metahumans

[simple forge]

do you have emissive lighting somewhere?

[grand prawn]

How do I play a Metahuman animation with a blueprint?

Instead of Sequencer.

I'm trying "Cast To SkeletalMeshActor" -> "Play Animation", but this doesn't work.

[simple forge]

have you tried adding the body animation to the body in the metahuman blueprint?

[grand prawn]

I have more than one type of animation I want it to play, and was hoping I could trigger that animation from a separate blueprint.

Basically I have a driving-a-car animation and a walking animation. The car was going to trigger the driving a car animation.

[spice kayak]

Nope. Hardly noticeable though.

Funny enough, I was just watching your control rig backward additive solver video a few minutes ago. Super helpful, thanks for that. Im keying blinks in for my character and wondered if you knew of or had your own go-to step-length for blinking? My sequencer is at 24fps, and ive been playing around with 1-3 frames on either side of the blink action, but cant quite place the most natural key distance.

[simple forge]

ha cool! Blinks and eye movement is always tough. Try placing the blinks when the eye changes direction or in areas where the eyelid is slowly closing. Find those spots where it changes in value and try either 3-6 frames. And perhaps dont go for a full on blink, maybe 3/4ths of a blink so it looks more natural.

[spice kayak]

Awesome, thanks. I looked back on the curve data from a previous livelink take and it looks like its 3 frames down and 3 frames up, and like you said, not quite a full 1.0 value blink.

[simple forge]

smart, use those curves to find where you should hit those blinks.

[spice kayak]

Trying to record eye a livelink take for eye movement while using your phone and not being able to look the screen to see where ur character is looking is so hard lol, the backward additive solver is SO clutch for making adjustments.

before UE5 crashes and you lose the last few keys you made, that is...

[simple forge]

what happens before it crashes

[spice kayak]

Ive had a string of so many recently, it seems almost random at this point. The last one was selecting a key in sequencer and deleting it.

Ive got a really bad one that is preventing me from updating my metahumans in-project sadly. Cant add the new metahuman without it crashing as soon as I hit the blue import button on bridge.

But the changes are purely hair related, so im hoping they will have it fixed by the time im done doing a ton of other animation work for this scene.

[simple forge]

have you updated ue to 5.0.3?

[spice kayak]

Yeah

[simple forge]

you are not alone. mine are not groom related though

I made the mistake of bringing in a new download into a project with an old one I had before this recent update....total mess. Had to rebuild

[spice kayak]

Thats my nightmare haha. Ive been working on a single project for awhile, since early access, and luckily nothing has broken since stable release and .2/.3

I need to back it up just incase, but at this point its almost 300gb and I have been too stingy with my time to sit and wait while it backs up on another drive

[simple forge]

ugh since early access? My anxiety level would be out of control .

[spice kayak]

I took a few months off right around stable release, and just started work again a few weeks ago. Knock on wood, but no issues haha.

Most of the work I did was environmental previously. Now getting deep into the weeds of character design, animation, and story.

So all my metahuman work has been since the latest release. Which has been great. Ive got some mesh-to-metahuman characters that wouldve been impossible to make previously.

I had a CC3 Orc character that looked o k a y, but lacked the cinematic quality of everything else around it. Now ive got a metahuman one and its just insane how good they look. So happy.

By the way, do you know of any method of getting metahuman eyes in sequencer to follow an object? It seems so simple, but Ive yet to find a solution. Would be so nice to have a way of tracking eyes to an actor.

[halcyon stream]

that's it! your character has a bit green on the nose cos ... it's orc dna ... somehow it got to her ... 😬 😅

[spice kayak]

https://youtu.be/zTsoaXEMwO8

any critiques on the eye movement? Hes supposed to be looking forward, towards where hes walking, other than the initial look off to the side near the start.

or any suggestions for other facial keys to help with realism. only used blink and look direction modifiers here.

[halcyon stream]

I think it's looking good, this type of action/shot is a bit more ... contemplative ... regardingg the eyes . maybe a small eyebrow movement could fit well

but subtle, otherwise it wouldn't fit

(my 2 cents 😅 )

[simple forge]

Character looks great! Blink at 0:08 could be faster but only cause I am focusing on that hehe. Maybe use the look at control to add a few darts as we don't generally look in one direction for an extended time. Did you smooth the eye curves?

[halcyon stream]

taking into consideration the description (looking forwards along the path he's walking) I think the non darting look works well, as if he's focused on the path, but looking at the distance 🙂 but of course, a bit of darting and changing focus always looks good and dynamic 🙂

(again my 2 cents, subjective 🙂 )

[spice kayak]

Thanks guys!

[spice kayak]

I am just now seeing the lookat controller…. Definitely way useful haha

Gonna mess with the down/up ratio for the blinking, eyebrow and under eye lid subtleties now. Thanks guys

[fickle elbow]

I like to add saccadic movements, helps sell the illusion

[junior birch]

Next level holy crap dude what did you do lol

[young vector]

can you export metahumans as fully rigged characters that you can use in games?

[graceful storm]

Has anyone been able to just Add the Unreal Engine 4 or 5 Mannequin Bones to the Metahuman Skeleton in a DCC and reimport it?

[plain orbit]

Does anyone know how to properly edit the mh_arkit_anim asset? I am trying to adjust the blink but whenever I create a new pose asset it just makes all the curves super stiff https://gyazo.com/f79ecec7737a7ecfc8be49c10881fe0b

The mapping pose has the same names and curves, I just edited an extra curve on the blink so it would close completely

[halcyon stream]

@plain orbit I'm not sure I understand your question ... but if it's to adjust the livelink data, you can do modify curve after the LL Pose and before the mr_arkit_mapping

also, the Apply mode of the modify curve node is important

to correct exaggerated stuff, maybe Remap is the best mode

(if this has nothing to do with your specific question, then I missed it and I'm sorry 😅 )

[plain orbit]

Oh so for me I tried to use the modify curve node to edit the blink but it just made the eye stay shut at all times during live link. my particular question was on how can I replace the mapping pose file from the default one

Because I duplicated the mh arkit mapping animation and edited it so the blink actually closed properly, then I tried to create a pose asset from the new animation but it does not work correctly

[halcyon stream]

brb

[halcyon stream]

the modify curve in the defaukt apply mode will basically overwrite whatever comes from input with the value you put in there ... you need to use either the remap mode or add mode 😉

[plain orbit]

Thank you!! I’ll try both and let you know

[spare elm]

@mellow fossil

[silk urchin]

Hi. Do you know any fps games using metahumans during gameplay and not only cinematics? Thank you

[spice kayak]

@simple forge Have you ever run into this issue while baking your animation to control rig in sequencer?

[simple forge]

ugh I know that little error. If you are using a specific map, go into the project settings and lower your reflection resolution to something smaller. Are you using a game asset or something? https://youtu.be/oThqNAzSmz4

[spice kayak]

I got around it by doing the bake in an empty map, then just copy and pasting it over to my sequence in the super busy map I was getting the error in. Hopefully I wont need to use it, but Ill bookmark that video just in-case. Thanks!

[visual wing]

Hi all, does anyone know why these impact normals are not being normal to the mesh?

[foggy cedar]

Hello everyone, i want to record a facial animation using the Live Link Face app for iphone and then import inside ue5 and apply it to a metahuman. is it possible? i am struggling how to make it. i could record my face and get the file then i loose myself

[glass sorrel]

Hello guys, I have a question for you. I apologize in advance if this isn't the correct channel to post in.

Anyway, I'm about to add sunglasses to a metahuman. Sunglasses were made in Blender so I exported them as FBX and imported them into UE5. What's the correct way of adding them to a metahuman?

1. I tried adding them to a Face in metahuman BP, set the parent socket to head. Sadly, its hinges were slightly bend inwards and I'm not sure how to fix them in UE5 so I did the next step.

2. I separated the hinges from the rim using bisect tool in Blender, exported all objects as FBX and imported them into UE5 again. Added them again to the Face and set head for the socket and now, when I try to move them they all go in different directions.

The way I did it most likely isn't the correct way but it's the only way I know of so far, considering I don't have much experience working in UE5 and Blender.

Thanks in advance and have a pleasant day.

[fallen perch]

Hello guys. Im having a little problem and would appreciate if anyone could help:

when connecting the livelink to my metahuman it connects for about a second and the metahuman then freezes. Also, the livelink window turns yellow.

im pretty sure the steps i made to connect with it are correct

[flint stirrup]

what is it?

[flint stirrup]

this in the unrealmetahumans.com

[spiral trail]

Hi there

i have a question. i am using the paragon assets, but when i conncet live link i noticed that they do not come with morph targets

how do i fix this?

i need help fast

[steady steppe]

I have a laptop with an i7 and an RTX 3050. Is there a way to reduce vram usage when using metahumans, or is 4GB on the 3050 just too much on the hardware?

[meager thistle]

Anyone has any idea why Quixel bridge shows me completely different metahumans than metahuman creator in "My metahumans" section?

The 2 programs completely do not cooperate with each other. If I create a metahuman in the web metahuman creator, it will not show up in bridge and vice versa.

https://tenor.com/view/what-in-tarnation-wtf-wth-confused-gif-15632887

[spice kayak]

Has anyone made "blind" eyes for their metahuman?

white pupil and iris?

messing with the settings on the MI_eyerefractive but cant quite get it

i guess getting rid of the iris and pupil work as well lol..

[frosty pebble]

can metahumans 5 be updated to be used for unreal engine 4

[lofty mantle]

Anyone know how to fix glitch?

[thick rune]

i have the same problem, any solution ?

maybe it's a problem with the unreal version 5.0.3

[lone creek]

Hey guys, i'm trying to export metahuman to maya but for some reason i'm getting this error. I've tried changing download settings, Tried reinstalling bridge plugin for maya but no use. If anyone has faced this issue, is there a solution?

[lofty mantle]

I just re-imported the model

[thick rune]

open again the maya

[thick rune]

ok man, i gonna try

this should appear here @lone creek

[glacial flax]

Are there any easily had tutorials on making MetaHumans as playable characters with more than one? I've found plenty that just replace the default mannequin, but I want to be able to offer players a selection of more than one playable MetaHuman. 🙂 Thanks for any advice!

[simple forge]

go to your settings and check the Library Path. It should be ex. D:\Megascans Library

[simple forge]

@lofty mantle before applying animations, go into the metahuman skeleton tab and make sure you changed the retargeting options for everything but the first two bones to skeleton.

[thick rune]

i'dont why but

i'm confused

and creeped out

ahahahahha

[bright venture]

Hey Im having a problem with my VR Pawn rotating correctly on Snap Turn, it seems like teleporting makes the actor rotation reset on tick. Im using the snap turn from the VR Template project, I just added an "Add Controller Yaw Input". The teleport is fromt he same template project. Please help!! Im attaching a screenshot of the snapt turn and teleport functions as well as a video showing what is happening, what is being printed on tick is the Get Actor Rotation Yaw of the pawn.

[mellow fossil]

anyone know how when i change the max lod it wont stay fixed?

example: i switch maxxed lod from 2 to 1 it just resets to 2

[broken pasture]

We were able to setup face live link with our metahumans, but can’t figure out how to use the back camera of our iPhone with the app ? It says an error like “no video feed” with black screen when we try.

Facial animations weren’t too accurate with front camera so we’re thinking our back camera with LiDAR will be a lot more accurate. Would appreciate any help

[junior birch]

I can safely say after 1 year of working with metahumans. I can call my metas 2.0. Can't wait for livelink face to get fixed so i can try this baby with iphone and facegood helmet

[broken pasture]

Haha was just watching your tutorials man glad to see you here

[broken pasture]

What’s wrong with live link face? We’re trying to find the best way to get facial animations, thinking of iclones facial expression library if we can’t get livelink working

[halcyon stream]

what specifically do you need fixing regarding live link face? is it the distorted results on the face?

[dawn quail]

has anyone tried exporting/reimporting metahumans? it seems to break the LOD uvs

same mesh reimported, it breaks lod 0, 1's UVs https://gyazo.com/b714f7decdd23b66fe08c01cc3d0ff79

[dawn quail]

so it seems I've done a temp bandaid fix to this, it only happened with the metahumans hoodie mesh, this is the default uv

this is the uv of the same mesh reimported (exported the mesh once it got reimported and opened up in 3ds max)

saved default uv mapping and applied it to the new mesh and it worked, dirty but w.e

[junior birch]

cool man yea i lurk here every now and then

[sudden berry]

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[junior birch]

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[sudden berry]

Sure , win in the lottery 😁

[junior birch]

Hahahahha

[sudden berry]

TUT Duuude is a cool name ! You r my fav TUT Duuude ... haha

[fresh monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-animals-pugs-gif-11244969

[sudden berry]

Liviu in da house 😀

[broken pasture]

mixamo going smoothly

[safe tartan]

when did livelink face break?

[junior birch]

i got you beat

[radiant plover]

I made a metahuman. How do I make it move in real time for streaming without an iphone?

[rocky latch]

What is the best face animation tool for meta humans?

[weak seal]

how do i use a meta human for first person character. im very new to unreal so im not sure how it would be done.

[waxen bison]

Do metahumans work on linux? I tried cross compiling a shipping build from windows and the hair vanished.
They were showing, though a bit wieird looking in a dev build.

Packaging on Ubuntu vanishes all hair.
But they show just fine in the viewport and standalone mode.

Can someone please help?

