animation

[ashen junco]

Which means attempting to extract root motion will result in the crotch fixated in one point.

[craggy knoll]

You should ask Blender question in a Blender Community Server / Forum. Someone might be here that can answer your question, but here, you mainly find Unreal developers.

[coral panther]

So you're not suggesting I use animated sequences in sequencer then? Sequencer puts them in parallel not in a stack -- can you be a bit more specific or maybe point me to something that explains the process you're using? I'm obviously coming from a completely different direction. Thank you for taking the time!

[ashen junco]

Even then answered Blender questions in here mainly about the workflow from Blender to UE

[ashen junco]

You can assign slots to them, and have your character's anim BP make use of those slots in layered blends or additive blends.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/Sequencer/HowTo/GameplayAnimBlending/

[coral panther]

thanks! I'll check this out. Have a great day.

[rustic sandal]

no its not a blender question i am givin example as a blender and sayin i wanna do thing like this in unreal pls

also not a blender problem

just a way to show what i am tryna get in unreal

[hazy magnet]

Hello, I am trying to animate a drop attack. I am currently using the EventOnLanded as trigger for the hit, while looping an idle for the falling time. However the EventOnLanded would only trigger the animation when the character already landed, making it virtually impossible to trigger the attack the moment the character would be close enough to the ground to reach it. Is there any way I can quit the loop and enter the attack animation before I hit the ground? Like a distance tracker? I would appreciate any help.

[ashen junco]

You don't use Event On Landed, just trigger it when the attacker is close enough to the target from above.

[hazy magnet]

Whats the best way to measure distance between ground and actor?

[ashen junco]

Why not measure distance from attacker to the target first? At least assuming the target is grounded

[wicked forge]

Quick question, are there any examples of a gaze/look at system with the default UE4 mannequin?

[ashen junco]

Not an official example, but it's rather easy to implement.

[wicked forge]

Any pointers where to look for a tutorial or terms to google? My google-fu is failing me this time around

[ashen junco]

Also in Control Rig, you have Aim node.

[wicked forge]

Thank you so much!

[hidden pivot]

How do I get the Initial or Offset position of a Control Rig control from inside my pawn?

[median ledge]

Does anyone know of some in-depth resource about state machines in ue4?

[hidden pivot]

@ashen junco How do I get the Initial or Offset position of a Control Rig control from inside my pawn?

[ashen junco]

You can't access it directly in actor BP.

[warm garnet]

I'm having an issue where an animation that is dependent on movement by a child of constraint is not exporting enough keyframes to always keep it tracked. The animation looks fine in blender, but after exporting to unreal there are parts where the hands is not perfectly following the gun. I have turned off simplification and lowered the sampling rate to 0.1 (the lowest). The only solution I can think of is to key every frame in the arms animation, but then it will make it basically impossible to modify the animation in the future, and I would have to do this every time I make a change to the gun part of the animation.

I just realised this channel is meant for animation within unreal, but hopefully someone can help anyway 😄

[spiral sequoia]

i was given anims to work with that look like root motion, but the root bone doesnt actually move. if i keyframe the root bone and move it, then obviously the character is now twice as far forward as they should be, because it is relative to the root bone. if i try to keyframe the pelvis and keep it lined up, it starts going wonky in all directions. up, down, left, right. is there just a way to scale the location of a bone so i can undo the root motion, then add it back in just by moving the root bone? its a run cycle, but ill have to do this for many anims

[slow goblet]

Anyone know a tutorial where I can setup turning animations? Not turn in place, just setting up animations for turning while walking and running

[ashen junco]

Is it a custom anim someone made for you?

[spiral sequoia]

its just a run animation, but theres a lot that are like this that i need to fix

[ashen junco]

Was it necessary when you're already moving?

[slow goblet]

Wdym

[spiral sequoia]

is there a way to scale a bones location on an axis? like to make it not move in 1 axis but keep the rest the same

[heavy hedge]

Not sure if the right channel, I'm adding shapes to the skeletal mesh physics assets. What's the best way to change the pose and have it stick while doing this?

I can change Preview Controller to use an animation asset I made, but the moment I modify any of the physics shapes, it resets back to Default

Makes adding/modifying shapes incredibly tedius. Any ideas?

[novel plover]

Just following up on this. I'm finding that the Mixamo animations work fine in UE once retargeted. The steps in this video seem to work fine for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92rag3qStI4&t=1064s

[fleet willow]

Is it somehow possible inside of a state machine to "split" the output pose so that you can use the same output in 2 input pins ?
I know the option of caching, but you can only make cache poses outside of a state machine

[floral temple]

Hello,

I am looking for a solution that with following requirements:

• Fully physics simulating SKM (imagine a car driving, aircraft flying or mannequin falling [no capsule/movement component])
• Specific bones are playing animation (car's door opening closing, mannequin flailing hands or aircraft opening the landing gear)
• The collision of the skm/physics asset should properly follow the bone (currently, with physics blending set to 0 the animation plays on the bone but the Phat primitives dont get moved, with blending at 1 the animation doesnt play and if the bone is Kinematic it gets the physics simulating SKM stuck/spazzing out [but both animation and collision are correctly updated])

An ideal testcases would be

• A physically simulated aircraft Skm that can deploy the landing gear with animation while performing physics based flight, and also properly updating the physics asset for the landing gear
• A physics simulating vehicle driving and playing trunk/door opening closing animation while properly updating the related physics asset collision location/rotation

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

[strange nebula]

what exactly is your question ...

[floral temple]

@strange nebula How do I make physics simulated SKM (such as an aircraft body) play an animation (open landing gear)? I need physics asset (collision primitives of landing gear) to follow the animation and SKM to keep simulating physics (fly, fall, etc)

@strange nebula I posted a job in regards to this in #freelance-jobs. if you have the expertise I am willing to compensate you for your time

[hidden vector]

Would anyone be willing to help me out with something to find?

I would like to learn how to do a ragdoll which isn't too difficult but here's the key part then go back from said ragdoll to a normal animation

https://golaem.com/sites/default/files/Crowd5_from-ragdoll-to-animation_bis.gif

example

I'm wondering if there's a nice way to do this in unreal

if anyone knows of a key sentence to google or a resource/youtube video to learn a bit more about this i'd appreciate it

haven't really found anything online yet relating to unreal

[waxen elbow]

my animation blueprint is only doing the idle animation for some reaosn

It's not switching even if I jump or move around

[uneven herald]

you need to fix the physics linear limitations on the physics asset for your character

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7hV6gTBYew

that video should help you

I am trying to get my character (a metahuman) to move its head according to the camera location, I have done this successfully with the arms, they follow my controllers perfectly, I used a Fabrik on the hand and upperarm, for some reason this same process does not work with the head

The first image works, second one doesnt

[hidden vector]

hmm thank you ill check that out

[rancid sparrow]

Hi! Rendering out my level sequence to an image sequence, but my animated character is stuck in his A-pose. Anybody know what could be causing this?

[toxic badge]

I'm trying to render a animation and when it's done rendering all I get is an image sequence do I need to put the image sequence into another program to render out or what?

[misty dagger]

wtf is this node?

[regal pivot]

why If My Skeletal has a bunch Blends Profile, but When I try use Blend poses all blends profile are not shown and only appear 3 blends profile :/ I don't understand why that happens

[hidden pivot]

Is there any reasonable way to scale a mesh / actor that has a control rig? Without everything breaking?

[mystic cave]

Hey guys so I am trying to use motion warping plugin to make my character vault. the issue is am facing is that my character doesn't go up on the z axis even tho my Ignore ZAxis is false and collision is disabled. If i use flying movement mode then my character just goes up in the air.

[ashen junco]

Just scale down the skelmesh as usual.

[honest geyser]

I am having an issue with retargeting, the source mesh/skeleton has a Virtual Bone and is visible in the IK Rig for the source skel, so I put this on my target Skeleton, however when I go to set up the IK Rig for it, the virtual bone does not show up in the Skeleton Hierarchy, does anyone know a solution for this?

[ashen junco]

Context needed, show the anim graph

[faint oracle]

Is there any way to disable stretching on simple control rig controls? Arms and Legs have IK with it disabled from the Ik node, but I don't have that for the controls that don't have IK, such as head, shoulders etc.

[valid kiln]

Hey all! Anyone had issues importing animation FBXs (specifically from Xsens MVN) into UE5? The data imports, but refuses to play - it's frozen on the first frame of animation. Cheers!

[outer maple]

How can I fix rotation problems when doing ik retargeting?

for the root pose

My UE4 skeleton is pointed towards the camera, but my character is facing right for instance

[finite palm]

Anyone know why I can't export because of this action in blender ?

[sand vine]

Trying to figure out why a transform bone works when i use it with the same logic but without for each. As soon as i add the for each though, its not doing anything anymore Oo

ok figured it out - the issue was that i did use an item CHAIN instead of simply item search xD

[ashen junco]

Up to you.
Though in UE you need to set up Control Rig beforehand.

[waxen elbow]

I fixed dw

[fleet willow]

Is there some way to get 2 output pins here ?
Can't use Save Cache here, sadly (state machine doesn't allow it)

Or making this single pin able to connect to more than only 1 input pin ?

Like i really don't wanna duplicate the whole logic in order to get a second pin, but this seems to be the only option so far

[ashen junco]

What's the context?

[hidden pivot]

I'm moving the foot controls and the hip control of my actor across the map, but the Actor position itself remains at the world origin, so the moment I move my camera to no longer see the world origin my mesh becomes invisible. How can I fix that?

[woven heart]

Question, how do I add a bone to the "Attributes" section of a Animation Sequence file? Like in this Third Person Template file...

[fleet willow]

Doesn't matter anymore as i've had a logic brain lag xD

[ornate marsh]

Is it difficult to learn how to animate ?

[empty wagon]

Yes

[velvet lion]

I recommend this Youtube channel. He's developed some of his own tools for retargeting, and one of the topics included are on virtual bones. His tutorials are geared towards ALS (advanced locomotion system) but it might still be applicable to whatever you're working on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1L3_haDK-O8WQ5ckzy9vw/playlists

[austere needle]

but when i export it to unreal i get stuttering and some weird deformations in the feet

are there any resources for exporting animations from Blender to unreal, I have an animation that is supposed to look like this.

[covert onyx]

anyone knows why this happens?

ik bones doesnt get animated. i used ik retarget ue4 to ue5 manny

[quartz laurel]

Is there a way to get a reference to the Niagara system spawned with Anim notify?

[fast gorge]

guys which is best arquitecture of animation , any tutorial?

[ashen junco]

Depending on your patience and dedication.

[hidden pivot]

Whenever I try to enable Simulate on some bones on my Physics Asset they simply vanish in the game. Why?

I wonder if it's even possible to get the physics to work...

[quartz laurel]

Override it is

[empty wagon]

Hey does anyone have any idea how to make it so that an ani montage stops if the player is moving/ doing something else? Similar to how fortnites emotes work as in when ur emoting then u walk the emote stops???

[turbid plover]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/what-is-the-rotation-order-for-components-or-bones/286910/6 I’m having trouble grasping the answer here conceptually. I don’t understand why changing roll affects pitch and yaw. If the object rotates in world space and roll is done first then I don’t see how it could affect them.

[finite sinew]

Been running into an issue with FootIK, https://youtu.be/GZ44nKPKubk?t=28

Any help?

[vast trellis]

I tried making an empty mesh out of the ue4 mannequin in blender (similar to the ue5 mannequin empty meshes used in Lyra and I think meta humans stuff), with copy pose on the actual cosmetic mesh. During play I'm getting though:

LogSkeletalMesh: Warning: Skeletal mesh SK_Invis has no valid LODs for rendering.

How do I avoid that? (everything works and animates fine, I jsut get that logspam)

[proper jacinth]

Oh man we did the funniest experiment today. We have this model of an ostrich we grabbed from the store, and where figuring out how best to animate it, and it was like "Lets mocap it. Ostriches have two legs, two "arms" (wings!) and body and a head, its a human!". So we tried remapping from the SK skeleton we usually mocap to to the ostrich and it works ....... brilliant. Cue up people jumping about trying to "ostrich dance" and yeah. Very silly.

And now we can drop a f__ing ostrich into all our cut scenes to ruin them, or rather make them better

[fresh sandal]

I'm getting "Imported bone transform is different from original." exporting from blender. Simple single bone armature with transforms applied. What gives?

