metahumans

[waxen compass]

so turns out the problem was from masterpose

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anyways any help please

[waxen compass]

fixed it nvm

[north glacier]

looking good 🙂 you use the import method from youtube?

[waxen compass]

i did

[north glacier]

clothing is much easier than they say

lol

[north glacier]

you should try and enabling a weight on those pants and cloth physics

so they dont overlap

[waxen compass]

hmm

i dont really know what you are talking about

[waxen compass]

first time making pants with blender cloth simulation

[north glacier]

looking good 🙂

its a pain in the ass

ive been doing this for like a hour

trying to get the seems correct

[waxen compass]

it is

[north glacier]

i love this plugin

[waxen compass]

increase the friction

[north glacier]

friction you say?

[waxen compass]

for the character model

[north glacier]

okay 🙂

seems keep messing up >_<

[waxen compass]

seems must not overlap with the mesh

oh wait

they dont

how much did u set the friction for?

[north glacier]

5

[waxen compass]

5 is the default right?

[north glacier]

yeah

[waxen compass]

i do not own the plugin but i think there must be a setting for tension i think

i dont know the correct term

[north glacier]

all the prams

[waxen compass]

put shrink to 0

it shrinks the cloth

which in turn doesnt connect the seem

[north glacier]

hmm

not much work flow on youtube

OH

LOL

i had to increase the scale

xD

much better

[waxen compass]

that look nice

[north glacier]

now i can put it together

[waxen compass]

bro

you can make the mesh look even better

if u do some cuts you know

something like this

makes the model look better

and solidify

[north glacier]

i just merged it together

one solid collision

oh your talking clothing

ill try that now

im a blender noob, learning this off the rip 😛

[barren hearth]

Does anyone know the easiest process I should follow to add additional bones to metahumans ?

[waxen compass]

weapon bones?!

you add sockets

if you are a beginner i would suggest learning more about sockets

[barren hearth]

Hi Y962al , thank you, basically I'm starting to put animations together for metahumans including sword/shield animations, thought I would start with an animation pack, purchased the pack and found to re-target the animations in the pack to the metahuman 2x weapon bones were required. So I should be able to create sockets within UE for the metahuman instead of bones and retarget weapon and shield to the sockets? Guides I'm following are below except using metahumans, appreciate your help. Retargeting : https://youtu.be/4-HmIAlv1pM
Add weapon bones : https://youtu.be/NePNKmBS3TY
Replacing animations : https://youtu.be/eGvpX8eUr4A

[north glacier]

bro you just make a socket, move weapon to socket, play anim montage and add the other anims to bp lol you are over thinking this.

You just retarget the anim to metahuman by editing the spine and adding pose

[barren hearth]

Thanks mate! will give that process a crack 👍

[barren hearth]

Hey Atomik , created the sockets then I found you cannot set a ‘socket’ as a target in retarget manager ?

[waxen compass]

nathan

i think you are a beginner on the sockets and all

i highly suggest to learn about them

they are easy to use

and you dont need to retarget them

[waxen compass]

check this out @north glacier

[north glacier]

looks good bud 🙂

i gave up lol ill do it some other time or pay someone

[waxen compass]

you have the cloth plugin and you give up?!

[north glacier]

lol

[waxen compass]

what is your problem i might help

[north glacier]

I dont feel like doing full detailing

[waxen compass]

detailings?

[north glacier]

example something like this i need to make

[waxen compass]

i was just like you yesterday when i first began experimenting with it

then i did the tanktop

and boom it all clicked

[north glacier]

full details like that

but more realistic

[waxen compass]

this is hard

[north glacier]

yeah]

[waxen compass]

this is modeling not cloth simulation

but you certainly can do something similar, with cloth simulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UHItNlzqZw

look at this

[north glacier]

well you can model it in blender, and add pieces as cloth

[waxen compass]

send me your women mesh and i will try to make a top

[north glacier]

your crazy

[waxen compass]

nah its easy

[north glacier]

if you really want too

lol

[waxen compass]

easier than making a full on shirt

i will try to make a jacket

[north glacier]

let me rar it up

you want the sweater mesh too?

[waxen compass]

no no just the bare model

like the top

i still dont know how to make pants with cloth simulation without making it still to the character legs

essentially making leggings

[north glacier]

bone hierarchy is the easy part lol

im just not good at this 😦

[waxen compass]

oh your problem is rigging?

[north glacier]

nooo

just making clothing in general im a coder

not a modeler 😛

[waxen compass]

i am one too but i try to generalize more

[north glacier]

look at dms

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i essentially developed a little bit of modelling skils back when i first started to develop small scale games

[north glacier]

i used to be able to 3d model back in 2007 - 2013 when battlefield 1942 and cod4 where a thing still

[waxen compass]

somewhat working

making a tshirt woulg have been far better

yeah it would

@north glacier

[north glacier]

damn man your actually really good at this 🙂

[waxen compass]

working on the female mesh is hard

and the A pose doesnt really help

a t pose is much better

[plain haven]

Oh boy.

[waxen compass]

?

[north glacier]

that sucks no wonder why

[plain haven]

I'd like to argue T pose is much more difficult to make cloth pieces for.

[north glacier]

something is just weird with meta humans female base pose

[waxen compass]

you have more space for sewing

[plain haven]

For upper body, probably. Not so much with lower body.

[waxen compass]

lower body wont be a difference

@north glacier

if u have a strong computer i will send you the blender file and you compute it with better quality

[north glacier]

okay 🙂

i can upscale it, i got a nasa pc

[waxen compass]

😋

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@plain haven can you help my man?

[north glacier]

i fixed that issue 😛

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oh mb

[north glacier]

that was IK

IK rig weas broken for anims. i had to redo my anim BP

[plain haven]

No, I actually not working with metahumans, in any serious capacity. 😛

[north glacier]

why you hate the metas?

[waxen compass]

they are some serious work tbh

[north glacier]

truth

[plain haven]

Because there's no option to make more "realistic anime" faces (in the style of Square Enix Visual Works)

[north glacier]

Ohhh damn

you cant import the head, and morph target it?

[plain haven]

wdym? Import the mesh to MHC?

[north glacier]

Square Visual Works, i thought it was a program but its a studio mybad

[plain haven]

Oh lol

[north glacier]

thats your end game eh?

you wanna work for them 🙂 awesome goal ngl.

[plain haven]

Eh, not really tbh, I just wanted to have something that resembles realistic anime characters akin to their renders.

[waxen compass]

this looks nice

[maiden pebble]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Aidan#4867 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[inland marlin]

@north glacier hi atomik . How did you import Metahuman to blender ? Is it a simple obj or a FBX ? I want to know how to successfully import Metahuman to blender then from their I can take it to MD . Would appreciate

[north glacier]

export the body mesh and head from ue

dont use export from bridge

[inland marlin]

I am looking for an FBX export

Export from bridge ?

[north glacier]

you right clikc and export in ue

f_tal_nrw_body

or what ever your chars body name is

[inland marlin]

But I use bridge to export Metahuman to UE5 ?

[north glacier]

yeah

wierd how it works

[inland marlin]

U want me to manually export it to UE5

[north glacier]

No no

import meta human, export f_tal_nrw_body as fbx

[inland marlin]

Oh where can I find this ?

Is it just a body ? Or face included ?

[north glacier]

just the body is included

fazce mesh is seperate

[inland marlin]

Will that also export animation ? I have seen people importing into blender and bones are flipped or missing or displaced .

[north glacier]

open up your meta humans bp, look for body, then click go to

thats because they are not importing correctly

i think its -z, x, y

i cant remember

[inland marlin]

Let's say I animated my Metahuman with different key poses . Now I want to export them to MD but via blender .

[north glacier]

the meta might be messed up if you do to much when it comes to that. You need to find a way to export the mesh with morphs.

you need the rigs setting that says

hold on let me open ue

[inland marlin]

Yes pls

[north glacier]

wait the body has no morphs

so your good

only the faced

[inland marlin]

Ohk . So what about morphs ? How to export them to blender ? With bones proper

[north glacier]

i got my anims working 100% 🙂

hold on

[inland marlin]

So I can pose them or animate them in blender and then export them to MD . Coz I just exported Metahuman to Marvelous designer and it was upside down with skeletal mesh on thr floot

Floor

I can animate in UE5 won't be a problem if needed

[north glacier]

the only issue with this export

is the spine becomes messed up

[inland marlin]

Ah yeah .

Spine ?

[north glacier]

but i delete it, do auto rig pro, and reimport to ue and then retarget to meta

the armature

[inland marlin]

But that won't be the native armature

[north glacier]

spine i meant armature.

it dont matter

[inland marlin]

I want to use Metahumans armature . U know . For posing

[north glacier]

you can retarget any anim onto the meta

Ohh then you 100% have to use bridge

you need to export to maya

[inland marlin]

Ah , maya

[north glacier]

then export from maya to blender

[inland marlin]

Oh , ohk

I guess someone referred me to maya

Before for marvelous

Btw have u tried posing Metahumans manually ?

[north glacier]

yeah

[inland marlin]

Just want to ask . This is a major hurdle I have

[north glacier]

i tried to do it for daz

[inland marlin]

No for Metahuman I mean

[north glacier]

and the arms end up super stretchy

Oh no

[inland marlin]

Have u tried posing Metahumans in UE5 using the Control rig ?

