Essential Magic Staff Animation Pack

This package includes essential animations for a character with magic staff combat style, with a playable character blueprint.

Recommended for an action RPG game.

Update notes

1.02 (2024-05-17)

• Added 254 new animations + 24 new aimoffset poses including crouch, directional jump, dash, and more
• Reworked locomotion start/stop animations
• Added a new stance, Battle Mage
• Repositioned ik_hand_gun bone to the position of weapon_r
• Tweaked arm twist bones on some animations

QoL update (2024-03-11)

• Added UE5 skeleton with retargeted animations (Only on UE5.3 or above)
• Added IKRig and IKRetargeter
• Implemented Enhanced Input
• Changed project type to asset pack (can now add to project instead of creating a new one)
• Restructured folders and renamed files to be more organized

1.01.1 (2023-03-06)

• Applied clavicles movement on some animations.
• All attacks (Normal, Air, Plunge)
• Equip_02, Equip_04
• Guard_Break, Guard_Break_Stun
• Teleport_01_Begin, Teleport_01_End, Teleport_03_Begin, Teleport_03_End
• Corrected/tweaked some animations.
• Knockdown_D, Knockdown_F
• Added 6 levitating move animations.

1.01 (2023-02-22)

• Added new 50 animations.
• Tweaked staff holding position on melee attacks (attack_10, attack_11, attack_12).
• Tweaked all walk animations to have less feet sliding.

Technical Details

Features:

• Hand-crafted magic staff combat animations including 2 stances: Wizard and Battle Mage
• Movement animations including walking, jogging, running, dodging, rolling, jumping and etc.
• Playable character with magic staff combat based on UE Third Person template for animation demonstration purpose
• Hitbox system for hurt/damage animations testing
• Debug Vector mode for directional animation blendspaces testing
• Including UE5 pre-retargeted animations

Rigged to Epic skeleton: Yes

IK bones are included: Yes

Number of Animations: 535 + 48 aim offset poses

Animation types: Root Motion, In-place

Number of Characters: 2 (UE4 Mannequin, UE5 Manny)

Supported Development Platforms:

• Windows: Yes
• MacOS: Yes

Custom Bones: 1 (weapon_r)

Additional Notes:

• Some animations may not be used in the character blueprint. See Animation List for more details
• This package is an animation pack, all blueprint system included are made to demonstrate how this pack should work.
• Your character has to have weapon bones in order to make weapon animation play correctly on your character.
• The retargeting settings included in the package can be used as an example though some adjustment may be needed to make it fit to your characters.