metahumans

[jade snow]

can i use morph targets to make eye blinking?

[crystal oxide]

The basic Epic Games license allows free use of Unreal Engine royalty-free unless/until your project grosses $1 million, and I presume this applies to metahumans as well though it would be wise to double-check.

[nova kiln]

Thank you

[desert ocean]

Pretty sure the End Pipeline needs to be Unreal Engine to use it commercial

[nova kiln]

Sorry i didn't get it

[desert ocean]

The Last Tool you used , the Render in your Case should happen in Unreal.

[jade snow]

???

[nova kiln]

So i cannot import that to blender?

[desert ocean]

You Can Import it , but for Commercial i guess u need UE not Blender ,pretty sure same like all Quixel stuff., (atleast you have normal License)

[nova kiln]

🥲🥲 i see

[warm shoal]

ehy guys how are you? I'm really struggling with metahumans. I'm using unreal 5.1 and mixamo animations. I followed so many tutorials but they are all for unreal 5.0. It's like something is changed to metahumans with the last update, so what I was able to create is this animations with weird bones at shoulders and hands, but above all head is missing. I really need help because I'm already late with the delivery and I've spend 3 days trying to figure it out by myself 😦

[clear isle]

Yes

[jade snow]

how

[clear isle]

the Face control board is a good way to do it. here's a tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5jNZu1-3I

[warm shoal]

Nobody able to help?

[median osprey]

Late to this, but easy enough. You could copy the skin weights

[plucky kelp]

Hi, I'm struggling with some issue between groom and directional lights. Some noise like white dots appear in render and I don´t know how to solve it. I'd tried setting up Distance Field Shadows, and every related but I cannot find the key.
Please can anyone help me!?

[warm shoal]

Hello, do you know why I can't update in unreal any change I do in mhc?

[clear isle]

It does not change dynamically. If you change something in MHC you will have to re-download and re-import

[grave rock]

Are you using the render queue?

Increase your AA samples.

[warm shoal]

thank you!

Hello. do you know anything about this black spots on clothes? It happens if I try to use the citysamplecrow clothes on my metahumans. Would be nice to solve it because there is not plenty of clothes around 😦

[desert ocean]

looks like Normals, or Vertex Issues, on Shadowing, prob on the Mat?, i never used CitySample stuff but looks like that

[warm shoal]

It's not the material because if I change it the problem remains. I don't know about normals. they are models from a epic games collections, I don't see how can they have wrong normals

[desert ocean]

I Mean the Model Normals issue, or its an Low LOD Model, looks weird

[warm shoal]

Yes, anyway I don't know how to check. I wonder if I was the only one to have this issue

[desert ocean]

try force LOD or Export it and inspect it in your Main 3D Programm if u have it from an epic Pack thats weird

[warm shoal]

maybe because the peoplecrowd pack is not compatible with 5.1 so I have to copy manually beacuse I wasn't unable to migrate, or I migrated but there were some errors, I can't remember

[desert ocean]

Yeah probably but still weird, Even its 5.0 Stuff that shouldnt look like that

[twilit meteor]

Try to chaeck that a mesh (like f_tal_nrw_body) in the skeletalmesh of body only shows arms and ankles, the clothes should not be visible

[warm shoal]

yes, no cloth visible in the skeletal mesh of the body. Anyway it's really weird because opening the skeletal mesh of the cloth it appears ok. I tried also to change some lod and other settings available but nothing. It becomes like that when it get attached to the body

[warm shoal]

I don't know if it can help, but the problem is totally related to light. I mean, all in shadows parts are ok, if I change the position of light, the black spots change in shape and position

[final jetty]

hey all, why does this happen when i add any pose to my metahuman? it pops out of a pose, even though i try to add the a-pose asset?

[tardy rock]

has anyone here successfully added metahuman to the alsReplicated? My metahuman appears to be using the ALS animations in the blueprint viewport, but in the actual gameplay it just floats around in t pose, no animations 😦

[fluid wasp]

I've got a problem where as shadows from the ground foliage are making this weird pixilation effect on my metahuman. The foliage is animated moving back n forth. Not really sure though what the problem is. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[warm wagon]

Does anyone know if I can fix the eyelash shadows so there's no mismatch? I'm using pathtracing but not sure why the shadows are misaligned.

[final jetty]

anyone have any issues with their metahuman hair protruding the body mesh?

[sage python]

Updated from 5.03 to 5.1 and it seems that the metahumans causing some performance issue now.. not sure exactly why, did any of you have similar experience?

[flint lichen]

Hey, do you know if there is a way to realtime lip sync metahuman on Unreal via Audio2Face?

[junior jacinth]

Let's do it...

[junior jacinth]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-po-kung-fu-panda-kung-fu-panda-gifs-kfp-gif-5416339

[junior jacinth]

I can help you figure it out...

[woeful wharf]

a really dumb question xD
when i export metahuman through Q-bridge, i only get a metahuman BP, where do you get the mesh out of it ? 😮

[desert ocean]

Thats really Basic-> Just open the Blueprint and than u can see it .

[woeful wharf]

you mean in viewport, yeah i can even drop it into level, but i cant find a mesh to implement it into a diffrent mannequin. i saw some videos that do it via retargeting and copy the movement bp into it, but is there no other way to get a normal mesh so i can drag and drop into other mannequinns

its my first time trying them out, was working since yesterday, at first i thought its simple, now im getting more confused xDD

[woeful wharf]

found it. on the top by "Actor" open it and you will find " convert BP_ to mesh"

[woeful wharf]

anyone knows an easy way to rig/retarget a metahuman for the ue mannequin?

[warm shoal]

Looks like that disabling raytrace shadows in the light source solved the issue

[sly sparrow]

Did they give a release date for metahuman creator at GDC? I know they released a lot of animating features but are they going to release it anytime soon?

[wanton magnet]

is metahuman in-engine now?

[woeful wharf]

hey guys pls help ! I feel like going in circles with the metahuman start.
-I know how to rig and animate a mesh, giving him bones-> retargeting etc.

• i know how to make a metahuman thirdperson actor and work with animation retargeted on tick.
  I want to make diffrent metahuman Npc so i need diffrent metahuman skeletons, so i can change them in the level per drop and click.

I rigged and set the bones in the metahuman folder, but i cant just copy the body skeleton into my npc cause its not a full mesh preview (only hands).
My question how do i start ? Where do i get the first mesh ? i found out that i can drop the Bp into level and take a static mesh out of it that way, but than he the mesh doesnt have the hair information in it.

How do you do it guys ? or what tutorial helped you understand the first step ? pls guide me senpai :3

[jade snow]

IT IS?!??!?

[median osprey]

'months'

[fervent stag]

I have no idea what are you talking about, the way I use metahumans is downloading them from Quixel and retargeting to mannequin

[elfin edge]

Anyone know how to fix the hair physics on this metahuman? Simulation has been disabled in the groom

[crystal oxide]

A Metahuman I created in Metahuman Creator is importing into my project without the hair I chose in the Creator. So far this has happened twice. Is there a workaround?

[visual pendant]

Is grooming plug-in on? What version you are using? Your project or using some sample project?

[crystal oxide]

My project, v5.1.1, I will check about the grooming plug-in.

[visual pendant]

Also sometimes there is a bug, where there is no grooming on your character after import, but if you restart project they are back

[crystal oxide]

Thanks. Yeah, the plug-in is on. And after a couple of project restarts still no hair. Thanks for the help, though.

[visual pendant]

hm, that's weird.

[sly matrix]

Just in case anyone finds this useful, I'll post the link...

This is a list of all the default metahumans, and the output of an AI face classification algorithm, giving some basic barely-close metrics on the metahumans. I just found it daunting myself to make the decision on someone's race or gender, so I let the computer do it for me. Lmao.

https://gist.github.com/n8bot/b9502c6536a55dd5eda47557f560c2fe

It's pretty bad, ngl, but it's at least a starting point for developing a reference for the demographics

[plucky kelp]

Okay so

How do I enhance the breast size on my metahuman

Not for perverted reasons

It's a part of the body like every other

So I need that characteristic too

No for real now how do I make them bigger the default one ain't gonna cut it

[crystal oxide]

My "not for perverted reasons" t-shirt is generating a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

[elfin edge]

Anyone have an idea of how to make a metahuman limb look like it was amputated? (see photo)

[summer furnace]

Is it normal i lose about 10-15 fps when my medium quality metahuman is in the scene?

[summer furnace]

Also is hair strands plugin required for metahumam hair?what does it do?

[noble cave]

How would I go about getting this hood onto my metahuman? I had earlier added it on a socket(as a skeleton mesh) and it seemed to be deforming with the control rig but it broke and no longer works. Here's a pick of it weight painted to the metahuman face bones in Blender. So I have a setup here with the proper weights but I can't get it onto the metahuman properly.

[elfin edge]

I've created a mask to get rid of a metahuman leg, but this piece of the ankle still remains, does anyone know where it's located on the material png? Thanks

[sudden berry]

Here is a clean MH Body Texture with all body parts , you can overlay/underlay it to the orig. MH textures :

[elfin edge]

I think I can see from this where I'm missing, thank you

[hoary jetty]

Is the metahuman animator only available to use with iphone? No Android alternative?

[junior jacinth]

Does anyone have any pointers for krowd sim?

[tawdry lintel]

Hello Guys, i got a short question:

I`m trying to get a skeletal mesh from a metahuman. how would i go about it ? The skeletal preview doas not show full body with face..

[sly matrix]

I'm not sure what the big differences are with the upcoming "Metahuman Animator" but the currently available way of doing things is with Livelink which is tied to ARKit/iPhone IIRC. But the upcoming animator should be able to use other devices? Something like that.

[unkempt palm]

Is is possible to use old home videos and create Metahuman characters?

[sly matrix]

in a multi-step process, yes. There are tools to make 3d models from video. Visual SFM (Surface From Motion) is one such tool. Once you get an acceptable 3d model (might not be easy or possible), you can try and feed it to mesh-to-metahuman.

[astral fern]

Hello, is it a known issue that my shirt gets meesed up when i zoom in? or is it on my side? I didn't change anything really but just imported it. Seems to be a LOD issue (?) I use 5.1

At this distance it's fine again

[normal sorrel]

hi! any advice when rendering metahuman's hair? the rest of the scene renders fine, without noise, but the hair has a lot of noise and appears very shiny. thanks!