[gilded oasis]

Is there anyone here who uses character creator 4? I have some questions about the software before i buy it

[bitter ice]

Hello here ! i have a little problem with a metahuman animation recorded with live link, the face change when i apply it. the record was done in the Face_AnimBP in the common/face folder. Does the preview mesh matter while recording ? it's like the animation change some parts of the face to be more like the original preview face.
In the image, left without the animation and right with the animation, the lips are very pinched and globaly the face look weird , the facial animation is supposed to be pretty neutral with a slight smile.
Also the neck change and stretch and depending on the metahuman the shape of the head can change

[halcyon stream]

did you calibrate LiveLink Face with a neutral expression?

[scenic forge]

Hey all, when I import a Metahuman in UE5, should it not be bringing in the animations as well? Or am I missing a step somewhere?

[waxen bison]

As a follow up to this.
This is my metahuman running in Linux dev mode, cross compiled from windows

https://youtu.be/9qDbZXaCczE

[bitter ice]

OK thx i'll try that. i'm not sure now ^^'

[bitter ice]

Yeah it look way better but i'm still having an issue with the entire face that teleport itself back when the animation is active

[halcyon stream]

check to see if the hair bindings are there, I had a project where most of my bidnings just disapeared (still didn't find the cause, I gave up)

[bitter ice]

the eyes the forehead and lips seems to move too ( where do you look for the hair binding ? the hair move to match the forehead in the weird teleport though )

[halcyon stream]

well ... not sure if that might be the problem but ... that's a recent metahumn, right? I mean after the last revision?

[bitter ice]

I bake to control rig and it's fine now , i should try to change my calibration maybe for the eyes but no more weird deformation and teleport ! for the metahuman i was forced to used the trick of replacing the pose asset to correct the unsymmetrical face problem

[halcyon stream]

ah yeas that was my question 🙂 well, cool, glad that you got it working 👍

[bitter ice]

Thanks again for the help ! 😃

[vernal knot]

Guys in metahuman when creating character is only the shape of the head or the whole body u can edit??

[nimble quartz]

Hey all, any idea why my metahuman is doing this? becoming see through, but it is only from this side 😅

from what I can tell, it seems to be my hair mesh doing this

[swift burrow]

Quick question, is there a way how to export view from MetaHuman Creator to png image, without sacrificing quality of the picture

[stable bison]

If Windows, use 'Print Screen' or Snipping Tool?

[swift burrow]

I did, but the quality isn't all that great

[stable bison]

The Snip Tool is per Pixel / uncompressed, not sure if you can do better than that, other than increase your Monitor Resolution.

[tardy ocean]

So for some reason on the MetaHuman Creator website I keep getting the Please hold while we connect you to MetaHuman Creator screen, but after about a minute it suddenly switches to You have been disconnected from the editor without ever loading anything.

I'm using Firefox with all of my tracking/ads protection turned off, so I'm not sure what the problem could be.

[tardy ocean]

Works fine with Edge; I'll just use that for now

[bitter ice]

Hello everyone, i managed to resolve an issue of metahuman face and livelink doing some weird deformation usin a bake to control rig but now i didnt have control of the head rotation since the anim track for that is not controlable with the face ctrl rig ( i have the metahuman face attach on a custom body on the neck01 bone not head because the neck will go through the mesh if not like that)
Did somebody have a solution ? i already try some tips i found online talking about "force custom mode" but it's not working for me

even if it mean to redo a new neck animation in the sequencer i take that solution, i just dont know how to move that head rotation now that the body isnt link to the same SKM than the face and i need to have it separated like that

[junior birch]

Metahuman livelink deformation seems to be fixed with recent bridge update. https://youtu.be/amiGN8HrsME

[bitter ice]

OH ok thanks ! i'll check that, hoppefully it will simplify my current process ^^

[junior birch]

yes try copying the 2 files i showed in the video and replace ur old ones. Also ive been using metahumans long time. Metahumans and simplify dont go together hahahaha

[bitter ice]

i'll try in a new UEP because for now i've got some weird stuff happening as usual ^^'

[junior birch]

she half wolverine

[bitter ice]

Ok so after trying with a new project it look like the half face bug is resolve but i'm still having my deformation/face teleportation issues that i need to bake to ctrl rig, loosing the head rotation in the process

[barren compass]

On importing metahuman to unreal engine, medium or highest quality really makes a difference in performance?

[pliant lynx]

Hello guys! can someone tell me how to resolve this issue in the process to morph head and body of metahuman?

I'm using Zwrap and the control are all functionally.

[bitter ice]

I figure what my problem with the head moving and deforming while the anim track is active was so i post the solution here, i needed to put the additive setting of the animation in "No additive" and then the meta human face in the BP must be in custom mode ( or force custom mode in the sequencer )

[bitter ice]

the face part was up like you so maybe it fixe your problem too

[last wave]

Can i export metahuman as fbx?

[bitter ice]

You can export individual Skeletal Mesh but not the whole BP i think

[bitter ice]

I dont know if it work fine but you can also add you metahuman to a sequencer and then export the whole BP from there as a FBX.

[barren compass]

Why metahuman goes faster in browser editor than in unreal engine editor??

[bitter ice]

Metahuman creator is hosted online like stadia or other cloud computing stuff so it does not take full memory on your GPU

[barren compass]

I had the issue that when I set the metahuman un UE5 fps drops to 13, monstly because of hair, can I solve this somehow?

[bitter ice]

you can try use cards on every groom assets

or forcing a more lowcost LOD in the lodSync component

[barren compass]

My hair doesnt have more than 2 LOD 😦

[barren compass]

Do you also handle animations? Retargeting doesn't look ok from ThirdPerson character if the height is medium

[bitter ice]

oh maybe the new update fixe this because with my latest one i have more than 2 ( in quixel bridge it shows a little warning when the lods above 2 are not available )

( bridge pluggin update i mean )

[bitter ice]

I'm not very competent for the animation and retargeting part but maybe if you explain a bit much the problem, somebody here could help

[rose stump]

I get this error that prevents me from importing new metahumans to my project, does anyone know what causes it? like if I could just delete some files that are not compatible and leave the textures?

[strong sphinx]

I keep getting refreshed and landing on this page after logging in

I tried two different browsers already

endless loop

[fallen perch]

hello guys. I have a question: How come on unreal channel and a very few youtube videos the metahumans look photorealistic but in the majority of all other videos and also in my projects they look so cartoony and look like straight from a video game kind of quality?

[bitter ice]

I think it depends on the rendering you use and your lighting/ animation too. A very good lighting with top end animation can make it more realistic but coupled with a very high end render setup or even a pathtracing render you can step up your overall quality level. A true realtime will almost always look a little videogamy . i'm currently testing with pathtracing and i had to make some material adjustement but it can be really good quality. In a videogame setting i guess you just have the lighting and anim to make it believable

[fallen perch]

@bitter ice thanks a lot. I am training myself to be able to monetize my metahumans in the near future. I got a good PC, perception neuron and other things but despite that importing the metahumans into UE5 always seems to be miles away from what i see in top videos

what does pathtracing actually do? if i capture the metahuman with mocap doesnt it mean the movements are already traced?

[bitter ice]

Pathtracing work like other render system from the film industy like VRay / Arnold /or many others, it's not realtime and will simulate photons and there travels through your environment including reflection refraction and bounces.
and for the mocap you always need some manual retake on it to compensate for the material inaccuracy. the amount of work is different with the mocap system you use, but something cheap like ROKOKO give you poor results. even livelink for the face make shortcuts in the metahumans blendshapes all of them arent used separatly. i think an Iclone process is way better for that but i'm not using it currently

[fallen perch]

i see thanks a lot

[strong sphinx]

I'm getting 502 error ..

[bitter ice]

work fine for me so probably not a problem from the server

[strong sphinx]

I'm stuck in a repeating loop on this page, after which it ultimately gives me 502

any ideas, where I should ask for help?

[bitter ice]

maybe try some computer or internet restart, that's all i got for now

( i see that some people tryed with different web browser too )

[wind glen]

I haven't read all of the above. But I would try going to the creator portal directly via https://metahuman.unrealengine.com/
Which browser are you using? And do you have any extensions enabled?

[strong sphinx]

I have tried the link you mentioned already. Same result. I'm using mozilla with some plugins, and I'm aware that sometimes plugins cause issues, so i tried in google chrome (which has no plugins)

[wind glen]

I would try edge just in case

[edgy prawn]

Does anyone know of an API that exist for character creation that works inside a mobile app?

Or do we have to build from scratch?

[sudden berry]

https://youtu.be/U2yderQOMUo

[strong sphinx]

just tried edge, to no effect. I even went on to logout out of every other device, and revoked the access of Metahumans, and reallowed it. But still stuck in endless loop

[wind glen]

I would guess it might be something with your pc/network settings.

do you know which dns you're using?

[harsh idol]

Wouldn't it make more sense to create a skeletal web for the metahuman? for project als v4
can we create metahuman as skeletal mesh
like this

[prisma oyster]

Is there a guide for that? I've been wanting to know if we can do that. When I download a metahuman, I just see body part meshes in that drop down, rather than one for the whole human...

[strong sphinx]

I have no issue with anything else. I'm using Google DNS

[wind glen]

well not having other issues isn't necessarily relevant to this issue.

[harsh idol]

@prisma oyster I think we can because piecemeal skeletal meshes exist

I think we will get rid of many steps in this way.

I want to make a skeletal mesh like here and use it on the other side as a whole.

for metahuman

[lethal jetty]

Question: I animated the control rig, yet when I want to render it into a movie, my control rig just A-Frames. How do I get around this?

[nimble quartz]

You obviously made sure to key-frame the control rig animation? There is a bug that I experienced with metahumans and sequencer where the metahuman will render T-pose instead of the key-framed animation, in which case you need to just close and open unreal or sequencer and keep trying to render until they aren't in T-pose. It is probably also best to have your character start in T at the start of the animation and have it ease in to the start of the animation, don't start your anim right at the beginning of the timeline - you can always edit out the T-pose part later

[spiral knoll]

Hi ! I followed a tutorial for a custom cloth, but when I import it in UE5, It not follow the animation. I search why but I don't found, all look like ok. First image is the result, second the comparaison between my creation (left) and the original (right), same for the 3e image. Someone have an idea ? Thanks a lot !

[nimble quartz]

Hey man, follow the principles in this tutorial. You need to make sure you are adding weights to clothing from the correct skeleton, and you need to make sure you are exporting and importing correctly, as well as adding the clothing to the correct skeletal mesh socket of the metahuman in the Blueprint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_b60jkuDMY&t=139s

[spiral knoll]

I didnt follow this tuto, I will look it thanks !

[nimble quartz]

No worries, it's the only one that personally worked for me. Lemme know if you get stuck 🙂

[spiral knoll]

Yes I will update you, thanks again 🙂

[woeful vortex]

hey everyone, i’m brand new to metahuman and was wondering if it’s normal for the initial result in MHC to require lots of fine adjustment? the general shape of the metahuman looks quite like me but there’s several things i’ve been tweaking to get even closer.

[nimble quartz]

I think so, it's really new and still not fully released so there is going to be a lot of bug and adjustments to be made

[real charm]

Hi guys, I'm creating a character in metahuman with big cartoony eyes but having an issue with the eyelids. I tried the regional influence fix but it changed how I originally want my character. Is there a way to make the eyeballs bigger?

[spiral knoll]

@nimble quartz Thanks a lot again, all work now ! Just some "bugs" when I jump, but it work tanks !

[rose stump]

hello, is there any way to reimport the metahuman common folder? if I already have some metahumans in the project

[rose stump]

https://www.loom.com/share/b6d646241b1a459e89aff0c4fed5a446

are the pose assets working while their source anims are broken??? if so how would I retarget them

[harsh idol]

I am facing such a problem, how can I solve it?

[nimble quartz]

Nice! Yea it's not a perfect process but it gets 90% of the work done

[harsh idol]

fps drops unbelievably when i use metahuman mesh

[spice kayak]

Anyone know how to manually migrate a metahuman character from one project to another?

my bridge is broken and crashes on import. Gonna need to do it manually but I dont wanna break my project by doing it wrong. Any suggestions?

[spice kayak]

hey its lewis hamilton!

[graceful storm]

anyone got any insight into this issue? Trying to Integrate Metahumans with Defuse Studios' "SmartAI" System. This is the outcome of giving them the SmartAI animation blueprint, and setting their animations to play dynamically based on in game state(sort of).
Seems to work fine, but I havent seen any transitions(like smoking), so that kinda give me an indication maybe. Otherwise no clue why they are phasing in and out(Yes they are still present in level just invisible)

https://youtu.be/GdWw_GRq5p0

[woeful vortex]

hey everyone, what face scanning app have you guys had the most success with for the mesh to metahuman workflow, just in terms of accuracy? i’ve tried a couple so far but i’m not thrilled with the results.

[fluid inlet]

hey everyone

ive been trying to export a metahuman i made as an obj file

and its turning out blank

can anyone help please??

[tame edge]

Question: I'm really impressed with metahuman mesh, but what is the best workflow for changing the body? What does Epic recommend? Is there a clear path to that?

[wind glen]

You mean like the metahuman creator?

[last wave]

really need metahuman asian female faces

where I can find it?

[halcyon stream]

make one using mesh to metahuman? 🙂

[coarse stump]

some samples have asian look what is offered by metahuman creator

[frosty pebble]

How do I use the sculpt tool?

I don't see any sculpt points.

