Thanks for making this tutorial. You sir have earned a subscriber! Amazing :)
Hi CommonTime! Thanks to you for taking the time to leave this awesome feedback on my video! 🙏😊 It's cool to know that I could help you better understand how control rig works! Thanks again and have a great one!
Thank you so much Oberon for this awesome feedback 🙏💙 It's rewarding to know that I can help people with what I know about this wonderful engine 😊 Thanks again and have a great one!
this is absolutely fantastic! great voice too! (I've never done any coding or game design before, but decided to learn/teach myself. it's going as one would expect.)
Hey HideousFox! Thank you so much for this comment! I've never had feedback on my voice haha It's cool to know that it sounds good 😊 Thanks again, have a great one and good luck on your learning!
Hi! First of all, great tutorial! The best one I have seen on this topic. However, I have some questions: 1. Can you record a video/explain how you would set the control rig so it helps with "two-handed" animations? (Where our character holds a wood ax or double-handed weapon, for example) 2. Do you have any recommendations for specifying mins and maxes for the control rig? That could help a lot with the animation-making process! Greetings!
Hello hello! Thanks for the feedback on my video! 😁 As for your questions: 1. Hum, intuitively, what I would do is create controls for moving each hand separately so that I can stick them to the two handed weapon, and a third control that will move both two hands at the same time for moving the weapon along with the two hands that are stuck on it. 2. I think you can have a look at limits. I can't open unreal at the moment but I think it's called Limits :)
WOW! What a fantastically performed tutorial. Detailed, to the point, and well explained step by step. This is probably the best tutorial I have ever seen. Great Job Evans, I'm going to keep an eye on your channel. Looking forward to more UE5 content. Liked and subed. Cheers.
Hey Andrew! Thank you so much for this kind comment 🙏😊 I'm struggling with my English haha but reading this kind of comments, I'll keep making videos for sure 😁
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I never found a UE5 tutorial more organized, in depth, and enjoyable than this one. I hope you can continue doing these tutorials. Thank you Evans..
For anyone having issues with the Search & Replace / Mirror, the option is gone in 5.3 for now. Simply change everything to the right equivalent and flip your primary axis and secondary axis. (-1 to 1) and (1 to -1).
Do you also have this problem with the SimpleMirrorFK function? Because it doesn't work for me. Might be that I've missed something but I double checked it multiple times, so I assume that is not the case haha.
@MadioxxUE I don't actually recall. I did this in a one off project just to learn but I believe I did most mirroring by hand when he did any Search and Replace / Mirror operations.
@@MadioxxUE the SimpleMirrorFK worked for me, I didn't properly mirror all the bone and control names for the right leg on the IKTwoBone node
@@88FlyingHigh88 do you also know the "for each" in blurprint i couldnt find it
Hello I wanna ask if my PC setup can run ue5 Asus gaming PC with i5 4690 16gb ddr3 ram 500 hdd and gtx 1050 2gb
I've followed your tutorial now and I have no words to express my gratitude. Love your tutorials. So much info and so carefully explained.
Thanks my friend! It's a bit hard for me to speak english, but hopefully I'll get better over time :)
I love how you have the little timer that goes across the bottom of the screen to let you know when you’re changing the topic, that is so cool.❤
Hey thank you Curtis 🙏😊 glad to know you find this useful 😁
@@evansbohl hi thanks for the tutorial i was wondering if u can help ? The pelvis_ctrl is stuck to the bottom of feet and no longer slips up and down the body, instead it moves the whole charictor (rings aswell), i had it working and was fiddleing about and now i'm stuck any idea's, cos im about to delete everything and start again.
I know its late, but can I just say this is the best unreal tutorial I've ever seen in my 5 years of trying to learn unreal following countless tutorials. This is the best one hands down. First there is no rambling for 40mins about stuff I'm never going to understand. Second you keep it clear and direct so I can understand, not expecting me to automatically know what's going on. You got it split into sections so its easy to follow. You are better than mat Aspin by a country mile, please don't ever give up, keep going keep this formula, and even if you don't get rich, you are very very helpful THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
Oww thank you so much Thedon for this kind message 🙏💙 It warms my heart to know that viewers appreciate the fact that I go the extra mile with my tutorial 😊
Hello I wanna ask if my PC setup can run ue5 Asus gaming PC with i5 4690 16gb ddr3 ram 500 hdd and gtx 1050 2gb
@@Films_zonez if you use Lumen and Nanite no unfortunately.