[celest pumice]

i am trying to rotate the RightHand to go face a specific target location, but when i attempt rotation, it uses the wrong axis. i have learned that rotating a bone like this will use the forward (X) axis, but I am not sure how I can modify this to work as I want, and face forward instead of side-to-side. any ideas? (i tried multiplayer the start vector by some numbers to try to get it to face the right way, but it didnt work. still open to trying, if someone has ideas on numbers that would work)

[verbal parrot]

is there nothing called third person animation BP in UE5???? Following a guide where they use it in UE4, but I cant find it in UE5

[fleet willow]

Those are the ones in UE5 third person template

[verbal parrot]

I see, but I cant seem to find the animation graph in here? @fleet willow

[fleet willow]

ABP_Manny is the main AnimBP

Quinn just extends from Manny and does nothing

[verbal parrot]

Im following a guide, but I cant find this

[ashen junco]

Wait, templating anim graph is possible in UE5?

[fleet willow]

Wasn't that possible in UE4 ?
(I don't know that as i never had the need for it)

[ashen junco]

No, it isn't. AnimBPs are tied per skeleton and inheriting anim BP doesn't carry over the anim graph

[fleet willow]

Well then, it works in UE5 ™️

[ashen junco]

Holy shit

Yup, I have to stick with 4.27 hehehe

[fleet willow]

Makes you miss a lot of cool new features when it comes to animation blueprints.
The state alias alone is just.. hot

[verbal parrot]

what does that mean? If I do changes in Manny, it changes for Quinn aswell?

[fleet willow]

Pretty much (at least if we are still talking about those anim blueprints)

[ashen junco]

TBH some new UE5 features can be recreated with 4.27's Control Rig, but still

If only 5.0 isn't too rough around the edges

Templating anim graph would've been convenient, instead of repeating copy pose every time

[next mountain]

Is it possible to have child animation blueprints show up as a data-only view in the editor?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/Editor/UIBreakdowns/DataOnlyUI/

[dense gyro]

someone can help me when i simulate physics of bone it shrink inside ground

[pastel onyx]

why are some meshes distorted by apply mesh space additive?

[wet moth]

I'm relatively new to all this, but...does anyone know how to set up a blendspace animation for movement of a character that floats in space? The variables for my blend are the X and Y, but I can't seem to make that work in the animation blueprint. Calculate direction is giving me some weird results with a character that can move up, down, right, and left.

[ashen junco]

If you use any kind of Movement Component, Get Velocity

[neat spoke]

Hi, anyone here have experience with HumanIK control rigs? I have a character made with animation, exported to UE5, with an up and down animation, but it just moves my leg up and down making hip joint the center root.

[wet moth]

I've been using Get Velocity. Obviously haven't been using it the correct way. What is the right way to use it in this situation?

[dense gyro]

how can i fix this?

while walking the bone not follow physics rather running far from its bone place

[iron thicket]

Guys, how i can import skeleton of character template in blender?
When I import a skeleton all its bones become crooked

[winged spade]

That's it. Vertex Animation of 1000 units. Each with animated legs, attached static shoulder and cockpit and with two animated weapons ready to shoot. Textures are bit heavy but look the frame and game thread. Each part can be individually controlled with nearly no extra costs, at least nothing which cost for the animations.

Screenshot tanked a bit the FPS but yeah who cares

[ashen junco]

As in facing sideways?

[hallow elm]

Hey I have a problem
Although I set Mannequin A pose as a reference pose for retarget, it won't show in Retarget Manager
How can I fix it?

[fleet willow]

@hallow elm Since UE5 it's not working anymore like this

[hallow elm]

hmm?

so what do you mean?

[fleet willow]

You now need to modify the pose here

[hallow elm]

Oh, so I can't edit original reference pose anymore??

[fleet willow]

Only if you re-import it, sadly

Also not a fan of this decision

[hallow elm]

oh damn

Thank you!

Ahh then Can I use UE4 style retarget in UE5?

[fleet willow]

This is also not an option anymore. The old system got completely replaced with the new one.
So if you really wanna use the UE4 style you'd need to use UE4 to make it just in order to migrate the final result back to UE5

So better get used to the UE5 system 😅

[hallow elm]

okay Thank you!
I dont like Epic....

[ashen junco]

How's the neighbour smellin'?

[fleet willow]

Don't get me wrong tho.
UE5's system is really really powerful. Just some decisions were really bad like e.g. the way how you can edit the pose

[hallow elm]

👍

[dense gyro]

any help?

[odd mantle]

I'm planning to import 26 models with 43 animations. Each model will range from 1 animation going up to 7 per model. Which is every single enemy AI and other kinds of AI in the entire game I'm working on.

But all animation has a t pose from the start. Should I remove them in blender or can it be sorted in unreal engine ?

[crimson sparrow]

Im working in the UE5 Mannequin Control Rig at the moment. Often i see the ProjectToNewParent node. What is the difference to the regular getter of a Control? They seem to do the same, but im sure they are not.

[valid bay]

hi guy's and girl's, i have a little question.

i would like to modulate cloud opacity et star brigtness

in sequencer

but i don't find how i can do that

[mortal scarab]

guys i tried to retarget an animation from mixamo tho the ue 5 mannequinn and something is wrong with the root bones. Can anyone tell me whats going wrong here? I want to enable root motion but thats glitching out completely

[wet moth]

So I managed to get Calculate Direction to work by only feeding in the value of Z from the character rotation, and not X or Y. The problem is that I still cannot get the Y variable to work, as Calculate Direction does not appear to function with the character's Y rotation. Does anyone know how to set up a blendspace animation which is triggered by the character rotating up and down?

[solar anchor]

Just an idea but it looks like the root or bone is out of place

[mortal scarab]

Ah OK thank you. Do you also know how to fix it?

[solar anchor]

try if u can move* it

[mortal scarab]

Ok

[solar anchor]

when i do that kick animation, my character grows bigger, no idea why, in the animtion preview everything looks normal, but when i play in viewport, it acts up, any help would be appreciated

[ashen junco]

Perhaps the uniform scale is wrong

[solar anchor]

is that something i fix in ue5 or like blender

[solar anchor]

okay i fixed it

i should make a video about it incase someone have issue

[graceful tundra]

Hey there, just wanted to check quick to see if anyone has a workaround or fix for the blendspace leg crossing in Kubold's Movement animset Pro. Just in the strafe movement. There are only 2 areas in which it is an issue, and it would only really be a problem on controller, since the 45s are covered.

[solar anchor]

maybe adding a short clip might help people get a better idea

[graceful tundra]

Yeah I should have done that lol. here is a short clip showing the issue.

[solar anchor]

sadly cant help but hopefully someone else will

[next mountain]

Have you ask the dev (Kubold) about it?
Best bet I can think of is probably editing the anims related to the crossing blend manually on a 3D editor (or maybe use control rig).

[graceful tundra]

I might try to get in touch, but according to a post I saw from Kubold,, it's sort of an inevitable problem, and that it could be corrected using IK. I was just sort of hoping for a quick example, but I already have a control rig setup, and I'm sure with some coffee I can figure something out

[solar anchor]

anyone know how i can fix that problem?

so that the camera follows my player (only happens when its attack that covers distance)

[next mountain]

You're using root motion anim?
Make sure to setup some of the settings in the anim editor.

[solar anchor]

yea it has root motion

am not too sure the settings to set

[next mountain]

Try EnableRootMotion to true, or ForceRootLock true and EnableRootMotion false

[solar anchor]

kay trying right now

[solar anchor]

kay, it just stopped the animation from making distance

so it animates in place

[next mountain]

Animate in place on the stage or in the editor?

[solar anchor]

in the editor

can show video incase

[next mountain]

Try checking on the stage

[solar anchor]

k

[next mountain]

Also, did you use montage or anim sequence for that attack?

[solar anchor]

montage

[solar anchor]

it animates in place but i can move my character

[next mountain]

Try the second option

[solar anchor]

kay

[next mountain]

Wait, that already works just fine right?

[solar anchor]

sorta, in the normal animation, the character moves tho

i show u

[next mountain]

Oh, right, that one stays in place.
How bout the second option?

[solar anchor]

trying rn

@next mountain haha oh my goodness it worked

thank you

i tried that before idk why it didnt work

maybe because i deleted the montage everytime i made change to sequencer

[next mountain]

👍

[silent jetty]

hey everyone! this is a silly question, but is it possible to only animate using control rig in ue5? like, is it practical or would something like maya still be necessary?

[ashen junco]

Yes, it's possible, albeit somewhat limited

[celest pumice]

my weapon/right hand rotation isnt working the way it should be. ive tried a lot of things, but im not sure how to go about fixing this.

[thick nimbus]

Been working on a cyberpunk style Cinematic. Just finished lighting tonight I think lol now to set up the traffic ai and the pedestrian ais then shoot my cinematic

[misty dagger]

can u make the camera linked to the animation of a model?

[ashen junco]

Post it in #work-in-progress instead

[strong forum]

Anyone have any good references for creating 3D fighting game character animations with flashy punches and kicks (like Dead or Alive)?

[left grail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUOkAFs7oeI
Can i animate an impostor by just creating an impostor for each frame and then "flipbooking" through them?

[ashen junco]

That'd be something you act by yourself for reference (or sketch the poses), then extrapolate in animation

[finite palm]

hey guys, anyone know how reload animations are typically made ? like I need to have an animation with only the mag moving but I don't know how to only have that one bone moving in my fbx from blender

otherwise arms and rifle both have the same movement so they add up in the game and it becomes messy

[strong forum]

Yeah, I was just hoping if there were some good YouTube videos or tutorials or something that specifically gave advice for 3D fighting game character animations
Otherwise, I'd try using the references

[red spoke]

I have a skeleton whose hierarchy is like this, with 'Group' and 'DeformationSystem' originally just being organizational nodes from Advanced Skeleton in Maya. When I try to apply root motion in Unreal, nothing happens, so I'm assuming it's looking at the bottom-most 'bone' in the hierarchy. Is there any way to tell it to look instead at 'root' in this case? For instance, in Unity you can define any bone in a hierarchy as the one from which to derive root motion, but I haven't been able to find an analogous function in Unreal.

[steel grove]

Hi Hive mind! Im trying to find a way to animated a 2D cartoon face shapes (think southpark face style) with the Apple kit (Iphone live link) and not Oculus lip sync. Im having a hard time finding relevant information and tutorials. does anyone here know of anything that could get me started?

[lethal edge]

Hey! Can one of you kind people help me figure out why my root motion animations are snapping? Here is what is going on: https://vimeo.com/724632658 . I've been following this tutorial for a root motion locomotion system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtWbl50Jwwc&list=RDCMUClb6Jh9EBV7a_Nm52Ipll_Q&index=3&ab_channel=CodeLikeMe . I tried another tutorial as well, using different methods, with the same snapping result. The animations are retargeted from mixamo using the retargeter 2 plugin which use both the normal animation and in-place animation. I've also tried using the blender root baker plugin which also doesn't help. Any ideas?

[silent jetty]

ty, appreciate it

[honest geyser]

Does anyone know why, when I add a Virtual Bone to the head, targeting the Right Hand, that its not actually going to the correct location?

[coral jasper]

trying to import some animations from mixamo but cant because this error comes up. any1 know what might be causing this and the usual fixes to thsi ?

[next mountain]

Have you checked whether the exported mixamo model includes the mesh and not just animation only?
Try opening it in blender or your 3d editor.

[coral jasper]

i first downlaod the mesh into unreal and then donwload animations and import them for the mesh

[next mountain]

Can also try importing the model first in unreal editor, then import the animation afterwards with the anim skeleton set to the previously imported mesh skeleton.

[coral jasper]

that is what i usually do

but thats not working

i tried importing animation with skin and it worked

[next mountain]

Ue4? Ue5?

[coral jasper]

but now theres alot of files i dont need

ue5

[next mountain]

Did you usually do it in ue5 as well?

[coral jasper]

ive always done this because if i import with skin it imports skeletons and other assets everytime

and only in ue5

and ive done this for like 5-6 characters

[next mountain]

It shouldn't import the skeleton again if you already set the skeleton in the import menu.
Any screenshot of your import setting in unreal?

[coral jasper]

alright wait

[next mountain]

Uncheck import mesh if you're only importing the animation.

Uncheck skeletal mesh as well

[coral jasper]

ok i did that

now i just need to rename

[next mountain]

As long as the skeleton value is not empty, it should work.

[next mountain]

Rename?

[coral jasper]

cuz the mesh is not the name of the animation

now*

and its upside down

something up with this mesh ig

[next mountain]

I really recommend you check this in blender first.

[coral jasper]

what do i check

i checked exporting in 3ds max

but it doesnt upload to mixamo then

it only uploads if i upload the original file

[next mountain]

Check the skeleton hierarchy structure, bone orientation, see whether it's upside down or not in the editor.
Fbx? Obj?

[coral jasper]

its completely fine in the editor

only after coming into unreal it just dies

[next mountain]

Hmm, you sure no issue on the bone export orientation?
Unreal uses X+ forward Y+ right, check the root bone on your mesh, see if it's oriented accordingly.

