Motion Warping

Setup Notes

What is it:

Updates an animation so it contorts gracefully when asked to move or rotate a distance

Enable Motion Warping in your plugins

In your animation sequence, check EnableRootMotion

In your animation montage (if you don’t have one, right click the Animation Sequence > Create > Create AnimMontage) right click in notifies track, Add Notify State > Motion Warping

• Set the bounds around the area movement is occurring most

• Under Details

  • Anim Notify > Root Motion Modifier: Select Adjustment Blend Warp

  • Give it a Sync Point Name

  • Warp Translation toggles whether the warping will impact the character position

  • Ignore ZAxis will toggle whether or not the character is locked to the ground

  • Warp Rotation will toggle whether the character will rotate to face target

    • Default: Instancing the rotation of the object in the world

    • Facing: Will face the direction of the object.

In the Character’s Blueprint:

• Add a component called “Motion Warping”

• Drag this into your event graph, and connect it to “Add or Update Warp Target from location and rotation”

  • Set the warp target name to match the Sync Point name in your Animation Montage

  • Target location and rotation are where the object will target

• Get the actor you want to target

  • Node “Get Actor of Class” > “GetActorLocation”

  • plug into either translation, rotation, or both, depending on effect you want

• Play Anim Montage

  • Drag the mesh in, “Play Montage”’

  • Select montage asset

In Animation Blueprint

• if you don’t already have it, create Montage > “Slot’DefaultSlot’” and feed that into Output Pose

  • Which slot you play in is determined in your Animation Montage

    

    If you need to change the slot: