animation

[cinder blade]

@rain solstice When adjusting the transform in a control rig, you'll notice there's an "initial" value, a "current" value, and an "offset value." The "current" transform will get zero'd out whenever you compile. To make the change stick, you can right click the control and choose one of the options to set the offset or initial transform from the current, depending on whatever's appropriate for your code.

If the rig is working correctly, the travel radius of the mainrod will depend on where it's fixed to the wheel relative to the center. Assuming you're using a control offset from the center of the wheel to move the mainrod, you would offset that control further from the center of the wheel to increase the travel radius.

[velvet geyser]

I have the same issue, were you able to resolve it? From what I see cloth physics is just canceling the morph targets even when using Mesh Deformer as you described.

[runic solstice]

Quick question about blendspaces in Unreal, I've used and setup some before with other animations. Is there any specific things I need to look out for when making those animations myself? I'm using cascadeur at the moment

[vivid coral]

i want to create 2 simple animations, an interact animation with the hands moving forwards to touch and walk/run/crouch while holding a sword. anyone ahve any yt vids for a referencee?

[fringe shadow]

Do anyone know how to change the material on mesh?

I want to animate face expressions of LEGO Characters. Face Experience are 2D textures.

[quiet brook]

🫠

[plush oak]

I've downloaled an animation from mixamo and I've converted for UE when I import this error happens I think is about the skelaton already have bones but Idk how to delete them

[coral sun]

Any reason why this list is empty? The skeleton for the animations is present in the project

[wary wharf]

hi anyone know how to retarget animation from ue5_Manny to my own skeletal mesh ? i tried the IK-retargeter but I am not that good with UE5 (can voice chat if anyone can help)

[full crag]

Anyone use Cascedeur for animation of characters?
Curious about the pros and cons.
https://cascadeur.com/

[tropic holly]

I'm using pro right now and everything is amazing except for the shoulder bones getting warped for some reason. So I haven't made any animations that I can use with it yet but if you plan on using ue5 manny or one of cascaduer's mannequins it will work great

[sudden sedge]

I'm trying to make a jump land animation, and I'm trying to make it a sort of additive animation based on a curve

Any ideas on how I might go about with that?

[humble slate]

I have a minor problem in anim graph, when right clicking to show context menu, it freezes for 15 seconds.
It seems to populate nodes with every animation in the content for that skeletal mesh. Is there a way to disable that?

[autumn elk]

Hi! Anyone with experience transfering Wounder studio mocap to CC4 Characters here? I can`t seem to figure it out here. Some bones are just not working correctly.

[wheat badge]

is there a way to modify the Reference pose for using with Compatible Skeletons? No matter how I modify the ref pose using the retarget manager the legs always cross :/

I want to avoid editing in DCC software in DCC software

[ebon granite]

I replaced the 3rd person mannequin with a custom mesh and an UE rig made with AutoRigPro but I'm having this problem whre the feet are stuck to the ground. Apparently it's an IK problem so I followed this guy's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM06-K1F-is&t=486s) but it didn't fix my problem + the nodes are totally different
Anyone has an idea how to fix that ?

[charred owl]

Wouldn't it be simpler to do the retargeting in iClone then?

[charred owl]

Q: Is there a way to bind to an animation montage being finished playing? I've seen you can set a timer based on the duration of the montage but that seems chintzy. is there no event that fires when a montage is complete or interrupted?

[opaque comet]

Trying to wrap my head around how Unreal assigns animations to skeletons. I imported a skeletal mesh with a test animation, imported using the mannequin's skeleton as the skeleton reference. When I try to select an animation asset to preview, this test animation is not shown, though it correctly shows it is assigned to the same skeleton. Any reason why this would be happening?

[charred owl]

I'm not 100% sure of the question but animation sequences are bouond to a skeleton or a set of compatible skeletons. If you have not explicitly retargeted an animation to the specific mesh you want to preview the animation on, it won't show up.

So you can either open the animation asset and add the mesho to that asset's list of compatible skeletons (if they are indeed compatible), or if not, you can build an IK retargeter and convet those animations to work with the new mesh.

Does that kinda make sense?

[opaque comet]

Yes, sorry, I'm an idiot. When I imported the skeletal mesh, it looks like it did not keep the name I set for the animation in blender, so it was not showing up in my search and I thought it wasn't properly targeted. Looks like it's there now

But yeah, it correctly shows this new test anim is assigned to the same skeleton

[opaque comet]

Would this node work for your purposes? I've seen this used in Blueprint Tasks for AI, not sure if the node is available elsewhere, but it appears to have execution pins for when the montage finishes

[charred owl]

Dang bruh. I didn't know that existed. I don't see it in my context. I'm using MontagePlayWithBlendIn and it doesn't have any callbacks like the one you are showing me.

this is what we're using because we need the Blend.

any idea how to use the node you're suggesting along with a Blend value so we can blend montages together?

[rigid gate]

Hi guys i have problem about asaign my animstions to charcater in sequencer Its about i try to use face morph target animation and body movement animation in same time on unreal sequencerBut its makes blend to animations i think thats why facial anims gonna be lower how can i fix that guys?

[opaque comet]

No idea, sorry, I'm pretty new to animation :/

[leaden grove]

was wondering if I could get some help with animating my character holding a rifle when it picks it up, I am farily new to unreal 5 and im just trying to create a charcter that moves easily and picks up a weapon and still can move around normally in a FPS perspective, ive been watching alot of yt videos and its just caused me to go in a loop hole for different peoples methods and im just kinda lost now lol

[feral gorge]

Hi I'm looking to hire someone hourly to simply hang out with me while I create stuff and advise me with issues I'm running into creating cinematics. Tuts have gotten me pretty far but they lack context sometimes. I'm currently at the animation stage of my scene and require some assistance with a few problems.

Please feel free to DM me. I'm usually available at night after 8:00pm EST (Florida), and periodically throughout the day.

[ebon granite]

You guys think I can grasp the animation/skeleton system of Unreal (meaning I can fix most of the export/import issues) if I read the whole docs about animations, skeleton and controls rigs ?
Ngl I'm getting frustrated trying to switch characters smoothly between character BPs

[round grotto]

Sorry for the double post in cinematics. Realized it should be probably here... Hello everyone, I have a quick question. I have some UE4 rigged characters and UE5 animations. I guess it would be better to change the character than the animations, right? I only found tutorial for changing the animations but not the actual skeleton. Can someone point me in the right direction?

[waxen moth]

Hi guys, Im having an issue w a metahuman w a mixamo animation that plays fine in the sequense but when i press play it just falls thru everything and dissapears, any one got any time to maybe helpt me?

[dreamy orchid]

You ever figure this out? Killed control rig for me.

[steady sentinel]

Short with Metahumans: https://youtu.be/ch7fOtwKCC0

[serene plover]

What would cause a skt to morph wrong like this?

Vertex weights?

[turbid needle]

Hey, I'm having some trouble exporting GLTF from blender to unreal. I'm having to use GLB for the export format. My problems are coming down to some bizarre loss of shapekey animation when I export. The shapekeys are there in the imported file, but aren't represented in the animations.
Left is the anim in Blender 4.0. Right is the anim in Unreal after being imported as GLB from blender

My shapekey test, titled "Wahoo" is imported just fine and looks the way it does in blender. However when I check "auto" on like I would with an FBX import with shapekeys, it still doesn't animate in the actual animations

[turbid needle]

inside blender the shapekey uses a driver that attaches to joint transform to animate the shapekey. This worked fine when I was testing shapekey animation in fbx, but not here

[blissful quarry]

Hey guys, is there a way to play additive animation in sequencer, right now when I put 2 animation layer in the same body part, they are blending, playing like at 50% each instead of being additive

[serene arch]

wowzers making a pure animation based look up/down with no ik for a true FPS perspective is a lot harder than I imagined

[minor spindle]

Hello everyone!
I have a question about MH ABP. I need to follow his eyes by moving camera but. I'm following tutorials, but several lessons mention the need to disable "Blueprint Post Processing" for the "Look At" function to work correctly. However, disabling this feature makes my ABP appear incorrect. How I can use my normal skeletal mesh and use "Look At" node for EYES ?

[sharp karma]

Guys, did epic release the motion matching project with 500 animations that was mentioned in the GDC presentation? I can't seem to find it

[tired solstice]

could anyone help me sort an animation not playing all the way threw?

[wild flare]

Aparently Epic is releasing a 500+ animation starter pack for free in 5.4.
has this made its way onto the marketplace yet? i cant find it.

[ebon granite]

For real ? The month right after when I decide to buy some anims packs?

[wild flare]

(large probability the anims are more locomotion based, rather than interactions / combative)

but idk, i cant find it

[tired solstice]

when i imported the animation i got this error could this be playing into it?

Animation length 2.25 is not compatible with import frame-rate 2 fps (sub frame 0.5), animation has to be frame-border aligned. Either re-export animation or enable snap to closest frame boundary import option.

[sharp karma]

I'm also searching for this but haven't found anything

By the way is the Motion Matching system they showed the same we have for some time as the Motion Trajectory plugin?

[wild flare]

they never said it was, so i would assume its different.

im re-watching their 4 hour livestream from yesterday, ill let you know if they say anything about it

[sharp karma]

That's what I thought too but I can't find it in the new 5.4 preview either

[wild flare]

perhaps this is only going to be realeased in the full 5.4 build instead of the preview?,
if thats the case. I will throw a 6-year-old hissy fit and compoain on twitter🙃

[sharp karma]

I hope not, the whole point of the preview is to identify and fix bugs before the full release..

[wild flare]

1st week of april aparently

[dim tapir]

Hi everyone kind of a niche question, but hoping someone might know a solution or point me in the right direction. I am using auto-rig pro in blender to generate a ue5 mannequin which works fine and I get no merge bones issue. However when I use a UE5 default animation it seems like the character get some issues getting "squished almost

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1044974070279721011/1220355462499663902/image.png?ex=660ea397&is=65fc2e97&hm=db6c603984978e43fac71ba678c38efb899590051947e763ce88ca27440dc848&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1044974070279721011/1220355538039345272/image.png?ex=660ea3a9&is=65fc2ea9&hm=0b397e7293be149597bc147235950c2225f5013a48333f6adc427f532e75e234&

Above is an example, where it has the "default pose" as an animation, and you can especially notice an issue with the hands on the lower one, as opposed to the actual default pose which is the prior picture

[humble slate]

Hey, animation noob here.
I have a root motion animation of sitting on a chair (starting in front of the chair). How can I blend the root motion so when I sit on the chair, it blend properly to the final position from my current position that may be a little offset from the starting position of root motion?

[zealous crane]

Hey not sure what channel this would fall under... But we're getting a ton of log spam that are variations on this line. Anyone run into this in 5.3 before or know what the fix is?

[2024.03.21-19.52.52:814][ 64]LogUObjectGlobals: Warning: Calling StaticLoadObject("Class /Script/CoreUObject.Object", "None", "/Game/Characters/CR_Char_V2.CR_Char_V2") during PostLoad of ControlRigBlueprint /Game/Characters/CR_Char_V2.CR_Char_V2 is illegal and will crash in a cooked runtime

[forest furnace]

Has anyone had issues where rewind debugger isn't actually recording anything even though there is an actor selected?
It says "Start a recording" even though there's a recording

Nvm looks like I needed to have it on standalone for it to work

[cyan bridge]

Hello friends, anyone here know if you can use virtual bones with the control rig? Like should I be able to bake animations with keyed VBs?

Its currently not working in my project and I figured asking here might save me a step

[cyan bridge]

Have you found the solution for this? I’m hoping if you did it provides me with some insight on a separate but related issue I’m trying to understand

[viscid willow]

You can certainly use virtual bones with control rig. When you say bake animation with keyed virtual bones, are you animating the virtual bones in some way?

Maybe you could explain your use case for a bit more context.

[cyan bridge]

I have controls set up in the metahuman rig for virtual bones connected to the hands, my plan was to use those as weapon bones, however I can’t get it to work. It’s very late for me or I’d send over my very simple addition to the rig. I have construction forward and backwards set up

[viscid willow]

okay, my speculation is that the virtual bones are going to not be able to animate where you need because when they're created in a skeleton they have a parent and a target, so they will always animate to the target position. That's at least what I understand.

You could do the same setup all in control rig rather than make a VB in the skeleton, you could make a bone or control as a target transform for a weapon in the control rig itself.

[cyan bridge]

My next solution involved adding bones to the skeleton, however the metahuman set up didn’t add the bones despite an error free reimport.

I have no idea how I would use the rig to edit the weapons transformation and that seems like a frustrating rabbit hole. 😅

Would that be able to be baked out you think?

On curves maybe?

[viscid willow]

oh so you're looking for a solution to handle a variety of weapons?

[cyan bridge]

Exactly

Different girths and hand positions and all that

[viscid willow]

I'd say you want a bone exported with the skeleton, like you mentioned. The metahumans dont have a prop bone/weapon bone?

[cyan bridge]

Unfortunately no and despite my best efforts importing the skeleton doesn’t seem to add the bones. I suspect there’s a work around with live retargeting bc the face mesh has its own skeleton but follows the body animations

[viscid willow]

yeah the head uses a copy pose solution IIRC so the spine is identical between the body and head mesh, and the head is set to be a "follower"

[cyan bridge]

Oh amazing I was asking about this the other day, is there documentation on this?

[viscid willow]

I dont have a metahuman example on hand, but I'm pretty sure it's set up in a similar way with this node.https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/AnimHowTo/CopyPose/

You could probably find it in the metahuman setup if you have a character imported to the engine

[cyan bridge]

Oh yeah I’ve played with metahuman version of this

I’m not sure how it works, the bones that don’t match in the skeletons can operate independently?

[viscid willow]

I believe so. Because this is done in the anim bp you could have other nodes in there driving animation, while the copy pose is used to match the corresponding bones.

https://youtu.be/Oe7fYS9qxmk?si=b2WkMdaJglf1mumV

This is a good video. The wings backbling in particular has animation states, while also matching to the character.

[cyan bridge]

Thanks! I’ll take a look at this

[viscid willow]

I'm guessing you're applying some retargeting here in which case the proportions might be different between the two skeletons, so when the animation is applied, it takes on the transforms of the UE5 character proportions.

[lunar basalt]

Hello, does anyone know how can I bind trajectory variable to motion matching system through animation blueprint in UE5.4?

[boreal swallow]

It has been moved to the "PoseHistory“.

[lunar basalt]

where is the "PoseHistory" located?