[coral jasper]

i think its not big deal i just set rotation to +90 in blueprint

ezpz

unless thats bad xD idk

[next mountain]

The mesh you're using, it uses mixamo default bone structure?

[coral jasper]

no it didnt let me rig it manually using the mixamo rigger so i had to upload it with the existing skeleton but i checked the bones in ue5 and they look like the mixamo skeleton

do u want the link to the 3d model? its free mabey u could find wats wrong. that is if u want xD

[next mountain]

Should try exporting one of mixamo's model to unreal and test it with your animation, see if that works.

[next mountain]

No harm trying.

[coral jasper]

i DM'd u the mesh

mabey its something completely obvious that im missing cuz im relatively new to this :p

[next mountain]

Wait, 1.6M triangles?
This a sculpt file or something?

[coral jasper]

no idea its been crashing since morning cuz its so big

[ashen junco]

1.6M tris is excessive for characters

[coral jasper]

i think most of it is in the breasts

[next mountain]

🤨

[coral jasper]

i should go to sleep

whats UE5 tri cap ?

will it tank my fps

[ashen junco]

No real cap, but just remember that skelmeshes can't be made Nanite for now, and optimise it.
Normally characters are around 100K tris

[next mountain]

Manny was around 50k

[coral jasper]

i try to keep them under 64k

ill see if it tanks fps if it does ill just look for another one. wanted a mad max looking character and saw this free one

[ashen junco]

cough MetaHuman

[coral jasper]

i dont know how to use meta humans either cuz they all broken down in different parts xD

[next mountain]

There's a lot of tutorial on modular mesh usage in unreal, check youtube on this one.

[coral jasper]

yea i saw a utube tutorial and managed to get metahuman as my mesh in main char but its always bald

[next mountain]

Is there any way to get the length of a blendspace using blueprint?

There's a play length and sequence length for anim sequence, but there doesn't seem to be one for blendspace.

[grim tulip]

Anyone know any sites with animations other then mixamo? And the UE Market?

[worthy surge]

How are additional objects usually animated? For example a backpack, or clothes, stuff that follows the movements of the body

are they attached to the skeleton same as the body?

so is it several objects animated by one skeleton, or are they attached to the main mesh somehow?

[gilded rock]

I'm constantly getting this ctrl rig crash on some animations I have, did anyone experience it before?

[silent bay]

So I know UE has double jump by default but how would I add my second animation? I have the animation for my first jump hooked up but not quite sure how to do the second

[spiral cloak]

Can I use post process anim blueprints on skeletal meshes that treat another skeletal mesh as their master pose?

[ashen junco]

Not with Set Master Pose Components, as it overrides any anim instances

[spiral cloak]

Okay, so if I wanted to treat another skeletal mesh as the the master pose, AND have some bespoke PP_AnimBP stuff running on the "Child" mesh, what's the recommended approach?

Would it be something like, instead of using set master pose, copying pose instead?

It feels like I should be able to set master pose, and then as a PP override some bones/curves as it's at the end of the chain, but alas

[glacial dagger]

I was wondering if there was a way to use a modular character with something like the pose master component for xsens. Currently the way I was told to do xsens is using the xsens remap then a ikrig asset for both the character and mvn puppet and then an animation blueprint as such (pic1). The only issue i'm having issues understanding is how I could do this same setup with a actor blueprint for my master pose component. None of the remaps, ik rig assets or the animation blueprint will take the blueprint actor.

[ashen junco]

Yep, copy pose from mesh is what I used, and it doesn't override the anim instance

[spiral cloak]

Awesome - gotta do a little overhaul to our pipeline but just about to try prototyping that now!

[green musk]

Hello, I'm having a terrible time trying to get a valid anim instance from a skeletal mesh component. It is never valid despite having a skeletal mesh set, and an anim blueprint set. If I run SetAnimInstanceClass at runtime it still says there is no valid anim instance in the tick. Are there any commonly known pitfalls for this issue?

[bleak sky]

Hello Im new to UE5 and have an issue, I was animating a methuman but now I am missing the transform gizmos, any idea how to fix that please?

[spring whale]

what is the best way to position the character hand on the gun?

would i have to change something in the animation or just the mesh?

[slender hill]

Hi, I wanted to update my character's pose and save it, though when I do, it doesn't change on the other files, how come is that?

[cunning mesa]

I have an fps animation, already animated in 3dsmax, I exported it in FBX, but it's missing the gun and camera upon import

[solar anchor]

thanks for this 🙏

[outer maple]

Curious if anybody has some advice, I'm working with Character Creator 4, it's got a nice workflow but unfortunately it's not possible to export morphs from it. I've seperated my character's clothing to separate meshes on the same skeleton as my character, and essentially I'm looking for a way to get morphs onto both the character and the clothing. The only way I know to do this at the moment is to create an unmorphed version of each thing (the character, each piece of clothing, etc) and then create a morphed version. This quickly creates an explosion of dev time.

tldr; Do I have any way of efficiently getting geometry on the same skeleton to share morphs, or maybe leverage some software to speed up this process?

[buoyant warren]

Is there a way to add static meshes into the preview when creating animations in UE5? For example I'm trying to create an animation of a guy sitting down in a chair....is it possible to show the chair in the animation preview, as it will be much easier to get the animation correct.

So basically make the animation within the level scene, as opposed to just floating in the preview window

[ashen junco]

https://youtu.be/y2WzNvJZk0E

[undone nova]

Yo dudes, I'm busy with a star wars anim with a MH, my plan is have the char walking out of the dark and unclipping his lightsaber from his belt and turning in on (maybe some smaller things, but I can figure that out I'm sure) - is this something I should/can do in sequencer, and also should the saber hilt be a static mesh or skeletal?

thanx in advance 🙂

[strange yarrow]

Hi there, do you know if its possible to fix this? The main control of my skeletal mesh in Maya is resized 10x, so when I export it to Unreal it goes back to 1x, changing everything I made. Is there any solution to it without having to redo all the rig again?

[tough smelt]

Hey everyone, I Currently work in an Animation Studio, on an animated TV-Series and My day job involves a heavy amount of receiving Maya Project files containing characters and their animations, which we Bake the animations and using game exporter, we export and import them in Unreal (we import skeletal animation sequences on our skeletal meshes)

However, the process of constantly baking the animations from Maya to Unreal, is exteremely time consuming and resource heavy, and It's basically wasting %70 of my time, spent creatively otherwise.

Is Live Link something we should aim for? I Imagine Live Link is only real-time for previewing the animations, and in the end you have to bake and export the animations from Maya, Am I Right?

Alembic and Geometry cache method is also out of the equation because of the tremendous file sizes.

Is there a better workflow than this for animation where we don't have to spend so much time on baking animations?

[ashen junco]

Control Rig + Sequencer, animate skelmeshes right inside the engine.

[tough smelt]

obviously, but most professional animators in our studio are using Maya, so this is not an option (This is the case, everywhere in the world though)

[ashen junco]

I'm a Blender user, so yeah, no idea about specifics to Maya.

[buoyant warren]

I'm creating a control rig for my skeletal mesh; I want to have a control for facial expressions....An "Expression" will consist of moving some bones and also changing some morph targets....If i have 10 expressions what is the best control type to use for switching between them? (I want to be able to transaction between any of the 10 expressions; ie go from "3" to "7" smoothly (without going from 4, 5, 6 on the way and with a curve...not just jumping straight to the expression)?

[tough smelt]

Bringing character animations into unreal and baking animations isn't Maya specific!

[ashen junco]

Except in your initial question, you specify Maya, so I, as a Blender user who never got deep into Maya, won't know any time saving tricks in that regard, that present in Maya.

I could've tell my Blender to Unreal workflow, but it'd be useless in your context.

Also "Live Link" in Blender to Unreal is more of a somewhat janky bridge, which could be not the case with Live Link from Maya to Unreal

[onyx delta]

so ive created a simple landscape witch no material, thinking i could easily just drag the material i want it to have on to it, but thats not working. does anyone know of any other way?

[undone nova]

Try this mate, its suuuuper long but skip to about 2 hour 20 in and see if that helps?

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

[onyx delta]

alright, ill try that

thanks

[undone nova]

no worries

[fast creek]

How do I pause a walking animation? I would like to pause it (at it's current pose/position) when the player opens the in-game menu.

I am using v4.25.4

[ashen junco]

Why not pause the entire game? UI and non-latent functions will still work.

[fast creek]

nvm. I figured it out.

[fast creek]

Ive not used/tested that feature yet. There are some elements I want paused and some I don't. I will probably need to look at it soon, but for now I am just using a stop gap while I develop other things.

[craggy wadi]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cck74RJjAMa/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Little preview of our second game 😁

[ashen junco]

You can also specifically mark certain classes (if not component) to tick even when paused

[ashen junco]

1. I think Instagram is somewhat worst way of showcasing projects
2. #work-in-progress

[craggy wadi]

Hehehe my bad

Huh, do you mind if I ask why?

[ashen junco]

Mandatory login to view things in Instagram, and I already cut ties with it long ago

[novel blaze]

Hey guys. I have a control rig where I have a set transform node for a bone and for some reason the bones location gets set when I move the control but the rotation does not. Any Idea why that is?

[craggy wadi]

Gotcha

[ashen junco]

Probably something else resetting the rotation?

[novel blaze]

Just checked my graph the bone is only set in 1 place in the forwards solve

[vale magnet]

Does anybody know any sites that would offer free animations, other than mixamo?

[south sinew]

in a first person shooter game where you can only see the players hands, would I animate the hands and guns together or separately?

[ashen junco]

Animate it together, but you can have the gun as a separate skelmesh

[south sinew]

alright, thank you

[junior eagle]

Is it preferred to animate in blender or in unreal? I recently began using unreal and i wanted to know what was better for animating. I also wanted to know if there was a way to create bones like you do on blender

[steady orchid]

blender, if you have to do small fixes to the animation you did in blender, you can do it in unreal but i wont

[junior eagle]

Is there a guide that explains to me how i can make standard animations (walking, idle, running) and save it to that project?

because i see people have multiple animations in their collection and i wanted to know how to do that

[steady orchid]

what do you mean?

in unreal?

or in blender

[junior eagle]

blender

[steady orchid]

you can store different animations in actions but you are better off looking up tutorials related to blender, not much to do with unreal

once you have that you can focus on how to export to unreal

you can try mr mannequin rig plugin for blender if you are just starting and it will handle everything for you

[indigo minnow]

how did you do that?

nvm figured it out

untick this then the hierarchy can be different

[buoyant warren]

Is it possible to group float rig controls so that the total value can have a max? For example you have a 3 float controls, each with a range of 0 to 1. But you want there to be a total max of 1. So if i slide a control up to 1 it will slide the other controls down to 0.

[outer tangle]

Just tried to export my first Blender animation into unreal and I'm having this problem where all the IK affected bones arent working as they should.

My creature is hovering in the air instead of having its feet planted in the ground and affected by the Blender IK. How could I fix this? I am wondering if it might have to do with the fact that I created the IK bones by clicking on the feet bones in pose mode and pressed Shift+I.

I tried to parent the IKs to the legs armature but that doesnt seem to fix things, any help would be much appreciated!

[clever acorn]

Is there a way to somehow "bake" absolute + additive into a single thing? additives are quite buggy (using unreal 4 for now, if its doable in 5 let me know anyways)

[high flicker]

Hi, anyone familiar with importing IK rigged assets from blender? I have this bow and it doesn't bend the way I want it to when I import a fbx from blender:

I do get this IMPORT TRANSFORM ERROR, not sure if it's relevant

[viscid crater]

Where is the ART for Maya? I can't find the setup file in the engine install for 4.27

the marketplace one seems to only be up to engine version 4.21

( https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/MayaRiggingTool/ )

this is what i'm trying to get

Do I really need to install Unreal 4.21 to be able to get this?

[native crescent]

Hello, is it possible to have sculpting landscape in Sequencer? I want to modify the terrain during my animation.

[wide idol]

Not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but I would like to know if there's a way to make a Socket inside of another Socket in a skeleton.

[merry loom]

Blender ik works in blender only. U need to recreate the rig in unreal using control rig

[high flicker]

Alright, good to know. Thanks!

[merry loom]

Not entirely sure but similar to my response above blender ik only work in blender. The bones you imported into the engine should only be the bones that the mesh is skinned to (deform bones)

[merry loom]

What is your use case?

[wide idol]

I'm trying to create clean sword trails like in Genshin Impact. Most of the tutorials use the tip of the swords as a point to follow, but following the sword will make the sword trail looks very rough.

[merry loom]

Probably a dumb idea but you could save control values in a variable and in the next tick compare them to the current control values to determined which control is getting moved, from there calculate the value for other controls.

