Animations
Animation is essential for adding life and richness to a game. Superb animations are one of the major factors that differentiate average games from the good and the great from the best. Visual fidelity is what keeps gamers excited and immersed in games, and hence animations are a core part of all games and experiences created in Unreal Engine.
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This chapter seeks to cover animation basics. A more in-depth approach to animation will be taken in Chapter 13, Blend Spaces 1D, Key Bindings, and State Machines.
Animation Blueprints
An Animation Blueprint is a specific kind of blueprint that allows you to control the animation of a Skeletal Mesh. It provides users with a graph specifically for animation-related tasks. Here, you can define the logic for computing the poses of a skeleton.
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A Skeletal Mesh is a skeleton-based mesh that has bones, all of which come together to give form to the mesh, whereas a Static Mesh (as the name suggests) is an un-animatable...
