This system brings a AAA-quality climbing experience to your Unreal Engine 5 projects. Built fully in Blueprints and tested with UEFN mannequin, it allows your character to smoothly interact with ledges with movement quality inspired by games like The Last of Us And Uncharted.

• (Premium) Version Features

  • ✨ 180° Ledge Leap

  • ✨ Free Hang Mode

  • ✨ Inner & Outer Corner Transitions

  • ✨ Pole Traversal Support

  • ✨ Supported Free Hang transitions

  • ✨ Drop to lower ledge detection

  • ✨ IK

  • ✨ Major improvements

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⚠️ Read this first: the animations

The project ships with placeholder animations. The real climbing animations come from paid packs on Fab, and their licence does not let me include them, so a fresh open will look nothing like the demo video. Nothing is broken when that happens.

You need these three:

• Standard Ledge Climbing: https://fab.com/s/0e34c5b59575 (shimmy and leaps)

• Free Hang Animations: https://fab.com/s/5fc950b13836 (green stripe)

• Pole Animation Pack: https://fab.com/s/4a056dbff3a4 (red stripe)
  

  Setting them up is not only swapping references in the chooser table. The montages need Animation Notifies inside them or the character will not land on the ledge properly. This video walks through it: https://youtu.be/3DMAnOPBVyo
  

• Download Project:

  v1.2, updated 23 Sept 2026

  • UE 5.8, Mover Ragdoll V1 (placeholder anims): Google Drive

  • UE 5.8, Mover Ragdoll V2 (without placeholder anims) Google Drive

  • UE 5.8, Mover Ragdoll & CMC V2 (without placeholder anims) Google Drive

  • UE 5.7, Mover, placeholder anims: Google Drive Link
    

  v1.1, updated 19 Mar 2026

  • UE 5.5, CBP, no anims: Google Drive Link

  • UE 5.5, CBP + map + placeholder anims: Google Drive Link

  • UE 5.7, Mover, no anims: Google Drive Link

    
    

    How it is built

    • Attach and navigate. Smooth attachment with proper hand placement, and movement left or right along the surface.

    • Detaching. One key detaches safely mid animation, with no floating.

      

    • Ledge stripes. Lightweight static meshes with tags and custom collision settings. Blue is a standard supported hang, green is a free hang, red is a pole, and yellow is a slippery surface that plays its own attachment animation. Direction comes from the tags orientation rather than from maths at runtime, which keeps it stable on large maps.

      

    • Chooser tables pick the animations. Swap the entire animation set by editing a table, without touching a single Blueprint.

      

    • Motion Warping steers each montage onto the ledge you actually hit, so one animation works on ledges of any height.

      

    • Offsets in a data table per character, so you can put the system on your own character and line the hands up exactly.

      

    Setup and documentation

    • System document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ngEmnV4pWMYKY7hiKDPBeMdYZLCS30VaOZrswDyQUGw/edit?usp=sharing

    • Ask questions about the docs directly: https://locodev.dev/notebooklm/ledgepremium

    • UE 5.8 overview, and how to adapt it to other characters: https://youtu.be/FjDOkwCjV-g

    • Setting up the ledge stripes: https://youtu.be/w5NBmL9l3Jo

    • Adding the component to UE 5.7 GASP Mover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c51rvXhYgOc

    • Adding the component to UE 5.5 GASP CBP: https://youtu.be/hcL6ZL18u7U

    Controls

    • F attach and detach

    • W A S D move along the ledge

    • T manual climb up, when there is no Top tag

    • N switch character

    Why get it

    A complete climbing framework built to be clean and expandable. If you are an indie developer adding cinematic climbing, it saves you months of trial and error. If you are learning, it is a working example of how a complex Blueprint system gets organised: data driven animation selection, tags instead of runtime maths, and offsets you can tune per character.

    Questions about implementation or the animations, come and ask on Discord: https://www.discord.gg/ZB7SMbbxQz