@Outcast DevSchool Thank you very much for putting this series together, it was extremely useful. One extra thing I needed to do after this was copy three sockets from the ALS AnimMans head bone and paste them on the metahumans face, then change three CameraSystem functions in the ALS Metahuman blueprint to reference the face skel mesh instead of the main mesh, the camera spring arm doesn't work unless this is done.

Great tutorial, gonna keep an eye on part 2! Loving MetaHuman so far, it's incredible and being able to combine it with ALS will give us much more options. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!

@OutcastDevSchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I agree! I'm super excited to see what people come up with using MetaHumans!

@MizzoFrizzo

Жыл бұрын

Can you recommend any tutorials for doing this in UE5.1??

Subscribed! Keep up the good work! Nice touch showing how to get the windows from the menus for those that don't have them open. Looking forward to part2!

Detailed and clear walkthrough. Will help lots of people with this. Metahuman Creator is incredible!

Did some serious heavy lifting fitting these together. Well done man, earned a sub. Keep it up.

Great vid! I appreciate the detailed walkthrough. Even if I wasn't interested in retargeting a MetaHuman, you show useful overall information for general retargeting with ALSv4.

@whitestonejazz

2 жыл бұрын

I think this comment is a bot.

@ryanmuoio6569

2 жыл бұрын

@@whitestonejazz, why would it be a bot?

great walk through and very heavily detailed!! Metahuman was giving me such a hard time and youve helped me through it!!

Thanks for the awesome video! It's really perfect. How you figured this stuff out on your own is beyond me :P

Great tutorial, just what I needed! Cant wait for part 2!

Thank you so much, I have been struggling with this for weeks now

Very very very good! It was all I needed! I hope to see more videos on the channel, because it helped me a lot!

Excellent tutorial, very professional, looking forward to more on state machines as well. Cheers

Thanks dude, looking forward learning more from you!

Thank you so much you rock I was searching this for months just subscribed

FIX FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO MOVE If anyone can't move at 22:45 When you get to 18:40. When you paste that section of code, if you copied and pasted the 'Event Begin Play' node, you have 2 choice, follow the tutorial way and link it up to event tick and do once instead of begin play, or if you want to / accidentally used Begin Play, make sure you right click begin play and add 'call parent function' Then link it up so it goes Event Begin Play > Parent: Begin Play > The Code. This means that it will call the parents begin play (ALS_Base_Character), and then do the code you ask it to, instead of it only doing the code you ask. Without calling the parent, you basically overwrite the begin play and it won't setup everything and you end up not being able to move and loads more issues.

The hair physics looks amazing

Great tutorial brother. Keep it up!

Thank you for this! Super helpful!

That was great tutorial! You're a lifesafer

Thank you, great tutorial!

amazing tutorial.

ty. Added it to my playlist.

When looking for your body, Torso, pants etc..Instead of typing and trying to find the right one, I used the magnifying glass to find the right mesh, then clicked the arrow to apply it. I didn't have to search for it or type. Its a bit faster.

any chance we can get a updated version for UE5 cause they changed the entire re-targeting system

Have you had any problems with the hair disappearing?

ma boy, you won a subscriber

Hey man, Nice video! I've actually watched all 3 of your videos and they've helped a ton. However, my previous ALS system I had somehow got corrupted so I had to start over and figured I'd go through these videos again. This time around, my Foot IK will not work. Everything is set up exactly how it's supposed to be, however, it will not work. I am using UE5 (was before too) Any idea whats going on?

Thanks for this! Edit: Any notes about Retargeting differences to the ALS community version?

Awe, I got to a point in my project where I want to replace my characters with actual detailed models. Figured Id try meta humans and came across this video. Everything was working great for a bit until my characters idle pose was twitching out. Decided to switch back and try a different model. Now my main ALS character is twitching out as well. Had to roll my whole project back to yesterday. Careful out there!

Keep going man

Great! Subscibed! very much appreciated.

The Goat

Thanks for tutorial, thats what i want ❤. Just ask one thing, could i keep the same virtual bones that als wepon virtual bones, could it exact fit the weapons that als have? Why did u change the wepon carry system? Thanks.

Great video! Leaves nothing more to ask! Though, the ALS skel I have, has a T pose as base pose. But it is probably that I am using unofficial full C++ version of the ALS made by dyanikoglu

Hey, can this video be updated for Ue5? I'm having problems with the duplicate and retarget blueprint switching ALS to MH. 10:41 it says I have no results when trying to add the Metahuman_base_skel.

for anyone trying this in UE5, there is no select rig in the skeleton retargetting. So i'm guessing you would have to create 2 IK rigs, 1 for the als character and one for the metahuman then us IK retargetting to get it to work.

