animation

[ashen junco]

Yup

[radiant matrix]

nice

you got any tutorials for me, i am ready to learn!

[little wyvern]

Could you specify a little what you mean exactly? Like, currently my mesh is kinematic, and the parts that incorporate physics are set in the animation blueprint. My instinct right now is to introduce corrective angular force to the mesh in accordance with the rotation, but it sounds like a massive bandaid. Do you have a better idea? I'm a little dim so please be patient lol

[ashen junco]

Aside from the one in the pinned message, there is also Unreal Engine JP presentation on Control Rig, which I haven't documented it yet.

[nimble sonnet]

i dont know the particulars of your setup, all i can say is that if your actor is using physics, and you want to do realtime changes to rotation/position, its often better to use physics to make those changes

[radiant matrix]

ah

i am looking for tutorials that are more up to date

its fine tho

thanks again

[ashen junco]

I don't think there's much difference from 4.26+ apart from some stability fix, at least from messing around with 5.0 Preview 1

A striking difference I see is the Full Body IK node and perhaps functioning in CR graph, but that's all I can recall.

[little wyvern]

Yes, I guess what's confusing me is how I can use physics to rotate a kinematic component. I could make it a physics component and i suppose I could snap it in place to the capsule post-physics and then rotate it using angular force but that just sounds overly complex and therefore prone to cause a massive amount of problems.

This also seems like a very common problem to have, so I was hoping there was a proper way to do it

[radiant matrix]

@ashen juncoya

i want to use cr for a few cool things

so it would be smart to properly learn it

since it can be used

in sequencer too

[warped sapphire]

so how do i make 2 actors play a synced montage? for example, one actor getting bandaged and the other doing the bandaging

[foggy nymph]

I've had this problem for a few days, (pictures linked here: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/no-ik-solver-seems-to-work-any-ideas-for-this-setup/573642) I cant figure out how to get the IK to move in different directions (like a two pole setup (idk if that is a thing , if it is I cant find it)) I've made a janky Direct-Kin function, but I cant use it in game. Any Ideas?

[crystal imp]

https://youtu.be/FrIYs1k34T8

[austere needle]

is it better for character models to be one model or can they have separate pieces on them?

[crystal imp]

It depends on you and your needs. MetaHuman is made up of different pieces and people normally don't bake their clothes to the character mesh either.

[austere needle]

good to know, thank you!

[outer silo]

Heya all - hope everyone is doing well. I have some questions regarding animations (mostly since I am not overly versed in them), is it worth it (resource, visually, game-feel responsiveness) to include animations of the start and stop for things like walks/runs, or better to use things like blend spaces to transition motionless to walk to runs.

Which leads me to a further follow up question, what is a clean/good way to incorporate movement into your game in a manner that feels good but is clean?

I've seen people use all sorts of different movement methods (from 1D and larger blend spaces) but does it make sense to incorporate as many movement animations into a blendspace as possible, or should I be taking a less is more approach, or something in between that - something like having a walk and run animation in each cardinal direction and 45 degree angle of a blendspace, and calling it a day.

[ashen junco]

1. You could go technical with it and mix some procedural animation magic for the transition animations.

2. Depends on how you want to manage them. Personally I prefer less is more approach, utilising more technical aspect of animations. You can't predict every single possibility player take for the movement even past QA and testing.

[outer silo]

To be honest, I am feeling along the same way myself - would it be alright if I pick your brain some on thoughts regarding that?

I have my combat animations and such where I want them for now, but my general locomotion is something I haven't really gotten addressed yet.

[fossil crane]

Hi all - is anyone aware of a FPS asset that utilises Control Rig out of the box by any chance? Thanks!

[novel blaze]

Fleshed out more of my first person animations in lyra. Control rig is missing some constraint tools that would make it a dream to animate with but still I think it’s super powerful for placeholder animations until I can find a real animator 😰

https://youtu.be/LlW4qoMaMhs

[hollow relic]

Did someone make feet IK working? Apparently my IKs don't get the translation when retargeted, so my animations have their feet stuck to the ground.

I did check "retarget IK" though and even changed translation to globally scaled and absolute, but nothing worked.

At the moment I set the transforms of the IKs to the transforms of the feet, but then the IK part doesn't work properly anymore.

[wanton ridge]

im trying to import animation from Mixamo but im keep getting this error

can anyone help?

[orchid pond]

Which animation are you trying to import? -- I'm new to this as well, but have managed to get some animations imported -- just now working entirely as I expected.

[thorny oasis]

How can I make my character not moving, but making the running animation

[worldly swan]

You should tick Force Root Lock on your animation

[orchid pond]

Noob question -- I have an animation imported from mixamo -- which has Root motion, so I have enabled that and character -> animation -> loop and reset, but the final animation ends up offset upwards.

Here are the before and after -- see how high the mesh is in the second image.

any ideas on how I might be able to correct this -- these animations in question do not have the 'in place' export option from Maximo

[misty dagger]

Is there a documentation for what those settings do? Especially In Range and Out Range?

[dry flint]

hi everyone!! I'm kinda new in ue4-5 animation world, i want to import from maya both animation and camera but when I import in unreal there is only my animation, someone know how to check if my camera was imported in unreal (I already check import camera in export selection in maya). Thanks in advance
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[burnt cedar]

Hello. I just started making my first game. Where can I find asset with basic character with animation? Walk, run, jump, crouch and sidewalk?

[vapid linden]

You can make you own or on the epic games ue marketplace

[burnt cedar]

I found only specific animations. Not completed character.

[karmic rapids]

I've created the mesh for the horse tack, reins, stirrups and saddle. What is the usual way to rig it? Most of it has to move with the horse but the stirrups and reins move with the characters feet and hands.

I'm thinking rig all to the horse's skeleton but use IK for the reins and stirrups to move / attach it to the characters hands and feet. That sound right?

[lucid ice]

https://youtu.be/ZVuqHZGjbJc

for those like myself trying to rig in blender to use in UE5 this video series is really good

[sand estuary]

I’m looking for someone that might help with a little UE4 animation……
Background: I am building a kids Space capsule for my granddaughters, it features a cockpit you sit in with lots of educational space related screens/games plus many buttons, flashing lights and sound effects (DFPlayer based). This spaceship has three cut-out windows that look onto a 60” LCD TV.
The problem I have is finding suitable visuals to display on the LCD TV. I’m currently just looping some video clips. What I ideally would like is an animation that can be controlled via a joystick (currently have a Logitech Extreme Pro) as you travel around in space between planets and stars. PC based would be good but can deal with any platform.
I have started to learn UE4 and have made some mesh’s for a couple of planets. But for a one-off project the learning curve is a big task. I do not need anything that is “solar system correct” or in any way overcomplicated. No shooting or destroying anything…. And running in an open loop with enough content to make the visual interesting.
I’ve included a photo of the rough template and visual concept I’m playing with….
This little clip ”Space simulator for kids” by Elif Ozyildiz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_Z5ZiNRYc) is the sort of thing I’m hunting for (but with traveling around the planets only and no voice – just space music).
It occurred to me that someone might have something very close to my needs. Or something that could easily be modified to suit??
Happy to pay a nominal amount and happy for a more experienced UE4 user to own the animation! I’m just interested in something to use for this one-off job. Doesn’t seem to be anything out there that suits, apart for the more full on gaming market which are not suitable.
I have looked at the Viper Project (Jacky) but the above Space simulator for kids is more suited to this concept.
Any ideas???

This is the inside space capsule below showing the view I want into space...

[misty dagger]

does anyone know if you can export the animatiopns from ue to like blender?

export to fbx :

?

[dull sun]

I have this child ABP, and I can replace blendspace references, which is cool.
But I wonder if I can replace variables such as "Angle" or "Speed" in a child ABP as well?
Say if I wanted to reference other variables for whatever reason.

[winged portal]

Not sure this is the best play, but does anyone know if there's a easy way to auto rig something with Mixamo, move to UE4/5 and use the standard skeleton from ue?

[winged portal]

Or maybe just auto rig anything to be complatible with ue5 default

[ripe yew]

Is there anyway to dynamically feed animations to RandomSequencePlayer in animBP?

[ashen junco]

Miamo's (auto) rig isn't compatible with UE skeleton, so it's not going to be easy.

[lone wadi]

how can i interrupt state transitions?

[onyx cypress]

Hey anybody know how to fix import issues with Skeletal meshes that have bones that are detached from the main Skeleton? Like weapon attach points etc. Got an error about them when importing and now can't import animations because of it.

I'm assuming that's the issue anyways

They aren't weight painted and aren't within the standard hierarchy

So UE4 throws an error, then I can't import animations using that skeleton, assuming because of this

Yeah. That's definitely the issue. Just completely reset the mesh, re-exported and re-imported. I haven't changed the bones between base mesh and animation I'm trying to import.

Any help appreciated

[runic canyon]

Hi guys!i'm trying to make hands IK for my character, more precisely i raytrace from its shoulders bones forward and i make its hand lay where the trace hits(the wall) trough IK. It works well but i have one problem, the character has a breathing animation and thus its shoulders (and the raycast and thus the hand on the wall too) fluctuate. I want to avoid the hands to "breath" on the wall. A quick workaround i found is to put two origins points outside the mesh(so they are not affected by animations) and ray trace from them instead of shoulders. But it's far from perfect since when the character changes animation they are not in Sync with the shoulders when they go forward or backward and its not ok. Is there a better way to achieve this?

[sly parrot]

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wow that was fast

[faint oar]

Does anyone know what this Warning means? Curves seem to be read just fine.

[dusky void]

I'm trying to do some bone physics on a character and it keeps spazzing and glitching out. All the videos I watch have similar things and they all work. Id love to learn a bit more on how this works so i can get this and future physics related problems sorted. If anyone would be so kind to walk me through it it would help greatly!

I'm in the Feedback & Support Voicechat

[raven raft]

Hi there is a way to change the tick rate of the anim update blueprint?

[vapid linden]

hello. If it is alright could someone help me export my animation and model from blender to unreal. I have looked at a ton of videos but i am having issues where unreal crashes every time i import my animation. and my mesh loads in wack

[iron thicket]

Hello guys. Why this aim offset don't work, when I am play montage from slot? After all, I have cached the LocoRifle pose with AimOffset

[silent bay]

Hey guys not sure if this is the right channel for this but hopefully someone can help.

Basically I had a lego model in Blender (from) mecabricks that I wanted to rig using mixamo (since I'm lazy and don't actually want to animate). However in order to do that I had to join the lego pieces into one otherwise it wouldn't work on mixamo.

So I managed to rig it fine in Mixamo however when I'm in UE5 obviously since I joined everything together in Blender, the skeletal mesh is just one object (idk if that's the right word).

I was wondering if it'd be possible to separate the different pieces inside of UE5?

here's what the skeleton tree looks like. As you can see it's just 1 bone

[silent bay]

I figured it out

[karmic compass]

any solution to this? i retargetted anim bp and all animations are fine but anim bp lol

[karmic adder]

Hi, I feel really silly for asking this, but how do I change the "playback range stop time" for an animation in UE5? Right-clicking on the respective value or on the timeline or manually moving the red marker doesn't seem to work and I can't find the value in the asset details...

[static falcon]

Can I force an animation blueprint to always run? Currently it's stopping when I inspect an item in my game

[ashen junco]

What did you do when inspecting an item?

[static falcon]

Disable input on the player and use this

That's why I'm surprised it's not updating

[ashen junco]

Anything else?

[last venture]

anyone know how to offset the starting position of a physics constraint? (red stick)

[static falcon]

I found the issue. It was updating, I just had not set the variable properly while inspecting, doh!

[ripe yew]

Can you feed animations dynamically to RandomSequencePlayer during animation initialization in AnimBP?

[karmic compass]

?

[karmic adder]

Ended up extending the animation sequence in Blender... Still would be good to know if this complicated procedure (changing animation playback range) is somehow possible in UE5 lol...

[fresh sandal]

I'm trying to retarget a mixamo character to unreal. I have the root bone and everything else but i need to change the pose in blender. Any idea how i can set the pose to be the default skeleton pose? The pose i created is not the one it's using when retargeting.

[fresh sandal]

Basically i'm trying to have this pose on the IKRig. I'm not sure why it's not working.

[dense trellis]

I use montages called from BP but it's not ideal at all. The random sequence player node needs an update 😦

[dense trellis]

Hold Alt and then rotate

[mortal wave]

anybody knows what the animation curves window is about and how can I edit the curves?

how does unreal decide which values end up here?

[ashen junco]

Morph target ||(shape keys, if you use Blender)|| are added as skeleton curves automatically. You can also manually add curves to control things like material parameters with the same name.

[mortal wave]

So in a way you define the animation curves by defining shape keys in Blender?

[ashen junco]

Not necessarily that. Anim curves can be more than morph targets and material parameters.

[languid harbor]

For some reason when playing animations on the mannequin the bones seem to be incorrectly rotated, This is the default third person idle and as you can see the arm on the left side is going inside of the mesh, However in the skeleton view its aligned fine

[ashen junco]

Don't think too much about it.