[merry loom]

cool stuff. But i suppose you just need a socket to be the child of your weapon bone? Though i am not familiar with that so hopefully someone else can help

[vague lava]

What are some good methods for animating a car's wheels? I need to spin them with speed and rotate them according to turning input. I know how to get the speed / turning input data to an anim blueprint, but not sure what to do inside the anim blueprint.

[merry loom]

https://youtu.be/Wc6lUXOhRO0 idk if this helps

[vague lava]

im not using physics or any special vehicle classes, its just a plain character class with a skeletal mesh

[ashen junco]

https://youtu.be/YAyaRf54BjI

[sharp linden]

Is there a way to setup an interaction between two skeletons? E.g. I want first skeleton to pick up a helmet from another

[wide idol]

Thanks for the link, but it suffers the same problem. Screenshot is from the video. It doesn't look uniform. I shared picture of Genshin Impact about what I mean when talking about clean sword trail.

What I want is having a socket inside a socket, so the parent socket can control the translation (rotation) of the child socket.

[next mountain]

To be honest, since I made that 2nd effect before, that 2nd picture isn't really a "real" sword trail.
That's why it's smooth.

That's the same approach used for ff7r and that new mana series if I'm not mistaken.

[wide idol]

Yup, it's not a sword trail because it doesn't follow the sword. Right now I asked to the 3D modeler parnter if he could make empty bones that I could use to store sockets, but I was wondering if I could achieve the same thing within the engine.

[next mountain]

Why would you need a socket inside a socket to do that?

[next mountain]

If this is the reason, which kinda sounds like you want to have a child transform inside another child transform, there's several ways to implement this.
The easiest probably is attaching a primitive component, empty mesh or actor into the socket, and attach your object as a child to it.
A more math based solution would be to calculate your transform manually before setting it to the designated object to emulate the socket in socket approach that you mention.

That is assuming you are indeed asking about that.
Still not sure why you need a socket-ception to implement the slash effect.

[ashen junco]

Those don't use sockets, at all.

Okay, it is for the trail emitter placement, but not start-end position

The width and path is going to be predetermined and not driven by the animation

[wide idol]

gif failed to upload, lol. Discord is not working well these days.

It might upload the gif anyways, though.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/981200004570050680/992225582052020265/unnamed.gif

I made a blueprint simulating what I want. The sphere in the middle is the "parent socket", and other sphere is the "child socket" where the Niagara is stored. By rotating the parent, the child moves smoothly.

If the gif isn't appearing, try opening it on the browser (don't recommend to do that on the phone if you're not connected to wifi, lol).

[next mountain]

No idea why, but your gif not showing up.

Might have better luck uploading to youtube or something if its a big one.

[ashen junco]

Basically orbiting technique?

Spring Arm exists, I guess

[wide idol]

Thing is, I want to "draw" the trail inside the animations.

[next mountain]

Good idea, didn't thought of that.
Might break/bend if there's collision though.

[wide idol]

If this is not possible, It's okay, I'll try to find another way.

[ashen junco]

I feel like you're having too rigid of an approach on this

[next mountain]

You're trying to draw some kanji attack or something with this approach?
Cloud cross slash style?

[wide idol]

Nah, I just want to make a good workflow for the future.

[ashen junco]

For one, you could use a mesh making up the trail - the shape is going to be fixed, but it's going to be smooth. You can control the textures in material and drive the parameters with Niagara emitter

[wide idol]

Thank you for the help, guys. I'll see what I can do!

[median ledge]

I don't think you can import ik from blender at all

you would have to set the ik up in unreal using the control rig

[ashen junco]

You can't import IK rig or any constraints.

[high flicker]

dang, thanks guys

[devout spade]

off the top of my head you have two approaches,

1. you can create a spline angle in runtime based on 5 points and have the particle effects follow that
2. I'm sure in genshin they are baked in the animation... in level sequencer you can add particle effect to your baked animation sequence i'm pretty sure

they have settings for baked particle effects

[ashen junco]

Niagara GPU emitter with baked mesh would be far cheaper on performance than relying on spline component

[devout spade]

for sure , but if you have lets say 300 animations you can automate it

I feel bad but making games for potato phones rip

[vague lava]

How can I get wheels to spin according to a speed value and simultaneously rotate according to turning input? Can it be done in an anim blueprint?

[ashen junco]

Yes, however you have to be careful in your anim BP setup, else you have issues of either rotation idiosyncracy, floating point errors, undesired interpolation, or terrible performance from lack of fast path

[undone nova]

a really dumb question dudes, I'm pretty sure I'm about to answer myself XD, but as part of my animation I have a droid coming in to scene, I want the wheels to turn - I obviously just make the wheel turn anim in something like blender then bake it and import right?

I 3D model more and don't animate much, so I'm sorry for being a noob XD

[ashen junco]

You can rotate the bones in code, either with anim BP directly or in Control Rig with value fed from anim BP variable

[undone nova]

in the case of bones for wheels (car style) just 5 bones should do if im correct? 1 in the middle as "spine" connecting to 2 on front wheels and 2 on back wheels (left and right?

or even maybe 2? 1 per wheel axle?

[ashen junco]

You could use 2 bones for the wheel if you can't figure out the math

[buoyant warren]

When baking a sequencer take to an animation is it possible to only bake relevant morph targets? It seems that if you choose to export morph target it makes a curve for every single target (even if it has no keyframes) and makes a keyframe on every frame.

[viscid crater]

I downloaded UE 4.21 so I could grab ARTv1 from the Marketplace. I uploaded a zip in case anyone else wants it without needing to go through the same process.

Animation Rigging Tools for Maya (ARTv1) from Marketplace, UE 4.21 version (Python 2) : https://skylerclark.com/ue/ARTv1.zip

If there is an updated way to get this toolkit for engine versions after 4.21 please let me know. I expect it should work fine since it's not really tied to the engine version other than on the marketplace download.

[rose prawn]

If I have 0 idea what I'm doing, how hard will creating an IK Rig be for a UE4 mannequin (with additions) character? Trying to set up a UE5 runtime retargeting thing

Also, I'm assuming this is the minimum retargeting setup that's 'viable', so to speak? My character's spine ends at 3 for... some reason

[rose prawn]

Update: yeah I did that, followed the settings as well carefully (looking at IK_UE4Mannequin instead), and it turned out pretty good! Slightly adjusted the arms to un-clip the walk animation lol, but all is good

[wide idol]

Thank you. Although what I had in mind before worked without problem, I found out there are actually VFX that look like sword trail and that aren't baked to the animation. This solves everything.

[strange yarrow]

Hi there, this has to be something easy to solve but I cant figure out. I export my model from Maya. It has a separate hair mesh with its own skeleton. In the character blueprint I attach I want it to be attached to the HeadJoint socket, but this happens. The pivot is in the wrong position. What should I do?

It only works correctly when I use the socket in the 0,0,0

[latent condor]

I'm trying to wrap my head around all the different anim tools in unreal right now. Can anybody clarify for me, are control rigs, IK rigs, and individual IK nodes inside the anim BP all supposed to be used in conjunction with each other, or are they designed to be used independently?

[latent condor]

When you attach the hair mesh to the head socket, it's going to move the hair mesh origin to that socket's location. I'm not sure how you would accomplish it in maya, but I assume there's a similar setup to how you'd fix it in blender by changing the hair object's origin to the location of whatever joint it's parented to

[strange yarrow]

I tried changing in Maya the pivot to the same point the joint is located (the head), but it always goes back to 0,0,0 .

I also can move the hair manually, but thats not really a solution

[latent condor]

Could a keyframe be overriding it?

[strange yarrow]

Somehow Unreal always puts the pivot at 0,0,0

[strange yarrow]

No, I deleted everything

[latent condor]

can you screenshot the setup in maya?

[strange yarrow]

Give me a sec

This is the root joint of the hair, same position as the head joint. Both have the same pivot

And the distance from 0,0,0

[latent condor]

it looks like you have the rig selected? can you select the hair mesh and show the channels

[strange yarrow]

They are freeze

[latent condor]

Yeah that looks like your origin point is at the world origin

I'm sorry it's been a really long time since I've used maya. I think the greyed axes means the object transform is locked?

[strange yarrow]

Yes, its already skinned to the whole model

Thats why I cant move it, maybe I should separate it and export it by its own

And move the pivot to that same head joint

[latent condor]

Yeah this will fix that issue. you should parent the hair mesh to the same bone in maya that it will be attached to in unreal

[strange yarrow]

I'll try that, it make sense

Thanks!

[latent condor]

np

[strange yarrow]

Sorry, but sadly its the same, I changed the pivot to that same joint and somehow in unreal it goes back to that position, do you have any other idea of what could be causing this?

[latent condor]

can you select the hair and show the transforms channel from maya

[strange yarrow]

All freeze at 0

[latent condor]

the origin translation is probably moved on the hair when exporting. You'll want the origin of the hair to actually be at 0,0,0 but still maintain the same offset that it has now. So your hair object is actually going to move to world space 0,0,0

are you able to see the origin translation values anywhere

[strange yarrow]

No idea, I think Im going to try that in max instead, Im not that comfortable with Maya 😅

[latent condor]

sorry 🙄 could help if it were blender

[strange yarrow]

No worry, and yes, imported the fbx inside max and I dont know why but it went back to 0,0,0

So it has to be that

[winged rover]

Hey, I have a know back animation for my character. I use a anim montage to play it but when the animation has finished, the character come back where the anim montage start, any idea?

[vocal mango]

Anybody knows if there are ways to
download animations for metahuman?
The retargeting stuff got me shaking past
days There's always something going wrong
with retargeting.…. or mby someone can
recommend me some good video about it

[spring whale]

i have an animation that i downloaded from a location, the position of its bones is different from the default animations of the unreal project, i basically wanted to replace the bones of an animation of unreal with the bones of this animation that i downloaded, but keeping all the movements of the animation
is there any way to do this without manually messing with the bones?

[latent condor]

Can anybody help me understand this? I'm trying to use the IK Rig system but the goals are confusing. I want to orient the goal to world space so that it's easier to manipulate in code, but I can't seem to find a way to do it. and I have no idea what "Reference Transform" is supposed to do

[ashen junco]

Add it yourself in external DCC tool

[devout spade]

You are attaching it to a socket right? you see on your modeling program the rbg arrows , that is where it will be attached, and the space between the mesh and those arrows will also be added.

so you need to set it to 0,0,0 and then apply

Pretty sure Maya applies the transform on export so don't move it back leave it in 0,0,0

[strange yarrow]

Thanks, so where should I put the hair's pivot? Putting it in 0,0,0 leaves that space between meshes

I managed to move it to the exact point inside the blueprint though, but Im still not really sure about the result

[devout spade]

Apply the transform and it should move the hairs pivot to 0,0,0

If it doesn't then make sure the pivot in edit mode is not somewhere else

[strange yarrow]

Is there any additional option I need to press after moving the pivot? Like baking it or applying? Sometimes it seem to reset itself

[devout spade]

In component mode when you move any object applying all transforms always sets the pivot point to 0,0,0

Yes it's a button to apply

You should have a hot key

[devout spade]

Looks like In maya it's called freeze

Modify > freeze > translation or all

[strange yarrow]

Thanks, I found out that

[devout spade]

Did it work?

[strange yarrow]

Im not currently at the computer, I'll test it in a few hours when coming back

I hope its just that

[next mountain]

Took me a search to figure that out, first time hearing the abbreviation.
I think he means your 3d editor, image editor, and the rest of your related tools.
https://www.reddit.com/r/blenderhelp/comments/u3y600/what_is_dcc_means_in_the_world_of_3d_modeling/

You can always add an additional knee bone in your 3d editor or try adjusting the weight painting around the knee area, though depending on how you shape your mesh, this can either be a breeze in the park or an impossible task.
Probably just stick to shape key if you want a simpler workflow.

[solar torrent]

I can't seem to select a new skeleton on the left menu. Anyone know why that may be?

[misty dagger]

how to turn on morph targets without launching the game

anyone know?

[finite yew]

hey , is anybody know how to make blendspace not to loop ?
i got here a weapons which must lean to the direction of the target i got animations but they are looping in the blendspace ,i want it tolean into direction of target and stop animation in that position until shoot animation comes any solutions how to fix it ? or maybe any other approach ? (i got 4 animations of lean : forward , backward , left , right )
https://streamable.com/g4u70h

[ashen junco]

Looks like something that can be done procedurally with Control Rig

[iron merlin]

How do I animate a sword if I connect it to a socket on the hand? (The skeletal mesh does not include the sword)

[ashen junco]

Attach it to the hand/weapon bone

[iron merlin]

How do I add animation to the weapon

Do I make another rig but with the weapon and then animate it or do I rotate it in blueprints?

[ashen junco]

Just attach the sword to the hand/weapon slot bone. It'll follow the parent bone.