[boreal swallow]

It's a AnimNode.

[lunar basalt]

Oh, I found it. thanks

[dim tapir]

So the issue relates to the skeletal mesh not having the correct transforms on the bones, it is correlated with both size and rotations. The main issue was that the spines bones for the rig in Auto-rig is straight, whereas the ue5 mannequin have spines bones much like a real spine, aka s-shaped-ish. Similiarily to what @viscid willow said

Now you can fix it by editing the reference bones and basically making adjustments to make it has similiar proportions and rotation as the real skeleton, but it's a bit tedious

I was a bit let down by the fact that the plugin I used didn't automatically solve this though, since it markets itself as UE5 compatible. Other than that the plugin is very good, but yeah you gotta manually correct these issue for now I suppose

[dim tapir]

however... with all that said, if you fix it once, it should work for the forseeable future, granted that you use the UE5 mannequin or UE4 mannequin skeletons only

[quiet anchor]

Hello. I would like to use Random Sequence Player node in Animation BP; but I would like to program transition to trigger when Random Sequence Player node finishes. Is it possible?

[quiet anchor]

Alright, if this is too specific of a question, I'd like to describe my actual problem.

I have a behavior that I would like to implement, and I'm wondering if it's appropriate to do it in animation BP.

I want to have an idle animation with some flourishes randomly thrown in. I would like to have a simple idle animation, which plays for a random amount of time (not necessarily just one cycle); then it transitions to one of several flourishes (a character looking around, or checking his equipment, or limbering up); then after a flourish ends I want it to transition back to simple idle animation.

I know of "Random Sequence Player" node, but it does not quite have a behavior I desire — it just picks an animation at random an plays it for a random amount of cycles.

[gentle lake]

for my death animation i use a transition of a boolean, should i do this or play montage what is the difference ?

[azure roost]

Anyone know how I can either change the retargeting templates or how to correctly export/name a 3ds max biped character so I can use the new autiIK/Autoretargeting feature?

Very spares info on that out there rn...

[rigid gate]

Hi guys i have problem about asaign my animstions to charcater in sequencer Its about i try to use face morph target animation and body movement animation in same time on unreal sequencerBut its makes blend to animations i think thats why facial anims gonna be lower how can i fix that guys?

[honest lion]

Try control rig

[frank shuttle]

Any Ideas, how to fix that problem ?

[cyan bridge]

Just in case you were curious or anyone was interested, adding bones to the metahuman skeleton does work, remember to refresh the rig heiarchy lol

[frail sparrow]

is there a way as of recent to get the ue5 manniquin control rig to blender

[pure mica]

All rigging tools are different in each DCC so you can't simply bring an animation rig from one to another. You would need to create your own custom rig on top of the UE5 mannequin skeletal mesh.

[open egret]

Anybody got a link to a tutorial i can use to change locomotion states when collisions happen (like going inside)?
I've tried casting and such but...

[cyan bridge]

The hierarchy can be imported/exported and manipulated in blender but the bones wont be pretty. Not sure if Mr.Manny tools are available for the manny and quinn generation yet

[frail sparrow]

As far as I know they aren’t I’ve checked the discord

[frail sparrow]

Ah I see thank you

[full crag]

When downloading stock animation from sources like Mixamo and elsewhere, you have the option of choosing a framerate.
I've tried both 24 and 60 with the same character and in Unreal when playing back the motion is identical.
Is there any advantage in downloading 60fps animation if you're creating a cinematic at 24 fps?

[outer iris]

How did you get access to the motion matching node and the database?

[little creek]

I'm doing some research on animaiton blueprints / blending... But I'd like to know, what are some pointers you reccomend for making animations meant to work together in a blendspace?

[viscid willow]

Locomotion is a common use case for blend spaces. The important thing to consider when making locomotion assets that you want to blend together is to make sure they all start from the same phase in the walk cycle.

Left foot contact, right foot passing, right foot contact, that kind of thing. My preference is to export my locomotion assets starting from the left foot planted and hips are at their lowest position. This means that when I blend out of idle, the left foot is always planted, and the hips blend down to give a tiny bit of anticipation.

[viscid willow]

You could certainly use either. If you have a montage slot you use for full body animation, this is often recommended because when you play a montage through this slot you know it will override all other parts of your anim graph, so your death anim will play without interruption from other layers or potential blends in your anim graph. Otherwise you might need multiple checks or transitions in a typical state machine to ensure the blend to your death anim plays correctly.

[little creek]

I have tried to look into Graystone's Anim BP to properly study some stuff but there seem to be some areas I'm missing...

For example I cannot find the blendspace for locomotion, only the state machine

[viscid willow]

I'm not familiar with Graystones anim bp. If you open the state machine is there not a blend space inside the locomotion state?

Do you perhaps have a screenshot?

[little creek]

This is all there is in his Run state...

It's only the blendspace for lean and slopes

[viscid willow]

Hmm is the locomotion cached elsewhere and blended with this lean state. That was a typical approach in ALS. Have locomotion states, cache it and then use it elsewhere

[little creek]

This is what there is for ground locomotion

[viscid willow]

So it's not in ground locomotion or the locomotion state machine?

Is this a paragon character?

[little creek]

Yeah it's one of the paragon assets

[viscid willow]

I could be wrong, but I thought I heard that the anim blueprints for the paragon assets were largely incomplete when they released.

Does the abp allow you to preview locomotion at all?

[little creek]

Yeah it lets me

Albeit, the rotation variable isn't plugged to anything

That might be the cause here.

There animations for the entire system are set there and prepared, but a wide array aren't actually in use. So it's surely just half made states...

[gentle lake]

makes sense, thanks

[little creek]

@viscid willow Currently my main concern is to visualize how I should lay down my animations to make them blend with eachother, when using the start / loop / end system.
Laying down and using the blendspaces is a non issue, it's pretty simple to prepare them math wise. Though I'd like to figure how to make them work with varying movement speed as well, but that's for later.

[viscid willow]

The locomotion must be in there somewhere then 😅

[little creek]

Oh I mean it lets me preview it, BUT only in one direction.

[viscid willow]

Right so when you say start loop end, do you have a specific case in mind?

[little creek]

Basic locomotion what I want to use first as reference

I'm looking through the animations for some patterns... I see each one has an event when each foot gets planted, but it's used for playing footstep sounds.

Alright, so if I'm thinking correctly.
The idea is to have each each "beat" in the animation to line up with eachother, assuming they can blend with eachother?

[viscid willow]

Yep, there are also sync markers which you would place at similar points which help to keep foot phasing in sync between states.

[outer tangle]

ue 5.2.1, any idea why the control rig "FulBodyIK" node isnt there? I have a blank project in 5.2 where i can use the node, but for some reason in another older project that i updated to 5.2 the node doesnt exist

[viscid willow]

Yes typically the beat would be referred to as the phase, and each beat such as left foot contact, right foot passing, right foot contact etc makes up one cycle of the locomotion

[little creek]

So what I see in the blendpace is that in the frame where, during the Forward run, Graystone's RIGHT foot is planted down, when pausing and blending to 100% of other animations is roughly at the same phace, though not with complete precision, which makes sense as it adds organic variation and keeps in account stuff like how the stance affects movement.

Ahh, I think I get it!

[viscid willow]

Yes, limbs don't need to be in the exact same position. What matters more is what "beat" you're hitting

[outer tangle]

ah, thesres a full body ik plug in that needs enabling

[little creek]

I also see that while the startup animations have slightly different lenghts for all directions, all loops have EXACTLY the same duration.

[viscid willow]

Loops can have different lengths in a blend space so long as those beats are met. The blend space will stretch or squeeze the animation to create a blend of both. This is what allows you to blend a slower walk and a faster run. The two animations are different lengths but the blend space blends them at the correct rate.

[little creek]

Ah so the same length is just for convenience's sake... I'd still prefer to make them identical lengths when animating though.

Then there are also the blend animations for 180 turns which make me curious...

They are of course showing off. In normal games you normally don't want that kind of thing unless it feels good.

[viscid willow]

In some cases thats preferable, and keeps things consistent. Locomotion by its nature requires different animation lengths to hit the required speeds.

[viscid willow]

This might be blending a 90 degree turn with a 180 so that you could then tell it to turn 135 degrees and the blend space will be able to derive that.

[little creek]

Realistically, for dynamic speed I would just use a slow / fast animation, blend between both and and adjust the rate accordingly

[little creek]

Actually I think it's just a transition animation when changing the orientation you move at during the start of the animation.

[viscid willow]

I'd be cautious of just whole sale speeding up an animation. It can look a bit looney tunes doing that 😅

[little creek]

Oh yeah that's why there's a separate animation

Scale up the playrate until it stops looking good, then change to an animation made with that playrate in mind.

Games like League of legends do it all the time

[viscid willow]

For cinematics id argue that there's no real advantage there. Other than if you wanted to increase the framerate it would be consistent, because if you took a 24fps animation and increased the playback to 60fps in the cinematic the engine is needing to interpolate more frames meaning you're seeing subframes which can result in some undesirable poses.

This would be the case if you had a 30fps game anim being played back at 60fps at runtime. You can sometimes encounter subframe jitter which can result in things looking unstable or making arcs look less smooth. This is usually only noticeable on animations with quite extreme pose changes over a short time.

[little creek]

Also iirc... Baked animations would always generate subframes with linear interpolation, yes?

Which for a vast majority of animations looks awful.

@viscid willow Well thanks for helping me out with this. I still need to look better into blending the animations to and from start / end and other areas, but so far you cleared the main doubt I had. Cheers!

[ripe yew]

Are there any docs or videos on how to setup UE5 IK on quad legged characters.

[full crag]

Yeah thanks. Thinking there might be some advantage with 60fps originals if you are doing speed ramp effects in rendered cinematics but I am converting to VAT textures which have built in frame interpolation.

[vestal python]

Hello, does anyone know the best way to setup a blend space? So I got the toon animation pack from the UE marketplace store, most of the tutorials have the directions labels such as right and left./ But with the toon animation pack there's angles. I am trying to set up the blend space for a jogging animation. I'm just having some trouble because even when I set up all of the animations they play over and over while the player kind of glitches out when I turn left and right.

[balmy whale]

Is it possible to print or anything for debugging in the Anim Graph? I can't tell if my section of animation is wrong or if it's just not actually running

[native umbra]

if it says "135", make sure the x value (the direction) is "135"

same with all the numbers

[vestal python]

makes sense

[native umbra]

A lot of your animations are transitions though

you don't use those transitions with a blendspace as far as im aware

[vestal python]

yeah im confused with that

[native umbra]

so you can ignore all of those

[vestal python]

the asset didnt have documentation

[native umbra]

yeah, transitions require special setup in your animation blueprint

as a specific state

so if you're idle and start running to some direction, you play that animation

such an asset wouldn't include information about this as its more about general animation principles

like this is just the more basic side of 'how to setup an ABP'

[native umbra]

you can just view it while you're moving around in game

like open the file while its running and you can see where pins are going to

[balmy whale]

Oh okay. Thanks

[native umbra]

Does anybody know how to 'bake curves'? I am adding curves into my animation, and I'd like them to be baked in / removed from the animation but still keep the data, if that makes sense...

[vestal python]

okay Ill look into that, because the tutorials I was following with their animations that they used it was all labeled like left, forward left, naming conventions like that and not the angles. Also I tried not to use the transitions just the regular jog and have the idles at 0 speed and direction

[native umbra]

Usually you will also have left, right, forward, etc

So forward is 0 degrees, a lot of speed

backwards is 180 degrees, a lot of speed

idle is 0 degrees, not moving

left is going to be -90 degrees (or maybe 90, cant remember) with some speed

etc

[native umbra]

edited this btw, made a mistake

[vestal python]

with the animation pack it has things like RunR90 if that makes sense.

I can show you

[native umbra]

yeah

RunR90 is going to be 90 degrees to the right

so just slap that in whatever your run speed is and at 90 degrees

[native umbra]

oh i see

looks like 90R is a turn, so you dont want that

you just want your jog loops

so like 5 animations total

idle, jog forward/backward/left/right

once you get that you can practice adding mroe

can you identify your basic 5?

[vestal python]

so I can identify the forward animations but the backwards is kind of hard to identify for me

[native umbra]

gotcha, can i see your list?

im sure itll be a lot / long screenshot.. hahaha

[vestal python]

damn thanks for helping me, I really do appreciate it.

[native umbra]

np, people have been helping me for years, happy to pay it forward lol

[vestal python]

sounds great, wish more people were like that. I know I will

[native umbra]

ohhhh

your set doesn't have backwards

this is for a 'forward facing' character

[vestal python]

i got scammed, smh lol

[native umbra]

so like, you couldn't use this in something where you can strafe, or run backwards while facing forward

This looks like a great pack, but its not for every kind of game

[vestal python]

I gotcha, I can find backwards animations. When I think about it its probably for endless runners

[native umbra]

definitely don't think you got scammed, i think probably you just didn't realize the difference in game types and such (i also never thought about it and had to learn)

I play a lot of shooters, so i play games where you can strafe and walk backwards and stuff

[vestal python]

I know I didnt

[native umbra]

but some games, like Final Fantasy and elden ring and such, your character pretty much always faces the way you are moving

you never 'walk backwards' in those games

[vestal python]

gotchaa

ahhhh

[native umbra]

its a good pack but, yeah, unfortunate lol

there are free ones on mixamo that you can use

sets of them

[vestal python]

I want to make a character action game. I may be fine. Im using a plugin called GBWPowerhit and I was following the tutorial and they set up an 8 way direction movement with 6 animations

yeah I will, the plugin came with some too. I wanted my game to be super animated and stylized. In a way Im making a tech demo for my project

[native umbra]

that plugin looks neat

[vestal python]

Yep, I wanted to make a character action game for so long but I never really was motivated to actually try so recently I had a change of mind how I view life and have been learning a bunch. But that plugin will save a lot of time because things i was looking to incorporate the blueprint is basically already there

[native umbra]

yeah thats awesome man. Game Dev is a hella long journey, so I highly recommend finding a community to help out if you can!

This discord is amazing of course, but sometimes smaller knit communities can provide other kinds of support

[vestal python]

yeah, Im aware. Im in Baltimore, I tried to get into the UMBC game jam but I found out about it too late

[viscid willow]

When you say baked in do you mean you don't want the curve to exist in the anim asset, but rather baked into the "keyframe data"?

[wispy zephyr]

i exported my animation to ue and the character in the animation is side ways on the floor when it should be standing

[wraith verge]

Hi, any idea its possible to debug/preview the states in here?

