WEBVTT 00:07.630 --> 00:08.200 All right. 00:08.200 --> 00:14.440 So we need some animation blueprints for our characters and for this top down project. 00:14.440 --> 00:16.420 These are going to be relatively simple. 00:16.540 --> 00:22.390 Let's get started with Ora's animation blueprint before we move on to the enemy. 00:22.420 --> 00:27.100 Now here in the Ora folder, I'm going to make my animation blueprint. 00:27.130 --> 00:28.090 Right click. 00:28.090 --> 00:30.610 Animation, animation, blueprint. 00:30.610 --> 00:33.520 And for this I'm going to choose src ora. 00:33.550 --> 00:35.820 That's Ora's skeleton asset. 00:35.830 --> 00:40.030 So we can create and I'll call this app ora. 00:40.730 --> 00:42.080 Opening that up. 00:42.080 --> 00:44.810 This will be fairly simple. 00:44.810 --> 00:46.790 I'll have a single state machine. 00:47.120 --> 00:51.680 So I'm going to right click type state machine, grab one of those. 00:51.710 --> 00:57.740 I'll call this main states and before I hook it up to the output pose, I'm going to run it through 00:57.740 --> 00:58.430 a slot. 00:58.460 --> 01:01.730 So I'm going to choose default slot and hook that up. 01:02.000 --> 01:08.840 As you should know, a slot is used for playing montages and we will be playing montages. 01:08.870 --> 01:19.190 Now for main states, we want an idle walk run state, so I'm going to drag off of entry, add a state, 01:19.190 --> 01:22.460 I'm going to call it idle walk, run. 01:22.460 --> 01:26.040 And inside of this state I want a blend space. 01:26.060 --> 01:35.060 Now if I click on asset browser, we'll see that our assets contain this idle walk run and it's a basic 01:35.060 --> 01:35.970 blend space. 01:35.990 --> 01:42.660 If I hold control and drag my mouse, I can see her walking and I can drag it all the way up and we 01:42.660 --> 01:46.640 can see that she's running and there are even footstep sounds. 01:46.650 --> 01:47.850 So this is great. 01:47.850 --> 01:50.670 We're going to use this in AVP Aura. 01:50.680 --> 01:55.770 I'm going to go ahead and just drag it on in and hook it up so we have an idle walk run, but we do 01:55.770 --> 01:56.730 need the speed. 01:56.730 --> 02:02.100 So we're going to go into the event graph and set up a couple of variables. 02:02.100 --> 02:09.240 For one, I'm going to override Blueprint, initialize animation, and we're going to take that. 02:09.240 --> 02:13.230 I'm going to drag it up to the top and we're going to try get pawn owner. 02:13.230 --> 02:20.790 I'll bring that node up here and we'll go ahead and cast this to BP or a character. 02:20.880 --> 02:22.200 We'll get that. 02:22.200 --> 02:27.210 And I'm going to promote this to a variable drag off, promote a variable. 02:27.330 --> 02:30.060 I'll call this BP or a character. 02:33.350 --> 02:37.490 And from the Aura character, I'm going to get the movement component. 02:37.490 --> 02:43.820 So character movement is what it's called, and we'll promote this to a variable as well. 02:44.870 --> 02:47.150 I'll just leave it character movement. 02:47.150 --> 02:51.410 I'll go ahead and take the space out of the name and hook that up. 02:51.410 --> 02:58.970 So now we have the character movement component that we can access in Blueprint update animation. 02:58.970 --> 03:06.560 Now, if we wanted a much more complicated animation blueprint, we could use Blueprint Threadsafe update 03:06.560 --> 03:07.640 animation. 03:07.640 --> 03:11.780 But this is a simple one, so we don't need to use Multithreading. 03:11.780 --> 03:19.430 But we would use that instead of blueprint update animation for a much more complicated animation blueprint. 