🔉 Unreal Engine 4 - Sound Design Tutorial - A Few Sexy Ways To Get Footstep Sounds

My way of implementing footstep sounds & some explanation on the commonalities between the different methods.

I hope this helps someone. :)

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[MichaelKLee-jfqs]

This is so damn helpful. I started learning three days ago and finally have gotten to sound design, this is great content friend.

[brunofragamoraes]

Awesome tutorial, on point! Not trying to be pretentious, but I think improving the workflow never hurts. The first thing is that you do not need a map "Phys Surf Type", because this is an Enum, and enums are, more or less, arrays of integers with names, so you could just plugin the phys surf directly and it will convert to int. Unless, of course, you want to manipulate the values. The second thing, and this is more of a preference, to be even more organized, you can create an AnimNotify BP, that you can create logic inside, like the one you just did for footsteps, and call this notify like an normal notify on animation. The good thing with this is that it does not require to make a call in the animBP and then send to the CharacterBP, you can do everything inside this one AnimNotifyBP and every other character you create, like an AI, Monster, Etc, it only need this notify to be in it's animation. I think it can speed up the workflow.
But this are just details, you explained very well. Love your tuts!

[stormstudios]

after the line trace by channel in the footstep event, why do you set a footstep mat variable when you use it literally 1 node after. you can just plug the find right into the set integer param

[srgttamtam]

hey bud. Great videos. I´ve got a question: How did you learn this stuff? I studied sounddesign and have more or less been sliding into a game dev project with more and more responsibilities that I COULD take. Do you have any tips on how to learn what I need to do sounddesign inside UE? Its definitely not epics documentation, as far as I am concerned xD

[fransuatsn]

Hey there, I am using Unreal Engine 4.25. There is no notifies bar in animation tab. So i cannot add new notify or skeleton notifies. I need help with that.

And if i want o run instead of walk? how do i change the sound when i'm running and walking?