This is one of the best explanation I see creating a rig, I love the finger rig method, have to go through this from beginning to end with unreal open when I have time. Thank you!
Hey thanks a lot Apixel for your feedback! Glad to know you liked it 😁 Hope it will serve you as a starting point for learning more about control rig 😊
Oh, good Lord, I was looking for this exact video and it was just released today. Vishnu bless you and everyone who loves you.
That's great serendipity! Glad to know I could help! Thanks and good luck on learning more about control rig 😊
Literally the best Tutorial on this subject on youtube. Simple to follow and understand.
Oh man, the holy grail of UE5 tuts. Keep em coming
Haha thanks a lot skinny lizard 😊
I'm a disabled Vet trying to make good use of my time now that my lifestyle has drastically changed. You are an incredible and thorough teacher. God bless you, my friend, and thank you for your help. I have subscribed to you.
Thank you so much for your kind words and for subscribing! I truly admire your strength and resilience. God bless, and thank you for your service!
Can’t thank you enough for the amount of work you put into your tutorials.
Thanks a lot MrGensh 😊 It's a lot of work indeed, but seeing all the positive feedbacks make me want to continue even more 😁
Easily the best video for making control rigs. The default UE5 one is shocking, everyone should follow this tutorial.
As an animator wanting to do more in-engine animations, this tutorial was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for this!
Hi Voxel Heart! I'm not an animator myself but it's great to know that this video is adapted for people that are already in the animation field 😁 Thank you for the feedback 🙏
This tutorial is pure gold! I wish there were more people with your motivation to teach! Everything from the explanation to the fine details where you put a smaller bloom around the mouse cursor makes this hour long tutorial easy to follow while being fun because you actually see the result right away! Liked and subscribed! Hope we see another great tut soon!
What I enjoy about your tutorials is that you explain why we do stuff, some tutorials just tells us how to do things without why we're doing it!
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Not only that also make sure we have context of everything we're doing
Thank you so much MortMort for this kind message 🙏💙 It warms my heart to know that I can help people with my knowledge of the engine 😊
I've been studying UE5, and i agree with most of the comments about you being an excellent professor, you're very clear, you explain things in a logical order and repeat processes as needed to give absolute context. Congratulations and thank you for doing these.
My Dude, This is great! Epic needs to feature this on the their news page, This is the exact tutorial I was looking for.
I have animated 2d Sprites in Spriter Pro, and was desperately trying to figure out how to do the same in UE5 so I could make my own, and here it is.
Wow thanks CreatingWorlds for this awesome feedback! Haha I hope someday Epic will feature my content on their page 😁 Anyway, I'm glad I could help you with the things I know about the engine 😊
Agreed, this is the 5tthvideo I've watched and so far the only one that's accurately explained. I'm modeling a centipede right now, but using this as a how to guide.. so far so good.
I have a bit of experience with rigs in other systems but needed to get set up in Unreal as quickly as possible. Your video was perfect! It covers all of the details and the pace is just right for me. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
Wow! I can only imagine the time and effort you must have put into the preparation for the tutorial alone. And imo it really paid off. Very clean and easy to follow for beginners like myself. Easy recommendation for anyone who might ask me about rigging/animation. Good job! 🙂
Thank you very much idd kfa for this awesome feedback on my work! Indeed, it took me a huge amount of time to create this haha But seeing feedbacks like yours makes me want to create even more tutorials 😁
These tutorials are amazing, the fact that you take extra time to show multiple different ways of how to do things is mind blowing
I've seen every video about control rig, and this was the first to explain primary axis and secondary axis. I was beginning to think I was going to have to make a video on it myself. Good job man!
Ikr, he's covering things literally no one else does
Hey thank you very much Antreges! Yeah I'm not an animator so I struggled to when trying to undestand what these were doing haha Glad to know you liked my video 😁
@@EdddSpeedruns If you got a shit-ton of time you should check out Gabriele Pellegrini's videos. The series is only 6-9 months old, though it has become outdated since 5.0.1 released, but the theory behind most of it still remains relevant. Also now that I think about it, he covered axis too.
@@AntrygJones cool I will check it out when I find time, thanks!
