Animation Transititioning

chacha

When preparing animations, such as, idle, walk, run for Unreal. What is the best method for having animations that transitions 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?

Hito

generally they (attacks, idle breaks, the like) share the idle pose on 1st and last frame of the clip. Walk/Run start on the crossover pose, so when blending from the idle it looks like the character is taking a step. specifics varies a lot depending on the engine.

chacha

Hito wrote: »

generally they (attacks, idle breaks, the like) share the idle pose on 1st and last frame of the clip. Walk/Run start on the crossover pose, so when blending from the idle it looks like the character is taking a step. specifics varies a lot depending on the engine.

Ok, great. If you don't mind me asking, is there a guide image illustrating this. I'm just starting out on this and could use every possible piece of help.

Hito

What engine are you using? If Unity, they have example projects with included animations and state trees you can dissect. Unreal probably have similar sample asssets.

http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/stealth-tutorial-4x-only
the specifics are in Player Setup and Player Animator Controller

chacha

Hito wrote: »

What engine are you using? If Unity, they have example projects with included animations and state trees you can dissect. Unreal probably have similar sample asssets.

http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/stealth-tutorial-4x-only
the specifics are in Player Setup and Player Animator Controller

I'm using Unreal. I guess I might need to take apart some of the starter animation content to see how each is set.

Hito

yeah, half of the character's movement in game is engine-side work. You set up a graph/tree to specify which animation clip is playing during a given state of the character; and which and how each clip may transition/blend to another clip when the character's state changes.

for instance your idle state might transition to walk or run or jump or basic attack, but the jump state can only transition to idle or jump attack state, and not the basic attack state.