animation

[bronze osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-gif-18568595

[gloomy drift]

hi

i see always light

aaalways xD

not on that but i mean like

every map

night time is same is daytime

how do we change it ?

[vivid verge]

Apparently I'm going to need more help than that. I can create the library, but can't figure out how to add my static meshes to it...sigh. There's just so much info.

[merry loom]

Emm what do you see once you open the library? Should be obvious where you can add ur mesh

[misty dagger]

but still in layout and any other modes the tornado is just a brick box lol

[vivid verge]

I have all the standard gizmos in my control rig editor, but the "defaultGizmoLibrary" is a blank. Tried building another gizmo library, but it's blank as well. I clicked that button again, didn't I?

[vivid verge]

Yep... Details window helps. Maybe I can figure it out now. 🙂

[merry loom]

Oh i just realized, yeah details panel should be opened for u automatically

[blissful kite]

bump

[novel blaze]

Here i have an idle pose I made in blender. Im using a procedural IK system and It works flawlessly here. All the rolls and overshoots are being procedurally added on top of the base idle animation

Here I have an animation I made in control rig. Same skeleton same mesh same anim bp. Also using the procedural IK for aiming but this one doesnt work as intended. Does control rig do something different to baked animations?

[novel blaze]

After digging deeper. the virtual bones im using to drive my procedural IK are not moving with the bones with my control rig animation. they stay in rest position. Does anyone know of any cases like this where virtual bones dont work with control rig animation?

[covert jay]

Is there any reason why my model's feet would be stationary in Blender, but once imported into UE4 they appear wobbly? It's like the ends of the limbs wobble around as the rest of the bones in the limb move. The foot or hand which is supposed to be stationary appears to have it's position effected.

[ashen junco]

Wrong unit scaling could be the reason.

[covert jay]

My settings.

[ashen junco]

Are you using the unit scale from the start, and compensate everything for it?

[covert jay]

I'm not sure what you mean. 😅

[blissful kite]

bump

[rustic plume]

ah i remember this frustration. its the difference between the transitions, so you can try to play with blend amounts for them or make more anims 🙂

[blissful kite]

thanks

[covert jay]

I had an issue like that where one of my animations started on the wrong foot. Each animation was left foot first aside from one that was right foot. Mirroring the animation to start on the left foot fixed it.

[rustic plume]

as i think on it, it could also be the phase of the anim. Like if one of them starts on the left foot while another starts on the right. I dont remember which you want, but since they are blending ....

[novel blaze]

The solution to this is funny as hell. Control rig was baking animation data on my virtual bones (even though I added no keys there) so my procedural IK was getting overridden by the base idle pose.. This shit took me 5 hours to solve so hope this can save someone time in the future

You cant have virtual bones already present in your skeleton when creating your control rig. You need to add them after you create the control rig else all those bones will get baked keys

[merry loom]

Interesting. I thought it has something to do with name mismatch. I know Virtual bones have spaces in its name “VB SomeBone” while Control Rig does not like spaces

[novel blaze]

Yea man it was buggin me but I’m determined to use control rig as my main animation tool. I almost quit today too glad I didn’t

[vivid verge]

After several hours of tweaking control rig and doing an animation in sequencer (UE5), my control rig character has just disappeared... All of his keyframes are there, the camera actor is still there. The scenery is still there. I've reloaded the sequence. I've restarted the engine. I've tried copying and pasting the keyframes to another instance of him and the same thing. He just doesn't show up. Anyone seen this before?

[halcyon sail]

How can i convert root motion animations to static/inplace? I know there's force root lock but my animations have the characters body move up and down with their stride and using root lock just affixes their head/body in place and their feet kind of just walk on thin air (as a string was tied to their head, moving them above the ground while they "walked")

[somber prawn]

When i create a duplicate of an animation sequence asset by clicking and dragging or through drop down, any change to the copy also changes the original asset. how do i make them separate?

[rustic plume]

really, you sure? duplicate should make its own independent class

[somber prawn]

no changes are applied to the original too 😦

like when i rotate a bone or delete animation frames

[merry loom]

your character should be in the level before you open the sequence right? By default sequencer does not spawn actors for you. It just bind to existing ones.

[zinc garden]

How can I get my blendspace vertical like this guys?

Mine looks like this

I'm in UE 5

Hmm, it looks like I just straight up don't have a vertical axis

Ah, needs to be non 1D, nvm 😄

[vivid verge]

He was in there. I had animated a sequence and rendered it. Then made adjustments in the graph editor and when I went back to sequencer he was gone. His controllers/morphs were still in the sequence list and the key frames were still there. He had a single control widget in the viewport at the root location for any control I clicked on. Weird stuff. I just called it a loss and started a new sequence. Can you go back and grab autosaves?

[gusty inlet]

Heyy, Is there a simple way in Unreal Engine for looping those idle animations in a better way? 😂 I’m a noob I started using Unreal only in November 🙏

[ashen junco]

Can you remux the video into smaller file size? I have trouble viewing large video file in Discord client.

[gusty inlet]

Sure, sorry for that 🙏

I’m going to send a shorter take

[ashen junco]

Is this a montage playback?

[gusty inlet]

Nope it's just an animation, I don't know how to use the montage really, I'm checking it out right now

Is there a way in the montage to make it loop? With additive something or idk?

[ashen junco]

Are you using this Play Montage node in your character BP?

[gusty inlet]

I solved it this way! Added a sequence, added a character that uses that animation, added an animation track, added a couple of the same animations, blended between them, baked down sequence to new animation

Thanks to @exotic plover for the support 🙏

[south dragon]

where would you guys reccomend learning to import new animations using the ue4 skeleton?

🙂

[south dragon]

I just want to add some new animations to my character

[exotic plover]

@gusty inlet hey 😄 👍

[errant raven]

I rotated the arm bones and I would like to make this the default skeleton pose, how can I do that?

[errant raven]

even after that, the next time I open the skeleton it still looks like this

[vast hare]

"walk cycle animation"
i made a walk animation in which the character actually moves (does not stay in same place):
https://i.gyazo.com/aa7feaeaf377c62780723d553dd3ed33.gif
then i import that into unreal and want to make use of "root animation"
but somehow the mesh still does move away from the root
did i make something wrong?
https://i.gyazo.com/d25144d45d3956ef80722604dc5eda04.gif

[tiny mirage]

Does anyone have any ideas about how you would go about making a game like toribash? My guess is every joint needs a lerp from one animation state to another and toggling the joint will determine what direction the animation is lerping.

I guess I'd need to run the character as a ragdoll at that point? I'm more confused about how the stiffness of the joints during the animation lerping would work

[ashen junco]

Are you actually keyframing the root bone?

[vast hare]

i actually dont know 😅
i used cascadeur and keyframed the "black dots" not the bones per se

[misty dagger]

Hi, is this a known issue that blendspace binding don't work ?
If i pin the variable RootYawOffsetInverse to the blendspace it works fine (the yaw is applied to the aim offset in game), if i bind it it's not the case

[misty dagger]

repro :

Also, this is weird cause this only applies to BlendSpace, my bind on Rotate Root Bone is working well.

[past fulcrum]

Hello, is it possible to retarget a control rig asset? Or should I just use the rig assigned to create the animations and retarget to another skeleton?

[novel blaze]

Does anyone know how to make it so the sequencer doesnt add keys to virtual bones?

[vivid verge]

Another dumb question... Is it possible for the audio to scrub in Sequencer?

[ashen junco]

If the skeletons have the same bone names, you can use Copy Pose from Mesh in an animBP or Set Master Pose Component in your actor BP

[vivid verge]

Still having Groom to Control Rig character issues in UE5... Grooms will "Attach to" bones and move with the character, but whenever I save the sequence, or try to export it (video/image sequence) the grooms don't move. Can you attach grooms to the skeletal mesh so they're already attached to the character when you apply the skeletal mesh to the control rig? Or what am I doing wrong here?

[vivid verge]

Update, it scrubs when I have viewport set to "Unlit", which is fine because my machine is a bit weak, but still...

[zinc garden]

So I'm playing with the additional layer tracks and saving my animations changes but it isn't showing me these changes when hitting play, it's like it's using an old cached animation or something, am I doing something wrong?

[floral sky]

How much of a performance hit is it to slave something to an existing skeleton?

[misty dagger]

I don't think this variable is picking up if my character is in air

When I jump no animation plays

[vivid verge]

Can a groom be permanently attached to a character? I'm doing something wrong here.

[obtuse ledge]

many people asking me about how to retarget Mixamo animations into UE4 MetaHuman
here is how:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8VRRhwjCY

[meager sentinel]

Hey, this might be a weird/dumb question, but I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to, and if so how to create a foot ik system that acts like the one seen in games like LittleBigPlanet (Gif for Reference) every foot ik system I've come across online either only works for the default ue4 character or doesnt work like this (eg. doesnt rotate the characters body as well, just the foot), if this question is dumb just ignore me and thanks to anyone who reads this.

[jagged mountain]

Still looking for hint on fixing Revenants Shoulderpads and Jacket on Animation Retargeting

Looks crappy

looking it up !

but it got me looking into a direction, that could do sth.
currently i am here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwm-ACqzMwA
And yes - it has cloth information, but as a programmer, i first need to find out, whats happening anyway

This should lead to the right direction.
it has both of my problems in it

no, the shoulder is sth. other, but i'll first see, what's happening here

[south dragon]

can someone help me with this?

just messing around with replacing the default animations

[jagged mountain]

i know about "reset selected bone transform", but don't know if it helps you out

[south dragon]

okay thank you i'll try that

you mean in blender or ue4?

yeah but i'll try in ue4

how do i set it as a keyframe in ue4?

epic that worked , thank you !!

[jagged mountain]

for me it's not working ...

maybe i need to skip this character, which is a pity ...

[signal raven]

i have an walking animation (exported from Mixamo, my own 3d model) and i have a slight inclined ramp that i want the robot to walk on, but i cant figure out how to get it to walk on the ramp. Is there a way i could attach a spline to show where i want the robot to walk?

[reef agate]

fml friends. is there any way to print string values from control rig? ; /

[ashen junco]

No.

And I'd consider that overkill for something that isn't going to appear in Shipping build.