Absolutely incredible! I can't believe how clearly you speak and especially how you were able to go on for so long, at such a pace, and without drinking several liters of water!!! I can't even begin to tell you how helpful this has been as an UE noob
Hey thank you so much for your awesome feedback 😁🙏 It took me a lot of time to record this tutorial, and seeing these kinds of feedback is rewarding and makes me want to continue on making new tutorials 😊 Thanks!
Another absolute great tutorial, thank you so much
Hey Eddd! Thanks a lot my friend for your feedback! It's so rewarding to know that I can help a lot of people with my knowledge of the engine 😊 I hope that my next tutorials will be useful too 😁
Probably the best tutorial video i ever enjoyed to follow , every second, easy to understand , easy to follow
Hey man, at 29:28 the option "search & Replace / Mirror" doesn't appear for me, any Idea why?
This is probably the most user friendly tutorial I've seen for UE5. Im a massive noob at this, only been using UE5 for about a week, but this video shows a great way of making animations. Thank you sir!
Hello, we are having problems finding "Search & Replace / Mirror. 29:26 It does not appear in version 5.3. There are quite a few that have the same problem. Is there a solution to fix this?
I kinda got stuck on that for far longer than I would like to admit. Stopping the tutorial to scourge the net for an answer for these missing tools.
But there's an apt military phrase I've been trying to internalize that works here too: "There are two types of people; the ones that try to find their missing glow stick batteries and those that move on to the next task".
For someone that has just started the blender and Unreal dive of exploring how the two software's work you do a great job showing step by step and i just want to say thank you so much for showing people like me how it can be done in a way even new people can understand!
Thank you Rex Recap for this kind comment 🙏 It warms my heart to know that people appreciate the work I put into each of my tutorials 😊
Hello Evans, this tutorial is amazing. Un grand merci! I have no idea if others are encountering this as well but I've got two issues: When applying this to UE5 Manny and exporting linked anim sequences, the anim sequence preview shows a lot of stretching of the mesh (but does not do so after retargetting UE5->UE4 and it does not show so in-game).
Second issue (might be solved, read the EDIT): you can not see it in the video but the arm IK leaves the arms a bit wrangled. You can see it if you use a human mesh. Did you notice that and did you find something for it?
EDIT: For the second issue, i noticed leaving the secondary axis empty solves the problem and IK works 100%
In any case, un très très grand merci.
Hi RA! Thank you for your feedback on this tutorial! Hum... unfortunately I've never encountered an issue like this one... Maybe it's a bug with UE5? As for your second issue, maybe it's because I've mixed the secondary axis in my tutorial? Someone told me that I didn't put the correct value, but I didn't see it lol Thanks again and have a great one!
Great tutorial! I really like that you showed many different techniques and not just repeated the same steps over and over again.
Hi DH! Thanks a lot for your feedback 😊 Indeed, when working on this tutorial, I wanted the viewers to learn things and not necessarily replicate everything that I'm doing ^^ Thanks again and have a great one! 😁
Yeah, excellent! Love how you showed all our options. Really good. Can I ask you to enhance this with Part-2 on how to implement joint constraints so the model does not break in Level Sequence. Also, do metahumans already have a control Rig build on import?
Look forward to seeing more ControlRig from Evans!
Hey thank you so much Ivan for your feedback 😁 Unfortunately, since I'm not an animator, I must admit that I don't know what a joint constraint is 😕 Can you explain what you mean by that? If I can, I'll do a second part! And yes metahumans already have a control rig. Thanks again Ivan and good luck on learning more about this wonderful tool!
@@evansbohl hey !!! U kind of already show it … it’s the limits on the range of motion in the transforms of the bones. I am just looking for a more in depth version of that. For example the Rotational values of the arm and pole vector break my arm model. … so, 1st how do we zero xyz transform values enabling me to know more accurately how much to limit and it what direction to set the values.
This is by far the best tutorial for how to actually create animations in Unreal 5. Thank you for all your hard work!
Thank you Solar Falcon 🙏😊 It's awesome to know that this tutorial is still relevant today!
I have an error using the Parent Constraint node. This causes the arrays for the FKChain to be out of range without reason. Even having the node in the graph with no connections causes this error to prevent the FKChain node from working. To resolve this, instead, I had to match the example third-person control rig and use the Set Transform - Bone with the pelvis bone and the pelvis control. Has anyone else experienced this error?