[north glacier]

I use the control rig for other things like procedural facial expressions

[inland marlin]

When I try it the legs are stretchy , it's impossible to animate them becoz they dnt stay in proportion . I have disabled stretch but the bones are still unstable .

I wonder how one can animate them in UE5

Without motion cap data . I mean just a walk cycle unknow .

[north glacier]

this is why i bought every known anim pack out there and key framed each anim to my liking.

lol

if you export the meta human pose

you might gets some luck out of that

[inland marlin]

The only bone which is the pain in the ass right now and not respecting stretch disabled in Metahuman control rig is the ball_ik .

[north glacier]

well UE4 mannny pose

[inland marlin]

No I want to use Metahumans as base for Character comcept art

[north glacier]

no i know

but its impossible to do.

the only way is retargeting or using motion capture.

[inland marlin]

Yeah the legs and limbs are super stretchy I dnt know why . It's impossible to move them u know .

[north glacier]

in ue?

or blender?

[inland marlin]

In UE

[north glacier]

you are not copying the code correctly.

[inland marlin]

U can try them urself . Try switching to IK in the sequencer and move the legs using control rig . They are stretchy

[north glacier]

master pose needs to be added to everything you do for metas

every functionality you see in the left needs to be added to everything you do or it breaks.

except LL

[inland marlin]

Oh no I am just trying use Metahuman with basic functionality . Haven't used Blue print before .

[north glacier]

Ahhh

[inland marlin]

I m only trying to pose and animate it in ue

[north glacier]

best option for you is to animate ue4 manny, and retarget aznims to meta

[inland marlin]

I have noticed that it's an issue but so far no one has addressed coz everyone has been using mocaps u know . So they never noticed atleast never bothered them .

Animate UE4 Manny ?

[north glacier]

Yeah

create the animation sequence with it

then retaget the anim to the meta

or your looking for real time?

[inland marlin]

And retarget to meta? Hmm that's a logical turnaround . So you mean I can key down the poses I want and then retarget them to meta ? Seems fair 😁

[north glacier]

in that case you need maya.

Yeah

that works well tbh

LOL

[inland marlin]

Yeah I mean how to do that ? U want me to animate in UE5 ?

Or maya ? Coz right now I will do anything to come out from this hole inhave been into lol

[north glacier]

almost all of these are key framed

[inland marlin]

So can I animate Metahuman in maya ? And then use the animation to retarget mine in UE5?

Seems cool .

[north glacier]

yeah

its a bullshit method

but it works

LOL

[inland marlin]

Yeah that's exactly what I want , except just basic key poses for character convept art u know .

[north glacier]

remember tho

look at the way my spine is set up

that is key 😉

[inland marlin]

Where do you animate ur Metahuman ?

[north glacier]

i dont

i buy packs

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/assets?count=20&keywords=mocap&sortBy=relevancy&sortDir=DESC&start=0

[inland marlin]

Ahh I see . I will buy some then .

[north glacier]

the t pose ones are easy to get to a A pose

let me find the conversion if you do

[inland marlin]

What the hell lol . So good .

[north glacier]

https://mocaponline.com/blogs/mocap-news/a-pose-or-t-pose-conversion-ue4-retarget-manager

this took me weeks to understand all of this

lol

[inland marlin]

So what can I do now ? . For my workflow . I just want basic key pose animations for my Metahuman . Since I am a concept artist I am new to UE5 but familiar with it a bit .
.
.
I want to create an animation for key poses like standing , sitting , punching , jumping so I can scrub them into sequencer and use it for my Concept art character bases . Since Metahumans look so good u know .

[north glacier]

I am sorry but

i have no idea how to use a sequencer.

[inland marlin]

Since I can't pose them correctly in unreal engine . Right now .

[north glacier]

my meta is for an actual game

lol

[inland marlin]

Oh lol . Unreal engine sequencer . ? U haven't used it ? . Ah I guess u dnt do animation in ue

[north glacier]

Naw i know anim BP tho.

and how to make anims work

[inland marlin]

But let's say I animated my Metahuman in maya . Can I then export those animation with basic keyed poses to unreal engine ?

[north glacier]

i did this the other day

#metahumans message

thats ALL key framed.

[inland marlin]

Ah yes I saw that

Where did you animate it ?

[north glacier]

inside the anim bp

[inland marlin]

Wait , of you can animate in Blue print then u can also pose in blueprint ?

[north glacier]

Yeah

i can set poses with a enum

call the enum to what ever i say for it to do

[inland marlin]

Oh. Btw just let me know how can I export an animation from maya Metahuman to Unreal Metahuman

[north glacier]

Okay

Open up stand alone bridge.

the app not the one inside ue

[inland marlin]

Okay . And

[north glacier]

hold on let me ss so you dont f this up

[inland marlin]

Okay yes i have it

[north glacier]

go to export settings

[inland marlin]

The standalone one .

Yes

[inland marlin]

And export as UA + source asset right ?

[north glacier]

yupp

then export to maya

from here you would need to delete the facial rig

and thewn you can use the meta body with anims

[inland marlin]

Ah , let say I did that becoz their are tonnes of tuts out their for doing that . Let's say I have my Metahuman in maya . And I also animated it lets say with key poses which I need . Now I want to export this animation to Metahuman in UE 5 . How to do that .

[north glacier]

The same way you would with a basic ue4 body rig.

[inland marlin]

Yeah Metahuman plugin needs to be enabled I am aware of those hinggs . Just a little closer u know hahah . How to export those animations aka keyed poses in my case to UE5 Metahuman

[north glacier]

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

wait wrong one

[inland marlin]

Haha would love the Metahuman one but if the workflow is same then no problemo .

[north glacier]

Wait

OHH

oops

OKAy

[inland marlin]

If that's possible then I dnt need to pose in UE5.

[north glacier]

to get a keyframed animed

sorry man

i forgot to say this.

click the record button

and when the clip is done end it

😛

the key frame is NOW the base animation.

[inland marlin]

Yeah but I want to export animation frommaya to UE 5

[north glacier]

use tut above for thaty

says ue4, but same principles apply.

[inland marlin]

Will that work for Metahuman ?

[north glacier]

i did it once before so it should

[inland marlin]

So what files are animations assigned to Metahumans ? Is it as easy as applying third person animation template to UE4 mannequin?

[north glacier]

none.

[inland marlin]

Ohk will watch that haha lol. I guess I would have to use Maya if I dnt want a clunky result .

[north glacier]

and yeah

just try it all out.

if you have an issue just pm me

its a lot to absorb. lol

[inland marlin]

Btw never use the sequencer coz omg can't hand animate Metahuman in sequencer using control rig . The stretch was make me to pull my hairs lol .

Yeah sure will do ☺️ . Thank you so much . U gave me a good bypass workflow. Thank you so much

[north glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LQvCO-fuH0&ab_channel=FracturedFantasy

this guy knows his shit

taught me everything.

[inland marlin]

Yeah that's the stuff I am interested in . I want to use Metahumans for concept art unknow . Like oh man . I dnt have a Mocap solution so I can't pursue full blown filmmaking but I can still tell stories in still frmaes in comic bookish shots u know .

And for that I want to learn Metahumans . I am currently using DAz but meh Metahumans are another level .

[north glacier]

Well you can import anims from daz

retarget to ue4 skel

then retarget to meta

lol

[inland marlin]

@north glacier I knew you would recommend me his channel coz before this I was followimh his tut on exporting nike shoes to Metahuman lol .

[north glacier]

his clothing method is wack tho

[inland marlin]

Show me lol

I knew that where you learned the export to blender workflow lol

[north glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpc4oNzSXc&t=2390s&ab_channel=FracturedFantasy

[inland marlin]

Oh man I have been avoiding this for so far now . Coz I really wanted to get into clothing but after fixing my rig u know . But I will try this bypass method from maya to retarget in mannequin then Metahuman

[north glacier]

Just wait for the next meta update.

they will add some kind of fix for this nonsense.

[inland marlin]

I have created some basic clothes in MD and have bough so many good quality MD files which I can't wait to try on my Metahumans u know .

[north glacier]

yupp

i just got a bunch of packs on sale

[inland marlin]

I hope so they fix it coz it's a pain in the ass . The thing is Metahuman is controlled by Control rig . U can only use control rig through sequencer that's where u animate stuff , the rig is perfevt for ue mannequin but Metahuman holy shit it's super stretchy , not ideal for posing during hand made animations u know

[north glacier]

im telling you follow a tutorial on the control rig

[inland marlin]

Yeah artstation sale . So many clothes and bag . Mostly complex clothes like military and tech wear .

[north glacier]

your doing something wrong which is making that issue

[inland marlin]

Yeah I was following it to develop my own control rig from scarcth ?

Omg 😃 nonlol I haven't done anything wrong . Lol . It's just , u need to try lol . Metahuman in sequencer try controlling it and u will see hehe

[north glacier]

alright well i got to go man, hit me up ill be back in like a hour

[inland marlin]

The necks and the limbs . Usually the rigs have locked proportions but the Metahuman is stretchy with feets extending beyond the floor lol

Ohk 😁 thanks for your valuable time .