[iron merlin]

But what if I want it to move at a different speed or rotate when it moves

[ashen junco]

What do you mean?
It'll follow whatever the parent bone it's attaching on is doing

[iron merlin]

So the only way I can animate it is through the parent bone?

[novel blaze]

Anyone using control rig space switching? Are your baked animations completely different from the level sequence version? I have an animation and the hand is out of place in the baked animation but looks perfect in the level sequencer

The left hand in the baked animation is higher than what I have it in the level sequence

[scenic plume]

is there way to know once transition has been entered?

[ashen junco]

Set the debug object and watch your anim graph activity

[cinder linden]

Hey guys I'm trying to annimate some intestines unfolding, right now I have over 200 bones which is crazy and not at all a good looking results what alternatives do you recommend ?

[elfin solstice]

Hi, does anyone know how I can blend rotation of the bones in two poses only on specific axis? (blend bone by channel only works on x,y,z)

[rancid sparrow]

Hey folks! How would I go about "taking control" of a 3rd person character briefly for use in sequencer (disabling input, but leaving the gameplay camera) for a short time during gameplay, then giving back control...? Any thoughts?

[bronze osprey]

@cinder linden cloth sim?

[golden umbra]

I seen this from Silent Hill 2 behind the scenes. Why is their characters looking like that? Is this a technique?

[ashen junco]

I assume those are mainly just for blocking. Consider that huge chunk of cutscenes of SH2 are pre-rendered FMV

[golden umbra]

What do you mean just for blocking?

[spring whale]

is it possible to copy the movements of one animation and paste into another? keeping the animation skeleton as is

[iron merlin]

What's a virtual bone and what is it used for? I read the documentation but I don't understand its uses

[lunar valve]

I have seen this issue for a while

seems like UE5 can't export animations properly?

I often see rotation errors in any 3d software out there

[slender yacht]

A bit late to the party, but yes, I had that problem. All you need to do is change "Time increment mode" from "dynamic" to "fixed". That solved this problem for me.

[tardy flicker]

Hello 🙂
Atm Manny doesn't play it's running animation in the editor although the right ABP is selected. I guess it's a rather simple problem but I don't know my way around in ABP's yet. Maybe someone can help? 🙂 🙏

[tardy flicker]

okay wow.
So I don't know why but this bool has to be set to true in order for the AI to use walk/run animations.
This wasn't the case in ue4 but in ue5 this has to be checked apparently^^

[tardy fiber]

is it possible to change skeleton of animation blueprint or use existed one for different skeleton that is rig retargeted?

[loud nimbus]

How do I animate my character once they pick up a weapon. Should I use anim montages or how would I go about it ?

[buoyant warren]

I've been playing around with the Audio Synesthesia plugin, and can drive a characters mouth from the audio loudness; it looks ok, but i wonder is there a better to analyze the sound (instead of just how loud) so that you could play different mouth shapes based on different sound frequencies or something like that.

I guess I could just kind of randomize the mouth shapes, to make it look more than just open and close, but it would be even better if i could have the mouth shape specific to the type of sound

[rose prawn]

Sounds like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFIxiz0jwRE&t=128s

[iron merlin]

How do I animate an attack animation with a sword that isn't part of the skeletal mesh of the character? Do I animate a bone and then attach the sword to a socket on that bone? Does that also mean that I can't see the weapon when I'm creating the animation?

[undone nova]

Hey dudes, I'm having issues on blending a walk animation with walk stop animation in sequencer, the stop animation seems to spring forwards and up off the ground a little compared to where the walk cycle is- i tried adjusting the animation itself but it has a root bone that controls it. any advice? (animation retargeted from mixamo)

[undone nova]

reading up, it seems to be root motion on my stop walk animation and I dont have root on my actual walk animation

[buoyant warren]

I'm trying to set a control rig combined with an animation graph, but having some trouble...the control rig seems to just override the source pose? So i have a control rig with some basic IK controls, then I have a baked animation. I set the animation to the default state, then feed it through the control rig node...what am i doing wrong?

[dusty oak]

Guys, for what is this green cross? What is cast of it?

[tawny beacon]

guys tell me why I can not drag this cross?

[undone nova]

Force root lock on animation 🙂

and sorted

[buoyant warren]

I found that was problem was I need to initial set the control transform to the bone transforms, so that the initial pose was set inside the control rig

[latent condor]

Try reducing Alpha on the control rig node. It should blend between your input pose and the control rig pose

[latent condor]

If you're trying to move the preview cursor, they changed it from click + drag to ctrl + drag

[latent condor]

Is there a way to share a set of curves over several animation sequences?

[covert plinth]

Hi guys, is there any complete tutorial to design 3D animated characters using Maya? Or something like take a picture from online and can customize the character on my own, is there anything anyone would like to share or suggest so I can design my own character 🙂

[ashen junco]

Montages.

[ashen junco]

Yes, attach a sword to that bone, can't get any easier than that

[ashen junco]

Try setting up Backwards Solve to move the controls first.

[ashen junco]

That's more of modelling and rigging question.

[undone nova]

Hey guys. If possible, may I please get some feedback and input on an animation? I'd like some second looks on what could be improved and refined please :)

[ashen junco]

Sure, post it on #work-in-progress

[lunar valve]

I want to copy specific frame to the end

to do that, what should I do in Unreal Engine?

Don't wanna redo the process in blender or other 3d software

[buoyant warren]

Yeah i tried to do that with backwards solve, but didn't seem to do anything....in the end i just set the transform of the control equal to the bones as the first sequence on the forward solve using the "Initial" checkbox and that seemed to work:

[undone nova]

Awesome thank you as always :)

[spare veldt]

Hi guys i'm trying to export an animation on a metahuman character. The problem i'm facing is that when trying to export linked anim sequence, i can only export the animation with preview mesh of body and head separately. Is there a way to export animation on all blueprint? I don't want face and body to be detached, cause that means i have to export 2 different fbx...

animated face and body using control rig, is there a way to merge face and body in one single skeletal?

[alpine kraken]

Hey all, UE4 question here, currently hitting an issue where one of my skeletons has been exported with the root animated, but when it comes in, playing the animation out has the root pinned to the origin when the animation plays. I am looking purely to bring in the animation data to move the root bone around.
I'm not trying to use root motion to move the character or anything, both root motion and root lock are off. these are meant for level sequences.
Does anybody know what could be causing that?

[raw mist]

hi. i have a [neokinect] avateering hierarchy (sensor/sensorroot/mesh) and i look to implement it into a basic character movement hierarchy, such as capsule/mesh. problem is that sensor is inherited and can't be assigned under the capsule

[buoyant warren]

From the sequencer I'm trying to call events on the actor....the event then changes some variables on the actors animation instance...but when I call the event from the sequencer the actor has no animation instance? But if i call the event from directly in the scene (for example on a timer) the actor does have an animation instance...how can i solve this?

[cosmic notch]

Any yall know how to mirror keyframes in Sequencer? I looked everywhere 😭

[night cedar]

so my aimoffset is just straight up not working

tried multiple different iterations

but something is broken every single time

atm character does not rotate at all, and when I print the pitch and yaw it just prints 0 for each, so something is likely wrong with the part of the anim blueprint that gets that

here is the part of the anim graph related to the pitch and yaw

here is the anim graph

[viscid tulip]

Does anyone know if its possible to blend between sections in an Anim montage?

[misty dagger]

Is it possible to select all animations and assign the same skeleton all at once? I have more than a thousand animations and it would take a lot of time to assign it clicking on every single one of them

[novel blaze]

Anyone have any idea why virtual bones in control rig are not transforming with their parents but they rotate with them? Im using a virtual bone as a attachment transform thats animated for what ever is attached to it. For example a weapon gets attached directly to this bone and is perfectly aligned in the hands. The issue is somehow my bone translates independently but doesnt rotate independently which is my expected result.

[night cedar]

so did some testing and everything works fine if I do this

[novel blaze]

are you responding to my comment or did you forget to upload a ss ?

[night cedar]

oh sorry was a me following up on

[night cedar]

this

doing this works but now I can't blend the poses the poses for the upper body and lower body

which makes me think it is an issues with the animation slots

[eager quartz]

If I wanted to have a group of static meshes do a small animation sequence when I interact with them, e.g. I walk up to a guitar and it flies into the air a little and does a animation as if it was being player (with particles coming out of it), what would be the best way of achieving this

[balmy ember]

https://i.imgur.com/dT0YBPc.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/SJ52bzS.jpeg
Anyone knows why this bone is lined like this?
It looks odd.
There is no docs, still using old vehicles, but as far as I see things dont match. 😭
Anyone had any experience with UE5 vehicles?

[eager quartz]

I think I worked it out. You can just use sequencer for it. It seemed like you should have been able to, but surprisingly no one answered any similar questions other people asked with it.

If there is a problem with using sequencer, please tell me

[smoky shell]

Does control rig really have no way to debug traces?

Trying to fix something and have no idea how to find what the trace is hitting because it doesn't seem to have any debugging tools

The documentation says you can add break points but they don't do anything, you can watch values but they don't show anything "no watch found"

The only information I can get is the stuff that is not needed

But basically, how do I see the control rig sphere trace in the PIE world?

Otherwise how do I know why my trace isn't giving the expected result

Huh I can get information in release mode but not debug mode? Or is this somehow the representation of debug mode? Because this is not visually clear at all

[ashen junco]

Personally I just use the Control Rig preview viewport and set the debug object, though worth mentioning that I'm in 4.27, no UE5 exclusive features.
Not exactly elegant, but eh, at least it clears my issue with my foot IK trace offset.

[smoky shell]

I don't understand how that solves anything?

[ashen junco]

Me neither.

I'm a hacky guy, just rolling with hacky solution that at least tell something about how it works.

[smoky shell]

No I'm saying I have no idea how using the viewport solves anything with seeing what the trace is doing in the PIE world

How does it let you see what your trace is doing

[ashen junco]

Well, in that case I just go with estimated comparison on the hit location, because its debug point is visible in the CR preview viewport and preview skelmesh is following anything the world instance is doing.

Though, again, I'm sticking with 4.27, so I have no idea if there's something new in UE5 in that regard

[smoky shell]

I don't get a debug point

Oh, no, I see now, thanks

[buoyant warren]

Can you make the control rig controls visible in game? (For debugging?)

[ashen junco]

AFAIK no, controls only visible when animating in sequencer, in editor

[buoyant warren]

makes it quite hard to debug if you move a control via blueprint programatically and it's not doing that you think it should

[ashen junco]

Repeating myself, personally I have CR editor open and set the debug object to the world instance

[viscid tulip]

I have an montage with multiple sections. and i play each section after another. Is it possible to make the new character postition (due to root motion) "stick" so that the next section starts from that location. (i know how to enable root motion in the anim bp) but i want to enable this in the montage editor

[pastel bone]

Probably a stupid question but how do people normally handle attack combos , animation wise? Everything in a single montage, or swap between a bunch of montages? Jump sections felt ok for it but not sure if there's any obstacles coming my way with that method .. Seem a bit odd to stack 20+ combos inside a single montage..

[ashen junco]

Personally I have array of montages switched according to the modulo of the combo count.

[pastel bone]

Do you allow for custom combos or are they all predefined?

[ashen junco]

I have it defined per weapon component.

[pastel bone]

Alright, thanks

[woven rose]

Hello, I have an animation I want to make into a montage. The animation plays fine as anim sequence but when I make it into a montage, the character stays in a-pose occasionally twitching. Any ideas what's wrong?

[sterile warren]

Has anyone created a tutorial on Lyra's animation workflow, but for a simple forward-facing character where the tutorial explains how to create it from scratch with your own custom animation sequences?

[turbid viper]

Does anyone know why when I play this widget animation in reverse there is no sound?

[crisp bluff]

is it safe to have bone naming conventions like : Vehicle-skeletal

hyphen is included in naming convention

is it safe?

[ashen junco]

If you're able to be consistent with it throughout the project, sure.

The keyword is consistent

Also the name has to be within capabilities of FName

[crisp bluff]

unreal is not detecting wheels on my skeletal and throttle input is not working

everything is correct setup in using bone names of wheel

[ashen junco]

I don't recall FName supports hyphen or not

[crisp bluff]

for testing purpose i exported unreal vehicle fbx into blender and renamed from "Vehicle" to "Vehicles"

so root bone renamed to Vehicles

then it didn't working with wheeled vehicles

what issue might be?

[ashen junco]

Though it should be within range of FName, hyphens are not that special of a character

[crisp bluff]

but when i again renamed root bone back to "Vehicle"

then it again started working

[ashen junco]

Frankly I have no idea, I'm making my own vehicle movement system from scratch, as I found the built in one rather limiting handling wise

I guess the component expects specific bone names?

[crisp bluff]

may be. that's strange.