Just double-checked, and this makes the SimpleMirrorFK function unusable; any solution to this sort of error would be greatly appreciated! Edit: This must be some weird experimental bug. Creating a second parent constraint node, and deleting the one with errors on it, fixes the issue. Copying the Parent Constraint node is fine, but I can never right-click and make a Parent Constraint node without having that node create errors.
@@MrHiiii5 you just solved my problem, thanks!
Hey sorry for the really late reply, I didn't see your comment! Unfortunately these kinds of error happen a lot in control rig. Like you said, they are some kind of false positive due to the fact that it's still at an experimental phase ^^
I've looked at at least 10 control rig tutorials and found yours as the easiest to follow and best one i've found. thank you!
Oh thank you so much for this kind feedback 🙏💙
dude, this video is an educational video on how tutorials should be made first of all and then a tutorial for animation, amazing one, keep it up!
I love the tutorial. It's a great tutorial. I never had the same axis in the settings. Every time he'd say "and put 90 degrees on the Y" I'd just sigh, pause, put 90 into each axis one by one until something worked or didn't and then move on.
Hi! I'm sorry that it happened to you :/ Were you using a custom character?
@@evansbohl Yeah, i assumed it was because I was using a Mixamo character. It wasn't too much of a hassle, and the tutorial was still very very helpful.
Now that I've followed your instructions, I can't even begin to describe how grateful I am. Your tutorials are amazing. So much detail, so thoughtfully stated. I used to feel frustrated while I was learning control rig, but now it's whala. One more request Evans can you do same type for Face rig it will great. thank you
Thank you for taking the time to create this tutorial. It's helped me to understand how to create my own initial idle animation from which I can them learn more. thanks!!
Thank you Thank U very Much i can't believe followed one hour tutorial without any miss guiding or errors.
Thanks to this tutorial (and a little experimenting) I finally understand how control rig works. What I have done is added nodes in the forward solve such that first the controls themselves are set to the locations of bones (turning off the ability to move the controls). This allows setting another animation in sequencer. I then make a key for every control, then edit the control rig so that just the controls set bones (and not the other way around). And finally this allowed me to make edits for animations using the control rig. It's a game changer since I can start animating with a set pose and make edits to existing animations.
so basically you have successfully setup the Backwards Solve based on this one? Did you figure it out with the fingers control as well?
@@becmuda174 Not 100% backwards solve but it's close enough for me. The fingers are not perfectly aligned but it's not really visible in game with montage blend times.
@@arturzolkos2859 pardon, I don't really understand ya, so you mean that you don't need to edit the fingers in an existing animation?
Omg! The blueprint for fingers saves lifes! It's really great! Thank you!
i was literally looking for a video like this about six months ago and i gave up but thanks to you i can continue what i was working on thanks allot man! I really appreciate tutorials like this. Your amazing man, thanks allot and keep it up.
Hi Winston! Thank you so much for this awesome feedback 🙏 It's always a great pleasure to know that I can help people with my knowledge of the engine! Glad to know I could help you unlock your problem 😊
Same dude! i thought we needed external animation software
You deserve garden full of gold. Wish you all the best, and an awesome holiday time that is around the corner. Thanks Evans.
This is the only UE control rig video that really gets the job done! Thank you!
Awesome to read this! Thanks a lot Yin for your feedback 😁
Voilà! new sub. I loved it. I am pleasantly surprised that you showed so many ways of doing the same thing going from rudimentary to more a complex setup. It just helped to organize things in my brain. Great stuff, thanks!
Wow, now I'll look all your videos in english. It will be inprouve my English and my skill in UE5 at same time !
Best teacher ever !!!
Haha thanks a lot my friend! Glad to know you like my tutorials in english too 😁
This video is amazing and helped me immensely, few things they've changed but got everything working eventually, love your accent too btw. Keep up the good work, I subscribed because this video is so good.
Hi Metamorph! Thank you so much for this awesome feedback 😊🙏 Glad to know you like my accent too! I try to hide it a bit, but reading this kind of comments makes me want to stay like I am 😁
Oh my god, Im new to unreal engine and this tutorial has so much information and easy to understand.
Please upload more videos any kind of tutorials, your explanation is a legend bro.
Keep it up!!
Thank youuu for your feedback 😊🙏
Bro, you are an absolute legend! I am still getting the hang of Control Rigs and have watched a number of videos on it. Yours is by far the best! Thank you for all the work and time you invest in this!