03:19.430 --> 03:26.780 But here all I'm going to do is get the BP or a character I'm going to control left click, drag that 03:26.780 --> 03:31.280 out right, click on it and convert to a validated get. 03:31.430 --> 03:38.160 And if it's valid, then I'm assuming the character movement variable will be valid as well. 03:38.160 --> 03:41.400 And from the character movement, I'm going to drag that out. 03:41.430 --> 03:44.970 I'm going to get the velocity from it. 03:47.580 --> 03:52.320 And from the velocity I would like the length x, y. 03:52.350 --> 03:59.100 That's just the lateral speed for the character movement and I'm going to promote that to a variable. 03:59.190 --> 04:00.900 I'm going to call it ground speed. 04:01.950 --> 04:08.220 So we now have a ground speed variable and I'm going to drive my blend space with ground speed. 04:09.480 --> 04:11.640 So we can compile and save that. 04:11.640 --> 04:14.220 And we see aura in the nice idle pose. 04:14.250 --> 04:15.180 That's great. 04:15.180 --> 04:23.250 So I'm going to go back to BP Aura Character, select the mesh and we'll set the anim class to App Aura. 04:23.850 --> 04:25.450 And she's idling. 04:25.470 --> 04:26.330 Great. 04:26.340 --> 04:28.440 So now we need one for the enemy. 04:28.440 --> 04:31.790 But the thing is, we're going to have multiple enemies. 04:31.800 --> 04:36.360 They're not all going to share the same skeletal mesh and skeleton. 04:36.360 --> 04:43.890 So to make this more versatile and to prevent repeat code, our Enemies animation blueprint is going 04:43.890 --> 04:46.770 to be a template animation blueprint. 04:46.770 --> 04:49.200 So we're going to go back out to character. 04:49.200 --> 04:55.740 And here in the character folder, I'm going to make a common animation blueprint template that we can 04:55.740 --> 05:01.260 use for all of our enemy animation blueprints, and that'll save us some work. 05:01.350 --> 05:09.360 So I can right click, go to animation, animation blueprint, and I can choose specific skeleton or 05:09.460 --> 05:10.030 template. 05:10.030 --> 05:13.600 I'm going to choose template and select Create. 05:13.720 --> 05:19.180 And we now have our animation blueprint template that we can use for our enemy. 05:19.180 --> 05:27.130 So I'm going to just call this app Enemy and we'll go ahead and open this up and we can put things here 05:27.130 --> 05:31.480 that we want all of our enemy animation blueprints to have in common. 05:31.480 --> 05:34.390 For one, we're going to need a state machine. 05:34.390 --> 05:36.880 So I'll go ahead and add one. 05:38.260 --> 05:41.440 Just like with aura we'll call this main states. 05:42.430 --> 05:46.990 And just like with Aura, we'll run it through a slot. 05:47.020 --> 05:53.820 We'll use default slot and our main states is going to want an idle walk run. 05:53.830 --> 05:58.990 So we'll drag out, add a state, we'll call this idle walk, run. 05:59.590 --> 06:05.410 And here in idle walk, run, we're not going to drag in any particular blend space. 06:05.410 --> 06:12.910 We're going to right click and type blend space player and we're going to use blend space player. 06:12.910 --> 06:15.430 And this is a generic node. 06:15.430 --> 06:18.670 We're going to hook that up to the output animation pose. 06:18.670 --> 06:24.790 So when we create a child animation blueprint derived from this template, all we have to do is select 06:24.790 --> 06:27.040 the blend space player and we'll do that. 06:27.070 --> 06:31.420 But we also need a variable to drive the blend space x axis. 06:31.420 --> 06:32.890 That's going to be the speed. 06:32.920 --> 06:36.850 So we'll go to the event graph and we'll do what we did for Aura. 06:36.850 --> 06:43.190 We'll basically try get Pawn Owner that's going to be on Blueprint, initialize animation. 06:44.960 --> 06:51.260 And for try get pawn owner we're going to just simply cast to aura enemy. 06:52.400 --> 06:56.020 That's the C plus plus class from Aura Enemy. 06:56.030 --> 06:58.940 We're going to get character movement. 07:00.850 --> 07:04.210 And we're going to promote that to a variable. 07:07.170 --> 07:08.910 And we'll hook this up here. 07:09.090 --> 07:15.080 Now, if we decide later that we need a variable for the enemy, we'll promote it then. 07:15.090 --> 07:19.350 But for now, we're just going to use the character movement and get that ground speed. 