🌌Overview

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Content

All content - animations, weapons, sounds, and Blueprints - is located in KINEMATION/TacticalShooterPack.: The Common directory contains general Blueprints used across KINEMATION assets. Its contents are covered later in this section. The Tactical Shooter Pack consists of 11 directories: Let’s break down each sub-folder to better explain what you can find there.

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Animations

This folder contains camera, character, and weapon animations. It also includes Animation Blueprints for UE4 and UE5 skeletons. The main Animation Blueprint is ABP_TacticalShooter_UE5, which relies on these modules:

• ABP_UE5_Sway: Applies procedural aiming and movement sway.
• ABP_UE5_IK_Ads: Applies procedural aiming.
• ABP_UE5_IK_Main: Applies general procedural animation (spine rotation, leaning, recoil, etc.).
• ABP_UE5_IK_Pose: Positions the weapon and hands via IK.

All Animation Blueprints depend on AC_TacticalShooterAnimation - the central component in this asset. It supplies ABPs with key data (e.g., IK settings and firing state).

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Blueprints

This folder contains all Blueprints used in the pack:

• AdditiveMotions: Procedural additive animations played when aiming or changing fire mode.
• Attachments: Blueprint foundation for the attachment system (work in progress).
• Data: Settings and structs used in the pack (e.g., weapon animation settings).
• Notifies: Custom Animation Notifies used in the pack.
• Recoil: Recoil settings for each weapon.
• Weapons: Game‑ready weapon Blueprints.

This folder also contains very important Blueprints, like:

• AC_TacticalShooterAnimation: Actor Component that connects gameplay and Animation Blueprints; treat it as an interface between the player and the animation system.
• BP_TacticalShooterCharacter: Game‑ready player Blueprint.
• BP_TacticalShooterWeapon: Base class for all weapons.
• BPI_TacticalShooterCharacter: Interface used by weapons and Animation Blueprints.
• BPI_TacticalShooterWeapon: Interface that passes data to the animation system.
• TacOperatorSettings is an asset that contains meshes as well as weapons to use.

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Camera, Casings, Character and Weapons

This section contains all skeletal and static meshes used in the package. The Weapons folder also includes attachments (e.g., magazines).

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Demo

This directory includes a simple demo scene and the UE5 Manny.

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Inputs

This folder contains all Input Actions and the Input Mapping Context used by the player Blueprint.

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SFX

This folder contains all sound effects and sound Blueprints. Weapon‑specific sounds are divided into two categories: (1) Actions (e.g., reloads, inspects, mag checks) and (2) Firing.

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UI

This folder contains a UMG widget used in the playable demo. It displays the control list and the currently equipped weapon.

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VFX

This folder contains Data Assets for the Niagara casing system. Each asset is set up for a specific casing (e.g., NATO 5.56, 9 mm).