Man thank you so much for this awesome comment 🙏 It's extremely rewarding to know that viewers appreciate the amount of work I put into each of my tutorials 😁 Thanks again and have an awesome one!
As a programmer, control rig is an amazing feature that makes it so much easier to create procedural animations without knowing much about animation. Of course it's better to still know these things still.
I totally agree with you! I'm not an animator myself, but having these kinds of tools makes things much more easier for programmers :D
This is the best control rig tutorial I ever come across!
This is how tuts should be made! I JUST LOVE THIS! Thank you so much!
one of the best tutorial I ever watched. Thx
It was a pain to create a custom rig to some skeleton that was made really awfull (bones coordinates and positions were a total mess) but still was able to finish and create some animations. Thanks for the tutorial!
This is one of the best explanation I have seen , I've followed your tutorial now, and I have no words to express my gratitude. Love your tutorials. So much info and so carefully explained. Liked and subscribed 👍👍👍🌼🌼🌼🌺🌺🌺
Thank you Robert 🙏😊 It's awesome to know that my way of teaching can help people achieve what they want with Unreal 😁 This makes me want to continue on making more tutorials!
You've got the best control rig tutorial out there. Thano you for the effort!
Thank you man. You sure know what you're doing and how to explain it. Perfect pace and information density. Well done.
Hi Julio! Thank you! It's awesome to know that viewers like my content 💙
Man, you're the God of animation! It's really amazing! You have no idea how much you helped me!
Hey Roman! Haha that's the first time someone call me a god 😁 Thanks a lot! I'm glad to know I could help you better understand how control rig works 😊
@@evansbohl Tnx Bro! You are the best!😉
Your a legend, I've been going around in circles lately and this tutorial has helped me a lot. Thanks
Hi Michael! Thank you for this awesome feedback 😁 Glad to know I could help you unlock your situation 😊
Might be the best tutorial video I`ve watched recently, using different methods to solve the same task is really clear and inspiring, thank you!🥰
Hey Tristan! You're very welcome! I'm glad it was useful to you 😁
if anyone's getting tripped up at 44:30 when he changes the control type from "Euler" to "Float", Unreal seems to change the transform offset back to 0,0,0 when you change the control type. You have to go back to 42:35 and do that bit again. Not sure if this is just me, or a change in Unreal Engine since the video came out
Thanks Toupin for the info, maybe it's a problem related to the version of the engine? Anyway, thanks again, I think it will be useful to other viewers as well 😊
It's like you pick everything that I have a question about and make a tutorial about it! This is a brilliant video! I also loved the rapid map making tutorial! Looking forward to more - great job!
Hello Mark! I'm glad to know you like my tutorials 😁 I put so much effort into making them that seeing people enjoying my content is rewarding 😊
@@evansbohl It's clear that you do. Keep up the great work. I completed my character rig and have made 5 animation sequences already which I really didn't want to do in blender! Thanks you for this
Awesome tutorial! Many thanks. Everything is well explained and is easy to follow.
Hey Kian! Thank you for this awesome feedback! I'm glad to know I can help people with my knowledge of the engine 😊
for ue5.3, to lock the transform's min and max at 3:18, you'll have to go into the property matrix. To do that, you just select the root_ctrl, and in the details tab, up at the top, right next to the searchbar, you can find a small button to the right of it that kinda looks like the outline of a calculator, when you hover over it, it says "Edit Selection in Property Matrix" click on it, and it'll open a new tab, with a new details section that should have the min and max buttons listed. Now continue following the tutorial.
This is the way that I've found, but I'm still new to ue5, so it could really do anything, hopefully this is the proper way to do it, if you have any other suggestions, feel free to reply.
thanks for the nicely explained tutorial. Also that blue progress bar on every segment is pure gold lol!
Hey Morpai! Thanks a lot for your feedback! I like the blue progress bar too! I think it helps keep up with the rythm :)
Thank you! I love your tutorials, most comprehensive tutorials there are! You are a God's blessing sir!
Thank you so much for this kind feedback 🙏😊
Your explanations are clear and concise. So helpful. Thank you for this tutorial.
You're very welcome! I'm glad it was helpful, thank you for the feedback 😊
Evans, thank you. Your Unreal tutorials are really good.
Merci! This in depth tutorial is very clear and so many great tips. All packed in less than an hour. Keep the great work!
