What's inside¶

Locomotion and movement¶

• Motion matching locomotion from the Game Animation Sample: starts, stops, pivots, turns in place, idle breaks
• Two locomotion setups: full motion matching, or a state machine / blend stack hybrid
• Walk, run, sprint, crouch, strafe and aim, with gamepad analog walk and run
• Mover pawn with Network Prediction, and Character Movement Component pawn, at feature parity
• Slide (Mover) with slope-based speed and an anti-spam cooldown
• Traversal: vault, hurdle and mantle with ledge detection and motion warping
• Foot placement, offset root bone, additive leans

Movement · Traversal

Animation layering¶

• ALS-style overlay poses blended per body part (legs, pelvis, spine, head, arms, hands) by animation curves
• Relaxed, ready and aiming states per item, with aim sweeps that follow the camera pitch
• Overlay body styles: default, masculine, feminine
• Hand IK to item sockets
• Aim offset with short local smoothing and longer remote smoothing

Overlay · Animation pipeline

Equipment¶

• Data-driven items: one data asset links the actor, the overlay poses and the attach sockets
• Rifle, pistol, bow (with draw), torch, binoculars, box, barrel
• Hold-to-open selection menus with slow motion
• First-person copies of item meshes generated at runtime

Equipment

Cover¶

• Soft cover by walking into walls, sticky cover on a button, upgrade from soft to sticky
• Low and high cover, automatic crouch, pelvis lowering adapted to the cover height
• Cover run to the cover under the crosshair, along the navmesh
• Corner turns, chained around pillars
• Vault from cover
• Aim from cover: the least exposed pose that can hit (in place, step out at an edge, stand over low cover)
• Four facing styles per case, wall distance per case, cover marker and crosshair feedback
• First-person cover behaviors

Cover

Camera and first person¶

• Gameplay Cameras with a Blueprint camera director and chooser tables
• Third person (close, medium, far), first person, top-down, side-scroller
• Shoulder swap, crouch and cover offsets, ragdoll camera
• Full-body first person generated at runtime, in three modes
• Aim down sights, arm aim offset, stable head, per-character eye offset
• First-person meshes for retargeted characters, including MetaHuman clothing

Camera · First person

Characters¶

• One animation skeleton (UEFN mannequin) drives any character through runtime retargeting
• Manny, Quinn and the MetaHuman Kellan included
• Switch characters at runtime

Characters and visual overrides

Physics and interactions¶

• Networked ragdoll with get-up animations and rolling (Mover)
• Physical animation: the body reacts to impacts
• Takedowns and shoves between characters with multi-character motion matching
• CMC ragdoll toggle
• Physics obstacle course level

Ragdoll and interactions

AI and world¶

• NPCs with StateTrees that patrol and use smart objects (benches)
• The player can use smart objects too
• Look-at points of interest example
• Grey-box level kit with traversable blocks, teleporters and a target dummy

Multiplayer¶

• Every system replicated, on both pawns, for listen servers and clients

Networking

For developers¶

• Blueprint only, no C++
• Every system Blueprint categorized, described and commented
• Console variables for runtime switches and debug drawing
• On-screen warnings for incomplete first-person setups
• Complete Blueprint reference