Unreal Engine 5.4 : Motion Matching Crouching & Sprinting Custom Characters | UE5 Tutorial

Motion Matching UE5 - Adding Crouch & Sprint with Custom Characters.

Enhance your custom characters with advanced animation techniques in Unreal Engine 5.4!
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to add crouching and sprinting to your existing motion matching setup. This is a continuation of our previous tutorial on motion matching with custom characters, taking your game animations to the next level.

🔧 What You'll Learn:

1. Integrating Crouching with Motion Matching
2. Implementing Sprinting with Motion Matching
3. Adjusting Custom Characters Settings
4. Troubleshooting Common Issues
5. Tips and Best Practices

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Chapters :

0:00 Intro
0:45 Character BP
1:55 Crouch Animations
2:20 Creating Crouch Chooser Table
3:48 Creating Crouch PSD
5:53 Adding Animation in PSD
8:58 Adding Crouch PSD in Chooser Table
10:42 Conditions for Chooser Table
14:10 Testing Crouching
15:22 How is it Crouching in Motion Matching
18:52 Sprinting ?
19:47 Creating Sprint PSD
20:42 Sprint Animations
22:12 Edit Run Animations
23:18 Creating Sprint Chooser Table
23:55 Adding Sprint PSD in Chooser Table
25:03 Sprint Logic
26:45 Testing Sprinting
29:56 Fix Sprinting Conditions in Chooser Table
30:23 Customize Any Character Properties
36:37 Outro

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[robsanchezrod]

"I'm truly grateful for your videos. I've been able to understand how it works, and I've implemented the sprint and crouch with your help, and they work perfectly. It's a real pleasure to have found your account. Would it be possible to have a tutorial on creating a climbing system in the future? We would all be very thankful! I'll be following your channel closely. Thanks for all your content!"

[sambagamb]

Thankyou, this is so helpful, this is the first tutorial on motion matching I've seen where I've come away actually understanding at least on a surface level how it's all linked together (I may just be a dumb, but this gelled for me and I'm a noob to UE) and I have it working. I think I have enough here to give me the confidence to try to figure out more movement variations on my own to test myself, which is a great feeling. I would also like to see climbing, specifically IK. Much appreciated...

[cvcwebsolutions]

nice, like the crouching - sprinting looks a bit funky

[IamSHVA]

Loving this Motion Matching series...Thanks.

[WrathOfAl]

This is such a great tutorial, thank you !!! When customizing the speed of your characters, wouldn't it make sense to set the variables in the child blueprint on the ConstructionScript instead ? I think it would be cleaner to do it there.

[rpr]

omg ive been looking for some explanations involving this system for awhile. thanks a bunch! is there anyway you can expand on this turorial and show how to incorporate sockets and interacting like picking up a weapon and aiming it?

[xRavenousAngelx]

Hey thank you so much for your videos I see you you have controller support can you do a tutorial on how to do that? 29:40

[brunocandia]

WoW .. ! Nice Work Tutorial .. ! Thanks .. for this !

[lebronthegoat]

Do you have any thoughts on how to control the rotation and aiming of the character using the cursor and a static camera? I've been struggling with trying to implement this concept in the sample GASP project.

[wayupmusic]

Thanks and subscribe! Why doesn’t it work in the same way with combat animations when I try to add them to the table? They either slide or glitch.

[abod]

I'm making a survival horror prototype, and When I set the run speed to 350 when I run the character pauses for a second then runs again, I tried solving it but I couldn't, do you have any tips?

[LLRIX_official]

Nice both work quite good, but quick question how can i make the sprint limited so that like the player can sprint for 5 seconds then he has to wait like 10 seconds to sprint again

[heattik]

Hello, great content 👍 make a video about opponents and battles with them

[RendearSoft]

thanks its work! Can you make a video how to replicate crouch animations from db? i have a version with replication.

[tommywright]

I'm adding a Left Shift to run feature using your method at 33:04-ish which works great but the character looks like he is limping. My guess is that he's moving just fast enough to be blending into the run a bit. If I try and set the walk speed along with run, it does not work. Any suggestions?

[최동길-vf]

Should perform the same things as Dense?

[nocturne]

6:26 I don't have these crouch idle animations in the UEFN_Mannequin folder..

[adamsamy]

Do you have an idea of how I can fix mantling for 0.75 scaled down character metahuman, my character is small, so it's a bit buggy with the mantling animations (hands are not hooked to the ledges)?

[sambagamb]

For anyone else having the same problem, I have found one little issue once I migrated this character to my own project, I still kept getting the "no database assets provided for motion matching” error, despite fixing the sprints, I had to increase the upper Speed 2D threshhold from 999, I went with 9999 in both crouch idles and stand idles and haven't had an issue since.

[fbbk]

hi, thanks for the tutorial! crouching works when my character is in walking mode (ctrl), when its walking slow, crouching works. however if it's running, when i press C, the camera moves down and the character's animation freezes and it continues moving :( also, when i press C and stop simulation, i get an error "No database assets provided for motion matching." - this error only happens if i press C during play

how can i fix this? the same issue happens with both the project default character and also with my custom character (kwang from paragon)