[ashen junco]

Perhaps you could look into the source code, I'm too tired to look it up myself lol

[crisp bluff]

ok. fixed it now. physics asset needs to be replaced with new one

but that fixed only epic vehicle mesh

i have my own bike mesh, unreal not detecting it's wheels for input throttle

[ashen junco]

Well, good luck doing bikes with stock vehicle move comp

[ashen junco]

#cinematics

[lean saffron]

Looking for any help on how to rig this character for UE5. I am new to Blender so not quite sure about the skeleton and adding bones for the UE5 mannequin. Any help would be greatly appreciated with a possibility of compensation!

[lament wyvern]

Hey, I have a fall to roll animation, it moves when played so I enabled root motion, but that made it look all weird. And when it plays in game, after it's played, the character looks weird obviously, is there a way to keep it in place?

Thanks

[steady orchid]

so i love the new template anim instance

does anybody know if i can rename nodes tho? it become a huge mess when i go to override the sequences

[blazing wave]

I made these anim notifies almost a year ago now and I cant remember where they are being called from. Does anyone know how I can find the location of their events? (the ones in pink)

Is there any way to track that down?

They arent in my main character's Anim BP or the Weapon's Anim BP

[willow orbit]

Quick question, I'm trying to make solid Physics Asset, basically character will just be completely frozen. I have ThirdPersonCharacter template where I'm trying to make PA_Mannequin physics asset do the exact thing. I thought that just changing each constrait between bones to "LOCKED" in angular limits but it didn't change anything.
So how can I make character appear completely frozen? Should I even use Physics Asset for that?

[lament wyvern]

This is what I mean

Any ideas?

[steady orchid]

maybe they are actual assets

[blazing wave]

What do you mean?

ahhh youre right! thank you!

[silver sonnet]

Hi guys. ! I’m trying to attach a head to a body , (reusing the same body with multiple heads.) . They both have the same animation loop, but the animation seems to be out of sync. What’s the best way to combine them ? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[rapid prairie]

Under the "Construction Script" portion of your BP, you can use the "Set Master Pose Component" node with the attached Head as the target and the base mesh as the "New Master Bone Component."

[silver sonnet]

Thanks dude , I’ll try that out. That’s exactly what I’ve been looking for, it’s hard to google stuff like that.

[wind juniper]

I know you can capture animation stream in Unreal, but is there an equivalent to that in Maya?

[left grail]

I need to use the same skeleton for all my characters in my game to save in performance. Im using blender and mixamo. And my first attempt failed because the 2nd character is completely off in the animation.

This is what ive done:

1- I made character A. Imported it to mixamo to rig, and get him 1 animation. Import A to unreal, and its working perfectly.
2- Made character B. Imported to mixamo and rigged it too, because mixamo forces you to set up the skeleton always (wrists, chin, legs, arm areas).
3- Import Character B to Unreal. And tell it to use the skeleton of character A. And now character B is playing the animation with the head messed up.

So im trying to prevent this from happening in the future. It seems this one is failed. So what is the best practice so that they both work with the same animation and skeleton?

Should i make them differently, and then transfer weights manually in blender? (a lot of work).

Or should i make the body as similar as possible coming from the same shape and then mixamo should rig it?
Im so confused.

[ashen junco]

Have you tried usinf Copy Pose From Mesh?

[left grail]

Here they are. They are basically the same character. The same body shape made in Blender, and then both rigged in Mixamo, and imported to unreal, with the blue one set up to use the skeleton of red one. Wasn't this supposed to work?

[jaunty wagon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYal6taYUfE&t=615s
may you have to Retarget. Watch this Video and take his "Special Blender with Mixamo Plugin"

[left grail]

So i have to retarget all characters? I mean sorry for asking this. But isnt there another way?
I imported 2 very similar characters in the past and they played just fine using the same skeleton.

I dont think thats the issue

because they were rigged both in mixamo, using the same settings

so there are no missing bones, like it would happen if you try to use the mannequin skeleton with a new character.

I retarget in the past, because i imported a metahuman. And it was quite messy to do.

It wouldn't work at all without it. But as you can see in my image above only the head and the shoulders are off.

[ashen junco]

Are you using UE5?

[left grail]

No. Unreal 4.26 and 4.27

[ashen junco]

Okay, then no Mass, means rolling out ECS is on your own

[left grail]

Wdym? ECS?

[ashen junco]

Entity Component System

It's fairly common to be used on huge crowd of things with excellent performance

[left grail]

Well, thats another issue, but its pretty much set up. My challenge now is making the characters. And i thought it would be easy.

[jaunty wagon]

i cant answer your questions properly because im more newbie then you 🙂
i just tought, oh, this could be help with your problem.
he talked about something like "in the skeleton tree, the highest Bone in the tree and locks it in place"
maybe this "wrong major bone" is your problem.

[ashen junco]

I'm sure GlassBeaver would thought the same

I mean, Anim Instance is easy to setup but can be taxing in massive amount

Pretty much the reason why I kept bringing up his skelmesh instancing system

[sick swallow]

I'm having a strange issue here, I imported a mesh and animation and everything was working fine, then I made a 2nd animation and suddenly my dude is squished. I've narrowed down and ruled out the animation itself (re-exporting the original animation yields the same squished result) and I've ruled out the import settings in UE4 (copying and re-importing the original exported animation file does not squish). It's gonna be something with my export settings, I'm using Blender with Auto Rig Pro and I can't quite figure it out. Let me know if there's any additional context I can add!

[zinc jewel]

Hello can someone help me? I am using the animstarterpack , I retargeted some animations and something happen. The originals work fine, but once they are retargeted, They don't work as they're supposed to. The animation is stand to crouch, The retargeted one is lifted in the air.(not problem) instead of crouching the retargeted one lifts its legs off the ground.

[buoyant warren]

Does anyone know if it's possible to use the Anim Graph, Control Rig and Sequencer together at the same time. Currently I have an actor with an anim graph. On the anim graph it uses the control rig node before the final output pose. I then add the actor to tracked in the level sequencer. If i track the control rig in the sequencer I can move the rig around; however I cannot trigger events on the anim instance. If i remove the control rig from the sequencer, i can then trigger events on the anim instance from the sequencer....

So i'd like to be able to do both. Trigger events on the anim graph instance, and also manually sequence the control rig movements

[ashen junco]

No, it's not possible. The moment you key Control Rig in sequencer, the main anim instance will get overriden

[buoyant warren]

Ok thanks

As least once i know it's not possible i can get on with figuring out a way to work with what's there 😄

[ashen junco]

Anim BP post process will still work tho

[buoyant warren]

Do you know what's the equivalent of accumulated lerp outside of the control rig? For example I'm using accumulated lerp inside the control rig to make the characters mouth move up and down (so it kind of smooths out the movement). I'm trying to do the same thing from within the actors blueprint using regular Lerp with say a 0.5 blend...but it doesn't look at smooth....any ideas?

[ashen junco]

UE4.27?

[buoyant warren]

UE5

[ashen junco]

Maybe UE5 has an interp to node?

[silver sonnet]

Thanks dude , that was exactly it. I’ve been trying to solve this for months so much appreciated 😃.

[obsidian current]

Hey guys. Can I ask control rig related stuff here?

[noble swan]

https://youtu.be/KPoeNZZ6H4s

v cool video if anyone is into procedural animation

[ashen junco]

Yes.

[obsidian current]

Ok so, I'm having a problem trying to setup the basic IK on the control rig.

For some reason once I connect it in the arms it just twist in it's own axis. Or the upperarm gets twisted or the lowerarm, I can't manage to get it right.

I'm able to set the polevector and the IK just fine with the legs, but no matter what I do I can't get rid of this issue with the arms. You can see the lowerarm directions at the print in the viewport window. The Primary should be -1 Y and secondary +1X right? Why is this happening?

No matter what I put on those Axis the upperarm gets twisted and broken. I'm following the same rig as the Quinn rig. Please help 😦

[outer maple]

Any idea how I can fix these fingers? Run cycle works fine but when a morph that changes height is applied the fingers break for unknown reasons. The animation is just UE5 3P mannequin retargeted using IK retargeter, post processing blueprint has been disabled and anim BP has IK off.

[ashen junco]

Well, UE5 question is, unfortunately, where I have to hands off

[obsidian current]

What you would do if it's on ue4? I'm really lost trying to figure this out. Tried everything I can think of already

[ashen junco]

Okay, so do you make the skelmesh in Blender?

I thought it was IK Retarget

[obsidian current]

Yeah. I didn't retargeted anything yet, this happens as soon as I connect the basic IK node

[ashen junco]

Coolio, I forgot the axis values, but try putting 0s and 1s and -1s on those until the bones line up

[obsidian current]

Ok just a sec, let me try something

[obsidian current]

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-really-stressed-mad-angry-gif-16109475

Oh okay, for some reason apparently the axis on blender was inverted and this was causing the malfunction

Thanks for being able to enlighten me @ashen junco , I've been over 2 days trying to know what was wrong here

[ashen junco]

Glad it helped

[loud hill]

Can someone recommend an efficient workflow for using marketplace animations with a custom mesh? Ideally I'd like to be able to export the skeleton to blender, and bind my custom mesh to it. I don't want to create a custom skeleton and retarget it in engine because it sounds really tedious, but if that's the only option I guess I will.

[ashen junco]

Either it's your skelmesh rigged to UE4 mannequin skeleton or the other way around of retargetting

[loud hill]

I should mention it's not for the UE4 mannequin. My situation is for multiple characters all with different skeletons. In this example, my Trex is in a different default pose (at the time I thought I was going to try to animate the characters on my own, and didn't try to match the default pose of the character from the marketplace). I'm hoping to avoid having to setup a rig for my custom mesh that matches the marketplace asset. The reason being, is that it seems like it will be tedious trying to match the all 70 or so bones. I know with retargeting, the bones don't need to match exactly, but I'm worried that things like the position of the heel bone in the foot won't match up correctly, or that the relative length difference between a adjacent bones could cause the end result to be warped.
When you say skeletal mesh rigged to UE4 skeleton, do you mean it's possible to import the UE4 skeleton into blender, and bind an existing mesh to it? If so that's exactly what I'm looking to do. If I could pull in the skeleton, orient and scale some bones to make it fit inside my existing model, and bind my model to it, that would be amazing.
I know I can import the rigged marketplace model into blender, I'm just a little fuzzy on whether this is a good path to go down, or if it even is feasible. It seems like a pretty common problem for anyone using marketplace animations on a non mannequin skeleton, so I'm sure there's a tutorial somewhere, I just haven't found it.

[ashen junco]

Yeah, just have to have the hierarchy matching, though you're going to need retargetting in engine anyway because a T-rex is biped but not proportional to humanoid.

[left grail]

I'm doing Vertex Animation of multiple actions, running, walking, attacking. Is there a way to make these animation blend like in Blend Spaces ?

How should i proceed?

[ruby swallow]

anyone had issues previewing the animgraph states while playing in editor? i'm trying to debug some transitions

[loud hill]

How close does the hierarchy need to match? Do naming schemes matter?

[ashen junco]

Matching in the sense of it not subtractive. You can't have bones with the same name on different level

[buoyant warren]

In the control rig node on the anim graph it has "Inputs" and "Outputs"...checking inputs adds a pin, but the outputs seems to do nothing (There is no output pins added?)

[merry loom]

I believe there is something like a control display actor BP class you can use to display controls in PIE. Metahuman uses it.

[merry loom]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/adapting-lyra-animation-to-your-ue5-game

[merry loom]

I think no anim nodes have output pins? Animnodes only output poses

[quick horizon]

Has anyone else bumped into an error that says "Blendspace X has sample Y that is invalid due to being out of bounds. Recommend adjusting it" ?

[buoyant warren]

But why are the labeled as "Outputs" in the node details?

[merry loom]

No idea. Probably a bug?

[hallow elm]

Hey I have a question
I made a variable of animation montage, but it always be invalid even though it is substituted by a montage
How to solve it??
Of course animation is not invalid, it's a completely good animation

[frail cipher]

hello guys, I got a problem.

I followed this tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3W2ostR820) yesterday to make my characters head turn to follow the camera, but this breaks down when rotating the character near 180°; basically the camera twists around the character instead of being bound to the "head" bone and then snaps over to the -180° side (if that makes sense?). Is there a guide/tutorial that does this, maybe even with similar methods, that doesn't have this problem?

(honestly couldn't say how to fix that problem, but in the video it doesn't have that for some reason. I do have a way for my character to turn in place, It just doesn't seem to actually run those AddActorLocalRotation calls it wants to when hitting 90° turn angle and so I'm basically turning the camera into myself.)

[ashen junco]

Maybe the variable isn't replicated?