Unless you're making Dreamworld, you're eventually going to replace it anyway.

[languid harbor]

Good point just not sure if its something wrong with the project or just the mannequin because I cant find anyone else with the problem

[mortal wave]

Can you change a curve value using blueprint?

I can see a Get Curve Value function, there is also a set morph target function which seems like it would do a similar thing sometimes?

[mortal wave]

I got it you can manually add those to existing animations and move the curves to match with whatever you would like

[fresh sandal]

How can i get the A-Pose of my character in the IK rig?

[misty dagger]

help, my cat looks wrong on render 🥲

[ashen junco]

Kowalski, enhance.

[rough shale]

The new UE5 Mannequins have a normal and simple version, but it seems all the animations only use the simple skeleton? What is the normal one for then?

[last venture]

no frickin way. thank you!!!!

[rough shale]

How can I fix this? I just exported the fbx from unreal into blender and it's messed up

[ashen junco]

It's not messed up

That's just Blender being Blender.

[rough shale]

Aren't the bones supposed to be connected?

[ashen junco]

Yesn't

It just have to copy loc/rot from the parent bone, doesn't have to have the bone tail connected to the bone head.

If anything bone head and bone tail is pretty much Blender's concept
(not sure if Maya do the same)

[rough shale]

Okay... interesting

Thanks

[peak nacelle]

hey guys, im stuck for days with a problem and hope you can help! 🙏 🙏 🙏
i have characters in a vr level that play animation montages according to their voice lines, but thoses montages only start playing, when the player is looking at those characters. the sound files on the other hand play normally disregarding where the player is looking at, which is fine.

if the player is not looking at the character and the character starts to speak, the montage gets obviously out of sync with the voice file when the montage just starts to play when the player is looking at the character.

do you have any ideas on what might fix this? i thought of disabling occlusion culling but that didnt help.

EDIT: SOLVED in case anyone else stumbles upon this problem:
https://i.gyazo.com/thumb/1200/f9cc33e890c012187ba87c9e11759bf7-png.jpg
visibility based anim tick option in the skeletal mesh has to be set on always ticking

[vapid linden]

used the manny retarget. My model is massive, backwards and doesnt move with animations. help... pls ;-; lol

[edgy hearth]

When building assets for unreal in blender, is it best practice to set unit scale to 1 and units to CM? or unit scale to 0.01 and units to M?

[ashen junco]

Metric unit scale to 0.01.

Whether the unit is meter or centimeter doesn't matter, it's just for cosmetics in Blender.

[edgy hearth]

Thanks so much for the response - would meters vs centimeters affect the way a constrain is evaluated in blender?

[ashen junco]

Not at all.
Again, it's purely cosmetic.

It's just to change how the length is represented on the Blender UI

[harsh cedar]

Hey guys, I'm working in BPs. I have a garage door which opens with an animation asset. Basically, I want the garage door to pause the animation if a button is pressed, and then reverse from current frame if pressed again. And vice-versa (like a real garage door). I've done this sort of thing with a timeline before, but not sure how to approach it with an imported animation.

[subtle lava]

Anyone else find IKRig Full body IK is not working with rotating goals?

[edgy hearth]

Im trying to create an animation using the Matrix city sample environment, but my skeletal mesh keeps disappearing from the render (and outliner) during render in the MRQ. It happens at the same frame every time. ive fully disabled collisions and any sort of interaction with the environment, so i dont know why it keeps disappearing - any suggestions/has anyone experienced this?

[broken oracle]

Is there any way for differents characters to have the same skeleton even if they have different bones? Like paragon characters, that have different weapons each one, could they share skeleton?

So I don't have to create the same anim bp logic for each one and use interfaces

[ashen junco]

Using Timeline, try using Set Position node from the skeletal mesh

[harsh cedar]

Thanks for the reply! Can't get a lot of info for the Set Position node - haven't gotten it working yet. I tried this:

Looking at it now, that doesn't make a lot of sense. When do I 'set' the position, and how do I feed that to the animation?

[lapis sierra]

I'm retargeting animations for the first time. I'm trying to retarget mannequin animations to a mixamo character. Right now I'm having trouble with some animations facing the opposite direction. I think it might be an issue with retargeting FK because when I check that it flips direction. Any tips for debugging this issue?

[ornate turtle]

hopefully this isn't too much of a hassle: i've imported a blender model as a skeletal mesh, alongside multiple animations with the action editor. it was successful, but now i'm wanting to add a new animation to the action editor and that one is NOT exporting. how can i fix this? i'm using ue4.27

[lapis sierra]

I think there might be a bug because setting source and target rig to the same thing breaks the animations as well

[raw bay]

Is it best to retarget my anim_bp for my Third Person Character after working with Mixamo animations? Or start with a clean slate? I started out testing with some Mixamo animations and followed tutorials online to get the retargeting to work, but when trying to use other Anims that used the UE4 mannequin with that skeleton, they come out kinda off. I don't think they were like that at first, but something along the way in my play went sideways and I can't trace it back so.... here I am. Should I reassign my anim_bp to the standard UE4 mannequin setup? Or just start over?

Or maybe I could assign a new anime BP to the skeleton mesh?

[vivid roost]

Any idea why an animation retarget shows no skeletons available?

Found it, had to uncheck "only compatible skeletons"

[spare pulsar]

Im preparing a model for unreal in 3ds max, I have a CAT rig, but now I want to remove it and just keep the mesh. How can I do that ?

[keen yacht]

hi guys, how to i start making a animation in blender for the ue mannequin

[round briar]

What setting should I look into for making the run transition back into idle the moment you stop moving, because right now it seems to wait until it has completed playing the run animation before going back to idle

I dont know what setting I would tick to allow that to happen

[coral panther]

Anybody tried MoCap with non-MetaHumans? I made a film with Xsens and MetaHumans, and looking for a new workflow to avoid some of the issues with MetaHumans. Any advice or recommendations very welcome!

[modest cargo]

i have rokoko and have used it for live streaming and recorded mocap

[coral panther]

Cool, what was the puppet made from? A MetaHuman or something else?

[modest cargo]

ive done metahumans, cc3, and my own custom

working on 2 cc3 and 1 custom skeletons for my current project

[coral panther]

Was CC3 any easier to use than MetaHumans?

[modest cargo]

rokoko makes bone mapping relatively easy with their latest method,
they are equal

it wasn't always that way.. last year was a pain

[coral panther]

Ah good to know, thanks. When I tried with Xsens/MetaHumans, the live stream was generating some weird stretching on my MH, so in the end I just recorded it in Xsens and sent over an FBX animation to UE. I would be satisfied with that but find MetaHumans buggy and crash my system a bit more often than I'd like!

[modest cargo]

i doubt that is the xsens tbh

livestreaming in general is relatively buggy from what i have come to understand. and xsens is some of the cleanest livestream data.

sounds like there is something in your UE that is causing the crash, especially if it was sent over with an fbx asset

[gentle badger]

guys which animation blueprint setup is better ? UE4 or UE5

[coral panther]

It's not the Xsens. I know quite a few people who have been using MHs and it crashes the system regularly...

[modest cargo]

i havent seen much of that myself. like. at all

i have not had metahumans crash any project of mine either

[hollow arch]

is there a way to enable/disable root motion for a montage at runtime? example: a dash attack which connects with a player. i'd like to stop the root motion at that point

[steady orchid]

im not sure but if you are dealing with complex attacks i suggest you take a look at the motion warping plugin

[hollow arch]

i'd say i mostly have pretty simple asks rn but i can check it out

[hollow arch]

looks like i can use this node to switch root motion modes back and forth:

but i'd rather be able to take a particular animation and stop only its root motion from being applied, rather than set an overall rule. we'll see how this works tho

[thin thunder]

Hi guys, is there a way to make a distortion animation and be able to apply it to any object? What I want is to make a cartoon-style animation of a vacuum sucking objects, and I want every object to follow the same animation, which would be some form of warping, not scaling down

What I've done in the past is an alembic animation for a specific object, but I would like this to be modular

[steady orchid]

the character movement component extract the root motion from the montage that is being played, i think it only check when the animation start

you could set the root motion scale on the movement component to 0 but thats ugly af

[steady orchid]

niagara maybe? im not sure

[hollow arch]

yeah i'm really not sure. i don't feel like it's a crazy ask but so far no luck

[steady orchid]

but whats the case here? why you want to stop the root motion? if the character hit something that cannot be pushed it should automatically stop even if root motion is enabled

[hollow arch]

i'll get a video

this is where i'd want to turn the root motion off (but finish the montage)

[steady orchid]

i see

motion waping sir

😆

is pretty easy to use and youll get nicce results

[hollow arch]

i will have to check it out. is there a video or doc out there that you'd recommend?

[steady orchid]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/motion-warping-in-unreal-engine/

i did this for attacks very recently, if you have issue dm me

[hollow arch]

will do! tyvm man

[woven spoke]

Hey there!
So I'm currently doing some keyframe animation with unreals control rig inside level sequences.
It's really awesome and you get some results really fast.
However one thing I can't figure out:
Is there a way to apply "frame 0 settings" immediately to the actors in the level?
Currently all my characters are t-posing until the sequence starts

[broken oracle]

Is there any way for differents characters to have the same skeleton even if they have different bones? Like paragon characters, that have different weapons each one, could they share skeleton? So I don't have to create the same anim bp logic for each one and use interfaces

[fleet willow]

IIRC epic games recommends to have a huge base skeleton with all possible extra bones as it doesn't cost anything when a skeletal mesh doesn't use those extra bones

[mortal wave]

does anybody know what this node does exactly?

[short wasp]

Hi, I've set up my anim graph, so that each hand can have independent animations, however, now I want to animation that affects the **whole **skeleton. What would be the best way to go about doing this?

[fleet willow]

Not saying it's the best way, but that's how i do it.
Have a bool variable which tells whenever you wanna use the whole body or not and that boolean can be used by the Blend By Bool node

[short wasp]

@fleet willow Seems like that's the way to go, it worked, thank you so much! Good to know something like that exists!

[odd sapphire]

Hey, I'm trying to use Anim Budget Allocator (SkeletalMeshComponentBudgeted), but it seems to crash every time we try to seamless travel into another map.
Most likely the world no longer exists, but SkeletalMeshComponentBudgeted keeps a raw pointer to the IAnimationBudgetAllocator and it probably no longer exists.

Is this something that people have fought with before?

USkeletalMeshComponentBudgeted::TickComponent() [D:\UnrealEngine\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\AnimationBudgetAllocator\Source\AnimationBudgetAllocator\Private\SkeletalMeshComponentBudgeted.cpp:92]```

[misty dagger]

Did anyone experience a delay of about 3 seconds between animation when using Blend Space? Its like the initial animation has to fully be animated before it blends to another one

[misty dagger]

Hast this something to do with it?

[median spire]

Hey so I'm working in a control rig blueprint and I can't find the equivalent of "make vector" or "make rotator", any ideas?

[granite merlin]

hi, is it good practice for animation curves to be used to rotate the character? like for a turn while idle

[onyx dirge]

Hi! Did anyone had trouble setting up Motion Warping? I've done everything the tutorial says but nothing happens 😐

I mean, the montage plays but no warping occurs

[inner sigil]

I downloaded a rig and imported it into UE5. The third person starter animations applied to it flawlessly. Is this because the rigged bones have the same names as the mannequin rig?

[vapid linden]

has anyone here used uefy 2.5 to set up a master rig to use for retargeting? using the rakiz tutorials before?

[misty dagger]

Did anyone had any issue with the rate scale? It occasionally does not work and my animation gets played in slow motion...I use the animation in a 1D Blendspace

[regal pivot]

Hey guys, Does anyone know a plugin for Rig in Maya , that achieves similar results to Mr Manequin in Blender ?

[edgy hearth]

has anyone else recently brought a Kitbash asset pack into a UE5 project? All the actor blueprints, static meshes, and materials are there, except nothing is linked - blank slots for static meshes inside the blueprints, blank material slots, and blank texture slots within the materials - it's going to take forever to manually relink everything. is this how it should be? Also even if it's not, is there a way to automatically relink everything? all the names are still matching and correct 🤔

[outer silo]

Heya everyone - still cranking away through building my animation stuff similar to that of Lyra's and a noticed something regarding the Controls in the Control Rig. The control type listed for them is "Transform", but inside my own rig - I only see the option for "Euler Transform". Are they the same thing or is there something I am missing somewhere?

[ashen junco]

Depends on YOUR setup.

[ashen junco]

No, I used Auto Rig Pro.

[ashen junco]

I think Location and Scale input pins can be expanded. As for Rotations, it's Quaternion, so you have to convert it from something else

[ripe yew]

Anyway to add animations to RandomSequencePlayer via variables?