[reef agate]

Ah, just wanna do things like print values from nodes like

print that Z float so I can see what it's outputting

[vast hare]

i guess to rootbone is staying in place means it wasnt keyframed:
https://i.gyazo.com/13faba28e5e9bba4f4323110c28c5ab6.gif

[south dragon]

Are there any good tuts payed or free to learn ue4 animation systems? I'm hoping it will cover the blueprint side of things along with blend spaces

[ashen junco]

https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3537714

[copper vine]

Hey everyone check this out

https://mrl.snu.ac.kr/research/ProjectAgile/Agile.html

it's not motion matching but better, allows for some pretty cool animations. I tried to replicate the paper by installing all the software, but they don't provide all the animations and it seems they have an Unreal Project that they don't provide for copyright issues. Shame. Wonder if there is a way to implement this in the future

[silver flare]

is there a way to change where a montage is (like setting it to be at 2.5 seconds) at runtime?

not talking about starting positions, but just in general

really what i need to do is find a way to smooth the transition from one animation in this montage to another, if there's a simple way for that to happen i'd be better off just doing that

[rustic plume]

There are transitions that you can adjust for each montage. To your earlier notion, you can play montages at specufic sections you just need to make them in the montage and name them

[silver flare]

for the transitions, do i animate the inbetween? or is there something i'm missing

[rustic plume]

Everything that youre asking for can be handled from the montage asset

[silver flare]

gotcha, thanks

[rose prawn]

For anim Blueprints, if you were looking at allowing a few different weapon types, what's the easiest way? Type would mostly alter the upper body stuff, like the way it's held when being moved and all.

Ideally would have the lower body seperated away from the upper body/ weapon stuff

[south dragon]

Anyone here familiar with animation workflows that would like to teach me ? I am willing to pay 🙂

[naive mountain]

Anyone retarget Mixamo animations onto a Metahuman? I want insight into other workflows

I got it near perfect. But heavy side to side rotation in the neck and sometimes the fingers, need manual adjustment by rotating bones per-animation. Honestly a realistic approach to getting a fully animated metahuman without any mocap

[novel blaze]

Is there some setting thats doing compression on animations I bake from the level sequence. Anims look perfect in the sequencer and when baked its as if some of the keys are missing or skipped. Makes the animation look cheap

[royal tangle]

Anyone using the bone matching features in Sequencer? Anyone noticing that the mesh tends to freak out at the cut point even if the skeleton matching is fine?

https://jumpshare.com/v/mNq9sbbNX30ywri6Wkuu

talking about this feature

[south dragon]

any reason why this is happening ?lol

its a mixamo animation

[south dragon]

nvm i just cut the end

but i am curious why the root motion seems so blocked up here

[naive mountain]

Still pondering if it's possible to do what is outlined in this reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/s0wqfv/metahuman_animation_bottleneck_fix_saved_5ms_on/

Im a conspiracy theorist right now! I dont think its possible...

[bronze osprey]

twist bones are used a lot, lowerarm and shin you really need to make a hand or foot twist nice

just twist ur own hand left and right and u can see, cant do that w/o movin the part of ur arm connected to it

[ashen junco]

You ask someone to move their own body for reference? That's heresy 😠

[bronze osprey]

looks like 1 of those guides.... i deleted half my stuff and now its faster

[ember tundra]

I want to make my character go from its idle state animation into a sit down and then sit animation (where he should stay) if the player does not move for a while. Can I do this in the idle animation or a montage or how would you pros do it? 🤔

[ashen junco]

Transition to a different idle state using boolean, and some events.
Normally you don't want the player character to immediately snap back to standing and walk like nothing happened

[ember tundra]

Indeed, an unskippable short "standing up" animation would be nice.

[ember tundra]

You wouldn't have any sort of tutorial handy for this sort of thing, would you?

[naive mountain]

state machines

ai

[winter coyote]

Is there a way to turn off Blend Space Blending, so my animations can be snappy?

[stoic heart]

Hey friends, I have a noob animation question here, regarding Houdini and Niagara. I want to export a simple tube with 2 bones in each end. What's the fastest way to do it?

[ashen junco]

#niagara

[ashen junco]

I believe there's the setting on the side.

[winter coyote]

I think I found a solution by unsnapping the blend space anims, then setting the min and max numbers to 1, so it's got a very small amount to blend between, and it works pretty well

[tranquil thistle]

hi guys

i have a problem like that

when my animations are playing

my character is looks like flying xD

can somebody help me pls ?

[lone bay]

can you set a specific bone rotation from a BP node?

[ashen junco]

Yes, but it has to be Poseable Mesh Component, which (AFAIK) can't have anim instance.

Otherwise you'd need to have the anim BP cache the values at all times

[lone bay]

thanks, I found the Poseable Mesh but it's still problematic.. best I can do is get it to rotate the entire mesh, but the weights are painted and bound appropriately in blender..

so it deforms there in blender but it's either all or nothing in UE :/

it works with or without binding to Bone Envelopes in blender, but no apparent change in UE

I bet it's annoyed I only have one bone in there

[lone bay]

seems to be happier with two bones but still not getting my weights

don't tell me the stupid thing needs another bone.. hmm

[lone bay]

bah it's gotta be the export or import settings

[lone bay]

maybe the normalization..

it does see the vertex group

[lone bay]

ah, I was bein a n00b and only giving a single vertex group, so it had no way to play the influence from one bone against the other I guess

[reef agate]

Anyone know if Sphere Trace is broken in 4.27.2 UE4 in Control Rig? I'm drawing a transform at the hitlocation but the transform is at the root when it should be along the the Z axis under the foot as you can see from the draw line

hmm https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/sphere-trace-in-control-rig-version-4-26/210109/5

[spring heart]

Hey all! So I managed to fix one issue with my animation import (from Blender to Unreal Engine 4), but I've run into another issue.

The mesh itself, after a certain amount of frames, distorts in a way that doesn't appear in Blender. Is there a setting in either the skeletal mesh properties or the animation itself to correct the mesh distortion? Can give more info necessary to resolve this issue I'm experiencing

[reef agate]

Heya, I'm having, what are probably similar 4.27.2 Sphere Trace issues as you in Control Rig : /

[south dragon]

How can I make Slots work independently of one another when using montages ?

So I had a simple walk run climb and fall system setup , everything worked fine

until I messed with the animgraph to add blended animations, so like walking and equipping a weapon

this is the culprit it seems, when i put it to 1 instead of 4 to blend my other animations work to climb and such

But idk how or if you can just use two differnt slots and get them interacting independnt of one another

this is what it used to look like

for walking, climbing rolling etc.

[random oar]

Hi all, I have a question!
Preconditions: default third person character
Steps: 1. open characher animation 2. dublicate "ThirdPersonIdle" file 3. Open new animation sequence
Problem: The new animation has Idle moves
Question: How can I remove Idle moves OR how can I create a new animation sequence without duplicating the "ThirdPersonIdle" file in T or A pose?

[ashen junco]

You create the animations in your DCC tool (Blender, Maya, etc.)

Alternatively you can set up Control Rig for animating in editor.

If, however, you're referring to not applying any animation in the character BP (not the anim BP), simply select the skeletal mesh component and clear the used anim BP reference.

[random oar]

Hmm... This is all new to me, I need to figure it out... What's the easiest and fastest way? DCC tool or Control Rig?

[random oar]

I need an animation. I want to create an animation, but idle motions mix with the motions I created get a bad result

Just search in youtube "unreal engine 4 animation montage blend"

Ok, I'm new in animations

[edgy hearth]

I am building an animation that involves a rigged motorcycle driving down a road - Is it best practice to have the motorcycle imported into unreal (from blender) as a single objects with seperated weight groups? Or should I bring each element of the big (wheels, handlebar, etc) into unreal seperately, then combine them?

[ashen junco]

Most vehicular games have them as a single skeletal mesh. But you can have separate parts if you want it to be destructible (not just bent by collision)

[edgy hearth]

Thanks

[mental ridge]

Hey everyone a high level question here. Lately with UE5 animation content I see a shift away from using blend spaces and instead using layered state machines. Any exact reason/ advantage to this method?

[ashen junco]

Wait, they do?

I'm sticking with UE4, so no idea the actual advancement with the anim stuff in UE5

[mental ridge]

Between Echo, some youtube tutorials and the new stack of bot it seems that way

[ashen junco]

Can only assume Control Rig do the hard work more recently but I can't see how it supposed to replace pose based blend space

[bronze osprey]

when u think of what a blendspace is, u could not make a blendspace asset and do the logic elsewhere if u like

i run UE5 echo demo at 20% render res and it still hardly runs so havent looked at it much

something like an upperbody aim blendspace shouldnt be to hard in control rig either

ahh sry not for u

im not sure whats goin on in ur vid, but that graph looks nice and modular and u should try piece by piece

if u dont know the exact problem narrow it down as much as u can

you can keep the anim graph open and show value on a few of the parameters that might be the problem

[mental ridge]

back again :p how do I shrink all the keyframes to be all closer together at once?

[bronze osprey]

i think its under the wrench button

or select the keys and R mouse one of em

[viscid tulip]

has anyone managed to fix the broken toes in the metahuman controlrig?

If i backward solve and forward solve they straighten out. But the problem persists when baking from ctrl rig to anim sequence

[viscid tulip]

if anyone else runs into this. here is the solution:

[reef agate]

in Control Rig 4.27.2, does anyone know in cpp how to make a custom function node pure?

[river hinge]

Hey has anyone here used UE 2 Rigify at all? Struggling with adding the default animations for the mannequin... Any help would be super appreciated!

[random oar]

I found how to create an animation in the default pose without idle movements. Create asset > Create animation > Reference Pose

[stoic thorn]

Hi, is there a way to get notified when an anim montage is cancelled ? My animation stop correctly but i would like to stop a FX aswell

[stoic thorn]

Ok thanks !

[digital gorge]

im working in ue5 and every time i try reatarget the als to Metahuman ue5 crash. Anyone know a solution?

[brazen wharf]

is there some way to copy a curve from an animation sequence to an curve asset?

copy/pasting the keys seems not to work

nvm copy/paste works once a empty key was added (or the track is hovered...)

[summer linden]

I am working on a revolver animation and I was wondering how I could effectively do a more detailed reload which would involve having a fired casing be pulled out of the cylinder and then having a bullet placed in, would this involve having two seperate bullet meshes for both the shot casing and preshot bullet? I was wondering because the primer cap would be struck on the casing and obviously the bullet part missing which I would assume uses seperate textures. Any suggestions?

[vocal fog]

Hello everyone!

I make a game prototype with topdown camera, WASD movements and cursor orientation.

I have a question.

Does anyone have any idea how to realize turn root motion animation when my cursor crosses the character actor and rotates him?

[brazen flame]

hello everyone, I try to replace the character in the control rig sample, that you can get for free in the marketplace, it works almost, but how can I realign the body??

[brazen flame]

I solved by using a paragon character instead of a Mixamo char

[misty dagger]

Hey all, so I have this in my idle state right, however when I crouch in play mode, the crouching animation doesn't play,
any ideas?

[spring whale]

why when i change something in the animation, like rotate, it doesn't update in the game?

i rotated it, but still the same thing in the game

[random oar]

Hi, Anim BP has a "Transform (Modify) Bone" node (https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/NodeReference/SkeletalControls/TransformBone/), but how can I get the actual Transform Bone value in Anim BP?

