For animated characters, UE4’s Paper2D plugin allows you to create frame stacks of sprites that can be played back sequentially. These are known as “Flipbooks,” and in this video we show you how to ...
In this video we show how the animation selection system was created for the 2D Side Scroller Template, which is already available within UE4 (4.3 and later). Source
We now move on to how our Blueprint will handle movement for our character to allow him to start exploring our environment. Source
Here we enhance the original animation system into a functional state machine, which will allow for easier extensibility, should we want to add more animations at some point in the future. Source
In this first lesson we create our basic project, import our textures, and prototype out a basic level for our 2D game. https://wiki.unrealengine.com/File:Paper2DTextures.zip Source