[vapid linden]

In your experience is auto rig pro friendly with retargeting models for different animations? I'm thinking about buying it

[ashen junco]

I won't say any further before someone going to scrutinise me for the third time, but I mainly use ARP for (re)rigging models from the ground up. It's pretty easy to do, least reducing the work on rigging.
I don't think it's for retargetting animations, but it can rig humanoid characters to be UE4 skeleton compatible, thus easing your retargetting a bit.

[vapid linden]

Okay cool. Well thanks for your input. I was just having issues with animations and was just looking around for rigging help. Thanks! I'll look into this more

[fathom bloom]

This is the animation blueprint from the third person template. The top block works in my project, but the bottom block (tick) always says that the Character reference isn't valid.

My Character runs around (AI) but only plays the idle animation, with the foot IK. Why??

[toxic thorn]

does anyone know what's causing the swaying for this character? This is using ALS anim bp and i'm trying to integrate it with universal character system (https://youtu.be/pFirGx9ahSo)

[stark trail]

Is there a way to make a material that have a hole in it? or a widget with a hole in it?
My purpose is to make a UI tutorial, like "here you can see X" "here you can see Y"
which will be the best way to achieve this?

[toxic thorn]

#visual-fx

also, an alpha mask

@stark trail

[ancient light]

Hello! I was trying to add a custom mocap to this character in UE5 but whenever I change the mocap from the default character in UE5 to this model the software crashes without any message. Any thoughts on why this might be?
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/character/sci-fi-character/cs01-space-suit-lite-version

[modern compass]

How come there is no female UE4 sk_mannequin when I add third person content for project?

somethings fucky when I try to fiddle with IK rig I get crashes

[runic canyon]

Hi guys i need to quicly make some hand poses for my metahuman. Since i already setup retargeting with mannequins, is using mr mannequin and move its fingers on blender a good workflow?

[ashen junco]

It's never there?
Female mannequin was a late addition in UE4, around 4.26 from the CR template, by then it's already too late to add it to all the engine templates for 4.27.

[modern compass]

does the male skeleton work with retargeting a female dummy skeleton like from actorcore

[mortal wave]

Hello I am having an issue importing a mesh into UE5. All the bones seem to be rotated in exactly the same way

what could be causing this?

this is the original mesh

[ashen junco]

Ah, Blender being Blender.

[mortal wave]

yep

[mortal wave]

any way to fix this?

[upper dawn]

hey, any ideas on this bug?

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/attached-skeletal-mesh-tail-stretching-in-ue5/576081

[warm portal]

Anyone know why the camera keeps hopping off the camera path?

[jade storm]

So on Input released I want it to stop playing an animation from a animation blueprint. Would anyone know the proper way to do this?

Should I add to the interface, call the animation from the interface to stop the animation in the characters blueprint? This is just finishing the animation, the playing idle after walk. I want it to completely stop the animation

[zealous crane]

So I am currently using copy pose from mesh for my third person player mesh. However, the mesh is like a frame behind the pose of the original one... Any thoughts on what I can do here?

(Note: this is in a multiplayer setting)

[jade storm]

delete one frame

[pastel onyx]

how do I assign another skeleton for a skeletal mesh?

[crystal imp]

I am currently working on setting up a plug-and-play project for MetaHuman Chars but I'm not too familiar with them, I'm having issue's only with the face. If anyone could help me with this so I can redo the ALS animations for Meta-Human I'm sure everyone would appreciate it and especially me so I can get on with this lol

I Re-assigned the skeleton for the Mannequin for testing but the head doesn't work

I Re-parented the original BP to the ThirdPerson for testing so All I changed was I swapped the Body out for the mesh and placed everything under that and added calls to the Parent for Construction and BeginPlay

[misty dagger]

Is there a way to know which animation is currently played in a Blend Space 1D?

[clear forge]

I am working on rigging a mechanical robot arm that follows the player hand in VR (similar to adding regular arms to character).
The physics asset joint constraints are set up, but it looks like the use of FABRIK will ignore any angular constraints. What would be the best way to allow this arm to maintain its joint constraints while also reaching the effector transform?
Not sure if I need to learn control rig blueprints or control IK.

This is what the AnimGraph looks like

[jade storm]

Deos anyone know how to apply additive animations in ue5???

this should work.

and it does not.

[misty dagger]

Is there a way to adjust start and end of an animation without trimming it of?

I basically want to avoid copying the original every time I want to readd an already removed frame

[clear forge]

Pretty sure you just add a keyframe to it and adjust

[rough shale]

Is it possible to enable physics simulation on part of a skeletal mesh, while having the rest still follow an animation?

[hidden pivot]

Honestly, the physics animation editor is super broken and doesn't make any sense. I'm very close to writing my own engine because at this point I am pretty sure it would be faster to build a physics system from scratch than trying to understand the extremely odd and poorly documented physics from this engine /rant

I dunno, what do people do when they are blocked by physics issue / bugged? It seems completely impossible to figure out. It's just physics randomly flying everywhere. No way to debug, no way to understand what the values you need to tweak do...

[rough shale]

That's unfortunate, I wish you the best of luck though

[hidden pivot]

Looks like I fixed it by changing the way I export the rig. FBX really is an awful format. Apparently the way Houdini converts units in FBX is by putting x100 onto every transform and for some reason unreal breaks with that.

[misty dagger]

Has anyone been able to edit existing animation with a control rig (UE5), whenever i add a animation to my control rig in sequencer its as the control rig stays in A pose, but i can se some "wiggling" in the rig because of the animation asset....

[hidden pivot]

You talking about Post Process Animation Blueprint?

If so, then the trick is to have the blueprint start with the Input Pose blueprint node.

[misty dagger]

no, i need to edit a existing animation with the help of a control rig

have i missed some setting in the rig?

[proper grotto]

Are UE4 marketplace assets completely unusable on the new UE5 skeleton setup?

[misty dagger]

nah, you just have to create a retargeter and a rig and match the bones

so much better than before

and then just right click on the animation asset and choose retarget with retargeter

[bronze osprey]

well you have an animation playing but the CR overrides it

the wiggle is about as far as the animation can go w/o goin against the CR

you need to record the anim to a CR anim and u can change those frames

it will be a recorded anim just like mocap... bit of a pain to work with

you could take the anim of the feet and completely delete all frames and the foot sliding wil stop so thats a fairly easy fix

the source anim is a bit odd , so mayB the foot sliding is supposed to happen ... i dunno

[merry loom]

Do you have backwards solve event in your rig?

[misty dagger]

I did motion capture it (kinect II)
Backwsrds solve event? No , only forward solve...

Ah i understand...of course

[merry loom]

Yep, you need it so that you can use bake to cr to transfer mocap anim to cr anim. Only after that can you edit your mocap with cr

[misty dagger]

is that the reason why i cant see my rig when i try to bake the anim to crig?

[modern sapphire]

Hey.
Anyone able to help me as to why/ how I am able to import a skeletal mesh onto a skeleton, with animations, yet the model doesn't animate.
But, if I import the skeletal mesh, with a new animation, and a new skeleton, it animates fine.
(The 1st skeleton already has a few skeletal meshes using it perfectly fine.)

[sick field]

Hi, I'm new to using physics actors, and I'm having an issue where my character seems to leave his mesh behind. Everything starts together, but then the character's body (he's just a sphere at the moment) just stays in a heap and the rest of the movement, like the collision capsule, of the game continues, though the character is now invisible. I tried making sure the capsule wasn't colliding with the physics body, but it didn't help. Suggestions as to why this is happening and/or how to fix it?

[slim radish]

Hi
How can I multicast the look I get from LiveLink?
Facial expressions animations are not reflected in multiplayer.

[runic canyon]

Why is it so much better then before?

Before you kinda have to do the same thing but without creating new assets

[merry loom]

Nope, if you cant see ur rig in the dropdown i remember there is an option somewhere near the drop down that says show only compatible skeleton or something like that need to be turned off

[misty dagger]

solved it, thanx!!

[modern compass]

how should i implement having multiple ceiling lights that have intensity and the light material emission keyframed in a sequence... I keyframed one and duplicated them and they all seem to work for awhile, until I add or remove other actors to the sequence the lights stop working

should I make them into their own sub sequence

there seems to be issue with the material that it creates material_animated_n for each frame and my other ceiling light keep getting wolrdgrid_material_animated for some reason

[worldly barn]

Hi, did some know why default anim MM_Land in ue5 look like multiply to zero? at asset animation sequencer look fine

ok it be additive, xd

[crisp void]

what is "IP" "RM" in animation file tag meaning?

[ashen junco]

Likely In Place and Root Motion respectively

[kindred veldt]

I'm trying to import my animation from Blender to UE4 but I jus get this error and the animation sequence view is empty

I exported both the character and the animation from Blender at the same time

and then imported both

The character works correct

[fleet willow]

Is there something like a "Best practice guide" for animation layers ?

Like i get the idea behind this, yet i'm unsure if we should really create a layer for e.g. IdleWalkRun and similar.
And if we should, could we name them Layer_IdleWalkRun and so on to avoid naming conflicts ?

[scenic marsh]

edit: feeding the sequence player a montage stored in a struct will just make the engine crash. found a submitted bug for it, they "fixed" it by just not letting you pick a montage (if you dont know what youre doing like me) and i happened to find a way around it :D

[jade storm]

Does anyone know how to play additive animations with the animation bp in ue5? The additive is not applying after i play the animation, via input on keyboard. I am just doing a simple move root forwards on 0 and keyframing. then setting the additive animation to mesh space then using selected animation frame and using the non additive form of the same animation. then plugging the apply additive in my animation blueprint. For some odd reason this does not work. Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong in this situation?

[buoyant garden]

Hey guys sorry to bother. Our junior tech artist wants to learn all about animation bp in ue5. However I can't seem to find a course on it for her to take. Any one knows of a good course on animation, state machines, blending etc?

[wide pulsar]

I don't know if this the place where I should be asking this but in the Lyra project, the Turn in Place animations have 2 curves, one of them has a animation modifier to make but the other one, "RemainingTurn" doesn't. I want to know how it's made, does anyone know anything about it?

[ashen junco]

Unfortunately official materials are lacking in terms of animations, but here's some links that I can recommend.

Epic community learning portal:
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning?type=community_tutorial&industry=games&category=character-and-animation

Official channel videos on animation:
https://youtu.be/ffuq5k-j0AY
https://youtu.be/NRwMmHNs0KU
https://youtu.be/Oe7fYS9qxmk
https://youtu.be/YjQRBHvltOk
https://youtu.be/y2WzNvJZk0E

PrismaticaDev tuts on technical anim in UE:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUi8nuTUEtTvTb8Wk6cBfvw8IEFAPZYqd

Most of the tuts are using UE4, but should be applicable to UE5 with minute changes

[hidden pivot]

How to use control rig from a blueprint? I tried adding it as a component to my Actor but the Set Control Transform or Update on the Control Rig doesn't have any effect in the game.

[wide pulsar]

Damn, I am dum, the same modifier makes both.

[ashen junco]

Use the Control Rig inside the animBP.

I still don't know what the heck the component is supposed to do.

[hidden pivot]

You mean inside the Post Process Anim PB or is there another?

[ashen junco]

Inside animBP. You can have a Control Rig node, specify the class, and have it as part of your anim graph.
It's not fast path, but I think CR itself is its own BP VM.

[buoyant garden]

thanks makoto!

also 4 years unity free here xd

never going back

[orchid pond]

EnableRootMotion issue! -- If I import an animation with root motion, enable it and set the character->animation->loop and reset it seems to be offset by about 10 degrees. I'm left with the choice of not using root motion and having the mesh leave the tracking cylinder and animation snap back, or a character that slowly rotates. Is this a known issue with imported animations from mixamo?

The lower image is without enablerootmotion.

[ashen junco]

> imported animations from mixamo

Yeah, don't expect root motions to work at all with Mixamo, due to how the rig was set up.

[orchid pond]

thanks, some do, some don't.

...

in fact the only ones that work have the In place export option ticked.

unfortunately that one didn't.

I'll stop banging my head against the wall with that one and look to recreate the animation.

[orchid pond]

thanks for the answer 😉

[hidden pivot]

Houdini is a great tool for cleaning up / fixing things like animations, rigs, meshes, textures, etc.

[orchid pond]

thanks, just starting out in my journey of unreal and animation, so will google that one now.

[orchid pond]

Houdini -- the free version does not allow exporting .fbx files after it's been edited. Blender does -- just trying this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le7exScwwrQ

[orchid pond]

bah.

[flint carbon]

Hello, does anyone know how to find the recorded time code on a take? I’m reviewing facial and body mocap recordings , I would like to find where their embedded timecode is, like one could in a typical NLE

[orchid pond]

In reply to my earlier question, I found that I can edit the animation to a sequence and then from a sequence create a linked animation back to an animation sequence. I messed up the edit, but know where I'm going now.

[winged rover]

Hey, I'm trying to create a retargeter for the new skeleton from the old one. But I have a little issue, any idea for this?