You're a legend

thank you my dude

do you do more than just locomotion? and would you be interested in working on a GI Joe video game? very basic stuff to make a fella shoot, crouch, hurtle cover, IK weapons, etc

When I retarget the animation asset the mesh in the AnimBP looks very weird and huge, it found out that it is because of the layering blend, how do i fix it?

Is there a reason it doesn't give me an option to import after i import the metahuman from bridge and accept the change of settings?

good job bruv

Legend

Can you please do this in the new released UE5? Retarget manager is different and I can't really find the things you do. I tried everything I'm gonna cry

Thank you!

Mine isnt working at all! I watched through the video multiple times and made sure everything was done the exact same but it still wont work do you know what could have possibly gone wrong?

@darrenjackson8854

2 жыл бұрын

same

Very Helpful, thank you but is there any way to change the metahuman character while the game is running, Like U want to change character mesh from my Inventory I've done it with normal UE character but I didn't try this with metahuman, I mean if there is any way to get metahuman as one mesh.

Adding Those Bones To Set That IK Up

thank you!

Good job

Does anyone have any tutorial to CREATE animations importing the bones of ALSV4 using blender or other? Please help!!

A lot has changed in UE5, so trying to figure out the rest of the settings after integrating MH body with ALS file. Any suggestion?

por desgracia no me actualiza el viewport del skeletal, por lo que no he podido rotar los brazos :(

Does anyone know if the ALS Skeleton A-Pose is the same as the default UE Mani?

HII , WILL THIS AFFECT OTHER ANIMATION MADE FOR ALSV4 ? LIKE IF I FOLLOW OTHER TUTORAILS FOR IT AS BASE

Great Tutorial, could you fix ragdoll in part 2 too? thanks again

@OutcastDevSchool

3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing!

Has anyone has any luck copying over the LODSync from the metahuman character? I copied into my ALS character and the LOD seems to only apply to the face, not the rest of the body

Hey, I have a problem, the performance decreases to 17 FPS, do I have to do something so that the performance does not decrease so much?

@geoulhs9405

2 жыл бұрын

that happens if you replace the anim man with pretty much any model idk why and in this case we use a meta human so its natural for the fps to drop that much. You can lower the quality in Settings/Engine Scaleability Setting if you haven't already.

I did everything on this video and the virtual bones on Foot IK dont move, its like they are not assigned to the skeleton even though i can move around the green dots of Effectors. :(

At 4:00 I dont have a source skeleton, tried a few different tutorials but I never get any items in my source like yu have items under source mines is empty

The set up a Rig feature is missing in UE5, is there a workaround please?

Can you go over how to add a different body with the metahuman head via this method?

this way will not work with the NEW UE5.. Please help

My metahuman's hands are not attaching to its body,what to do

I love you

I think my character's hands are floating in air while my whole other character is still unlike your when I activate mh_animbp blueprint,how to fix this...

Amazing Thank YOU for this ! I have one issue so far and that is when I'm fixing the knee targets and follow step by step my characters right leg looks like its getting warped in and out when I run or move my character. Wondering what might have caused that problem? Any Fix?

@i__wond3r475

3 жыл бұрын

I Fixed my problem. The solution was I needed to assign my VB IK_Foot_R & L to the Apply IK to Feet. Once I did that everything ran smooth. Thank you again.

@sameervakil4386

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly where ??

@visceralerror

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, how exactly did you solve this problem? I have been configuring LODSync in lod 0 and it is still going wrong.

Hey, do you know why i cant sprint after doing all this?

for me it doesnt show in the retarget anim bp window

Do i have to make a copy of the ALS? is it ok to do the work there instead of making a copy of it? thanks

@OutcastDevSchool

2 жыл бұрын

You can. Either way will work!

@modz7014

2 жыл бұрын

@@OutcastDevSchool thanks bro

hello !! he doesn't worked on ue5 preview 2, please can you show us how to do this on ue 5 ?

SO ....all this nice ....alot tutorials dowing characters to ALS.... .but what about ALS character skils to the Manny robo (als retarget to tird person manny robo in ue5) nobody showing that ...is it posible? will be nice a tutorial on that .ty for the videos

Hey! Great tutorial, I'm just having an issue as the characters face, when I apply the Face_AnimBP, it seems to stretch the neck down to the bottom of the torso, which clips through the torso a lot. I've looked through the live link stuff and more and don't seem to know why it's happening. Anything you know that could help?