[elder galleon]

Check your Z rotation in your animating software you could be animating in Y up. maya defaults Y up but game is always Z

[elder galleon]

not really in there but you can do simple prints in the event graph that is calling the logic in here and is pretty easy to work out where its going wrong

[wraith verge]

Aha okay hmm i thought like what is this 100% doing there ?

[elder galleon]

im guessing here but i think this is where the entry goes so you are always gettting true to disarm

on my abp mine is say idle then to walk and it says 100% in the idle because i need a condition to move

[zenith wren]

Unreal Engine 5.4 x Motorica AI x Foot IK (Motion Matching system) (WIP)

[royal jewel]

Hey guys im very very new to ue 5. Im in the process of attempting to animate an Ornathopter from the film Dune. Ive managed to follow along steps in how to create a control rig for a car however my knowledge is only as far as copying a tutorial. I dont understand how to manipulate control rigs for anything other than a car. I was wondering if anyone knew of any videos that would explain how control rigs work and thus allow me to apply this create a control rig for my Ornathopter model and allow me to animate it. Thanks guys.

[native ridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WzNvJZk0E&t=627s

Anybody here used animation slots from within the sequencer?

I havnt used anim blueprints as am doing cinematics but I think i need to use it now

[runic turret]

can anyone help me to retarget animations ?

[bronze depot]

hello everyone, wondering if i can get some help or point me in the right direction. Im spawning a sword actor in my characters hand and trying to get my mouse xy to be able to move it infront of my character I cant seem to figure it out. 😦
freely move the sword infront of my character with mouse movement, i have the sword movement setup within a blendspace.

[cyan bridge]

Okay so the other day I was asking about animating VB and got some help from help from @viscid willow which was much appreciated.

That being said it turns out my needs are a bit more complex than I realized at the time.

Basically I’m trying to figure out a way to manipulate weapons attached to my character in level sequencer to then bake to a game ready animation sequence.

The stipulations are: I’m using Metahumans so I have an array of different skeletal meshes, the props won’t have their own skeleton if it can be avoided. There are also a variety of items that can be equipped.

I tried adding bones but I can’t find a solution there that propagates the added bones to all the skeletal meshes

I also tried a separate skeletal mesh for just weapons but this solution proved problematic with the control rig

[viscid willow]

@elder galleon is right. The 100% shows the percentage for how much the state is used or blended. For example during a transition between two states one would increase from 0% while the other would decrease from 100%, halfway through both states would show 50%

[viscid willow]

Seems like an oversight not to include prop bones in the metahuman skeleton.

I wonder if you generate a generic metahuman to use as your base shared skeleton and add prop bones to that. From which point all of your skeletal meshes can share that skeleton, would that propagate the prop bone through all your characters.

If you have different proportions you will need to contend with retargeting.

[viscid willow]

I found this quick tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh4om_A7ufk

Seems to achieve what you're trying to do

[brazen wharf]

does someone know if there's a way to run animation BP pre-physics but skeletal mesh post process post physics?

[native pagoda]

For retopoloy of a character, is it more of a science or art? Are there specific rules that I should follow on the size, shape, and placement of each poly? Or should I just follow guidelines on edge loops?

[unreal sorrel]

Does anyone know if I need a jump_start and a jump_end animation to have a working animation tree?
Would it be easy to add those in later? or would that be difficult?

[elder galleon]

well technically no you dont need them. but I have needed them in my project

start jump... is in air jumping loop land

[ivory perch]

In the Manny AnimGraph's Locomotion state, I am trying to insert switching to a one-shot animation if a custom boolean is set. How would I transition back out of the state after the sequence has played exactly once? I'm new to messing with AnimGraph so I could be approaching all of this wrong and this could just be the wrong way to do it.

[keen needle]

Hi! I am learning the Unreal animation system and using Control Rig. I followed the documentation to quickly get started with the Control Rig section and found this problem, as shown in the picture. I don’t know why this happened. Maybe it’s my bone binding. Or the skin weights are not set properly? I don't know, I'm hoping someone can answer this question

[cyan bridge]

Sadly I’ve already tried this, I added bones to their shared skeleton however the skeletal meshes did not acquire the new bone, this makes sense bc that skeletal mesh has no bone group or skinning information. Sadly you also cannot update the meshes from a new source file.

I could add bones to each metahuman body type and swap out the original skeletal meshes entirely but if it’s possible I’d like to avoid that. I figure there has to be a way

[cyan bridge]

Your control is driving the bone, so where the control is your bone will follow. Make the control a child of the bone and set its location there and that should correct the issue however don’t expect an easy ride with control rig, it can be quite complicated.

https://youtu.be/w9mijf-gKOg?si=KEaZEmTGWV6zkM7b

This isn’t the best tutorial but it shows more features than some of the other ones. Consider setting up a construction event in your rig to set initial transforms, it should mitigate weird rotations, especially in the fingers.

[keen needle]

OK, I'll check it out, thank you

[earnest storm]

Quick question: How do I make my animation montage play in the direction of my aim offset?

[cyan bridge]

You need to make an upper body slot and put it where you have the default one now, also move the default slot to after the layered blend and set the montage to play in the upper body slot

[cyan bridge]

^ Meant to have that reply to you

[earnest storm]

Like this? Thanks for helping!

[cyan bridge]

Yeah, did that not work?

[earnest storm]

Unfortunately not - im still messing around with it but im sure ill get there

[earnest storm]

I got it working! 🥳 🎈 🎆 Thanks @cyan bridge !

[boreal quarry]

Having a weird issue with retargeting in 5.4 Preview. The rig is made with Auto-Rig Pro in Blender, with the same bone names and everything. Using this same method, it works fine in UE 5.3.2. You can see when I'm editing the pose, the meshes match up, but when I change to running mode, the model is super offset Z, and the pose is messed up. Any ideas whats going on?

[odd laurel]

Does anyone know why the right end of my flag is not clothy? I used the cloth paint and painted it but still doesnt work

[coarse crater]

I changed bland space 1D, I just copied the default one and set my animations and I don't know why but the lower part of the body (Legs) AI doesn't move them at all

someone can help?

it seems via control rig, but I need control rig :/

in my AI

[runic turret]

Can Someone help me with this, I have an old animation of ue4 mannequin and new retargeted one, All the animations work fine except only 2 of them doesn't work ,
The old climb down animation works fine but has crappy arms
I fixed the arms with the new retargeted one but doesn't even get played now.
I checked animation sequence, AnimBP, climb logic and everything is same just the animation changes makes the difference.
I dont know what to do.

[high musk]

Hello, is it possible to retarget these two skeletons? This is an asset I bought off the marketplace and the skeleton seems poorly done, at least its different than all other quadruped skeletons i've seen. Root bone connects to the middle of the back and then branches out to the front of the body and to the back of the body. I modified the skeleton to something that would be easier to retarget to other quadrupeds.

First image is of the back that branches, second is the skeleton i want to retarget to that is based on a more "normal" quadruped skeleton.

[mental arrow]

Hi, I have question about aimoffset in the engine. I added my 3 animations in the AimOffset1D and every animation is set to Additive Anim type to Mesh space and Base Pose type to Selected animation frame with my animation as reference, does anyone know why my character is falling through floor on -45 and 45 degrees? How can I prevent this?
Thanks in advance

[charred owl]

Trying to correct a retargeting issue. I've created a custom pose and now wish to rotate some of the bones. But all my transform tools are greyed out. Can't seem to figure out what I've done wrong. Any quick tips for me to try? (there is no "Edit Pose" button to enable)

[charred owl]

Arg. It's changed in 5.3:

[radiant matrix]

something extremely strange is happening to my animations

the event notifiers are not working

they dont get triggered

how is that even possible

[daring osprey]

[QUESTION] Using UE5.3.2: Attempting retargeting using the base ThirdPerson template after similar trouble setting it up myself with a Retargeter Blueprint but I get similar results. It operated normal for when I did do a quick retarget from the animation to UE4 mannequin and again retarget to the UE5 mannequin and both appear to work okay.

The animation starts off okay but after exporting, and when verticality is introduced the pelvis appears to not go down so the body should stay aligned to the floor.

What am I missing in my retargeting? I'm using the pelvis as the retargeting root. (but have also just copied over the retarget blueprint provided in the ThirdPerson Example). Thanks for any insight to check.

Looks fine in the retargeter blueprint (seen here). Only export is not the same.

[cyan bridge]

Happy to help! I am working on a first person melee game as well, lmk if you need anything else for this

[boreal walrus]

How do I apply physics and skeleton assets to my material?

[full mirage]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sanal-deep-singh-sandhu-765711152_unrealengine5-controlrig-rigging-activity-7177694471298441218-Vg0P?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sanal-deep-singh-sandhu-765711152_unrealengine5-controlrig-rigging-activity-7177748495800418304-FNnS?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

[obsidian magnet]

Hello guys , what is the correct way to modify mixamo animation to fit my needs ?
Lets says i got a sword attack animation and i want to modify it for the character to hold a spear ?
I wanted to export the rig to blender , do a IK basic (because the mixamo rig doesnt have IK) and reimport it to unreal , but seems off to me ! 🙂
Thanks in advance !

[azure roost]

I´m starting to get a bit desperate here...
I keep getting crashes on exporting the animation from a retargeter...
Everything works fine, used a wonderAI mocap as source and a 3ds max biped fbx as target.
IK targets for both created, retargeter as well and no errors anywhere, looks fine when running retargeter in the viewport, but on export, it keeps crashing...

I already started the whole import/IKrig/Retarget process over 10 times, Biped sucks for exporting to Unreal due to the dumb way the root bone is not placed at 0,0,0, also I can´t figure out what naming convention to use so the autoIKrig/autoretarget works...

I´m using Unrela 5.4 preview, but I DID manage to successfully export the IK retargeted animation before on a fresh project, just now trying to get it working in the branch of our mainline i keep running into issues...

Goddamn it, now it worked...
Copied and renamed the original sequence before exporting/retargeting, maybe there was some redirector messing things up somewhere....

[outer garden]

Anyone have any guides for doing the default manny control rig conversion to a new character, but with different skeletal hierarchy and amount of spinebones? It seems to straight up break if you don't have 5 spinebones.

[zinc bridge]

Hi guys, how do i replace a skeletal mesh in an animation sequence?

I tried to "replace skeleton" option but then the animation sequence doesnt make the character move

[opal jay]

is there a way of change the Montage group from default group to upper boddy? Ex: 50% of the montage is DefaultGroup and the other 50% upperboddy

[wheat knot]

Anyone know why my character imports with the first blendshape turned on despite me not doing that?

[full crag]

Does anyone know if there is a way to offset imported animations in the z-axis?
Some of my animations are 'floating' about half a foot off the ground. I need to lower them.

[spiral forge]

Has anyone used OVRLipSync for realtime dialogue animations?

[mellow sleet]

Hi, asked this in the Metahuman channel but figured I would try here as well. As I was animating my Metahuman Control Rig in sequencer, the rig suddenly 'disconnected' from the mesh and now the mesh is not moving at all (including other shots that I previously animated). It looks like my animation curves are preserved, but how do I 'reattach' the mesh?? Deleting the MH blueprint and bringing in another into the level doesn't seem to work - the control's move independently of the mesh. I also tried deleting my Metahuman from my project entirely and re-migrating it into the main project, no dice. I did have an animation constraint on an IK hand. Could this have broken my project entirely?

I included a couple screen recordings which shows the issue. I even make a blank level and level sequence and my rig is still broken. I am really scratching my head here and would appreciate any help.

[sand oar]

If I use launch character on a actor in the middle of a root motion animation t can only move them in the z axis (up) how do I fix this?

[hallow elm]

Hi I just rewrote Lyra's Turn In Place system, but It will loops even though I set up Turn yaw curves and settings, could you give me some hints?
https://gyazo.com/5b27f9a2becc974bff412af6a572d27d

[true mauve]

since lego fortnite was all animated with control rig and sequencer in engine do you think its still worth learning rigging/animating in blender?

[runic turret]

Hi,
can someone help me with this, I have an old animation of ue4 mannequin and new retargeted one, All the animations work fine except only 2 of them doesn't work ,(climb down one)
The old climb down animation works fine but has crappy arms
I fixed the arms with the new retargeted one but doesn't even get played now.
I checked animation sequence, AnimBP, climb logic and everything is same just the animation changes makes the difference.
I dont know what to do.

[ivory perch]

What should I be reading up on if I want to get a spear thrust animation looking well? I mean that the rear hand is pushing the spear through and the left hand is letting the spear slide (it is not tightly holding on).

[tender forge]

Can anyone help me?
So, I'm making a game in Unreal Engine 5. My character walks normally with animations, but every approximately 4 seconds, he slows down and it looks like he's sliding on the ground. His walking speed remains the same, only the animation is like that.

[naive mountain]

Does the 5.3 skeleton editor truly let you delete bones from a skeleton?

I've been trying to delete the twist bones off of the skeleton but it doesn't show the bones in the mash. But it keeps showing the bones in the actual skeleton. And I want to optimize this character but i'm not sure if truly inside of unreal

[pure spear]

Does unreal have tools to batch editor anim notifies?

[naive mountain]

doubt it

[tranquil lark]

Yes. If you only use UE for this, then you're stuck in Epic's ecosystem. That's the real risk honestly. Because, say, in 6 years you want to move to a different engine; now you have to learn Blender for rigging/animating anyway (or w/e DCC tool you use). Not saying you shouldn't do this in CR/Sequencer either.

[deep ridge]

Hey there, hopefully this is the right channel to ask. I'm importing a Blender model I purchased and it's importing every single piece individually instead of being put together like it is in Blender. Unfortunately, I don't know as much as I should about Blender, but I'm wondering if there's a setting I missed in the UE import options that keeps the skeleton/mesh intact when importing?

I did confirm that the model does actually have a skeleton created, and I exported the armature as well as the mesh from Blender into the FBX

The "Combine Mesh" import option isn't available since i'm attempting to import a skeletal mesh instead of a static one

[jolly hatch]

I exported a mesh I was not happy with because the scale was to big, and reimported it smaller. Only issue now it that the animation Bp rescales it to big . anyway to prevent this

[viscid willow]

So you're removing the bones from the skeletal mesh? When you remove them, do they look like this?

While you can't remove them completely from the skeleton, you can remove them from certain skeletal meshes and lod levels. Bones which are greyed out are no longer part of that skeletal mesh even if the original skeleton still has them.