[dark pasture]

Hey can we enable nanite on metahumans or something to fix this issue ?

Like if we put 12 metahumans in a same scene, I like have 30 FPS

[sacred peak]

afaik nanite is typically for static stuff

[dark pasture]

I meant that I was looking for a way to avoid that issue

[sacred peak]

it may be an issue but afaik it's a limitation of the technology - its not something you'll be able to work around really, as far as i know

anyway

its not something that demands nanite

it's something that demands proper character optimisation and dev choices

you can get hundreds of characters on screen but that's going to need particular setup and choices in terms of your technical direction of the project and assets

none of it to do with nanite

i'm embarking on getting deep with metahumans specifically myself, there's a LOT there and it can be set up for cinematics down to mobile, but its work we have to do

if anyone experienced is reading: i am looking at preparing myself to work with metahumans beyond the metahuman editor -- i.e taking to DCC for further modification. i'd love to chat about how that can be approached, and gain any tips on how to avoid breaking things or about any ramifications i might be ignorant to

[dark pasture]

But I mean what can I do for example to reduce lagging when there are multiple meta human in the screen ?

[tame edge]

lod

[nimble quartz]

It's not too hard, I can help here and there. I've been able to full customize my metahumans from eye style, to hair, and custom clothing and editing their textures (just haven't tried swapping the whole body out for a different one)

[dark pasture]

Heya just coming back, Matrix project has a lot of crowd people (metahuman), but how do they handle the lagging ?

[last wave]

why my LOD0 and LOD1 looks so different?

how to regenerate LODs in MetaHuman Creator?

[green sandal]

they do have workstations and graphic card servers in their place to give the best output so no lag occurs

[sacred peak]

i am just getting started with metahumans. noticed it myself yesterday

the other lods don't get your sculpt/blend modifications or m2m mesh retargeting stuff, so it will look like what ur metahuman looks like without all ur customisation

i dont have an answer yet as to how to approach fixing this or regenerating lods. i have considered just taking the lod meshes into houdini and doing that workflow that will make the lod mesh best-match the lod0 with landmarks etc

[lethal jetty]

Question: How do I reset a bone transform via level sequence. For some reason my calf_knee_R changed and I am trying to reset it but it's not working

Is there a shortcut or some way to reset a bone's transform in level sequencer?

[sacred peak]

thanks, mind if i ping you from time to time? wont take up much of your time, i'm over a decade into cg so i should be able to take a short answer and run sort of thing

[nimble quartz]

100% 🙂 not a prob at all

[dark pasture]

What lod should I use when there a lot of metahuman in the same scene ?

[wind glen]

did you retarget an animation or something?

[lethal jetty]

I fixed it by nuking the anim the sequence makes for the metahumans, Save All then reput them back in. Works good. Now when I render my dang video via sequencer I have this dang white dot in the middle of my vid renders haha
Any tips?

[wind glen]

ahh good. and it kinda looks like an hourglass? maybe something is loading

[lethal jetty]

Yeah man, that's what I think to, but why does it bake into the vid?

I checked the render out settings, seems all good. Not to sure why. Documentation is lacking on it

[wind glen]

Documentation is lacking on it
hello darkness my old friend

honestly not sure, I would check task manager

[halcyon stream]

why not use Movie Render Queue?

[tame edge]

Question: afaik most meshes, and ue4 era metahumans, will export from quixel bridge to many dcc - but ue5 metahumans will currently only export directly to unreal, or to maya

Is it possible to export to anything else?

[lethal jetty]

Humm, I'll look into it

[dark pasture]

Is there a way to implement multiple metahuman in a screen without performing any lag issues ?

[halcyon stream]

each metahuman is about 3 or 4 skeletal meshes ... when you multiply that by a bunch, you get a fsckton of skel meshes having to be calculated each frame. probably not very good for performance 😬

[dark pasture]

I was planning to make a FPS using metahuman, so I cannot ?

[halcyon stream]

probably not the best choice for performance 😬 but as you said a while ago, the Matrix demo has a bunch of them runnning around, so, definitely something to check with someone more knowledgeable than me 😅

[lethal jetty]

@halcyon stream I'm trying to export a video instead of an image, which one do I select?

Final Cut?

I'm using DaVinchi Resolve. haha

[halcyon stream]

for DaVinci you should ideally export .exr, that will give you more possibilities for post production.

big file sizes thou

[lethal jetty]

.avi was alright, I wish I could export to .mp4

[tame edge]

what is the correct workflow from metahuman to edit the mesh, if you don't have maya?

[halcyon stream]

if you don't want to bother with any post prod then just go with png, you can import the sequence in daVinci and export to a video format

[lethal jetty]

Hey man, that suggestion for Movie Render Queue worked great! Thanks again. No more white dot!

[reef fossil]

Does anyone know if I can import the default face and body animations from the metahuman creator into UE5?
I can only find the still-poses

[untold crescent]

Hi, can anyone recommend some tutorials and software that would allow virtual motion capture (real time) of metahuman project by using a webcam instead of iphone such as Live Link Face. Mocap can be limited to facial/head tracking without the body portion tracking.

[analog parcel]

Hey everyone! Can anyone suggest the best way to rig mixamo animations to metahumans?

[silver current]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAQCVJL1pr4&t=6s

[timber bear]

Does anyone have any experience creating editor utility widgets to control metahuman control rigs?

[sacred peak]

@silver current do you have any experience with ue5 era metahumans, and making edits to the skeletal meshes?

i am trying to export the face_mesh to fbx, and then import that fbx again. not even making edits at this point, because it isn't going right

the mesh comes back in looking wrong, i thought it was the mats but they're fine - i've checked. it's the mesh normals. the import settings for normals aren't having any effect though, and there are no export options

looks lit like the normals were set to 180 or something, smooth and not nuanced like they were

[pliant quarry]

Does anyone know how the bones move in the control rig? in the rig graph I only see that it sets a value to a curve

[last wave]

how to adjust LOD1 shape into LOD0?

[somber ore]

Does anyone have experience with sharing metahumans between accounts? We've tried to download a metahuman from quixel and then import it into a different quixel account using the "Import asset" & "Import from zip" options inside quixel. However, once the files are imported is seems only the jpg's and stuff, and not the metahuman is imported as it cannot be opened inside metahuman creator and neither be exported into unreal engine.

[bitter ice]

Hello ! i have i little eyelash problem here, is ther a way to move it in metahuman creator ? or anything to fix the problem ?

[cedar pebble]

I usually assign a completely blank material to remove the eyelashes.

[bitter ice]

Yeah but no real solution ? since i try to reproduce reallife people with the maximum fidelity it's make them look weird.
On the same topic did somebody that uses the mesh to metahuman can relate to my problem, people usualy looks fatter, not necesserly big cheecks but like the scale ratio of face / head is incorrect or the thickness between ears is larger than the real life. i use facebuilder to have the base mesh and i'm using 2 frames in the metahuman identity, one front and one side.

[analog parcel]

Hi everyone! Has anybody imported Daz hair on the metahuman? Can you actually do it? Like replace metahuman hair with hair from Daz?

[pseudo swallow]

Yo, anyone can explain how metahuman works

[halcyon stream]

https://docs.metahuman.unrealengine.com/en-US/

[pseudo swallow]

Thanks

[last wave]

What is MaterialB?

[cobalt sable]

Hello, I'm new to unreal engine 5 , I'm a blender user, and I wish export a metahuman to blender, but when I export in FBX, the hair dosn't appear in blender, does anyone know how to export the air too ?

[daring shuttle]

Why doesn't it look similar?
Mesh to Metahuman

[silver current]

I haven't needed to just export the face mesh yet and I would think it could be a lil tricky. Which file are you using, the full fat source file or the simplified one(asci)?

what kinds of changes are you trying to make, can you not us mesh to metahumans?

[plucky kelp]

Hello guys, I'm wondering if any you guys can fix this problem I have. When I add an animation to the face of my metahuman it does not rotate the head at all, only the face moves during the sequence. The animation was recorded using the sequencer and livelink. When I click on the animation file there is head movement though, so I'm a little confused. Sorry if this was a little confusing I'm new to using Metahumans and began to really like this stuff.

okay nevermind I had to change something in the anim_bp thank you guys anyways

[turbid citrus]

Hello, question about metahuman creator. I can’t seem to make a mh that works with ue4, they all seem to default to a ue5 mh when I look for them in bridge.
Frustratingly there’s no way to tell which mh’s are designated 5 only when you are in the creator, does anyone know how to get them to work in 4?

[rose swan]

is there a way to make a custom animation bp that works with my metahuman instead of retargeting from THE MANNEQUIN

caps sry

[daring shuttle]

Mesh to Metahuman
What is similarity ratio?

[halcyon stream]

hard to put a ratio on it, but ... overall shape seems ok, lips and nose too ... skin texture and eyebrows are way off

[sly sparrow]

Needs more facial hair

[velvet goblet]

Hairline difference

[inner osprey]

Has anyone tried to export Metahumans animations as fbx? the file is huge, almost 50 Mb. Is there a way to reduce this?

[tame edge]

50mb is not a huge file at that stage

the only real size that matters is when it is used in the engine

[spice kayak]

the lips on my character started getting much darker in the shadows all of a sudden yesterday. has anyone run into this shader issue?

obviously hes in the dark they should be darker, but they turn a weird maroon/purple color that they didnt before

its happened to all my metahumans simultaneously

[tame edge]

it is possible unreal is using lower mips for some of the textures because you are over the streaming budget.

Adjust your maximum texture sizes / increase the streaming pool and restart

[spice kayak]

Thanks! I was about to start doing that, and it miraculously fixed itself

almost like this engine has some issues..

[tame edge]

Well that would just mean you have more GPU memory at that "fixed itself" time. It will happen again.

[spice kayak]

Gotcha

[tame edge]

The engine's main issues is that it is not really safeguarding much, it's our responsibility to not ignore the red text across the display.

[spice kayak]

The texture streaming pool can be adjusted within the engine ini correct? to avoid having to remember to add the streamingpoolsize command everytime

[tame edge]

You do it via the console or reduce texture sizes

no need for ini

(console will write to it)

In my case I'm using excessive nanite (90 gb of it) and lumen, but I still have 800mb default streaming pool size. It's fine but because I reduced the texture sizes significantly / changed mats.

Later I'll see about raising the streaming pool if I need to

but I suspect it's 800mb / 1gb default... most cards have a bit more than that now

[spice kayak]

Good to know!

[lyric basin]

Hey there, having a slightly odd issue, hopefully this is the right place to check!

I'm testing changing levels and actors in real time while still maintaining the same livelink connection via the sequencer - (slightly confusing but in this demonstration these are two separate actors that just share the same model because metahuman downloads are being slow)

I keep on encountering this issue where the first time I run the simulation and play the sequence, neither character's mocap is working - but then when i manually scrub through the sequence
after this first playthrough they'll both start working. Livelink is green this entire time.

Test0: No models
Test1: Model 1
Test2: Model 2

I've also tried starting straight from Test1, and Test1 will work and Test2 wont - until I scrub through the sequencer then they'll both start working.

For the purposes of my project I need them to work from the outset and I'm a bit stumped! If anyone has any idea how to proceed I'd greatly appreciate it!

[silent shell]

75%

[tall ferry]

Hi guys.
May I bug you with something I have been struggling for a while.

I did a custom mesh to metahuman face, and the results were pretty decent, but eventually we decided to further modify the metahuman mesh in maya.

When it comes to exporting the Body (Selecting the mesh, then the DHIBody:root, export selected) all good, and I get a clean new body for my metahuman in Unreal5.
But we did some adjusting to the face mesh too, and I cannot seem to find a way to update the face.

Do you know what are the export settings by any chance that I should use to export/Update the face?

[tall ferry]

I am using faceware, it is quite good.
You can use a media video, a webcam, or other sources. You can additionally adjust many gestures within the software for more accuracy, and you can make custom python functions to improve it.
All the information is here:
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/d66/metahuman-workflows-with-faceware-studio/dLa5/unreal-engine-metahuman-workflows-with-faceware-studio-introduction

[untold crescent]

Ty, saw some youtube content today on this stuff, will check it out

[zenith barn]

hello, I made a metahuman and wanted custom clothing so I followed a marvelous design tutorial and learned how to make clothes. I then followed a workflow of using marvelous to create the animation and bring said animation into unreal and have it follow a geometry cache. The only issue is that I have been trying to have a material created for the clothing animation for so long and I am stuck.

as you can see in the picture on the right the marvelous design clothing does have a material the only issue is that I cannot put it onto the geometry cache on top of my character

[long violet]

guys is possible to sculpt a metahuman in blender

[golden pulsar]

Is there a way to move the facial gui down without impacting the rig? The metahuman is sitting, yet the facial controls stay in their original spot

It's extreamely frustrating

[sly sparrow]

to the people who made metahuman-why did ya'll design the underwear for males and females to ride up the ass😅

I'm trying to not have my game characters be thicc af

[tame edge]

I understand underwear can be removed? If so that would be helpful as we would prefer to supply custom.

[valid goblet]

Guys, Maya 2023 is not able to export Metahuman. Is this happened to anyone recently? Any suggestions how to fix it:)

[valid goblet]

Did you able to fix it?

[clear isle]

You could open a second viewport window and have it stay on the facial UI

[golden pulsar]

I don't think you can remove the underwear.