[gaunt kraken]

I created a Japanese woman.
The metahuman was sculpted and adjusted in Blender, and makeup was applied in SubstancePainter.
Hair was created using particle hair.
I used Koefont for the voice, and lip-synced it with Audio2Face.
I'm still working on the quality, so I'll do my best.

[plain haven]

すごいね！
I thought it wasn't feasible to get such face style from metahuman, guess it just took super advanced sculpting...

[gaunt kraken]

ありがとうございます…！
I forgot to mention that you can use the "Mesh Morpher" plugin to sculpt.

[whole granite]

hello, I'm a mobile game developer, so everything has to have low resolution on mobile, I wonder if it is possible to make metahuman perform well on mobile

[plain haven]

Yes, but it has to be starting from lower LOD, and you can't use nice things like subsurface scattering in forward rendering (which is the most case with mobile games)

[whole granite]

thanks, i'm just dealing with the survival game, i don't need anything advanced anyway, just make it look realistic, don't worry about the character, the rest is okay, i'm glad to hear that

[inland marlin]

hi , so i just added metahuman to maya and thought i could be able to pose it but i cant find the control rig , the tutorials are running some script to autocreate the control rigs

@north glacier

[north glacier]

try exporting the head from UE with morphs included

[inland marlin]

the rig is still stretchy and i have lost all the control rig in maya

its not possible to hand animate this ,

all joints are stretchy

[north glacier]

damn

this is the issue i was having in daz

so its the same problem

So theoretically. The only way is to use the UE4 rig.

and retarget

[inland marlin]

@north glacier

[north glacier]

Have you tried retargeting your meta to ue4 rig?

[inland marlin]

meh might as well use the UE5 rig in the sequencer if this is the result i am supposed to work with lol

[north glacier]

and doing it with that method?

[inland marlin]

retargetting?

[north glacier]

Yeah updating the bone structure to Ue4 Skeleton.

[inland marlin]

what is UE 4 rig ? i am burning up lol , been trying to deal with this issue , so far all the video on animating metahumans involve motion capture files , no hand touch so far

[north glacier]

ue4 rig = UE4 manny

[inland marlin]

but if i will update it mannequin then i will be usng the rig of of mannequin

[north glacier]

only one person in here can solve your prblems

let me try and find his name

You should @ JSFILMZ

He knows.

[inland marlin]

i want to pose it just as simple as that , using maya has not been any benefit since the rig has some wierd joint stretches .

[north glacier]

I do not think the pose is the issue

[inland marlin]

yeah only if he could reply back u know , isppose he is super busy

[north glacier]

The pose should not affect the body like that in any way

[north glacier]

@junior birch Is there any solution to strechy metahumans, or is this an import issue

[inland marlin]

i dnt think its an import issue becoz the issue exists both in maya and UE5

i have testde the control rig UE mannequin , it works like a boss , no limbs stretching

but somehow EPIC decided to" NAH lets just give them a rig with stretchy limbs so they cant hand animate or even pose " lol i mean

[north glacier]

then retarget the metahuman to the epic skel, export the metahumans body and from there import into maya

[inland marlin]

yeah i can do that but will loose all of that rig u know which is highly detailed with deformation, it wont deform correctly

[north glacier]

where did you deform it?

[inland marlin]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/1028174/how-do-i-stop-metahuman-skeletal-mesh-from-stretch.html

@north glacier as u can see , nobody bothers solving it lol , this guy published this way before me

way earlier

[north glacier]

the reason why the metas don't stretch in ue.... i understand now.

the code.

they really just ghetto rigged the hell out of this

Wait why dont you try using Echos skel

see if that makes a difference.

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/windwalker-echo-01

[inland marlin]

metas do stretch in UE

[north glacier]

I used her code and i get no strech.

[inland marlin]

u just have to use the control rig in the sequencer to see it urself

[north glacier]

ill try rn

[inland marlin]

is she a metahuman ?

[north glacier]

Her own type of meta hiuman

some wierd bones in her skel

[inland marlin]

yeah offcourse i am sure it was made with care

since they were looking for hand animating it

[north glacier]

how do i use this control rig

let me google

[inland marlin]

add the level sequncer

and then add metahuman to it

then u can pose metahumans using the control rig

[north glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oCS4wYGsV0&ab_channel=ddubb

not even going to attempt this.

i need to worry more about my game code lol

[inland marlin]

lol ohk

[inland marlin]

Is anyone a rigger here ?

[waxen compass]

@north glacier did you retarget the metahuman to ue4 mannequin?

[north glacier]

I have been working on my weapon animation blueprint system, i need to finish this before i do anything else lol

i need to stop sidetracking and doing 10 things at once xD

[waxen compass]

i will try to retarget animations to metahuman

see if i can make a simple controller with my emtahuman

then i will import animation starter pack and work from there

[north glacier]

if you have any issues with retarget i can help

[waxen compass]

ok

[waxen compass]

@north glacier can u help me with retargeting

[north glacier]

issue?

[waxen compass]

keep crashing when trying to import the assetpose

[barren hearth]

Can anyone steer me in the right direction to assign a full metahuman preview mesh to the base skeleton? Will help in the animation preview window 🙂

Thought about combining Feet, Body and head meshes in Blender but thought there may be an easier way

[inland marlin]

@dawn sandal actually i am looking for an fbx export of MH from maya to MD , so i can get some in specific poses u know, to ger the folds

[nocturne grove]

The character I made in MHC exported to UE in pieces, head, body, hair, etc.
How can I get it in a single skeletal mesh?

[nocturne grove]

Jesus, it also has been generating and downloading an update for the last 2 hours

What a fiasco

[rose current]

Has anyone had issue where metahuman crashes ios game with them in

[plain haven]

I would be surprised if MetaHumans actually work on mobile.

[rose current]

it did when it first came out and its suppose to

[waxen compass]

it is actually better to let it be as it is right now

try to keep it as modular as possible

[north glacier]

Don't bother much with meta humans other than just using them. Just learn the base and use them in your project. don't do to much with the editing. Sometime soon they will fix all of this, no reason to spend 10+ hours on something thats almost guaranteed not to work.

[waxen compass]

agreed

and the one who designed metahuman's skeletal system is one genius man i gotta say that

[north glacier]

freaking loving it 🙂

so many things you can do, so many bones you can modify

[waxen compass]

even though its not compatible with retargeting to the mannequin skeleton its still a really good skeletal system

[waxen compass]

exactly

[north glacier]

You can literally layer every single bone.

only needing about 1 set of animations

lol

[waxen compass]

oh yeah atomik what did you do to your metahuman?

i made a watch for mine

[north glacier]

i did nothing

she is still nakey

lol

[waxen compass]

lol

did you get a controller running?

[north glacier]

I have been working on Aimoffsets, and spine rotations the for last 3 days...

THIS is harder with metas

[waxen compass]

oh thats a really long time for aimoffsets and spine rotations

[north glacier]

Yuppp......

Hand popping is the issue i got it working tho

[waxen compass]

tbh i think its pretty much the same steps just more time

[north glacier]

I was thinking it was harder than this LOL

[waxen compass]

oh you got it working?

[north glacier]

Yeah

[waxen compass]

do you know how to retarget the mannequin animations to metahuman?

everytime i try to use the pose imported from epic games metahuman project my project crashes

[north glacier]

hmm im missing my details

[waxen compass]

what details exactly?

[north glacier]

spine like this in retarget manager

oops same pic

in pose asset look for your retarget pose of the shape

retarget.

[waxen compass]

ok

[north glacier]

make sure the skel is humanoid for the other one too.

and remove any IK

[waxen compass]

removing ik hurts bro

[north glacier]

IK does not work this way with metas

yeah

this is why i have been having issues with spine adjustments with bending

[waxen compass]

i wanted to try and make a shooter controller with meta

it will be meta asf

metahuman needs more optimization

doing a mobile port is like setting your phones on fire

[winter sphinx]

Can someone explain to me how to properly setup the procederal hair cards for groom hair? The gerneration works fine, but I can't get my material work properly... it always looks very ugly:

Strands:

Cards:

[lone hollow]

Has anyone ever had the face rig controls lock up on you in UE4? Was just tweaking a face and now I can't change any of the options.

[amber topaz]

my metahuman refuses to export into unreal, the program is running and everything is set up right. it literally will not upload.. help please lmao

[dawn ginkgo]

how did u make her naked? kinda need for uhh- gameplay reasons...

[north glacier]

no

[plain haven]

Replace it with your own model of a naked body.

[dawn ginkgo]

i was joking lmao

ty tho

tryna see if anyone would bonk me

[plain haven]

And I'm serious, as someone who also dabble with lesser safe for work for actually research and development purposes.

[dawn ginkgo]

ah, so a right hand exercizer

[round storm]

Idk if i should ask it in here, but anyone maybe knows how i export character creator 3 to mixamo? When i try to do it, it has an error.

[remote flower]

Hey all, just looking for some opinions from anyone who's used any forms of live full/upper body motion capture with MetaHumans? What was your method or does anyone know of cheaper ways to achieve this than a Rokoko suit? I've got 2 Apple LIDAR devices, a vive and a quest 2 setup. My first thought would be a way to hook up the vive for upper body control, and then recording facial track separately. Has anyone attempted this?