[viscid willow]

One way to approach this is with animation modifiers: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/animation-modifiers-in-unreal-engine?application_version=5.3

You can use these to place anim notifies in your sequences and determine where they're placed by analysing the animation. One example is foot fall notifies which can be done by comparing the height of the foot bone relative to the root bone to infer when a footfall notify should be placed.

[viscid willow]

what do your blender export settings look like?

[viscid willow]

have you re-exported your animation assets too? I had the opposite issue once, where I exported a mesh too big and every animation was scaling the mesh to the "correct" size until i realised the scale was wack 😅

[sturdy ibex]

Anyone know if the state machine nodes in character AnimBPs in the Lyra Example should light up when testing? Thought they should, but maybe somethin is wrong? Using 5.3

[viscid willow]

Have you selected a preview instance when in play mode?

[summer tapir]

Hey

Please someone save me. So I got my character base:

I made him some hair:

But when I choose the head socket it isn't there

It's years away from the actual socket for some reasons

[viscid willow]

This looks as if you need to change the origin of your hair mesh inside your modelling software (blender?) to be matched to the Head Socket position and reexported to unreal.

[summer tapir]

The hair is in the right position inside of blender. It only gets teleported away when I select the parent socket

[viscid willow]

right but the origin of your hair mesh is offset from the mesh itself, so if you want it to match 1:1 you will want to have the mesh origin in the same position as the head, relative to the hair. In your case the origin is offset like I have drawn.

[summer tapir]

But I doubt that much of a difference comes from the offset

[viscid willow]

So what happens if you zero out the transforms of your hair when you have it socketed?

[summer tapir]

Nothing. this is without parent socket:

[viscid willow]

And with?

[summer tapir]

this is with the parent socket

[viscid willow]

So you can see that the mesh is offset from the origin, the transform manipulator.

[viscid willow]

Where you want the origin to be for this mesh is somewhere here:

[summer tapir]

Okay, let me try

[summer tapir]

Still teh same

[viscid willow]

where is the origin now?

[summer tapir]

Pretty much where your screenshot showed

[viscid willow]

do you have a screenshot?

Is it pretty much where I had drawn it or is it matched to the head socket?

[viscid willow]

Okay, so your hair socket attached to the head, so to make it easy you could make it so that the socket is just 0,0,0 from the head. Then make the origin of your hair match where your head bone is here in blender, and then you will have ashared transform which will match to your head.

[summer tapir]

Nevermind dude

I found the issue

It has nothing to do with the world origin

It's a blender x Unreal issue

Where it has 100 times the scale

So I just had to change the scale to 0.01

[viscid willow]

doesnt seem like a scale issue to me but are you saying you changed the scale in blender and it lines up perfectly?

[summer tapir]

In Unreal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_S5Poo2o1o

It was a sclae issue

It being an origin issue didn't make sense anyways

[viscid willow]

yeah i'm familiar with the 100x scale on the root issue it's the classic problem 😅

So does your hair line up now?

[summer tapir]

Yeah

[outer garden]

There was a booth at gdc about animation in ue5, how to use advanced control rig. But I can't find it. It's not on their twitch channel.

[naive mountain]

I removed them from all Metahuman Skeletal Meshes and then the skeleton itself no longer showed the greyed out bones.

[viscid willow]

nice, that solved what you wanted to achieve?

[naive mountain]

Unsure. Need to test animations for performance changes. Other users reported that the engine still "uses" them secretly.

[viscid willow]

keen to hear what you discover in that regard

[naive mountain]

I also wish I could "copy and paste" full skeleton skin weights from high LOD to low without using external program

Haven't tried this yet though

[viscid willow]

couldnt you generate the lods in the engine?

[naive mountain]

Generate? Like paint the skin weights myself?

The elbows go full macaroni noodle right now after deleting all the fwd, bck, twist, correct bones. But I'm thinking I could achieve a decently desirable effect by transfering the high LOD skin weights to the low LOD "slimmed down" skeleton.

I'm experimenting with 5.3 to see how far you can take optimizing a meta human without leaving the program.

[viscid willow]

If you increase this number and then hit apply changes the engine will generate the specified number of LoDs

[naive mountain]

Oooh!! 😋 let me play with those settings later. I have also heard that the setting doesn't do anything. But I will test in a few hours when I have time to work today.

But step one will be confirming if these bones are actually deleted

I'm thinking I might need to try an export it and look at it in blender to see if they exist underneath the surface

[viscid willow]

lol it definitely generates lods, i removed all the manny ones and remade them, you can also regenerate existing lods so you dont have to remove them each time

[naive mountain]

I believe you. I've just heard other people online. Say that it works with the Manny when it comes to performance. But it doesn't work for the meta human when it comes to performance

But I will soon put all the rumors to arrest when I strip. Stretch all of these possibilities to their limits

I'm thinking maybe this new retarding tool could also be a potential solution, but i'm not sure

[ebon granite]

I got a few beginnerish questions if you guys don't mind:

• I have this character mesh rigged and imported in UE5. I swapped the mesh from the third person BP and everything works but the IK bones. Maybe because of the control rig. So is it "allowed" to use anohter mesh's control rig or should I create one from scratch for this new character ?
• I also noticed that when I imported it, I picked the UE Manny skeleton for the parent when I open the skeleton editor for my mesh, some are greyed out (the IK bones mostly) and it tells me that the bone exist in the parent mesh but not on the current skeleton. So how can I map/transfer/create correctly these bones to my skeletal mesh.

I think I might've missed some steps especially when it comes to IK stuff and the control rig. I don't know what should be done tho. My end goal is simply to use the animations from the store on this character mesh I downloaded online (not rigged initially for UE5, did it with AutoRigPro) (sorry for long post)

[viscid willow]

Kinda for both of your points if the IK bones are not in your imported skeleton and animated then they wont work with the control rig because while the exist in the Skeleton, for your skeletal mesh they are culled. Similar to what @naive mountain has been talking about.

You'd likely want to add bones which match the IK bones you see in unreal, meaning they start at the root and match to the feet.

That said if you dont need IK you could remove the control rig from the animation blueprint. Alternatively there are IK solutions without necessarily needing animated IK bones.

[ebon granite]

Yeah it works perfectly if I remove the control rig from the animation BP but I'd like to keep the IK foot interaction with the ground, that's where my problem starts.
I added virtual bones (don't know if that's what I was supposed to do), parented them to thei respective parents and in the anim graph, I replaced in each nodes referencing the parent IK bones, to my new virtual ones. And it didn't work

[viscid willow]

I'm a fan of this IK setup because it can all be encapsulated in the control rig and doesnt rely on imported IK bones: https://youtu.be/GTOs4XwzcME?si=_HT-c00JfaGqeEUE

[naive mountain]

Gonna need to write some baby python scripts, or im gonna go insane copy and pasting these bone search terms

Lod 1 2 3 4. So I'm gonna need to figure out exactly what bones are missing from what LOD

1 and 4 have normal elbows lol

So it has something to do with the bones i'm deleting

[ebon granite]

I'll watch it, thanks, the comments are praising it. But I got a question for your. What's your personal way of doing this when you want to use a custom mesh with animations from the store (so UE's skeletong friendly)? I'm finding so many ways that's it confused me more than it helped me

[naive mountain]

I wonder if retargeting would help.

[viscid willow]

it's because the helper bones you deleted contained the skin weight data for the bends of the limbs, so if they're gone, the engine would have to "guess" about where the skin weights should be applied

[viscid willow]

I do my own animation so I dont really use anything from the store. That said I making your custom character skeleton match the Unreal skeleton is a good idea becuase it will likely be compatible with anything you find on the store.

I would say you might want to get a good understanding of how retargeting works in the cases where your skeleton has different proportions to some of the animation asset you find.

[ebon granite]

It's not even the proportions that causes problem, my character's feet are glued to the ground on the default locomotion anims of the third character BP. But i'll investigate more, I must be missing something major cause I just can't believe that everyone is struggling that much to prototype "quickly" a game xD
I've been on this for days and days T_T

[naive mountain]

Yeah, so I gotta figure out how to get that skin weight to the simple bones. I'll probably just have to somehow get the high LO. D data to the low LO. D bones figuring out which specific bones to delete

So it'll be a balance between deleting what I can, keeping high L0D animation datathat still looks "good" and not stretching the limits of what is possible too much.

[viscid willow]

that sounds like its because your IK bones arent animated, meaning the feet will just match that position and not move.

[ebon granite]

Shouldn't they be following their parent's transform ?

[viscid willow]

The parent transform of the IK bones is the root bone, and the root bone is "static" as far as the animation is concerned.

[naive mountain]

When it comes to this LO. D data do I need to worry about animation curves

[viscid willow]

I dont know that curves would be affected, unless some of the curves are assigned to any of the deleted bones.

[naive mountain]

There are a good 100 or so curves that reference. The bones I want to delete

Xd

[ebon granite]

Ok I see, thanks for the help, I'll investigate more on this

[soft frost]

How to export animation to ue5 in one mesh (because I'm splitting one animation into a large number of unnecessary and incorrect ones?

it's for my friend

[supple flame]

Hi, how can I bake Additive Layer Tracks in Animation Sequence to animation, or export it to fbx? in UE 4.27.2

[naive mountain]

What is the difference between gray circle and grey bone?

this changed from Bold white bone > to grey bone > to grey circle, depending on the LOD

[sturdy ibex]

So, that was an entire rabbit hole. The preview works fine.

[main gust]

hello there im trying to retarget animations from Manny to CC4 character. It works fine but there are some inconsistencies in the retargeted animation.
My question is.
Is this something that should be accounted with? Is the animation retargeting just sort of a heavy lifting tool? Or do you guys have any experiences tips and tricks / resources for where you setup retarget well enough that there is no need for further adjustments?
Also is there a way to use IK for adjusting animations? Right now Im doing it bone by bone and it seems ineffective way of doing this.
Thanks in advance and have a great day.

[outer tangle]

I am working with control rig to create procedural animations, and im seeing that its starting to be too much logic to be contained within one rig, so im considering the idea of splitting the logic into multiple control rigs, and then hooking them up together in an anim bp. Are there any performance drawbacks or considerations when doing this, or would it be the recommended approach?

[carmine magnet]

anyone know of a solution - I am transforming spine bones for a lean, but the ik bones do not follow because they're part of a separate hierarchy. Surely there must be a way to get them to track together @_@

[manic spire]

does anyone know a fix for setting up a modular control rig on a mixamo character? Currently, when dragging in the spine socket, other sockets do not appear while they do for other characters (like the shoulders)

[deep ridge]

These are my export settings. I can't see anything in there that would combine the mesh or fix the skeleton. I'm about to give up and go spend some time on Blender tutorials

[viscid willow]

One thing i would suggest is turn off Add Leaf Bones and turn on Only Deform Bones.

[deep ridge]

Thanks, I'll give that a shot.
While you're here, can you take a look at the hierarchy and let me know if you see any problems that may be causing the issue?

I know it's probably impossible to really tell without just looking at the .blend file, so no worries if you can't

[lament wyvern]

Why is my guy shaking like this? I only altered the clavicles slightly

[viscid willow]

Yeah nothing immediately jumps out

[viscid willow]

she's scared

nah seems like theres a very short animation being looped which has some changes to the body, not just the clavicles

[boreal quarry]

I've seen a lot of similar posts about retargeting not working properly with their IK feet. I have 2 solutions to 2 different issues:

1. For when your animation loops and your character walks out of place then teleports back on a loop, this has something to do with root motion.

When making your IK Retargeter, and before retargeting animations with it, Select the 'Root' target chain in the 'Chain Mapping' menu. In the 'Details' panel, under the 'FK' section, change the 'Translation Mode' to 'Globally Scaled'. Now retarget the animations or Anim Blueprint. This should properly root your character for root motion.

[boreal quarry]

And
2. When your feet slide along the ground, instead of walking normally. Most of these people seem to be having issues with the IK Foot bone, and I understand why.
Auto-Rig-Pro, and Game Rig Tools both seem to have this issue, and don't setup the IK bones correctly or something, I'm not exactly sure why.
But for some of you, this should fix your issue (it's probably not the best solution, but it works for now?)

Duplicate the 'CR_Mannequin_BasicFootIK' located in 'Content/Characters/Mannequins/Rigs' and rename it for your character.

Open it up, and click the 'Preview Settings' tab on the right. Change the Preview Mesh to your character, this is just a preview, but changes the thumbnail on the image to let you know which character it's for.

By default, the 'Forwards Solve Graph' should be open, if not, open it in the bottom left in the 'MyBlueprint' Tab. Basically with blueprints, we are copying the translation and rotation of the 'foot_l', and 'foot_r' bones, and applying it to the 'IK_foot_L' and 'IK_foot_R' bones. You can copy the blueprint from the image.

You're disconnecting the 'A' pin from the first sequence, and splitting it with another sequence to the original IK Trace part of the blueprint, and to the new section at the top for correcting Foot IK Bones.

Finally, when you're done with the Bones Correction Blueprints, open your Animation Blueprint, and open the 'AnimGraph' from the 'My Blueprint' tab on the bottom left. Select the 'Control Rig' Node, and in the details menu on the right, scroll to the 'Control Rig' section, and change the 'Control Rig Class' to your new Control Rig for your character.

Doing this should allow your character to properly follow the animations from the UE5 mannequin, and IK Feet still work!

GIF showing the blueprints closer

Close-up of just the Correct Foot IK Bones section

Animation Blueprint Control Rig Changes

Before:

After:

Now, I'm having a different issue that has persisted though all of the trial and error of figuring all of that out.

When I land from a jumping animation, my characters BLOWS TF up, and gets all sorts of messed up. I have no idea why this is happening, if anybody can give me a tip.

Also getting this error when exiting Play Mode:

Trying to play a non-additive animation 'MM_Land_RTG_Male' into a pose that is expected to be additive in anim instance 'ABP_Manny_RTG_Male_C /Game/ThirdPerson/Maps/UEDPIE_0_ThirdPersonMap.ThirdPersonMap:PersistentLevel.BP_Player_New_C_0.CharacterMesh0.ABP_Manny_RTG_Male_C_0'

The animation seems fine when I load it in editor

[lament wyvern]

Its weird cus it plays fine in the editor

[viscid willow]

what does it look like in your abp?

[boreal quarry]

I fixed my weird scaling issue with the landing animation!
It seems retargeting animations ignores additive settings, and doesn't transfer them to the new animation. I resolved the issue by opening the retargeted 'MM_Land' animation, and in the 'Asset Details' tab, scrolled down to 'Additive Settings' and changed 'Additive Anim Type' to 'Local Space', the 'Base Pose Type' to 'Frame from this animation' and 'Ref Frame Index' to 26.

