Essential Sword & Shield Animation Pack

This package includes essential animations for a character with sword & shield combat style, with a playable character blueprint. Recommended for an action RPG game.

This package includes essential animations for a character with sword & shield combat style, with a playable character blueprint. Recommended for an action RPG game.

Update notes

Update 1/1.01 (2021-04-26)

• 11 new animations
• 1 blendspace
• New weapon bones added to the rig

Update 1 hotfix 1/1.01.1 (2021-05-02)

• Fix the issue that the shield bone is misplaced when start transition to the next animation.

Update 2/1.02 (2021-05-28)

• 18 new animations

Update 3/1.03 (2021-09-01)

• 22 new animations added
• 4 animations updated
• 2 new blendspaces added
• Throw system added
• Brake animations added to animation blueprint
• Controller support added

Update 4/1.04 (2021-10-26)

• 19 new animations
• 2 blendspaces
• Added idle to jog transition in the character blueprint
• Added jump landing to jog transition (pressing any movement key while landing)
• Product price changed to 29.99USD

Update 4 hotfix 1/1.04.1 (2021-10-28)

• Fixed the issue that the animation Execution_01_B has no root motion data

Update 5/1.05 (2022-08-03)

• Added new 200+ animations
• Added two-handed combat style
• Changed product name to Essential Sword & Shield Animation Pack (was Essential Sword & Shield Animations)
• Reconstruct directory/file names
• Applied root motion to basic locomotion animations
• Increased base price to 34.99USD (was 29.99USD)

Update 5 hotfix 1/1.05.1 (2022-08-04)

• Corrected texts in demo level
• Fixed some animations that have missing keyframes.

Technical Details

Features:

• Hand-crafted sword & shield combat animations
• Movement animations including walking, jogging, running, dodging, rolling, jumping and etc.
• Playable character with sword & shield 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

Rigged to Epic skeleton: Yes

IK bones are included: Yes

Number of Animations: 352 + 27 Aim Offset Poses

Animation types: Root Motion, In-place

Number of Characters: 1

Supported Development Platforms:

Windows: Yes

MacOS: Yes

Custom Bones: 2 (weapon_r, shield_l)

Additional Notes:

• Not all animations are being used in the character blueprint, but they can be manually added later.
• 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.