[muted crag]

Hi guys , has anyone seen this before ? I get a blond Afro at a distance , something to do with the LOD ing maybe ? I’ve got a heavy LOD bias (4) to keep things running smoothly.

[north glacier]

Under LOD change the hair LOD to only 1

or delete the lods in groom

[muted crag]

Ah great thanks , I’ll check that out. !

[north glacier]

you can do this as well

just change all the lods to 1

[muted crag]

Thanks , that’s an easy fix.

[smoky hawk]

Hi 🙂 I'm new to this server. I've been using Unreal for a few months and making games for years. I downloaded MetaHuman for a game I'm developing. I set the download & export settings to only download/export LOD1, 3, 5 & 7 to try to keep the file size down and for optimization. However, when exported to Unreal project, it seems to have included all the LOD's. Any suggestions for optimizing MetaHuman for game development? I'm thinking both quality of the model (hair cards instead of groom for example) but also file size since downloading just a few different characters (4 male & 4 female) means 10gb for the project

[clever sedge]

Hi @smoky hawk maybe you could force the number of lods to match your needs in these settings in metahuman blueprint

[muted crag]

Hi , yes I seem to be having the same problem now I’ve checked my settings , and what was actually imported , I’m going to post on their support page.

[smoky hawk]

You mean change Num LODs to 4 and forced LOD to -1? Wouldn't that ignore the lowest LOD's? (I wanted to export every second LOD to allow for a bigger performance change when changing settings)

[clever sedge]

Yes, I tell you this because I saw this tips yesterday in order to correct some hair glitch. It's not the best if you want to keep lowest lods, that's true...

however maybe you can correct lod settings directly in BP ? Anyway don't delete lods you don't want, I tried this and it crashed my project :/

[smoky hawk]

Yeah, I scrolled up and saw that comment too, thanks 🙂 However, having 8 characters take up 10gb of data is a problem of its own, which is why I only wanted LOD1, 3, 5 & 7. My P4V AWS cloud service only allows for 30gb and this would be 1/3 of that, which is a problem.

[plain haven]

Isn't there an option for selected LODs in Bridge?

Also I think most of the file size of MetHums are in the textures

Though MetHums being complex rig could be the reason for huge file size. I think Daz models without textures can go up to 100 MB

[smoky hawk]

That's what I did. In Bridge I set both download and export to only include LOD1, 3, 5 & 7 and set max texture size to 2k

[wary sphinx]

I wonder, will Metahuman ever becomes offline for people with slow internet and sometimes offline at all as whole word never gets super speed internet, even after 100 years i am sure. Or it is just wise to invest time in some other offline character software? Yes i have friend in city who has optics cable internet and there i can use Metahuman sometimes.

I am rock solid sure that after hundreds of years there still will be people who own good powerful pc, but internet is never fast and stable.

[plain haven]

MetaHuman wasn't really final, and the Creator itself could cost you a lot of storage space and hardware power to store all the possible models and processing them into UE4 asset.

[north glacier]

https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/digital-avatar-service-link

[plain haven]

I thought that was official from Epic lol

[north glacier]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/mesh-morpher

has anyone tried this with metas?

[muted crag]

looks like this bug has been around for a while , looking at the forums . I did find a solutions from there tho :

[muted crag]

"Very late to the party, but I have the solution. What you need to do is find the place where your Megascans library is, BEFORE exporting but AFTER downloading. Next, go through all of the versions and delete all but the LOD you want. After this, export to Unreal. While ill show multiple LODs, using them with foliage gives the result of only one LOD."

[smoky hawk]

Thanks Ethics! Yeah it was weird the download and export settings weren't working and I really didn't see any additional settings to edit this. I'll delete from project, clean the downloaded version and re-import.

[muted crag]

Nw , I’m still running into issues , the fix above was for other mega scans assets but it looks like it’s using the same export code so creating the identical issues. I’ve found the download location , but the individual Lod character meshes are stored in common i think. I’m still working through it , but let me know if you get something working !

[smoky hawk]

There were several things that I noticed. I downloaded few males & few females, all medium and normal weight because plan was to share a skeleton for the game. However, for some reason, it downloaded all skeletons, height and weight, even though none of the models use them

[narrow spindle]

I hope its right here... I made Hair for my Character. Now when i hit simulate the hair jumps in another postion for a sec and dissapears. Anyone know this issue?

[north glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjOpCdWg4_c&ab_channel=FracturedFantasy

[stoic cargo]

anyone sharing an idle animation for metahuman?

[north glacier]

Has there always been feet mesh?

spine now has all the feet bones

idk if this is new, but i never seen this!

[plain haven]

There wasn't.
Safe to say this was a new addition.

[north glacier]

IK now works too if you set it up correctly and remove thumb bones.

[gaunt kraken]

I created a Japanese woman.
This metahuman model took me six days to make.
I hope you like it.
Modeling : Metahuman Creator, Blender
Hair : Particle hair
Makeup : Substance Painter
UE Plugin : Mesh Morpher
Rendering : Unreal Engine 4
Texture : Metahuman Creator, Texturing xyz

[agile vessel]

Is there anyone who can export my meta humans as FBXs so I can load them into blender? My OS currently does not support UE. I will give them to you, than you export them as FBXs

[plain haven]

You have to go through Unreal Engine first.
Are you on Mac, or Linux?

[agile vessel]

Linux

[plain haven]

Linux can run the Unreal Editor natively, albeit you have to build it from source code.

[agile vessel]

My storage will not allow it, since I run off of 32 gigs,

[plain haven]

...are you going to make final render of the MetaHumans in Blender?

[agile vessel]

Yes

[plain haven]

Then forget about it. Making final renders of MetaHuman outside of UE is against the EULA.

That includes leeching MetaHumans to be made final renders of them in Blender.

If you want some photorealistic humans in Blender, other solutions are available.

[agile vessel]

Damn, I didn't know. You think we read the EULA lol

[rose current]

Does anyone no y binding card meshes dont work on ios but do on mac

[quartz hollow]

Can I bake multiple animations at once with the Metahuman control rig? Instead of doing that one per one manually.

[north glacier]

that was easy wow

[waxen rover]

how do i set uo my metahuman to an existing project

[plain haven]

Open your project and bring the methum from Quixel Bridge, with the unreal project still open, it should import right into it

[waxen rover]

no i mean retarget

i speant a long time on this project and i wanna use my metahuman on it

[noble inlet]

my metahuman looks like this in ue4, anyone know how to fix it?

[chilly gulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS6j88-76VI

youtube exists

[fresh dragon]

Hey, can metahumans be used for first person too? Do they come with arms separate?

[wooden timber]

Did this work for y'all? I tried to retarget but I kept bumping against the same problem that legs weren't animated on packaged project

[steel pollen]

Can metahumans be used for an in-game character creator? If so, are the resources to learn how?

[chilly gulch]

i didnt tried it yet

[north glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sexol4-SueA&feature=youtu.be

only option for this as of right now.

https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/character-editor

Added additional anatomy support for Metahumans - basecostumes have been converted to Metahuman tal nrw. Editor logic is not compatible with Metahuman BP base structure - we are looking into streamline our Ue4 Mannequin with a full release of Ue5. Baseproduct is Ue4 Epic skeleton structure.

[plucky kelp]

Why is MetaHumans free? Is there a catch? will it dissapaer soon?

[zealous dagger]

catch is that it's unreal engine exclusive

[waxen compass]

because fortnite

[smoky hawk]

It's free because Tim Sweeney is building up his empire. Free to use as long as you use his empire products.

[plain haven]

It's not that conspiratorial lmao

[smoky hawk]

lol, I know 😂 and not complaining! At my company, it's the products I chose to use

I support his empire. He's taking on Apple. His lower percentage cost for Epic games sales has lowered Steam percentages. I'm just sitting back and enjoying the fruit of his labour

[smoky hawk]

Exactly! Publishers usually take 30% of profit, Steam used to take 30% of profit, leaving 40% left before tax for the developers. It takes dozens, if not hundreds of people to make a game, and they are often years in development. Publishers come in during last year/last months of development with significantly lower risk. Platforms (steam and Epic) taking on no risk since game has already been published at that point. There's no reason for a platform to take 30%. Epic lowering their take to 12% forced Steam to rethink their cut, allowing game development studios a better chance of recouping development cost. That's just recouping, not profit.

The game I'm making will require me to hire 3 full time and 6 freelancers and development will take 18-24 months. The cost is about £1m on development alone. For me to recoup, I have to sell 100k copies if I sell the game for £25. That's just recoup cost.

[elder oracle]

honestly wouldnt be surprised at an epic games metaverse

[plucky kelp]

I see, yeah i am very happy too

But my PC is not so fast, i made a MetaHuman, and tried to import it. Took almost 60 minutes, and i have the feeling it imported way too much. Is there some good tutorial on how to import a metahuman.

I only need it for Cinematics and intent to mix it with mixamo animations.

[smoky hawk]

Yeah, when I imported it also imported way too much. I've yet to submit the MetaHuman data to P4V project

[plain haven]

MetaHumans aren't light, at least in Editor asset form. It has a shit ton going on underneath, from intensive Groom hair asset, to materials, and it can overwhelm certain setups. Mine started crashing vanilla UE4 for whatever reason.

