Animation Tree/Animation Tree Editor

[eternalcrisis]

The Animation Tree is the best tool I've ever seen in any other engine. I love the concept, I like the flow, but lately it's just been so buggy lately. The largest node to blame is the "AnimNodeBlendDirectional." Not only does it seem incredibly inaccurate but will randomly stop working (seems to fail to play the animation as all it does is go to default/T-pose/reference pose) and the way to fix it is to play around with all of the nodes sliders until it fixes itself (if anyone knows a way to fix this properly please contact me).

Inaccurate Diagonal Directional Movement
The inaccuracies of the directional blend node results is that we cannot get four animations that will properly blend between them accurately for all diagonal movements forwards and backwards (walking and running variations). Can you please just add all directions please?

• Forward
• Forward Left
• Forward Right
• Backward
• Backward Left
• Backward Right

You get the same results as present by never connecting to the new node children.

If anyone has an example of doing the above with four animations for walking and running, while blending correctly for diagonal directions forward and backwards, please contact me.



Inaccurate Results
The movement is inaccurate when moving two different directions quickly; an example would be to go forward for a second and then go backwards. What generally happens is the Pawn/mesh turns 90 degrees before going into the correct animation. Also at times you can break the diagonal directions so they eventually don't even blend correctly. This is easy to reproduce but I can provide videos if required.

[eternalcrisis]

Edited: I edited the original post due to posting inaccuracies as I meant to say "Provide NATIVE animation tree NODES for weapons." However, after some thought there isn't much that can be added, as most control is already provided.

The original post still highlights the actual bugs of the animation tree editor. I think this editor has high potential of providing a universal method of animation management.

Thanks.

[Jetfire]

Are these issues visible with the ut3 robodude's animtree/ pawn? Can't say Ive noticed his blends failing ingame...

[seenooh]

Have you set up a sync group for those animations?

[rvc]

I'm also having the same problem, can't figure out why this is happening.. or how find a way around it.

And yes, I have all the running animations under the same Animation Group.

@eternalcrisis did you manage to solve it?

[Solid Snake]

You can make your own animation nodes by the way...

[Chosker]

You can make your own animation nodes by the way...

I wish there was documentation on that!

to the OP: try my tutorial, see my sig.
in any case you'll need to use a sync group as seenooh suggested