[rancid sparrow]

Hey folks! How would I go about adding custom animations during gameplay ,for instance instigated by a trigger box, with a brief input disabling? I'm making a concept prototype where I would like to be able to display suggested character actions without coding them. I've got my character control rig ready , and have used it extensively in sequencer for cinematics. Can I access and animate a mesh through a charcater BP in sequencer during gameplay? Thoughts?

[fossil tinsel]

How is it possible that Female & Male Mannquin can use the same skeleton, despite being different (since the male mannequin has wider shoulders)

[ashen junco]

Don't export leaf bones.

[ashen junco]

Skeleton is basically just the hierarchy of the bones. Skelmeshes can have their own proportions and also add bones to the hierarchy or not using some.

[fossil tinsel]

So I guess animations look different with Male and Female ?

[ashen junco]

You can have both M and F anims bound to one skeleton.

[fossil tinsel]

I know, that's why I wondering, how this works

[dull violet]

Skeletons are the same, but with different proportions. There are female mannequin, she has smaller shoulders, but bones are same, animations will work for both variants. (Male walk on female looks ugly though)

Does anyone have experience with Daz control rig and IK blueprint? Cant find any information about it, how to use in UE 🙄

[fleet willow]

Is it possible to mirror montages with UE5's new mirror system ?

[flint carbon]

Anyone know where timecode is for a recorded take? Trying to line stuff up and that metadata seems not viewable anywhere

[naive narwhal]

hi, im getting this weird issue with a Draw Bow string animation and it becoming smaller, its an external attached actor, however if its an skeletal mesh component belonging to my character it doesnt happen 😦 https://imgur.com/a/vMLcmqE

any clues about what could be the issue? if i use the release string anim in the montage it comes back to it's original scale/size

[pearl oasis]

Has anyone used the free jet assets available on the market place? I'm having trouble getting all three wheels to stay retracted in the animation they seem to overwrite each other and sequence recorder is getting phased out

[hidden pivot]

Yes indeed, you can only do that with the Indie version. Blender is nice for lots of things, but for this kind of stuff it's a bit more complicated / time consuming to use as you have way less control in non-procedural software.

[crystal cloud]

s tutorial shows baking animations from another skeleton onto one with a control rig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k2gNc_7CT0&t=427s

i can't see other skeleton animations when i try it
i'm not sure what setting i missed i was wondering if anyone had tried this

[scenic plume]

is theres any way to scale the timeline node? like im trying to make a procedural object moves along curve, but i dont wanna modify the curve time all the time, 0-1 is too fast but for other tings 0-5 might be too long

is theres a way i can modify it without modifying the timeline everytime'?

[ashen junco]

Please do not crosspost unless redirected

[bleak ruin]

whoops

[misty dagger]

this is right method for achieving likeness?

atleast getting key points down

[ashen junco]

wdym?

[misty dagger]

creating face contours

and painting/sculpting face

key elements of face

[ashen junco]

Well, it's not that suited for this channel...

[misty dagger]

nah, it's animation

[ashen junco]

More of #graphics domain, I say.

And not necessarily Unreal related, unless you're talking about the materials, that kind of stuff.

[hidden pivot]

ask this in the ZBrush discord

[misty dagger]

yeah. thinking about the right place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd-Y4PwLJbk&ab_channel=DRAWJUICEARTTUTORIALS

i found this one, kinda has the idea

[fleet willow]

Is it normal that a Layered blend per bone can't use Fast Path or am i doing something wrong ?

[shrewd heron]

Hey, can anyone help me with a basic problem? I have retargeted a mesh and i am trying to get one mesh to use the animations of other but it doesnt seem to work. Dragging the animation in animaiton asset makes it red and it can not be used

[ashen junco]

UE4?

[shrewd heron]

UE5

[ashen junco]

Then hands off for me.

[dull sun]

Is anyone using Blend Masks (as opposed to Branch Filters) in UE5?
I'm having this weird thing where it acts as if the Blend Mask doesn't exist in my ABP. But if I recompile the ABP, it then works.
Each time I restart UE, it reverts back to acting like the mask doesn't exist.
If I use a branch filter, it's fine at any time.

[ebon granite]

Can anyone tell me how important, what purpose can serve scripts (In Maya) for rigging and animating for video games?
I'm trying to decide between two different courses to take on the subject and thye both tackle rigging but one of them has some videos about writting scripts. But other than making the basic rig and the controle bones, I don't see what else you would need to create some animations.

[crystal imp]

Anyone figured out how to use this? I have yet to figure it out, is there some pre-requisites they are leaving out in the documentation? Because When I try to follow that short guide selecting another space doesn't do jack as far as I can tell.

I'm assuming there must be something specific in the way you set stuff up inside of the Control Rig or it won't work.

[karmic compass]

any idea why my target model is in air?

[vale steeple]

mesh seems like its struggling to keep up during rotation in a true first person setup. guessing its something really simple but i havent been able to stop it doing that. bypassed everything i was doing in the anim graph and it was still happening.

[slate tartan]

Anyone have some tips for animating? Im no good at this :')

[ashen junco]

Practice, lots of practice, really

[slate tartan]

Yeahhh, I had a feeling it was gonna be that :')

[ashen junco]

Well, if you don't like the practice/grind aspect... You can't be good at animating overnight.

[slate tartan]

Nah, it isnt that, im just a perfectionist and hate when anything I do im not immediately satisfied with :')

[misty dagger]

how to make it transition it more smoothly, using animation montages

[vivid roost]

Anyone know if there's a way to detect when an animnotifystate ends?

By binding, rather than overriding its End event

[misty dagger]

Nobody ever has an answer for this. Make a normally scaled skeletal mesh in blender. Export it to unreal. No wacky settings, straight vanilla export/ import settings.

Give your skeletal mesh a socket. Put a mesh in that socket.

wow, the mesh is 100x too big.

My solution is to change the scene settings in blender so that everything is .01 instead of 1.0. That means I need to scale my blender mesh 100x bigger to get a human to be back to around 1.8m tall. This is very obnoxious since blender culls things that are too big and anything larger than a car with these settings gets cropped out of your viewport.

What is the solution

this does not work.

other post in that thread is just the thing I've been doing for years

well, you can change the clipping in the view tab so I guess my biggest problem with it is resolved

[ashen junco]

In Blender, also compensate the near and far clip distance.

Well yes, there is a setting for that in Blender, just not that obvious in hindsight.

[rocky remnant]

No You can use UE4 Skeleton also. in UE5

[smoky shell]

Does IK Retargeter "Edit Pose" have a mirroring option that I'm missing?

[bleak ruin]

is there no way to connect a curve variable to an evaluate curve in the control rig?

[vagrant geyser]

hello guys is ALS using Root motion in walking and running ?

[ashen junco]

Not at all.

[vagrant geyser]

thanks

[steady orchid]

hey, look at how the motion warping component work. it scans for notifies inside the montages, thatd what you are looking for

[worthy surge]

Are there any animation tutorials that tell you how to create your own animations rather than use the unreal's animation starter pack?

[ashen junco]

Depends on what DCC tool you're using.
If you're in UE4.26 or newer, there's also Control Rig system (tutorial is in the 📌 ✉️ )

[wicked forge]

A bit of a silly question, but is there a Mannequin equivalent that uses the MetaHumans skeleton?

Just a simple model to debug and check stuff with

[steady orchid]

i think the default ue5 mannequin use the metahuman skeleton i dont remember his name for some reasons

the female is probably quinn?

[wicked forge]

Ah I'll check that out, we're currently still using UE4

[wicked forge]

It's Manny and Quinn btw

[boreal cradle]

Hello, I have a question about animation optimization - If I turn on "only tick when rendered", will animation notifications still trigger or not? What about animation budget allocator or Update rate optimization settings (skipping or interpolating animation frames), will they skip or trigger animation notifications?

[steady orchid]

i would assume notifies use animation time rather then the actual frames but i guess is something you will have to test

[dusky void]

Im having issues with my character rag dolling out of control. Has anyone had a similar problem before? and what was the fix?

[steady orchid]

whats the issue exactly

[dusky void]

It all good I fixed it. The preview meshes where causing the ragdoll physics to go wack

[tall inlet]

Hi, how I change the lenght of an animation?

It have only 0.03 seconds

I want more time

[dusky void]

you will need to lengthen it via your animation software and reimport it

@tall inlet

[tall inlet]

humm, its because I just created this animation in unreal

[dusky void]

hmm

then i am no help

[tall inlet]

I m trying just to make wheels rotating

I thought could be simple xD

At least for some simple animations like that, but I can use blender for sure

Thanks bro

[mental bone]

Is there a way to play a certain animation only up to a specific bone? E.g. when I have an animation in the state machine, but said animation I only want to play from Spine downwards, and leave neck/head etc. untouched

[tall inlet]

I think this is about slots

[mental bone]

I think slots works only with anim montages

Can't use anim montages inside an animation graph

[ashen junco]

Layered blend per bone

[mental bone]

Thanks @ashen junco . That helps

[ocean needle]

Is a FABRIK transform more expensive that using anim montages for putting hands in the right place?

[round shale]

Need a bit of advice here;

I have two animations that use the same bones, and I want to blend them - but I’m thinking that’s not actually possible.

I want to basically combine them, but everything I’ve tried so far (Layer Blend / normal blend) doesn’t work. I did try additive, and maybe that’s the solution here, but my animation explodes in scale (probably an import issue).

But typically would additive be the way to approach this? I have an aimoffset that I’m trying to blend with a upper body movement and it’s like I have to choose between one or the other.

[placid beacon]

Hey guys, quick question: After retargeting an animation to another skeleton, the new animation seems to be rotated 90 degrees. What am I doing wrong?

[sweet lantern]

is there any possible way to move a skeleton from a T-pose to an A-pose in UE5? The "edit retarget base pose" does literally nothing

[sick field]

I was wondering if there is any sort of blendspace or flipbook for 3D static meshes in unreal. I have a few simple static meshes (basically deformations as "poses") that I'd like to blend between. I'm not seeing much when I search, so just checking if it even exists. Thanks!

(or I guess a way to deform a mesh in unreal and capture the resulting animation also in unreal would work, too)

[sweet lantern]

you can do blendshapes in blender and then input weights as needed in UE

[outer maple]

Is the provided IK rig for UE5 mannequinn appropriate for both the male and female characters? (for ik retargeting)

or do I need to make a seperate IK rig for the female mannequinn

[honest gulch]

any of you use iclone 7?

[onyx portal]

is it possible to get free boss fight movement, i dont see it in the marketplace

like dodging and stuff

[ashen junco]

Not free (anymore) but rather cheap
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/bossy-enemy-animation-pack

[onyx portal]

do you know of ranged combat with dodging?

[ashen junco]

Well, do your own search ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[onyx portal]

okay maybe you knew some good shit

im new so I dont know

[ashen junco]

I make my own shit, so yeah.

[onyx portal]

what do you use to make animations

maybe i should also make my own shit i guess

[ashen junco]

Blender and Unreal's Control Rig

[onyx portal]

blender is scary

the one called Control Rig Mannequin?

[ashen junco]

Well, that's what I use, because I can't afford Maya. You may be more comfortable with Maya, and ultimately which one is the most confortable for you.

[onyx portal]

no shot 225 buckeroos a month

hell no

[onyx portal]

this right?https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/control-rig-mannequin

[fleet willow]

Is it normal that a Layered blend per bone can't use Fast Path or is it me doing something wrong ?

Also just noticed such masks exist.
But i didn't created those, how could i create my own ?

[ashen junco]

Works just fine.

[fleet willow]

Weird, doesn't seem to work for me

[ashen junco]

Ah, then could be the Sequence Player.

[fleet willow]

But like what else could i do cuz using sequence player was for me always a normal thing to do in the AnimBP

[lost iris]

Hello everyone, i was wondering can anyone guide me through the process of making Abyss watchers fighting animations from Dark Souls 3 ?

[gentle sentinel]

any ideas why a retargeted metahuman onto als cant lift their feet from the ground while running around? it seems to be that the footlocking value is never set to 0 and thus IK always kicks in but i cant see where the footlocking value is missing being set

[lime bay]

hi all, I am playing with additive sections and Manny's control rig in the sequencer of UE5. With "additive" one can sort of offset their animation, much the same way you'd do with animation layers in blender or maya. However, in maya, there's a button that creates a zero key, which realigns a particular key to the base animation layer. Is there a similar option in unreal, that you know of? Thanks for any pointers.

[onyx pine]

Hoping this is obvious and I’m just being dumb but I have a model made and rigged in blender that I have been working on. Has a bunch of animations and montages etc.

Now I’ve decided that I want to re-skin the model as the wrists are twisted. Do I have to re-import and retarget all of my animations etc again (pain in the arse) or is there a simpler workflow I’m missing?

[modern compass]

How to add animation for the Metahuman BP in sequencer? it doesn't seem to work with animation track

[austere needle]

Whats simpler for cloth, using cloth physics or a rig/bones. for example a skirt

[hidden pivot]

How to have my control rig be in world space?