[vestal rapids]

metahuman is working great , but unlike default 3rd person char , it can't look up or down, does that require additional adjustments or did I use wrong settings somewhere

[raw bay]

Hey gang, been hunting for a bit but have had no luck so far. I'm looking for a particular tutorial about getting my player character to climb a rope as if it was strung horizontally (say between two buildings). I would think it's similar to a tightrope scenario, but the character is hanging below the rope instead of walking on top of it. (yes I did search those terms as well as I just thought about it while writing this.) Any leads?

[primal schooner]

Heya! How to set default pose on control rig?

[brazen wharf]

GetSocketTransform (at least that works on the SkeletalMesh)

[novel blaze]

Do you guys know of any method to drive a control in one rig by another control in a different rig. For example a reload animation where you have a weapon rig and a character rig. How can you drive the control for the magazine with the control of the hand in the character mesh?

[south dragon]

still kinda struggling with understadning layered animations

here is my animgraph

I just setup sheathing and unsheathing and layered animations so he can draw his weapon while maintaing the run animation

I set the draw animation to a new slot called "body"

But now my roll animation which is set to default slot isnt playing

how can I get both slots working here?

if i set my roll animation to "body" slot. it seems to play but this happens

so the weapon sheathing works ine but my roll animation looks like a zombie attack xD

Im assuming its to do with the back that the body "slot" is ignoring the lower body

But idk how to make it work if thats the case

if anyone know that would be awesome

[rustic plume]

your roll animation is a montage?

[south dragon]

yeah it is

[rustic plume]

and it needs to be a montage? i would've thought you handle rolling like walking, or along those same lines

[south dragon]

It doesnt need to be I guess. Im just follwing some tutorials and thats how they handle them

[ashen junco]

The roll can be montage, but you may have incorrect slot @south dragon

[rustic plume]

what i was thinking was to handle rolling within the locomotion rather than montage - you can use a layered blend per bone within the animation state like where your idle/walk/run blendspace is used

if your roll montage plays the character rolls in the direction without input influence then thats difference since the above method would allow you to still control player movement just like when they walk. If this is the effect you want, where they roll in that direction and you have no way to change direction until it finishes, you to blend different "teirs" of animations. You have the cached animation for the layered blend per bone, and you have Body which is your upper body (spine_03) for sheathing/unsheathing, but roll is full body (pelvis) and that means a different slot is needed because you need to override the animation from a different bone hierarchy

[south dragon]

Hmmm, yeah that seems to be what im looking for . DO you know of any tutorials that cover this locomotion type animation ? All I can find are people using montages to blend x)

[rustic plume]

i dont know, maybe at one time i found one, but i really dont remember - it's a simple setup though, instead of doing a layered blend per bone at the root of the anim graph, you do it in the node that contains your idle/walk/run blendspace. Use the blendspace as the base with the roll as the blend. You'll need to set a bool to toggle between the two states which can control the weight value (bool to float will be read as 0 or 1)

[south dragon]

okay I'll see if I cant do that , thanks for the input !

[merry loom]

maybe with public variables? Get gun transform somewhere and feed it into the public variable of the hand

[merry loom]

iirc you cant change the anim data there. When you are chAnging the pose in anim preview window, it is just for preview purpose. You might want to look up sequencer workflows for modifying animation in engine.

[merry loom]

default pose is inherited from the rest pose of the skeletalmesh. I remember ther is a way to change it in the skeletal mesh editor. For new controls and other rig elements created in control rig editor you can use setup mode to define their initial position

[random oar]

Hmm.. Thank you!

[errant raven]

I retargeted a mixamo character to the mannequin, but after retargeting it seems wierd

these are the bone maps

[ashen junco]

I won't hope much from Mixamo rig, it's unorthodox to the UE mannequin standard.

[errant raven]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io76DagpS-8&ab_channel=RyanLaley I was following this

[young shoal]

In general for mixamo animations do you use 30fps or 60fps?

[ashen junco]

(Though I use 30 for making animations from scratch, not using Mixamo)

[misty dagger]

Hey there, is there a way I can get a variable from my character bp to my anim bp
because for the love of all that is holy I can't figure out how to do it
I just want my bIsSliding variable in my anim bp

[ashen junco]

If you look at the third person template, you can see how Event Blueprint Initialize Animation is used to get pawn owner to set reference to the player character

[misty dagger]

Oh nice, I'll check that out

Thanks

[vestal rapids]

Anyone know off hand why my metahuyma > ue4, won't rotate an look UP or down on z ? Madening, but everything else works fine.

metahuman

[novel blaze]

Interesting. I wonder if that will work in sequencer. I feel like Im going to have to make a blueprint for my weapon because I cant wrap my head around plugging that data in in the sequencer

[vestal rapids]

OK for anyone else wondering, found online, guess earlier my search was inadequate- ticking ' use pawn control rotation' gets me look up/down ;))) whew

[stoic iron]

Hi all! I have imported a Daz 3D avatar through the unreal bridge and retargeted to the unreal mannequin. All ok bar the hand and an arm? Anyone able to fix quickly for a bit of cash?

[ashen junco]

Daz 3D? Ouch, you're going to have a hell of a time resolving it. I heard many horror stories with retargeting UE animations to Daz models.

[stoic iron]

OH NOOO!! 😢

[south dragon]

So I think you meant this ?

[rustic plume]

yeah

[south dragon]

ahh okay

[rustic plume]

instead of a transition out of idle run to roll, hop into that node and do layered blend per bone

uhh

[south dragon]

i set this up in the roll state

[rustic plume]

thats inside idle run?

oh

hmm

seeing that, i dont think this will work given the current animation

from what it sounds like, its an animation of the stand pose that goes into a roll.... and then back to stand?

[south dragon]

yeah just like that

but it cuts off right when its fully standing

[rustic plume]

hmmmmmmmm

i think i would handle this as a montage then, not to go back and forth so much

if it was just rolling i think itd be easier to manage as a transition between the idle/run animations

this seems better suited, the way the animation is, as a one-off event animation - therefore montage

[south dragon]

I can trim the animation though.

Because I just cat wrap my head around the bone blending stuff..

I had the animations on different slots and i blended the slots in the aimgraph

but only the sheathing worked

the roll stopped working

[rustic plume]

functionality-wise, how does a roll happen? does the player press roll and then it gets played? do they hold the roll button and can they steer the rolling?

[south dragon]

Yeah bascially it just rolls forward , no directionality

Just trying to get something somewhat functional x)

[rustic plume]

lol right right

i havent had to play around with this amount of slots (yet) so i think its tricky to just make sure the right slot is weighted at the right time...

i would think this would work

cached is base, attackslot (fullbody) is blend 0 and upperbody is blend 1

then it blends to whichever slot is set

you'd have to control blend weights at that point though

maybe?

somehow you have to make sure to turn the weight to 1 for the desired slot and turn the rest to 0

[vestal oxide]

Why is my anim not showing?

some pls help

[tranquil lark]

Did you set the mesh to use that AnimBP?

[vestal oxide]

that was it,thanks

[warped verge]

Can I make all of my Animations within Unreal itself?

[rustic plume]

suppose its possible

[warped verge]

I have a basic MakeHuman file with a skeleton. Trying to just streamline the workflow as much as possible

[balmy ember]

Hey guys, anyone here has experience with Unreal Advanced Vehicle Template?
I am trying to figure out how to modify the skeleton and what is the pipeline.
Is there any video going through few examples?
One issue I would have is even if I export vehicle from Unreal, to Blender or Houdini, when it gets imported back into Unreal, the orientation of bones would get messed up.
For start I have just tried to move front wheels and bones forward (outside of Unreal, and import back). But when Animation Blueprint is applied some of the bones would get rotated:
https://i.imgur.com/6RyWjfc.png
https://i.imgur.com/yOjNYgd.png
I'm looking for some pointers, thanks.

[south dragon]

@rustic plume I found the exact video for blending those two slots with anim montages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6fH5t4Ux2I&list=LL&index=1&t=2s

worked like a charm

[flint edge]

Anyone got any idea why my control rig i made for this mesh isn't showing up when I try to bake this animation to a control rig?

[south dew]

Well... I noticed the same behavior on a rig where the reverse stuff was missing from the rig...

[brazen pawn]

Importing a skeletal mesh to UE4 from blender: is there any method to bones have transform in quartenion instead if euler in control rig i need to avoid gimbal lock?

[somber pagoda]

I have a confusing problem. I updated an animation sequence that I had retargeted to my character in order to move her left hand to hold the rifle correctly and reach for the magazine correctly. The animation sequence looks fine, but when I add it to a montage it shows the old animation. Here's the Montage view compared to the Sequence view:

at frame 14, sequence vs montage:

[naive mountain]

Has anyone removed bones from a metahuman and reimported the new skeleton from maya to ue4 4.26

[south dew]

I experienced this once and just went the route of saving the sequence under a new name and deleted the old, then added the corrected one back... i feel like UE is getting confused sometimes with its cache or sth like that....

[somber pagoda]

I got pointed to a workaround: https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/otooj2/trying_to_edit_the_animations_in_ue5_where_is_the/hceolfl/

It works!

Deleting and re-creating in UE5 didn't work

[south dew]

oh ooookay...good to know!

[brazen pawn]

any idea on this anyone?:/

[unkempt sorrel]

how do I stop my camera pitch effecting the speed of my player character

if I look down on him he slows down

[delicate locust]

Does anyone have any ideas why I'm not seeing any results with control rig? I'm on UE5, and in tutorials it "just works"

Seems like nothing I do in the Rig graph has any effect, no matter how simple.
Edit: Hold on, I may have goofed on something big.
Edit 2: No, I have not, it's skinned properly 🤔

[umbral radish]

Use a drawhierarchy node to see if the bones move.
Does the preview mesh fit?
Be aware the hierarchy in CR isn’t a reference but imported. So if you changed it meanwhile you need to refresh. Sometimes it helps to delete and import again.

[delicate locust]

@umbral radish Interesting, yes it seems the bones do move, but the mesh does not! Hm. This example is on a fresh control rig, with no changes done to the skeleton in the meanwhile. The preview mesh is the same as the one I made the control rig from

[umbral radish]

So that looks for me like a skinning problem. Did the skin follow in your DCC?

[ashen junco]

Does the mesh actually weighted in your DCC tool?

[delicate locust]

That's what I thought too, until I double checked that it has correctly imported the skin weights

[ashen junco]

So in your Control Rig, are you adding the mesh as additional preview skelmesh and not the main preview skelmesh?

[delicate locust]

Hmm I'm not quite sure how to check what is the main and additional? What I've done is right click on the skeletal mesh and selected "Create control rig"

I've noticed it says "Previewing reference pose". Is that what it's supposed to be?

I have not added it to the "Additional Meshes" property (and that also didn't change anything)

[umbral radish]

Do a right click on the skeletal mesh and create a control rig from there and check if that works.

