Animation Montages | Adv. Anim Application [UE4/UE5]

Hey hey! Today we're looking at Animation Montages in Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5. Montages are the perfect way to play one-off animations on your characters, such as attack animations, dialogue animations, or just general emoting. There are multiple "Play Montage" nodes, some of which simply suck. There are also a few other tips and tricks I cover in the video so make sure you watch until the end :)

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Computer Specs:
Ryzen 3900x 12-core CPU
MSI Geforce RTX 2080 Super
64GB Corsair RAM
One of those fancy nvme m.2 SSD's

Programs of choice:
Unreal Engine 4 - (Game Dev)
Blender 2.8 - (Animation and Modelling)
OBS - (Video/screen capture)
Davinci Resolve - (Video editing)
Adobe Photoshop - (Graphics and Texturing)
Quixel Mixer - (Texturing)
ProTools 11 - (Compositions and mixing)
OldSchool Runescape - (Chillax time)

Filmed using:
Sony A7s2 body
Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM lens
Yonguo YN360 LED's for colour
Yongnuo YN760 chip LED w/ Godox softbox for key

My lovely cats names are Boycat, Girlcat and Ladycat :)

[UsernameNULL]

Also nice to know:
- you can put multiple anim assets into the same montage
- you can splice up the montage timeline into "sections" and specify which section to play, and even make sections loop

[slsedits]

Thank you much . I was struggling to get my issue fixed . basically i was creating a zombie for my game and it was keep repeating his attack animation so i created a Boolean " IsAttacking" and hooked it the same way you did with the roll animation. I was struggling for more than 3 hours. Instant sub to you . Thanks Again.

[xabunoxx]

A life saver, as usual! Thx again for making these videos!

[johnmannp]

I didn't even know about the different montage nodes! Thanks so much!

[WickedLizardWizard]

You are a great teacher, thank you for the videos!

[HandsOnKnowledge]

As a beginner to Unreal, I really appreciate your video. Subscribed for more

[procrastinator]

0:11 11 seconds into the video and I already had to laugh really hard! dropped a like and a sub, thanks so much for the video! Im going to work my way through your Advanced Animation Application Playlist now :)

[jonathanxdoe]

Another suggestion: if you "make everything bigger" in Windows settings (125%-150%) it would be easier to read the labels around the editor UI for your viewers. I personally use it to work and my eyes are much happier and I less migraines. I know, it is not as cool and sometimes you need to see more stuff at once. But I can say that it is the biggest ergonomic revolution since the invention of the bed! 😄

[maikfrai]

It's really coming together! Great progress on the game!

[YanuCerda]

Found this video just when I needed to. Thank you very much!

[peterhall]

Glad you mentioned why you'd use a montage as opposed to the state machine, that was confusing me a bit!

[CosmicComputer]

Oh how I wish Charlie would cover control rig at some point! There’s a serious black hole when it comes to those tools re-tutorials/training and to me control rig is super exciting wrt what you can do with it.

[JamesDeal]

Second!
Also, thank you for all the great information.

[MusicalGeniusBar]

If you right click on the the output you can split it

[jonathanxdoe]

You fixed the aspect ratio! A smaller PIP would be even better, you can go fullscreen when you want to emphasize a concept. Also, if I may, no need to step by step create nodes. Unless one is completely new to UE there is no need for that. You would save so much time for viewers and can spend more time actually explaining the WHYs instead of the HOWs. IMO is the best way to produce tutorials and might attract more viewer since everybody is doing the "step by step do as I do for reasons"...

[jakeb]

nice video! looks like an awesome idea for a game!

[kingwrightdev]

'Fucky wucky' is my new favorite phrase.

[ajibolalaleye]

Hi Prismatica. Great tutorial. Please if i may ask. how can i animate the cloth to certain poses? like lets say i want to make the cloth stretched into a gliding position. (As cloth sim and morph targets dont work together) i have tried adding bones to the cloth but skinning and rigging it and a also using a proxy mesh but the skinning is kind of difficult as i have a medium poly mesh and getting the polygons to achieve the same effect as the pose morph is difficult. i can get them to play but with the cloth sim is removing the skinning of the cloth to the bones. Please Help. thanks in advance

[Hasmatix]

thnx for the tutorial bro, 1 question, i have in animbp crouching state but when i press see it teleports instantly to ground, to the croaching positing, how do i make it blend. like from idle to crouch from walking, running etc

[Desh]

I have code in my AnimBP that always needs to be running (Eye look tracking). When the AnimMontage plays, it doesn't use what's in the AnimBP. How do i make the AnimMontage communicate with the AnimBP?