Essential Bow and Arrow Animation Pack

space.bar.anim - Animations - Sep 5, 2023

This package includes essential animations for a character with bow and arrow combat style, with a playable character blueprint. Recommended for an action RPG game.

  • Supported Platforms
  • Supported Engine Versions
    4.26 - 4.27, 5.0 - 5.4
  • Download Type
    Asset Pack
    This product contains an assortment of Unreal Engine assets which can be imported into a pre-existing project of your choice.

Animation Preview

Demo(UE5 QoL update)


Email : space.bar.anim@gmail.com

Discord : https://discord.gg/N22PxcWTKT


This package includes essential animations for a character with bow and arrow combat style, with a playable character blueprint. Recommended for an action RPG game.


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Update notes

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
  • Improved bow shooting accuracy in the demo

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Technical Details

Features:

  • Hand-crafted bow and arrow combat animations
  • Movement animations including walking, jogging, running, dodging, rolling, jumping and etc.
  • Archery animations: Nock, Draw, Aim, Shoot with 3 shooting styles and 3 quiver styles
  • Playable character with bow and arrow 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 retargeted animations

Rigged to Epic skeleton: Yes

IK bones are included: Yes

Number of Animations: 444 animations + 234 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: 4 (bow, bow_string, arrow_bow_string, arrow_hand_r)

Additional Notes:

  • Some animations may not be used in the character blueprint.
  • 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. See how to add weapon bones walkthrough in my discord channel.
  • 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.