New facial animations working for legacy models? or atleast for metahuman

[icy ingot]

would like to see them working cuz rn exporting the anim even to a metahuman model doesnt make the face animations work, infact theres no Lod data action at all

[west hull]

Idk how they work @feral badge

[feral badge]

Metahuman DNA export broke with the new season, so it's not working at the moment for metahuman skins. Those animations should work for legacy skins through since they use the 3l to legacy curve mappings to convert them

[icy ingot]

i see, but they are not for some reason 😔 , this happens with la chona emote

im using legacy skin

thought it was outdated plugin but not

[icy ingot]

it is related to not having latest blender ver?

[feral badge]

If you're using v4 and your plugin is synced then it should work on any blender version over 5.0

@austere lynx are the metahuman to legacy mappings working for you at the moment?

[austere lynx]

hasn't worked for me

[feral badge]

Odd, I'll have to take a look and see why it's not working right. I haven't seen any errors for reading the mappings, so unless they changed the layout it shouldn't have broke 🤔

[icy ingot]

Would like to see it

Ty very much for your job, u all are great

❤️

[feral badge]

Got it! They changed the metahuman curve identifier from "is_3L" to "is_3l" so we weren't detecting it as metahuman face curves 😅 It'll be fixed in the next update, but if you want to manually fix it you can change that check in
%appdata%\Blender Foundation\Blender\5.x\scripts\startup\fortnite_porting\processing\context\anim_context.py (where 5.x = your blender version, like 5.0 or 5.1)
https://github.com/h4lfheart/FortnitePorting/commit/59e243cda6675e763c4176fbad54653646ac603e

[dusky bay]

This hasn't worked since fp 4.0

[icy ingot]

Tysm ❤️❤️

[dusky bay]

I and another person told you about this on the very first day of fp release.

[icy ingot]

At least now it does

HawksWink

[feral badge]

Odd, it's worked for me until this latest update, no clue why though 😅

[dusky bay]

😑

[feral badge]

Either way, it's fixed now so it shouldn't be an issue anymore

[dusky bay]

With 4.3 or 4.4?

[feral badge]

It'll be in v4.0.5 since I just made the change a few minutes ago, so it's not in a published version yet

[dusky bay]

What about the physics asset? When will it be added?

[feral badge]

Not sure, I haven't looked into that so I'm not sure what all would be involved with implementing that

[dusky bay]

The day passed, the number changed, and nothing changed

[feral badge]

That looks like a different issue, since the shape keys aren't even being applied. I see that the 3 meshes are separate, did you import this directly from Fortnite Porting using the Assets tab or the Files tab?

[dusky bay]

Everything in turn

And there's a miss everywhere

[feral badge]

Can you send a screenshot of your blender system console window? You can open that by clicking "Window -> Toggle System Console" in blender

[dusky bay]

I'm not home right now. I'll send you a message as soon as I get home

[dusky bay]

Here it is

[feral badge]

Huh, that's an error with it exporting the metahuman arkit poseasset, if you go to the path in the error message is the file there? Also, since Evie uses a legacy head rig you'd want to use this ARKit poseasset instead

FortniteGame/Content/ArtTools/Pose_Asset_Remaps/ARKit_Remap_PoseAsset

I'm a little confused though, I can see in the console that it did import the base .uepose for her head, but there aren't any shape keys in your screenshot

[dusky bay]

So the form keys remained the same? Or was that the whole point and my translator mistranslated...

[dusky bay]

They remained original

[feral badge]

When you first import her, you should have all these shape keys on the head. Did they not import for you, or did you delete them?

[dusky bay]

The very first time (yesterday) I left them and they haven't changed

The second time I deleted all the form keys and no new ones were added

[feral badge]

You need to leave the original shape keys on the head when importing the ARKit PoseAsset, since it uses the original ones to make the new ones. Try importing ARKit_Remap_PoseAsset with the original shape keys on the head, you should see all the new ARKit shape keys get added to the bottom of the list

[dusky bay]

But then the metahuman keys won't be added

[feral badge]

You can't add metahuman shape keys to a legacy head model without the use of a different plugin. If you want to export animations that use metahuman shape keys on a legacy skin, all you have to do is export the animation like normal and FP will convert the metahuman animation to legacy so it works on that skin

Like for example, La Chona uses metahuman face animations, but when I export it onto (legacy) Evie it animates the face using the legacy face shape keys

[dusky bay]

Wouldn't it be easier to create a script for the old skins based on the metahuman keys and at least rename them?

at least you can use the name of the keys for new characters as a basis

[feral badge]

Fortnite has mappings to convert animations between metahuman and legacy (that's how emotes work in-game), which is what FP uses to do that conversion. You can't directly rename legacy keys to match metahuman keys because they aren't the same movements

[dusky bay]

What are the differences in the number of keys?

[feral badge]

Metahumans have around 170 shape keys, and legacy skins only have around 65

Metahumans also have a ton more face bones, which is why they're able to make so many little tweak shape keys instead of just having general face position ones like legacy skins have

[dusky bay]

Okay