Animation Transitioning

chacha

When preparing animations, such as, idle, walk, run for Unreal. What is the best method for having animations that transition smoothly between the different actions? Using idle, walk, and run as an example - do you set the feet/leg's position in the same spot in all the animations for smooth blending or there is a different way to accomplish this?

Spencer_Holmes

I am sure UE4 handles this within engine using blend spaces. Here is the documentation: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Animation/Blendspaces/index.html

Denny

You have to make sure the animations have the feet in the ground at around the same "percentage" of the duration, otherwise the animations may counter each other. Also make sure that the animations start at the same pose. I would recommend when the character is standing on one foot in the locomotion. This will help blend from the idle nicely, it becomes a push-off transition from idle if you decide not to have a dedicated animation for that.

ZaqSchlanger

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfKdr0FRC5g[/ame]

this tutorial from Epic is super easy to follow.
(it was probably covered in the Unreal Documentation, but multiple sources of learning can sometimes make things easier to learn)