If you're retargeting Additive animations, make sure to set up your additive settings on the animation, as they don't transfer when retargeting.

(Ignore the derpy mouth, if anyone knows how to use Auto-Rig-Pro to skin an armature/mesh from Game Rig Tools, that'd be dope 😄 )

[past violet]

Sorry if this is a simple question but I am not sure how to blend between 4 animations. I have an idle animation, a walk start, a walk loop, and a walk stop. Can someone point me to how these should fit in a blendspace in UE5?

[mint grail]

I have this model saved as an .obj and a .fbx file. In Unreal it imports as a single static mesh with 3 material slots.

I want to animate the red gems revolving around the center axis of the staff. What's the best way to do this?

I'm aware of some options, like using an axis rotation material node, or importing as separate meshes and animation data in the .fbx... Not sure what method is optimal or commonly used though.

Bonus would be if I can dynamically adjust animation speed at runtime.

[somber briar]

export the staff and crystals separately add slot where crystals should go on staff, attach crystal model as child to staff mesh then attach to the slot

you could also rotate the crystals with WPO but that'd be harder to accomplish

you could make a really simple rig, but that would be less performant I think but also more flexible... maybe the best way would be to make a simple rig and animate it on loop

if you want it to react to different things then probably making it a static mesh with a root and a crystals bone would be best and also could create bones for each crystal if you want to be able to spin the crystals and then make an anim blueprint that controls all the states and blends between them

[viscid willow]

There's some documentation on Blend Spaces: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/blend-spaces-in-unreal-engine#blendspacesetup

Also if you download the template project, you will be able to see an example of a blend space being used."

That being said, your walk start and stop would work much better in their own state rather than being put into a blend space with your other animation assets. Typically for the assets you mentioned you would have an Idle State, a walk start start, a walk state and a walk stop state. Something along these lines:

[pseudo solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/dark-souls3-dark-souls-roll-dodge-gif-25775946

So animation usually is "in place" in root position, and matches actor right, but would it better to move root along animation and then teleport actor or something?
Its easier to animate, so It would be better imo

[lament wyvern]

if you did do that, I'd reccomend using the move component to node, and the component to move should be the root component

[pseudo solstice]

is that actor component? yes im going to try that

[sturdy ibex]

Anyone know how to log/print/find the animation blueprint layer/subinstance name that is running on top of the ABP_Mannequin_Base in Lyra, for example?

As in, when equipped with something, the Lyra animation BP has a ABP_ItemAnimLayersBase running on top of the base anim BP, but is there a way to log it in runtime? Because let's say I have a number of different ones and I want to see them.

[lament wyvern]

In ur character bp, just right click in an empty space in the event graph and type in root component, you'll be able to get a reference to the root component, u shld use that as it will move the whole character

[full crag]

Hi guys
I have a pruchased animation from ActorCore that is almost but not 100% looping seamlessly.
A bit of a hiccup as it starts each time.
It is using a UE4 Mannequin skeleton.
For a rigging noob like myself, can anyone describe in a bit of detail exactly how I might 'fix' this animation so it loops perfectly?
Any feedback EXTREMELY apprecieted!
This is a preview of the actual animation clip
https://actorcore-dl.reallusion.com/product-media/JICf6b760295efda4651/JICf6b760295efda4651_20221219080630251_Thumb.gif

[naive mountain]

record it in 2 different programs yourself first. rule out import error

[viscid willow]

If you animated a dodge roll like this and used root motion the character should move to their new position without the need to teleport them.

[pseudo solstice]

skeletal mesh yes, but what about rest components?

[viscid willow]

If root motion is enabled then the character capsule will be moved with that motion, so everything is moved together.

[pseudo solstice]

ah, right, ye I plan to see that workflow, I have not made animation yet 🙄

appriciate help tho, its promising

[viscid willow]

No problem. Root motion is absolutely the right approach here, there shouldn't be anything more that you need to implement at least to get the character moving in the way that you showed.

[vapid breach]

So the first thing you wanna do is open the animation in any 3d animation software then copy the first frame and paste it in the last and I would delete few frames after the first frame and before the the last frame and interpolate them so it has a nice smooth seamless loop

I also recommend using cascadeur with their new unbaking tool, it helps a lot when editing mocap data

[full crag]

Thanks! Appreciated.

[past violet]

What do you put in the transition between those states? Specifically, what do I put to make WalkStrat transition to Walk/Run only when the WalkStart animation is finished playing?

[viscid willow]

In the transition rules, you should be able to get the time remaining of the walk start and then set the transition to true when it reaches a certain time

[tawny gazelle]

Hello guys, I purchase a pack with "hair card" in Artstation, can some one recommend a tutorial, because I do not find away to apply this to my metahuman , thanks in advance

[native umbra]

So I have a control rig with some pivot controls (their location used for the pole vector of various bones).

However, the pivot control is in a really strange spot by default, and it's warping all my animations I try to use with it in sequencer. Is there a way to change the default location of this control? I feel like it should be super straightforward, but I'm not finding any way to do it. When I drag on the gizmo and hit 'compile', it snaps back to its original location.

[outer tangle]

anybody know how to permanently disable auto compile on a control rig? changed some variables, now a control rig wont open (invalid pins cause crash). maybe if i can bypass the autocompilation on start, i will get to open it and fix it

[past violet]

Thank you!

[timid shadow]

why the montage playing is different from the sequence?

[proven depot]

Hey does anyone know if there are any sequencer animation courses/tutorials for UE5? I have been trying to learn animating in sequencer but I feel like I can't find any good videos or documentation on how to actually do it. Also, 5.4 is bringing a bunch of new stuff for the sequencer and improving a lot of the workflows but I have no idea how someone is supposed to actually learn these new tools unless they work at epic games?

[viscid willow]

For animating in unreal I would recommend these two resources.

Animating in Unreal 5.3 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlv_N0_O1gZWzNFLQiawPLg9VW6ncowW
Animating in Unreal 5.1: https://youtu.be/FgJ1stTScxI?si=LruMuH0MVJOiUfj0

For the new animation features in 5.4 there's this great video from GDC: https://youtu.be/u9Z8CK561_Y?si=9TnYImGacwIKiuxv

[proven depot]

Oh this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

[raven copper]

HI, when I import my animation from cascadeur to UE5 , the mesh scale is messed up in the animation and it gives a warning that "Imported animation has diffrent bone transform."Any solution please?

[timid shadow]

import anim to blender and exporrt again, its work for me

[naive mountain]

How can I look under the hood to see what this component setting does?

enable body correctives?

UEFN, the new metahuman

its in the BG_Girl1 blueprint that comes with the new metahumans

so nothing in the Skeletal Mesh viewport is changing...

[royal jewel]

Hey guys really new to UE5. I’m just trying to make a simple action run of a motorbike through a city. All the animation tutorials online people use either blueprints or control rig and i’m not sure which to use and what scenarios each should be used in? Any advice would be great thanks

[naive mountain]

For just something simple, it really depends on what kind of animations you have access to

You might be able to use control rig. To make the motorcycle tilt sexy-like side to side

There's gotta be so much stuff about motorcycles. Just keep looking you'll find it research

The new track & gimbal camera controls are gonna be sick to use for you!

[timber summit]

Do montage notify events always trigger (at some point)? or are their instances where it might not trigger?

[royal jewel]

I’ll keep looking thanks man

[left spade]

hey guys im decently new to unreal engine 5 and this isnt really an animation problem but i dont know where else to ask for help. basically im trying to just pose a rig i have but its in a ton of parts and i really dont have a clue what im doing. any help is appreciated

[sly mulch]

Hey does anyone know any possible reason why my Anim Blueprint doesn't output any animations? However my Blendspace seems to work just fine?

[compact siren]

whats this enviroment

[pseudo solstice]

dark sousl 3

[compact siren]

hi guys why is my charcter stuck on the floor after the roll finishs

[distant dagger]

need more details than this before anybody can really answer

[coarse crater]

Is there somewhere on YouTube showing how to create animations using mocap in Unreal Engine 5?

I would just like to see the process from start to finish

[naive mountain]

Look up iPisoft

2 kinects
Multiple ps5 cams
Or newer iphone

As well as other software

[coarse crater]

I have a budget of $5,000, I want to buy a good Motion Capture Suit and create animations using the Unreal Engine, can anyone recommend something? what will be the best, I care about the quality of the animation, I don't have to animate my fingers and face. I will emphasize that I am a beginner, creating animations in the unreal engine is simple with a control rig, but time-consuming.

I know that $5,000 is not much for a Motion Capture Suit, but I simply can't spend more than that at the moment

Will there be anything for this amount?

[naive mountain]

If you're new, you should probably only spend a couple hundred and play with some cheaper solutions involving camera arrays

If you don't need to animate hands. Or face, then these may be perfect for you

You could buy 5 used playstation five cameras online and youre set. I think some people just set up two iphones And the crazy sensors on those things work very good

[reef sphinx]

Hey, if anyone here can help me with this problem, I will pay you. I'm on a deadline and I need to get a solution. Please message me. Problem: I have a sequence with a keyframed light, but when I render it out, the light doesn't move. Is there some special setting needed keyframed objects to get them to show up in a render?

[native umbra]

Rokoko is around that price!

I'm looking to constrain my transform in my control rig. Tutorials are showing there is a "min / max" tab in the details panel of the control, however mine does not show that

forgive the terrible image, not on my own PC so I only have discord access via my phone

Does anybody know what happened to those buttons?!

Ah, nevermind - I need to change the value type to something other than Transform!

[coarse crater]

but will this allow me to create, for example, 100 good quality animations a day?

[cosmic loom]

Im trying to get motion matching working, however I don't know how to bind the trajectory component to the motion matching node in my animation blueprint.
According to the docs (https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/motion-matching-in-unreal-engine) I should be able to bind it like this (first image) but I don't see that binding. See second image for how it looks like. Has this been changed?

[hasty oar]

anyone know why a ragdoll skeletal mesh would be firing off anim notify's?

[hasty oar]

Never mind. Figured it out. Even though the mesh was in ragdoll mode, the anim blueprint was still ticking, continuing the animation that had the notify's pre death. Soltuion was, on death, setting
GetMesh()->SetAnimationMode (EAnimationMode::AnimationCustomMode);

[opaque comet]

This is more of a blender question, but I'm wondering if anyone has good resources for learning how to set up armatures with multiple poses/animations in blender so that they import nicely from a single FBX file into Unreal. I remember using older versions of Blender c. 2.7/8 where it was quite easy to just make multiple animations in the file and export them all with the skeletal mesh. Now it seems like a lot of this has changed with the way animations are assigned to armatures and I'm having a hard time understanding what is and is not good practice. I've seen other tutorials push the different animations into NLA strips, but I thought the NLA strips were more for layering animations together.

[full crag]

I need to correct an animation that doesn't loop seamlessly. You can see in the attached a slight 'jump' when the animation loops.

I tried selecting the animation in Asset Browser and applying 'Add Looping Interpolation' but made no difference.

How would I fix this in Unreal?
I assume I first need to somehow convert to keyframes but how?

[naive mountain]

You can try animation curves to make it look better

But usually in order to perfectly fix this issue. The easiest way is just to go back to the source Of wherever you got the animation from

And that looping interpretion feature is a joke

Trying to look up and it looks like you could just add a little animation curve towards the end of the animation. You just translate the character forward a little bit

[naive mountain]

Pause the animation

Move the cursor to the beginning of the animation at frame zero

Select the root bone in the skeleton tree and then click the ad. Key button at the top

Then scroll to the very last possible point of the animation

Click the root bone and move the character forward. Just a little bit in one direction

And then click add key again

Then you can drop down the curves menu. Edit the curve and you look perfect just by simply translating in one of the axis

Should fix it without needing to do anything difficult

[full crag]

Thanks! Not perfect as there is a bit of foot sliding happening. But an improvement. Would be better to delete and interpolate just the last maybe 12 frames but not sure how I would accomplish.

[naive mountain]

You could go further and set keys for individial feet when they are planted. But its hard to fix these small looping errors in engine.

[rigid gate]

when i try to clean rootbone's weights its not let me clean
?

[full crag]

Thanks. You have to wonder why the original author didn't bother to spend the additional effort when creating. Such a hassle.

[naive mountain]

Who made the anim?

Might be an import settings mistake

[somber light]

Is there a way to automatically set bone translation retargeting mode of a skeleton without doing it manually? I tried doing it with python but it's read only. Blueprint does not have such function from what I have found to do it in runtime

[sand rain]

I'm running into an issue with trying to replicate a gameplay tag in a GA so that it triggers a state in my ABP.

if (GetAvatarActorFromActorInfo()->HasAuthority()) {
      LocalASC->AddLooseGameplayTag(ZSGameplayTags::Character_Rifle_Equipped);
      LocalASC->AddReplicatedLooseGameplayTag(ZSGameplayTags::Character_Rifle_Equipped);
    }

This was the only work around I could get working, which seems completely wrong. Initially, the replicated version has the animation working between clients, but the server sees none of the animations. Then when I add the non-replicated version, I see the animations for all clients and servers. I have the tags mapping to bools in this variable FGameplayTagBlueprintPropertyMap GameplayTagPropertyMap; that lives in the anim instance class. Any ideas why it acts this way and how I'd go about fixing it?

[naive mountain]

If its read only in the api ur kinda screwed. Unless you want to spend months decyphering the source code

[somber light]

Yea I am going to try a different way I guess

[naive mountain]

😔

[somber light]

Probably on asset import I am going to do it automatically by subscribing

in cpp

[naive mountain]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/API/Runtime/Engine/Animation/EBoneTranslationRetargetingMode_-?application_version=5.3

Oh ya I forgot cpp exists

[somber light]

Yea I saw that as well, thing is I would probably only do this in runtime if I don't manage to do it at asset import

although hmmm, I don't think a small function like that would make a performance issue wdy think?

[naive mountain]

Idk

Prolly nbd just throw it in there

[somber light]

Now talking about doing it for every player in the lobby

might be 10, might be 100 if I ever go the battle royale route xD

[naive mountain]

Retargeting near 100 players at runtime?

