Little update: to check if we're jumping or falling, you can just check the Z velocity of the character.

1. In the Animation Blueprint event graph, drag out of the movement component and search for "velocity".
2. Right click on the yellow dot and select "split struct pin"
3. From the "Z" drag out and select the top option "promote to variable". This checks whether your player is going up or down.
4. In the transition rules, we're just going to use our ZVelocity.

Idle/Walk/Run --> Jumping: ZVelocity > 0
Jumping --> Idle/Walk/Run: ZVelocity == 0
Jumping --> Falling: ZVelocity < 0
Falling --> Idle/Walk/Run: ZVelocity == 0
Idle/Walk/Run --> Falling: ZVelocity <0

Quick note but if you see your character loop back when you run or walk, make sure to set the option, "In place" set to true in mixamo.

Thank you for your wise lecture. I was struggling to understand this basic concept and you have helped me understand this.

Thanks for the tutorial! I started UE5 a week ago and got this working thanks to you.

Best tutorial for animation basics on youtube! You even showed us how to implement sprinting with Shift, legend!

Best video tutorial I seen so far. Thank you so much, I always struggle to get into Unreal, and your tutorial was so helpful guiding step by step.

You are a legend, thanks for this tutorial

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Great tutorial, but how do you get the jumping movement to delay slightly so that it actually lines up with the jump animation instead of the animation beginning when the character is already half way up the jump movement?

thank you!!

Clean tutorial and very easy to follow, thanks man!

thank you so much

Why in locomotion, I cannot drag out/ connect nodes from my entry?

Nice tutorial. 😅 You added humor into the mix to make the task more enjoyable. 😀

thanks a lot!!!

really useful, keep up with the videos

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really good tutorial

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This was really helpful -- I think the only thing that I wished you could have explained was the Left-Shift code... That being said, I just looked at the titles of the nodes you popped in and figured it out though haha! Great tutorial :)