[golden pulsar]

It will work as a last resort for now. Thanks for the idea

[noble light]

my character beard show different Lod anybody know how to solve this issue

[digital stream]

Does anyone get weird stretching issues below LOD 0 with baked poses (from a sequence) on metahumans?

[digital stream]

Update: It seems to be from a bone being added when going from LOD 0 to LOD 1:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/additive-poseasset-has-strange-stretching-when-applied-to-a-mesh-that-adds-bones-when-going-from-lod-0-to-lod-1-metahuman-ish/631919

[swift burrow]

Kind of a different question. Am I able to use screenshots made inside MetaHuman Creator as a poster for my game without copyright problems? Game is obviously made inside UE5 and from MetaHuman Creator I'm able to get way more detailed screenshots of my MetaHuman.

[pliant nexus]

MetaHumans: exist

Texture streaming budget:

[vagrant patio]

i'm trying to use metahumans with the lyra starter project. i marked the metahuman skeleton as a compatible skeleton with the new mannequin, which lets me use it directly with lyra. the animations look great, but the turn in place causes a ton of stuttering

any ideas how to start debugging this?

[sonic sonnet]

As long as it's Unreal rendered you'll be fine.

[deft coral]

Would anyone be able to rig a character to the UE5 rig?

[tough lintel]

Hey,
Is there a way to manually add metahuman identity Track markers ? the automated process only add a few i would place the rest, i tried pretty much any kind of shortcut i could think of and nothing in doc :/

[halcyon stream]

you can also download the Metahumans Lighting setups project from marketplace and get the same lighting setups inside UE, and more flexibility. It's a bit heavy stuff thou, so 😅

[swift burrow]

Oh I completely forgot about that, thanks!

[valid goblet]

Guys is there any complete video available to use a Metahuman character for a FPS game modes where holding weapon, etc features to set up:)

[floral drum]

If I am not mistaken, the underwear are simply part of the texture, they are not a separate object. "removing" the underwear would require painting over them in an external program (eg. photoshop). Hence they "ride up the ass"

[tame edge]

An intriguing revelation haha

[bitter zodiac]

https://streamable.com/6bfymx
So I'm getting this weird bug in sequencer with the control rig which makes it impossible to change keys?
Whenever I try to move them they instantly snap to the original position - anyone know what could cause this?

[simple forge]

this is very odd. Did you restart Unreal?

[bitter zodiac]

Multiple times yes..

[civic laurel]

been messing around with airlink face (ios) and connected it to metahumans for animation, the head movement works perfectly fine but all facial animations (mouth and eye movement) are just not working at all, anyone has had this problem or know a fix, I would really appreciate it, thanks!

[fallen perch]

Hello. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Everytime I am live-streaming data from mocap or livelink the head becomes like this

[sour sonnet]

Hi, I m looking for a developer from metahumans UE5, please dm me if you are interested

[fallen perch]

Hello. Anyone knows how to rebind the groom so it doesnt separate from the body like in the picture above?

found the fix on youtube. please ignore

[sour nest]

Adios bro

[sonic sonnet]

Check your key snapping settings (under the magnet control). You can turn on autokey frame so it will record any changes you make automatically. You could delete the current key to allow it to move as well.

[bitter zodiac]

Doesn't help either.. this certainly is a bug or something, animated with control rig alot and this has never happened before..

I can move all keys by typing and moving sliders, but not in the viewport

[sonic sonnet]

Go ahead and file a bug report in that case https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/support/report-a-bug

[stark saffron]

How do I make someone’s face a 3D model, into my UE5 game?

[sonic sonnet]

3D scan a face with a phone app and them apply mesh to a metahuman
https://youtu.be/BK-ayKR8NlQ

[foggy panther]

So... I just did a mesh to metahuman tute, sent it to the metahuman create, fixed it up, then dowloaded it back into UE5...

Aaand I'm getting this:

So... you can't use mesh to metahuman in UE5?
What is happening?

[foggy panther]

p.s. yes I used the "latest" version of MHC, yes I imported it with the in edtior quixel bridge

[foggy panther]

yep, repeated from scratch two more times, it's screwed

goddamit unreal hates me this week

aight, third attempt in a completely new project, works fine
something about trying to import MH into the same project you did mesh to metahuman in?

[simple forge]

Mesh To Meta Question: Anyone else have this issue pop up when using multiple Frames when creating the ID?

[foggy panther]

I think I've figured out what the problem was last night...
This is my first time playing with metahumans in UE5, and I didn't realise that the metahuman plugin wasn't even installed to the engine by default. So I done made my new project in a UE5 that didn't even know about metahuman.

Then when I went looking for metahuman stuff in the menus (following the tute) it wasn't there so I went looking for the plugin to turn it on and it wasn't there either <facepalm> so I figured out that it had to be installed in the launcher.

Anyways, I think making a project in UE5 before installing the metahuman plugin confuses MHC and bridge when you try to import metahumans into it. They were literally telling me (above) that my UE5 metahuman was a UE4 metahuman.

When I made a new project in UE5 after installing the MH plugin, bridge had no trouble importing my MH

(the same one that it claimed in my first project was a UE4 MH)

[hidden sable]

So trying to export a metahuman into 4.27 but it doesn't appear to an option within Quixel Bridge. Is there something I am missing or is this just not supported on 4.27 for w/e reason?

[glacial flax]

Hi all, running into a really annoying issue. I am working in UE5. Creating my MetaHumans in MHC, importing them through Quixel Bridge with the "+" and then carefully retargeting their skeletal meshes to the UE Mannequin that comes with UE5. Drag and drop one into scene with the Anim_BP for Manny applied to the Body mesh, and my package fails. If I drag them in without retargeting to the UE5 skeleton, they have no animations, but package works. Retarget, they fail. I tried creating a new BP actor, and dragging in just the skeletal meshes from the MetaHuman BP, using the same simple set master component construction script, and same error message spamming my output log.
Any suggestions? I was planning to use a lot of MetaHumans in my project and this is a real problem!
edit - I should mention that I have a character select working on the ThirdPersonCharacter_BP between multiple retargeted MetaHumans whose meshes switch on the selection by the player and it works fine!

[analog parcel]

Hi everyone! I have a question. Is it possible to remove underwear of a metahuman? or change its colour? I kind of need it for clothing purposes...

[subtle basin]

Hey Guys ! Does anyone have any idea on how to retarget Plask.ai animations onto Metahuman in UE 5.0.3 ?

[sly sparrow]

+1 on this question

also anyone know if they are still working on Meta Human Creator? I would of course I assume they are, but I've just seen zero information ever since Mesh to Meta human released

[small lintel]

Hey guys. 😉 i'd like to show you my personal work that i've done in UE5 and metahuman for the first time. This is a music video for the musician 'Vestur' and his song 'You Never Know'. Metahuman was animated with Live Link Face on iphone and base walking animation provided as starter contents. Hope you like it. https://youtu.be/KLCO0uaAmcs

[solar shore]

Nice ! you could spice it up and create scenes variety by animating the drums 🥁 and other instruments 🎹 instruments 🎸. It would look 👀 awesome

[pale zealot]

Hello!
I have a question; I just created a new sequencer and posed my metahuman with it's control rig inside unreal engine 5, now I just want to export that pose as a simple static mesh, FBX, OBJ, anything will do, but for the life of me I can't figure it out, when I click export it just exports the body mesh in the default pose, even if I bake the sequencer keys, it's just the default pose with keys on every frame, what am I missing?

I swear this is driving me insane. Anyone knows anything about this? I'll immensely appreciate any help, thanks

[autumn oasis]

Is there a way to generate card meshes for eyebrows/hair of metahuman presets? The ones i've brought in, half of them when I go to a lower LOD their hair disappears because there's no card setup

[pale zealot]

you can force the lod 0 on them so that they don't dissappear, you have to search for the LODSync parameter in the blueprint of the metahuman, and set forced LOD to 0

[foggy panther]

So... all the metahumans in the city sample project are tall?

If I want sample clothes (to weight transfer from) I gotta make custom MH at the three different sizes?

[junior perch]

Anyone has any experience with trying to package meta human heads for a linux machine?

[simple forge]

First, in sequencer right click on the body, and select, bake to animation sequence. Open up the animation file that is created, and on the top menu bar, select convert to static mesh.

[pale zealot]

this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much 🙂

[civic laurel]

metahuman hair goin whooop! Happens after the metahuman starts moving in the animation! (anyone know how to fix)

[civic laurel]

seems to have something to do with the animated metahuman being further and further away from the original metahuman so it is getting angry, anyone know how to get around that?

[simple forge]

if you open up the groom asset, try disabling the physics checkbox.

[hidden sable]

Is there any tutorials on getting a rig up and going from metahumans into some animation software (preferably a free software like blender)? A lot of the tuts I see are simply retargeting already existing animations within UE but I require some custom animations that are not on the market place. Doing the animations inside native UE4 so far has seemed like a pain.

[foggy panther]

anyone else finding the download for metahuman to be reeeeeeeally slow?

[foggy panther]

ah, apparently it's very common 😦

[finite ridge]

before i invest hours into this, when i create my own custom metahuman, is it face only, or can i create a custom body too?

I mean, with Mesh to Metahuman

nevermind. ", combining it with a body type of the artist’s choice from the MetaHuman options."

[valid goblet]

Hi guys, I was trying to place a head of metahuman to a paragon character. But problem is when I try to do some animation the head goes up and not attached to the body

Any Idea how to do it, I was trying to retarget it but can not find anything on serach option to select the skeleton I am using

[sterile yoke]

so I kinda hacked together a character via a blueprint so I could use the Metahuman face. The metahuman BP is essentially a child actor on the character blueprint. I’m trying to see how I can add animations tracks in sequencer for that child actor so I can swap and use different facial animation takes in the sequence. However I seem to be unable to add any animations tracks for that child actor. Anyone have any suggestions?

[pulsar goblet]

i have the same problem…. i generated mesh from in3d app and tried mesh to metahuman…. i tried to track but the track points didnt show up…. but somehow i got the metahuman identity solve option which didnt work eithet n i got all these errors u mentioned

anyone tried 3d scan using in3d app and converted that to metahuman?

[fallen perch]

Hello Everyone. I have a burning question that's driving me crazy: when streaming my body mocap to the metahuman in UE everything looks perfect besides the fact that there doesnt seem to be any gravity on the metahuman body. What i mean by that is the metahuman moves in a rather paper like motion, theres no weight to it for transitions between movements which makes it feel like a little unrealistic. I hope you know what i mean. For example, if i move my arm for example, the metahuman moves the arm accordingly but its kind of too fast as if there is no gforce and the body is empty. I really appreciate if someone can help me

[sonic sonnet]

Mocap should do a good job representing what your body is doing. Suggestions: Check your capture and render rate settings, when performing you can emphasis real body motion and gravity. Frequently you're rested when mocaping and likely moving a little bit faster than normal to get it over with since you know you're recording a lot of data and want to do a bunch of takes, especially if it's a one man band. You can slow down the mocap by a small amount to get a better sense of weight,. You can also use secondary motion to give more sense of weight (cloth, dangly bits, etc driven by physics)

[fallen perch]

@sonic sonnet thanks a lot. I dont know what secondary motion means though

[sonic sonnet]

If the character had a cape or weapon hanging to side then it would swing and move with physics , giving more sense than just a skinned character

[final nacelle]

I have animation questions regarding the IK control rigs in Meta Human and animation blueprints, should the logic still remain in AnimBP's or should it be adopted into transforms under IK Rigs? In the process of setting up LiveLinkXR with Metahuman body to leverage SteamVR hardware with iPhone face capture. Doesn't seem to be very good documentation for this process.

[dark swan]

I need some help with retargeted animations to Metahuman. I retargeted some mocap to one of the metahuman preview base meshes. Exported just the skeleton with the animation data. So far so good. In UE5 I can see the animation playing well in the animation sequence preview. However when using the same sequence on the actual Metahuman that uses the same body rig size (male medium normal weight) the animation result looks strechted. See screenshot. What am I missing? white mesh is the same metahuman preview mesh used for retargeting

[fallen perch]

Hello everyone. Sorry for asking so many questions recently. I am developing my pipeline and am almost at the end of it.
Could anyone tell me in simple words what would be the difference between using faceware live plugin or live link face VS glassbox live client? The latter costs so much but i cant seem to find info online on how much better it is to justify that price tag. Does it make your live capture smoother? Much appreciated

[dark swan]

in case anyone runs into the same issue, this was the solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8xQ4EPbrA

[daring shuttle]

My attempt at face animation for my metahuman avatar.

[nova glade]

hi folks, if you think you are metahuman expert, feel free to dm

pls

[verbal dust]

Hey there, so i exported the metahuman shirt mesh and textured it in substance but cant find a way to import it back to unreal, where can i find the slot to plug my base color and the normals on the shirt

[golden flame]

Does anyone know if there's a way to sculpt a narrower chin? The Meta human options seem quite limited

[sudden berry]

WOW , guess it is a MH : https://youtu.be/gms4vpxJDjE

[junior birch]

Trying out the new VR4D Custom clothing for Metahumans. Looks promising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SbC03hhE4I

[true comet]

anybody know how to fix this?

[sterile fossil]

Someone got a clue why metahuman downloads don't include the cloths? The materials are there but no mesh, and the body is just hands and feet :o

[bold acorn]

Is anyone familiar with metahuman skin flickering? It's hard to see in this vid above his mouth its happening. I've seen hair issues and resolved them by tweaking LOD's etc. but can't seem to fix this one. Could it be the sun hitting the character too strongly? https://gyazo.com/22744ef0d0eef7dc77f4b81abcf65449

[amber aurora]

Hey there, this Gavin guy is bald from some LOD it seems... UE 5.0.3, any idea how to fix?