[somber light]

Yea running this script 100 times then

And they are retargeted as well, they are copying the animation of a parent skm in their blueprint

just wanna change the mode

[naive mountain]

I'm out of my depth rn, But why would you need to retarget live

What does mode do post retarget

[somber light]

they are already retargeting at runtime, I just want to change the bone translation retargeting mode

To not retarget all animations always

if it's a different skeleton that is not necessarly compatible out of the box I need to set up a retargeter

[naive mountain]

Sorry I just thought rettargeting was something that you did before you launched the game

[somber light]

and I have too many characters as in having the nerves to retarget all animations always

[naive mountain]

Oh I see

And these characters are so different. As such, to need different retarging options

[somber light]

there is something called "Runtime Retargeting"

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/runtime-ik-retargeting-in-unreal-engine?application_version=5.2

Good thing is: It even retargets IK Rigs

so only my base character right now has ik rigs made for his skeleton

the others still copy the leg ik etc etc

and It is better for disk space and memory I think if you don't have to load animations of 50 different characters of players around you

instead all use one set of animations

[naive mountain]

I see you're cutting your losses by giving everyone an I. K rig for much to retarget at runtime. Instead of shipping the game with thousands of animations redundantly

[somber light]

animations which are basically the same, just for different humanoids, yea

Alright, I will check out the on asset import cpp skeleton editing first

and if that does not work I will try the cpp runtime

See you on the other side

[naive mountain]

🫡

[viscid willow]

IIRC you can export NLA strips separate tracks in an fbx. Now I'm not sure if this will export an fbx per NLA track. My guess is that it exports one fbx with multiple animation tracks within that fbx (if that's a thing). Might be worth a try 😅

But you're right NLA strips are otherwise used for animation layers, which is currently changing quite a lot with Blender updates.

[keen needle]

I can't understand why I can't move the bones

When I move the control points, the bones cannot follow the movement

[potent fern]

Hi.
How to show debug of the trajectory when working with motion matching in 5.3 and 5.4 preview?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[lusty ore]

Trying to make a rubiks Cube. Unreal imports only part of static meshes . Tried importing with different formats, but still no good results

[pseudo solstice]

What do you export?

[lusty ore]

I tried FBX , glTF, obj

[lusty ore]

or do you mean something else?

[pseudo solstice]

Maybe you dont export that

You got mods in blender probably right?

When exporting with fbx, make sure to check apply modifiers

Its export setting

[lusty ore]

Rigify or something. But I dont use them since its non human

[lusty ore]

it was on by default

[raven copper]

Hi, is anybody using cascadeur tool? My ballistic trajectories are not rendered in the viewport even though the visibility is set to visible in the objects panel. Help please

[misty dagger]

Heya!! Anyone here who has worked with video files/2D layers and colour filters?! There is a very specific effect I need to create if anyone is interested to discuss

[pseudo solstice]

have you solved it ?

do you select all parts? and have "select only" ?

[lusty ore]

Nope. I thoight maybe I rigged it wrong. Rerigged , but still same problems

[pseudo solstice]

set rig to rest pose and they you will see if its ok

[pseudo solstice]

check "limit to selected"

[lusty ore]

All parts of the mesh are selected

[pseudo solstice]

ye, but check that box 😄

[lusty ore]

ok

[lusty ore]

Still no luck

Thanks for the help though

[pseudo solstice]

show me that file

[lusty ore]

here it is

[pseudo solstice]

that rig, is questionable 🤨

[lusty ore]

I'm a newbie 😅

[pseudo solstice]

it works for em

[lusty ore]

I thought it should be one skeletal mesh?

[pseudo solstice]

well, you got each rig to each cube, so you can't have one, i just exported meshes ;d

you make one rig, and add bones inside rig "Edit" :D, not rig each part, go find some rigint tutorial. there is also blender discord if you need more help 😛

[lusty ore]

Ah ok

Thanks! I guess it was more of a Blender problem

[naive mountain]

Did you try toggling root motion anim?

[naive mountain]

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/metahuman/metahuman-for-unreal-engine/hardware-and-software-requirements

From the horses mouth

Scroll down and they recommend iphones or camera arrays as good enough

[full crag]

Yep.

[naive mountain]

If you purchased the animation, I would request a fix. Or a refund

[vocal owl]

is it possible to change the type of an animation notify from a "sound" notify to a regular notify that triggers an event? I don't want to go throough all of my various animations and manually replace the "Play Sound" notifies but I realized I need an event and not just a sound for an existing notify

[full crag]

Other than Mixamo, what are some good 3rd party sources for mocap?

[random terrace]

Workflow question for those using Maya and Substance Painter.
I use Maya to model and animate, Substance painter to UV and paint, which spits out an fbx without animation but with hierarchy. When importing in Unreal I get the right look but I'd like to also import all these parts animated on the skeleton that's in Maya.
I could bring back the fbx that Painter spits out inside Maya, replace each geometry in the hierarchy then export an fbx with the animation but given the number of mechanical parts, this will time consuming. And when I change the geometry again, i will have to do that again.
What's the better way?

[random terrace]

it's a machine with a lot of parts inside, that get revealed when the armor gets taken out

[naive mountain]

Trigger a notify in your Animation Blueprint, call a Blueprint interface function (sending the trigger to the characters blueprint) and then use that to activate whatever logic you want.

[naive mountain]

Animation BP

Animation BP

Character Blueprint

[vocal owl]

The issue is I already made a notify of the "Play Sound" type (https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/Sequences/Notifies/) so it doesn't trigger an AnimNotify event at all, it just plays the sound immedaitely and there is no way to add an event for that notify. I want to switch every occurance of that notify to instead trigger an event that can then play a sound or execute custom logic

[naive mountain]

Make a new notify

Click on the anim timeline area and select new notify

[vocal owl]

yeah, I can do that, but i have like 50 instances of this notify spread across a ton of animations and was just wondering if there is a way to switch the type all at once

I can go through and open every animation and right click and do "Replace with notify"

its just tedious / I'm worried about missing one

[naive mountain]

Python! 😃

Find all notify of name
In certain animation monages
Save times of notify as x
Delete those notifies
Create new notifies with whatever name at times x, in each montage you designated earlier

As far as python scripts go, it's not too complicated. Just make sure to turn off auto save when you start testing lol

[vocal owl]

makes sense

[naive mountain]

Wow its actually much easier

They have a replace function in place! So should make the script dummy easy.

For ease of use, python has a "_ selected assets" thing. So you can just shift click all of the animations in the content browser that you need. Figure out what notify classes that you need to put into the function. And then run a loop running this replace notifies method.

There is also a blueprint node of this but idk how to run blueprints in a script type way to permanently change assets.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/PythonAPI/class/AnimationLibrary.html#unreal.AnimationLibrary.replace_anim_notifies

Good luck 🫡

[vocal owl]

wow actually looks very simple, I write plenty of python for other stuff but have never tried with UE before

thank you

[balmy whale]

How do people dynamically place the right hand in a position on an item that is attached to it? I have a dynamic grip system on weapons and I'd like to have the right hand go to the right grip position. Currently it's attached to the root of the gun, but I want it to move to the specific socket. I got this working for left hand easily, but if I move the hand the gun moves with it since it's attached. What is the best solution for an issue like this?

[naive mountain]

Hand IK? If

[balmy whale]

I’m using hand IK and it works fine for the left hand but the right hand just moves the gun with it

[dusk elk]

my blender animation is importing sideways dose anyone know how to fix it

[subtle thicket]

So what method do you people use for attaching, say, multiple weapons to sockets without needing to add multiple sockets to the hand? way I've been doing it is like that, but needing to adjust the socket manually for every different weapon. surely there's a better method?

[naive mountain]

Create virtual bone exactly where the right hand is connecting to the gun. Connect root of gun to virtual bone. Turn right hand IK on. Move right hand IK from virtual bone/root of gun to other location of gun whenever you want

[naive mountain]

Double check default blender scene axis versus unreal. I think at least x is inverted

[naive mountain]

Put socket on hand bone and just move what weapon you need to the socket. If weapons have slightly different ways of being held just apply offset when attatching to socket

Maybe use some gentle hand IK

[balmy whale]

Thank you for the info 🙂

[knotty current]

How to access to linked anim blueprint variable?

[versed slate]

Hello, i have very little expience with animation. Im making a game multiplayer game. It is true first person meaning there is one mesh and Im not doing a separate pair of arms. Im trying to rig the gun to the hands and my goal is to have aim down sight feature. what would be the best advice or workflow to implement this using Maximo animations for the locomotion?

[naive mountain]

Get the animation into unreal, program basic wasd movement with character blueprint. Make an animation blueprint for that character with basic wasd blendspace (import mixamo anims for this), and then research what is called "IK" to be used on the head & hands.

IK is basically a real-time way to slightly move specific parts of the body, during an animation, without having to alter or make a new animation from scratch. So you can use IK to make the head always look up/down at where the camera is pointed and have the hands do similarly. Honestly, I don't know if you need IK for this. You might just be able to program some specific bones to tilt up and dowj by copying the tilt of the camera. But thats hyper optimization talk.

Given the mixamo animations, you will need some kind of IK or anim correction programming to do this. (There are many ways to do IK. Inside the animation blueprint. You shouldnt need to do anything complex like control rig or full body IK)

In theory, right to left aiming would be done like any other fps. Up and down aiming would make the character bend their neck and upper back. Hands would be programmed to follow the gun, head or line of sight. However you want your game to be.

The camera might be tricky. You might need to put the camera in or slightly behind the characters head and make the head "see through"

Multiplayer code should probably wait until after you get these basics completed, as it will be significantly harder to do.

😘

[novel viper]

Hello. I'm struggling hard to understand animation retargetting. In my game I have almost hundred animations and a complex animation blueprint. Now I recently remade / tweaked the character a bit, threw it in Mixamo, like my previous char with the same exact skeleton. And now I want to retarget all of my old char stuff (animbp and animations) to my new char, but I have no idea how to do this. I've watched several tutorials, but they only seem to cover retargetting single animations. But, I have hundreds of them and my animBP is ofc the most important thing. I also have a lot of blendspaces and stuff. How do I do this? When I right click my animbp and click retarget i see an empty window. Can't select anything 😦

[naive mountain]

Retargeting is the same for 1 or many when you get to that menu

[naive mountain]

Assuming you have both skeletons, new and old, imported into your project already: Go into each skeleton asset, open them up & make sure they have a preview mesh selected in one of the side bars.

And try unticking this box

[novel viper]

Oh nice thanks!

I unchecked show only compatible and now it shows up in the list. But I wonder why it doesn't show as compatible? It's exactly the same rig from Mixamo 🤔

How could that be?

Ok that seemed to have worked

[pure bloom]

Hello everybody,

After talking with somebody on the Unreal Engine 5 channel, they suggest me to post it there.

I got some problems with my animations and probably ABP.
I dont suceed to solve by myself, Maybe you could help me to solve it ?
PS : i am not a professional with UE

Here is the topic : #ue5-general message
and here is the video of one of my problems : https://streamable.com/hgjwhx

Thank you very much

[trim stump]

my Hand IK's are off for this one animation, anyone know how i would fix?

[keen apex]

any of you guys got the new motion matching working ?

i cant seem to figure it out

[obsidian grail]

hi, i was redirected here from UE5-general. im quite new to the world of game engines etc and i am following a video to learn to rig up a skeleton mesh.
when i create a null for the right leg the axes are the wrong way around and i cant seem to change it.
Can anyone help? can attach an image if needed/allowed, thanks in advance!

[naive mountain]

The feet sliding on the ground is a common IK error. I forgot how I fixed mine

[naive mountain]

Maybe when you crouch, the root or IK root or something of the sort gets lowered into the ground and the ik solver stays stuck where you starting your trace

Maybe you have an IK's child with translation resistance set to 1?

And we dony know what you used in your anim bp to grab so idk

[pure bloom]

what do you need me to show you ?

[naive mountain]

If you're using I, k, please show us your logic

And show us what you're trigger the hand holding

[pure bloom]

this ?

[pure bloom]

sorry if my question appears stupid for you but, what is IK ?

[versed slate]

Omg thank you so much

[ivory karma]

Hello does anyone know if you can copy the rotation of a specific axis rather than all axes using the Copy Bone node

[naive mountain]

Can u right click and split pin

Or do get rotation>set rotation

[random terrace]

right click copy rotation > split struct

[ivory karma]

That gives me this

[sudden sedge]

Source Global Transform (-0.009945,-0.216484,77.563670|-7.140442,91.703285,-1.262197|1.000000,1.000000,1.000000), 
Converted Global Transform (0.000000,0.000022,-0.000000|-0.000003,-0.000000,0.000000|1.000000,1.000000,1.000000)
LogEditorFactories: -- imported successfully
FBXImport: Warning: Imported bone transform is different from original. Please check Output Log to see detail of error.  ``` Anyone have any ideas what this means when I'm importing an animation?

I have keyed Bip01 animation but it's not being imported

[viscid willow]

Just had a look at your initial issue, this is happening because your crouch animation does not have animated IK bones. For the UE5 Mannequin characters they have IK (Inverse Kinematics) on by default in the ABP meaning that the Feet will be matched to the IK bone position. If those bones arent animated, such as in your crouch animation, then the feet get stuck in place.

You can solve this by finding animations which have the IK bones animated, but it seems that marketplace anims don't come with animated IK bones by default. The alternative is to remove the IK control rig from the ABP.

[naive mountain]

So then that node wont work for your needs alone

Sometimes you can "split pin" and reveal hidden, more detailed options for input or output

[ivory karma]

Ah ok. Do you know of any other nodes that can achieve the same purpose?

[naive mountain]

Are you trying to make 4 wheels rotate like a car or something?

Get rotation > split pin > drag rotation axis you want > set rotation (axis you want). Something like that.

You may need to set a variable like currentRotation and set it before calculating this logic so you dont lock the bones rotation in place

[viscid willow]

This looks like it might be because your props are parented to the IK prop bones, is that correct?

[ivory karma]

Ok thank you. I ended up finding a node called Bone Driven Controller where I could specify what kind of translation I wanted copied and its axis

[viscid willow]

If you still want IK to run on your mannequin character, you can add a virtual bone for each foot coming from the IK_foot_root and replace the IK bones inside to control rig with the virtual bones.

I feel like this should be a tutorial because the IK bone issue seems to catch a lot of people using marketplace assets, and I think that the Foot IK setup from Epic is fine, but it's not flexible enough for marketplace/mixamo which are all different.

[trim stump]

Yeah thanks! I'll try adding the virtual bone as you suggested, It's weird as it uses the same skeleton as my other anims so no idea why the IK was messed up for that one. Definitely would make a good tutorial.

