themoddersden/als-community

Replicated and optimized community version of Advanced Locomotion System V4 for Unreal Engine 5.3 with additional features & bug fixes

Advanced Locomotion System - Community Version

Replicated and optimized version of Advanced Locomotion System V4 for Unreal Engine 5.3 with additional bug fixes

About This Repository

Advanced Locomotion system is built upon pretty outdated animation programming techniques of pre Unreal Engine 5 era, and I highly recommended to utilize other available locomotion systems, such as Epic's Lyra sample project. This repository will only receive engine compatibility fixes from now.

Supported Platforms

• Windows
• Linux

Console, Mac and mobile platforms are not tested and supported at the moment. Use the plugin on those platforms with your own risk.

Features

• Fully implemented and optimized in C++. Implementation is based on latest marketplace release (V4) of ALS
• Complete replication support with low bandwidth usage (Ragdoll replication is in experimental state)
• Redesigned as plugin
• Animation blueprint is optimized with new property binding feature
• Player input is handled with new Enhanced Input Plugin
• Mantling and debugging features are implemented as separate actor components to reduce total overhead on base character class
• Improved footstep system with decal & Niagara particle support
• Lots of additional bug fixes

Known Issues & Discussion

• See Issues section for list of known issues
• See Discussions section to discuss anything about the plugin, and ask questions. Please do not open an issue for questions.

Documentation

Instructions for setting up the plugin can be found on Wiki section.

License & Contribution

Source code of the plugin is licensed under MIT license, and other developers are encouraged to fork the repository, open issues & pull requests to help the development.