[smoky hawk]

I personally haven't tested this, but my guess is you could maybe export to Maya and do a strip in Maya. Then export from Maya to Unreal.
Things to consider would be removing groom and do hair planes instead. Reduce all texture sizes. Reduce max skin weight influence to 8. If no facial animation, remove facial skin weight and paint all to neck and head. Not use highest LOD. Could also simplify shader.

[plain haven]

Windwalker Echo that uses Groom asset also crashes on me, but not when opening the Groom asset itself.

[plucky kelp]

yes i was thinking the same thing, but i thought you needed it in UE first. So you are saying i can import it into maya or blender or c4d and strip it down? that would be great

[plain haven]

The Maya source file can be downloaded right away, but for everything else, it has to go through exporting to FBX from UE.

[plucky kelp]

I see, too bad. Also I had no option to choose the resolution, on some tutorials they can choose between 1k,2k,4k an 8k

[plain haven]

Really? I know 4K resolution is not available.

[plucky kelp]

I just want the lowest possible/useable

[smoky hawk]

In Bridge, you can export to different software. The final software needs to be Unreal, but you can export to other software pre Unreal from Bridge

Export Settings in Bridge

[plain haven]

Isn't this for non-MetaHuman stuff?

[smoky hawk]

I got a MetaHuman selected when I took the ss

I'm currently prototyping the game, so not personally gone through the process of 3rd party optimization for the MetaHuman stuff

[rose current]

Has anyone had the issue where hair doesn’t bind on mobile at all

[quartz hollow]

How can I share one Animation Sequence with different Metahuman characters that have different body types? Small thin and Tal overweight for example.

[opaque compass]

Does anyone know why Metahumans through bridge (2K) is incredibly slow to download? its been 1 hour and 30 min and its at 51% now.

[trail chasm]

Hey Does anybody know how to control the eye & head Look direction in realtime When I move eye bones nothing happens

[royal gazelle]

Is it normal for meta humans to take so long to load in unreal? It took a lot of time to load.

[proud trout]

Been trying to sign up for metahumans creator, but the submit button stays none-active. I filled the form in but no luck. Does anyone know solution? and how to fix this? thanks

[plain haven]

Try full refreshing the page (Ctrl+F5)

[proud trout]

Thanks, tried that but nothing 😦

[smoky hawk]

Try different web browser? Or delete cache/cookies, etc.

[proud trout]

Thanks, I was thinking of that too will try that. It worked open it up with MS Edge browser.. that did it.. Then I tried Chrome and working now:-) must have been some cookie thing. Cheers Kristy

[rose current]

Does anyone know y

[fresh monolith]

https://youtu.be/H6-iEtr-N7M

[dry wadi]

Hi there, does anyone know how to export specifically the roughness texture from UE4 to edit in an external app? I'm only getting the red channel and all the detail seems to be in green which is then weirdly missing from the .tga

[hot kite]

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

[junior birch]

how to get realistic facial animation with unreal engine metahuman using facegood https://youtu.be/1_uCxoBDDXE

[fossil garnet]

@junior birch I love your vids, you’re doing great work

[junior birch]

@fossil garnet no way bro thanks! i hope i dont get banned for posting tuts here hahahah

[clever citrus]

Hello everybody and nice meeting you all virtually.

I currently face an Issue with Rokoko Motion Capture being streamed to Unreal via Live Link from Rokoko Studio to animate a Metahuman. But while the animation looks so far so good in Rokoko Studio the Metahuman looks kind of messed up as the arms are to tight to the body and partly reach through the body even though we made sure that we do not put them to close to the body during recording.

Has anyone an idea on how to offset the arms from the body. The arms look good in Rokoko but end up in the body in unreal. Ideally I would like to modify the curve just like with the lower lip so that the arms are offset from their current position by a few degrees so that they don't end up somewhere in the body or maybe a workaround like collision. Anything you have would be helpful. Thank you.

I followed the standard workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbWYQfXV6k0

• T-Pose uasset
  -Metahuman Bonelist
• Face Curve modified for the lower shrug
• Retargeting to the right body template of the Metahuman - in this case f_med_unw_body

Ignore the sound in the video

[cerulean haven]

Did you resolve this? I have a similar issue on export for the entire head

[rose current]

When build I used the desktop render engine and it works better

[light ingot]

Sounds like rokoko should be aware made of this? I would imagine they want metahuman to work right out of the box

[clever citrus]

I am in the Rokoko Discord as well trying to figure this out. So they are aware.

But since we have so many smart minds in here I figured maybe somebody knows issues like that.

[high fox]

Has anyone tried to transfer the metahuman rig to a custom head on maya? I followed a YouTube tutorial and I'm stuck.

[simple forge]

try offsetting the Tpose you are using by raising the left and right arm up by 5 degrees.

[finite finch]

anyone know how i can export these lighting setups to ue?

[plain haven]

Haven't I answer this question before?

Use HDRI Backdrop plugin and snatch whatever HDRI you want to use from Poly Haven.

https://polyhaven.com/hdris

[simple forge]

I dont believe you can export the lighting setups

[junior birch]

Unreal Engine 5 Realistic Custom Metahuman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTYbU-fP_uk

[dusty cairn]

Hey Y'all is there a way to export the metahuman's face back into unreal engine ( from blender) and still be able to use the facial animation rig? Whenever I reimport it after sculpting it or doing anything with it the Control rig doesn't do anything anymore. Do I have to work with retargeting or am I just exporting wrong? I also get a lot of missing bones on import but I didn't modify the rig

[plain haven]

I bet your Blender's export settings screw up the rig.

[empty cypress]

Is allowed to sell a game that use metahuman characters as NPC, players, etc ?

[plain haven]

As long as it's Unreal Engine, yes.

[empty cypress]

Ok, thx

[plain haven]

See #instructions on how to post to the job boards channel. Don't post job vacancies outside those job boards channels.

[wet badge]

@plain haven ok nice nice thanks! I’ll check this now

[plain haven]

Also consider deleting the post, else you got strike by the mods

[wet badge]

@plain haven Ok awesome noted!

[simple forge]

When you import the head back in, are you assigning it back to the metahuman face archetype skeleton?

[dusty cairn]

@simple forge Tried both, creating a new skeleton and assigning the control rig, aswell as choosing the archetype skel. Blender seems to mess with the hierarchy of the bones, which isn't a problem for the body skeleton.

Also if you try to replicate it, you need to use an fbx converter just to get the shape keys into blender, otherwise they just get lost on it's way there

But it seems like they don't even do anything 😄

[swift lotus]

Anybody experienced with Groom? No matter what I do, I can not get over 40FPS, Even if I reduce resolution, always only 40FPS with VSYNC ON or OFF does not matter. Something its definitely not working right with rendering groom or smth.

[plain haven]

Groom is normally strand based, of course it's going to be way heavier than hair cards

[dusty cairn]

@swift lotus Did you create the groom yourself?

I could take a look at it if you send over the groom file

[swift lotus]

Yes, groom was created inside Maya Xgen

@dusty cairn

[swift lotus]

I created 5 versions every with different amout of verts, still getting the same result, maximaly 1-2fps up, 40 - 42fps in my case

[static delta]

Hi all, anybody having anyissues with the deformation of hair with Metahumans? I've attached mocap to the model and the hair goes all funky.

[craggy parrot]

Hello! I've created a level sequence with a Metahuman. I captured face animation with LiveLink and manually adjusting the ControlRig for the body. It works perfectly when I play sequence in the sequence editor, but it won't play the facial or body animation in the selected viewport or in stand alone. All the other elements in the sequence play (camera movement, audio, etc) just not the metahuman's animations.

[cloud kiln]

Anyone here that can model an accessory for a metahuman?

its pretty much just a belt

[full flume]

Hello everyone ！！There are some questions about Groom. I try my best to fix it but do it not good . When my metahuman moving too fast, The hair will be left behind and torn into strips. And I try to debug those parameters to stable it, but my wind is can't working too. I wish I can keep my wind, it is very important to performance speed . Does anyone know how to solve this problem ？ Thanks！！

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px2BFgVMug8&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=CHARLYDREAMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXdT4pI6RwY&ab_channel=CHARLYDREAMS

Test B ， I try to debug those parameters to stable it, but my wind is can't working too

I modified these parameters on test B

I want to stable it and keep my wind working

[simple forge]

Is this in 4.27 by any chance? And have you used the hair dye option? I have a similar issue but only in 4.27 and my Metahumans eyebrows flutter when face mocap is added. This is happening on the .5 version Meta with Hair Dye enabled.

[simple forge]

have you tried disabling the physics for the hair?

[simple forge]

Id look at the plugin Trimirror has called Draper. they just released a tutorial showing the pipeline to unreal with metahumans and it works great

[simple forge]

hmm wonder if you might try checking to see what the animation blueprint for the face is set to, perhaps keyframe it if it is in custom mode and see if that works

[cloud kiln]

Yeah i took a look at that, looks like it would work, thanks!

[junior birch]

for you guys interested you can use nvidia audio2face to maya to metahuman https://youtu.be/sru6I0WkCrA

[full flume]

Thank you for your reply ! Yes i tried , but the wind is not working too .