[quiet sigil]

hello! I'm using City Sample Crowd asset for my project. I need to turn off LODs for my metahumans and found that I can set ForceLOD to 0 or 1 so the highest LOD was used. But it brakes the animation of walking, that comes with the asset. The problem is that some parts of character are wiggling, especially in legs. Can anyone help me or give an advice how can I solve it?

here are screenshots of wiggling legs and hands of animated character

[river gull]

is it possible to hide all menus and toolbars in the metahuman creator ?

[midnight karma]

my attempt at Obed Marsh from Lovrecraft's Innsmouth stories

[topaz radish]

Are there any alternatives to iPhones for metahumans?

[desert ocean]

why i need to think of Hayashi .. of tekken

[hot wolf]

Hello! Does anyone know how to customize the range that Metahuman LOD's change? Cant find this anywhere online

[visual pendant]

Hi everyone. has anyone mange to save new blend shapes when modifying dna in maya?

[novel cape]

Hey all, relatively new to metahuman here. Does anyone here know if it is possible to change the base clothing? There is no option for it in the creator. I'm making a medieval-ish survival game and I'd need the player to basically start out in rags. The base clothing is really the only thing stopping me from moving to metahumans. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

[midnight karma]

I just made them naked so I can make custom clothes

[novel cape]

Awesome, how did you manage that? Is there any documentation or a tutorial you could link me to? I’m pretty new to metahuman stuff so any learning material is appreciated

[wise condor]

Does anyone know a solution in 5.1 for the fingers not retargeting correctly, from a ue4 to meta human? i've followed documentation in setting the metacarpals to none etc, but the fingers always end up offset in the wrong direction. Everything else is targeting properly.

Or is the basic IK rig for the meta human in the hands wrong? would i have to set my start and end with all the extra finger bones in it, they currently dont have it setup that way

They are just slightly off to the point it makes holding anything weird lol

[teal trellis]

hi all surprisingly i'm not seeing much on this topic, how to get metahumans going in 5.2? marketplace and directly within plugins can't do it

[wise condor]

It appears this issue now happens even from ue4 skel to ue5 the fingers do not go to the proper positions. in 5.0 this wasnt an issue

This is the meta humans hand,

ue4 mani

ue5 mani, as we can see the issue is the same

I've set retargeting options to skeleton on everything in the skeleton of the meta human aswell thinking maybe it had something to do with that, no change.

Interesting enough in 5.0 we could just drag and drop a meta human skel mesh on a ue4 mani, or a ue5 mani skel mesh and everything would work perfect.

in 5.1 this is no longer the case. using compatible skeletons also results in rampant crashes when previewing animations that drive the hands.

[teal trellis]

hi guys, anybody know if 5.2 will support the actual metahumans plugin like 5.1? i'm not understanding how metahumans improvements is the chief point of the tech demo yet it doesn't seem to be obviously compatible or am i missing something

[teal trellis]

actually i guess my first import into pulled in all the plugins and dependancies to work heh

[simple forge]

where are you getting that hand data from out of curiosity or is it from an asset pack?

[wise condor]

Doesn't matter which anims are used. The issue is with base ue4 skeleton with the new 5.1 retargeting to ue5/meta human. This one is from Frank, I don't use poor quality anims

Unsure if it's the pose being different from ue4 to 5, and the tabs to edit pose are not exposed anymore in the retargeter like they were in 5

[simple forge]

who is Frank? I am noticing something has changed also.

[wise condor]

Frank climax. Makes top notch stuff.

[simple forge]

Interesting, hes got some nice assets on Marketplace.

[wise condor]

Been busy today but tomorrow I plan to figure out how I can edit the pose of the ue4 skel in the retargeter and match it up see if there is any change for some reason it's picky about it, atleast that's my hunch. Nothing is wrong with my chains or IK

Also going to do a controlled test in a separate project but something is wrong now. Or it's a setting buried. I notice there is no option to retarget IK either now they don't even show up in the chains. Which maybe is the issue?

[simple forge]

Do you have the Metacarpals in your chains?

[wise condor]

Like my IK hand IK foot etc, before between 4/5 the IK rigs had it. Just thought about it. IK goals are fine though.

[wise condor]

Your supposed to set them to none going from 4 to 5 haha it looks like they were holding a stick of dynamite in their hands if you leave it targeted

[simple forge]

ok ya, I leave mine out entirely

[wise condor]

Like everything is perfect sooooo close but the fingers are bending up

Up and past the thumb.

Transforms and stuff should all be fine. These are base IK rigs too defaults so it's not like I configured them wrong, even though I've built many for my monsters with no issues what so ever in 5.0

[simple forge]

This has been a challenge for a while. I had everything working perfectly with IK retargeter and finger data before the recent update.

I have to have my source and target in a Tpose so that the fingers are straight on both rigs

[wise condor]

So we have to make the ue4 manny A pose the same ore just straight up T pose them

How are you editing the pose in the retargeter now

I suppose I could copy local transforms maybe

[simple forge]

Im not using the mannis. What I do is create a Tpose Animation and then convert it into a Pose Asset. I then go to source and target and import those poses

[wise condor]

Brutal

[simple forge]

I know

[wise condor]

Lol this patch has devolved us

[simple forge]

I found a better way, and it was working perfectly, until I retested with the update...and since you are noticing something is off, maybe its not just me

[wise condor]

Shared skels lol just crashes me too

Or compatible lol

Live retarget everything's wonk cause as we can see if the pose im assuming or bone transforms are not the same it hurts the anims. Just my theory. Weird cause this was working perfectly it's like interpolation is busted

But I don't know forsure, we can't be the only ones retargeting I've found nothing for info about this either, just old problems that are silly mistakes

[simple forge]

Well it is possible this hasnt been discovered yet. Maybe developers dont test with hand data and just test the body data

I have a project set up from 5.1 before the update and everything in there is still working. But when I created a new project and reset up the IK retargeter and rigs exactly the same way...not getting the same results

[wise condor]

Yeah we pay attention to our work and make sure it's quality lol no finger clipping in weapons and stuff

[simple forge]

so now I use that older project for the retargeting till I get this sorted

Fingers are so time consuming

[wise condor]

I honestly don't even need this to retarget it's the only way I know of to get the skeleton mesh assets

All our armor is based on meta humans

[simple forge]

right, yes same here, metahumans

[wise condor]

I'd use the new skeleton cause why not

[simple forge]

I always use the female medium one

[wise condor]

But most anims out there were made with the legacy skeleton

So we kinda gotta be able to retarget like we could in 5

Lol 30 sets of armor, over 100 unique abilities really like to consolidate this so we can start worrying about morph targets with custom char creation

[simple forge]

ya at some point I had to resort to retargeting in 4.27 and transferring the uassets over to 5 cause IK retargeter didnt have the edit pose options i needed

[wise condor]

Lucky I have this worked saved in 5.0 too I may just retarget there then migrate to a blank project then update the project and migrate back into the main project lol so I still have my back ups

[simple forge]

Are you just bringing in the packs and assigning them to the other skeleton. How are you doing this. IK retarget right?

I just copy the uassets over of the animations

[wise condor]

Ik retarget I just target it all to the main skel

That way root motion doesn't get clapped

Cause root needs to be globally scaled and all the
IK bones

Or root motion won't work lol it'll just teleport back to origin

[simple forge]

As a test why don’t you expect the right skeleton to 4.27 retarget in there and see if the thumbs look right

Sorry the fingers

[ebon sun]

Hello lovely people 🫰 I've been searching for a tutorial on how to make my Metahuman hold a gamepad and recognize the inputs (ideally a fightstick) and could only find a short demo by citizenmetaone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3g7cAAfFxE&ab_channel=CitizenMetaOne). Any clue on how I could set this up? I am 2 months into unreal engine with no previous developing experience

[wise condor]

Haven't used meta humans in 4 at all lol

[simple forge]

Works like a charm hehe

[ebon sun]

I found a plugin for advanced gamepad rigging for anyone interested, but unfortunately its only for vtube studio. I assume you can't use it on metahumans https://github.com/maruseu/Nyarupad-VTS

[true fog]

Has the method to get clothing onto metahumans changed recently? No matter what I do, i get "FAILED TO MERGE BONES:

This could happen if significant hierarchical changes have been made
e.g. inserting a bone between nodes.
Would you like to regenerate the Skeleton from this mesh?

WARNING: THIS MAY INVALIDATE OR REQUIRE RECOMPRESSION OF ANIMATION DATA."

I thought it was because I set up a control rig in maya, but even if I go back to a clean import straight from bridge and skin that it still errors. I even tried exporting just the body bones from inside the metahuman bp "m_med_unw_body" and skin those to see if theres some naming convention error, still same issue. 2 days of this and I'm no closer to an answer 😦

[worn shell]

Spent a few hours to dl a metahuman, pc go to sleep at 90% and now I need to restart from 0 again. Bridge is amazing lol

[simple forge]

Maybe check when you export from Maya that the heirachy does not have anything extra in there. Usually it likes to add an extra group. You have to ungroup it and then export.

[dreamy depot]

If I get this fault, generally at some point in workflow I've combined parts of 2 skeletons i,e shirt/pants

On that note, I am struggling with blender clothing weights, there's so many bones I have no idea what's doing what. Anyone found an easier workflow for weight painting clothes for metas?, I've managed to get it to only 1 point on the armpit that's pinching forward by quite a long way, can't figure out which bone is causing it

[wise condor]

Interesting enough you can't even assign a meta human skel mesh a ue4 skeleton right now it'll fail to merge bones.

These things are concerning consolidating 1000s of $s of modular armor to the new bone meta humans lol

But I will figure this out lol. There must be a way

Without DCC round trips

[wise condor]

Honestly just assign things how you normally would with weight painting and don't give weight to random bones. Do it by hand

[dreamy depot]

Tbf it's not really something I've looked into before now generally could get away with minimal adjustments and where they were needed it was easier to find the bones, it just feels painful now lol

[wise condor]

Weight painting is brutal I don't do it for that reason id rather pay someone

My brain feels like it's been in a microwave with all these changes so now I don't even know what applies or works anymore always having to re-learn, new issues happen with the same work flow etc

Epics documentation for going from ue4 to metahuman results in issues too lol

Ie my finger problem

[dreamy depot]

Thing is because epic provide a select number of premade outfits, you can copy the weights across in most cases, but yeah in this specific case I have 1 armpit that just keeps tareing, nothing I do helps lol

Almost ready to go back to makehuman/blender tbh haha

[full ocean]

hey when i use live link with meta human, there is a little bit shake in the head rotation, how to eliminate this shake head rotation?