[delicate locust]

Yeah that's the way I've been going about this unfortunately

[ashen junco]

What UE5 version are you running?

[umbral radish]

Try again withs new one. Just to eleminate that something with your rig is broken.

[delicate locust]

The current one from the launcher, 5.0.0

[ashen junco]

That's Early Access 2

Consider trying in UE4 for sanity check if all else fails

[delicate locust]

Yeah the above video was on the completely up-to-date one, I haven't changed or reimported anything in the meantime

[umbral radish]

I would make a new one. And what @ashen junco said. Try your mesh in 4. something is fishy there.

[delicate locust]

Yeah that's the one. I have considered downloading UE4 to test, but also to test other rigs

Thanks for the assistance though, I'll try either of those!

[umbral radish]

Or make briefly a new project and import the mesh there again and make a rig.

My gut feeling is something went wrong on importing the mesh

[delicate locust]

I'm about to test the WindwalkerEcho project, if that character works in control rig

Yeah possibly

[delicate locust]

@umbral radish @ashen junco Yeah, it's def not the UE5 version, because the Echo rig works 😄 I'll compare my rig with that one, and hopefully figure out the missing pieces

[umbral radish]

Good luck.

[quick horizon]

For simple upper body IK, used to aim weapons, how much does something like that impact general performance?

[ashen junco]

Barely significant.

[blazing wave]

having a weird issue when i re-import any animation and its longer than the previous one. The timeline doesn't adjust

oh nvm all good

[south dragon]

blender users, can you tell me why the volume isnt being preserved on my imported animations ?

its also moving my mesh on the z axis at odd times for some reason

looks fine in blender

in ue4,

I think its the pevlis? Am I not allowed to use the pelvis when animating or something ??

it seems to be driving the weird z tranform happening in UE4

[barren sand]

Hey guys, I might be missing something. I'm doing some sequencer auto renders of some different animations. I've made a simple blueprint that updates the animation each time the one before has finished, however I'm seeing an issue. The animation blueprints/skeletal meshes first update the frame after a new animation and explicit time has been set, causing my loopable sections not to work.

It's a simple setup. heres the code for setting the animation:

and inside my anim blueprint:

Just an example(unable to show pictures of the project, NDA):
Frame 210 animation A finishes
Frame 211 animation B is applied and explicit time set to 0, this should be the first frame of the new section. However animation A is still active once this frame is rendered
Frame 212 The second frame of the new section, animation B is now shown

[ashen junco]

Unreal can't do dual quaternion skinning, which is what "preserve volume" is. This is why game models often have twist bones for the limbs.

[south dragon]

Hmm thanks for the reply , thats unfortunate. So I'd have to add twist bones to the ue4 skeleton in blender ? Not sure what that is

Also any idea why the anim is shifting up and down when the pelvis is moved ? Not sure how I'd animate without being able to shift the pelvis

[flint pendant]

Hey guys, I really need your help 😦
I wanna get this animation:

https://youtu.be/CiQWaQozFlM

I bought SwordAnimsetPro, but I’m not sure if it’s using ALS or not. Can anyone please tell if it’s using it or not ?

[delicate locust]

@ashen junco @umbral radish I managed to track down the issue. It was absolutely brutal. If you have bones named like this: ORG-hips, with a dash, UE5 doesn't have an issue with that - until you import it into control rig, and it stealthily renames it to ORG_hips with an underscore, because control rig doesn't take dashes. And thus the names don't match anymore and, while it updates the "rig", it doesn't update the mesh. So Blender Rigify rigs need to rename the ORG bones

[iron knoll]

Hello 👋

Does anybody know if it's possible to somehow modify a socket only for the duration of a specific animation/montage?

**Context: **
I have a Socket attached to my characters right hand which is where my weapons get attached to. However, when playing some animations, since they're not specifically designed for the weapon attached, the weapons rotation is sometimes a little off during the animation. I would like to add relative rotational offset to this socket to correct it, but only for specific animations

[wintry silo]

how do i get full body motion on an anim montage

if it is even possible

rn i only have upper body

[rustic plume]

Layered blend per bone affects all bones down the chain of the one specified. Use pelvis to affect all bones.

[wintry silo]

wait nvm

the anim montage has the full body motion

its when i play it that only upper body motion works

wait

i dont even want lower body motion itll fuck everything up

[bitter shard]

Does anyone know if you can reset the accumulated time node in control rig?

[serene scroll]

how do i find the animation assret of an animation montage

[rustic plume]

select the green bar sections in the timeline, it will show up in the details

[crystal imp]

Ok, I really need some serious help understanding what's going on here.....
Why does the one on the right work but the one on the left doesn't?
What am I missing here? 'Set Vector (by ref)' It seems pretty straight forward....it worked in another project...why not this one?
Any insight into this would be pretty helpful

Never Mind I wasn't setting them to be Passed by Ref...

[spring heart]

Does anyone here use Blender in conjunction with Unreal Engine?

[rustic plume]

there are quite a few so if its a question related go ahead and ask. I do not use blender.

[spring heart]

This is the issue I’ve been having and was wondering if there’s anyone who uses Blender and Unreal that’s able to take a look at the project files to help out with the issue I’m having?

[misty dagger]

i imported a alembic file that has an animation, can i make the preview of it in an socket bone be static? it keeps looping the animation

[umbral radish]

Good catch. I will see that it gets noticed.

[tranquil hollow]

Find a Bug about control rig https://youtu.be/GN2-13kPnLs

about the name of the bones

[vocal cave]

Hello, I would like to know how to implement camera movement and screen shake when the player presses a button and it does the move (like in fighting games) I want to implement that in this animation specifically. Do I need to have a level sequence and camera shake blueprint to do that, if so how in UE4 or I can do it in this animation sequence? Thank you

reference:
https://youtu.be/hcR8nqp03A0

[ashen junco]

You can use Level Sequence and then have the camera movements relative if necessary

[vocal cave]

How can I do that? If you don't mind me asking

Especially for implementing the level sequence to the animation

[ashen junco]

Just run the sequence together with running the animation montage.

[vocal cave]

Ooooooh, let me try that. Thank you!

[errant raven]

I am trying to snap the left hand to the weapon but its not working

I am learning from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIAts7XaWRw&ab_channel=CyberLOD

The left hand is just snapping to the right hand

[gray bloom]

Anyone have a good TPP dash animation for a 3D FPS I'm making?

Any recommendations would help as well

[crude narwhal]

Hi, How in Shooter Example , Code nows when Animation is Looped or not ? im swap animation on Fire Anim and one play is as loop and other not.hmmm...

[night condor]

i followed along with this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU95pf5hTkI&t=318s

but i cant get the animation montage to play, anyone any ideas?

[cloud plinth]

this is probably a pretty simple question, but how would i go about having an anim montage play repeatedly whil im holding down the button

I want my character to do a spinning slash on repeat until i release the key

[sacred dove]

Does anyone have a good reference for a master class on Control Rig and Animation Keyframing in general Unreal Engine? ... Paying is fine as well. Thx!

[tranquil lark]

You didn't do something right. Without seeing your setup, no one can tell. A common miss that people do is use the correct slot group.

[gray dome]

How come after I moved my pivot, the rotation still rotates around the object last known pivot?

[outer maple]

Heya folks, curious if somebody could tell me the difference, I'm looking to make this blendspace node:

creating a blendspace in the anim BP gives me a distinctly different node though

ah, it's a blendspace 1D and it appears control rig has a special display layout for blend spaces that was different from my project making me think it was a different node. 👍

[flat cedar]

Does anyone know why this happens? I keep importing animation fbx but its always corrupted 😦

[ashen junco]

What DCC tool are you using?

[flat cedar]

I'm using Maya 2020 and this model is made by Christoph

https://thestoff.gumroad.com/

[ashen junco]

Then I have no idea.

[flat cedar]

😢

[ashen junco]

I mainly use Blender so yeah

[rustic plume]

i guess ill help

so whats the rig ur using?

[flat cedar]

https://thestoff.gumroad.com/l/gGdWL

I’m using this one

[rustic plume]

i get this is the model

whats the rig

the skeleton

[ashen junco]

Is the skeleton matches that of Unreal Engine mannequin?

[flat cedar]

OH no I'm using the skeleton from this model

[ashen junco]

Let me rephrase that

Is the skeleton of that specific model has bone structure and names that match with the mannequin's bone structure and names?

[flat cedar]

There are bones but I'm not sure of the names match with mannequins skeleton

I'll check hold on

[rustic plume]

sounds like you havent if you just imported this model into engine and expected it to work

if it has its own skeleton, you should see it in there and it should come in skinned properly

so then i might wonder if the exporting from maya is flawed

[flat cedar]

the imported skeleton is there :/

[rustic plume]

so what are you doing for export?

[flat cedar]

I tried Export(fbx)/Game Exporter Animation Clip/Send to Unreal

Tried all of those but the results are same

[rustic plume]

so it looks and deforms just fine in maya?

you've tested how the bones move to see skinning effects?

[flat cedar]

yeah its totally fine :/

[rustic plume]

so thats the pose it came in as?

does it have animations?

[flat cedar]

the pose should be looking like that yes, and there's no animation movement but the controls are keyframed

[rustic plume]

you should test the joints and move them around to see if the skinning is correct or not

[flat cedar]

Alright lemme see

[quasi vale]

Would y'all recommend rigging in unreal or in the modelling application (blender in this case)

[rustic plume]

recommend: not unreal

though plenty do

[quasi vale]

So do it in the modelling application

[rustic plume]

if control rig gets to a point where animations can be made to the same quality and with comparable ease as the dcc tool, then i would use unreal, but until then..

[ashen junco]

Not like you can make rig/skeleton from scratch in Unreal anyway

[quasi vale]

Yeah

I just thought I'd ask, seems like one of those topics most people ask about

And my last animation question for now... T or A pose?

[rustic plume]

thats up to you

[quasi vale]

Is A pose better and a more modernized version of T like some have said

[rustic plume]

i think manny is a pose

[quasi vale]

Or like I have reas

Manny?

[rustic plume]

ue4 mannequin

[ashen junco]

Manny = mannequin

[quasi vale]

Ah

[ashen junco]

It's the unofficial nickname for him

[quasi vale]

You learn something new

[rustic plume]

a pose is fine for animations where arms dont typically raise up much

[quasi vale]

I mean what I've heard about apose makes sense

[ashen junco]

Though we haven't settled the name for the female counterpart...

[rustic plume]

t pose is better for full sweep of anims

[quasi vale]

Yeah

[rustic plume]

its all preference though

id go with A pose if your unsure

[quasi vale]

What I've heard is that a pose is better because "it's a more natural position"

And in practice when modeling I see what they mean, but I could just be modeling wrong

Too many/not enough loops you get it

[ashen junco]

Usually A-pose has relaxed finger position, so it's better for CCDIK / finger IK setup

[rustic plume]

thats where its preference, in some cases you have to model to account for full range of motion and that means clustered loops at the armpits

[ashen junco]

Nitpick, but I found it weird that the large magical hands are part of the main rig.