[simple forge]

not sure if I asked but is this happening in 4.27 and do you happen to have enabled the hair dye in the creator?

[clever citrus]

That's always what I had in mind when I first saw Audio2Face. Do you think there could be the same workflow via Blender?

[dull yoke]

https://youtu.be/KoNwHCJxxF4

[junior birch]

whenever or if ever epic games gives us meta in blender im sure u can

[clever citrus]

You mean the control rig and that part that makes it so amazing in Maya?

[plain haven]

@clever citrus @junior birch
Probably won't be anytime soon, as Blender users could leech off of metahumans to make final renders in Blender without going through Unreal Engine.

Maya don't really have good renderer on its own, so not enough to make good final renders of.

What I'm getting at from the MH project is that Epic wants to make it a benefit/perk for Unreal Engine, not other renderer/engine. Maya don't have a good renderer on its own, good enough for final renders, so Epic is fine with the source files for Maya.

Blender, however, has it, in the form of Eevee and Cycles (X), and if Epic give generated source files for Blender, it could mean a loss for Unreal Engine, as Blender users will inevitably make final renders of the MetaHumans right inside Blender, without getting themselves through Unreal Engine (and let them see with their own eyes who's boss before trying to export the assets to Blender).

At least this is a theory that makes sense the most to me.

[junior birch]

yea they arent supposed to render out of ue but people do what they want

[plain haven]

At least with current state of affairs, Blender leeches would still have to go through Unreal Engine first.

[clever citrus]

Okay. That definitely makes sense. I mean I have Maya all good but I trying to make my workflows more open source so I'd highly appreciate working in Unreal and Blender without the need for Maya to do this amazing workflow. But for now I'll have to go with the flow of things.

[plain haven]

Well, Unreal isn't open source, so that's that.

I'm sticking with Blender just because it's free.

[rose sedge]

is that metahuman?

[bright coral]

I try to recreate shots of the cinema history this is Joan of the Arc (1928) with metahuman, I use photoshop to put the tears

[fresh monolith]

It's cool but she's cross-eyed and the tears are too blurred compared with the surrounding skin. Obviously you're trying to hide that the tears are not from there but it's very visible.

Otherwise it's nice

[junior birch]

bridge broken for u guys too?

[fresh monolith]

No, it looks like it's working fine

[junior birch]

interesting some people are downloading but its not goin all the way

[simple forge]

ooooh love the addition of tears! Curious to know how that can be accomplished in unreal

[simple forge]

looks kind of like the Hudson metahuman

[bright coral]

You need to update,

This version is better, you see direct metahuman

[junior birch]

yea its the one i got

[fierce flame]

?

[blazing swift]

how in the world do you get better fps with the hair?

no matter how low i go in detail its still laggy

yet with other hair models from metahumans that support more than 1 lod it works fine

[simple forge]

have you disabled physics for the hair?

[simple forge]

you can also try changing the ones set to strands, to cards instead

[blazing swift]

i have not tried that

and i cant it disapears on anything other than strands

[surreal rune]

Is there a way to force UE to create a meta humans project for DX11?

[delicate panther]

Is metahuman only on the website

or is there a way to use it within the desktop app

[surreal rune]

Oh, is the Unreal Engine library meta humans just a demo project?

[faint stirrup]

Correct. Relevant links to what you wanted in the pinned posts 📌

[last plover]

this might be super basic, but has anyone worked out a way of moving the facial rig so it stays with the face? https://i.imgur.com/ldSq3yn.png

mine always ends up off somewhere more or less useless

[old wave]

is there currently any workflow to transfer metahuman's facial rig in maya to your own head mesh without the same topology? All the ones found online seem like there might be issues bringing it back into Unreal

[livid cedar]

stronk

[simple forge]

Has anyone downloaded a metahuman recently and imported into UE4.26. I am noticing the new additional bones (toe and finger bones) are not there. Just want to confirm I am not the only one noticing this.

[worn patio]

yes there seems to be a difference

[simple forge]

this is very odd, it should stay next to his face. Is this happening when you drop him into sequencer or when you bake to control rig?

[valid stump]

Pretty sure that Arnold in Maya is more then a decent renderer 🙂

[plain haven]

Was it built-in though?

AFAIK Arnold is a separate product

[valid stump]

its comes with Maya for free, same for 3ds Max.

[plain haven]

I guess only the pro versions then, I don't remember Maya LT has Arnold, nor some version of 3ds Max from 2018 or something

[valid stump]

Ah, well of course now you mention MayaLT, that's different and that doesn't come with a software renderer. Max has had Arnold (in default install) for the last 3 versions I think. Before that you had a separate installer.

[spice plaza]

Hi everyone, I made this not too long ago. Would appreciate if u wanna check it out!
https://youtu.be/8SYam1TvMr4

Also a side-by-side comparison with the reference footage which I was trying to duplicate
https://youtu.be/rtaGVHPSk_g

[coarse crypt]

I'm looking into the metahuman thing a bit, and I have a question. From what I can glean it seems the answer is "no" but I want to confirm;

Is there a way to animate metahumans in Blender, by maybe using something like AutoRig Pro?

For example if I use the Unreal Mannequin to create animations in Blender using AutoRig Pro and then retarget that to the Metahuman rig in UE4, or something to that effect.

[waxen compass]

yes

check if there is a plugin in blender for metahuman rig that may help you animate

[surreal rune]

Since metahuman is an online webapp. Is it possible that Epic is planning to allow normal gamers to create metahuman characters as part of an epic games profile which can be used in certain supported games? (This is the main reason I can imagine for it being a webapp other than keeping the tech in the backend, or if metahuman requires some sort of render farm to run)

[plain haven]

MetaHuman being a web app is mainly because of the hardware it took to handle the "master" models, being lots of base faces and stuff to go through, before baking it into usable models

[surreal rune]

But theoretically it could have just been a native program?

[balmy charm]

Hi, I cant manage to open metahuman, is it a bad hour for it? Its been stuck on like 50% for almost 30 min already, tried refreshing and adding a new ticket but it didnt help

[plain haven]

Being a native app = practically nobody can use it.

Practical, as in "your average joe" hardware that might able to render metahumans in decent framerate but not the master project. Not just the entitled rich high end kids.

[bold lake]

Is it possible to add character costumization to my game using metahumans ? I am in version 4.27

[plain haven]

Yes, but it'll took almost the same effort as making making customisable character from scratch.

[ancient hedge]

Character customisation is accomplished by morph targets

Two extremes, blend between them

[blazing swift]

anyone here make custom hair?

need this metahuman to have a mustache like this photo and new hair that is optimized

[last plover]

has anyone had an issue where metahuman's heads are in the wrong position relative to their body?

https://i.imgur.com/4BnINsD.jpeg

this has happened a couple of times when re-opening my project and opening the level sequence. The first time it seemed to fix itself but this one won't go back.

the animation on the face rig is there but the head isn't attached to the body at all

[grim oracle]

What needs setting to make metahuman import to ue4 from MH, default character on play ?

ty

oops sorry https://docs.metahuman.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahumans-unreal-engine/ , if I get stuck I'll ask O_0

[grim oracle]

M
wh y does my BP_me from metaH export, when shown in content in ue4 , have ? , in upper right of icon ?

on play ,metahuman character doesn't have focus , just 3rd person char. how do I fix that

[grim oracle]

ty found the right howto doc at ue

[rancid lance]

Hi guys! What can be teh reason a groom only works with a certain skeletal mesh?

if i change the skeletal mesh the groom goes wild

[mellow skiff]

Hello, has anyone else had problems with importing custom clothing for metahumans? I've made an armor in maya lt and transferred the skeleton from the metahuman preview mesh to it. When I try to import the armor into Unreal and select the metahuman skeleton it's incompatible.

[static delta]

Hi Sorry for the late reply, just got back from a retreat in the mountains. To answer your question, I'm using 2.26.2. Not sure about the hair dye though, don't think so. So a global problem by the looks of it.

[grim oracle]

Trying to understand what I may have wrong here, sent by docs. unrealengine for importing and working with metahuman, so anyone have any idea what I've got wrong here ? ;00

I copied in from face to feet into BP_metahuman ( duplicated 3rd person), added lod as well so I'm not sure whats up 😉

[grim oracle]

OK found https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+metahumans+import+into+unrealengine&docid=608032640483132725&mid=0E43F549C19196B6F20D0E43F549C19196B6F20D&view=detail&FORM=VIRE, and it looks JUST like the mess I have, too bad epic never covered that in the doc page o_0 sigh

[swift lotus]

Every groom is using binding for a skeletal mesh, u need to click right on groom and create new binding with new skeletal mesh, this might be your case. New skeletal mesh is not binded with groom.

After I apply my material on a character this happen (right picture)

Normals are OK, vertexes are OK, unwrap is OK

Tesselation on a shader is OFF

Can not find out what is happening

[grim oracle]

I got metahuman in and working ISH, but 3rd person char still shows on play , with meta OVER it, how do I fix that ? ;0-0

I chose my meta in 3rd person gamemode under 3rd person blueprints so its not that

nvm got it, a few adjustments ( in duplicated 3rd person BP) and redo of gamemode change of default char, and all good ;))

HM my hands are missing 😉

HMMMMM

[grim oracle]

fixed tho retargeted def'ly needs to happen ;0-0

[royal yoke]

Hi there - I’m kind of new here and had a question; is MH open for anyone to use right now? If not will it be anytime soon?

[plain haven]

Just for Unreal Engine users, and it's very unlikely open for other engine.

[royal yoke]

Oh ok- so if I install UE can I use it?

Or is that something I would have had to already do?

[plain haven]

Yes, you can. Just don't leech it to be used on another engine. You can export as FBX from Unreal and made some modifications to it as you see fit, but final renders of MetaHuman derivatives can only be made with Unreal Engine, per the EULA

[hollow merlin]

Hey guys. Anyone know why the hair is not moving with the face when I use live link? This is a default metahuman

Looks like the beard is... double?

[hollow merlin]

Works in ue5 but not ue 4.27. strange

[worn patio]

The root skeleton should not be parented to anything in Maya while exporting

[worn patio]

the groom is intersecting and trying to simulate with the face / switch off sims and check

[worn patio]

select the face component and check if there any transform values set accidentally on it

[plucky kelp]

Is it possible to downlaod only a certain LOD of metahuman, i dont want to download 8K textures, last time it took me 7 hours to download and 2 to import 😦

I see the Resolution button now in documentation, i jsut woke up

[weary lion]

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

[hollow arch]

As described in this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/s0wqfv/metahuman_animation_bottleneck_fix_saved_5ms_on/

Retargeting is not the issue. I want the extra bones removed

Cant seem to figure out the workflow for metahumans described i this reddit post

[fresh parcel]

hi, anyone knows why the mustache is bouncing when trying to record using Live Link Face?

i even have the simulation disabled on the mustache, but that doesnt help

[hollow arch]

Retargeting is 100% possible and im in the process of converting all mixamo animations. Some will require manual tweaking to fix neck and hand movements but it will be worth it. Only some animations need to be manually improvedm most work just fine and the limitations of the current best "meta" workflow are not visible.

[hollow arch]

Please keep posting! There is so little on the internet about metahumans we need more!

[hollow arch]

Have you figured this out?

[plain haven]

Still in early access v0.5.0

[hollow arch]

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

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

Well no one else on the internet has claimed to beable to do what they claim and ive tried for 3 days to replicate

Exporting a fully intact, edited metahuman from Maya is like ..impossible. exporting the Animation alone is very easy

You cant just delete bones and call it day...right?

[mental delta]

I'm looking into ways to use a webcam to drive a Metahuman in my classroom. Thus far I've come up empty handed. Any help would be, well.... helpful. 🙂

[dull yoke]

you will need Faceware studio https://youtu.be/FNVN-6jKnqA

[mental delta]

Thanx for the tip. 🙂

[inland marlin]

Silver Fang Armour set and Runner outfit Concept Art.

Unreal Engine 5, Marvelous Designer and Metahuman Creator

[grim oracle]

Could not find a variable named "Face" in 'BP_Character_Gaillard_C'.
Make sure 'BP_Character_Gaillard_C' has been compiled for Get Face
, anyone know what would cause this error, was working fine the other day...? Thx anyone ;0-

nvm got it tut OP goes a bit fast, anyway so reason is he was copying in ( later) some variables, face included, so all good here .

[grim oracle]

variable content accidentally pasted into component section of character, won't let me delete it. Is that a bug, or just reboot or something ?

[grim oracle]

Fixed via reboot o_0

[mellow skiff]

I see, thank you very much!

[soft snow]

How can I change the metahumans clothes? Because there's almost no option in metahuman app.
Regards,Tomas

[plain haven]

If the stock clothes are not enough, you'd have to make it yourself, using the (almost) nude base

(But then again, metahumans have no breast adjustments for females smh, hope they add it in next versions)

[soft snow]

Thx

[hollow arch]

T pose for metahuman public?

[scarlet zealot]

trying to export metahuman but im getting this

[manic pond]

Yeah! They updated the shared files, you need to follow those instructions then it will work!

[soft snow]

i made a metahuman and put als moviment on him but when migrate the bp i cant use on my main project
Anyone know how to migrate the metahuman with als to other project??

[scarlet zealot]

@manic pondbut like overwrite as in just drag the files in common from D drive into F drive?

[manic pond]

Yeah! Let it replace them

[scarlet zealot]

appreciate it, works now

[slim apex]

Hey I am new to this site and I am wondering where I can go to find unreal gaming programmers that might be interested in working on an adult oriented metaverse project. We are looking to purchase existing multiplayer game environments and enhance and customize with our own provocative adult oriented characters. We are looking for a few good unreal engine developers, preferably someone that understands blueprint for the game play mechanics.

[obsidian vapor]

@slim apex look under Job board section

[warm quartz]

Hi everyone who can help why my metahumans hair is working good while playing animation and binded in head in SM5 preview but in Android ES3.1 hair isnt moving with body and its not bind to my character.

[floral gulch]

Metahuman can be used to generate basemeshes, right?

[worldly orchid]

Hello I'm still fairly new to metahuman but I was wondering if there a way to remove the undergarments on the metahuman I sorta found a method but it's probably not the most effective way to pull it off

I'm currently still trying to experiment with editing the roughness map,

I masked out the undergarments on the normal map itself in photoshop it was pretty quick and dirty

[plain haven]

As in make it to be completely nude skin?

[worldly orchid]

Yep

[plain haven]

Yes, in fact it's encouraged to use it as basis for models

[worldly orchid]

I don't really want to affect the skin alphas

[plain haven]

Then no, you'd have to sculpt it out yourself in DCC tool or replace it with a nude body mesh.

[worldly orchid]

DCC?

That's a new term I never heard of

[plain haven]

Blender, ZBrush, 3ds Max, those kind of software.

[worldly orchid]

Ah ok I been doing that

So I need to apply the maps to the model in zbrush and work off of that

I have been testing some methods in that procces

@plain haven Thanks for the reply

[floral gulch]

Yeah Im going to tear into it today. I just need the basic of the basic base meshes

[warm quartz]

Hi everyone who know is groom working on mobiles too?For some reason hair attachment(binding asset) isn't working on mobile preview.Is there any tick on project settings which I need enable or what?.Thanks:)

[knotty jolt]

Does anyone know if we'll be able to download MetaHumans with a simplified skeleton in the future? This one is not game ready, way too many unnecessary bones. If not, has anyone managed to simplify the skeleton in Blender or similar without screwing up the rig?

[hollow arch]

1 person claimed to have done this. I've been looking for this solution for weeks

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

Not sure if true or not...

Everyone knows how to export animation from Maya

But exporting a skeleton with removed bones that maintains the same mesh transformation? You would need to manually recreate the bone weights I think? Right?

Not 1 video on the internet showing how to do this start to finish.

[knotty jolt]

@hollow arch I think you could do it without any manual work if you could transfer the bone weights to the parent bone, since all the unnecessary bones are branches from some more important bone.

[wraith trellis]

So I'm running into an issue when trying to use this metahumans character. On the right you can see I have it working just fine in certain circumstances, but on the left you can see it's not always correct. I'm using a base mesh which all my animations are using across all characters at the moment with sub meshes to change out the looks. This has worked great up to the point of trying to transition over to metahumans. My question is exactly what is causing the issue on the left? Is it the animation, an issue with retargeting, or something with the weight painting? If I try to retarget the animations and use metahumans as the primary mesh I run into issue across almost everyone of the animations.

[hollow arch]

I want to make models that have lower extrmeity extra bones removes. and some with all removed like npcs

but idk how and there is no content on how to do it online

[simple forge]

what method are you using the replace the head?

it could be the way you are adding the head that is causing that

[wraith trellis]

https://gyazo.com/27abbace2b0ff2ce06619f8127d98050 Just attaching it.

“Your mesh” being the head in this instance and chest the chest.

[simple forge]

its possible that is happening due to the way its set up in the BP. This has happened to me with non Paragon/custom bodies.

[simple forge]

instead of adding the head in the bp, perhaps try attaching the head to the body in editor by just making the head a child.

[worthy briar]

Hello, groovy people
Has anyone of you experimented with importing a custom mesh for metahuman?
I mean completely different vertices and all without morphing and stuff like that

does anyone have some info about this? how does meta-human works internally? does it have all vertices' numbers hardcoded somewhere in it's code?

[worthy briar]

talking about faces specifically

[hollow arch]

Modifying the Metahuman is the next big ?

[worthy briar]

how did they build neo/trinity, it must be a custom mesh

or maybe not

[worthy briar]

https://youtu.be/X3QILs0tkYs?t=1555, here the epic's tech anim mentioned Unified vertex ids
so if she is talking about face ids, this means that all faces have same vertex count and they just morphed neo/trinity from the base shape,
will double check whether all metahumans chars have the same vertex count

although she is probably specifically talks about bodies

[sweet marten]

all the metahuman faces are the exact same vert count and order. I'm not sure about Neo and Trinity as they were custom made, but likely they are also the same vert count.

[fresh monolith]

If you have different type of eyelashes it can give you different vertex count

probably teeth as well, they have to be the same

[hollow arch]

Is there anyone i can pay to make a youtube video on trimming down metahuman bone count? To make it less demanding in a video game context.