Hi Robin! Merci beaucoup! Yeah I tried to put as much knowledge as I could in this video so that viewers can keep learning control rig by themselves. It's great to read all these kind feedbacks 😁
Wonderful! The chapter time out really helps for pointing the episodes.
Hi Activemotionpictures! Thank you very much for your feedback! I agree, chapters are a great way to find your way in each tutorial and watch only the parts that are the most useful for you 😊 Thanks again and have a great one!
Just getting into game development and trying to get familiar with the basics, and it is impossible to find tutorials with both good content and someone likeable sharing it. You are awesome! Please dont stop making videos!
Hi Casey! I'm so grateful for reading this kind of feedbacks on my UA-cam 🙏 I must admit that, due to the fact that English is not my native language, sometimes I'm afraid that people won't understand what I'm trying to say haha But reading comments like yours makes want to keep uploading new tutorials! Thanks a lot Casey and have a great one 😊
@@evansbohl No problem at all! and your accent is the last thing I would worry about, I think its an important part of who you are and it only adds to the value of your content, keep it up!
Thank you Casey 😊
@@evansbohl I'd listen to you over most native-English speakers doing tutorials here on UA-cam. Good knowledge + good production + good vibe.
Thank you so much Paul 🙏😊
Dude, it’s so great lesson! I have talent in simple explanations, please don’t stop your amazing materials! 🖤🖤🖤
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Thanks a lot for your feedback! Glad to know you like my way of teaching 😊🙏
Better explanation of the control rig than the official tutorial
Hi, I really liked your video, your approach is awesome, as some commentators said you don't hurry and don't make it unnecessary slow, it's super easy to listen to to you because you dont stumble every 2 seconds. I would really appreciate if you made a series of videos on advanced locomotion system. I know it would take a lot of time, but Im getting desperate, there are tons of videios on this topic, but they explain easy stuff and leave out things like curves etc. anyway I wont stop searching for a good tutorial but if you made it, it would be great. Thanks again
Probably the best UR5 related content on the web. Thank you, Evans!
Thanks a lot Alexander! 🙏😊
FYI, for the fingers, instead of dividing by the max value, you can also use the "remap" node and plug the maximum value of the get control float to the source maximum value of the remap node.
Hi! Thanks for the info! Even if I use it often, I don't know why but I didn't think of using it when recording the tutorial haha
you make the best ue5 tutorials of all time
Thank you Focus 💙
Evans Thanks a lot! This is an incredible tutorial. I hope you keep uploading more videos!
Man I haven't watched the video yet but seeing you are now making them in English is awesome. Thanks a lot! Keep them coming.
Hey LMBits! Great to see you on this channel! Thanks! I will try to post a new video at least once every two weeks 😊
Thank you for that tutorial! Trying sporadically animating stuff in different applications since 3d studio max 😀This is the first time I managed to animate a character. So happy I found your channel!
Hey Markus! Thank you for this awesome feedback! I'm so happy to know that I can help people from our community learn more things about Unreal Engine 😊
This tutorial finally got this working for me
Ever since getting into game dev I have always wanted to learn how to make animations. This is such a huge help and I very much appreciate your detailed tutorials. Could we possibly get a tutorial on how to create a walking or running animation, this would be a huge help.
Hey! Thank you so much for your feedback! It's awesome to know that I can help people with my knowledge of the engine 😊 As for your request, unfortunately I'm not an animator so I won't be the correct person to teach how to author animations. Maybe you can search for blender tutorials on the subject and try to replicate it in Unreal Engine?
The best and detailed ue5 control rig tutorial I had ever seen. Followed from beginning to end. Thanks for the wonderful video. Cheers ❤️
Hi TechnoKratZ! Wow thank you so much for this awesome feedback on my tutorial 🙏💙 It takes a lot of time to record these kinds of video, and seeing comments like yours makes me want to go even farther and create more content 😊 Thank you!
Thank you so much for spending the time and effort on teaching this, just made my first animation thanks to you!
You're welcome Richard! I put a lot of work into each of my tutorials, and seeing these kinds of feedback is extremely rewarding 😊 Thank you 🙏
works perfectly with ALS System, thanks!
Hey you're welcome! Glad to know my video was useful to you 😁
Great tutorial, I was only looking for the option to export as Animation Sequence, but the Linked Animation you showed was even better. Thank you!