[pastel onyx]

how do I blend when I swap animbp class?

it just flicks to the first frame

[regal thicket]

How would i be able to animate this model in the sequencer?

Its from the free marketplace section

[long swan]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/fire-blueprint-events-during-cinematics-in-unreal-engine/

[regal thicket]

That looks complicated, but ty👍

[long swan]

Its not at all. Open or make a new sequence, add the helicotper as a track by dragging it to sequencer or selecting it from "actor to sequencer" from the +Track button. Once heli track is added, click plus on heli in sequencer and select "event/trigger or repeater", click the little tiny plus between the 2 arrows <+> on the event track to add a key, right click the key you just created and goto properties and "quick bind" the event you want to use.

You can set the variables for the events once you bind the event

[regal thicket]

You are the best ty alot🙏

[elder tinsel]

anyone know why this is happening to the control rig

I would appreciate any insight

[nimble sonnet]

when @ashen junco is around I bet they'd have an idea

my job is just to ping them when control rig comes up apparently

[elder tinsel]

I always see that name

this happens when i bake the mesh to the control rig

[latent stream]

is ue5 animation creating harder than unity's?

just wondering if it is any similar or completely different

[runic peak]

Do most people/developers in industry use Mixamo? It does seem incredibly convenient

[ashen junco]

Highly, highly doubt it.

[ashen junco]

You set it up yourself?

[ashen junco]

Does Unity even have in editor animating tool?

[latent stream]

you eidt it directly through the program, like you set a mark, move the object's rotating or whatever, then set another mark

[ashen junco]

So basically what Unreal Engine did with Sequencer, and in extent, Control Rig?

[latent stream]

I am not sure, I am rather new to unreal engine and just getting into the code aspect of it

[ashen junco]

And?

I'm sorry, I don't see where this is going.

[latent stream]

i thought that was an actual question of comparing and i was saying i am not sure

i accidently put unity instead of unreal engine, mb

[runic peak]

Well. Mixamo seems efficient for rigging, I mean.

[ashen junco]

Yeah, that was what I'm confused about

[runic peak]

It obviously doesn't have all animatinos one would need

[latent stream]

thats actually my fault tbh

[ashen junco]

Not really.

[runic peak]

What do you recommend then?

It rigged one character well I put through it

[ashen junco]

But yeah, making animations in editor is possible with Sequencer and Control Rig

[latent stream]

alright, thx

[ashen junco]

Blender or Maya.

[runic peak]

You would be better suited with a tool specifically for that though, and importing it in my opinion.

Well. Blender's default auto rigging isn't always on target sufficiently to my experience.

[ashen junco]

Mixamo rig is awful for use in Unreal Engine

[runic peak]

In some cases I guess. It's working well so far for me.

[ashen junco]

For Unity, though? Maybe?
Mixamo has FBX specifically for Unity. They used to have FBX specific for Unreal, but they cut the plug looong ago.

[runic peak]

Blender? I've got it working, well enough

[ashen junco]

Personally I used Blender and Auto Rig Pro.

Worked much, much better than Mixamo, especially for UE4

[runic peak]

How much is AUto Rig Pro?

[ashen junco]

40 bucks I think

[runic peak]

Well. That's not terrible for a one time fee, unless it's annual?

[ashen junco]

One time fee.

[runic peak]

Alright. It's hard working on this game jam entry, motivation wise. I've been feeling pretty down since graduating, since I haven't found work yet but I will keep picking at it, even if it winds up a greybox entry.

Appreciate your advice though

[dull violet]

AutoRig not worth it, get “voxel heat difuse”, will skin any character as good as in Maya. Plus free pugin for UE skeleton. AutoRig is ok for casual use but it is bugged as hell, sometimes easier to rig into Mixamo than spending time with AR trying to make it work properly.

[smoky shell]

Can't believe I have to ask this but how do I import my retarget pose to use with IK Retargeter

Have a mathematically accurate retarget pose so there's no way I'm doing it by hand and guessing (esp. when there isn't even mirroring)

It looks like you can't even do it and there's literally no way to pose him without transforming every single joint by hand, one by one

[vestal oxide]

If someone know pls help

[ashen junco]

Mixamo is even more hell to work with

You cannot change my mind.

[ashen junco]

<rant>

I mean, for frick's sake, Adobe short||liv||ed Fuse and makes Mixamo more like a paperweight these days.

Not to mention they pulled the plug on UE4 compliant rig a long time ago, just because FBX for UE4 isn't "popular download types" . Their words, not mine. ||(Which to be fair UE4 use for indie/small teams is still minuscule in 2016 - UE4 was free for just less than a year at that point)||

http://web.archive.org/web/20170116183757/http://blog.mixamo.com/2016-update/

Because Mixamo has no dedicated root bone, instead rooted from the Hips/pelvis bone directly, it WILL mess with root motion animations that are not in place, especially those that has no in place option. Good luck having a working root motion from those. It's unorthodox rig could also cause you headaches when trying to do some retargetting from animations that are made with UE4 Manny skeleton in mind.

Also around that time Adobe killed Fuse, which was tied to the Mixamo ecosystem.

That is the reason why I hardly recommend Mixamo these days, though mainly on the rig itself. I won't stop you if you insist, but proceed at your own risk. It sucks, I know, but this is Adobe we're talking about.

</rant>

[dull violet]

Yes Maxamo has the own "features" but for fast rig characters it works most of the time, when you grab a free unrigged model and want to quickly see it in Unreal.
I often use Mixamo as source of animation - upload model, apply animation, download, and retaget to UE skeleton using bone mapping preset for Mixamo.

[dry steppe]

#969360633386655744

#unreal-news

#ue5-general

[regal thicket]

ok i am stuck now

i did all the steps and now i am here

ok so they are rotating but only when i press play

i wanted to animate only in the sequencer without pressing play

[coral plover]

Does anyone know how they get the AI Idle anim to display correctly, in the CitySample project, I've been trying for 12h now, the only thing I can think of is the CopyPoseRotations.cpp, but is there not a CopyPoseRotations buildin to engine ?

[elder tinsel]

I exported it from bridge

[ashen junco]

MetaHuman?
Maybe that animation in your timeline interfering with the control rig?

[winged spade]

Hello, is this the right board to discuss animations? In the way on how you control and run your actors.

Context: I am running these static meshes with vertex animations. These are five components attached to each other. Weapons and legs are vertex animations.

[dull sun]

Does anyone know if runtime retargeting has any considerable performance hit vs exporting retargeted anims (in UE5)?
Specifically, the Retarget Pose From Mesh node in Animation Blueprints

[modern compass]

does anyone else have constant crashes with metahumans (and sequencer)?

[long swan]

Not sure on that.

[smoky shell]

I made a tutorial for runtime retargeting in UE5. I believe it is a superior workflow to traditional retargeting 🙂
https://youtu.be/xbFOF8TY_D4

[iron thicket]

Guys, what is the difference between AnimBP's usual approach to mannequin and animation retarget to another skeletal mesh? When I wanted to replace Manny's skeleton with Metahuman, I came across Runtime Retarget Pose. I would like to know if this approach has any advantages over the usual choice of AnimBP for the corresponding skeletal mesh?

[ashen junco]

So, any issues on it?

[iron thicket]

Are there any differences between the usual AnimBP creation for SkeletalMesh and Runtime Retargeting? In performance or something else? And what is it used for at all?

[ocean needle]

where are the settings for physical animation profiles?

[left grail]

My game will be sprite animations. However sometimes they will change armour, helmet, shield and weapon.
So i need to kind of "reload" the "flipbooks", if thats the right word for it.
So i have a soldier sprite animation that is walking around with 1 type of armour. But then he buys a new one. How do i make the sprite animation change and adapt with the new armour?

[livid hornet]

any chance somebody could help me out here? This montage I made and am trying to play through a gameplay ability keeps being interrupted (does this even when activated manually outside of the GA). At first I thought it might be the slot it occupies, but that seems to be set up correctly there. Paragon greystone anim if that helps

[ashen junco]

Why not have them layered?

[ashen junco]

Also unless you want janky flipbook control setup, you might want to look into Paper2D.

[left grail]

Im trying to look for information on "layered sprite animation unreal engine" cannot find anything about it. Am i looking this right?

[ashen junco]

I mean, it's just bunch of sprite stacked together...

[left grail]

oh, i see. But that wont work. That will be like 100's of variations. So for each combination it will be one different animation right?

[ashen junco]

If you want to make it that complicated, yeah, I guess?

I was thinking of having sprite sheet for base body, no outfit. Then stack sprite sheet for the outfit on top of the base body sprite sheet.

[left grail]

Ahh. that will work. And thats not expensive? That is not going to turn one animation of the whole soldier, into 6 animations: helmet, armour, legs, and arms, weapon, shield?

i remember a tutorial if i understood it well. Of someone who just generated the animation at runtime. maybe i confused something and thats not exactly what was happening.

but i cant find it

[sick field]

Advice?

I'm trying to make a slime character, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to animate him. It's hard to give what is essentially a jellybean a meaningful skeleton, and my animations turned out poorly (pointy, twisty...)

I tried vertex animations. It looked good, but can it work for a character? I don't think they can be used with an actual blendspace in unreal, right? The texture animation seems to loop, too. I tried it to make a single attack, but it feels like there's no way to guarantee that my animation is starting at the beginning and no way to make it loop only once.

I've also tried simulating physics (doesn't seem to work with a character controller).

I'm not an animator, just an amateur trying to make a thing.

Any suggestions?

[indigo minnow]

Hi, did you figure it out?

nvm, figured it out

[steel raptor]

When I attempt to import a new animation into an existing skeleton I always get this strange deformation. Can anyone help?

[ashen junco]

If faking the slimey bit with skeletal animations is not an option, raymarched blob is your option left (and of course involves some HLSL coding)

[smoky shell]

Have you seen Asher's slime

Oh, you're in his server, so probably 😄

[sick field]

It feels like slimes are having a moment lol

[smoky shell]

warui suraimu janai yo

[lunar valve]

how to call a function when animation is at certain animation node/sequence at animgraph?

[ashen junco]

Anim notify?

[lunar valve]

want my notify here. Not animation specific

[ashen junco]

Uh... Input pose just passing whatever pose the skelmesh is making. This is animBP post process.

[lunar valve]

hmm... No way to call a function in between? I have to update the value here at this moment

there is a way but that breaks thread-safe

[brave peak]

Hello ! Is it possible to make the GrappleIdle section loop until I notify ? Or should I do it in another way ?

[craggy knoll]

Does somebody have a use case for using multiple animation slot tracks for an Animation Montage?
An Animation can only have multiple slots from the same slot group, but only one slot of each group can be played at once, so why having two slots of the same group in a montage when only one gets played?

[ashen junco]

Maybe this could help

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-tell-a-montage-to-loop/275381/2

Whoops, forgot to paste the link

[brave peak]

Oh thanks, it's the same for UE5 ?

Oh, it's easier, just have to select itself as next section

[left grail]

Do i have to always make an Animation Blueprint for every skeletal mesh i have even if they are very similar characters and should use the same animations?
I got a skeletal mesh rigged in mixamo (spearman). Then i made a very similar character (swordsman), and rigged it in mixamo too.
I ended up doing all the Animation Blueprint all over again, with the blendspace too, because i could not copy paste, or reuse the old one. Is this normal? How can i make this process faster and using the same skeleton and animations, since they are basically the same unit but on different clothes? Or this is not possible and i must do everything all over again every time i have a new character with new clothes?

[craggy knoll]

Have a look at "Skeleton Compatibility" https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/unreal-engine-5-0-release-notes/.
Also when you import skeletal meshes and choose a Skeleton, you don't create a new skeleton. If multiple skeletal meshes uses the same skeleton they can use the same Animation Blueprint.

[left grail]

thank you. But it gave me an error. They are very similar skeletal meshes but not the same it seems. I dont know if there is something i should be doing to make this right.

[craggy knoll]

About Skeleton Compatibility. Go into your Skeleton then under Asset Details you can add other Skeletons to the Compatible Skeletons list.

[left grail]

So how do i make sure they are compatible?

[left grail]

im using mixamo. how do i upload them and make them have the same skeleton? I thought i could just change the outfit and have the same skeleton for 40 characters

[craggy knoll]

When importing the skeletal meshes, a import settings window will pop up. Set the Skeleton with a skeleton of your choice in the import settings. If you leave it blank, a new Skeleton will be created

You can also right click on your Skeletal Mesh -> Skeleton -> Assign Skeleton

[left grail]

Its all messed up :(. Even though they were made in the same way in mixamo.

[craggy knoll]

Do your skeletal meshes have the same skeleton assigned?

[left grail]

yes. it gives errors. Even though they are very similar and both came from mixamo

[left grail]

Or could this difference in the arms screw everything up? They were both rigged in Mixamo. So they should work right? 😦

[craggy knoll]

The pose is not the issue, but they should have the same pose. The issue is their unmatching bone hierarchy / bone names.

Do you looked up for tutorials? They are probable a few for Mixamo.