[velvet goblet]

I tried Gavin when testing Metahumans for something and it happened to me too, no idea what the fix is though sorry

[runic oxide]

I’m trying to replace the default character in a marketplace asset (Flexible combat system) with a metahuman. The meta human is a currently a bunch of “parts” so how do I replace the current UE4 mannequin with the Metahuman?

[tardy spoke]

that groom is experimental and only available in LOD 0 and LOD 1 for now. You can use the LOD Sync component within the character BP, and set Forced LOD from -1 to 0 or 1.

[sonic sonnet]

Some of the hair styles do not have cards for the hair so you need to keep the LOD ar 0 or other low value. So set force sync LOD for the character.

[ruby turret]

Hi all! I have been working on a file with 3-4 metahumans in the level and it's been rendering fine last night. this morning i was unable to load the map and the editor crashes very quickly 😦 any pointers to how i can fix this? x

[daring peak]

Hello guys! I have this issue and im not sure what to do.

I animated my metahuman using mgear autorig in maya.
Then I exported alembic and simulated the cloth in houdini.
I imported the body animation to UE as a skeletal anim (fbx) and baked it to control rig (because it looked kinda weird - baking fixed it a bit)
I imported the cloth as ABC and it just doesnt match...

Does anyone know how to solve this/ what workflow would work the best if i wanted simulated cloth? Thanks! ✨

[ruby turret]

try the cloth painting on unreal? does that work?

you just have to paint the parts you want simulated, and make colliders from skeleton x

@daring peak

[daring peak]

I made the whole cloth sim in houdini, its not simulating in ue 😅 it just doesn’t fit on the animated mesh after importing, it did fit in houdini and maya

[rigid flicker]

Can you make a really small metahuman? I want to have a gnome character but not sure if I can scale them and have everything work.

[old jewel]

you should re size the body mesh

[supple talon]

hello, same thing here, when I simulate in Marvelous I have to increase my distant collision to work well on UE, I don't know why.

[final prairie]

can metahumans be used for music projects?

(that are commercial)

like maybe songs and stuff like that?

[mortal wadi]

Yes as long as you render out of unreal engine and not another 3D software. I believe its under the same license as the quixel megascans, fine for commercial use as long as its using UE.

[orchid meteor]

https://youtu.be/yDFVKS4pYFQ watch it at min. 13

[orchid meteor]

Could you try setting the MetaHumans’ hair to Cards rather than strands?

Or reverting them to Default?

[limber gyro]

so for the project im working on I want to use metahumans to make characters and have a question. I want to play around with mesh to metahuman for the project but am using unreal 4.27 . is the feature exclusive to the new metahumans for ue5. sorry if this is a bit of a bit of a dumb question im a bit new to this

[simple forge]

The mesh to meta only works with UE5

[limber gyro]

ah rip

thanks for letting me know

[junior birch]

Unreal Engine 5.1 just added a plugin ive been waiting on since beta. The upcoming live link face importer lets you record facial animation offline using your phone. 5.1 is not officially out yet but here is a preview of what is to come https://youtu.be/z99Fo9LXLHk

[sudden berry]

Tested it , works like a charm....

[river gull]

Hi guys, is this a metahuman ? Is it normal that it has 46 materials. The model is made by another person and I'm not sure it's very correct

[junior birch]

TUT Dude!!

[sudden berry]

you are ... 😁

[junior birch]

you seen the 5.2 retargeter? looks like they heard us cry

[sudden berry]

yeah ... awesome , source and target skeleton ... a.s.o

@junior birch : did you find out something about multi GPU PT ?

[junior birch]

yea its in 5.1 my day job is killin me but i will make video when i have chance

[shadow arrow]

Hey all! Could someone please help me understand the role of the MetaHuman's Post Process Anim BP? Each body type seems to have one.

[gusty jacinth]

Is it possible to make futuristic characters (with armors, helmet etc ..) with metahumans or that's more realistic oriented ?

[junior birch]

I know ever since the metahumans released in beta last year my #1 enemy is the lack of clothes. Well luckily VR4D is selling a pretty nice pack in the epic marketplace. Heres a quick video on it. https://youtu.be/3xcNcdM0LR4
P.S. I dont work for them just a customer like you

[autumn oasis]

Is there any way to bake down groom card data from a particular frame of an animation to a posed static mesh? I can convert the head skeletal mesh to static, but it's bald.

[sterile jolt]

Anyone have any luck with grooms on Mac? My game has a custom groom, and is visible on my PC. I was testing my game and getting it ready to package for Mac and the groom is not visible. I reimported the file, and it's valid... The plugins are enabled. Any ideas?

[river sierra]

Anyone have a problem with hair cards not showing? I know of the issue with the hair strands not showing in lod2 and above but that is an easy fix. Hair cards however are never there

I want to use the much cheaper hair cards in place of the strands

[tardy spade]

hi hi, anyone know why the metahuman body post-process is not working?
Shouldn't it fix things like this. Rotating the hand bones also doesn't engage the roll bones.
Everything does work in the Skeletal Mesh Editor though 🤔
This is through the sequencer

[prime mantle]

Hey guys, anyone know why metahuman has so many bones? Our rigger had cleaned it up a bit, but there are still so many bones lmao, so they have a purpose?

[plucky kelp]

I retargeted some Mixamo animation witht his method, but now my Metahuman keeps glitching. Mostly inside sequencer. Sometimes the Torso is just seperated from the rest of the body and also the long hair keeps going everywhere and has lighting flashes coming out of it. What's happening? Also the eyes look very milky sometimes, like from a corpse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXDmX1ronGw

[tulip acorn]

hey guys trying to save a metahuman to rig him to my skele and it says save skeleton SK_Mannequin

im not sure how or what to do

lemme try reupload him

[sudden berry]

Cool ! : https://youtu.be/FsHM8KJbj_8

[violet tulip]

does anybody know how to get around this in the Metahuman Identity scan?

@everyone

[simple forge]

you might have too many frames

[violet tulip]

But I'm not using frames.

[tulip acorn]

still havent figured out what to do here

[violet tulip]

Oh now I get what you mean by frames, but even if that was the case. I only have one Frame.

[simple forge]

is this a face scan or a sculpted head mesh?

[sinful quiver]

anyone knows how we can logout of Metahuman page? I wanted to switch account but I cannot find anyway to logout from Metahuman web page

[trail chasm]

Hi I created a metahuman and sent it to a friend to test, and it appears that this arkit face box is not on my metahuman like one he already got working with livelink

Im creating a custom metahuman realtime control, add but cant test it myself because I dont have any apple devices ( SUPER ANNOYING that I can't use a pc or a Samsung yet )

[pine pulsar]

Is it possible to export a custom head mesh back to Unreal engine from Maya?

When I export just the head (I have added a custom blendshape), it uses the simplified skeleton heirarchy, and this causes a conflict that breaks the skeleton

It's using the second skeleton which has Spine04 as the root bone

Instead of the correct skeleton

[elder tree]

Hello ladies and gents!
I made a tutorial that illustrates a complete workflow to create a custom Metahuman that looks like you by taking pictures with your Android or iOS phone.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

https://youtu.be/7RKITpBZN-s

[noble light]

how to update set update animation in editor with metahuman?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eacXAlqb7U8

i get this video but didnt worked

[grizzled oracle]

hi! Does anybody know why my Metahuman live link on "Face_AnimBP" always resets to 'Iphone black' when i compile it?

[little beacon]

Hey guys. We made a metahuman "Meet the team" page for our website. https://www.target3d.co.uk/team 🤙🏽

[plucky kelp]

I solved my problem now by following the method from this Tutorial instead the one I posted before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXMTzXA6lBI

[native cargo]

Would anyone know why my the metahuman's face would have weird artifacts like this?

[long lava]

Enable skin cache on it

[junior birch]

hey all I made a tutorial on how to use the new NVIDIA Omniverse Audio to Body Animation with the Unreal Engine 5 Metahuman. Check it out. No mocap needed just your voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY7iGJxSatg

[silk urchin]

Does the metahuman eye utilize the look at node so that it focuses realistically for example to the center of the active camera or an actor? Thanks

[teal crystal]

has anyone tried to upgrade the metahumans plugin to unreal 5.1?
I am trying to do that and stuck on this error. and trying to resolve.
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: __cdecl FProgressCancel::~FProgressCancel(void)" (_imp??1FProgressCancel@@QEAA@XZ) referenced in function "public: __cdecl UE::Geometry::FAbortableBackgroundTask::~FAbortableBackgroundTask(void)"

[tulip acorn]

why my metahumans chest clipping through his shirt

ive done 2 a custom and preset both do it

hes fine when he stands but when he runs his chest pops through

[versed lintel]

Anyone know how to force ALL LODs to 0 for metahumans? I mean everything, hair/eyebrows/beards etc. LODsync to 0 doesnt work for those.

[prime sail]

Does anyone here use LiveLink with MetaHumans? I'm able to record my LiveLink data to a dedicated track, but I see the recording only affect the metahuman if I'm in Play mode. If I try to bake an animation, for example, no data is generated.

One workaround I found was to manually set my LiveLink source in the face's AnimBP and recompile the BP, but that doesn't work as a solution for my team, for each person to have to change the AnimBP manually.

[obsidian sparrow]

I'm using a crowd character and for some reason his hair is almost transparent. I tried deleting lower LODs but it didn't help. Please ping me if someone knows how to fix this, thanks 🙂

[tall coral]

It took hours but I finally figured it out. Here's my first Unreal Clover render

[cosmic hollow]

Having random glitches with Metahumans in UE5. The rig is correctly setup and works when in sequencer, but sometimes very randomly glitches this way. Anyone know the cause for this?

[foggy panther]

It looks like there's some helper bones in their that UE doesn't know what to do with

OR, now that I think about it, some of the verts in your mesh have no weight with any bones

And if we're posting custom metahuman clothing, here's a little scifi number I'm using as a learning project:

I was hoping I could get it looking nice enough to maybe make into a marketplace product but I dunno, worried it doesn't have enough grab

[opal torrent]

I'm having the same problem but skin cache is enabled...

But when you back up a bit, it looks normal

Tried to rebuild lighting and don't work

[opal torrent]

Tried changing the LOD on the face and won't let me lol

Problem solved. Forced LOD was set to -1 which is default, I set it to 0 under LOD Syc in the bottom of the character tree

So Click your character, look for Forced LOD and play with that

You can check your characters LOD's quickly here

[glacial flax]

Is anyone else getting this error when packaging?
Everything I've been able to find suggests it's an issue with metaHumans and the UE5 mannequin skeleton. Does anyone have a solution? I've imported them via the "add" on Quixel. I tried adding MetaHuman components to a fresh BP. None of that has solved it.

[runic rock]

are there any downloadable converters to remap mixamo or unreal animations to metahumans? I see tutorials online for it but it seems silly to repeat work

[junior birch]

How to use iphone as body mocap with ue5 metahumans https://youtu.be/g0JEsjA4rqQ

[prime mantle]

heyo, having a additional problem, when we open our metahuman character, the face doesnt work, it has no DNA file, we have tried opening the file from the menu, however no luck, and our team even has the source assets too. im not too sure what the problem is here?

[north glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12k1gs65tlA&ab_channel=NilsGallist

this actually works

so well.

[wintry sorrel]

hey guys, any idea why this could e happening? She has really thick eyebrows and eyelashes, but not in preview mode she looks fine, hair is thin as expected:

that top image is the render output, I'm using DLSS, but even with it off altogether I get issues., Only started happening since I turned on rendering alpha channels in project settings

it's like the eyelashes an eyebrows aren't getting any antiaiasing

[wintry sorrel]

@junior birch I think you might know to be honest, you knew about the eyelash shadow issue. Hey congratulations on your nvidia package btw 😉

[warm python]

any suggestion why metahumans import like this ? ue4

[rotund ravine]

I have an issue where my hair keeps clipping into the body of my character. Any ideas on how to fix it?

[opal juniper]

follow the tutorials you donut

[runic rock]

hey as it turns out, there's an IK retargeter from Unreal and you don't need to manually rename bones
https://youtu.be/SXDmX1ronGw

[opal juniper]

good for you then

[warm python]

bumping this issue, someone has an idea ?

[umbral bay]

has anyone tried the Oculus Lip Sync SDK with MetaHumans ?

[north glacier]

wow so daz or cc to unreal engine metahuman is this simple? im wasting time over here doing crazy shit. going to have to just wait until i can afford this plugin, but you can pull hair and clothing from daz, cc...

https://www.kineticmotive.net/products.php

@bitter igloo

[bitter igloo]

wait what

[bitter igloo]

ok but do morphs work without problem tho

thats the only reason why i refuse to stop using daz

[north glacier]

i have no idea

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCehGjt00LFEsk2fy4dnaPVQ

[bitter igloo]

their prettier and their morphs are godtier ;-;

[north glacier]

was looking online for shit and i found this

[north glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kARNyF1temg&ab_channel=KineticMotive

pulls morphs!

look in the right side of the video

[broken pasture]

if anyone needs help with metahuman mixamo retargeting dm me, I've got the plugin & can make it super easy for you for free. It can be a pain doing it manually. I had some headaches trying to do it manually from tutorials on multiple projects

[bitter igloo]

what the hecka o-o

might buy

[broken pasture]

Anyone know where I can get some realistic facial scars/bruises/tattoo pngs I can add to face meshes in photoshop ?

[umbral bay]

would love this, thank you!

[trail chasm]

Hey Im having a small issue with the hair sim. Im controlling where my metahuman looks with a input button but each time its like the hair simulation freaks out and resets causing it to fly up in the hair and drop back down again. Anyone had this and know how I could keep it seamless between look directions

[cyan galleon]

can someone, anyone explain why metahumans don't use a common A or T pose?

[long lava]

Because

[frosty pebble]

How do I make metahuman hair less laggy? With voxelize off, no physics, and lods it's still extremely laggy in strands.

[broken pasture]

ways to add dismemberment of metas limbs/head ?

[plain haven]

Use cards in the Groom asset if available

[plain haven]

Look up dismemberment effect for your DCC tool of choice (e.g. Blender)

[broken pasture]

Thanks, so I should export the preview skeletal mesh to blender for these

Thought there’d be a way to do it in engine

[plain haven]

Nope, but you can swap skelmeshes around and add particles and decals to give the impression of dismemberment

[plain haven]

Though I recall there is a slides on L4D2's gore system, not exactly chopping off limbs with the limb visible

https://alex.vlachos.com/graphics/Vlachos-GDC10-Left4Dead2Wounds.pdf

[broken pasture]

This is for cinematics so won’t need advanced methods for a game. Mostly looking for Any solution to get a dismemberment effect whether clean cut or partial limb if not too hard. Even something done in post could work

[plain haven]

Cinematics, then the former would be better since the outcome would be the same every time as you directed

[broken pasture]

Awesome appreciate it

[brittle quiver]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0JEsjA4rqQ

[trail chasm]

having issues with the metahuman hair fliping out each time They detect my player and look towards me, Im sure this is some kind of simulation issue.... BUT HOW TO SOLVE?

[barren galleon]

Does anyone know if it’s possible to use marketplace characters with live link, similar to how meta humans use it

[plucky kelp]

Hey, I have this exact problem, since I used Live Link with Tape Recorder. Is there a known fix?

[final prairie]

Does anyone know how i can apply a medical mask to a metahuman?

maybe fabric medical mask

[plain haven]

You model the mask yourself.

Or probably use existing ones from Sketchfab and try fitting it on your MH

[final prairie]

ok but how can i make the mask fit the expression of my mh?

for example: when he is talking, how can i make the mask also moving with the face?

there is a way to attach the model to the face?

face vertexes for example? (idk if its possible)

[somber musk]

Hi all, I'm assuming I'm getting this error because the server is down / too busy. I've been trying for the last day and still nothing.

[sudden berry]

log out , log in again! Quixel did an update for Arkit BP.

[somber musk]

Thanks for the recommendation. I found a solution in the end, it was to also have quixel bridge open during the export. Only took my two days and dozens of tries to figure out.

[plucky kelp]

Hey everyone

How's life

I have a question about the metahuman thingy

Is there a software version of it? Because whenever I log in the website my PC can't do it for some reason everything is like 144p

I mean my PC good it can run really big things but I suppose it has a part of its hardware that processes the web stuff so I'm guessing that part ain't really the best quality

I don't know look the point is I'm not a PC scientist

And if there would be something like software version that's not on a website

That'd be extra

In short, is there a software version of metahuman thing that I can download and run in an individual program without Chrome or other web browsers

[plain haven]

No.

[plucky kelp]

Wow well

That's

..disappointing?

lol thanks man

[somber musk]

The online MetaHuman Creator is just a streamed video from a server. The server runs the app and streams the results to you. It's likely that you have slow or congested internet if you're getting bad picture quality (there is an indicator of the stream's performance in the bottom right). If you want higher picture quality try making sure your local internet is not being used by too many other services, or try a different internet connection.

[plucky kelp]

Yeah my net is bad too thanks @somber musk, very cool 👍

[tall coral]

Unreal Miku and Saki

[plucky kelp]

Wha in the actual fu-

[broken pasture]

Are there any places to get facial animations for metahumans?

[warm python]

why are metahumans with a groom importing like this ?

[plucky kelp]

Hey, can someone help me locate where the eye mesh of a standard metahuman is?
I can't seem to find it. Thank you!

[tall coral]

Thanks.

[plain haven]

So it's supposed to be cosplay?

[final jetty]

hey everyone, i'm trying to have a metahuman walk in high heels, not boots, so the feet will be visible. how do i change the rest-pose of the metahuman so that the character walks with her feet as if they're in high heels from a mixamo animation for example? if i'd do this in blender i would adjust the restpose and then she walks in high heels, but don't know how to do it in unreal

[somber musk]

You could probably do this pretty effectively with a control rig (watch some tutorials first if you're new to it). Probably just adding some offsets will get you there. Either that or just some Transform Bone nodes in the animBP

[final jetty]

okay great, thank you so much!

[tall coral]

I make vocaloid covers.

[crude vapor]

Hey! So I have the following problem: I made a character in the Metahuman Creator that I liked, but when downloading it the face looks quite different. The mouth is much wider, the cheekbone more extreme etc.

Any idea as to what could be the problem?

[shadow arrow]

Posting a picture may help. It's not an issue I've had before. It would have something to do with the facial rig in the engine.

Hey all, I'm using the runtime retargeting process to animate two Metahumans in a small project. This process involves copying and pasting each MetaHuman's skeletal mesh components from its own Blueprint to my main character's blueprint (see section 6 in https://docs.metahuman.unrealengine.com/en-US/retargeting-animations-to-a-metahuman-at-runtime/). It's annoying because, if I decide to change the MetaHuman for one of these instances, I must manually update each skeletal mesh component (hair, legs, feet etc. and their respective materials/groom assets). Is there a better way to do this? For instance, I would like for each instance of my main character Blueprint to select the MetaHuman Blueprint I'll be running the retargeting on. I would like that each of these respective sketal mesh components auto-update when that happens. I've tried to do it myself, but I'm stuck. Please help 😀

[warm python]

whats wrong with so many broken mh in ue4 ?

[plucky kelp]

Hey how do I make my character's chest bigger and no it's not a weird question

It's uh

For testing purposes

yeah

No seriously now is that even possible, to change the boob size?

[tall coral]

There isn't yet, sadly.

I wish they had a slider for height

[calm chasm]

hey! hope everyone is ok!
I recorded an animation using livelink in a subsequence and I put in my main sequence. When I play it in the editor everything goes fine, but then I try to render it and something weird happens: my animation made with livelink is strangely lagging in the export video. Has this ever happened to anyone? I'd love to have some help with this! Thanks 🙂

[plucky kelp]

Oh okay then, but just to verify, the whole metahuman thing is still early access right? They're working on it, I mean?

[somber musk]

I suspect there is a way, as it seems that Epic are using post process animBPs to change the build of each body type. I think the clavicle_pec_L and clavicle_pec_r bones are responsible for chest size. Though I'm not experienced enough with the MetaHuman system to know how to freely adjust those - though I'm guessing through a custom animBP as I suggested before.

[plucky kelp]

Yeah thank you for help man

Although I was literally using Unity like a week ago so

I'll have to learn the engine basics first

[plain haven]

Nope, MHC is v1.0
You could outsource the body part from something else like iClone or Daz, and stitch the MH head into the new body.

Editing them in DCC tools are allowed, but not making final pixels out of.

[plucky kelp]

Wow damn

I mean looks kinda unfinished

[plain haven]

Which is why many (productive) creators using MetaHuman will use it as a base and work their way from there, as opposed to using them as is.

[plucky kelp]

Yea totally get what you said

[sudden berry]

https://youtu.be/NadJdW6W4NI

[mellow skiff]

Hey, any ideas why I can't change the metahuman hair material? I have a hologram material that works fine on the body but when I put on onto the hair, it just remains gray (I'm using card and mesh hair, not strand).

[crude vapor]

Managed to narrow down the problem to the field of view settings. When lowering the field of view to 20° the character looks like it did in the preview, however with a higher field of view it becomes rather distorted. Does anyone know a workaround for this?

[calm chasm]

no one has an answer to this question?

[somber musk]

This is a real world phenomena that occurs with any lens.

[crude vapor]

Yeah I get that

The thing is I care more about how the character looks at a high FOV since in a game that is somewhat of a given

So right now the only option I see it to manually attempt to apply the inverse distortion effect in metahuman creator

which seems very painful, so I was hoping there might be some other option

[somber musk]

is it possible for you to use an isometric camera in your game? If you're using a perspective camera with a wide FOV then it's a mathematical certainty that you'll experience greater lenticular distortion the closer you get to an object

[crude vapor]

I want to have a 3rd person camera, so unless isometric camera isn't what I think it is, then not really

[somber musk]

You could have a 3rd person isometric view sure

(actually I think it's technically called 'orthographic' in unreal)

[crude vapor]

what would I have to do exactly to try that?

[somber musk]

https://superyateam.com/2019/08/19/orthographic-camera-projection-in-ue4/

[crude vapor]

so basically just use Orthographic Projection Mode instead of Perspective?

[somber musk]

yep

it's the same as having the camera at an infinite distance

Or your other option is just move your camera further away and zoom in

[bitter ember]

random question here... When you create and edit metahumans they are saved in real time, correct? How are they stored? What type of storage system?

[plain haven]

Using ortographic projection is kinda misleading, as many rendering feature breaks in ortographic.

Perspective with narrow FOV is more preferrable.

[open pike]

Spent like 4 hours last night trying to get animations to retarget to metahuman. Followed so many tutorials and my hands and feet end up being the only things that get animated. The "clothes" portion stays in A pose

Anyone have any ideas what I'm missing?

Having the metahuman not as a single skeletal mesh makes stuff 10x more annoying, wish we could import it as a singular mesh

[frozen bolt]

clothes are your own custom clothes made in blender/maya?

[open pike]

no, just the ones I designed in metahuman and exported through bridge

[frozen bolt]

try creating a level sequencer and add your metahuman_BP from the scene,
you should see ctrl_Rig exposed in parameters and in scene that you can move, rotate etc. in viewport,
if still clothes are not moving, you either have changed their assigned skeletal mesh to something else than base metahuman or disconnected Enable Master Pose component of clothing parts

which is in construction script

[open pike]

I'll take a look at that, thanks for the idea

[open pike]

I think when I get to this point, it's time to delete and start from scratch because I've got something deeply wrong lol

[frozen bolt]

start fresh (:

[open pike]

yep yep, after a strong drink

[celest palm]

which tutorials did you do? I follow these instructions to retarget anims to a metahuman and it works for me (sorry if I'm misunderstanding the question)

https://docs.metahuman.unrealengine.com/en-US/retargeting-animations-to-a-metahuman-at-runtime/

[proud kraken]

do you need modeling skills to create metahumans?

[bitter ember]

nope

[proud kraken]

Ah alr ty

[bitter ember]

https://docs.metahuman.unrealengine.com/en-US/creating-a-metahuman-in-metahuman-creator/

[proud kraken]

Thanks

[open pike]

All the ones I follow use IK rigs and retargets. They also don't just place the MH over the existing mesh and then hide it. I'm going to delete all my MHs and reimport them and start from scratch, I think somewhere in all my attempts to fix it I messed up a skeleton or skeletal mesh somewhere and now nothing lines up properly. Also, I'm using multiple MHs, so each one will have to have its own characterBP right? I can't just have one MH_character_BP and swap the meshes about in game since they all use different meshes and the construction scripts are different right?

[bitter ember]

Metahumans creator run on pixel streaming, right?

[glacial hollow]

Hi does anyone use Iclone Livelink for unreal engine to animate? Have one question

[celest palm]

thats how i do it

[open pike]

Apologies, which part do you mean is how you do it?

[celest palm]

The base metahuman blueprint sits over an existing animation blueprint with the master pose node and retargets its anims to the metahuman. So my base Metahuman Anim BP works for all of my metahumans, any one of them can be animated using it, and it is powered by a separate anim blueprint that is linked to the mannequin skeletal mesh. I also use IK rigs and retargets, when I am getting the animations that I want ( I retarget the animations to the manny skeletal mesh and add the anims to its blueprint) and the master pose stuff will retarget that blueprint.

The method I linked to ends with a playable metahuman with IK functionality. Sorry if I'm confused on what you're looking for here. The blueprint created from the method is usable with any of your metahumans

[plain haven]

No, but MetaHuman is limited when it comes to body and hair (and to some extent head profile).
If you want to make your MetaHuman more standout, modelling skills to modify them is encouraged.

[proud kraken]

Ah ok

[fathom dawn]

hi guys, I'm facing a strange issue with metahuman currently, it appeared from nowhere, when I'm using the body rig, the hands and feet are separated of the torso/legs, for unknown reasons ( I didn't modify anything in the Bp)

can't find anything that helps on forums tho 😦

[simple forge]

5.0 or 5.1?

[fathom dawn]

5.0

[simple forge]

with mocap?

[fathom dawn]

nope

[simple forge]

so when you rotate the lower arm the hand comes off?

[fathom dawn]

yep

[simple forge]

did you use this metahuman to record any live link data?

[fathom dawn]

the problem that head/hands/feet are attached

yep

but reseted the settings to the default ones

[simple forge]

body or face live link?

[fathom dawn]

only face

I did it with facewere

used their BP animation

then switched back to the default one

[simple forge]

did you make that change in the actual blueprint? or just in the UI

[fathom dawn]

only UI

[simple forge]

you need to change it back in the actual blueprint.