[full ocean]

additional information: im using ipad pro for recording my face

[wise condor]

They are making tons of progress giving us the latest tech and making things available to us for free which I'm super grateful for, I'm sure everything we could do in 5 or even 4 can still be done it's really just a matter of how to go about it now

[dreamy depot]

No doubt, also early days in sure there will be shortcuts and things people find

[teal trellis]

Hi all, it seems 5.2 just has some memory leak issues and i'm wary of getting started into a project that will constantly have issues. so what am i really missing with metahumans going back to 5.1? isn't most of the 5.2 features relate to animation?

i mostly just want to pull in some real scans and fix the textures. animation would be basic for starters, assume i could always port it into 5.2 down the line once official?

[true fog]

I've even brought in a clean import from bridge and tried and it still fails. Followed every tutorial, multiple times. Tried everything I can think 😦 I've even brought the skeleton from inside unreal over and that doesnt work either. I'm at my wits end.

I have tried messing with the hierarchy but will try again. Thank you.

[true fog]

Problem solved. No idea why, but exporting as FBX from maya the normal way and chosing the same settings everyone seems to use on tutorials (Autodesk Media and Entertainment preset) doesn't seem to work for me at all. I exported using the game exporter and it worked. Thanks for the replies guys, I appreciate the help.

[teal trellis]

anybody else using reality capture? seems no matter how nice i do the images, how much i follow the tutorials and videos, all my images come in all scattered and never makes an model

[wise condor]

Okay

I figured it out, Not a perfect solution but it gets us close

We have Pose Assets now

Or we can generate them and sync the poses in the retargeter

Its not as tight.

But its more in line with where things are. I've been experimenting with what method of interpolation is used on rotations,

[wise condor]

Basically you can take either your source or target, export its pose and then just assign it in the retargeter and it fixes alot of the issues. Ofc its not perfect unfortunately

but its not as bad as it was

I'll figure it out, So if someone else somewheres down the line, Which im sure someone will be using ue4 manni anim assets and want to use them on the meta humans. You can basically throw all the YT videos on this out the window, They only tell you a fraction of the story.

For some reason aswell. Some anims like rotation mode on the chain map to be one-to-one and others like the standard Interpolation. I suppose its how it was all made

Still not perfect, But not as bad as it was. The issue is 100% pose related.

The built in copy pose does a good job but its not as polished as one would like i guess.

this is a meta human with a ue4 mani pose and its what cleaned up a crap ton of the above issue

it gets us very close, There is an edit mode. non destructive which is nice. Ill attempt to line up the fingers perfectly and arms see how she goes.

[simple forge]

yep thats what I have been doing to match the poses is to use Pose Assets

[simple forge]

these are close, but im wondering how did you match the poses? Manually adjusted them? Have you considered just tposing both of them and zeroing out the fingers and creating those as poses to be used with IK Retargeter?

[wise condor]

I just exported, Now im manually lining stuff up

[wise condor]

I suppose if i zero'd em out and made sure it was lined up perfectly that probably will help rather than manually line em up lol

Shame it doesnt apply proper transforms

getting it super close now,

Wont really have to do this again so it is what it is.

lol Id love to just copy local space transforms to all chains and be done with it.

then we know its 100%

when you originally said export pose i was like nooo i dont wanna go into blender or maya

[teal trellis]

hi all, whenever i bring in my mesh to metahumans i get to the point where it does metahuman identity solve, but i then get : Some active curves are placed outside the promoted frame area.

i'm not sure if that's thinking i have something enabled that's not relevant, or some other data i'm not seeing or what

[wise condor]

Did you Do the T pose in the retargeter and 0 out or somewheres different like an external DCC

[simple forge]

I think I show this process in two different videos

[wise condor]

post me a link :p

please

[simple forge]

https://youtu.be/BXMyE7OIyhk

[simple forge]

I go over how I create a pose asset around 1:29 and then how to assign it in IK retargeter around 6:40

[simple forge]

https://youtu.be/8p-AfDWH0v8 and in this one at 6:22 I go over how to create a tpose and zero out the fingers correctly

[simple forge]

If you tpose both your rigs and import those pose assets you should be able to get one to one

[wise condor]

I'll check it out, Lol manually doing it is rudimentary

[teal trellis]

i'm still struggling to get a working model. i have use polycam and realitycapture, followed everything to a T, can not get a solid model. finally got something workable but there are artifacts and not sure how to boolean clip off my model. can't use reality capture to change the bounding box and lasso like the videos say. and no polycam output seems to be liked by reality capture to take the data in, the raw images just show as points. losing my mind lol

[simple forge]

You are getting an error when trying to run the identity solve?

[teal trellis]

i did, i deleted the whole thing and trying to just improve my capture. i have a usable one from polycam i can export in various methods, but i was unable to pull it into reality capture to do the easy lasso clipping, so tried obj right into ue5 and not sure how to clip parts. im tryin gltf now

[simple forge]

Could be that you have more than one frame with the same trackers enabled OR you have trackers checked on and those trackers are not on the topology

[teal trellis]

there is an artifact off the shoulder behind in open space

i think i'm not sure how to tell which trackers are valid on this?

[simple forge]

That should not give you that error

One sec

[wise condor]

can you send me that Tpose?

xD ❤️ save alot of time

the pose asset, file size should be small

[simple forge]

Lol why you don’t feel like tposing? Come on it’s so fun

[simple forge]

https://youtu.be/0wYkqlqLaHk skip to 3:40

[wise condor]

xD i think i have 4.27 installed still,

[simple forge]

You can tpose in either of them, it takes like 2 minutes

You can tpose in 5 and create the pose assets I. There as well

[simple forge]

If you don’t have any bogus trackers then the mesh itself might have something going on and unreal isn’t liking it, maybe an artifact somewhere. I am a bit useless outside of unreal but I’ve removed things from meshes in blender pretty easily

[teal trellis]

yea its looking more and more like blender may be worth getting even if just for a few specific things

i haven't watched that vid yet but some others have shown importing images right into blender and dumping to fbx

[simple forge]

I had to remove hair from a head mesh….it was a bit painful until I figured out how to do it, time consuming but it’s definitely a software that always comes in handy

[teal trellis]

and baseline blender is free right?

also when i dump from polycam fbx right into unreal, it says file is corrupt and there is no scene

[teal trellis]

holy crap i may have gotten it

obj import AND has to uniform scale import 10x

it was coming in super tiny and trying to scale it big after the fact was corrupting

but i need to fit a childs head on a body without lookingweird

[wise condor]

welp guess i gotta T pose the meta human too on its own, Making one pose asset based off of ue4 skel will not get the hands correct still

ah the good ol days where you could click a couple times and be done with this. time is money

[wise condor]

Well, Thats enough for tonight for me, Resume tomorrow. Even with T poses made from ue4 skel, or the meta human the fingers will never give me 1 to 1

it was actually closer copying an A pose. Everything is zero'd in local space too, so im at a loss

crazy the new metahuman plugin too, Very odd i've had metahuman skel meshes assigned to a ue4 skeleton in the past. but now i cant even go back to how it was. 😦 assigning that same skel now, will result in failed to merge bones.

Shame i should have made this change before 5.1 and avoided this all together.

without the new plugin it warns you it'll crash the engine without it.

[wise condor]

For curious onlookers, in 5.1.1 when you grab the clavicle on a meta human (in 5.0.3 it calls this the upper arm R) it calls it a clavicle as it would be, so we know we have hierarchy changes. What's the point to this. There is now 3 different skeletons. How do we standardize this process, most of us all have anims made with the ue4 skel. And not all of us are doing mocap either.

So at some point for some reason even with zeroing out all my bones in a Tpose we have translation issues still.

And why won't saving a pose and using it in the retargeter work correctly too? Is there that much of a difference? And why was this all never consolidated when making all these changes to the skeletons I understand it has alot to do with live link and making advancements, but there was no reason to change the A pose to begin with.

[simple forge]

yes free

[teal trellis]

my kids wer pretty blown away at my first attempt on importing them. going to clean up and mask the face texture and pull it back in. but with one of my kids he had bangs going over his head, so the scan wasn't very good and added to his forehead mesh making him look like a troglodyte

[wise condor]

@simple forge thanks for the help lastnight, I'm going to do the process again, its very possible I did something wrong lol.

But who knows, haha gotta solve the issue anyways!

[teal trellis]

ok wow im just gonna say after all the crap i struggled with in regards to capture, the Keen tools facecapture for Blender is AMAZING

the wrapping AI around the mesh is like at least 80% in most cases and i just have to tweak, would tweak less if my shots were optimal

unreal takes it very well

[ebon sun]

Hi everybody, I was wondering if anybody knows what might be wrong with the lighting on the left side? On right side is just the viewport and a camera on the left with default settings, just the focal length adjusted. I have this problem with many environment assets from the marketplace - i think it has to do something with the environment being built in previous versions? Also the prompt: rebuild lighting. Any tips for a good tutorial?

[teal trellis]

are you not using nanite? doesn't it ask that if you're not using it

[ebon sun]

Where would usually see that? Never adjusted any settings regarding nanite (learning ue since january)

after changing left side to viewport and back, both sides are broken

after restarting the project. Id be thankful for any clue on what causes this

[wise condor]

looks like auto exposure on this one. Lumen and nanite or no?

VSM?

[teal trellis]

sorry i had meant lumen earlier lol

[wise condor]

yeah lumen should be used with nanite as the surface cache updates extremelyy slowwww without it. With The new lighting you can def get artifacts in the shadows on skel meshes, We have them currently, but i haven't taken the time to fix it. as its not too noticeable, But the documentation basically says to tweak the settings. You get a haze around stuff moving. and issues in the penumbra. Very minor though

[wise condor]

You have two options, Adjust auto exposure with lumen in a post processing. Or turn auto exposure off, I opt in for the Post process method as its nice to have control over auto exposure.

Also see if you have Virtual shadow maps enabled. I see you have alot of light sources in there its good to see what your Cache is doing with VSM aswell. it can point at issues too

Check your lumen scene aswell, see if anything is black if its black it is not contributing to lighting and can cause issues aswell.

[ebon sun]

Thank you Hexen for giving me directions 🫰 🫰 Does it mean that I have to rebuild all lights in my level? Also, I've never set up any post processing so it's time to learn that I guess. Just so to understand: Why can't I turn the lights in the level off completely?

[simple forge]

if you change your lights to movable it should go away. If you are using lumen, and not baked lighting you dont need reflection captures.

[ebon sun]

like basically every keyword you've used is new to me hahah need to abuse chatgpt

[ebon sun]

that was one of the solutions ive found, changed all to movable but metahuman is still broken.

also tried turning post process on and off in outliner

(with the eye button)

[simple forge]

How is the metahuman broken

[ebon sun]

changes nothing on the character

[ebon sun]

check above, the first screenshot. On the left side, the metahuman is i think not casting shadows

the groom and skin looks overlit

[simple forge]

Are your camera settings set to manual exposure? You might also want to check the scalability settings to see what you have those set to. Cinematic or Epic?

[ebon sun]

I clicked on the camera in outline and searched for 'exposure' in details. All results are greyed out and unchecked. So does this mean I have no post processing on the camera?

[simple forge]

all cameras have a post process.

Check your scalability settings and only use one viewport at a time just to test

[ebon sun]

Weird, when I go into single viewport mode, the Metahuman is again broken

Isn't this just a bug then? Because sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't

[wise condor]

ill post some snips of where to find and setup post post processing for you,

[wise condor]

camera wont control that stuff as far as i know

set your post process volume to this,

You can hand scale your PPV, Or you can hit infinite extent and it will globally cover everything, When doing large worlds, I do this and set priorities up on the PPVs,

Nice for mountains when exponential height fog needs to be manipulated in different ways depending on elevation

Check your lumen scene

And see if any of your lights are invalidating your VSM

[ebon sun]

I am in no shape or form to interpret this

climbing the unreal engine learning curve

[plucky kelp]

anyone know why metahuman hair may stretch or become distorted when rendering in movie render queue?

[ebon sun]

I had these kind of issues when I recorded that facial animation in a lower LOD. You have to make your recordings in 0 LOD

[plucky kelp]

Like the groom itself or do you mean the lod fix for metahumans where you change it to 0 so the groom doesn’t disappear outright?

[ebon sun]

im not sure if this will work: set you metahuman bp LOD to forced zero. Make the recording. Check if hair is distorted

[wise condor]

Blue is invalidated means it updates the shadows everyframe, Skel meshes will do this or anything moving. Thats normal

[plucky kelp]

Forced lod has been zero. Maybe it’s something with AA and temporal samples? I haven’t found anything on forums about this

[wise condor]

Warm up frames?

[plucky kelp]

64

[wise condor]

lumen etc?

[ebon sun]

couldnt make anti aliasing work on my characters

[plucky kelp]

Idk why lumen would screw with grooms but im using raytracing

[plucky kelp]

How so?

[ebon sun]

always thought its not compatible with the long hair grooms

dont know how to fix the off physics

[wise condor]

do you have alot of emissive light and other lights off?

[plucky kelp]

Yeah

Ton of lights

How do you mean other lights off?

The scenes painted with a ton of point lights and such

[wise condor]

just an emissive source will screw up grooms

[plucky kelp]

Any emissive source?

[wise condor]

do you have a directional light?

[plucky kelp]

I do not

[wise condor]

And he looks like he's got hair loss outta random xD

[plucky kelp]

It’s like this for the entire recording

The render just finished

[wise condor]

what does he look like normally

windows+shift+S and then drag take snips

[plucky kelp]

Ik Ik

I’m just a lazy mf

[wise condor]

thats more work

[wise condor]

I could be wrong, but i think its because of the lights.

If its forced to not LOD

[plucky kelp]

Forced LOD at 0

Should I change that?

[wise condor]

Someone else likely has encountered this. I've seen it in a different way than this, Your hair is physically leaving where it should be, I've seen it thin out and look balding

[plucky kelp]

It just randomly stretches in odd directions

Sometimes over his face, other times just outwards in strange directions

Happens if I scrub through the sequencer too quickly

[wise condor]

try warming up for like 300-400frames

[plucky kelp]

I’ve tried disabling hair simulation

[wise condor]

should be anyways with lumen to let that surface cache get nice and cooked

[plucky kelp]

Just set it to 128. Gonna keep messing with settings. You said AA wouldn’t work with your character?

[wise condor]

not me

[wise condor]

what CPU/GPU

[plucky kelp]

I7 11700f 3060ti

[wise condor]

yeah let it warm up atleast try that first.

[plucky kelp]

Looks to be doing better with more warmup frames

Have a resource for lumen as opposed to ray tracing?

[plucky kelp]

^ in terms of this

[wise condor]

can use hardware raytracing where avail, you can path trace all kinds of stuff

but let it cook for awhile especially when you have settings cranked.

[plucky kelp]

kk

tytyty

[teal trellis]

is there an easy way to send a demo 'snippet' of a metahuman you created to people without having to do a complex workflow?

i'm trying to dump a few examples of the rig animations in metahumans creator just to show them what i did

i also noticed MH doesn't do so well with making children characters. not saying it can't be done but it's more geared to adults, so scanned my 12 year old son in and made him look 16, was pretty cool and creepy, every little extra work done so i can really improve it if i wanted

[jovial ruin]

Anyone ever seen this sort of moire pattern on MH hair? It only seems to happen with telephoto lenses at certain distances away

Also happens on eyebrows:

Gets even crazier on super long focal lengths:
Almost seems like a weird clipping plane issue... fresh MH download, LOD0, cinematic quality, works fine in a fresh project

[plucky kelp]

what are telephoto lenses?

[plucky kelp]

I know this is off topic regarding the issue, but how did you manage to get those custom clothes on your metahuman? Head on different body method or something else?

[teal trellis]

serp, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBEUvLq3Rak

bottom line is get your clothes (paid, sketchfab, etc), export the metahuman models, put it together in blender, pull it back in

[wise condor]

This is teaching people bad habits.

[wise condor]

Should be doing this with leader pose component. Some of the information does apply but it doesn't properly fit so looking into using morph targets to make it fit properly etc.

[teal trellis]

i realzie now its his only video and there are a few other better ones, i was just trying to get the general idea

is there a more intuitive way to make it auto fit on the mesh?

[teal trellis]

lol just did a capture of my 5 year old daughter. it basically makes her look like a mix of my daughter wife and sister all combined. but it's very realistic and i can't believe this is with essentially no touching up

[true fog]

Is there any reason my metahuman would be significantly taller in unreal engine than in maya? its thrown off all alignment, all scales are 1, yet its a good 15-20 cm's taller in ue5 than maya (cube for height reference, also hands should line up on the handle)

[wise condor]

oh man. Tposing in 5.1.1 is literal cancer.

[sly pilot]

are metahumans intended for games?

are they game ready now?

[wise condor]

Yes just adjust your max in game textures. However retargeting anims to them from a ue4 skeleton is pooched right now. Having alot of issues

[sly pilot]

ah so they use another skeleton?

[wise condor]

Yeah they recently put a new skeleton in that has alot more bones than the simple ue5 skel, poses are different IK retargeter got an update, you can make a pose from the ue4 skel to use on the meta human, or vice versa but it's transforms make the pose way off anyways. I've tried Tposing but have no success with that, largely to something else being wrong with manipulating bones to save a pose in engine too. Which may even be the issue all together.

And well we have in my mind a serious issue with retargeting from what most people have from ue4 to it.

If you don't care about inaccurate finger data then it works like a charm.

[sly pilot]

alright im just going casual research 🙂

[wise condor]

The ue5 skel now has this new skel too not the original one we got with 5

It's a headache lol

[sly pilot]

do you think metahumans will be some kind of goto as a game character asset?

[wise condor]

Yeah forsure it should be the new standard especially with modular clothing and armor etc, once we can retarget quickly like we used to be able to no issues

I'm sure someone will start selling pose assets for $$$ that is a work around for this cause who knows when it'll actually be fixed

[sly pilot]

alright! i suppose the complexity atm just makes it a waste of time for me 🙂

[wise condor]

It's not supposed to be complex xD

I've tested this in blank projects as a control the new skel/ik retargeter hates ue4 skeletons

[sly pilot]

ait

so

does metahumans have height and body size?

i have literally only seen faces and i dont need face stuff

[wise condor]

Yeah

They are similiar to Mannie I guess

Pretty close anyways

All depends how you make them in MH though

[sly pilot]

manny doesnt have size

[wise condor]

But they use the same skeleton regardless,

[wise condor]

?

[sly pilot]

maybe i am confused

i just assume metahumans is a character model creator

full body service

😄

[wise condor]

Well if you have things that fit in Manny's hands it'll fit in the metahumans hands perfectly, provided you get that fabled one to one retargeting working that wasn't broken before the new skeleton

[sly pilot]

i was refering to widht and height of the body

short and thick to muscular tall

and everything in between

[wise condor]

They have some body types at the moment, check it out on the website 👌

[sly pilot]

maybe in a couple of months

you gave me a perfectly fine introduction

[wise condor]

Yeah if your like me and have ue4 anims already, getting those poses 100% matched up is a bit of a pita, other people have done it but not with a ue4 skel that I've seen

[sly pilot]

yup

i mostly combine what you said with the specifics of the problems i have seen people ask about in general 😄

"not for me at this point in time"

[wise condor]

Ah others have mentioned this?

[sly pilot]

mostly material and animatrion related thngs

my needs are more about having a solid humanoid and research how to make a character creator, primarily body types and shapes.

[wise condor]

They are pretty solid, it's only really one small concern with retargeting

Ups and downs my friend ups and downs.

[sly pilot]

aye

[vestal scarab]

my metahuman animation is not synced between bodyparts. i see the head detaching from the body sometimes, then i jump and its fixes but sometimes it happen again

[vestal scarab]

it happens only in build

[neon epoch]

@spice plaza
I found a fairly stable fix

r.HairStrands.ComposeAfterTranslucency - 0

put this in the console commands for movie render queue as well as in your viewport

[teal trellis]

hi all, i know that one of the big things that metahumans puts a lot of time into is the eyes and hair, and those 2 and ears tyipcally ignored in custom creation. the problem is i'm trying (as a learning project) to scan in something that isn't human lol. the eyes and ears are way different, not worried about hair

is it possible to stick a non metahuman head on a metahuman body and do very minor specific things with the head over the top?

ear wiggles, eye blinks, not super up close shots

[full ocean]

try to run the package .exe with -log parameter and take a look what error causing it happen

[vestal scarab]

Ok, it's not only a build problem.

happens sometime after zooming in the character

probably something related to hair

[desert ocean]

i would say ASYNC Skel Meshes

[vestal scarab]

what u mean? how could i solve it?

[desert ocean]

more than 1 Skel Mesh and they not sync, there are some Nodes for it aswell, but im Pretty sure u miss an Guideline from Metahuman prob aswell.

[plucky kelp]

Hi i Can assist you in creating your meta human

[bold inlet]

Anybody know how epic managed to optimize the matrix demo with the meta human pedestrians walking around? Trying to optimize metahumans in my game without mass-downgrading the quality of the models and textures

[final jetty]

is there an easy way to do rigify to metahuman retargeting?

[fading juniper]

I noticed that when using e.g. a male normal weight metahuman that there's also a folder for common metahuman stuff, in there there's also an over/under-weight body included.
I'd like to use them as morph target, but it doesn't seem like there's also a over/under-weight head mesh for it, is there an easy way to also get them ?

[wise condor]

I've never scaled head sizes but you could try that in the creator

[vestal scarab]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/metahuman-animation-help-needed-head-separating-from-body/732608/3

[rare lagoon]

Hey guys really need your help!

The hairs of my metahumans disapear / become see through ... any idea why???

and i get these artefacts...

[rare lagoon]

i think its because of the glass... any idea ?

it is because of the glass... i used the UE automotive materials glass...

[gentle cave]

Anyone know if there's a way to Cache Groom physics from inside unreal? I'm making a clip where I have an identical animation of a Metahuman actor moving through a scene, rendered twice with different lighting setups to compare footage, but I'm getting different outcomes with hair physics even though air velocity is identical (same Sequence, different lighting) as hair is non-deterministic. Any tips?

[cold phoenix]

why is my metahuman showing up as "bad blueprint"???

this is what the log says

from the looks of it it's breaking because of this

but with it just being dubbed "bad cast node" i don't even know what it's casting TO

judging from "as face anim BP" it would be that but no such thing exists

so what am i supposed to do here?

[crystal oxide]

This brings up something I need to know for my own cinematic: how to get hair to move in the breeze when my Metahuman is walking. Is "air velocity" something I can define, and how?

[gentle cave]

Yeah, in the hair object in the Metahuman blueprint, Im currently not at my PC but I believe it's under physics

[gentle cave]

It's got controls for wind as a Vector 3

[thorn sparrow]

Can someone explain what are these artifacts in metahuman meshes preview?

[thorn sparrow]

for what ive seen its skilight

as soon as i disable skylight, the artifacts go away

[crystal oxide]

Thanks!

[neon epoch]

it is an engine thing i believe

ive been getting freaky artifacts in the engine in random places.
restarting the engine helps a lot but they keep coming back time to time

[thorn sparrow]

i changed GI in preview lightning to Lumen.

it works now

[stiff moon]

Hey peeps,
Got a very annoying issue with using meta human. Every person I make it automatically assigned to UE5 and not UE4. I need to create a metahuman to use in a UE4 project but it won't let me. How do I make it so that in metahuman, the character I make is compatible with UE4 and not UE5?

[stiff moon]

OK seriously, wtf is wrong with metahuman creator? There is no option to create a ue4 compatible metahuman. Everything defaults to UE5 which I don't want. I want to export to 4.27 but everyone I make it says "incompatible to UE4. Must open Quixel Bridge in UE5.". This is stupid.

Before anyone suggests it by the way, I've tried the older version as well of metahuman and that also is only creating ue5 compatible ones.

[fading juniper]

Is it possible to get multiple hair styles in one download ?
It seems pretty wasteful to "generate" and download the exact same Metahuman again, but with different hair

[fathom galleon]

my metahuman is not picked up by my auto focus system? the metahuman does have collision.. not sure how the line trace by channel works exactly.. I'm wathcing tuts about it

ah collision preset is set to no collision by default

wait.. metahumans don't have bones for their fingers???

oh it just doesn't show.. I'd need collision for individual bones.. is that possible?

ah also.. only static mesh have complex collision?

[prisma jacinth]

Hey ! does any of you encountered a crash when trying to "Track active frame"

[ionic ocean]

Does anyone know how to get different control values to not combine? When using a picker it combines all the values

[simple forge]

How many controls are you selecting?

[ionic ocean]

Happens with even just 2

[simple forge]

Hmm so I noticed that as well. It used to display up to 4 or 5 controls but with ue5 it only shows me two as well

That little anim detail window is buggy though so I modify the values in sequencer instead

[inner rain]

Hi Guys! New here. I want to attach a meta head to my custom body and use a Control rig to animate it. How can I do it?

My Problem is:

1. I can combine the head and body in a new blueprint class "actor". But then I dont get an option to create the control rig. As you can see the body has wires which have bones, and need Ik in the middle of the wire to jiggle it.
2. Is there something I'm missing in terms of understanding how Control rig, blueprint, and metahuman work in unreal?
3. What would you guys suggest to achieve this?

Can I add meta head to the 'skeletal mesh' of the body?

[coral fossil]

hello, can someone help me ?
I've been wondering how to fix the leg deformety in here

[inner rain]

This is too silent for such a crowded server.

[green mural]

how can I give a metahuman a default idle animation?

[warm fossil]

Have you tried retargeting from abpmanny

(I have no idea)

[fluid wasp]

GPU memory corruption. Your GPU getting too hot. Make sure your on latest GPU driver if custom PC. Manage what applications you have open in task manager. If not. Download lowest metahuman resolution. The best scenes which work often comprise of one metahuman. Because that's all lower spec PC's can handle.

[coral fossil]

Anyone?

[azure moat]

Hi, I had a question about Maya UE RBF nodes that I posted on anim, but maybe this is a better place - #animation message
I need information on how these nodes work, any sort of documentation. Theoretically I could work it out on my own but the output from poseWrangler seems slightly different than Metahumans setup.

[fresh dragon]

Are metahumans actually game ready or right now are they only really used for renders?

[eager coral]

The Morph Target Slider in custom Metahuman is not showing any effect. Can you help me determine the reason ?

[inner rain]

In editor itself or in runtime viewport?
For run time viewport you'd have to enable the morph in the event graph or construction graph via blueprint.
Just trying to help, i'm new to this. But people are just not answering here.
If not showing in editor itself that might be an import or fbx version issue?

[fathom galleon]

why is my shading all wrong? I believe it's related to normals?

disabled the normals.. still the same issue.. it's probably the lighting.. but why?

[wind hull]

does anyone know how to optimize
MetaHuman LODs (hair) for VR ?

Please can someone help me 🙏 🙂

[mossy pecan]

Does anyone else see these really bad shadows on MHs from Lumen?

Seems to only happen from Lumen GI. If you add some lights close to the model, they go away

[swift socket]

Hello there, I am having an issue aligning my Metahuman’s face animation with the body animation. The animations were recorded using the Take Recorder, a motion capture suit, and the LiveLink mobile application. This left me with 2 animation files for my metahuman’s face and body.

When I look at the metahuman, the body and head are aligned.

If I attach the animation to my metahuman bp, the head stays right where it should. Note there are no facial expressions, as this is a part of the facial animation.

When I add the related face animation to the MH bp, The whole head component shifts over, then when the 2 animations play, I am left with a head that is floating in front of the body until the body starts to move, and from there the head’s movement get wacky.

I followed some instructions from this article (https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/metahuman-to-character-body-attach-issue-solved/772666) where the user, instead of attaching the head to a socket on the body, a cube is created, scaled down, and then placed at the bone socket. After this, the head component is made a child of the cube component and adjusted. The video in this user’s article seems to have a similar issue to mine, so I assumed this solution would work, but it did not.

I have tried several workarounds; making the socket from the body to the head directly and simply trying to key (in a level sequence) the head and body in the correct starting location of a shot.

I have some screenshots and screen recordings if anyone wants to see them. They can be found in this G-Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hdwtlVqtWl27fMGRgXvpbdd7HKMiQcNc?usp=share_link

Thanks

[simple forge]

Check first that you are using a fresh metahuman in sequencer and you are working with a new sequence. Sometimes the face does not work cause its still someone pulling from the live link blueprint. If the head is floating around from the body, open up the animation (duplicate it first for safety) then in the animation file, go to asset, remove all bone tracks. You will lose the head movement from UE Live link, and instead will get head movement from the body animation.

[swift socket]

@simple forge I will try this out. Thanks for the advice, big fan of your work!

[little apex]

Dear Community,
I have published an easy tutorial to Retarget Body+Face to a MetaHuman in #unreal #retargeting animation https://youtu.be/8yhPieOQqQ8

[drowsy anvil]

Probably paid

[little apex]

Nope; I am a self taught Creative Technologist. And I found my way kind a hard throughout the years about learning new skills as So Few People really offered me a real hand about overcoming an obstacle along the learning curve. So as I find a solution to my concerns about any relevant topic; I release a tutorial. I have ZERO sponsorship nor I seek 🙂 So enjoy this anyone who needs ✌🏼

[drowsy anvil]

Do you know how to create dust particles from chaos destruction

[little apex]

Unfortunately Don’t 🤷🏻‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️

[swift socket]

This worked! oh my gosh you really are a wizard! Thank you so much. If you don't make a video on it, I will !

[sudden berry]

Dust? You should add Niagara , here is a great tutorial , part 2 is the Niagara part : https://youtu.be/kHOw73Fbc4g ; https://youtu.be/sAiwbXXf6-g

[drowsy anvil]

Thanks

[swift socket]

@simple forge Okay, so I believe a new issue has happened (related to the last issues). I removed the bone tracking from my face animation and successfully added it to my BP in the sequence. Now, the head rotation does not show in the sequence. I can open the body animation, and see the head rotation work perfectly. Here is a video for my details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yXgBsYFIqUmktEs3D1BYyb8x6cuCy4sz/view?usp=share_link

[buoyant stump]

Hello everybody! I have a curious problem and am wondering if anyone here knows the solution. I have an animation (facial and body) in iClone and I want to transfer it on my metahuman. Trouble is when I use the Take recorder and try to record the motion that way. When I setup LiveLink as source for Take recorder, it works. But when I switch it for the metahun, unreal freezes right after recording starts. Then it depletes any available RAM and crashes. I have checked only the face part of recorder properties, but it did not help. I am using latest UE, latest iClone with all their plugins and custom BP and everything. But still no luck. Any help would be deeply appreciated. Thank you!

[buoyant stump]

Well as it turns out, the bug must be in UE 5.1.1 because it works in UE 5.0.3... I'm done for today.

If there is some developer from the Epic, I will be more than happy to share this issue with them. It is very annoying. Thank you.

[simple forge]

ok so you are saying the head rotation from the body is not working?

[mossy pecan]

Bumping this. I'm getting this in any level that uses a directional light and a skylight with Lumen. Anyone else seeing this?

[swift socket]

Yeah, if you check out the video I linked, the body animation shows the head rotation fine but once it is set on the BP all head rotation stops.

[simple forge]

Again, make sure you are using a fresh metahuman that was not used for recording or streaming in any live link data. Check the anim blueprint for both the body and face in the details panel with the MH in sequencer.

[drowsy anvil]

How to attach items in bones

Equipment and other items

https://youtu.be/K_xQS7vMrdE

Using take recorder makes a duplicate face

Am I doing correct

Should I record the live link and not the face

[harsh idol]

Can I transfer the metahuman face video from my Android phone to the game engine as an animation? Or is it just an iphone?

[swift socket]

First, I really appreciate you helping me. This whole process at every step of the way has been a nightmare. Setting up MH with any mocap is anything but seamless imo.

So I have created a new instance of my MH BP and added it to my sequence. In the MH BP copy, I can choose "Use Animation Blueprint" to work with. When I choose the following anim class the animation works but I get no head rotation;

1. None
2. AnimPreviewInstance
3. AnimSequencerInstance
4. AnimSingleNodeInstance
5. ControlRigLayerInstance

Also, the sequencer is constantly pushing the Animation Mode setting to "Use Custom Mode". For a number of BPs that I choose, the second I move the timeline in the sequencer the setting has been moved back to "Use Custom Mode".

As always, here are some image references: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IOMs1986VaVIYQ3xM7trUSMmDuqNHTIs?usp=share_link

[final jetty]

hey! does anyone have any experience of meteahumans heads popping off the body?

[swift socket]

Currently working on it hahahahah

[swift socket]

Look at the convo I am having above

[final jetty]

haha

does anyone have any experience of posing the metahuman neck?

i feel like whatever i do with the head ik it just looks anatomically wrong

[errant mauve]

I think it should be face_animbp. Have you tried a completely different MH? Meaning not the one in the screenshots. Can be helpful to see if that breaks also, and if it doesn’t go down the settings for it and make sure your existing one mirrors them

also make sure to edit the original bp and not the instance in level

[swift socket]

@errant mauve yeah, I ended up taking Feeding Wolves advice. I reimported from scratch the MH files, then I watched this video: https://youtu.be/YykusK2Tidc. Then I used 2 MH copies. One for recording the mocap and one for adding the animations in sequence. It works great now!

[errant mauve]

This is what I had to do for my face livelink stuff. I have a separate level to record takes and then I put those anims on my real level

Maybe not the same prob but similar

[swift socket]

No, that is the same issue. I am using LiveLink for the face and Xsens/Manus for the mocap. I have my 2 MH bps in the same level though and it worked fine

[errant mauve]

I also notice that the head stuff can happen just randomly and restarting editor fixes haha but making sure the animbp are correct for each part of the MH bp is step 1 100%

[errant mauve]

I lucked into solution bc I had been screwing with changing to anim asset from anim bp and didn’t need MH Queen @simple forge help

Literally last night lol

[swift socket]

My bp has LOD 0-1 hair grooms and sometimes they can get a bit squirmy, by just highlighting them it resets the position.

[errant mauve]

So I use showflag.forcelod 0 for that but it taxes the system

[swift socket]

I know ahhahah FW on this Discord actually talking to people is insane. I have never worked with any of this tech so there is a lot to understand let alone implement. What I find wild is that sooo many people have the same issues with MH. I am glad I figured it out.

[errant mauve]

Yeah it’s released but still feels like it’s beta. Control rig too

[errant mauve]

so with metahumans in cinematics i think some of the jank can come from unreal drawing thumbnails for your frames when you zoom inand out of a shot's itmeline. you can sort of fix by right clicking and have it draw only one thumbnail (or none)

[haughty hedge]

Any insight to why theres that distortion during the camera rotation? Only thing I could thing of was motion blur but thats not it. It happens as they are walking as well. I've toyed with the LOD's and i dont think thats the issue either. I mean, I only have a 3060. hopefully thats not it.

[drowsy anvil]

Any good workflow to attach physics clothing

[buoyant stump]

There are several ways. I tested uDraper (paid) and it worked great. Though I did not used it in production in the end. Not because of the addon, it was abandoned by client. You could have some nice results even with Chaos, but I dont know about multiple garments working together. But for a skirt of stuff like that it should work great. There are several tutorial on youtube for that.

[drowsy anvil]

link please .. all i need is the workflow ...

making skin clothes looks bad

[buoyant stump]

https://udraper.com works great, but it is paid addon

[buoyant stump]

Start with this and move on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRodVZKuM6I

[drowsy anvil]

nice sales pitch

[buoyant stump]

I am not in any way affiliated with udraper. I just tested it for a month and it gave me the resulst. There is always a free way, which you can find it the video. Sorry if you think I am trying to sell you anything. It is not that.

[buoyant stump]

Oh my bad, I did not realise the video is using udraper as well. Check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12k1gs65tlA

[drowsy anvil]

Np

[cold phoenix]

ok i need some help

my metahuman's broken

adding it out of the box, it'll be straight up broken cuz of a bad cast node from the ARKit face thing

removing the cast node, the metahuman technically works

but none of the materials are there

they're all grey

how do i fix this?

[drowsy anvil]

Metahuman import ask this

[errant mauve]

You can safely ignore for now

[errant mauve]

What version are you using? This doesn’t make sense, 5.1 works out of the box for me

[cold phoenix]

5.1.1

[errant mauve]

Try whole new MH

And diff project

[cold phoenix]

the hell is the point in that if i need it in my project?

and i need a specific MH?

[errant mauve]

?? Just trying to troubleshoot bro. You might have clicked a setting/overwritten a file

So try brand new imported MH in new proj to find out if the problem is your MH bp

[cold phoenix]

i tried to import another MH in the same project and same issues

so i'll try diff project

[errant mauve]

Export brand new Mh too from creator, literally anything you haven’t downloaded yet

[random shoal]

Hey guys so I'm working on making a game with metahumans and I converted a mixamo animation to the unreal mannequin and the meta human rigs all play out of sync. Does anyone know what I should do to fix it?

[random shoal]

I think ive had that issue before. I forget what it was for me but I know theres some plug ins you should double check that need to be installed and I had to change some of the blueprints. Did you import it from Bridge or download it from the MH creator?

I can try and see if I cant recreate the issue when I get chance

[buoyant stump]

Helle eveyrone! Can anybody point me to direction where I can find solution how to make metahuman look into camera in the sequencer? I have some animations and I would like to have a switch for eyes to look at camera (or any target fot that matter) and controll it via sequncer. I dont do games, most of my work is cinematic or rendering. I did try the ARKit solution, but that of course does not work in the sequencer. Any help would be deeply appreciated. I am using 5.1.1. Thank you!

[cold phoenix]

i imported it from bridge

but also FINALLY some progress! so it could be plugins???

[cold phoenix]

@random shoalwhat are the plugins?

[sudden berry]

https://youtu.be/p4cX4oEvhRA , you can bake the constraints to key frames and clean up popping when you switch back

[cold phoenix]

......

[random shoal]

there should be three. one is called live link, live link control rig, apple arkit face support

so if you import a metahuman you should get three errors that pop up including some missing project settings. in the error box just hit the 'enable missing' buttons and you should be good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEhSX04mxOY

This is the tutorial I followed the first time I did it

[cold phoenix]

that's what i did the first time tho

also those plugins are all installed

[random shoal]

ok. Well let me do some snooping around on my end. I'll try to see if I can get the same errors. what version of unreal are you using?

[cold phoenix]

5.1.1

a bunch of errors like this also pop up when i import

all anim related

BP out the box

errors

[random shoal]

oh for those I know a tutorial vid for that. You have to change the blue prints a little hold on I'll find the video

[cold phoenix]

pls gimme

[random shoal]

will do haha

one sec I gotta find it xD

[cold phoenix]

i don't know if fixing these errors would fix the materials too but still

[random shoal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhquaUE5HI this is it. He goes through those warnings. As for the errors I'm not totally sure but i'm gonna try something

you said the materials are just showing up as the default checkerbox?

[cold phoenix]

yes

they show up as the grey checkerbox

[random shoal]

ok. I'm gonna try and recreate it

did you download it as highest quality?

[cold phoenix]

tried diff qualities, same result

[random shoal]

ok interesting

you might wanna try deleting and reinstalling ue5

[cold phoenix]

@random shoalthe video goes through how to fix the skeletal mesh warnings, not the broken cast node

[cold phoenix]

what????????

[random shoal]

yeah its a pain and its a last resort but if need be it might fix whatever is going on. I've had alot of issues where doing that somehow fixed things. I'm not getting it on my end. Could you go on metahuman creator and download that metahuman and link it here and I'll plug it into a project on my end and send it back if it works\

[cold phoenix]

ok lemme do that real quick

[random shoal]

ok cool

[cold phoenix]

to clarify

are you getting the anim errors too?

[random shoal]

Im just getting the skeletal mesh errors right now

[cold phoenix]

bruh

so it's like 3 things broken on my end

there it is

[random shoal]

ok great. I'll plug it into a project and get it working hopefully and just send you the zipped project file and you should be able to migrate it to your project

[cold phoenix]

how would i migrate it to my project? just extract the imported MetaHuman?

[random shoal]

if you right click in the file browser hierarchy theres a button that says migrate. you can also go into the project file and file browser tab and copy and paste the metahuman folder into your project

[cold phoenix]

oh nice!

[random shoal]

yep! I'm launching it in the metahuman real quick so I can plug it into my bridge

[cold phoenix]

@random shoalstatus?

[drowsy anvil]

hello

i created IK rig but its not asking for skeleton to select

and it looks empty

[random shoal]

just got it into unreal. no errors other then the skeletal mesh and the materials are looking good

[cold phoenix]

wtf bro

why me : (

so how can you send over the project

[random shoal]

I'm gonna zip and send it over haha. Everyone gets to have their turn with the errors at some point lol

I may have to send it as a mega.nz file

[cold phoenix]

go ahead

[random shoal]

ok I'm about to send it once it uploads

https://mega.nz/file/y2pCARzD#tjZd7VAarGmx2MKjIuaiAXXWPIjcEsDfINX_l06MAhY

ok try that

[errant mauve]

It’s less like everyone gets a turn and more like everyone has to deal with errors for days on end until you beat them into submission 🤣

[random shoal]

Yeah that’s accurate😂😂😂 theres alot of times where I just neanderthal my way through it😂😂

[errant mauve]

Or google fu thru it

[cold phoenix]

@random shoal downloading now

[random shoal]

Let me know if that works

[cold phoenix]

do i open the project?

i'll open it and migrate

[random shoal]

Open it first to make sure it works then migrate jt

[drowsy anvil]

help me ?

[drowsy anvil]

this

[random shoal]

Then when you migrate it only select the metahuman folder and overwrite it

[random shoal]

Ill take a look in a second im walking my dog right now lol

[drowsy anvil]

thanks

[random shoal]

Yep. I dont know much about unreals ik system but ill see what i can do

[cold phoenix]

@random shoal IT WORKS!

in my project it works!

in yours i don't know wtf happened

this is cursed

[random shoal]

WTF

😂 😂 😂

we're just gonna act like that didnt happen as long as it works in your project lmfao thats horrifying

[cold phoenix]

yeah but how do i force a lower LOD?

[random shoal]

in the metahuman blueprint there is a lod sync

[cold phoenix]

yeah but nothing is changing

[random shoal]

ok hold on

[cold phoenix]

maybe it worked? i'm not sure

[errant mauve]

Showflag.LOD 0

[cold phoenix]

it does not look at all like the LOD's in the creator

[errant mauve]

Change number for desired LOD

[random shoal]

set num LOD to 1 set forced lod to which ever you want it at and set the min lod to how ever many lod's you want try that

[cold phoenix]

i want it to be at LOD 5

[random shoal]

at all times?

[cold phoenix]

yes

[errant mauve]

showflag.lod 5 in console

[cold phoenix]

it was MUCH less detailed in the editor so what's going on?

[errant mauve]

during gameplay idk, maybe kevlar knows

[random shoal]

go in the LOD sync and set min 5 and forced to 5

and the num LOD to 1

[cold phoenix]

alrdy done

[random shoal]

ok

nothing changed?

[errant mauve]

did you compile? your engine scalability settings might change result also

[cold phoenix]

in the editor

see how less detialed it is?

[random shoal]

ok then try going down to 4. it may also be your engine scalability

[cold phoenix]

if i back away the camera it turns into the monster i showed you earlier @random shoal

[random shoal]

yeah that happens when you set it to low

yeah make sure you have the engine scalability to at least medium. I've had that happen before where it deforms when I have it on low

[cold phoenix]

how do i change that

[errant mauve]

FYI we are not epic staff

[random shoal]

top right under settings

[errant mauve]

when you creat ehte IKRig asset it prompts youto choose a skeletal mesh, what did you choose?

[cold phoenix]

dude my scalability was on epic

[errant mauve]

@drowsy anvil

[cold phoenix]

and now when i set it to medium it's recompiling the shaders and the metahuman's freaking out

like it goes to the monster thing in a single frame

[random shoal]

yeah yeah just give it a second

[errant mauve]

welcome to metahumans

[cold phoenix]

he also doesn't look any diff

[random shoal]

lol yeah just let it do its thing and it'll fix

[cold phoenix]

still like this

[cold phoenix]

alr

i need this metahuman for the main menu and for just some cutscenes so i'm not exactly asking for much here lmao

[random shoal]

lol yeah once its done you just need to play around with the lod settings

[errant mauve]

you should change the LOD setting in the blueprint, not the instance in your level, and then recompile. try deleting existing and dragging the BP out again into world

[cold phoenix]

i wanna force the LOD cuz the game i'm using it for is meant to have a whole nostalgia trope and all and tbh it looks good at htat LOD

[cold phoenix]

yeah dude i've been changing the one in the BP.........

[errant mauve]

and you def recompiled?

[cold phoenix]

yes

[errant mauve]

try deleting and dragging out

[cold phoenix]

while shaders are preparing again??

[random shoal]

also try building the scene

[errant mauve]

no

[cold phoenix]

ok i did and nothing changed

[cold phoenix]

wdym

[random shoal]

top left there is a menu and one of the options is build. click that and build all. I would wait till its done compiling the shaders because you can crash the engine due to having too many processes going on

[errant mauve]

if shaders are compiling you stop everything and wait to finish

[cold phoenix]

ok i'll wait

[random shoal]

yeah. honestly when compiling thats a good time to get up and take a break for a bit that way your not tempted to try something and cause crashes and more issues

[cold phoenix]

does the player have to wait for it to prepare shaders in the final product when the metahuman is present?

or do i just have to do this cuz it's the first time i'm doing it in the engine?

[errant mauve]

do you play call of duty? then yes

if not, then no

[drowsy anvil]

yes

[cold phoenix]

what?

[drowsy anvil]

it prompts nothing thats the issue

[errant mauve]

it was a joke. cod recompiles shaders in front of player often

[cold phoenix]

oh yes it does lmao

[random shoal]

lol pretty much. when you package the game it'll cook, build and compile everything and then its good to go

[cold phoenix]

oh that's lovely

i was worried this long ass wait would happen to the player

you're prob wondering by now why i chose to use a metahuman if i just force a low detail LOD anyways

[errant mauve]

you should be using default ue5 mannequin to prototype, but no harm in having fun with MH

[cold phoenix]

well:
the protagonist is meant to be based on me, and the metahuman is based off a scan of me and was done with mesh to metahuman
it's an easy way to get a free model that looks exactly like me with built in downscaling options, so why not?

i also am not a modeller, got no idea how to make models so it's much easier all around

[errant mauve]

restart editor? idk man that sucks. you sure a skeletal mesh exists in your project?

[errant mauve]

this is easy? lol

[cold phoenix]

it was easy to make the model

it's making it work that's hard lmao

[drowsy anvil]

yes both meatahuman and mixamo

[cold phoenix]

this thing breaks for no reason

[errant mauve]

what version?

[random shoal]

@cold phoenix you should look into blender. its amazing for modeling

[errant mauve]

of ue

[cold phoenix]

hope it doesn't break on me when i gotta animate it for cutscenes

[drowsy anvil]

5.2

use to work before

[cold phoenix]

i know what blender is but i am not gonna go learn how to use blender which will take ages

i'm using blender for my project already for bones and stuff if needed

but none of the models used, i'll make

[errant mauve]

yeah i mean thats still in preview, stuff could break all the time. cliche but thats what it is. you should try to open a 5.1 project and see if it still screws with you

[cold phoenix]

project is being made completely free and all assets are either made by me (if i can) or are taken from people that freely share their work and allow it to be credited

[errant mauve]

it will

[cold phoenix]

i think it's a cool way to make my game ngl

[errant mauve]

struggle withn it every day

[cold phoenix]

finding ways to do everything without spending a penny

[random shoal]

fair enough. Just be careful using prefab models. Make sure theyre licensed for free (BC-00 I believe)

[cold phoenix]

sketchfab tells you

so dw

i got that covered

[random shoal]

cool cool

[cold phoenix]

the only real issue is finding GOOD free stuff

the textures are the absolute easiest part to do

i literally can draw them myself if i need to

otherwise i can just get them from that AI materials website or textures.com

mixamo covers a lot of the animation and models

[random shoal]

I use substance designer and painter for all that. textures.com is amazing lol

[cold phoenix]

textures.com has nearly no free stuff by default

but you see they give you a bunch of preview images for free

all i gotta do is download those and downscale them to 128x128

bam, Retro style textures completely free

EASY

[drowsy anvil]

i can open 5.2 project in 5.1 ?

[cold phoenix]

i mean look at this wall and floor

[random shoal]

If you wanna get a lil risky you can use the substance plug in xD download some substance files from substance share and you can modify the settings

[errant mauve]

just try in new project in 5.1

but yes you can if needed

[random shoal]

@drowsy anvil if you started a project in 5.1 I wouldnt jump around between engines. Im not sure how stable 5.2 is. I had to go in and download abunch of stuff in visual studios to get it to package my game. I'd be careful with jumping into the latest build

[errant mauve]

he started in 5.2

but he shouldnt do the reverse anyway

[random shoal]

yeah no

[errant mauve]

thats why i told him to make new project in 5.1 to see if problem persists

[random shoal]

yeah I've had issues with 5.2 acting weird lol

[errant mauve]

yeah its not stable

[random shoal]

exactly. I just updated to windows 11 and had issues packaging and had to go into visual studios and download windows 10 suppports and some other stuff

[cold phoenix]

@random shoal@errant mauveso

they compiled

engine scalability is on medium

and it still does not look like the editor's LOD

it definetely is changing LOD

cuz i set it to 8 and it looks less detailed

but still nowhere near as less detailed as it should be

this is LOD 8

[random shoal]

the higher the lod the less detailed. 0 is highest detail

so you should try like 3 or 4

[cold phoenix]

yes dude i know that

but i want it to look like LOD 5 from the editor

that was the one i liked most

even at LOD 8 it looks nothing like LOD 8 in the editor

it looks in general higher detail than in the editor

well, idk what to do

[errant mauve]

It looks like the right polycount

You might want to try changing the lighting in the mh creator

Bc the normal map is providing the detail you seem to loathe and changing the lighting in the creator will give you a better idea of what it actually looks like in diff lighting scenarios

Instead of the one where it’s full blown out like you showed us

[cold phoenix]

alr cool i'll keep it at LOD 5 then

any higher and the fingers become smushed together

and i don't want it like that

so i guess i'm good to go

expect me to come back complaining about something else breaking ofc

[random shoal]

you should try 4 just see how it looks

[drowsy anvil]

anyone facing retargeting issue ?