[versed slate]

Anyone know that best way to make an control rig for a mixamo skeleton

[viscid willow]

Oh my bad the vitual bone set up i was mentioning is for a foot ik issue 😅 good luck, happy to help if you're still running into issues

[pure bloom]

Thank you very much for your answers, i am trying to understand but i finally dont understand what you meant. I am beginner ine unreal engine animation so i really need a help for the modification if its needed, can you help me for that ?

[cyan bridge]

Hello, I have a system where I use facial bones to update my mesh’s appearance in a character creator menu. (I’m aware this is traditionally done with morph targets)

I’m using a pose asset with curves for my face bones. I’m worried about performance since the poses need to be updated in the anim graph.

Anyone know a way for me to “apply” or “compress” the pose asset transformations? I don’t need them to be editable after the player is out of the menu

[distant dagger]

Does anybody have any resources on customizing the new Modular rigging stuff in UE5.4 preview?
I know you can crack them open and look around, and I know it's brand new, I'm just having problems understanding how it all plugs together.

I want to try to make it work with non-epic skeletons, so I need to change the hard coded names, change what the modules are looking for as connection points.

[cyan bridge]

Would pose snapshot work for this use case?

[viscid willow]

Sure if you're wanting to fix the feet sliding, and to simplify the animation bleuprint I would suggest removing the control rig node from the ABP, that way you will get the animation working without Foot IK getting in the way. You can always add IK later on 🙂

[viscid willow]

Pose snapshot would save the position of the bones, so you could use that as a way to "apply" a single face pose if that's all you need the face to do.

[pure bloom]

Ok, i did it 🙂 that works !!! Thank you very much

[cyan bridge]

Fantastic, thanks!

[viscid willow]

if you're using the third person sample project and using their animation blueprint, you can just delete these nodes, and reconnect the flow from the DefaultSlot to the Output Pose:

[pure bloom]

yes sorry i made something else in the same time and i was kind of disturbed 😄 sorry for that

[pure bloom]

I got some other similar problems that i didnt find the solution yet, as i told on my first topic, i added a smooth "go down" to the camera for my first person view, and the result has made something weird to my 3 person when i crouch, its kind of lag, because the capsule instantly resize when crouch, and my crouch animation is lower below the ground, then i added a smooth upper for this animation but it doesnt have a nice comportment in game, its not good. i tried a lot of things but nothing works. Do you have an idea ?

[viscid willow]

It's hard to know what the issue is without seeing the blueprint 😅 I'm not sure how you have implemented crouching

[pure bloom]

cause that was not implemented orginialy with the 1st person

i make a multiplayer FPS, so i need the others to see my 3 rd person body, but i need a first person for myself to have another view, a better view for fps 🙂

but maybe there is another solution i dont know

[pure bloom]

i Watched a lot of videos about that and i did the best i thought (as i am beginner : i learn unreal since february)

[pure bloom]

but i can show you the bp if you want to help me to choose what to do ?

[viscid willow]

that would be helpful.

So did you add some smoothing to the crouch for the camera?

[pure bloom]

it s complex but i can try to show you. If you understand french i organized it with french descriptions :p

[pure bloom]

yes i make a kind of interp on the distance down and up

to the 1pers camera

[viscid willow]

okay, and the problem is that it looks weird on the third person animation?

[versed slate]

idk how

[pure bloom]

yes thats it, you can see that on the video i made

ok here is my blueprint part for crouching smooth in 1st person

[pure bloom]

You can see the video here : https://streamable.com/hgjwhx

[viscid willow]

the camera setup shouldnt be influencing your character animation. how have you set up the character animation?

[pure bloom]

do you mean the locomotion ?

[viscid willow]

hmm nothing immediately stands out as being particularly incorrect here. Do you have transition animations for crouching or does it just blend to the crouch animation?

[pure bloom]

no i dont have it i think

[distant dagger]

hit the T key, click unhide on the left hand side, and/or open up the control rig and click a control in teh dope sheet to force UE to load them

[versed slate]

thanks

[distant dagger]

Found an answer for this on another discord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMRmLnqd8sw

[pure bloom]

I forgot, i have this in the event graph of the ABP :

[pure bloom]

i am gonna stop for today, its 5 am here, can you send me private message please if you wanna reply ?

[vernal bay]

could be the ik

[near hamlet]

hello! i have a bit of a weird issue, on my player i have a secondary rig just to show weapon swap animations. for some reason, this rig dosent show the movement of the animation on the attached gun actor, but when equiping the gun, it appears on a spot of that animation's track. any idea what could cause the animation to not constantly show?

[pure bloom]

Hello and thank you for your message, what do you mean about IK ?

[pseudo solstice]

inverse kinematics, its method for making animations

[pure bloom]

yes , but where i can see if is it installed or made on my animations ?

[pseudo solstice]

just see skeleton.
its not plugin its method, you make extra bones that drive your real skeleton, so its easier to animate whole motion
but when baking animations you may not see extra bones 🤷‍♂️

[pseudo solstice]

ik

[pure bloom]

oh ok its that 🙂

thank you for the informations

then do i need to use it, or remove it ?

[lethal blaze]

hi there - if i have a joint based facial rig, can i make blendshapes for it in unreal to be used with live link face?

[vague mural]

Hey there, any experienced animator willing to help me animate a windshield wiper in UE5? It's probably a 5-10 min job, just 3 bones that need their rotation changed. I've never done animation before in the engine and I don't know what I am doing. Tried control rig, probably way overkill.

[vale rune]

Anyone know why this is happening

[ivory perch]

I've been trying to do animations with a spear that should slide through the model's hands. I thought I'd try to use the weapon bone for this. When I look at the animation in the sequence, I don't see anything about a weapon bone like weapon_r or weapon_l, nor the socket I created for it. Is there something else I need to add so I can create an animation with the weapon in mind?

[sand rain]

Has anyone used gameplay tags to drive animation state changes? Specifically in a multiplayer setting?

[eternal blaze]

Anyone experienced with VB's and IK? DM me im willing to pay for some support

[serene arch]

hey, i have a animation blueprint that has multiple blends. but I'm only using the multi blend occasionally.. if i'm blending a bunch of animations with 0 alpha, is there still a performance hit? would it be optimal to make the multi blend into a state with a state machine? so its only doing the multi blend when it needs to?

[hybrid idol]

Does anyone know how to get AimOffset to work with Paragon characters? The animation blueprint comes with AO built in and the yaw and pitch seem to be set correctly but the animations doesn't seem to when moving the camera

[simple pine]

https://youtu.be/JzBLiF1FV7s?si=x6AJneyL2JMgV96A

[hidden vector]

How do you all prefer to make first person animations

I just realized I have no idea what the best practice is, or just a good doable practice lol

Do I make the arms and the gun their own skeletal mesh 🤔

I suppose for general items I could maybe just rely on shape keys instead

but then what's the common practice of syncing those with animations lol

I suppose I could also just add more bones to make them one skeletal mesh, i'll probably just mess with that for now unless someone knows another good way to make quick animations for stuff. For now this will work fine, it feels jank though lmao

[steel galleon]

my animation changes after exporting ( i am using mr mannequin tools for exporting my animations from blender to ue5 )
i tried a lot of stuff but cant figure out the problem, please help me solve this.
pls ping while replying

[versed slate]

hey all, the game im developing is dependent on the mixamo skeleton which is why im not using the epic skeleton. Does anyone know the best way I can retarget epic skeleton to mixamo?

[burnt shard]

hey guys I retargeted the UE5 manny to a Paragon Wraith skeleton and when retargeting the run animation, it uses root motion even though it is disabled

Does anyone know why this may be the case?

[heavy kayak]

hey

the animation works but not playing montage ?

ideas ?

[dusky dust]

have to use animBP and default state node

[heavy kayak]

hm

wdym

i am using a animBp

liek this

?

@dusky dust

[dusky dust]

yea

why do you need arms slot tho

may be overriding the default

not sure

you should blend them by bones of the arms

[heavy kayak]

hm

how do you mean

?

[dusky dust]

yes

[heavy kayak]

hm still dont work :/

[dusky dust]

well that how i blend expressions with the rest of the body

but you have to set the layer setup in the layered blend node

[heavy kayak]

oh right

bleh with the bone name and all that

[burnt shard]

My animation looks perfect in retargeter but when exporting it looks stiff as shown at end of clip

I don't understand why this is happening

[dusky dust]

ur characters root bone is in hips while ue root bone is on the ground

[burnt shard]

What do you suggest I do about that?

[dusky dust]

tick show retargeting options

[burnt shard]

I tried to do it for the paragon wraith character that does have a root bone but it just enables root motion and I cant disable it at all

[dusky dust]

try set everything to skeleton and ur hip to animation

or spine

idk how this skeleton works

you have this when you right click it on it

[burnt shard]

I did that but it hasn't effected the animation at all

[dusky dust]

its mixamo character?

[burnt shard]

this one is a mixamo char

[burnt shard]

this is the free paragon character from marketplace

[dusky dust]

for mixamo u prob will need to add and extra bone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY24XPdnd9s

the one on the ground

[burnt shard]

hmm okay

but for the paragon character what do you suggest? it has root bone and everything

but when using the run animation i just can't seem to switch root motion off even though it is off in the animation sequence

[dusky dust]

the animation itself is with rootmotion

you have to get a non rootmotion version

usually marketplace packs have both versions

[burnt shard]

its from the 3rd person template

the running animation

[dusky dust]

hmm idk then, would've need to put my hands on it to figure out

[burnt shard]

I understand thanks for the help

[dense marten]

hey, does anyone know why i have no transitions between those states?
everytime i make a new state transition it has no symbol and i cant go into it

[naive mountain]

make one from both directions

[sick stream]

hello there i m looking for animator to make animation for our funny characters from 0

[shadow moth]

Can someone explain to me what the difference between branching point and queue is, for notifies? 🙂

[olive zodiac]

Hi, is it bad to control the IK Rig manually from the animation blueprint?
I set the goals for IK Limb in the ikrig and I control them from the event graph of the character controller which has a reference to the animation blueprint.
And I move the goals position and rotation manually with lerping functions and timelines

If is it bad, why it is?

Should I instead use Control Rig?

What I'm trying to achieve is full procedural animations (walk run etc cycles) for animals

I have in mind to use curves to move the goals in a certain way

and maybe modify a little bit randomly each point of the curve, to make the animation less monotonous

[ancient marsh]

wrong channel to look for team members mate 😄

go to the Job Board category near the bottom of channel list

[main gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1b-ApLzHcE&t=2s try to retarget the root to pelvis that might help, I was retargeting CC4 characters and this is the tutorial I follow that got me to a reasonable results.

Im having issues tho after retargeting the animations The character is slightly moving forward any ideas ? retargeted the animations from ue5 manny as in the video above.

[olive zodiac]

Please someone can reply me on this?

[naive mountain]

When deleting corrective bones in the hand, why does my Root bone pick up all the spare vertex weights? MetaHuman

& I can't find a way in python to fix or script this.

Can I simply delete the vertex weights that are associated with the Root bone?

I deleted all MetaHuman bones that get un-calculated in LOD 1

bulge palm mid_ etc. not all of them give weights to the root, just a few on each hand

[green cave]

Copy and pasting my question from #blueprint :

I’ve created some AnimNotifies to trigger Events, but Im not able to bring those AnimNotifies into the Animation BP

Here’s a screenshot of what I’m trying to get

Any ideas what im doing wrong? Is there some extra action I have to take to be able to use the AnimNotify as it’s own node in the BP?

[pure bloom]

Hello guys, Can we export an existing BP_character from a project (with all animations associated) to another project ?

[sinful swallow]

Quick question. Does unreal strip away whatever is in front of colon on bone names? f.ex if yourbone within blender is named DHIbody:pelvis, then it looks like the bone is called only pelvis within unreal. Is it documented somewhere that it only keeps what is behind the colon for the name?

[cosmic yarrow]

have you solved this issue? I'm stuck at the same place

[opaque fern]

Is there a way to make the whole top body not move durring animation? i wana use ALS walk/Run animations but I want it for VR and dont want upper body to move with the motion controllers so i need the top part of body to not do anything. Is there a way to edit the animations to work like that?

[naive mountain]

yes just google the first sentence you typed

similar to making a character attack while walking. use that same idea

[pseudo cliff]

is it possible to import a single fbx file with a bunch of animated characters? or do you have to make an fbx for every character? I tried doing a few in one file but they don’t move when they get brought into unreal even after sticking their animation into the sequencer

[naive mountain]

i think some of the corrective bones are weighted to similar vertices, making the vertices normalize to 0 when bulk deleting bones.

trying to dodge this by calling the method commit_skeleton_to_skeletal_mesh() after every single bone deletion 🤣 i wonder if simply calling for mass vertex normalization is faster

i think its going to run for more than 2 hours

[brisk horizon]

Hey, my player controller is moving and jumping and has an idle animation, but has no running animations. I duplicated my old Third Person Blueprint I was using and changed the default in TPGameMode and thats when the issue started.

[feral gorge]

I'm having a small problem with copying over a mannequins blueprint to another model. Perhaps theres a simple solution to this issue? https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-fix-warped-meshes-when-copying-over-a-mannequin-s-control-rig-blueprint/1787078

[balmy whale]

Are there any tutorials about using the ik_hand_gun bone properly? I can barely find anything online but I've heard it can be super useful

[ancient marsh]

for some reason the anim graph decided to stop working properly
the layered blend per bone doesn't fully blend the the second blend pose with the first blend pose

even tho the float value is at 1

unless the value of 1 isn't actually enough

ah alright nvm, completely forgot that the value has to be much higher for the blend to be more visible

[olive zodiac]

??

[potent garnet]

Design question for camera animation, when in first person and interacting with something, getting into a car for example, how best am I to play a camera animation transitioning from first person into the car? I've currently got a animBP with a little rig that plays anim, then the camera just attaches to a socket but it all feels pretty clumsy just to do camera animation. Anybody implemented something like this by any chance?

[naive mountain]

My script is going extremely slow thanks to all of these solver poses needing rebuilt after every bone deletion. Will deleteing the IK rig assets affect normal animation/montage playback?

Im going to let it run all day to see what happens 🤪

[gentle juniper]

Would you mind helping me with Blueprint? I Tried to make Robot Moving By wheel ,so I create Control rig to make a movement as I rig in Blender But I cant find the way to use Control rig Moving Skeleton mesh in Blueprint or animation Blueprint or I should make Animation Asset and put it to state Machine. Could you suggest a better way to do?