[fathom dawn]

i only changed this setting

[fathom dawn]

for the body ?

[simple forge]

did you change the body bp at all

[fathom dawn]

nope

as i said only the face

here is the body one

[simple forge]

weird. I would drop a new metahuman in. Then create a new sequence and test it out again.

[fathom dawn]

I think that's the only solution 😦

btw I have another metahuman and it's working fine

so it's not related to the project but to a specific metahuman

tried to reimport it but it will overwrite the old one ( and i already made many changes to the materials that i don't remember )

so I'm downloading a dupe of it

[simple forge]

you shouldnt have to reimport it

oh did you use the faceware live link plugin pipeline or the glassbox live client?

[fathom dawn]

facewere

[simple forge]

I would reset the face BP in the actual blueprint. Then create a new map, drop it in there and try again with a fresh sequence. Only other thing I can think of is that you may have different Metahuman versions in your project and common folder hasnt been updated or something.

[fathom dawn]

is it possible to reset a BP ?

haven't heard about it before

[simple forge]

just reassign it in the metahuman blueprint/face component, compile and save

[fathom dawn]

still the same 😦

[simple forge]

Hmm, and this is with no animation applied.

[fathom dawn]

yep

[simple forge]

Have you modified this specific metahuman in any way?

[fathom dawn]

never, only the BP to add the facewere livelink as i mentioned, and rested it then

the problem that it was working the last time I opened the project

I downloaded a duplicate of it and it worked fine

but still a very stressful bug tbh 😦

[wraith thistle]

I found this video https://youtu.be/sGWcP5ecHIM which shows how to bake the animation to a new asset. Together the 2 tutorials made my day. 😆

[coarse gyro]

is there any way i can export this to blender

[plain haven]

Export it to Unreal Engine first, then export the meshes as FBX so you can modify them in Blender, and bring them back to Unreal Engine once you're done.

[verbal tulip]

Metahumans seem to have this strange separated skeleton is there any reason that should concern me?

EG, when the head isn't really attached to the body would that not be a massive pain for animations that move the shoulders?

[radiant mortar]

Hi guys, I'm currently having some problems with MetaHuman's groom in UE 5.0.3 . Can't really figure what is going on, anyone expert can help me?

The problem is basically that any groom of my metahuman gets rendered not correctly. I forced the LOD to be always 0 but it didn't fix anything.
Dawdling around i noticed that for some camera angle it all renders correctly, but watching it in front of the camera doesn't. You can see this effect on the photos.

Has anyone got a clue on what's going on? Thanks in advance!

[coarse gyro]

they really need to make it easier

[supple prairie]

5.1 PREVIEW 2 - Metahuman control rigs not showing uo

[simple forge]

thank you for the heads up on that. Did you get this figured out?

[supple prairie]

tryign it on a brand new project right now

[simple forge]

question, when you set up 5.1 did you create a separate Bridge Megascans folder and download new metahumans to that one?

[supple prairie]

nope

new project is OK and didnt create a seperate folder when importing

when i open my 5.1 PREVIEW 1 project, I font get the control rig displayed

of course hair is flashing in the new project. I have to go in manually fix that as always

flashing in that I have to get rid of the LODs I dont care about

why do we always have to do that?

[simple forge]

open up the metahuman blueprint and make sure it is compiling correctly

[supple prairie]

ahhh that too

[simple forge]

When i first imported a metahuman into my preview I had to recreate a few nodes in the blueprint for it to compile

[supple prairie]

seriously? <sigh>

hmm maybe thats whats wrong with my PREVIEW 1

ugh same hoodie strings problem. recompiled - hair still flashing - gotta go in and play with the LODS like I've had to since 5.0.

Is it the Metahuman team's issue that this happens?

[simple forge]

I think its more Bridge integration related possibly cause it said in my MH blueprint certain nodes are completely depricated

[supple prairie]

yes i have those warnings

[simple forge]

oh the LOD issue. So people have been complaining that the LODs arent working right. So if you change to LOD2 the face looks like its LOD3

so if you go through the warnings and just fix them, things should be working somewhat better

[supple prairie]

I just use LOD0- m only usign these in films - not games

Get SkeletalMesh : Usage of 'SkeletalMesh' has been deprecated. Use USkeletalMeshComponent::GetSkeletalMeshAsset() or GetSkinnedAsset() instead.

is that the warning you get?

[simple forge]

ya i fixed it

[supple prairie]

aha. OK ill do that

thanks!

[simple forge]

My issue is the IK Retargeter finally lets you import poses, but is giving me a hard time with characters that have metacarpals.

[supple prairie]

hmm is it bugged in the forum feedback

this is so weird - I dont get a rig hierarchy below the rig from my PREVIEW 1

theres nothing below it in the sequencer or in the ANIM outliner

Is here a way to reimport?

[simple forge]

the only thing i can think of is to download a MH in a new bridge folder

something with the 5.0 ones might be different

I have already tested the MH control rig in 5.1 preview and it does work. But i played it safe by not mixing up my MH assets since this is a separate UE version.

Doesnt mean I am not cringing right now by trying to retarget finger data with IK retargeter though.

[supple prairie]

yeah thanks, because I made some tweaks for the hoodie strings gravity and the LODs its warnign me ill lose those. so a separate folder is a good idea

[simple forge]

Its going to make you download a preset first.

[supple prairie]

yeah i've only used the retargeter once on a Blender import

ahh OK

[simple forge]

So you will have to redownload your custom one too. But at least you can see if the issue is due to that

[supple prairie]

so wait - you can specify a new "Metahumans" folder?

like Metahumans_New? Where do you do that?

[simple forge]

what do you mean

I meant to create a new project, change Bridge location, download preset/then custom and test out control rig to see if its the common folders getting mixed up thats the issue.

[supple prairie]

got it. OK well too late for me now. Thanks Ill try tomorrow

[simple forge]

lol let me know if it worked 😉

[rigid kiln]

Hey, I'm having a question about meta humans.

So as you can see the "MetaHuman BP" that is an actor you get automatically is complitly displaying animations, full synced with the entire body etc...
And it looks great.

But When I copy pasted everything into a charactere, to play with, then the animation sync got lost in the process, what is the way that is used to share animation ? The BP dosent use animation blueprint,it's not parented to anything, I couldnt find anything yet 😦

Well I have fund it x)
If anyone ever runs into this, "Construction script" is having a function nammed " Enable Master pose".
During the copy pasting process, the main reference to the "body" is getting flopped.

And none of the components are actually following the body, since the "body" ref is gone ^^

[supple prairie]

SO what I wound up doing is removing the MetaHumans folder in my copied 5.1 PREVIEW project, and then re-importing my metahuman. Now I have the controlrig hierarchy. Of course the old pose I so carefully had done no longer works.

[analog parcel]

Hi everyone! Has anyone ever experienced this?

[supple prairie]

His eyes are poking through his eyelids?

[simple forge]

Thats great the control rig is working, but not so great you lost your pose...

[analog parcel]

yes. for some reason its only in Metahuman Creator. In Unreal it seems ok for now

[supple prairie]

That was a cockpit error on my part. You have to select the bones used first before you can apply a pose. Working fine.

[simple forge]

IK Retargeter 5.1 Preview: Has anyone found finger issues when retargeting data from a character that does not have metacarpals to one that does?

[pallid aurora]

always, it happens trying to retarget from metacarpals yes, or because the name is wrong of course

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ik-retargeter-when-retarget-pose-with-metahuman-the-finger-mesh-twist-issue/580414/4?u=alberto

just a test about the retargueting
https://youtu.be/fTl22Ue6-dQ

[simple forge]

Ok so its not just me messing up the bone chains. In your video you are using the UE5 mannequin and a metahuman but they both have metacarpals so it does look right. In the fight sequence video, what should I be looking for?

[simple forge]

dope fight mocap by the way

[woven venture]

Might not be the right channel, but I‘m trying to create what is basically a physical human (like a ragdoll) that can move around the world by applying force to its limbs, but is also stable enough to not fall over… like at all.

I‘ve had some experience with UE in the past, but I’d still say I‘m pretty much new.

I had figured that a physics asset would be the way to go (after having spent the past weeks getting a non-colliding version to work with aim offsets. Just mentioning in case there‘s a simple way to „activate mesh collission“ for that instead).

Now, after another week of setting up the bones I‘d probably have a good ragdoll that moves according to the input, but I‘d need to stabilize it. I thought maybe something like keeping the rotation of the torso always fixed could work, but idk how to do that…

So, to sum that up: Can someone tell me how to make a physical human whose limbs move according to linear values, yet is stable enough not to crumble/fall (ie.: keep its torso’s rotation stable; possibly still allowing intentional rotation?) from a slightly wobbly input?

Would be very grateful if someone could help there.

Also, if this is indeed not the right channel, could someone please redirect me to the correct one?

[supple prairie]

So the ragdoll (for want of actually seeing an example) would be "dragging/pulling" itself along?

If you were to direct a real actor to simulate the movement, what would you be telling them to do? Is the movement sort of creepy? Endearing? Cute?

im sort of imagining a mime with really loose limbs pulling themselves along in an environment.

or the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz?

[woven venture]

Yes… probably. It would (or look like it does) use the friction from its limbs pushing against the ground or other surfaces to generate its forward movement (or to drag itself up a ledge or what else you can do with limbs in real life, more or less).

The movement is (unintentionally) creepy, cause the values are (for now) generated randomly and not well smoothed out yet, but I‘m not aiming for any specific effect here (if that is what you meant with creepy/endearing/cute).

I‘m not sure about the mime or how that would look. As for the scarecrow, well, I guess the movement is erratic like that, so yeah. But that too isn‘t intentional, so if there‘s a way for smooth motion, that‘d be better.

It really just comes down to controlling all the limbs in a humanoid body through values (from 0 to 1 in an array) and having a realistic physical interaction with the environment (or at least the ground and things like the boxes from the third person example).

[plucky kelp]

i made agent 47 (tried to) in metahuman

lighting done in ue 5

[grand escarp]

i change the matehumans physical asset now the engin crashed all time...

Assertion failed: (Index >= 0) & (Index < ArrayNum) [File:D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Containers\Array.h] [Line: 691] Array index out of bounds: -1 from an array of size 342
had anyone the same issue and know how to solve?

[plucky kelp]

oh

its a troubleshooting kinda channel

my bad

[supple prairie]

Are you starting in Maya or Blender with the model and skeleton, or is this already in UE with a control rig built? ANyway here's a "ragdoll" physics tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EmFnklpLk

I work with rigs in Blender done by riggers and have done some FK animation in UE, but nothing with physics or blueprints. I haven't chained any of that into a retargeted IK control rig.

[woven venture]

I‘ve used the default Manniquin skeleton with the default mesh for the non-physics animation and a separate physics asset from that same skeleton to work out the physics part, but it doesn‘t do much other than crumble like a normal ragdoll. Even if I use the constraints to move its limbs, it‘s still not even close to stable enough to allow it to walk normally.

[burnt lintel]

Hello everyone - is there a proper way to move skeletal meshes off of skeletons and onto new ones without causing a lot of chaos and damage to the intended target?

I am working through a bunch of armor assets, most of which were done using either their own skeletons (a seperate copy of UE4 mannequin it seems) or the UE4 mannequin outright. I am trying to figure out how do I convert these skeletal meshes for the various armor pieces to adhere to my UE5 mannequin - but upon trying to assign it a skeleton, it essentially wants to destroy all the bones and recreate the skeleton which has previously led me into a whole mess of hell.

Is it better that I just create standalone skeletons for each of these armor meshes (like chestplates, helmet, etc) and call it a day - or is there a proper way I can move all these armor pieces to my UE5 mannequin effectively.

Thoughts?

[sly sparrow]

I believe the only 2 options are to use animation retargeting for the existing ue4 skeleton, or use an external rigger software to adjust the hierarchy

Also, anyone know if there are any updates from the Metahuman team? It's been like 8 months of complete silence and no roadmap, I can't tell if they are still working on things or not

[burnt lintel]

Yeah, trying to figure out if it's possible to use it on skeletal meshes and not just animations

[plain haven]

Capturing Reality posted a video guide on photoscanning head to be used for Mesh to Metahuman:
https://youtu.be/9kIPixG8GHA

[trail chasm]

Hey Why does this Not Affect the Metahuman head in my characters BP ?

[flint sentinel]

Has anyone been able to export a custom Metahuman into the editor? I'm able to download and export a pre-made Metahuman through Bridge.
After I download a custom modified Metahuman in Bridge the export button (blue arrow) does nothing when I press it.

[flint sentinel]

Here's what it looks like after I've downloaded a tweaked Metahuman in Bridge. Notice the add button is disabled. Pressing the blue arrow does nothing.

This is the Bridge plugin inside of a running Unreal Editor.

[nocturne grove]

MH developers use to read this chat?

Anyway, maybe someone else is aware

I was wondering if there are plans for expanding the creator with new clothes and accesories

[wraith thistle]

I think this happens because the Bridge is downloading the Medium Quality version by default and you have the Highest Quality setting selected. Try to change the quality to Medium and maybe the button became blue. If so, get back the selection to Highest Quality and download your custom MH again.

[flint sentinel]

Medium quality download has the same results. Export doesn't work.
Are you saying download medium then download highest? Then it'll work?

[simple forge]

5.0 or 5.1?

