Documentation: Locomotion

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Documentation: Locomotion

Getting Started

with Locomotion System

Hero's Journey

This Documentation will guide through the important bits, and we will provide more videos in the future to showcase the system.

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Features

Locomotion, Covers most of your needs, to start making your game into reality!

Everything fully customizable, easy to integrate and Plug & Play, comes packed with features that you can enable / disable on the fly!

System Features

Customize it, Make it yours - locomotion Allows you to customize / code your character in realtime set what you want locomotion to have.

IK Systems - locomotion features IK Foot placement system & Upperbody IK for Player Look at Camera.

Plug & Play - easy to setup and well documented and explained so you can make your own Game locomotion!

Motion Wrap - allows you to adjust character legs for more or less movement without speeding up the entire animations.

Fluid Movements - locomotion is built around the idea of having fluid movements so you can blend from one animation to another with ease.

Custom Profiles - Allows you to save your own preset after you do live changes on the Live Configurator.

Abilities System - use Abilities System to disable - enable features in realtime! like jumping sprinting walking whenever you need or setup profiles with their own abilities for your characters.

Full Locomotion - You can walk / jog / sprint / crouch / slide / jump ... and easily add any new feature you like.

Multi Genre Support - you can Change your Locomotion Type in realtime with a touch of a button, From TPP to TopDown and even 2D Side Scrolling.

Hand Made Animations - Up to 20 Different Stylized Hand made animations, to cover up your project needs.

Full Debugging System - Allows you to see your character Speed / Velocity / Direction / Acceleration / AnimState & More.

Levels For Each Genre - We Setup a Level for every Genre so feel free to explore them and use them as templates for making your own Games.

Limitless Customization - Customize then Test All in Playtime without interruptions, gone the days where you had to close the project to try random values.

Compatible With Advance Female Customization - You can make your own character using AFC and using Locomotion you can control your character tutorials coming soon.

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Controls

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Live Configurator Setup

Live Configurator Is a system inside Locomotion That Allows you to Customize your Character during PIE (Playing in Editor) you can select a character choose abilities setup that character camera settings movements settings and save everything into Presets that you can load and adjust at anytime!

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Initial Setup

After you open locomotion you will be greeted with this screen

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Head to the Directory Content > Locomotion > Blueprints

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Right Click UI_Live_Configurator And Select Run Editor Utility Widget

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then you need to drag Live Configurator and Dock it to The Side

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Then you can hit

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And Select a Preset

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Selecting a Preset

there is few Presets included with Locomotion

Presets

TPS (Third Person Shooter)

TPA (Third Person Adventure)

Top Down

2D Side Scroller

Custom 1

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Pro tip : Press G to show your Mouse Cursor then you can select any of these presets and it will update in playtime!

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Choosing a Character

You Can Select a Character By Choosing From the Provided Mannequin Male & Female.

Or you can add your own Characters and link them to the Live Configurator!

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Character Abilities

You can however your mouse and Check / Uncheck your character abilities

The Default abilities that comes with Locomotion are the following

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Abilities

Leaning (Allows the character to lean left / right when jogging + rotating their camera)

Jumping (Pressing Space Allows you to Jump)

Sliding (while running you can Press C to Slide on the Flower)

Crouching (Pressing C While jogging / standing Allows you to enter Crouch Mode)

Sprinting ( Pressing LShift Allows you to Sprint)

Turn InPlace ( Allows your character to rotate inPlace while standing still)

Walking ( Allows you to switch to Walk Mode In Adventure Mode)

Player Look At Camera (player looks where the camera facing, can set Head or Upperbody Only)

IK Foot System ( Add IK for the Foot Placement system Press I to disable / Enable it)

Motion Wrap ( Allows the player to adjust his feet when speeding up or slowing down)

Note : you can add / remove your own abilities to the live Configurator.

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Global Settings

You can use Global Settings to control Gravity / Mass Scale / Acceleration of your Character

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Camera Setup

Allows you to Change the Camera Angle Set Zoom Max Scale & Enable / Disable Camera Control

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Camera Angles

Default (Default 3rd Person Camera)

OverTheShoulder (3rd Person Camera Over Player Shoulder)

Top Down (Top Down Camera Angle)

2D Side Scroller (2D Side Scroller With Inverse Controls)

Note : All Camera Angles Changes to Adventure Mode Expect Default Which Switches Him To, Third Person Shooter Mode.

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Movements Setup

You can adjust your character speed in different animations, or conditions while play testing your during PIE (playing in editor) and see the effects while you do!

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