[glass otter]

Someone knows if we can get the timestamps of animation montage notifications from the blueprint or C++

[sterile warren]

Thank you! I am going to refer to this in the end for sure, but I've read through it. At the moment I'm finding the series that @bright cliff is doing the most helpful. I am basically trying to create a stripped version of the Lyra Blueprint without all the stuff I won't need. Then from that, I can use the tut you posted to make it forward-facing. @bright cliff are you working on a series building a new AnimBP from scratch based on Lyra's system? I'm on video 6 but I can recall that you said that at the end of one of your recent vids. Cheers guys 😀

The depth of Lyra's animation system is actually insane, but so good

[bright cliff]

Thanks! Yep, I am currently working on a new Lyra based system that will include strafing and standard forward facing locomotion. It will be some time until I make the first video though, I want to complete the system before I start the series.

[sterile warren]

Awesome!

[upper fjord]

So i am very very very new to unreal and animations in general. I am taking a class in college for game design and have found myself as a sort of tech artist even though I have very little experience as one. I have created a character for our game and our teacher suggested using mixamo to create animations seeing as no one on our team has any prior experience with 3D animation.

When I imported the character into Mixamo i noticed the clothing was getting distorted with the animations so i chose to import a new version of the character WITHOUT clothing to avoid the auto rigger thinking the clothing was a part of the character. I have made an animation blueprint in unreal that seems to be working well enough but now I have a major hurdle I cant seem to figure out where to begin accomplishing.

I want to add a baggy robe over this character and use the cloth physics in unreal but I am not sure how or where to add this asset in unreal to drape over the top of this character. If any of you are kind enough to try and embark on this quest with me feel free to DM me lol. I can provide you tons of screenshots or even jump on a call to show you whats up lol

[sterile warren]

Check out Cinematography Database on YouTube for some really recent clothing work with Unreal

[sterile warren]

I believe that you'd add this asset to your character's Blueprint as a component or multiple components that are parented to the main skeletal mesh (body). You'd then refer to the "Clothing Section" of each skeletal mesh component(s) for cloth simulation settings. I haven't really experimented with this, but I know that Cinematography Database has quite a lot so I'd check out his tutorials and live streams.

[upper fjord]

I appreciate the input, thanks!

[marsh ether]

Are there any animators who could help with creating FPS animations? I say this because all of the animations i've found sway the characters arms and mess up the viewport or have some other issues such as weird looking foot placements. I'll be able to pay you if needed

[buoyant warren]

Does anyone know how to debounce a control rig? I have Basic IK on the hand; but have it setup so that if you pull the hand control down so far that the control comes away from the hand (ie the arm can't move down any further) then it moves the hips down, so the character automatically bends down if you pull the hands down too far. This works ok, but the problem is that moving the body down changes the IK on the hand, so that bone is not so far from the control any more. This creates some bouncing loop.

[elder tinsel]

I will pay someone 10$ to help debug why my first person ads keeps glitching out when i aim down

the hand would go behind the character or deform

i feel like someone who's done this before would be able to single out what part I'm getting wront

wrong, wether its the animations or the placement of the camera

[hallow elm]

No matter whether it is replicated or not, it will happen even though offline mode

[last tapir]

I need some help with Animation Sequences here, im trying to make a new First Person Idle Animation from one of the sequences but for some reason

whatever changes I make, it carries over to the other sequences

I tried looking at the blueprint for it and I tried to pinpoint what the problem might be and how I can fix it

but I keep back tracking between them because they dont make sense once I actually think about it

[flint canopy]

Has anyone else been having issues with mr mannequin tools on newer versions of blender?

[hallow elm]

Hey I have a question
I made a variable of animation montage, but it always be invalid even though it is substituted by a montage
How to solve it??
Of course animation is not invalid, it's a completely good animation
it is not replication issue because it will happen even though in standalone mode

[lunar valve]

does the value show up properly on offline?

[hallow elm]

No

it will happen even though in standalone mode

[misty dagger]

Does anyone know how can I make separated animation graphs?

Or separated state machines

[ashen junco]

Just make another state machine

[misty dagger]

Shouldn't I connect it to the output pose? I don't know how to do that

[ashen junco]

Depends on how you want to blend them

[modest cargo]

Is there a way to set delays for when the animation starts in an anim BP?

Better yet. Can I bake an animation blueprint that blends 2 animations together? Into an animation asset??

Trying to get an animation blueprint to sync with cloth simulation cache in sequencer.

The base animation asset is flawlessly synced.

Then I blended the base anim asset (dancing)

With another animation asset (facial morphs).

The animation itself is flawless. But because the animation blueprint on the character is triggered by the level, not sequencer, there is an out of sync issue from the body animation to the cache

I either need to delay the base animation before blending,

Delay the entire animation in the blueprint itself.

Or find a way to get the animation blueprint triggered by sequencer.

Would love some assistance please

Or bake the animation blueprint into an animation asset

OH ok I accidentally figured out how to bake it!

[covert jay]

Isn't there a way to have an AnimNotify pass along a variable?

[sullen aurora]

Maybe this helps?
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/animnotify-parameters/359338/3

[covert jay]

lol that's the one I saw that lead me to believe you could do it

[sullen aurora]

So yeah, custom animnotify class is the way to go then. 🙂

[covert jay]

I think I'm a bit confused on the terminology. I'm able to use variables with anim states in a montage, but as far as I can tell the type of anim notify you use in a regular animation is unable to pass along any parameters.

[sullen aurora]

Ok, so maybe see if you can figure out how to create a custom animnotify class?

[covert jay]

I already have those. I was just trying to figure out if there was a way to pass variables in an anim notify that's not a montage.

[steady orchid]

wdym exactly? you can create anim notifies through code and pass stuff into it but i dont see the benefit

i have a bit of an awkward skeleton and i cannot use physical animations for hit reactions, anyone know how can i achieve something similar using additive animations?

[buoyant warren]

Can you help me understand the Accumulated Lerp on the control rig? I want to move a control to a certain world vector point. This works but snaps the control to the point. I want it to move smoothly to that point over time....So i put Accumulated Lerp with Initial Value as the control starting translation (in global space), then Target Value as the world point (in global space), then set a blend of 1 (lower numbers seem to be faster, 1 seems to take about 0.5 seconds). But then it moves the control to a really weird location (neither the Initial or Target point)? Note that I have integrated delta time turned on (doesn't seem to do anything without that)

[autumn moth]

Hi, im not sure if i dont understand anim notify states or there is issue with them. I have montage with few attack animation that have anim notifi states in them. When i interupt state next notify will be called twice. If i set blending to 0 the issue disappears. Im working with UE5.0.2

[weary frost]

How do I blend 2 state machines by bool and their animations by bone please?

I have 1 state machine which handles gun aiming and another which manages walking/running etc

Layered Blend By Bone doesnt allow by Bool (not sure if i asked this in the right way lol)

[steady orchid]

are you sure that is actually executing two times the next notify? when the animation end, the notify state will call notifyend

[dense cipher]

what is the best way to play animation montages one after the other, with Notifies to handle when a montage should stop and play the next one? (In a Persona Preview Scene window, in-editor).

What I'm doing right now is: there is an animation manager that plays the first montage on the chain, and listen to the relevant Notify end event. When the event triggers, the manager immediately calls SetPreviewAnimationAsset() , and keep track of the ID. If it's the last one, it resets to a pre-assigned Idle animation.

If the anim notify that I use is a AnimNotify_PlayMontageNotifyWindow (so I can use it with the PlayMontage node), this code always stops in a check under FAnimPreviewInstanceProxy::RefreshCurveBoneControllers() (because CurrentAsset and AssetToRefreshFrom are apparently different). However, if I use a notify that doesn't have native branching payload (and I use custom delegates for Notify end), then it works.

[lucid slate]

Ready for animating

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/847745808115826728/994989544518717531/unknown.png

Just for maya.

[modest cargo]

Hey!!

so In the sequence Curve Editor, i know how to adjust the end frame of the animation

however I cannot for the life of my figure out how to change the end frame of an animation in the animation curve editor

pleassse say someone knows. I cannot find anything about it in documentation

[rustic notch]

Blendspaces

[dense cipher]

can I create a blendspace dynamically? As in, a designer chooses X anim montages on the fly, and then a blend space that plays one after the other starts to play?

[modest cargo]

Is there a way to bake curve cycles into keyframes?????

my eye blinks will only play on the keyframes and not on the repeating cycle function

copying and pasting keyframes is a nightmare in unreal. So I am hoping to find a way to bake the keyframes out of the repeating cycle

the bake filter itself is only baking the itnerpolation between the keys, not the actual cycle itself

[shrewd heron]

Hey all, I am having trouble with adding my First person character skeleton to a modified Paragon asset. I have removed all the unnecessary parts and made sure that both the new mesh and skeleton and the old one have the same bones in physical asset but when I try to add the first person skeleton to it i cant.

[opal jay]

is it possible to use layered blend per bone in one animation?
im working on a equip/unequip and i want to blend just when the character is equipping the sword

[marble lagoon]

Hello. I have an issue with my UE4 skeleton where his index fingers are, a little wonky. I have spent a while researching and trying to fix it but nothing works, can anyone help?

[modest cargo]

it is yes

it is fairly flexible if you play

i just merged a jaw animation with facial blending because the import would NOT bring in the jaw data desite it being in the rig

**try dragging the animation out twice, and using the layered bone blend to cut it at the desired bone name in the detail panel when the node is selected

[modest cargo]

still trying to figure this out

[modest cargo]

seems there are unanswered questions on epic forums about pre/post-infinity

[ashen junco]

Yes, but it's best to also set up the slot for the draw/sheathe animation

[tiny heron]

Given multiple characters and multiple weapons, what is the best way apply the animations. Thus far I have a variable for each animation (aim in, fire, ect.) in the weapon. However as I make multiple characters I will have to add one for each character. The only alternate I know of is a convoluted animation blueprint. Is one the better way, or another way altogether?

[ashen junco]

Not if you have a way to share the skeleton or having copy pose.

Especially with third person, it's more forgiving when it comes to the stances

[tiny heron]

I am using the same skeleton for the characters so far. But I was just wondering in case I add non humanoids.

Or just other skeletons

[ashen junco]

You can leverage copy poses and additional IK if you want to.
https://youtu.be/Oe7fYS9qxmk

[radiant matrix]

Hey guys

is it possible to somehow, slave a character with a different skeleton to the basic human skeleton from epic?

imagine a race with less fingers

or with different legs

what options do i get here?

[ashen junco]

Copy Pose From Mesh, and IK adjustments if necessary

[radiant matrix]

do you think its a smart move?

i fear that the legs will spasm

[ashen junco]

Hence bespoke IK adjustments
Fortnite used similar approach even on werewolf characters

[radiant matrix]

oh really?

wow i will look at that

ok the werewolf does not actually have extra bones

just longer limbs

[ashen junco]

Around 17:37 mark
https://youtu.be/TYSdxW2WHcI

[radiant matrix]

very cool

i see

[marble lagoon]

does anyone know how to change animations based on what player is holding ue4

[steady orchid]

like the animations inside the anim bp?

[marble lagoon]

yes

so if i pick up an object it changes the animations to match with that so i looks like its holding it or something

[steady orchid]

there are a couple of ways to do it, you could have a state machine for each weapon and use 'blend pose by enum' providing the weapon type using the enum

or you can bind the blendspace/sequence to a function and select the correct one based on your weapon reference

actually i hate the first way of doing it, i use the second one

[mystic wyvern]

hey, does anybody know if it's possible to respond to animgraph state machine changes in c++? in bp you can write an event to respond and i'm wondering if that can be done natively

[steady orchid]

this is not an anser, but are you sure you need those? you usually fire transitions from code, so in theory somewhere you already know when a state is entered or exited

[mystic wyvern]

i want to sync something up with an automatic transition (specifically a run start into my run loop if context helps)

the other ones are handled by using the same conditions but this one isn’t being influenced by variables like the others

[steady orchid]

i remember wanting to look into this but in the end i didnt because its probably a pain to do and i dont really need it

i think you would have to iterate through the graph if you didnt find any useful method in animinstance

[mystic wyvern]

my hacky solution was to just use the bp event to call a native function but that felt icky

i'll browse uaniminstance one more time

thanks for the insight!

oh how did i miss this

this is exactly what i've been looking for

[steady orchid]

oh very nice, ill screenshot that if you dont mind 😆

[mystic wyvern]

go for it

[brave moat]

how would you go about setting up a bow draw animation to sync up with character animations? I'm working on an asset pack includes a bow and have come up with a solution that should work for any character animations, but I'm curious at how others go about doing it
I ended up using blendspaces with the min and max values set to the distance from where the bow is held to the string at the nearest and furthest points (in cm) then just got the distance between the characters hands to drive it.

[left grail]

Anyone here working with Mixamo Add-on in Blender to Unreal? Is this broken? Its been hours and i cant export it to Unreal. Should i go for rigify instead?