[rustic plume]

not to mention skinning and unwrapping

[quasi vale]

Yeah tbh I need to do more modeling I'm still new to everything

[flat cedar]

Okay sorry for so much confusion but it seems like there were a group of hidden Old meshes and it turned out looking fine when I deleted them

I'm guessing the old meshes were showing up when they were imported and the skinning gets corrupted somehow when its in ue

[quasi vale]

i lauv her

[rustic plume]

well what matters is what you select when you export

[flat cedar]

same ❤️

[rustic plume]

specifically all bones that the mesh is skinned to and the sk mesh/es

[quasi vale]

such a cool concept

[flat cedar]

I might've been missing some bones that were hidden somewhere else (when I exported)oof

[errant raven]

is there a way to use multiple fabrik?

I placed the left arm on the rifle guard using fabrik and I want to place the right hand at the trigger aswell

[errant raven]

nvm, got it to work

[compact monolith]

Is there any piece of documentation regarding .dna files? What are these files used for? What information do they contain?

[summer whale]

having issue importing animation in to unreal from blender. it only importing the t-pose and ignore the other animation

look like bone size is too small but resizing character and skeleton doesnt fix it

[maiden drift]

hey guys, I'm having some troubles with my AnimBP, my blending skills are virtually none, I was wondering if anybody knows how I can fix this:
https://streamable.com/ei39o3

this is the anibp:

the "Targeting" state machine does the "hands up" animation

the upper body is turning but the lower part is staying in place

[summer whale]

yea i rename it because it kept saying i had multiple roots

i rename it to lowpolyskeleton

should i have not done that?

okay ill take a look at the video

i have them all mark as fake user

with different action and name

only have two

yeap those are check and only the tpose get imported

those are the setting i use

ive deleted and imported it multiple times butt i still get the error saying the bones are too small

i see the warning in unreal and none of the animation get imported

yeah not sure what i did wrong ima watch that video and redo the skeletal mesh

probably renaming it screw it up

[misty dagger]

o/ any source of important tips for animations setup?
like core basics you have to know not to having redo animations and setup, learned the hard way 😛

[rustic plume]

test incrementally. before you decide to do time-heavy tasks, run your design through the entire pipeline to see how it will get handled by the engine and that the intended animations work for its given topology.

[vivid verge]

If you have a control rig character in UE4 sequencer, can you import an animation file and apply it to that character? I guess I'm trying to figure out how to edit a motion captured animation with Control Rig.

[misty dagger]

thanks, by entire pipeline what do You exactly mean ?

[rustic plume]

Model, unwrap, rig/skin, animate, export/import

Do it quick and dirty before putting in the quality

[real lake]

Hello all, I was hoping to get help figuring out what this warning is all about... When I Run my project from my IDE, the Editor Log is entirely clean, except for this one warning, and I'm not sure what it means, or how to track it down.

Warning LogAnimation Animation Blueprint ____path____ has nodes with invalid node guids that have been regenerated. This blueprint will not cook deterministically until it is resaved.

[lethal violet]

I see two nodes in the docs: "Transform (Modify) Bone" and "Set Bone Transform". I can find neither in UE5. Any ideas why? Pls ping if you know :)

[maiden drift]

Reposting since it got burried in the comments, maybe somebody can point me to the solution

[merry loom]

Control rig nodes? They are renamed to modify bone and set transform.

[merry loom]

your rig will need a backward solve graph that tells ue how to conform the rig to the pose. In sequencer there is an option to bake to control rig, which just goes through each frame of the animation and fit the rig to the pose. Take a look at metahuman rigs may be helpful.

[merry loom]

there is also option to additive apply control rig to mocap animation if you just want to make minor adjustment

[keen inlet]

Hello, anyone had similar problems with morph targets in ue5 ?

[vivid verge]

My problem is definitely in the Backwards Solve. But I'm not sure how to go about making changes to it. The issues are with the controls for the pelvis, spine01 and the right foot and right ball (toe). How can I adjust those in the backwards solve without messing up the forwards solve?

[edgy hearth]

I'm about to lose my mind. I've been trying to apply my physics constraint profile to my skeletal mesh and no matter what I do, the profile is not used during simulation. When I test the profile in the physics asset editor it works fine. I've followed this documentation exactly, as well as a ton of small variations to it, with no success https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Physics/PhysicsAssetEditor/HowTo/ApplyConstraintProfile/

Is there some way to troubleshoot this?

or maybe someway to just bypass the entire blue print and just use the physics asset in a more basic way? I dont need to be able to control the object I just need to keyframe it for a cinematic and want some physical interaction

[vivid verge]

I fixed it. Duplicated my rig, adjusted controls in Backwards Solve and it worked. I feel dumb and smart at the same time.

[turbid plover]

Is it “set transform by bone name”?

[slender sierra]

If you have an animation where the character moves forward, but the root stays in place.
Is it possible to move the root or do you have to set the new position of the new position of the character at the end of the animation to avoid teleporting.

[gentle zinc]

how do I preview the values being passed into an animation blueprint

at runtime

for a specific character

[clever acorn]

sup. First message here. Anyone knows how (if possible) to create constant motion in sequencer? like a sinewave.. without having to create a billion keyframes. there's gotta be a way, right?

btw i'm mainly a unity user so talk to me like im 6, or your aunt please

[tame sail]

hello maybe you can help me, trying to solve the problem for a month
my character slides down in 1st frame of animation, all animations are in montage and animation itself doesn't has any movements up or down, so it's perfect and I do not use IK. slide disappears when blend in is 0, but it is not an option

any ideas? thanks

[tame sail]

if I play animation without montage everything is ok

[jaunty aspen]

I'm using the CopyPoseFromMesh node but it isn't working, any idea why?

[ashen junco]

You don't have to connect anything to Source Mesh Component

In the node details, just tick Use Parent Component (or whatever it says)

[jaunty aspen]

But the mesh to copy lives on another character

[ashen junco]

So you're not using this for modular character?

[jaunty aspen]

No, I want to copy the pose of a character to other character

[ashen junco]

Oh wait, something's fishy here.

Gotta repro that later for sanity check

[rustic plume]

Sounds like you kind of answered it though. By handling these related animations in one montage all of the logic is in one place and not by bp. You also have vfx and sfx that can be added to the montage for each shell reloaded, as well as other notifies that are specific to the anim (guessable by code). It is allowing you all the customizable effects in one place and not by coding it.

[normal bramble]

I'm having difficulty retargeting an animation. both skeletons have been mapped and their reference poses match. the arms are coming out completely wrong on the retargeted animation though. what would be going wrong?

[ashen junco]

How "wrong" is it?

[tidal sparrow]

What was your fix?

[tidal sparrow]

Did you find a fix?

[normal bramble]

several ninety degrees wrong

I've found the per-bone retargeting options and nothing is really improving it

[ashen junco]

Screenshot.

[normal bramble]

second one is the right one

maybe it's the spine that's wrong. the retargeted animation only has one spine bone

nah it's not the spine. it definitely begins with the clavicle

[rustic plume]

this is a rig you made and you are retargetting to the ue4 rig?

[normal bramble]

I did not make this awful rig 😄

it's from some mocap outfit

[rustic plume]

ah, but it is a custom rig

[normal bramble]

I'm retargeting the animations they made to the UE4 rig yeah

yes

[rustic plume]

is it possible that the joint orients arent the same?

[normal bramble]

correct, they are not the same

I tried aligning them in the reference pose, didn't really improve it

[rustic plume]

then i think that's why the arm is like that

[normal bramble]

I would have thought the animation relative mode would fix it, but that stretches the spine through the roof

[rustic plume]

if ue4 rig clavicle points down X (or which ever it is) but this rig points down z (or something) then it's going to be bent no?

[normal bramble]

it's not something I can alter

[rustic plume]

im not sure then

[normal bramble]

this is a tough one

[rustic plume]

ive not had to correct orientation before in engine

i get what you mean about anim relative mode though, that would've been my suggestion

it's not possible to set just clavicles to anim relative?

[slim wyvern]

did you change the settings in the skeleton tree?
root and pelvis to animation and the rest to skeleton?

[normal bramble]

Yeah

[ashen junco]

Okay, I thought it was bone axis issues with rigs made in Blender.

[normal bramble]

It most likely is

Oh well. Will try again in the morning

[bronze osprey]

you need to R mouse the skeleton you want to retarget too, not the skel mesh

and select > create rig

now use that rig in skel retarget manager instead of default humanoid retarget

[slender sierra]

I have a layered blend on my character to allow for mixing lower and upper body animations. However, some animations break because of this. Is it possible to add an exception to this blend for some animations?

[normal bramble]

We wouldn't even be having this conversation if I hadn't done that

[bronze osprey]

show ur retarget manager

fullscreen with mapped retarget rig selected

[clever acorn]

i ask again. Is there a way to create constant motion (like a sinewave) in sequencer? thank you.

[bronze osprey]

yea in curve editor

you just make a looping curve

[ashen junco]

Just make the wave in Sequencer, easy peasy lemon squeezy.

[clever acorn]

looping? that sounds like it might be what i need. But how? can you point me to a tutorial or unreal reference or anything? i haven't found it

[clever acorn]

But i need it to be constant, without loop i'd need to copypaste a billion nodes. And if i suddenly decide that i want a different shaped wave, i gotta edit all of those instead of simply changing a value in my sinewave function

[ashen junco]

Just have the play sequence node to loop.

Not sure what's your intention/context with that setup so much so that "billion nodes" is apparently mandatory.

[bronze osprey]

you can add a sequence inside ur sequence and have that loop

so u can have 1 sequence of lights bounce trough the level and 1 for ur characters

[ashen junco]

If the context is animating in code, one can simply use timeline nodes.

[clever acorn]

a billion nodes is not mandatory.
What i need is to simply apply constant movement to a certain animation inside the sequencer. I undertand how i could have the same animation clip looping in the "master" sequence, but inside those animation clips, in the part with all the keyframes. There's where i want the looping moving function

[bronze osprey]

hell u can make a loopin sequence to move platforms in a jumper

[clever acorn]

that could be of use, yes. Any information on how to do that?

i started using unreal two weeks ago only. I swear im not this dumb on unity

[ashen junco]

Explain in-game context on what you're trying to achieve.

