I’m looking to have my character animation based on speed, so that when the speed is 0.0, an idle animation is played.
I have multiple idle animations I’d like to blend, and one other that plays if you’ve been idle for a long time.
I have a BlendSpace by speed to go from idle, walk, run, but I can’t figure out how to have multiple idles randomly chosen (like AnimNodeRandom in UDK).
Any help is appreciated
There are a few ways to go about it.
Montage
Easiest way I can think of is to create an idle animation montage that you play when the player is stationary. It’ll give you plenty of control outside of the animation blueprint and still blend in/out of your idle/walk/run blendspace.
This is probably the best way, as you can easily change montage depending on situation, item usage, health etc.
Animation Blueprint
If you want to do it inside your animation blueprint, you can use a Random Integer in Range linked to a Blend Poses by int with each additional sequnce connected to it. You’ll have to add some kind of check to prevent it picking a random int each frame.
Then, when the player is stationary, switch over.
A slightly different version of this is touse an idle animation with a single frame as the idle animation for your blend space. This lets you make all extra idle animations additives based off this single single frame idle animation. Then you can use a Apply Additive to mix them instead.
Thank you very much for the detailed response, it was very informative.
I went the route of using a Montage with some branch points for extra control in my blueprints.
About this i hope to see tutorial how to make it
I’ve seen this in unreal engine channel , but i hope to see video or screen shot tutorial about what explain above
I’d be curious to see your setup as well. It’s something that I’d like to implement for my own project.