[left grail]

But if they both were imported to mixamo and saved from there i dont see how could this get messed up. Maybe there's something accidental i have done. i worked for too long without breaks.

[left grail]

thank you david r. will try again tomorrow

[craggy knoll]

np, good luck.

[left grail]

sorry, just one more thing. If the arms should be in the same place does that mean when we set up the rig in mixamo those color circles for the bones must also be in the same place? how am i supposed to get that position accurately?

[ashen junco]

One is in A-pose, other is asserting dominance in T-pose

[marble sierra]

Hey guys, are there any sites like Mixamo (3D animations) but only for FPV animations, like hands swinging a sword, hammer, etc.? I cannot seem to find any animations like that online.

I have zero experience with things like Motion Builder so I will have to download the FPV anims 😄

[ashen junco]

The Unreal Marketplace have few FP anims (IIRC one pack for sword and shield is permanently free, but I might be wrong).

To be fair, FP anims are much more apparent than TP anims, hence why there are less free ones for the former.

[regal thicket]

hey guys, so i tried to solve my problem but couldnt. I cant figure out how to animate the vigilante apache in the sequencer! can somebody help? its free and downloadable on the marketplace

[craggy knoll]

can't help you there

[regal thicket]

somebody showed me a video of him adding a component for the rotor and that worked

[marble sierra]

yeah, makes sense, thanks!

[regal thicket]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/711176618907009074/986730184046702592/SQ_Heli.mp4

[marble sierra]

will buy some

[regal thicket]

but the heli i have doesnt have that many components

can somebody pls help? i really dont know what to do

i figured i should make a component for the rotor rotation but idk

[coral panther]

Has anybody come across a lip-synch from audio file solution that can mix in with an existing facial recording? Like keeping the eyes/eyebrows/cheeks/etc of an original recording, but substituting in a new mouth -- like you were doing language versioning? All of the audio-to-lips solutions I've come across seem to have stock facial reactions or dead eyes... Thanks!

[midnight night]

In our project, we compose the character from various skeletal meshes which share the same skeleton. Is there any way to add physics constraints to each of these skeletal meshes separately without adding bones to the shared skeleton?

[winged spade]

No issue, but I would like to know which type of control someone would like to have for VAT on static meshes. State Machine, AI Controller? Need a light weight method.

[ashen junco]

You can have multiple physics assets on per skelmesh basis.

[ashen junco]

You can just let Unreal do the blending for you.

[midnight night]

How would I define which part of the skeletal mesh is supposed to be physics simulated?

[next mountain]

Change the physics type from the anim editor?

[sick field]

I did end up trying that, forgot to mention it. It's definitely a nice effect for making him look gooey. I was just trying to go beyond that into purposeful animations now, like attacks. Didn't know if there was any advice for rigging a half ball or if there was more that I could do with vertex animations than have them loop indefinitely.

Could be part of the problem is that I only kinda know 3dsMax for animating 😅

[fleet willow]

Is anyone aware of how expensive UE5's mirror system is ?
Before this feature i've used a plugin to create new animation assets which were mirrored.
This surely didn't came with much runtime cost, but now with the new system i'm afraid that it's rather slow compared to the old way

[strange yarrow]

Do you know any fix for exporting Maya blendshapes to UE4? I have an animation and all the blendshapes curves are messed up inside UE. When I try to modify their values they seem to work fine, but when I save the animation they go back to their original position

[viscid crater]

How do I set up an animblueprint to be able to take an animation asset from blueprint and play it?

[bronze osprey]

@fleet willow scale the anim x-1?

[fleet willow]

Can't remember the problems with it, but i do remember there were some.
But in either case, that seems the most dirty way to do it xD

[bronze osprey]

scale it in external and set scale default?

[fleet willow]

Idk, but i also don't search for an alternative way as in worst case i'd just start to use the plugin again.
My question was Is anyone aware of how expensive UE5's mirror system is ? xD

[bronze osprey]

it allways worked for me

i doubt it ticks anything but i dunno

[lean tiger]

Hey people,

I'm following this tutorial https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/adapting-lyra-animation-to-your-ue5-game and I don't understand why when I add this link anim class layers to my BP, my character becomes super huge and deformed. Did anyone else had this problem and managed to solve it ?

[hidden pivot]

how do you move a control without moving its children in the viewport?

[median isle]

Heya, does anyone know if you can override the random sequence player node in an ABP Child?

only the normal sequence nodes show up in the child BP

[median isle]

yeah kinda figured it's not possible to do that

[left grail]

What is more performant?
1- A modular character.

Made by parts. Torso, legs, head. Replaced by armour/shirt, helmet, pants. Each part can be replaced so it can generate many variations. 2 helmets + 2 armour = 4 different characters. So with fewer items you can have more characters

2- Full characters with 1 body texture.

In this case will need the full body even if there is just 1 difference. So if i need a new armour then its a new full body and a texture. So at the end you have more skeletal meshes imported into the game, but each character only uses 1 skeletal mesh at runtime. So its only one part being animated with 1 texture?

[ashen junco]

The former is easier to setup and with right setup can save on memory, but may cause some performance dip from anim instances, particularly if set master pose is not viable.

The latter is far harder to setup and could hurt memory usage (and potentially storage space), but lack of modularity means lesser anim instance to run.

Ultimately you should try profile the performance yourself in context of your project.

[winged spade]

A modular character that uses Vertex Animation Texture, driven with bones, is the most performant option you can have there. You share everything that is animated, could run all parts individual. For having all features running on any platform this is the way to gain the most performance in terms of memory, CPU and GPU usage. Multiple parts that are the same could even be instance meshes to even gain more on the GPU usage.

[left grail]

@ashen junco
Thank you. I just followed this tutorial meticulously. It is so far the best tutorial i found on modular characters. I have now a modular character, which is amazing. I can add armour pieces out of the blue and remove them and they all share the same animation and skeletor. Instanced skeletal meshes is something i have been dreading for a while. But i will have to dive in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sofSWFYGuU

[hallow elm]

Hey I have a question
I have a reload animation for first person character
and I want to reuse them for true first person character
but it is for false first person, so I can't see arm when true first person
How can I solve this?

[ashen junco]

Try retargetting the animations.

[hallow elm]

but it's already same skeleton of the third person mesh

it's just blend of arm animations and body animations

[craggy knoll]

No one? x)

[cedar pewter]

guys, is it better to make fps animations in UE or in other soft like Blender?

[ashen junco]

See #instructions on how to post to job board channels.

[ashen junco]

Personally I chose the latter, Control Rig + Sequencer is still rather limited for making animations (but it's usable)

[ashen junco]

So the animation plays? It seem like you're having the hand out of view

[ashen junco]

No one, kthxbye

I wasn't even aware that is a thing tbh

[dull sun]

How do I snap on the animation sequence timeline?

[cedar pewter]

ok thx! btw do you know any good tutorials or courses for making fps animations?

[ashen junco]

Can't recommend any tbh, I just went with practicing and practicing myself, and looking on animation videos

[cedar pewter]

gues I'll need to take that route too

[hallow elm]

yes, animation actually plays
I just want to make it inside of the first person camera
it just frame out

[cedar pewter]

if I want to make reload animations for UE mannequin in Blender, I should export him to Blender right? I see everyone makes animations just for hands, without the whole body

[misty dagger]

Hi, im editing an animation in control rig and when I try to bake the fk control rig track to an animation sequence, it just bakes the original animation?

[devout spade]

huh?

[misty dagger]

when i bake it to an animation sequence it just for some reason bakes the unedited animation sequence

when im trying to edit the animation with fk and bake that instead

[devout spade]

did you save it ?

right next to the globe

it says it's unsaved

[misty dagger]

ill try it

[devout spade]

right click the shoot skeleton and select bake animation sequence or create linked animation sequence try both

btw on a sidenote you should make a control rig for the als guy it's pretty easy mostly copy and paste from the ue4 example project

[misty dagger]

yeah its still not working

im just trying to make the animation more exagerated cos you can barely see the animation when you shoot atm

@devout spade how would you go about making the magazine of a gun attach to the players left hand when reloading?

[devout spade]

If the fk doesn't work then yea you probably need an ik control rig setup idk why but on humanoid characters translation does not work on most of the bones..... even with the control rig....
It works fine for guns tho i have no idea why unreal bug?????????

[misty dagger]

yeah ill have alook later

[devout spade]

for a reload animation what I do is just play the gun animation and the human animation at the same time

nothing is attached except the gun to the hand

[misty dagger]

ah ok

[devout spade]

idk if there is a proper way on unreal but i see people do the same even on maya

if there is a better way anyone lmk

[misty dagger]

i need to get bledner a shit so i can make animations

and*

can you export the als m4 model to blender?

does it let you do that

[devout spade]

yea

[misty dagger]

sorry im pretty new to unreal hahha

[devout spade]

problem is getting your rig set up properly on blender

epic uses their maya tools

you could use mr manniquen on blender

or auto rig pro

but when it comes to custom characters you need the ik bones in your blender rig

[misty dagger]

ah ok

ill try figure it out haha

probs plenty of vids on yt

[devout spade]

lol

all videos on youtube for creating custom character animations are doodoo

I was learning this like 2 months ago and I was like wow all these videos are dirt lol..

epic skeleton you have tools like mr manniquen but that's about it

[misty dagger]

yeah i watch so many videos of fps tutorials and the final outcome for most of them is so awful haha

als is so hard tho to implement stuff and theres barely any vids on als

[devout spade]

yea once you get used to the curves and disabling and enabling ik it's actually pretty smooth to use and make up your own stuff

i'm using the c++ version

[misty dagger]

yeah im probs gonna restart and use the replciaated version

just cos i wanna add mutliplayer later on

[devout spade]

Its performance is way better too

pretty wild

[misty dagger]

what are you making?

fps game?

[abstract bramble]

Has anyone here have problems using the Animation Warping plugin?

[pale vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cain-u9_g4
If vertex animation is a thing. Is it possible to generate a material that simulates a mesh without having a mesh just a texture? For example creating a cube from a texture?

[ashen junco]

Pardon me, I misread the question, though that'd be #graphics domain

[pale vine]

oops sorry. Its like if you have a plane. And a texture. Using the texture you could transform that plane into a cube, right?

[vocal ermine]

hi i am trying to place 12 cine camera actors that I animated and imported from blender at the top of a building but they're keyed to a global location which sits at the axis origin. Any idea how to select and move all frames for all camera's at the same time? Currently I can grab individual frames and move them, but that destroys the camera animation

[ashen junco]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/creating-level-sequences-with-dynamic-transforms-in-unreal-engine

[vocal ermine]

that helps so much thank you.

[winged spade]

If you have a source of vertices, yes. It is exactly what vertex animation is for.

[pale vine]

Thank you. Yup, this feels incredibly hard to learn. What should i search for to find tutorials or more information on how to do this?

[dull violet]

Posting question how to edit level in #level-design. No its for #graphics. Ok. No its obviously for #animation. Ok.
Ending just asking everything in #general. Typical UE Discord 😆

[ashen junco]

And #lounge for ranting about everything else.

This server isn't the place to rant about the server. Not on my watch.

[dull violet]

Try not to be toxic and people will stop ranting. I never had any help here so you can ban me I will not regret

[fleet willow]

Anyone else facing a lot of crashes in 5.0.2 when e.g. creating an Layered blend per bone -> adding a new pin -> removing that pin ?

[night cedar]

so I've been having some issues getting animations to play, initially though it was issue with the way I had the abilities set up but pretty certain it's something purely on the animation side atm

#gameplay-ability-system message

this is where I intially was trying to fix the issue

but in short the montage I want to play doesn't play will post the code meant to handle it in just a second

so this is the blueprint for the ability that plays the montage itself

the montage iself

and the animation graph

[shy sandal]

Have you tried other animations?

[night cedar]

yes

so I tried setting it to work with a key press now

and it works

but still not using all the logic I wanna attach to it

so now I am wondering if this is an issue with the ability itself

[shy sandal]

Lol yeah

So now an animation works from character bp?

[night cedar]

yeah

as in if I just have it play montage on key press

but I need it to play from the Gameplay Ability

[steel raptor]

Can someone please help me figure out why my animations deform strangely when importing them from blender?

[shy sandal]

Okay then switch back to GAS channel and I'll help

[dusk pewter]

Potentially stupid UE5 question... I'm trying to fix a broken pose mapping asset, and I need to adjust the animation curve value for one of the poses. Except... I have no idea how to change the curve values in the list on the right. Is there a whole tool for this I'm not seeing?

(I've tried double-clicking the number, right clicking, etc.)

[misty dagger]

I tried asking for help with Blender folks but I think either they misunderstood or it's specifically a UE4 issue I'm not finding. I apologize if this isn't the right section for help either.

I'm working on some stuff at the moment and had an FBX file exported and sent to me. Everything seems fine however in the export process Blender created a new armature (I think thats the term) above the root bone when it shouldn't have and now the root motion animations won't work when I ask UE4 to keep the animation in place.
I've tried looking up how to fix it but the one reddit post I found with the exact same issue had no replies under it. I'm unsure how to specify what the issue is since everything else I've found has been useless to my problem.