[clever acorn]

i have a dinosaur walking moved by a camera rig and i wanna apply a rocking up-and-down sway, in fixed intervals. I have a take inside a main animation sequence/shot. I'd need the looping thing to happen inside that one animation, on the keyframes with blue tracks kinda part of the.. interface. You know what i mean right? Ideally i'd add an aditive track with that constant sinewave motion and forget about it. But i haven't found out how.

the sway is not for the camera but the dino, btw

[ashen junco]

I cannot make sense on how you're supposed to base the movement on the camera (the common way would be the other way around) but in the case of camera sway, you can use Camera Shake instead.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/Sequencer/Cameras/CameraShakes/

[bronze osprey]

you can add an additive section

[clever acorn]

im trying to move the dino, forget about the camera so we don't make things more complicated to understand.
The camera rig is used to move the dinosaur along a spline, and that's not my call to make in case it's wrong to do that or whatever, i'm just supposed to animate the dinosaur.

[clever acorn]

yeah i did, but how do i make that section loop?

that's my whole point. I want an additive section that loops for whatever time i want. But with keyframes (and no way to apply constant functions) i'd have to do that by hand for the whole duration of the clip

[bronze osprey]

ok here it comes 😛

you make a new level sequence

you add the actor u want to normal seq + sine

remove all tracks

make a new additive section

do the sine

now open the original sequece, add track

new subsequence

add the additive sequence u just made

drag it as long as u like to make it loop

[clever acorn]

hmm so on the part with the red bars with the animation clips. There's where i should stack the sine animation, which i can drag to make loop, and the normal animation?

[slender sierra]

Is it possible to turn off blend in certain situations?

[bronze osprey]

@clever acorn you have to Rmouse the subscene >properties>can loop checked

[ashen junco]

As in state machine transitions?

[slender sierra]

I'm using layered blend to combine lower and upper body animations, but this breaks some animations. So I'm trying to disable blending for those specific animations.

[ashen junco]

There is Blend Pose by Bool node, if that's what you're looking for.

[slender sierra]

I tried that, but it seems to blend when using it as I get the correct result when linking the pose directly to output pose, but not when linking it through Blend by bool.

[clever acorn]

ill look that up! hopefully i can achieve what i wanted without hardcoding the sway myself. That'd be cumbersome. I'll let you know how it goes

[pliant fjord]

hey everyone, I'm on 4.26 and for some reason I don't see the floor in the animation player

I didn't pay much attention to it but now I found out that some animations have a broken root (they make the character go too low and so the feet end up clipping in the floor)

I need to have a proper floor in the animation player to not have to place every animation in the level to test it

[slender sierra]

Can't for the life of me figure out how to select which animation poses to blend. Its either blend or no blend.

[lethal violet]

I'm trying to rotate a single bone based on mouse input, how can I do this in UE5? It seems like some nodes from UE4 have been removed.

[slender sierra]

Tried using a new setup with Blend Poses by bool. When triggering True Pose it acts as though False Pose is still in effect.
edit Found out that what was wrong. An uncompleted exec node caused the attacking? variable to not set.

[misty heron]

what's the most efficient way for making animations for an fps game?
do people really animate a bunch of animations and poses for every gun
and every reload?
then the gun gets parented to the hands in engine?

I was thinking another way might be to animate the guns only
then have the hands follow the guns using ik

[gloomy holly]

you can grab a pack of animations for the character

and then usually yea, the gun model is attached to the player model which is playing animations

there are some really good youtube videos that will walk you through a whole template in less than an hour

[ashen junco]

I personally make animations for both the hand and the gun, simultaneously animated with constraints in Blender.

[misty heron]

do you have any links to such videos?

[misty heron]

do you import them together? like
running pistol
reload pistol
and both if those animations contain both the arms and pistol combined

[ashen junco]

Yes, I import them together. Usually with FPS it's arm only, so I don't have much concern with scaling stuff.

[gloomy holly]

this guy has a pretty complete set of tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/c/CodeLikeMe/playlists

search youtube for anything like 'ue4 tps tutorial' or 'ue4 animation blending' etc

and just pick someone whose voice you like, haha

[ashen junco]

CodeLikeMe vids have terrible pacing tho

[gloomy holly]

i don't disagree.. but they have covered so much material, it's a good starting place i think

[misty heron]

ok thanks guys!
I've been trying to find more efficient methods
because I really do not want to make animations for like every action
I was hoping ik rigs would kinda caryy

[gloomy holly]

yeah you end up making "blendspaces"

you could look at mixamo.com too, it's a very good set of starter animations

[north stratus]

any tips for foliage issues on a massive forest animation - client has requested a 7 mile radius for a potential development in a wooded area...need to fly up to 1300 feet to capture main massing (think wind turbine from a drone type shot) - using these nordic firs pack

tried William F's foliage tips but I think the sheer amount of trees we have is too much for the game override LOD settings...

getting less then ideal shadows and sometimes the textures bug out and we are left with just a bunch of tree stumps with no leaves

[ashen junco]

Sounds more like #graphics issue to me more than actually something to do with animation assets.

[north stratus]

how so? Im running on a 3090 jacked up machine btw probably should have mentioned lol

I'm wondering if there is maybe a way to camera cull just what the camera sees in the animation so I dont have to load everything in but all the camera cull settings I have found dont seem to quite cut it

[digital gorge]

how can i setup this? So i want to have 2 type of gameplay. I want to put 2 bind for different things, For exemple a left mouse button to jump but when inside a trigger box i want it to attack. How do i do it?

[rustic plume]

Wrong channel, this doesnt have to do with animation

[jaunty aspen]

if I have two characters that have a skeletal mesh component in common, how do I copy the pose from one character to the other?

I tried "Copy pose from mesh" node in an animation blueprint but that didn't work

[jaunty aspen]

Apparently there is "Save Pose Snapshot" but I don't know how to get the snapshot from one character anim bp to another

[jaunty aspen]

this isn't working

[normal bramble]

It's nothing as basic as that
the axes on the source are just wrong

it looks like it's JUST the clavicle breaking. no retarget option will fix those two bones, so I'll get the animators to fix it

ok yeah this is what's wrong with the source

near zero-length bone as the source is not going to map well

because when it does additive, or additive scaled, it blows the animation right out, which is why with those two the result is stretched into the sky

and with the wrong axes it can't do skeleton retarget mode

[rustic plume]

i kinda wondered, as a bandaid over the real problem, if there would be a way to override with code the rotations of the problem joints or seomthing

[misty dagger]

Currently I handle all the functions related to animation on my character blueprint. I'd like to switch these over to the animation blueprint but I'm missing some pretty major parts. For example I have animation functions that I need to trigger without anim notifies. How can I reach the animation blueprint's event graph from my character? The most I can get is the class of blueprint

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/edit-a-animation-blueprint-variable-in-level-blueprint/442394

the links here are dead

ohhhhhhhhhhh it's anim instance not anim blueprint

I... I'd already done this

[rustic plume]

lol

[misty dagger]

thanks

[ashen junco]

Because it is not related to skeletal animations whasoever and has more to do with #graphics

[north stratus]

Do you know if any creative workarounds or fixes?

[ashen junco]

Ask it in #graphics, there would be people more knowledgeable about it. 🙂

[north stratus]

I see what your saying - got it

[fading apex]

Anyone know if having 50 meshes with each individual skin bind is more expensive than a combined mesh with 1 skin bind when exported from Maya as an FBX into Unreal?

[jaunty aspen]

still need help with this

[oak zodiac]

Anyone know how to find where an anim notify is coming from?

[rustic plume]

as in the events that you setup to fire in montages?

[oak zodiac]

Yeah, or animation sequences

[rustic plume]

right right

so in terms of where they come from... did you make one and now are trying to call it or...?

[oak zodiac]

I'm using ALS, it comes with a ton of animations and some notifies built-in. I can watch the notify event get triggered in the anim BP, but I can't find a single animation that uses this notify

[rustic plume]

oh i see, you want to know which anim asset is using that notify

[oak zodiac]

Right

I'd really love a list of anim assets that use that notify, but I'd settle for knowing which specific anim asset is using that notify at the time I can see it happening

[rustic plume]

in the search of your content browser, use AnimNotifyList=

then add the name of the notify you want to look for

[oak zodiac]

That seems promising, but these stupid notifies have weird names ("->N Stop R" for example), trying to see if I can wrangle the query syntax to accept it...

[rustic plume]

yeah the > might confuse it

partial name may work i dunno

[oak zodiac]

Hm, tried it with a simpler notify that's getting triggered ("Pivot"), doesn't seem to work

I'm not crazy right? This event on the anim BP's event graph is generated from a skeleton notify triggered by some animation?

It's especially weird because this is the only notify listed for that skeleton...

[rustic plume]

you search in your content browser and make sure you have the right folder (or content folder) selected so it can show up. Its not a search in the bp, its in your content browser @oak zodiac

AnimNotifyList=Pivot

[oak zodiac]

Yep, I can get the search to work for that BMAnimNotifyCameraShake notify, but not for Pivot

(partial notify name does seem to work btw)

[rustic plume]

dunno, havent used ALS. I hears it a mess though 😄 maybe that notify is an extended class or something. I tried again and partial names work for me 🙂 but im noticing that its only montages showing up - then again, i dont put notifies in anims, just montages

[oak zodiac]

After staring at ALS for a while it's starting to make sense, but this issue of tracking down notifies isn't really ALS-specific

[rustic plume]

yes, i mentioned that

[oak zodiac]

I'll look into your theory about some kind of extended class

[rustic plume]

AnimNotifyList= may not return custom classes

its a hunch

or maybe they are anims and AnimNotifyList= only returns montages

[rustic plume]

oh wait, i guess not because in that bottom picture has a green bar instead of blue montage bar

[oak zodiac]

Right that's a sequence

Aha, apparently these are "custom blueprint events" raised by states in anim BP state machines

[rustic plume]

good, because i had an ugly solution 😄

[oak zodiac]

Thanks for the help! That AnimNotifyList query will be helpful in other ways

[cursive hollow]

When picking animations is there such a thing as to to many ? Does Unreal have a cut off for to many ?

[ashen junco]

#cinematics

[ashen junco]

The only thing that have saying on being "too many" running simultaneously is your own CPU.

[iron merlin]

can someone please tell me why my robot looks so weird when i apply full body ik on it?

[lone wadi]

what is the best way to adjust hand placement on weapons right now? IK or Control Rig? Please advise any guide

[ashen junco]

Depends on which one you're most comfortable with, because with the former, you're referring to animBP, and both it and CR have IK functions.

[lone wadi]

are there any examples of implementing the LeftHandIK system through CR?

[shadow salmon]

Hey guys I just joined this server, I was wondering what my best approach for having an animation play for an enemy spawner. (Like crawling in from a window or jumping down from the roof). Im kinda new to UE4 with animations . My initial thought was to play anim montage at spawn location then turn on the animBP but its not doing what I want Any suggestions? or links to a tutorial?

[ashen junco]

You don't need to "turn on the anim BP", you just need to play the montage with root motion on the slot that affects the entire body, and call it a day.