[flint sentinel]

5.0 on Apple M1 Mac

[simple forge]

I would check a few things. Check your bridge folder from UE5 first, make sure its not the same as your ue4. Then if you downloaded a preset first, and then downloaded the custom, it technically should work. If it doesnt, maybe try doing this again in a new Megascans folder.....however, it very well could be a bug.

[sonic lily]

Hello Everyone, I don't know why my Live Link Window doesn't recognize my ipad in Live Link Face app. But this problem didn't show up when i use Live Link Vcam.

[flint sentinel]

I ended up opening the Megascans download folder and manually copying the files over to my UE project. Maybe I'll try wiping out the Megascans folder later (when I'm not actively working on a project)

[simple forge]

Nice!! Glad you found a way around the issue 😉

[tall coral]

This was a path tracing test

[dusty rain]

#ue5-general message

[dreamy iron]

may i know why this keeps happening

[simple forge]

Lods. Very common. Either grab the Metahuman transform and shake it around or change the LOD to something other that’s -1

[sudden berry]

Shaking the MH around is new for me 🤪

[simple forge]

haha it works

[dreamy iron]

okay, thank you!

[past ice]

Is Metahuman plugin not compatible with ue5.1 preview?

[graceful storm]

Is there a way through unreals apps, to enhance/scale the Metahuman expressions? They just arent expressive enough for me, even at max they look Stale af

[dreamy iron]

I don't think any plug-ins are

[chilly wave]

Is there any Metahuman plugin to transform both your motion and expression into ue5.0?

[hollow kestrel]

hello all! I am trying to animate my metahuman to walk and run through my twinmotion file I imported into unreal. what is the best way to do this? Thanks

[past ice]

Ok. Thanks. I am guessing when ue5.1 leaves preview then the plugins can be installed.

[cobalt saddle]

Hello everyone, is there a way to import a metahuman character back into Metahuman creator using the Asset ID or something similar? I want to share my metahuman character!

[mossy pecan]

Anyone know why the DOF is flickering so bad on MH hair? Aperture is set to 1.4.

[hollow kestrel]

I am having the same issue/question

[plain haven]

Depends on whether you want to use it for gameplay animations or just set dressing ped animations

[lunar jetty]

can anybody help me

[wise turtle]

Hey guys! I would like to create a character customization with MetaHumans (like in MH creator, but in Unreal), but I couln't found a way to import the morph target to choose the weight, size or genre of the character. Is there anyone have more information on this?
Any clue if Epic is already working on it?

[simple forge]

I would not build my cinematic sequence in the ue live link face recording. That animation should be baked to an animation sequence and then added into sequencer

[sage python]

Hi everyone, I am currently using metahumans in a android based project, but I am wondering what sort of techniques I can use on the metahumans to reduce packaging size with them. Any info in this is much appreciated. I am using the low quality settings on them before I import them to the project through Bridge. Thanks a lot

[plain haven]

1. Use forward rendering instead of deferred. You may lose subsurface scattering, but it's kind of the cost
2. Limit texture size to 1K (1024x1024). MetaHumans looked decent in 1K texture.
3. Step down the LOD to LOD 2 (or lower, highest is LOD 0 and will kill your phone)
4. No strand based groom hair (but it won't be available on LOD 2 and below anyway)

That being said, MetaHumans can be overkill for current average low-to-mid range phone specs, but it's plausible.

[cobalt saddle]

Let me know please if there’s something we can do about it!

[ivory tusk]

Can we Retarget Metahuman UE5 to UE4

[plain haven]

No.

It's impossible to bring assets from UE5 to UE4 anyway

[worldly karma]

@dusk sedge Is this solution working for you on 5.1? I am experiencing the same issue with the Groom Binding. It was working fine in 4.27 and 5.0, but it no longer works on 5.1. The hair disappears when I assign the Bind Asset. I tired your Build Settings approach (enabling Use Full Precision UVs but no luck)

[umbral bay]

first pass: https://twitter.com/iBrews/status/1588423364376346624?s=20&t=Rn3b84Q6qwpMqU4FKZDMFA

Alex Coulombe (@iBrews)

and here's some video of my first pass at controlling a desktop #UE4 #MetaHuman from within #VR using a #MetaQuestPro.

more to come!

▶ Play video

Twitter · Nov 4, 2022, 6:50 AM

[unreal sapphire]

Is it possible to modify meta humans in runtime like changing body shapes or cloths?

[dusk sedge]

Dno havent checked in a while

[harsh idol]

how can i get metahuman to drop less fps
They cause a lot of performance loss.

[sly sparrow]

setting the grooms to a lower quality and LOD can help

[desert ocean]

Anyone also have the Problem that the Console Variables of Hair stranding like Emissive, or Transmittance etc, doesnt affect anything?

[halcyon wasp]

Hello, I'm having a problem with metahuman eyebrows and eyelashes. I want them to display at LOD 3 since I cannot run the groom component, but when I try to force LOD 3 on those components nothing happens. I would like to keep everything else at LOD 0. Is that possible? thanks in advance.

[simple forge]

Maybe open up the groom for the lashes and brows and change all the LODs to cards instead of strands

[halcyon wasp]

Ah that makes sense, thank you so much!

[dreamy depot]

Is it possible to use the Control Rig Poses in a way similar to Shape keys in blender, to create an animation blending between the poses?

Yes it is, figured it out with seuqencer

[broken forge]

Hoi, i'm trying to make this RP game, and have been working on quite a lot of anime models. Because i'm scared of making realistic clothing. Curious how that's done on metahumans though.

Is there like a load of samples to look at, clothing wise?

and how is it handled code wise, i'd easily be able to make it modular right?

[noble light]

check out this:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsuXGBOCxj0

[broken forge]

Sorry fell asleep on my keyboard. At the day job now, so I'm gonna look at that.

Lol okay no words needed I guess.

Umm, one more question. Is there a community I can check for additional pieces for clothes etc. So I can study them?

[sudden berry]

https://youtu.be/8Py8NCnzVLc

[broken forge]

Guess that means no.

Guess metahumans ain't for me then if I can't make clothes.

[plain haven]

Correct, it's one of those things that still secure 3D artists their job.

If you can't do it yourself, hire someone to make it for you

[broken forge]

That's what I was asking though.

Where do I buy bits?

So I can study it and improve my own from that.

I want to make the leap from anime styled models to realistic.

But I guess I'm in the wrong chat for that, after 3 dodgy replies like that.

Thanks I'll go elsewhere.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/metahuman-and-custom-clothing/213420

They literally say you can add clothes.

🤦‍♀️

[wise turtle]

Hey there!
Do someone know if there is a database where I can download all the haircuts and clothes of the MH creator? I don't want to DL each metahuman to get each cloth and haircut 😦

[mossy pecan]

I'm trying to export an OBJ of a posed Metahuman in a sequence to model something on top of in Blender. Everytime I try to export, it's pretty much and empty file or an APose of the avatar. Is there a way to do this?

[simple forge]

so you need a static mesh version? no skeleton?

[mossy pecan]

Yep. No skeleton. Just an exact replica of the posed model.

[simple forge]

open up the animation file you have that is in the pose you want. Then there is an option on the top, to convert to static mesh.

[mossy pecan]

IS there a way to do it from a pose on a control rig in the sequencer, or do I need to create an animation asset, then make a static mesh from there?

[simple forge]

so what I would do is find the exact frame you want from the control rig sequence. And make that sequence only the length of that one frame. Then bake to animation sequence for just that frame. If you try doing it with the control rig active, it will probably crash. But you can I think by going up top to Actor and convert...but again, expect a crash.

[mossy pecan]

I'll give it a shot.

[mossy pecan]

Looks like the static mesh is only the body, no head included

[simple forge]

Then drop the actual animation into the scene, then go to Actor, with it selected, and convert to static mesh.

[simple forge]

did you try the mesh to meta plugin?

[mellow granite]

Hello guys, anybody knows if it is possible to get the Metahuman default animations (the one we have when we edit the Metahumans) inside Unreal? They look very convincing and would love to use one for a cinematic sequence.

[bold sonnet]

Hi, I've loaded an animation asset onto a metahuman, but when I go to Bake to Control Rig, there is no contol rig to bake it onto. A previous post from last year says to add control rig after adding the animation asset, but there's no option in the first context menu at all when I do it that way. A good youtube video I found 'Animating Metahumans with Control Rig in UE' has the option there, but doesn't seem to be available for me. Any ideas please? Thanks

Ah it 's ok, found it. If anyone else has this issue, I had to uncheck 'Filter Asset by Skeleton', then it appeared. The youtube video had it checked in theirs.

[bold sonnet]

I'm not sure about that but I agree it would be good. However, if it's of any use, I only discovered yesterday all the different facial gestures available in the Pose Library which you can use. Maybe these have been here since the beginning but I wasn't aware of them until now.

[mellow granite]

I will have a look thank you! I really think their Idle animations and expressions are great.

[wise turtle]

I'm interested by that too! I did not find anything about it, so let me know if you find something about please 🙂

But yeah, so agree, they looks so real with high quality animations like the ones in the MH creator

[mellow skiff]

Hey, I'm having a weird bug where the editor crashes anytime I try to export a metahuman from bridge. Anyone know what's going on?

Error message:
Assertion failed: Pair != nullptr [File:D:\build++UE5\Sync\LocalInstall\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Containers\Map.h] [Line: 656]

UnrealEditor_MegascansPlugin
UnrealEditor_MegascansPlugin
UnrealEditor_MegascansPlugin
UnrealEditor_MegascansPlugin
UnrealEditor_UnrealEd!FTickableEditorObject::TickObjects() [D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Editor\UnrealEd\Public\TickableEditorObject.h:45]
UnrealEditor_UnrealEd!UEditorEngine::Tick() [D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Editor\UnrealEd\Private\EditorEngine.cpp:1536]
UnrealEditor_UnrealEd!UUnrealEdEngine::Tick() [D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Editor\UnrealEd\Private\UnrealEdEngine.cpp:474]
UnrealEditor!FEngineLoop::Tick() [D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\LaunchEngineLoop.cpp:5215]
UnrealEditor!GuardedMain() [D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Launch.cpp:183]
UnrealEditor!GuardedMainWrapper() [D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:147]
UnrealEditor!LaunchWindowsStartup() [D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:283]
UnrealEditor!WinMain() [D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:330]
UnrealEditor!__scrt_common_main_seh() [d:\a01_work\6\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:288]
kernel32
ntdll

[vestal scarab]

noo! omar!!

your head

[vestal scarab]

I can't figure out how to solve this problem

other animations (idle, walking, running, jump) are correct

I also have this problem

using same animation for all parts

in playmode after fully change to other animation and back to idle fixs it

[sage python]

hey all, weird question maybe, but for some odd reason I can't re-enable hair strands on my metahumans , yes I did check the groom asset and the character BP too if it set on force to use cards, but no. I even tried the console command "r.HairStrands.UseCardsInsteadOfStrands 0" with no effect, not sure where else I can look any idea? Here is a screenshot of the Groom asset set to LOD 0 with its setting to show hair strands, but as you can see it is using cards and the debug confirms this. Thanks

[silk urchin]

Are there games now that are using metahumans for their AI? I am interested if callisto protocol is using metahumans for their creatures

[glacial mauve]

Has anyone ever seen something like this come off their meta human in a render?

[dry wadi]

does anyone know why the morph target preview has no effect on the mesh when viewing it in the editor?

[simple forge]

is there something in his mouth?

[glacial mauve]

That would be a spliff with a 2d niagara smoke animations. That 2d niagara has been giving me issues with lighting artifacts as well when viewed through the 2d plane

I did a 3d model amd I think there might be holes woth theblight shining through so I was going to check that when I get back on my computer

[simple forge]

lol thought for a moment the groom was creating the illusion of one. So the crazy hair during renders...what are your render settings?

[glacial mauve]

Override anti aliasing both 32 or 64 temporal sample count. Happens both png and exr. And using console variables from unreal docs set to 0

Only happens in renders

[glacial mauve]

Thank you for showing interest in helping. I've seen some of your work. It's amazing

[simple forge]

can you try rendering a few frames without antialiasing? Just default png. That way you can eliminate whether its the render settings or the groom itself.

[glacial mauve]

Okay I'll try thank you. Not at the computer at the moment. Again I appreciate your replies

[pallid aurora]

Hello guys UE5 Stable Diffusion Plug-in presents a new filter for metahuman!
https://youtu.be/zWcYN58Y9EM

[glacial mauve]

It was 100% the anti aliasing. Do you happen to know why it might cause that? Also another weird part is under this format when I added the files to davinci resolve, some frames were added out of order causing the render to be bumpy. I added each frame to davinci indivually and it fixed it. Thank you again for your help

[last acorn]

What program do I need to make these characters please? https://postimg.cc/mczN56wc

[simple forge]

I am not sure why this happens with antialiasing. Something to do with how unreal is handling subframes I think, but you are not alone. No one has been able to figure out a solution unfortunately.

[simple forge]

@spice kayak did you mention at some point you had this issue with renders and had to manually add individual frames to davinci?

[valid goblet]

Hi guys, I set the metahuman head to a paragon character . I got the blueprint but does not have the skeleton mesh for this. any suggestion how to get skeleton mesh from a character blueprint? I tried use the default skeleton of that paragon char but its not working for the character that i created. any suggestions please:)

[swift burrow]

Any idea why point light is brightening eyelashes so much?

[harsh idol]

Which setting is the most efficient?