[tiny heron]

I will look into this. Thanks!

[upper fjord]

Any tips on how to take a naked character that has been animated and be able to add different clothes to it?

So if I have a blank character that has been animated for a walk cycle, jump, falling animation, etc. How can I have different models/meshes of clothing follow these animations?

I am using mixamo, so extremely baggy clothing or robes do not work well with the auto rigger, so this is why i chose to animate the naked character and try to add the clothing afterwards

[ashen junco]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/WorkingwithModularCharacters/

[upper fjord]

This seems to be the most promising lead I’ve found. I’ve been searching and searching for hours all over for different techniques

[marble lagoon]

anyone know how to do this

[dull dock]

Hey guys!
I'm having a bones stretch problem when the mesh is walking.
It happens after the mesh start walking -> enters idle again -> start walking.
I can't figure out why this props on the mesh are stretching.
It's set as a skeleton mesh component attached to the mesh, and on construction script is set master pose component to the mesh.

[rose prawn]

layered blend per bone?

[rose prawn]

With IK Retargeting, how do you deal with sockets? I've got identically named sockets on both anim mesh as well as the rendered mesh, but the socket attachment seems to be to the rendered mesh, so the attached actor just floats around in the air.

[ashen junco]

Please do not crosspost

[ashen junco]

I'm going to answer it here.

[ashen junco]

In the anim graph, you can spawn a Play animation node. Pick any animation, and in the details panel for the node, you can expose the sequence for the pin.

[dry totem]

Any idea why when I animate a simple rotation, the pivot point automatically jumps around before moving to the same location?

[vocal ocean]

is there any way to let "begin tornado" transit to "loop tornado" by events?

I'm tweaking these settings but doesnt seem to do anything at all

[rose prawn]

Create and bind to event, set a flag in the event?

If it's just after an animation finishes, it could be an automatic transition too

[vocal ocean]

Create and bind to event
Where do we do that?

[rose prawn]

AnimBP's Event Graph, in the init event

[vocal ocean]

Hmm, I don't see any relevant bindings that matches with a specific animation state

there are bindings here in animation state but there are no "animation end" or "blend out"

[rose prawn]

Animation end is just the automatic transition

[vocal ocean]

ah, so if first boolean is true, it'll transit to next one automatically

I thought it was transitioning instantly if transition condition set to true

yeah it worked, thanks @rose prawn

[rose prawn]

Yeah, first boolean is used in EG jump sequences, where the landing animation blends out and then you transition to the locomotion state machine

[rose prawn]

Not sure if bumping is allowed, but I still can not figure my issue out, related to IK Retargeting.
Spawning and attaching actors to the 'animation mesh' results in the items being offset in relation to the 'rendered mesh', which looks a bit wacky.

[ashen junco]

Wish I could help, but I'm not using UE5, so no idea

[vocal ocean]

Why it's stucking on begin state?

Hmm.. I did not like this, we literally control the flow with blend settings

Setting Hermite Cubic to Cubic in Out breaks the state

wtf

[rose prawn]

Update: resolved it. You can attach to the rendered mesh, however I had added the socket to the asset's skeleton, not my project's copy of the skeleton.

[umbral radish]

That was a bit more challenging than I thought but I made a tutorial how to recover from ragdoll including a lot small hidden gotchas in case it might help you as well: https://twitter.com/AndiDev_/status/1546123693402857472

Andreas⛵ (@AndiDev_)

That was a fun rabbit hole:
"Ragdolling and how to recover from it"
I distilled all my finding into a video. You can get fast to a state that "it works" but there are a lot little and sometimes a bit hidden things that can improve it.

#UE5 #animation

https://t.co/Yhcu32hPmW

▶ Play video

Twitter · Jul 10, 2022, 1:26 PM

[winged socket]

When i attack using animmontage every time attack angle change how to solve this?

[scenic marsh]

been at this for hours. would there be an obvious reason why, after setting up a backwards and forwards solve in control rig, the preview in "backwards and forwards solve" mode looks perfect with a preview animation, but when i use it in an animation blueprint with the input pin, it's behaving as if it's in "forward solve" mode only? hoping i'm just missing a dropdown somewhere

[deep shard]

does anyone know why my animation wont import into ue5?
it imports the rig, but not the animation for some reasom

i'm really new so i don't get it

[grand needle]

idk if blend space 2d stuff should be here but i dont really know what maximum axis value and minimum does

[misty dagger]

how can i fix candy wrapper

like get better arm twisting basically, i know you can add joints and ive added 3, i still get candy wrapper pretty bad

was going to build the unreal git with dual quatrenion skinning but its a no go in my workflow because its limited to unreal engine 4

if there is a third party option to skeletal mesh skinning in ue5 please let me know, idc how much it costs i need it

[swift edge]

Is the easiest way to fix this going to be editing the animation seq in ctrlrig? Seems like the animations root location is just higher for some reason.

[smoky shell]

Does anyone know if 5.1 will fix the IK Retargeter so "Edit Pose" will take a pose asset instead? Doing it by hand isn't acceptable for us

[ivory storm]

how to give character default mannequin skeleton in case to get access to anim bp?

[ashen junco]

Add twist bones.

[ashen junco]

Basically the value range for your blend space.

[grand needle]

ok thx

[teal bough]

hey guys I need help with something, I wanted to animate a spaceship's hatch opening and closing for me to use in my flight simulator

would I have to rig the spaceship?

if so, how do I rig it? It's not a character so I'm not sure how I am supposed to rig it like one

[modest cargo]

https://youtu.be/6BUgz7Lr1Ig

[teal bough]

thank you

that will be useful

[modest cargo]

https://youtu.be/z58QHe1yUzA

[teal bough]

though I was more talking about an opening and closing hatch that you can walk on

oh

thanks

too

would it work the same?

[modest cargo]

Just adapt the concept of rigging the landing gear to your application.

It is called hard surface rigging

[teal bough]

oh okay

thank you I appreciate the help

[modest cargo]

This tutorial is for exporting from blender and importing to unreal

[modest cargo]

You're welcome. Hard surface rigging is by far the easiest in my opinion. Far easier than character rigging.

There are many tuts to help you with that

[teal bough]

OH YES THANK YOU I just remembered I would need that too

[teal bough]

okay thanks!

[modest cargo]

😉

[teal bough]

I never really understood how to rig but I'm watching the landing gear one and it looks really good so far

[modest cargo]

I purchased this when it was released, while blender has been updated, the techniques are timeless.

If you can afford. You will rapidly gain skills and workflows. Well worth the funds

https://youtu.be/zndcaTvcFoQ

[modest cargo]

Rigging can be scary at first

You may also find this helpful for export import
https://youtu.be/qZf74m2YFpw

[misty dagger]

First time testing Livelink, pretty good out of the box to be honest. A bit of lag sometimes here and there but that is because I shot the footage in low light. This thing is AWESOME!

[misty dagger]

This is my second test with Unreal's Livelink using my iPhone 13 Mini. AMAZING RESULTS lol!

[ashen junco]

Please post it on #work-in-progress instead

Please don't crosspost, settle for one you post in #metahumans

[vocal ocean]

Is animation systems in UE5 broken? I'm right now beyond the point where I'm thinking I'm being dumb 😄 There are definitely some issues all over the place

[vocal ocean]

What should I get suspicious of if my root motion montages do not play animation but update player's location?

[sage girder]

guys so i put the belica package in my game (https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/paragon-lt-belica)
but why does the aimoffset not work? (when i look down/up it doesn't move the gun or the hands)

[vocal mango]

Hi can anyone experienced tell me what's the best method to do animation without MoCap.
Is there any easier/faster way instead of single bone keyframing and all those stuff?

[brave moat]

Set up an IK rig

[vocal mango]

I mean... metahuman has IK rig set up but goddamn it's clunky to work with

[ashen junco]

You know how to toogle the IK/FK right?

[vocal mango]

... not rly 😄 Iknow only what IK means i dont even know what FK is

[dusky void]

So I have this issue where unreal just doesn't want to play my animation right and I'm kind of stumped on what can be causing the issue. The blender video is what it should look like vs the unreal clip where it shows what I get.

[sharp river]

try to increase frame count

[dusky void]

i could try that

ima test that now

[sharp river]

but it looks like your unreal animation is shorter than animation in blender

at the end animation backs to the first frame

ok they are same.

[dusky void]

Unreals taking a bit to load, but im about to try importing it at 60fps instead of 30

[dusky void]

@sharp river boosting the frame rate does nothing, just makes it faster

[ashen junco]

Smells like wrong unit scaling

[brave moat]

for blender, scale the skeleton and the mesh up by 100, apply scale to both, then scale by .01 and apply scale to only the mesh

[dusky void]

My scale is already set for unreal by default. When i do character animations everything works fine, its just this one gun thats been causing me issues

I looked over the scale of the gun and all seems to be fine, even the export settings

I did a test animation and that one works fine

I did a test with another animation and that one worked fine. why does this one break...

I managed to fix the weird stretching but the barrel still wont move

[median spire]

hey, has anyone messed around with the Character Movement Trajectory component? it's part of the "Motion Trajectory" plugin. I have "Debug Draw Trajectory" ticked in the Details panel, but it's not drawing. It's supposed to look something like this

[vivid roost]

Good afternoon slackers. Is there a function that runs on a data asset the first time it is loaded into memory at runtime?

I need to have a particular class of asset register a console command automatically.

I already have a different subsystem loading all members of the parent class, but I need to add subclass-specific functionality.

Hmm, maybe I can make a base function that is called by the subsystem and the child class overrides

Whoops, wrong channel

[dusty oak]

Guys, I try render animation from png image in Blender, but on render I don't see it, what should I do?

[old wolf]

anyone know what the purple line between the nodes means? found this in a demo project and trying to get mine to work the way it does

[strange nebula]

the purple line represent anim curves flowing alongside the pose (white line)

if you highlight the pose icon with your mouse cursor on any anim graph node you can see what is flowing

[ashen junco]

Wrong server.

[fast tiger]

I have a question, I have a character moving but once I crouch it plays the animation but the character can no longer move, this is in a 2-D side platformer

[misty dagger]

My apologies

[misty dagger]

hello

[cosmic minnow]

Hey I have a question: I have several asset packs that have a lot of characters and animations and each of the characters hast its own skeleton. Is there a way to take the anim BP of one Skeleton and Copy it to another skeleton, replacing animations etc?

[median copper]

Trying to convert some animations to the ue5 skeleton, but all of them get offsets to arm and knee joints.. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
this is from a clean ue5 3rd person template when I imported the anims and replaced the imported skeleton with the default ue4 skeleton.. that works just fine.. but when I use the ue5 retargeter it gets funky.

It seems simple enough when I look at 'how-to resources' online.. 😦

[tulip remnant]

hi guys, anyone experienced alembic animations getting super-pixelated when imported in UE as geometry cache?

[lunar valve]

possible to copy and paste a frame to last?

[lunar valve]

also if possible any way to slow down animations as well?

[summer marsh]

Hello everyone I have a question about importing alembics from Houdini into UE. If this is the wrong thread/chat please let me know but I will outline my issue below -

• When importing my .abc file into the content drawer i get the pop up 'çache import options'. Here I change nothing expect import type to geometry cache. I then get the following pop up Failed to import Failed to create asset '/Game/Alembics/Test_Export'.
  Please see Output Log for details.

I cannot see any further info in the output log however. Perhaps someone could even check importing my file into a scene on their machine. Cheers guys!

[lucid slate]

Hi guys. I wanna use 120fps for gameplay anims but anim montage support max 30 fps what should i do?

[ashen junco]

Make it in 30 FPS. The engine will interpolate between frames by default

[lucid slate]

Why I can't use 120 fps

rate scale

if i make 0.25 could be lookslike 120 fps maybe

[ashen junco]

I highly doubt you'll need details in that high framerate anyway

[lucid slate]

120 fps can show the details

just 4 parts using anim montage

0.4 rate scale could lookslike 120 fps maybe

It's a FPS project i can't use 30 fps mate.

[ashen junco]

You can. Just have to be clever with the keyframing.

[lucid slate]

I will do that mate thanks.

If i set the rate scale 0.25 for a 30 fps anim

Will be like 120 fps?

whatever i solved

thanks @ashen junco

[honest geyser]

Hey all, using UE5 and IK Retargeter, any ideas why I am getting this strange deformation in the chest? I have my IK Rig for the retargeter matching the UE Manny IK Rig.

It doesnt happen on all animations either.

For instance this one is fine.

[bold mauve]

Hi Guys, Does anyone know how to animate skeletal mesh position on x and y using CSV data? so i can make sequences

[sullen flame]

Does anybody have a good tutorial video on how to animate fluent body movements in UE 5? I don't really want to buy packs but dont know how to make them myself... any help is much appreciated!