Hey thanks a lot for your feedback! Indeed the linked animation is useful for when you need to tweak animations based on gameplay 😊
Thanks man. i didint expect to learn this much. this is very good tutorial for learining. 👍
Great tutorial, great video production, no unnecessary background music etc... subbed 4 life copain 👍
Hi Omer! Thank you for this awesome feedback and for the subscription! Glad to know people appreciate the work I put into each video 😊
Very good and complete tutorial, thanks Evans! But I found a problem with the upperarms and lowerarms and to solve that I created upperarm controls and parented to the arm nulls, then the upperarms parented to lowerarms, then lowerarms parented to hands and then hands to finger nulls and finger controls. I also change type of kinematics to the fingers and added FK instead of arrows to the fingers to bend them, so I have created controls to all the bones 1, 2, 3 of the fingers and used forward kinematics instead of the type of your tutorial, just for more accurate fingers movements and bending, that I prefer that way, but we can use also your type. THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL, I really appriciate your video, it's the most complete one, thanks.
Very good video! well explained, very didactic. As a programmer, I have some difficulty understanding modeling, animation, these more artistic things and I had no doubts with your video! Congratulations. I wanted to ask you for a logical continuation of this video. It would be very interesting to have a channel that shows the connection of things. You showed how to create the control rig and how to create an animation sequence, now I could continue showing how to use these animations in a blendspace for example. Thanks.
Hey General Novais! Thank you so much for this feedback! As a programmer myself, I totally understand the struggle you can have with these artistic parts of the engine. I'm really glad to know that I could help you with my tutorial 😊 As for your request, I plan on releasing more animation tutorials in the near future, especially one for how to setup a third person character with all of his animations 😁
Immense thanks! I already have played with the control rigs in the past, but didn't know how to make ones for specialty creatures and characters. Also, I can't believe how simple the animation mode is now for making custom anims! Thanks for making this tutorial. You sir have earned a subscriber! Amazing :)
Hi CommonTime! Thanks to you for taking the time to leave this awesome feedback on my video! 🙏😊 It's cool to know that I could help you better understand how control rig works! Thanks again and have a great one!
this is the best lesson on creating a control rig, thank you very much
Thank you so much Oberon for this awesome feedback 🙏💙 It's rewarding to know that I can help people with what I know about this wonderful engine 😊 Thanks again and have a great one!
this is absolutely fantastic! great voice too! (I've never done any coding or game design before, but decided to learn/teach myself. it's going as one would expect.)
Hey HideousFox! Thank you so much for this comment! I've never had feedback on my voice haha It's cool to know that it sounds good 😊 Thanks again, have a great one and good luck on your learning!
Hi!
First of all, great tutorial! The best one I have seen on this topic.
However, I have some questions:
1. Can you record a video/explain how you would set the control rig so it helps with "two-handed" animations?
(Where our character holds a wood ax or double-handed weapon, for example)
2. Do you have any recommendations for specifying mins and maxes for the control rig? That could help a lot with the animation-making process!
Greetings!
i have the same problem where i cant specify the mins and maxes. If you already found an solution i would be greateful for the answer :)
Hello hello! Thanks for the feedback on my video! 😁 As for your questions:
1. Hum, intuitively, what I would do is create controls for moving each hand separately so that I can stick them to the two handed weapon, and a third control that will move both two hands at the same time for moving the weapon along with the two hands that are stuck on it.
2. I think you can have a look at limits. I can't open unreal at the moment but I think it's called Limits :)
WOW! What a fantastically performed tutorial. Detailed, to the point, and well explained step by step. This is probably the best tutorial I have ever seen. Great Job Evans, I'm going to keep an eye on your channel. Looking forward to more UE5 content. Liked and subed. Cheers.
Thank you Paul for your feedback!
Wow Evans!!!! Please keep making videos. I have been putting off and dreading working on rigging but this makes things easier. TY!
Hey Andrew! Thank you so much for this kind comment 🙏😊 I'm struggling with my English haha but reading this kind of comments, I'll keep making videos for sure 😁
what a good teacher you are
Thank you so much saint 🙏
Now, this is a very good tutorial! Well narrated and comprehensive, thank you.
Thank you Fabio for your feedback! 😁
Great content, keep going ! and thanks a lot for sahring your knowledgment an passion for games and teach!! Blessings.
Incredible tutorial. This engine is blowing my mind.
Thank you! Indeed, the engine is pretty powerful 😊