[shadow salmon]

ty! I will give this a try

[ashen junco]

If you're on UE5 (or planning to migrate to UE5 after it's stable), you can also preparing to use Motion Warping to shift the root motion anim at given point in the animation.

[shadow salmon]

My enemy AI is zombies, I just want them to play certain animations on overlap of certain areas and on intro . Im guessing its the same idea

[ashen junco]

Yeah, it's the same idea.

[shadow salmon]

ty for your time!!

[mighty nebula]

I'm using Chaos vehicle. Anyone knows how to make wheels to rotate when they are not touching the ground?

[lean jasper]

i have a problem. when i walk backwards it plays the walk sideways anim how do you fix it?

all other directions work perfectly

[ashen junco]

#legacy-physics

[mighty nebula]

yeah sure, they are gonna tell me #animation cause they are rotating by anim blueprint

[lean jasper]

anyone know?

[full merlin]

does anyone know how to set the camera during the animation?
I'm doing a first-person game and during the roll I want to attach the camera to my head

[iron merlin]

maybe add a socket to the head bone and set the socket of the camera to the head

[full merlin]

do you mean it?

[torpid smelt]

Any quick way to set an animation to not move around in the area, and remain on 0? The attack animation has character stepping forward and doing a spin attack. Enabling RootMotion kills the rotation and looks awkward

Thanks that worked but is all weird, yeah I'll just re-export

[gloomy holly]

yeah, you maybe want to make a second camera there, and switch between cameras during the roll

or you could move the camera from one socket to another during the roll

[full merlin]

how can i do this?

[wide idol]

I bought an animation asset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH2pYY680rY)
and I would like to use it with my a different model (https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/c456f4551dc9416cb9370707450f980e).
When I change the mesh in my character blueprint, it seems that I cannot use the animations from the asset package. I lack some fundamentals in UE4 because I switch to this software since a month ago. Where I can read more about this / watch tutorial?

[edgy hearth]

using control rig to make a motorcycle and rider - should I import the motorcycle and rider seperately and build control rigs for each of them, then somehow attach them together in the editor/sequencer? or import both objects together, and build one control rig that controls everything?

[rustic plume]

Theres retargetting skeletons which i suggest to try first. Or else retargetting animations which is a bit messier.

[gloomy holly]

it's probably easier to keep the motorcycle and rider assets separate to keep materials separate

and then it's pretty easy to attach two skeletal meshes together via sockets in a character, but there may be even easier routes

[wide idol]

Thanks, I'll take a look!

[edgy hearth]

Thanks - so I would be able to attach the controls (say the hands of the rider) to the controls (the handlbar/front fork) of the other control rig via sockets?

[gloomy holly]

there's more than one approach, i think it will matter a little how your animations are set up also

if you're just doing one animation, like a video, actually maybe one skeleton is easiest, why bother joining them in ue4

but if you're trying to do more dynamic movement, you can wire things up however

you would have to break your animations into two skeletons though, one for the bike and one for the rider

[wide idol]

I'm not sure this is what I'm looking for. The animations are rigged for the Epic Mannequin skeleton, and the model I downloaded are rigged the same way.
Edit: Nevermind, I missed the last step.

[edgy hearth]

Yeah, I'll probably end up trying things both ways. The biggest thing Im nervous for is IK. I want to be able to have the riders hands locked to the handle bars, and keyframe the movement of his shoulders (like when hes leaning into a turn) and have the arms react realistically. I feel like that'll be a weird setup, because the pelvis will be locked to the seat base, and the seats locked to the handlebars, but the shoulders will need to be able to move freely

[gloomy holly]

i think you'll be good, that's just like blending locomotion animations

i would definitely animate the humanoid separately from the bike

make like a socket on the bike skeleton, and one on the rider skeleton, and you can attach them in ue4

you might not even need a skeleton for the bike tbh, it could just be an origin offset from a socket on the rider skeleton

[edgy hearth]

Super helpful, thanks - last question. I can put sockets on bones right?

[gloomy holly]

yes 🙂

[vivid verge]

Does using the graph editor in sequencer (UE4.27) with control rig crash for everyone?

[ashen junco]

Nope.

Least not immediately, but sometimes it cause D3D device crashes.

[hexed sonnet]

Hey, so I'm trying to import an alembic file with animation into unreal 4.25.1, and for some reason there are a few pieces of it that are just totally off. Most of the model is fine and the animation is intact but these little skulls are in the wrong place.

this is what it looks like in unreal

this is what it looks like in 3dsmax, these buttons are missing when i import it

well actually they arent missing, they're stuck under the base for some reason

does anyone have any idea why this is happening and how to fix it? Importing the alembic into max or blender works fine, its just unreal that has an issue with it.

also if this is the wrong chat to ask in lemme know i dont come in here often

[wary valve]

i presume its a skeletal mesh?

[hexed sonnet]

yes

[wary valve]

did you assign bones to the skulls

[hexed sonnet]

they're skinned to the torso bones

they dont have their own indivisual bones

[languid isle]

Hi, I have the problem here

Any idea why any additive keys added in an animation doesn't work in 1d blend space? (Unreal engine 5)

[wary valve]

a temporary fix would be to assign bones to them, and move those 2 skulls up above

remove them from any other bones

thats just temporary though

try exporting as different fbx version

might work

if u dont want to to the bones

[hexed sonnet]

can't do fbx, the model has a bunch of stuff it doesnt support

and then entire thing breaks if i try

[wary valve]

whatever youre using

if theres different version

try those

like fbx has multiple versions idk how they differ im not that experienced

but its helped me in the past

[hexed sonnet]

tried the different version of alembic and it didn't work

tried exporting from blender as an alembic and it didn't work, there it had a different problem, the pivot was in a different place and the skulls were near it, same with the last model so it looks like they're just being pulled to the origin and rotate for some reason

i tried converting them into editable polies instead of editable meshes since the necklace is an editable poly and it works fine, but that didnt work either

[ashen junco]

Why is it have to be alembic?

[hexed sonnet]

because i have deformations on the geometry that fbx doesnt support

[ashen junco]

What deformation?

[hexed sonnet]

and when i try and export as an fbx it gives me a bunch of errors and flips the model in weird ways

[hexed sonnet]

like i rigged it with a skin modefier and then went back and added an edit poly so i could adjust some things that the skinning couldnt fix

i only need it for an idle pose so it didn't need to be a super robust rig

[ashen junco]

Sounds like you're overcomplicating things here, and sounds like something that's definitely doable with bones and generic FBX asset.

[hexed sonnet]

the thing that's weird is that it imports fine into blender, its just unreal that it doesn't like

[hexed sonnet]

yes but that would require basically re-retoping, rigging, skinning, and animating the entire thing, and I dont want to do that

[ashen junco]

I don't use 3ds Max, so I'm not pretending I know anything specific to that DCC tool

Are you trying to have preserve volume on folding areas?

I don't know how fricking retopo even put into consideration out of nowhere.

[hexed sonnet]

i think so, idk the terminology basically when the fingers curled they were too square and i wanted to round them out

but that wasnt the only issue fbx had with it, it said there were nonorthagonal meshes and idk how to fix that

[ashen junco]

Can you show me the issue in question?

[hexed sonnet]

i want the fingers to look like this

but they look like this with just the skin

no combination of weights works

and again there are other problems preventing me from using fbx

there's no logical reason the alembic shouldn't work im just trying to figure out why those very specific peices are broken

[ashen junco]

Aha.
You can remedy this with just one bone on each folding point, weight parts of the fold to it, and procedurally rotate it in animBP.

No need for retopoing bullshit, just the matter of another bone helping to preserve the volume.

[hexed sonnet]

i could, but that doesn't let me use fbx still

[ashen junco]

You could, and still use FBX

I don't know how wrong your setup in BP is, but at least in Blender it's the matter of adding another bone and weight the folding part, rinse and repeat.

[hexed sonnet]

what's bp?

[ashen junco]

Sorry, I meant 3ds Max

[silver flare]

so i have a character, and what i wanna do is make it squash and stretch with my animations from mixamo that i gave a root bone to, what is the simplest way of doing so without having to redo all the animations myself?

[rustic plume]

maybe some blended physics?

[silver flare]

wouldn't that just make the character ragdoll on part of the body?

https://tenor.com/view/ball-bounce-gif-11388484

what i want is something like that, but in 3d

[rustic plume]

well you dont have to do full strength

that's kinda what animators do though... 12 principles and all that, so i mean making your own is always best 😄

[silver flare]

true, thanks for the help!

[rustic plume]

might give you some ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tDjbFXeOo

[wide idol]

I'm developing a Third Person game using an animation package that comes with idle, start walking, walking animations and stop walking. It actually comes with more animations like turn to right / left. The basic movement likes quite similar to NieR: Automata / Replicant.
Is there any place where I can read more about connecting this animations? I think blendspace isn't what I'm looking for.

[outer maple]

Is it possible to set children skeletal meshes to inherit the animation BP of their parent?

Both on the same skeleton, would like the pants to inherit the anim BP of whatever the top mesh has

[quick mica]

Hey everyone, I've encountered an issue with AnimationSequenceComponent. Triggers (events) that you put on Sequencer timeline in some cases (especially when time dialation is faster than 1x) are not working. It seems like Sequencer is skipping frame so the trigger key on given frame is not fired.

[velvet dagger]

has anybody used Mixamo animations for Unreal recently?
Seems that the Mixamo platform has been updated and no longer exports with mesh, so they can't be downloaded/used in Unreal anymore ?

[ashen junco]

Yes, it's possible. Either:

1. Use Set Master Pose Component on the children skelmesh with the parent skelmesh as the master pose. This has cheaper runtime cost, but at the expense of overriding any kind of anim instance the children skelmesh have. Alternatively,

2. Give the children skelmesh an anim BP with just Copy Pose From Mesh node in the anim graph (not event graph), and in the node details, have it use the parent skelmesh anim instance. This doesn't override anim instance, so children skelmesh can have anim dynamics or any other anim BP post processes, but at the expense of slightly more expensive runtime cost.

[ashen junco]

FWIW Adobe already abandoned Mixamo and Fuse, so it's not worth the effort to use it with Unreal. Not to mention Mixamo rig itself is unorthodox to UE4 biped rig standards.

Adobe always had weird relationship with 3D tools.

[velvet dagger]

Unfortunately the character system I am working with uses Mixamo rig. It actually seems that some animations do export with mesh while others dont.
But thats good to know thanks!

[somber pagoda]

Is there a way to handle 100+ instances of an animated character to add some offset to the animation loop or disable their loop entirely? I have a character that's in an animation loop, duplicated about 1,000 times as an audience. The room is dark and you only see the back of their head so I'm not too concerned about them all being the same. Their animation loop is about 5-6 seconds long though and they are all moving in sync. Is there a way to stagger or modify their timing/speed easily?

