4.9

Notable Changes

• Updated plugin to Unreal Engine 5.0.
• Replaced legacy input system with the Enhanced Input plugin.
• Replaced all sound cues with MetaSounds.
• Improved support for Large World Coordinates.

• Improved property access performance in linked animation blueprints by reading variables from the parent animation instance directly, instead of copying them in the game thread and reading the copies.
• Moved thread-safe animation instance logic to the worker thread to improve game thread performance.
• Use animation layer interfaces to dynamically switch overlay states at runtime instead of referencing them directly in animation blueprints.
• Restored the original monolithic animation blueprint for cases where performance is top priority, since using linked animation instances comes with some overhead.
• Replaced most of the remaining enums with gameplay tags

• Reworked foot and pelvis offset logic for smoother character movement on stairs or sloped surfaces.
• Added rotation of the character towards the last input direction when not moving in velocity direction rotation mode.
• Fixed issues with foot locking and character rotation on the listen server or when Update Rate Optimization is enabled.
• Suppressed "Trying to play a non-additive animation into a pose that is expected to be additive" warnings.

Skeleton

• Renamed the FullBody animation slot to PostLocomotion.
• Renamed the AimBlock animation curve to ViewBlock.
• Renamed the AimManual animation curve to AllowAiming.
• Renamed some virtual bones.

Animation Blueprint

• Reworked view animation instance logic.
• Improved layering.
• Improved interpolation logic of some animation instance variables.
• Use animation node functions instead of animation notifies where possible.
• Simplified some animation state machines by using state aliases.
• Slightly optimized the Blend Poses by Gameplay Tag and Blend Curves animation graph nodes.
• Added separate animation sequences for dynamic transitions.
• Fixed a crash when using the ShowDebug Animation console command.
• Fixed an issue with movement animations that may occur during transitions to grounded states.
• Fixed an issue with character pose when transitioning from jump to land state.
• Fixed an issue with character pose when stopping at low fps.
• Fixed an issue with knees when landing while aiming.

Bone Manipulation

• Refactored CR_Als.
• Improved foot locking teleportation logic.
• Fixed noticeable leg stretching on movement start at low fps.
• Fixed an issue with knees in foot IK when landing.

Character

• Reworked view network smoothing and added support for smoothing on the listen server.
• Keep the USkinnedMeshComponent::VisibilityBasedAnimTickOption setting unchanged, at least if it doesn't need to be changed for the plugin to work properly.
• Exposed the UAlsCharacterMovementComponent::SetMovementSettings() function to blueprints.
• Fixed glitchy character pushing by moving objects.
• Fixed an issue with teleportation of simulated proxies.
• Fixed an issue with view rotation initialization.

Locomotion Actions

• Fixed character mesh jitter when rolling on clients.
• Fixed very high initial ragdoll speed at unstable fps.

Footstep Effects

• Fixed incorrect alignment of footstep effects on sloped surfaces.

Other

• Renamed the ALSExample module to ALSExtras.
• Added new objects to the Playground level to test foot and pelvis offsets.
• Enabled the One File Per Actor feature on the Playground level.
• Refactored UI widgets.