07:19.350 --> 07:23.460 So I'm going to control, click and drag out, get the character movement. 07:23.460 --> 07:25.620 I'm going to make this a validated get. 07:25.620 --> 07:29.340 And if that's valid, we'll get the velocity. 07:33.250 --> 07:35.350 We'll get length x y. 07:36.940 --> 07:41.080 And we'll promote this to a variable called groundspeed. 07:45.330 --> 07:46.440 We'll set that. 07:47.830 --> 07:56.350 And we can use ground speed to drive the x axis on our blend space player and compile and save that. 07:56.350 --> 08:04.350 And now we need to make a child based on this animation blueprint template for our goblin sphere. 08:04.360 --> 08:11.590 So I'm going to go into Goblin Sphere, right click, go to animation, animation Blueprint, and this 08:11.590 --> 08:17.350 time choose the parent class enemy and I can choose a specific skeleton. 08:17.350 --> 08:24.310 We'll choose SRC Goblin and click Create and I'll call this app Goblin. 08:25.490 --> 08:27.230 Underscore spear. 08:28.050 --> 08:34.050 Well, open that and all we need to do here is go to the asset override panel. 08:34.050 --> 08:39.960 If you don't see it, go to window and make sure asset override is checked there and we'll expand the 08:39.960 --> 08:43.980 dropdown for anim graph main states Idle walk, Run. 08:43.980 --> 08:49.470 Here's the blend space player and we'll see that we can set this to one of our blend spaces and we have 08:49.470 --> 08:52.680 some blend spaces in the assets for this project. 08:52.710 --> 08:56.820 We have one for the Slingshot Goblin and one for the Spear Goblin. 08:56.820 --> 09:03.300 So we're going to select Goblin, Spear, Idle Run and we'll use that compile. 09:03.300 --> 09:07.470 And we see that our goblins now idling here in the preview window. 09:07.470 --> 09:10.410 And if we go to Goblin Spear. 09:11.900 --> 09:14.030 And we select the mesh. 09:14.030 --> 09:19.070 We can choose a goblin spear and our goblin is idling. 09:19.100 --> 09:19.940 Perfect. 09:19.970 --> 09:23.300 Now, what's that goblin slingshot we just saw? 09:23.330 --> 09:27.770 If we look at it in the asset browser, here's that goblin slingshot. 09:27.800 --> 09:29.270 I can double click on it. 09:29.270 --> 09:31.130 And this is what it looks like. 09:31.310 --> 09:38.010 So you'll see that it's animated a little bit differently to accommodate for a slingshot. 09:38.030 --> 09:41.910 That means we must have a slingshot weapon asset as well. 09:41.930 --> 09:48.650 If I go to Assets and Enemies Goblin, you'll see there's a slingshot folder. 09:48.650 --> 09:53.900 And right here in the centered folder, we have an xxm slingshot. 09:53.930 --> 09:55.610 Here's what it looks like. 09:55.610 --> 10:02.900 And the pouch even has a bone that we can move and you'll see that the slingshot actually stretches. 10:04.000 --> 10:05.170 Pretty awesome. 10:05.170 --> 10:09.820 So that means we're going to have a different type of goblin enemy. 10:09.820 --> 10:13.290 That's why we call this one goblin spear. 10:13.300 --> 10:16.900 We're going to want a goblin slingshot as well, aren't we? 10:16.990 --> 10:18.760 So why don't we do that? 10:19.430 --> 10:22.550 And that's actually going to be your quest. 10:23.510 --> 10:30.470 So for this quest, you're going to make the Slingshot goblin, call it Goblin Slingshot based on or 10:30.500 --> 10:35.870 enemy and find the slingshot asset that's going to be the weapon for the enemy. 10:35.900 --> 10:39.470 Don't worry about trying to make that pouch stick to the hand. 10:39.470 --> 10:40.570 We'll do that later. 10:40.580 --> 10:49.220 For now, just make the basic goblin slingshot enemy blueprint and create and assign its animation blueprint, 10:49.220 --> 10:51.290 just like we did with the spear enemy. 10:51.320 --> 10:54.920 Go ahead and pause the video and conquer this quest now. 10:58.290 --> 11:03.000 Okay, So for this quest, we need another animation blueprint. 