[pure bloom]

Hello Guys 🙂 , I Hope you feel good today.

Got some problems with my character animation, what is the first thing that has to be perfect in a game ...

-1️⃣ Got weird results on the animation when i walk or jog, when i rotate with my mouse and in the same time moving with keyboard (kind of laggs between animations) https://streamable.com/q7hqpe
-2️⃣ When i rotate my character with mouse, the upperbody don't follow correctly and the body is bugged https://streamable.com/0lij4o
-3️⃣ The aiming animation for weapon is moving between left hand and right hand, they are not fixed and synchronized

Can you explain me what can i do to solve that 3 points please ?

Thank you very much

[vestal aspen]

Hello, is the metahuman 5.4 IK/FK switching, snap to pose, broken?
Hello, when “animating” the metahuman IK/FK switch in 5.4 Sequencer, my metahuman arms pop when switching between the IK and FK. Is there a snap to Pose feature so I do not get any popping?

When testing the IK/FK on a single key frame the IK/Fk ‘will not’ show any issues.

However, when animating the IK/FK switch in Sequencer, the switch from IK to FK will reveal a pop. The pose for the FK is different from the pose of the IK.

May I ask, is there a feature similar to the HIK rig in Maya? In Maya’s HIK rig, when I switch between the IK and FK, the poses of the rig match, there is no popping of the poses seen when switch IK/FK, when animating.

In UE 5.4, is there a workflow that I need to use in Sequencer so the IK to FK switch does not pop when animating between poses? For example, how would I do a hand stand flip using IK/FK switch?

[small portal]

I have a character with some anim dynamics driven by an AnimBP. When i create a level sequence with that character + control rig, all anim dynamics (and physics sims) are halted. Any way to enable those during the sequence playback?

[young plover]

I have a strange rotation issue with a gun in FPS view attached to the camera. In editor the gun and its animation are correctly rotated, but in standalone mode there's an extra 90° rotation

[random terrace]

was the robot in the nanite presentatin done by attaching nanite mesh via sockets?

[brazen wharf]

I'm kinda sure there was an option to disable the listing of Animations in the context menu of the Animation Graph to make it less laggy when opening, does anyone know where that option is?

[pastel anchor]

Is there any way in Unreal to reimport an SK with hierarchy changes?

[vague stag]

Hey. I see that there is a que for the Recently I have started moving the animations from the Unity game project to UE5. I've been looking for the information in the net, but haven't found it yet.
I am using a root motion as a controller for moving the character and I don't know how to change the rotation of the anim (like in stopWalkL,R I want to start these animations from the current body rotation, not from the original anim rotation.)
In unity it would look like this: [img1]. Using this solution the movement does not change, it still goes forward [img2]. Thank you for reading & helping 🙃

[vague stag]

Depends on what u're trying to achieve, but I would try this option

[twilit totem]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221798862938046464/1225579257703436338/image.png?ex=6621a4a1&is=660f2fa1&hm=7b440dd8353eac182b1a4931fd3268991ce8886d327b6c2f5357cf0d0b6597ce&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221798862938046464/1225579378046664846/image.png?ex=6621a4bd&is=660f2fbd&hm=2b2e0af75d6ddbdeca2b3cbe9459b6d34e66294190c803ba6fdaf5630601012d&

exported framerate is 60,000 inside unreal engine but 24 in blender and has 197500 frames, any help???

[pastel anchor]

This leaves the old bones.

[vague stag]

Hmm, in that case I would del the old one and import a new one. Keep in my mind that u might need to place new skeleton again for example in bps

[fathom flax]

Is there a way to manually set a montage length?

[lethal hill]

How can i create an additive hit react animation to play with my other animations? (e.g reload, switch weapon, launch grenade)

The other animations (reload, switch, launch grenade) have animNotifies at the end, and I can't be interrupted mid-animation when I get hit

[sudden lava]

im trying to retarget rokoko mocap in maya but it keeps doing this

[pure bloom]

#animation message Up

[sour thicket]

Hi, just wondering if anyone else has an issue when sequencing animations (I'm using UE5 Manny) where parts of the rig reset positions when adjusting other parts or saving? I've resolved the saving issue by just saving my sequences every time I add a new frame. But the issue with moving certain parts still persists, it's usually when I adjust fingers so I position them first now and move onto rest of the body but it still happens enough for it to be an issue. Any advice? I'm brand new to UE also so try not to be over technical if possible lol

[naive mountain]

Layered blend per bone?

[naive mountain]

Check bone weights

[naive mountain]

Check character controler or movement component settings?

[naive mountain]

Investigate camera spring arm

[simple pine]

https://youtu.be/NwZet6hNTmI?si=5FnBpt6oiDFkrPxC got tired of hand animating basic locomotion animations so I made this

[young plover]

There is no spring arm 🙂 It was directly attached to camera. I've fixed the issue by redoing the animation, and using the new animation asset directly instead of an animation blueprint.
I'm not sure what was wrong with the previous animation, maybe it's because it was targeted for another weapon with different bones, but that doesn't explain the editor/standalone difference.

[still estuary]

Hello my char stretches when i hang on the rope even when i adjusted all bones to scale with skeleton only not animation and when i play the same anim in the vew port the mesh dont stretch only in run time how do fix this

[ornate breach]

Hi, Is there a proper way to trigger events like step sounds in the control rig? Because all i found in the tutorials is some hacky way by setting and checking bone transform values on tick and it really doesn't seem like the best option

[sudden lava]

Where?

[naive mountain]

I dont know Maya sorry.
But in UE (5.3+) you can open Skeletal Mesh, and do this

Then select the bone from the Skeleton Tree and it should light up the mesh.

FYI it's buggy, need to toggle viewport settinga from Lit to Unlit sometimes. Or maybe open Editing Tools at the top. It works you just need to finesse sometimes.

In Unreal Engine, if a vertex has no bones weighted to it, during normalization it gets weighted to 0,0,0 or the Root bone.

When a Skeletal Mesh is imported to unreal, this process does not happen.
To trigger it for the purposes of testing and ruling out normalization as an issue, open skeletal mesh, editing tools, click skeleton, and then at bottom of viewport press save without doing anything

Good luck

[tranquil lark]

This is really neat. Is this CR or raw AnimBP?

[hexed yarrow]

Does anyone know what the problem is?

[simple pine]

It’s done within a layered animbp. But I do plan on using control rig

[tranquil lark]

Do you author the animation for the pistol specifically as in, the finger grip?

Right now that's been our challenge. Getting our multiple characters to hold the weapon in the hands correctly.

[simple pine]

That’s just a baked pose. The component works by getting layered on top of your base animations.

[tranquil lark]

I figured as much. The hunt for me to get the weapon holding right is still on 😅

[cyan bridge]

Hello hello, anyone know a way to drive multiple pose asset curves at once with inputs instead of bones? Should I be looking at control rig for that or is there something I’m missing with the pose assets?

[visual parrot]

Can I use rigify with Unreal Engine?, Some people where saying you can export

[simple pine]

why not just use a custom socket on your mesh?

https://youtu.be/0F3u7Ux1Rfs happy I figured out how to make this happen lol

[tranquil lark]

I do.

But then I also have multiple characters and getting their fingers to grip properly is a pain as well 😅

[simple pine]

You could adjust it for each character using the set relative rotation and location nodes. just depends on how you do your logic

[tranquil lark]

Yeah, that's what I do. But it's the fingers that get me

And I overall just suck at animation stuff, so it has been a bit of a struggle.

[final iris]

Hi guys, I have a question on mocap clean up. I am retargetting animation from an xsens suit (with provide decent results) to a customized rig, which has quite a distinct body ratio comparing to the xsens puppet. This resulted in foot problems (penetrating the ground and sliding, and sometimes both feet are in the air). I tried countering it utilizing Unreal's default tools (for instance speed planting in the IK retargeter), but it seems like neither of them can tackle my problem perfectly. I am also working on a budget, so ideally I do not want to go to professional animation processing softwares like Motionbuilder for the clean up, but at the same time I want to maximize the speed of the workflow. Knowing the situation, what is my best approach to undertake this problem?

[charred owl]

have you looked at Cascadeur?

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Now my question (not related to my comment above)

🤔

Folks how would you approach blending a metahuman idle face montage into a sequence?

My current approach results in a "hard cut" of the facial expression (lips, eyes, eyebrows etc). I'd like it to blend.

Both the montage and the sequence face animation start off as FBX but for specific reasons I can't do it all in sequencer and I can't do it all as montages. The idles are montages (randomized) and the face/voice acting is in sequencer.

Been at this for literally 4 months now and haven't found a viable answer

[final iris]

I've tried it quite sometime ago; by then I don't think they are capable of cleaning up mocap animation. Did they have functions now to deal with mocap cleaup?

[tropic spire]

Hello, 👋

I have a question about importing rigs from Maya. It seems that while Maya applies inverse scale to child joints in a hierarchy, Unreal does not. This means any scale on joints with children behave differently once imported into Unreal.

Does anyone know if there is a way to bake in the inverse joint scale on export or to enable it on import?

Any advice would be appreciated. 🙂

Cheers.

[dull bridge]

I feel like this might be the wrong section but I have no idea where to ask aha.
The closest way I can describe it is imagine a garbage bag rolling down a slope, I want an outside object sort to deform around a circle collider as it rolls. Sort of like this image .
Does anyone have a direction they can point me in to achieve this sort of effect?
Edit: I think physics soft-body simulation and chaos flesh might be the direction I start in. If anyone has better suggestion, I would love to know!

[raven copper]

HI, How can I transfer my animations from UE5 Manny to paragon? Do all paragon characters share the same skeleton?

[lime flower]

Hello there does anyone know how can I create a sliding opening animation for curtain in unreal ???

[glossy vapor]

I'm trying to render in sequencer with 5.4 new motion design stuff.... but i get this everytime and it crashes:-( does anyone have this too ?

[mortal violet]

hey, when changing the retarget pause while making a retargeter, is there any way to quickly mirror all edits on one side of a rig to the other side? hard to keep things like finger rotations consistent when doing it by hand

[little walrus]

You could try scaling a cloth object. If that doesn’t work, you’ll probably need to animate at the vertical level or use constraints in another program like Maya / blender

*vertex level

[lime flower]

Ya.. umm well I have tried and I did it like the way I wanna do it ... thanks for help

[junior delta]

Hello! I've recently updated my Animation Showreel https://youtu.be/pukUa1wQH7U and was looking for feedback. Any criticism is welcomed, thank you!

[slim elbow]

Does anyone know the formula behind this function? I want to make a macro or function of this in Blueprint for outside control rig use

nvm just realized Spring interp is already a function and is better compare to verlet according to the verlet tooltip

[carmine magnet]

has anyone figured out how to blend ik_hand_gun with bones lower than pelvis 😭😭😭

[steel musk]

anyone know a good free asset pack that has mage staff animations?

[pliant blaze]

Hey. I downloaded a couple of characters that supposedly have livelink support. However i cant find any documentation getting it to work. I noticed theres an animation blueprint labeled livelink, thats about it

Any tutorials on youtubr are metahuman related

[mortal violet]

hey, I'm trying to do this tutorial, only using a chain of controls instead of a chain of bones to "cache" the result of the dynamic chain & then apply it to the actual bones using attach chain to spline to avoid stretching, but for some reason it won't work, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[fathom sandal]

Hi there, does anyone know how to attach simulated objects to skeletal meshes? It seems that "Echo" from the "Valley of the Ancient" has a little canister attached to her belt that jiggles around when she moves. As far as I can see, it's not animated but somehow simulated during runtime. Any docs/tuts on this topic?

[mortal violet]

that's done either using anim dynamics/rigidbody nodes in the anim bp, or with control rig

[ashen wyvern]

Does anyone know how i could replace the hand on the left with the one on the right and still keep the same animations?

[solemn vector]

anyone used mixamo > Blender > Unreal ? I Keep getting errors when trying to import fbx to unreal

ah it might have worked ! thank you

[steel musk]

Am I able to lower the target character in a retargetter?

[lyric estuary]

hey im new to making my own assets for UE5 and im working in blender to make a cube with 4 legs, 3 segments each. I am having troubles with bone heiarchy when im parenting the legs to the central/root bone and getting bones to behave properly. Does anyone mind helping me out real fast? All the videos i can find only work for rigging in blender since UE5 doent have "empty" objects

[rigid ferry]

why is the animation looping?

[faint hawk]

is there any master class if I would like to implement animation system like in Lyra example?

[unreal barn]

Hey guys, does anyone experience problems with Control Rig in 5.3.2? Just migrated from 5.1 and now am fixing bugs. But even Print does not work properly.

[raven copper]

How to retarget animations with root motion using Ik retargeting?

[mortal violet]

look into ik rigs/ik retargeters, make an ik rig for source and target skeletons, make a retargeter with them, map corresponding chains including root chain

[faint reef]

Hey does motion matching work for AI enemies too?

[mortal violet]

unless I severely misunderstand motion matching, whether a skeleton animated with it is controlled by a player or by AI shouldn't change anything

[raven copper]

Hi , I wrote a c++ code in beginplay to hide a bone by name and then attach a newly spawned gun to the weapon socket of the player mesh. However when any montage is playing on the player, this code is not working during the duration of the montage. Help please?

[mortal violet]

can't really help you without the code or any information about the in editor setup

[faint reef]

Hey what exactly does this mean?

[mortal violet]

you're trying to import an animation for a skeleton that has a root bone called MotoricaRoot but the animation doesn't contain animation data for that bone

[faint reef]

okay

that sounds about right

yeah I think I messed up motion matching 💀

[mortal violet]

idk how your animation blueprint is set up but maybe the animation graph or whatever it's called isn't aware of whether or not the character is grounded

[mortal violet]

what do the notes say

[faint reef]

No It just only playes one animation**

[mortal violet]

ah

[faint reef]

just that the node is experimental

[faint reef]

It's stuck on one animation. If I place a PlayerStart on the ground (and I don't spawn in the air) then the animation is stuck on 'walking in place'

funky shuffle 💀

[mortal violet]

does anyone know of any resource that explains the fundamentals of control rig, as in "this is how it works and what each feature does" rather than "this is how you do [specific thing] with it", I've been screwing around with it & it's fun but I've hit several road blocks where things don't work like I expect them to and I don't really know where to start

[autumn flare]

hey guys, I have been creating a control rig for my character model (I used actorcore accurig to rig it)
althought I've been having a small issue

as you can see in picture 1, the legs bones are correctly positioned

but in picture 2, when I went creating a control rig, this happened