I can't send the FBX but heres some screenshots of what I mean by my root bone being replaced.
I'm unsure if I'm just completely doing this wrong or not but I would love some help. I'm still very new to all this, thanks in advance.

(Top image is the Blender file with the rig above the root bone, the other 2 screenshots is the same issue. I have no idea what to do to fix it.)

[slow goblet]

When I export my animation from blender, its blank in ue4, can I screenshare so someone can help me pls

[royal trellis]

Has anyone retargeted one Paragon character animations to a different Paragon character? Any blogs/guides/vids available for this?

[long swan]

When you import a mesh to blender, it adds that extra root usually named whatever your mesh is named. Just drag the root bone off the added bone in blender then delete that new bone and export. That should fix it

[sharp coyote]

so ive managed to mirror some 'attack' animations in ue5 but now i dont know what to do with the trail FX, anyone know off the bat how to make the trail FX adapt? i suppose i need to make a custom anim notify state?

because its basically using my right hand weapon trails while mirroring the attack with the left hand, just one step away from perfection

[misty dagger]

I think I'm having a major skill issue because I can't seem to drag the root bone out of the added bone in the list. I think I'm misunderstanding your advice

[fleet willow]

Yeah, those notify's are now aware whenever it came from a mirrored animation or not.
With that knowledge you can do your stuff depending on it

[slow goblet]

https://youtu.be/7m3hW9kFh78

whyse this happening

[ember vessel]

hello 😄 ,
I rigged a character inside blender, but when trying to animate him, there is a weird thing going on.

As you can see, there is a gap in my mesh.

[sharp coyote]

oh ic, thankss

[long swan]

My bad, I forgot, you have to hold shift
https://i.gyazo.com/a96f769b732762a26c505fba7f32f65d.gif

[misty dagger]

This hasn't fixed my issue sadly. The issue is this particular fella

[long swan]

Hmm, I would assume you could do the same with the root underneath "rig" but I don't know for sure

I have very limited experience with blender I just remembered that it adds the extra label on import when you posted your question

[worthy canyon]

I know it's generally bad to use tick, yet I've seen a lot of assets updating anim bp values on tick. Is it better to use timers for these instead?

[silent bay]

Not sure if this is the right channel for this but how would I get montage 2 to play based on whether or not montage 1 has played?

(for an attack combo type thing)

[ashen junco]

It's not that bad to use tick.
What's bad is to abuse tick.

Changing values on tick is generally pretty tame in practice, but still, profile it if you're in doubt

[ashen junco]

That'd be up to your actor BP to count the combo count.

[ashen junco]

Rename the armature object to specifically Armature before exporting as FBX.

[misty dagger]

I cant understand what this node does

[midnight perch]

Ok everyone. I have a bunch of models rigged using Auto-Rig Pro. I want to retarget in unreal, but I don't want to go through the pain of creating a whole new IK asset for each model. Each skeletak mesh has the same bones list, and same bone hierachy, just a different mesh. Is there anyway to copy this IK rig asset to another mesh that's the same thing? Or someway to save the bone chains? Thanks, all

[long swan]

There is an ik retarget bp system in UE5 which I do believe is designed exactly for that

[midnight perch]

Oh there is? do you have a link or something where I could read on up that?

[long swan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7WdyAeeDrw

I haven't watched that but that guy usually has decent info so it should be good

[midnight perch]

ok hmm this isn't quite what I was looking for. So I got this IK process pretty down, I just was wondering if there's a way to copy the IK rig to other similar meshes without having to redefine each bone chain again.

[velvet lion]

https://youtu.be/9cKuEXFDwl0
Try this method, around the 3-5 min mark. Basically you duplicate the ik rig and use the asset actions, bulk edit via property matrix to choose a different skeletal mesh

[midnight perch]

Ok great this looks like what I was looking for!

[midnight perch]

thanks so much!!

[misty dagger]

so quick question about animation blueprints:

what im trying to do is copy the transform of a bone from a separate skeletal mesh and copy it to another one using the Transform Modify Bone.

this does actually work, but it is slightly lagging behind, because it is relying on blueprints to get the transform data of the other bones.

is there a way to get the transform data from a bone from a different skeletal mesh without using blueprints to save performance?

[round shale]

Anyone know why my additive mesh would cause massive scale issues on my character?

This sort of thing

I'm assuming it's my actual skeleton setup, but not sure what?

[ashen junco]

Copy Pose From Mesh?

[misty dagger]

yea
i have a separate skeletal mesh that has some bones that drive the IK on the full body model

[ashen junco]

Make sure the animations are actually additive.

[round shale]

Yeah checked that - mesh additive.

[ashen junco]

Is that the node that you're looking for? Copy Pose From Mesh is fast path.

[misty dagger]

would i be able to grab the location and rotation data from a specific bone with it? thats mainly what im after

also i was able to improve performance quite a bit by getting rid of struct breaks, that helped quite a bit

[round shale]

So I'm applying an additive between an aim offset and some other movement. The aimoffset i'm setting as the 'additive' (each animation in the aimoffset is additive). However, the source INTO the aim offset is not additive. It's a cached locomotion movement

Could that be causing the scale issues?

[sharp linden]

I'm struggling to run a specific animation from sequencer AND using animation blueprint in the same time for metahuman. Is there a way to run both simultaneously in sequencer?

[round shale]

@ashen junco Turns out the input locomotion was also 'adding' to the additive, which isn't a good idea cause it's not additive!

Thanks for your help. Sorted it out.

[bleak ruin]

does anyone have a good procedural aim offset solution for true first person? any tutorials I could find seem to lack in some areas like versatility. Looking for something procedural if possible

[iron thicket]

Guys, how do I do animation for such a type of skeleton as metahuman (which is presented as separate skeletal mesh)? Only Runtime Retargeting or are there other ways

[ashen junco]

#graphics

[left grail]

ok removed it. its in there. could you please help me in there?

[autumn sandal]

Good Morning Everyone. I'm super new to UE5. I've spent the last few day setting up a scene to snap a static picture. The scene is this C130 flying in the air: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/c130-j-transport-west. This C130 comes with some "show room" animations. I would like to do two things: (1) have the landing gear up and (2) have the propellers spinning. If the propellers are spinning when I snap my picture it will give the effect of aircraft flying. I've look through their documentation and have looked through youtube. This is my first time posting in discord for help. I feel like this is very easy since all the animations come with the asset, however, I just don't know the basics enough to complete the task. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[restive vortex]

If it has an propeller animation you can in its blueprint set the animation instance from animation blueprint to an animation asset (propeller spinning, and just pick that (might need to make an actor if there isnt). For gear up might be easiest to use "Hide Bone By Name". There's some more details but I think that's enough to google the rest 🙂

[autumn sandal]

Thank you for the information!

[restive vortex]

Btw, something completely else. ALS uses animations with timestamps for additive poses etc, is there a reason why not use pose assets here? seems much simpler... wasn't the feature available

[autumn sandal]

Okay! thank you!

[long swan]

I'm assuming your using the "Vigilante" C-130 asset?
Open the anim BP and set the variables for the propellers and landing gear. It will play the animations when you play in editor. Make sure you set the ones on the left, not the right

[autumn sandal]

@long swan Yes, thank you. @somber ivy helped me with how to set the default variables of the animation. That made a big difference in the scene. I'm just a noob and excited to learn more!

[graceful tundra]

So in the UE5 IK retargeter, I need to set the retarget pose. It appears I have to manually pose the character? Is there no way to import a retarget pose from a pose asset?

I added the retarget pose to the skeleton itself, but that seemed to have no effect, and could be from the deprecated retarget system.

[mortal scarab]

Hi guys, I just set up an IK reatrgeter from a mixamo character to the ue 5 mannequin. I set up every bone but somehow the fingers are glitching out. Does anyone know why?

[restive vortex]

you made a mistake in the setup

double check that all bones are setup to match correctly

[scenic plume]

bruh import button greyed out

[lapis prairie]

Hi, should i use lyra approach to animations for ue5? Or "old" way with event graph is fine?

[regal pivot]

I'm looking at the Unreal content example, but I'm not understanding the slot.
I have two montage animations that play when an event is triggered, in the animation graph I have two slots, but I don't understand how those slots are linked to the montages.

[harsh cedar]

Is there a way to start an animation from a specific frame when working within BPs?

[tribal whale]

I had a question about root motion but I posted in #ue5-general so I figure I would refer to it here

#ue5-general message

[ashen junco]

You haven't set any skeleton for it.

[ashen junco]

Basically those slots will be where your anim montage will be played. So for example, you have montage intended to play just on the upper body part (e.g. reload anim), you put the slot to a layered blend

[amber mural]

Hello, Basic animation question: I want to mirror an animation along the X or Y on the root but if I export with -1 scale the mesh is inverted whats the proper way to Scale keys for mirror in Maya or Unreal?

[regal pivot]

thanks

I have another question, I have a event jump , this event it use in different part of anim graph, but also there a AnimNotify_ResetJump event, this event not use in anything place, but if remove it , the animation jump play in loop infinity , I don't understand why it happen that.

[plucky nexus]

i am trying to setup my socket but the preview is broken and wont show anything
what should i do to fix the socket

[ashen junco]

Your skelmesh is way too large.

[plucky nexus]

ah how would i shrink it?

[ashen junco]

Change the uniform scale in the (re)import settings

[plucky nexus]

do you know what a good scale would be for this?

[ashen junco]

Up to your mesh, really.

[plucky nexus]

so i should just plug in a random value until its good

[ashen junco]

Normally it should be kept to 1, but I know Blender tend to have some scaling issues when exporting FBX then importing it to Unreal.

[plucky nexus]

ah yeah i use blender il test some values

also how do i reimport with new settings

[tender dew]

hey, So i downloaded a ue4 animation. Is there a way to apply that ue4 mannequin animation to ue5 manny?

[magic bolt]

Yeah you need to do IK rig retargeting. There's a retargeter in the ue4 mannequin folder: Content/Characters/Mannequin_UE4/Rigs/RTG_UE4Manny_UE5Manny. You can also google ue4 manny to ue5 manny ik retargeting

[grizzled mauve]

how do i make a two handed animation stay with the weapon

[halcyon sail]

Does anyone have any recommendations for places to get high/AAA quality mocap animations?

[drifting mauve]

Hello everyone, is it possible to export an animated metahuman from UE5 to Blender? basically just from the T pose into another pose to create some clothing and simulate it to later reimport it in to UE5 again.

[scenic plume]

bruh the new retargeting system stupid

it scales bones instead of just rotating bruh

why lmao

[fresh blaze]

Hey are there any alternative for Adobe Mixamo with animation bank, etc. ?

Thanks!

[ashen junco]

Unreal Marketplace.

[uncut sandal]

Hey good people, was hoping to get a bit of help with a scene im working on.
Its a reward scene for a top down view card game(similar to heartstone) and I want to drop a few coins on the table in front of the player (range 1-50) and then also a few diamonds at the end of each match.
Im going for a realistic feeling, so like you were just playing a guy at a bar and he throws it at the table after you win.

What would make the most sense to use, ive thought about:
-possibly simulating them in blender and exporting them as a animation. (not really my strong suite)
-using a particle effect to spawn them with gravity and collision enabled(done some quick tests and the animation feels kind of cheap and not realistic)

[lean jasper]

just got done animating this :p

[stray rampart]

hi all, i want to make a static mesh for my players PDA rise up on the screen when they press a button, what's the best way to do that animation?

was thinking of doing it in blueprints but thought trying to make it animation would be better

[slow goblet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3M6U2tasCs

can sm1 explain this

why the hair gets all weird at the end whe nI attach it to a socket

[dull sun]

Is the hair using the same skeleton as the body? If so, set up the hair to follow the body as a Master Pose.

[slow goblet]

The hair has its own skeleton

But I could try making it have the same skeleton as the body

[dull sun]

That's probably ideal, if you can.

[plain drift]

Anyone knows how to fix my clothing clipping through the physics asset?

[honest geyser]

Does anyone know of a guide for making a character skeleton to match the new Mannequin skeleton? I'm using blender, have a basic understanding of rigging, but want to make an identical skeleton so that my importing and syncing of animations works well.

[plain drift]

I think there is a ue4 plugin for blender, which contains the mannequins skeleton

https://toshicg.gumroad.com/l/game_rig_tools

[honest geyser]

@plain drift I have that actually, and Auto Rig Pro, but not sure if they are updated to use the new Manny rig yet

[coral plover]

Say I want to use the same eventgraph initialize animation in multiple animinstances and dont want to copy past, I tried makeing child ABP's but then the parent ABP initialize animation dont run and I cant find a way to call partent eventgraph functions, does anyone know how to do this ?