IK_RIG is not asking for target

[drowsy anvil]

Better go back to 5.0

[buoyant stump]

So nobody knows solution for eyes tracking target?

[errant mauve]

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/mJGj/unreal-engine-ue5-techanimtip-1-dynamic-eyes-look-at-target

[fresh dragon]

Hi, in the City Sample project the documentation says they used metahumans straight from the metahuman builder, but in the project there one is using a skeletal mesh which has the whole body merged into one mesh and then a face mesh which already has eyelashes attached to it instead of a groom asset that comes with the metahuman when you import it, the actual skeleton is also different which isnt the metahuman_base_skel that comes default when you import the metahuman.. did they merge the skeletal meshes outside unreal then re-import them or is there a way to do this now with metahumans that im missing?

[errant mauve]

they probably had a pipeline for that kind of thing. you can change the skel for metahumans tho in unreal if you need

[fresh dragon]

Can you merge them together like that in unreal?

[errant mauve]

im not familar with how they are merged, haven't opened the city sample project, sorry!

you can bake an animation down to a diff skeleton tho if that's what you are asking?

[buoyant stump]

I did try that, but unfortunatel this method does not work in sequencer but only for direct data from iphone.

[errant mauve]

have you been overriding skeleton/AR rig files?

[errant mauve]

yeah im not sure, haven't had to do this yet

[buoyant stump]

No, can you elaborate please?

[small grotto]

Hi here, wondering if anyone has ever succeed on removing Metahuman’s underwear texture? Needed it to express a swimsuit garment

[wild hazel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_f0qZyOaA

[astral bloom]

Is there any beginner way to animate a metahuman for shooting a weapon, for example? I'm trying to make a fight scene/car chase and I really want a metahuman in there but I can't find anywhere to begin animating them?

[errant mauve]

https://youtu.be/W5ZYUlkaq5s

[errant mauve]

this happened to me when i had played with the arkit developer files by accident. try creating a new project to see if that's the issue.

[toxic depot]

hi, may i ask, does the control rig for metahuman doesn't have an IK setup for arms?

it has an IK setup for the leg, but not the arms

[errant mauve]

it does, you have to enable it from the global_ctrl track

[toxic depot]

ohh, can you kindly guide me through it please?

im still new to unreal

[errant mauve]

did you put your metahuman inside a level sequence?

[toxic depot]

yes

[errant mauve]

go to the control rig for the body

and expand it

its like the first track, then make sure the ik_arms_ctrl or something is checked

and hten boxes will show up on the hands which act asthe ik controls

well, wrists haha

[toxic depot]

ohhhh

[drowsy anvil]

importinig two metahuman give this msg what should i do ?

[toxic depot]

u have the option to switch betweeen ik and fk

thats cool

cant do that in blender

well

hard to do it in blender

[errant mauve]

should be fine... although you are really hte only one who knows what you've changed - are you re-importing from the metahuman creator?

[drowsy anvil]

imported 1 metahuman from quixel bridge

[errant mauve]

okay you should be okay

[drowsy anvil]

next import another metahuman from quixel bridge

what should i click

[errant mauve]

import

[errant mauve]

ask me why it isn't enabled by default

the answer would be whoooo knowwwwwwssss

[drowsy anvil]

now its asking this after clicking import

[errant mauve]

you're good, don't worry abuot DNA stuff im pretty sure you can click any button and it won't matter haha.

[toxic depot]

hey, while im here, do you happen to know if theres a keyboard shortcut for moving things freely without binding it to an axis?

i found about the ctrl + left click/right click/left+right click

but i cant seem to find the shortcut to move it freely

[errant mauve]

i wish. i literally was trying to create an editor plugin for this the other day. if only we had blender grab, blender cursor (for snap to 3d cursor), the shift+a menu, shift_lmb to rotate/scale in increments, and tab pie menu for mode select

i would need to spend a lot of time on it tho and i cant right now

[toxic depot]

aww, so not for now i guess

well thats okay

ill try to make do with whats provided

thanks a lot man

you really helped me out a lot 😄

[errant mauve]

this is my attitude for now

[toxic depot]

ive been trying to find the ik solution for hours in youtube, all it kept pointing me to a bunch of retargetting videos

thanks again 😄

[errant mauve]

figuring this stuff out you need google fu skills at MAX

[toxic depot]

yes you do, but thats the thing, ive been browsing sites after sites for it, none of it mention about the ik option

i was thinking about asking it in the unreal forum, but its not quite alive by what i had seen

i mean when i had trouble with blender back then i always browse the stackexchange, but i cant seem to find one for unreal -,-

[errant mauve]

you need to spend more points in google fu - first result using 'hand ik rig not showing metahuman' is https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwio3drsvcD-AhW3jokEHfgrC-EQFnoECAYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.unrealengine.com%2Ft%2Fmetahuman-hand-ik-controls-cant-be-moved-and-there-isnt-a-handle-to-grab%2F224300&usg=AOvVaw0kqVzOqZqRB1I62CFDk2Pn

well this discord is usually good, sometimes you're shouting into the void - in that case go to forum

[toxic depot]

OMFG, there it is!

LOL

xD

[errant mauve]

hhahaha

[errant mauve]

and to be fair almost every other link from that google search is about retargeting lmao

[toxic depot]

yeah ive used blender for for than a year now, i was starting unreal last few weeks, really helps speed up the learning process

[unique saddle]

is metahuman plugin work in 5.2 ?

[toxic depot]

i mean im still getting used to the blueprint, but its not bad, it looks fun once you've know more about it

[errant mauve]

the plugin meaning the mesh to metahuman?

[errant mauve]

blueprint is the best, so powerful. its like geometry nodes but better, you can do anything

[toxic depot]

yeah lol, it was so frustrating for me, i was like "goddamit theres bunch of advance tutorials, wheres the basic"

[toxic depot]

yeah? i suck when it comes to coding, so learning blueprint is gonna be a while

ive heard people telling me that visual script will be easier if you know how to actually code

but the thing is, idk anything about coding xD

so yeah, thats gonna take some times

but for now i have to learn everything first

i rmb when i used to struggles with blender

but after a few months, after ive gotten used to it

man it shittons of fun

[errant mauve]

do some of the basic stuff on the unreal portal to learn, and then when you have questions about specific nodes go to mathew wadstein's stuff on youtube. he usually lurks in #ue5-general and #blueprint too

[errant mauve]

yes, knowing basic programming logic and variable stuff is definitely a boost but not necessary, just will take more time like you said

[toxic depot]

ohh thanks, ill be sure to keep his channel on standby on my browser

well, among the other youtube channel

look at my tab bruh

xD

ill keep him on standby, besides dozen other youtube channels

oohhhh

he explains what every single blueprint does

shiet man, thats so damn useful

thanks man, i really fking appreciated it

ive been trying to find a channel that does that

and now i do

[errant mauve]

Yes and provides a use case as example. Your only struggle now is figuring out what node you need in any given situation 😂

[toxic depot]

thats so damn useful!!

tytytytytytyty

[errant mauve]

np np

[drowsy anvil]

how to fix the hand not matching

[errant mauve]

you need to match hte reference pose better

the T pose

the hand rotation is likely not the same as the mixamo one

[simple forge]

try turning off IK

[drowsy anvil]

correct one is t pose one is A pose

thanks fixed

[errant mauve]

np the closer you get to the ref pose the better the retargeted anim will be but sometimes its not 1:1 haha

[drowsy anvil]

next issue

cant delete the old mess up retargeter

reference links

is there force delete or something

[errant mauve]

if you're not using it you can delete

just make sure you're all saved on anything you are ACTUALLY using

but be 100% you're not using anywhere

[drowsy anvil]

its not going away

[errant mauve]

go to file and click save all then try again

[drowsy anvil]

not going away

[errant mauve]

ive never seen that, but if you're not using it just let it live 😄

if it aint breaking anything but it wants to break the project if you delete keep it haha

[toxic depot]

ohh, one more question, does metahuman use hair particle for the hair?
i wanted to make a new variation of hairstyle since the options for metahuman is very limited.
if i make hair in blender using the hair particle system, will that impact the performances?

i mean i am running this on rtx 3060, so i dont really mind going heavy

but if theres a 100 people on the scene with the custom hair particle, than i gotta say, that worries me lol

[drowsy anvil]

any lip sync free plugins ?

from audio

[toxic depot]

is it okay if i use blender hair particle? im not sure if metahuman use hair cards on texture, or they actually use an actual hair particle for their hair

[errant mauve]

not sure - i've been using my iphone livelink for facial animation until metahuman animator comes out

[drowsy anvil]

should i record the mesh or the livelink ?

best workflow

recording the face seems to create a clone mesh

[errant mauve]

https://youtu.be/ODkhcRvcaso

[toxic depot]

yeah i watched a few tutorial on it a few days ago, but i was wondering if it will impact performances that heavily?

in blender, it sure did

[errant mauve]

put a dummy MH in sequencer, activate livelink for face on it and record using sequencer, then save out the facial animation and add to your to your actual MH in animation track in sequencer

[toxic depot]

but im not sure if its the same in unreal

[errant mauve]

watch that one he seems to have a good workflow. i can't speak for blender's performance (always an issue) but grooms are usually not a huge performance hit in ue

[toxic depot]

also, do you happen to know if metahuman used hair particle?

i tried entering the wireframe mode, but the hair would dissappear lol

[errant mauve]

they use a custom physics simulation and call hair "grooms" which i believe at their core are a particle sim but i'm not sure

its strand based

that guy goes over the whole thing