[woeful aspen]

Is there anyway to get an event on end play from a sequencer? Even if its on a loop?
Want to avoid adding events to the sequencer to trigger, just want to know when the sequencer is finished

well nvm
I guess a timer event is only solution if you have a sequencer with a loop, no events for restart
Magic nodes if you need to do something similar

[iron merlin]

How to add notifs like dust particles at the feet on procedural animations?

[misty dagger]

What's an easy fix if i made some adjustments to my sequence before 0 on the timeline?

There toomany keyframes and layers for me to select and move over.
The image sequence numbers them from -300 up to 0 and then 1,2,3...
How can i set my 0 time to be numbered on export?

[lean stone]

hello! what space is the offset transform Rig Graph node working in?

[gloomy holly]

i think just set up an event or some kind of hook on the animation and then emit a particle at the bone?

[rustic plume]

im guessing these procedural animations do not have montage/animation assets associated?

[dawn jackal]

Autodesk have now taken over the Maya part of the Unreal Live Link and updated the plugin -
Exploring the 'new' Unreal Maya Live Link plugin from Autodesk
Part 1 - https://youtu.be/5iTbnk5Zmak
Part 2 - https://youtu.be/gPnGbtAWAl0

[outer trellis]

hey guys, I have a sword model, an idle animation to it, and a swing animation(only sword no arm or anything), so if I would like to make the swing animation occur How would you suggest it happening? Animation Blueprint?

[viral ridge]

hi I have a problem I need to disable root motion in some animations and enable it in others I try to use AnimNotifyState_DisableRootMotion but I don't find how works this

[outer trellis]

In the animation screen, under the "Asset Details" there is a root motion tab that from there you can disable it

it that's what you meant

[viral ridge]

sorry its my mistake i am refer to Set Root Motion Mode

but during my search i see the AnimNotifyState_DisableRootMotion but no have idea how works

[outer maple]

perfect, thanks very much 👍

[fickle dust]

guys I have an issue

I want to simulate hair movement for this character

I made a custom skeleton for it

but in the physical asset I only have like, 10% of my original bones and the simulation is broken

how can I add ALL my bones to the physical assets? or maybe I'm using the wrong tool and I should go for cloth simulation for it?

[outer trellis]

Hmm, I am maybe wrong and so Wrong but did you try create a custom AnimNotify and from there create an event to disable rootMotion instead of using preset ones?

[viral ridge]

yea just now i'm doing that, but don't know how use the default notify state 🤔

Now I only have the existential doubt about what utility can be given to the one that is by default😅

[ashen junco]

You have to manually add the physics bodies for each bones, if you use physics assets.
Alternatively you can use fake physics with anim dynamics (or Kawaii Physics for easier setup), which can propagate across bones.

[halcyon glacier]

Upon importing my animations into unreal from blender, they are incredibly small.. but the mesh itself is fine

Any fixes?

[ashen junco]

What's the unit scale in your Blender scene?

[halcyon glacier]

Metric, meters

Saw someone said in here to set the export scale to 100, that 100% didn't work lmao

[ashen junco]

I'm talking about this

[halcyon glacier]

There's mine

[ashen junco]

That's the problem.
Reduce it down to 0.01, and scale everything up 100x to compensate for the new unit scaling.

[halcyon glacier]

Ahh, let me try that..

Mesh is fine now, anims are not

[ashen junco]

Well, you're kinda SOL then.
The anims had to be done after you compensate for it, not the other way around

[halcyon glacier]

Wdym?

[fickle dust]

is kawaii physics a plugin?

[ashen junco]

Yes, it's on GitHub.

[ashen junco]

It's exactly what it says on the tin.

Scale everything up, then make the animation.

[halcyon glacier]

Hmmm? But why? None of my animations are broken or anything

If it has to do with the scale of bones, keyframes, ect, i can probably fix it

[ashen junco]

Chances are you're keying Location and Rotation, so when you scale everything up, the Location keyframes didn't compensating for it.

[halcyon glacier]

My root bone has no keyframes though

Also inside unreal everything is working accordingly.. besides.. the scale

[ashen junco]

I'd say it doesn't matter if it's root bone or not.

Also don't forget to apply the scales in Blender 😉

[halcyon glacier]

Hmm.. didn't seem to work

[hexed sonnet]

@ashen junco @wary valve idk if you guys care but i figure out my issue, if I import the alembic into 3dsmax and then reset Xform on THAT then it doesnt mess with the animation and it keeps the skull buttons in the right place

[blissful kite]

how do you animate the eyes with control rig

[iron merlin]

no, I just sphere trace and use the location for my control rig

[rustic plume]

Then i dont think there's a point to use anim notifies. They work well for montages which is the benefit of montages. Youd be figuring out each footstep based on how your procedural animation is set up. I dont know how you setup your proc anim, but id guess itd be able to return that kind of info since a footstep may occur on flat ground, slopes, or steps.

[fickle dust]

I'm making a look at using U and V offset on the texture of the eyes instead of rotating the eye mesh

[fickle dust]

I tried it ! it works like magic ! Thanks à lot !! I just wonder how does this impact game performances .. but I guess I will figure out.

[ashen junco]

Yes, it's possible, by adding two "curves" in the skeleton with the same name as scalar parameters that control the texture offset.

You can then drive them using Control Rig.

That is what I did when making Idolmaster Million Live machinimas, as the eyes are not rotated by bone, but shifting the textures instead.

[iron merlin]

I connected a vector as a variable in the anim blueprint to control rig and set that to the character's leg's bone's control's position but the bone doesn't follow it

[azure onyx]

hey guys how you doing i have a problem and i am sure where to post it but i really need help
i used blender for the skeleton
after i finished and import it to the engine this is how its look

i doing retarget proccess

[iron merlin]

WHAT? why are they different?

I'm so confused

[tender flicker]

hey, does anyone know how to find which animations are using a specific curve?

[outer trellis]

Hey guys, I have a sword actor which has its own animations blueprint, when ever I click left mouse button the animation blueprint checking is the player is in "is attacking state" then transfers from the idle animation of the sword to the swing animation of the sword. But there is an when I spam mouse button the animation doesn't fully play it sometimes moves like one cm instead of playing the full animation. In order for it to play the full animation I have to wait. in this video every time I will click left mouse button an "Attack!" text will appear on top left of the screen so you can tell when I am attacking. Also there are screenshots of the blueprints

[iron merlin]

what's the question

[ashen junco]

What's your retarget settings?

[outer trellis]

"when I spam mouse button the animation doesn't fully play", how can I make it so i can spam the attack and the animation will play along with it

[iron merlin]

why not instead of a 0.2 second delay, you set the is attacking to false when the animation montage stops

[azure onyx]

i did a skeleton from blender using rigify , change the manican skeleton to humanoid and then in my custom character i choose humanoid too and in the manican aninmation in the targetting windows i didn't change anything and press change what bring me new animations for the character what you see in the picture

sorry if i did not explain myself very well my english poor and its hard for me to explain

the same settings i used

[outer trellis]

will try

[stone creek]

How to wait for montage to finish? I want to use inside a function?

[copper sigil]

The scale here initially looks off, but in fact the camera is different. Is there a way to adjust this, just to remove the anxiety I get every time I see it 😄

[bronze osprey]

@azure onyx often you dont want to use the default humanoid for retarget but a custom retarget rig

[split dove]

Hey Guys, I just have a small question if someone can direct me in a good direction to look for answers.

Im using the metahuman to animate with in sequencer. I dont own maya so cant use a software like that. So i continued using the control rig to animate. I want to ask is there any way that i can call or attach a object to a certain bone During a period of time and then remove it later on. (Without blueprints) Or if anyone knows how to animate with metahumans in blender and then export the anims out.

[ashen junco]

It's just like how you attach an actor to another actor, except Sequencer has a dedicated Attach track for it.

[split dove]

awesome thanks so much! Ill try this out :D So i would basically use that method and just select a bone to attach it too?

[ashen junco]

Yes.

[split dove]

Your amazing thank you

[misty dagger]

Hello. can someone help me with a animation problem in privat chat ? I can't solve the problem for days, i must send someone my project.

[ashen junco]

Why not just put the exhibit of the issue here?

Directly and clearly specify what's the issue, along with the video (or image) capture of the issue in action

[misty dagger]

The Textures and Models are not from me...
If I show that, I'll get a ban on the Discord right?

[ashen junco]

Only if it's NSFW, yes.

[misty dagger]

Ahh ok on a another discord get a ban for textures and models are not from me

[ashen junco]

Just make sure it's not NSFW.

[misty dagger]

wait a second make a video

https://youtu.be/fChATvccNbM The Problem is my Enemy walk and idle but he play not my attack animation. If you need anything else let me know, I just want the problem solved

[errant forge]

Hi!
BLENDER QUESTION: Is there a way to use EMPTY axis component in blender as origin for different separate meshes on export in UE4

[dry grail]

Is there a way for me to "scrub" through the playback of an anim montage on a skeletal mesh during gameplay?
I'm trying to play an animation where I can stop the animation at any point and then play it in reverse from the point where it was stopped.

[digital gorge]

hello, i need help. how do i set up a animation transition. for exemple i pressed left mouse button to start dancing and when i realease it will back to idle. But i want to only back to idle after the animation played (not while is playing) because i pressed left mouse to shoot for exemple and if i realeased mid animation it will just back to idle without completing the animation. Anyone know how to fix?

[misty dagger]

are you using a animation blueprint, or just playing through the normal blueprit?

blueprint*

[digital gorge]

animation blueprint

im sending what i made 1sev

sec

[misty dagger]

ok

[digital gorge]

this was what i set up

[misty dagger]

set up an variable (for example "isDancing") and in the transition back to idle, specify that the variable must be false to go back to the idle animation

[digital gorge]

ok i will try

[misty dagger]

I’m not exactly sure where to post this but I’m having an issue where I have an animated sequence but the dynamic shadows don’t update as the objects move. The objects will cast shadows but the shadow persists after the object moves away.

It’s a stack of discs that explodes so it looks like this:

Then it explodes:

Then here you see the persistent shadows:

Another thing, if I move the camera away from the objects then bring the camera back, all the shadows reset.

[full merlin]

does anyone know how to set the camera during the animation?
I'm doing a first-person game and during the roll I want to attach the camera to my head

[ashen junco]

Why not attacking with a montage?

[zenith pewter]

hey I'm new to animating in unreal, I was just wondering if I wanted to create a jump scare should I do that in blender?

[ashen junco]

Can be done in any DCC tool.

Jump scare is entirely visual concept, the code is not distinguished from any other events like attack or game over.

As far as the game code is concerned, it could be as simple as playing animation when enemy attacks. Jumpscares working or not depends more on how it visually (and in extent audibly) executed, as opposed to the technical side of things.

[zenith pewter]

I see