[karmic basin]

Hey fam whats up!
I'm pretty new to Unreal and have been playing around with the free assets, AncientWorld, since the UE5early access it was loading fine, but when i updated to UE5.0.2 this happened, the assets doesnt load properly

im on RAZER Pro 17 | RTX 3080 | 64GB Ram Laptop

[ashen junco]

So it's like Doom 3?

[ashen junco]

#work-in-progress

[ashen junco]

Are those convex hull collisions?

Cloth physics only work with box, sphere/capsule, and tapered capsule (one end have different radius).

[ashen junco]

Please do not crosspost without redirected

[misty dagger]

How can I find in which animation this notify has placed?

[severe pelican]

Hey guys, what's the difference between IK rigs and control rigs, and which one should I use for a VR body?

[long swan]

🪟 +Shift+S

[fleet ruin]

hey, got a weird issue, when my character plays an attack montage while on a moving platform, the character stays still the jumps back to the platform once the montage is over

any ideas about what is going on?

[silver ingot]

Hey guys, i'm trying to make some short movie and have a problem while connecting two skeletal meshes (SM) inside one actor.
How i can send Position of bone from B to A (Socket window doesn't works for SM, only for Static Mesh) and how i can send Rotation from A to B?
UPD: solved by simple retargeting

[stray rampart]

i guess

[rustic sandal]

hi i am trying to make a character animation where my goal is to have a character texture and put a alpha image sequence of faces which i can animate by movin a scale or smthn like in blender

if any1 knows how do i create this layered texture and animate it would highly appreciate

[craggy knoll]

On how to animate material parameters with control rig: https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/k8y8/editing-materials-with-control-rig

[rustic sandal]

ooooh thanks

[craggy knoll]

Flipbook in material https://youtu.be/ZWAF_f2aP9s

[rustic sandal]

altho there is another thing which i cant do i need to like put the face on top of texture and let rest remain alpha

when i try do that the alpha like makes everything black

i cant figure that out

also btw ur a legend for the help idk how i spent 5 hrs not findin thing n u got in second

[craggy knoll]

That's more of a #graphics (for materials) question. Post your Material setup there

[rustic sandal]

wait um i needed sum help i saw how he did it but i want to play like each every image accordin to my choice by animating usin keyframes

is that possible?

[craggy knoll]

Everything is possible. You need to create parameters within your Material that you can tweak outside via Blueprint or Control Rig Graph. https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/HowTo/Making_Parameters/#:~:text=Material Parameters are a special,but with one key difference.
You should look into more tutorials. It's to much to explain for a simple answer.

[rustic sandal]

got it, idk why unreals blueprints so much complicated compare to blender

[craggy knoll]

About Translation Retargeting. If I setup everything to be "Animation" the Animation should be 100% equal to the Source Animation right?
What does Character -> Animation -> Non-Retargeted Animation actually show (Screenshot)? I thought it would show me the Source Animation and if I setuped Translation Retargeting to something else then "Animation" then I would see the difference.
But it doesn't really. There is also Character -> Animation -> SourceAnimation which is probably the raw animation which is aligned perfectly with the actual processed animation.

So what is the difference between "Non-Retargeted Animation" and "SourceAnimation"?

[craggy knoll]

Also I noticed something strange. When I export the animation from Unreal and back in again, the Non-Retargeted Animation matches with the actual processed animation.

[craggy knoll]

Originally the animation came from Maya (the screenshot in the message I'm replying to).

[bleak ruin]

does anyone have a good procedural aim offset solution for true first person? any tutorials I could find seem to lack in some areas like versatility. Looking for something procedural if possible

[craggy knoll]

maybe that? https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/true-first-person-camera-in-unreal-engine-4

[finite palm]

Is there a way I can do ik on a bone without impacting the position of my weapon that's attached to that bone ?

[craggy knoll]

Duplicate the bone and let that one not be modified by IK which is then the driver for your weapon.

[ashen junco]

Control Rig and some IK work could do.

[past frost]

Hey guys, I need to edit some third person animations to work better for a first person game. Looking for some good tutorials on editing animations, if anyone has some recommendations!

[modern compass]

hey everyone, anyone else used Ipad Pro for metahuma facial animation with the Live Link Face? My results are really wonky, like when I blink the metahuman blinks and opens her mouth and smiling makes weird gmod style derpface etc...

[finite palm]

anyone know how to move the entire arm when moving just a hand for instance in blender ?

I'm pretty sure the rig has the right constraints because ik works fine in unreal but not in blender

[steady orchid]

this stuff dont get exported into the fbx

you need to create the ik chain in blender

[finite palm]

ah ok

[modern compass]

Also are there premade facial animations available for metahumans

[warm garnet]

Yo! How do you guys go about matching the positions of two separately animated skeletal meshes with each other? For example, I have some FPS arms and a weapon. Currently I set the object origin of both of these in blender to be where the camera is, which makes me skeleton structure look like this:

This works great for aligning them perfectly, but I would prefer not to have the skeleton like this, as it means I need a separate skeleton for the weapon's world model, and it can be a pain to work with in some situations.

Outside of manually lining up a socket on the hand skeleton and eye-matching the position of the gun, is there an alternative approach to getting it perfectly lined up like it is in blender?

[ashen junco]

Attach the gun mesh to the hand bone, and disable "root motion" in the gun skelmesh.

[warm garnet]

I'll have to manually line it up to get it perfect though right?

Since the root bone of the gun and the arms hand bone will be inside each other

[ashen junco]

Or you can have a weightless bone for the weapon to attach on.

[warm garnet]

Oh that's interesting, so I create a bone somewhere in the palm of the hand that is parented to the root hand bone and use that to position the gun?

[ashen junco]

Yup.
At least that's how I do it for third person view as well

Also useful if you have animations like spinning the gun, holding it with the other hand, etc.

[silent bay]

Are animations a fixed frame rate in UE?

Like if I make an animation at 30fps in Blender can I make it 60 in UE?

Also does anyone know how to export just 1 action from Blender?

[lean jasper]

what would i use to make a inspect weapon or fire weapon transition in the animbp? i dont want a boolean because there is no easy way to reset it after firing it

[craggy knoll]

If you use Interpolation = Step it's fixed. If not, it will get interpolated between the keys (Uncapped framerate)

[silent bay]

Is that in Blender or UE?

[craggy knoll]

UE

[silent bay]

Ah

[ashen junco]

By default inter-frame interpolation is linear, so <= 30 FPS anim shouldn't be choppy by default.
In some cases, it has to be set to step, which means the animation will be choppy, and may be desired.

[silent bay]

Yeah I'm using linear interpolation in Blender

[ashen junco]

In Unreal. Exported anims (I think) don't carry any inter frame data.

[sharp linden]

So I have additional SkeletalMesh for my Metahuman. In blueprint there're sections for Body and Pants and I added another one. Is there a way in Sequencer for this component to inherit any actions applied to main metahuman? That way when I want to use animation or control rig I can just apply it to main body and it will be reflected on this additional component.

[mortal scarab]

What is wrong with that animation guys? Would be so nice if someone could tell me

[silent bay]

How would I animate an object being thrown from one hand to the other? Not the hand animation but the actual object

I want my character to throw his weapon to his other hand and back as part of his idle animation

[warm garnet]

are you asking for animation specifics? you should just be able to do this if your gun and arms rig are separate

[silent bay]

I've already animated the throw/catch in Blender. Problem is, the object I want to animate is in UE not Blender.

Should it be in Blender instead?

[warm garnet]

I mean I'm sure you can animate it fully in unreal, I don't have any experience with that though

If you have animated the throw/catch what object are you using in blender vs what's in your unreal project? Is it not the same thing?

[silent bay]

It is but the object in UE is a blueprint

[warm garnet]

I'm pretty new to unreal so take this with a grain of salt, but if I were approaching this, I would create a socket on the hand bone of your arms and attach your object to that, then play the animation for the object (you should have a skeletalmeshcomponent in the blueprint)

You would have to make sure the animation started where the socket was

You would play this at the same time as the arms animation

[ashen junco]

#animation message

[silent bay]

I have this as part of the rig already. Could I use this?

(also has this in the left hand)

[ashen junco]

Depends if you really used it or not

[silent bay]

I didn't

It's mainly for Blender that bone.

But I suppose it could be used as a parent socket

I'm just not sure whether or not I should be animating the object in Blender or UE. Or how to tbh

[ashen junco]

Personally I would have another bone parented from the root for the weapon to move around

[silent bay]

roots the one at the top?

[ashen junco]

I don't know, your rig hierarchy looks super odd

[silent bay]

yeah I didn't make it lmao

It's Epic Fig Rig. It's mainly designed for Blender not UE

[silent bay]

Basically this is (part of) the animation that I exported from Blender. At the start of the clip he's "holding" the lightsaber in his black hand, then throws it to his other hand and back again. The lightsaber, is already part in the project as both a static mesh and a Blueprint. The 3rd person character blueprint is using the lightsaber blueprint as a child actor which is using the static meshes but they aren't animated in Blender or UE.

[queen matrix]

Hey, anyone here experienced with rigging and maya?

Have a rig set up for a weapon that's got a ktransform as parent?. Generally I get the weapons exported via Blender and the Weapon bone is always the parent/root. However when I import the skeletal mesh to maya, bind skin to another mesh and try to export, it makes the armature a new parent in Unreal.

Any idea how I could export with Weapon bone as the parent? Thanks

this is what it should look like, when my animator exports via Blender

[silent bay]

Not sure if I'm right but I think I've heard a few people say not to name your armature, armature

Although that might be just for Blender

Also don't listen to me I don't know what I'm talking about 😂

[tribal whale]

Should aim offsets be precisely aligned with where a weapon is aiming?

Because I think that would making the animation pretty hard

[ashen junco]

With third person view, it's more forgiving, though make sure it's not too off.

[ashen junco]

Also you could make it procedural with a Control Rig setup

[patent knoll]

Hi guys, does anyone know how to properly retarget IK bones with the UE5 IK retargeter? This is my current configuration in the retargeter but I can't get the hand and feet IKs to be passed onto the retargeted animation. I found this video but doesn't work for me unfortunately https://youtu.be/_I1ldRuAr74 I can't even get the root motion retargeted properly, target animation will only play on place (I've tried set the root instead of pelvis as the retargeting root)
Any help would be much appreciated!

[craggy knoll]

for retargeting root motion have a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joFpm3ZDcd8&t=183s

This way has a bug though where the additional motion that comes from different proportions in target and source will be saved inside the pelvis and not the root bone.
I would try to not retarget the root motion and fix the root motion afterwards.

[patent knoll]

yes can confirm you need to untick the force root lock and enable root motion from the source clip. Then I added a Body Mover + LimbIk to be able to shift down vertically the position in case of different heights. But the root motion will make the shorter character slide so it will need additional tweaking for sure.
However, still haven't found a solution to get the ik bones retargeted properly 😦

[novel plover]

Hello hello. Newbie animation question. Is there a freely-available animation pack out there that has common humanoid animations, like sitting/typing etc? I can't see that kind of stuff in the Animation Starter Pack

[coral panther]

Hi, Makoto; thanks for the response but do you have any detail on that? Do you mean like using additive animation? That wouldn't remove the original, I think, it would just start getting weird. Where are you suggesting to begin?

[ashen junco]

Do you have the facial animation baked into the anim sequence?

[ashen junco]

Unfortunately not many.

Also can't recommend Mixamo either, especially for production use and/or building anim logic upon. Shame that Adobe pulled the plug on UE4 rig long ago.

[crimson sparrow]

Im working currently in a ControlRig BP and all Controls on the Preview Mesh just disappeared. I looked in every Corner of the Editor but i cant find where to bring the Controls back. Any ideas? A shortcut maybe?

[fleet willow]

Is there a good example on when to use a transition which has Bidirectional activated ?

[craggy knoll]

maybe pressing G (GameView)?

[crimson sparrow]

No its not working, might be a bug. After i restarted the controls came back.

[novel plover]

Thanks for the reply!

[rustic sandal]

any1 knows how to control the flipbook nodes timing like when which frame comes where and when?

[rustic sandal]

mixamo works decently for roblox or minecraft type anim not on real characters

[coral panther]

I haven't done anything yet as I'm trying to understand a process first, but yes I can get a baked facial animation sequence.

[rustic sandal]

mixamo works pretty well i will be honest i tried makin cartoonish style anim with it and it wasnt as bad on blender

[ashen junco]

Better not. My idea is to layer them like this:
Body Pose -> Lip Sync -> Facial Expression

[ashen junco]

And my main gripe with it wasn't even about the anim quality, but rather its weird rig. It doesn't have a dedicated root bone, so root motion is a bitch to get working with Mixamo anims.

[rustic sandal]

https://streamable.com/oap7ih here is my problem recorded

[rustic sandal]

it does have a root?

i get the root bone in mid of its stomach in blender

n in blender u can convert it to a proper rig with controls now

with newe adobe add on

[ashen junco]

It doesn't. The root bone is the pelvis directly. UE4 skeletons have a dedicated root bone before pelvis bone.