The Animation Graph - Getting Started

Telling a Character which AnimationGraph to use

AnimationGraphs can be used by multiple characters, or a character can have its own. Commonly, the player has his own AG, and all humanoid AI/NPC characters have one they share. Special character types, like animals, might have their own graphs. Graphs can be shared as long as the animation names are identical, even if they point to different files on the hard drive. Use the .chrparams file to set this up. The AnimationGraph a character uses can be changed at runtime with Flow Graph or code.

The character's lua script defines which AnimationGraph is to be loaded for a character. For the Hero Character, this is the player.lua file in the Scripts/Entities/actor folder. AI/NPC characters usually derive from BasicActor.lua or other base files - optionally they can overwrite the AnimationGraph property and load different graphs.

player.lua file

Opening the AG Editor

The AnimationGraph is located with the other View Panes in the Menu View -> Open View Pane.

There are two entries here. The "Animation Graph" will lead to the latest version of the Animation Graph. For backward compatibility reasons, the deprecated 1.0 version of the Animation Graph is still available (used for example for the Music Logic), but it will no longer be supported, except for important bug fixes.

Opening the Animation Graph Editor

The Interface

First Steps

• Before starting with any Tutorials, it is strongly suggested to get familiar with the basic concept of State Selection.
  • See Basic Concept of State Selection for this.
• Basic Tutorials can be found in the Tutorial Section.