[floral gulch]

Im going to assume you meant the polygon count. Technically you can mess with the LOD but if youre shooting for lower quality, you may want to look at different solutions

[cobalt saddle]

Hi guys, I’m animating a Metahuman character using take recorder everything is good just the male hair it seems floating around without following the head movement! Can you please help me or tell me what’s wrong?

You can clearly see his eyebrows not in the right place!

[toxic narwhal]

Hi! Check this parameter.

[cobalt saddle]

Alright, I’ll give it a try!

[cobalt saddle]

It’s enabled by default and still the same issue!

[simple forge]

question, what version of ue is this happening in?

[cobalt saddle]

UE4.27.1

[simple forge]

have you tried updating to 4.27.2?

[cobalt saddle]

Not yet

I didn’t receive an update notification!

[simple forge]

I saw someone had this issue in the new lighting preset project #metahumans message

[cobalt saddle]

Yeah, same issue!

I don’t know if my plugins are compatible with UE5 or not!

[simple forge]

I would at least try updating to 4.27.2

and then i would check for updates for quixel bridge and see if you have the bridge 4.5 plugin downloaded

[cobalt saddle]

I have UE5 too, I’ll update to UE 4.27.2

I’ll try it now, thanks!

[cobalt saddle]

didn't work

[cobalt saddle]

I have the same problem, did you fix it?

[hollow merlin]

No. I imported two metahumans and only one had the issue. It seems like a bug but it doesn’t happen every time

[cobalt saddle]

You use iClone live link, right?

[grand prawn]

Is his hair floating because of the Groom being Beta?

[simple forge]

interesting that a lot of people are having this issue. Is this a snapshot from the lighting preset project?

[grand prawn]

Yes sir it is. Using UE5. The animation pose comes from the "Animation Starter Pack" by Epic Games.

[cobalt saddle]

I have disabled the visibility of eyebrows. No eyebrows better than floating ones!

[tawny quail]

anyone have any more on this? Looks like its affecting eyebrows, fuzz, eyelashes

[tawny quail]

never mind, i've found the fix if its of any interest. Eyebrows, fuzz, and eyelashes are missing their binding asset. Set that back to the relevant asset and its all good.

[simple forge]

you are awesome!!

[cobalt saddle]

Thank you so much!!!

[slate jetty]

I'm importing some outfits into UE5 to use on metahumans, will I have to bone weight the assets in a 3D app or can I do that within UE?

[plain haven]

You'd still have to do the weighting in a DCC tool.

[slate jetty]

Thanks!

[proud trout]

Hi, I'm using movierender but MTH is softly blurred... been rendering antialias at 64, also turned off motion blur post process.. Anyone have ideas what causing this?

[cobalt saddle]

Try to disable manual focus

Hi guys, can you please tell me how to fix his neck? I’m using iClone for animations!

[hollow arch]

maybe because metahuman has 2 neck bones?

[cobalt saddle]

I dunno 🤷‍♂️

I’m using take recorder and iClone

[cobalt saddle]

I just figured it out, someone helped me online. I forgot to choose record to possessable object from take recorder options!

Record type too

[dull yoke]

https://youtu.be/d2hkfSslHgE More fitted for animations and digital fashion renders so I hope it helps someone or gives them an idea on how to tackle the problem a different way!

[cobalt saddle]

Checking it rn!

[frozen bolt]

I was able to sculpt this extraterrestrial humanoid character in zbrush, wrap to mh basemesh, import to maya and have its bones offset ready for mh face controls. it's working %100, as you can see shapes and wrinkle maps also works perfectly. I can make full tutorial on custom metahuman starting with zbrush/maya roundtrip, setting up lips, eyes and cartilage (which was the hardest part) and import to maya, bones offset and shape retargeting.

what I don't know about is roundtripping maya to unreal. I don't know much about unreal rigging and how they setup metahuman rigs in unreal.

any help or suggestion on maya to unreal workflows would be much appreciated!

[copper valley]

hi everyone. I try to do mocap i nreal time with ipiMocapRecorder and ipi Mocap Studio with a kinect one sensor. I managed to make the connection via live link, opened the metahuman blueprint that i want to animate in realtime and under components i selected body. On the right side under details i found the skeletal mesh wich i double clicked. In the following window i can select a preview controller to livelink preview and choose my instance under live link subject name. So the preview applies the mocap on the skeleton. But in the viewport itself the charakter is not animated. . What am i missing?

[rich ingot]

What are the minimum hardware+software requirements for a metahuman mocap pipeline?

[mild dagger]

Hello guys!
I'm trying to customize a Metahuman in Maya to make it seems like a real person i have as reference and reimport the new custom mesh back in UE 4.27. I duplicated the origina MH mesh, unbinded the skinning, modified it and then copied the skin weight to the modified one, now i'm pretty happy with the result i have inside maya, all the blendshapes are there and the new model its working fine. The problem is now i'm stuck couse i dont know how to properly export it from maya, reimport it in UE and assign the new mesh to the original metahuman (that is already loaded in UE).
Has anyone experimented with this kind of workflow? Do you Have some suggestions for this?
Thanks for you time 🙂

[mild dagger]

pretty much same problem here

[frozen bolt]

yeah after 5 hours of work, able to import custom mh from maya to unreal
(eyes missing tho I'll try to find a solution)

[reef saffron]

Has anyone had difficulty with getting the mega scans plug-in to work on UE 4.27.2? I’ve tried reinstalling it several times and since I can’t get the plug-in to work, I can’t import the metahuman.

[hollow arch]

Currently no info anywhere on how to do this

Btw

[mild dagger]

i dont sorry

[simple forge]

what is happening exactly? Are you getting an error message?

[reef saffron]

i figured it out. i installed the UE to a different directory

🤦🏽‍♀️

Thank you

[simple forge]

so glad you got it sorted!!

[plain orbit]

Hey, that model looks really good!! How hard was it to do this custom model? Did you use this tutorial? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7_8bsOOw3E I wanted to try this today but I have only used Maya like 2 times ever

I wanted to know if it was really difficult for a beginner in Maya or if it's fairly simple

[frozen bolt]

I have basically tried every approach, Gabriele's script does its job pretty well but "the rig only works in maya" after the joint offset, things gets messy in unreal side.
There is a way to import your edited rig into unreal engine (search manaforce in ytbe and I think he is here @bitter sparrow ) he had success importing into unreal but the change on mesh was a simple blendshape, if you don't mess around with joints and do just blendshape changes, it works just fine in ue. But too many going under the surface for metahumans and to be specific there is this one asset that comes with each mh source folder with the extension of *.DNA and its in binary, no one knows how to edit or skip that asset.
I got the morph targets/blendshapes working but face skel. wont move when that .dna asset working in relation to anim post process bp so..
I'm very close to give up on custom metahuman roundtrip..
Untill they let us mortals do it with simple import/export operations or some Rigging TD wizard like Gabriele Pellegrini does something, we are out of luck (:

[spiral sierra]

in the details panel of your animation/metahuman blueprint, search for 'Update Animation' - check the box that says Update Animation in Editor. That usually works.

[valid stump]

check the blueprint details, under skeletal mesh, search for Update Animation in Editor and tick the box

[valid stump]

tried this? - https://youtu.be/Dimfadg7J5w

[night iron]

Does anyone know what would cause the subsurface scattering to create these hot spots on a Metahuman in UE5

[knotty jolt]

@valid stump Nope, but I don't use Maya. I think it could be done in Houdini with a node network for automatically transferring weights to other bones before deleting them, that should do the trick. It's not a priority for me right now tho, but I'll look into it in the future

[frozen bolt]

looks like the lights sampling or shadow settings on that specific light. try playing with those values. disable/enable lumen or rtx whatever there is

[frozen bolt]

the body rig is heavy yeah, but it's the RBF solver doing its calculations on corrective bones that makes those beautiful deformations. I don't think there will ever be a "one rig for all kind" of stuff and in games its mostly the clothing that matters anyways.

[night iron]

Thanks, I've been screwing around with those settings for a while but no luck. I think I found a workaround by putting a high number into the contact shadows like 2-3. The contact shadows basically disappear at that value but so does the noisy transmission/sss. Not ideal but it seems to work.

[frozen bolt]

yeah thats about it unless pathtraced 👍

[distant token]

Sorry for the cursed image but my metahumans facial hair seems to have separated itself from the skin, this happens with all metahumans import. Any ideas?

[frozen bolt]

thats weird, try opening the groom asset and simulate to see if its good again, if it looks ok save and close. if not, duplicate the groom asset, retarget that dupe to your face mesh, select the duplicated groom on your bp again.

[knotty jolt]

True, it's clear that MetaHuman was made with quality over performance in mind, probably more geared towards virtual production and next gen stuff.

[distant token]

Re-simulating did the trick, thanks!

[simple forge]

i would check my light settings and see if transmission is turned off

[simple forge]

@tawny quail found the solution #metahumans message

[night iron]

That was the first thing I checked. It seems like something is broken in UE5... gonna try 4.27

[digital atlas]

Once I finish getting a metahuman into my project and fix the bone mappings, etc, whats the best way for me to make a layer of tattoos that fits the same mesh that I can just paste over the skin? Is it a decal? Can I make one by copying the mesh into blender and drawing on it there?

[cobalt saddle]

I think you can use mixer for that!