11:03.330 --> 11:11.880 I'm going to go into my content Blueprints character folder, and we'll make a new folder for the Goblin 11:11.880 --> 11:12.720 Slingshot. 11:12.720 --> 11:15.060 So we're going to right click new folder. 11:15.060 --> 11:18.690 We'll call this one goblin underscore Slingshot. 11:20.170 --> 11:22.540 And we'll make a new blueprint here. 11:22.540 --> 11:25.870 So, Blueprint class, we're going to choose Ora Enemy. 11:28.340 --> 11:29.480 Select. 11:29.810 --> 11:35.450 We'll call this BP goblin underscore Slingshot. 11:36.790 --> 11:40.810 We'll open that up and we just need to set that mesh. 11:40.810 --> 11:44.170 It's going to be the same mesh as the Goblin Spear. 11:44.200 --> 11:46.660 So I'm going to choose Goblin here. 11:48.050 --> 11:50.660 We're going to rotate it by 90 degrees. 11:52.020 --> 11:56.760 We'll drop it on down and make the capsule a bit smaller. 11:56.760 --> 12:04.290 Now, this is the same size, so I could just go to BP, Goblin Spear, take that capsule, see the 12:04.290 --> 12:06.270 capsule, half height and radius. 12:06.270 --> 12:08.730 That's about 51 and 28. 12:10.520 --> 12:15.770 So I'll put in 51 here and a 28 here. 12:16.490 --> 12:17.840 So that looks about right. 12:17.840 --> 12:19.790 We'll raise the mesh a bit. 12:20.780 --> 12:21.830 Perfect. 12:22.010 --> 12:25.910 Now we know that this mesh already has that hand socket. 12:25.940 --> 12:27.640 We just need to set the weapon. 12:27.650 --> 12:29.480 So I'm going to choose the weapon. 12:30.200 --> 12:31.910 I'm going to search for Slingshot. 12:31.910 --> 12:33.290 And there it is. 12:33.320 --> 12:35.150 We have the slingshot there. 12:35.180 --> 12:36.170 Okay, great. 12:36.170 --> 12:40.580 And right next to the blueprint, I'm going to make the animation blueprint. 12:40.580 --> 12:41.690 Going to animation. 12:41.690 --> 12:43.310 Animation Blueprint. 12:43.880 --> 12:46.790 Choose the parent class that's going to be an enemy. 12:46.820 --> 12:48.800 Our animation blueprint template. 12:48.800 --> 12:53.210 And here's the goblin as our skeleton. 12:53.210 --> 13:00.350 We're going to click Create, and I'll call this app underscore Goblin, underscore Slingshot. 13:01.240 --> 13:04.390 And this is going to be easy. 13:04.390 --> 13:11.230 All we have to do is open it up, go to asset override and toil down all the dropdowns until we get 13:11.230 --> 13:12.640 to the blend space player. 13:12.640 --> 13:22.330 And we can choose between Goblin, Slingshot, Idle run, compile that and now we have our animation 13:22.330 --> 13:23.190 blueprint. 13:23.450 --> 13:33.610 We can go back to our goblin slingshot, select the mesh and choose our anim class, which is a goblin 13:33.610 --> 13:35.260 slingshot now. 13:35.260 --> 13:37.480 And it's looking great now. 13:37.480 --> 13:39.460 The pouch is not in the hand. 13:39.490 --> 13:41.890 We would like that to be the case. 13:41.890 --> 13:43.150 We'll do that later. 13:43.180 --> 13:44.680 Don't worry too much about that. 13:44.680 --> 13:51.430 All that we care about now is that we have our goblin and we saw that we didn't have to go into the 13:51.430 --> 13:57.490 animation blueprint and set all the variables or anything like that because we're using the animation 13:57.490 --> 14:01.510 blueprint template and we can share that for our enemies. 14:01.510 --> 14:09.700 All we need to do is swap out the meshes and change whatever animation assets we're using here in the 14:09.730 --> 14:11.050 animation blueprint. 14:11.050 --> 14:12.970 And things are easy. 14:13.180 --> 14:19.180 All right, so now that we have our two different types of goblins, we can save all. 14:19.900 --> 14:26.440 And we're now ready to start handling player input, setting up enhanced input for our character, and 14:26.440 --> 14:28.690 we'll do all that good stuff next. 14:28.810 --> 14:29.710 I'll see you soon.