Blending AnimStarterPack montages

[Jventoo]

Hi,

AI engineer without much animation experience here so please bear with me 😃

I was looking at the layering blending that goes on in the animation blueprint. There's some really helpful comments in the ABP about blending upper body montages like reloads and I was wondering what the proper way to set the curves slot up was so that montages, like from Epic's AnimStarterPack for example, will properly blend with the various overlay states. The montage works fine for the default overlay state, but not so much with ones that modify the arms slots like M4.

Setup for my reload montage is as follows:

Let me know if a video of the strange layer blending I was describing would be helpful! Thanks!

[Sixze]

This is how layering basically works:

1. Blend the overlay pose and the montage pose using the "Slots" layering curves.
2. Additive apply the locomotion pose on the pose from the previous step using the "Additive" layering curves.
3. Blend the pose from the previous step and the locomotion pose using regular layering curves.

To use blending effectively, you need to have all layering curves for all body parts in your animation, even if most of the curves remain at 0.

There is a very useful animation modifier called UAlsAnimationModifier_CreateLayeringCurves that automatically creates all the curves you need, but animation montages cannot have modifiers, so you must use it on a regular animation sequence.

So, this is how I do things like this:

1. In addition to the regular animation, I create two additive versions of it.

2. Apply UAlsAnimationModifier_CreateLayeringCurves to regular animation only, no curves are needed for additive animation.

3. Assign animations to layering slots. You can experiment with this, but always assign animation with curves to the "Layering.Curves" slot.

4. Experiment with curves :).

If you still have questions, then, as an example, I can give you an animation from a project that I am working on.

[alexanderzinolidis]

I am also having some difficulty in understanding how to add firing animations. I'm experimenting but would love to see some examples of this with something like the AnimStarterPack.

[assmikDuDuDuJ]

@Sixze Can I have an example?

[VioLence1982]

Can u make a Tutorial video im to Stupid to get my Animations to work
:(

[EddieSoloProjects]

Would love to see a video Tut on this

[Ender0920]

@Sixze Hi，can I have an example animation,please~

[T6nuOss]

@Sixze Hi, I would like to have an example animation aswell.

[T6nuOss]

Nvm. After 3 evenings failure I asked example and after 5 min asking example I figured it out.