@chaseparkerfilms

2 жыл бұрын

This is happening to me too, if I find anything out I will let you know!

@chaseparkerfilms

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! if this is still happening to you I found that it is because the LODs aren't set up. I set up the LODSync component and now everything is fine

my torso and legs aren't matching up when i jump :(

does it also work without using ALSV4?

anyone else having the problem where unreal won't detect the megascans plugin?

I tried to export the metahuman and it did absolutely nothing

how do you do this with UE5

my skeletal mesh and face mesh kind of explode and get much larger and very jumbled when i apply the anim blueprint the first time. Can't figure out how to fix.

@embyrarts8712

2 жыл бұрын

my retargeted animations all look good once I've generated new files

@GreenSkyGaming

2 жыл бұрын

Got the same issue. If you're using the UE5, I think it happens because of the overhauled retargeting system. Sadly I didn't find any solution to it.

@19:27 you're connecting to nodes that don't exist for me... D:

Great video. I thank you :3 Can someone tell me how i coul implement meele weapon Animations to my ALS animations ?

I followed your video 3 times but clothes does not work with animation (body animation works). Any idea?

@GokdenizCetin

2 жыл бұрын

Alright, finally I found how to fix it thanks to reddit user @HorseFeathers55. Go to "ALS_MetaHuman_CharacterBP" > Construction Script and remove the link which goes to Set Dynamic Materials. After that, drag "MH_Legs, MH_Torso, MH_Feet and MH_Face" skeletal meshes from the top left corner and drop to the blueprint (do not choose grooms). Connect all of those into Set Master Pose Component's target. And done, hope it was helpful!

@souhaibbenchaker4824

2 жыл бұрын

@@GokdenizCetin I can't thank you enough! I've been on it for soooo long lol

@souhaibbenchaker4824

2 жыл бұрын

@@GokdenizCetin can I get in touch with you on discord or email or Reddit? Since we both working on the same thing we might help each other our

Hello! Im 17 min in the video and how do you do this if your character is tall?

My montages still aren't working? Just a T-pose anytime I perform a roll or a mantle or get up

@BCrudeless

2 жыл бұрын

Edit- I fixed them my als skeleton was messed up from merging bones

In ue5 in 5:00 there's no option "set up rig". Any ideas?

@yun1sz

2 жыл бұрын

thats my problem too

@vortexplays4946

2 жыл бұрын

you have to use ik rigs instead. make 2 ik rigs for the skeletons then setup the bone chains for things like the arms, legs, spine, head and fingers. then when you retarget the anim blueprint there will be an option to use the ik retargeter

Hey there, Great tutorial, thank you. Although my metahuman moves ok, her arms are crossed behind herself, any idea why, please?

@smudgybrown67

2 жыл бұрын

It's ok, sussed. Helps when you have the original ALS Dude in the APose and not a TPose, prior to retargetting.

@smudgybrown67

2 жыл бұрын

@Hecker Hey, Make sure the ALS dudes skeleton is in normal APose prior to retargeting. Mine messed up because it was set to TPose.

@smudgybrown67

2 жыл бұрын

@Hecker I know it's a pain starting again from scratch, but the results will be worth it. Make sure all the bone naming conventions were correct? Also, ensure nodes contain correct bone names. Give me a shout if you problems and if your on for it, we can sort it online.

@smudgybrown67

2 жыл бұрын

@Hecker Yes, the MH upper arm bones were moved up 5 and back by 15. So his hands are sort of in line with his hips. Then ensure you use this as current pose. Also, ensure the retargeting options are set correctly.

Hey mate im 22 min in and have followed every step exactly. Only difference is that when i play the game the head isnt attached to the body when i run around.. Not sure what ive done wrong. Please help

@OutcastDevSchool

3 жыл бұрын

Make sure the construction script is set up correctly! Join the discord for the channel and I'll send you a screenshot of what it should look like! discord.gg/SufnTkC7eV Make sure that the head is using the face animbp too.

@ezekielhabegger

3 жыл бұрын

For others: make sure the MH_face skeletal mesh is a child (attached/drop down) of the default inherited mesh.

in that case the limited height and bodytypes of metahumans makes life easy

I have an issue where the camera is too close to my character and clipping into his head. Anyone have this same issue?

@waltoncharles8972

2 жыл бұрын

nvm fixed

@GokdenizCetin

2 жыл бұрын

it happens when you forgot the set ALS gamemode

Hello, I am a complete beginner and when it came to 22:47 I had to stop. The character is not moving with WASD and there is a Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property MovementCurve_51_FDDCE641..(..etc...etc..)" The mouse-rotation is working and also the idle-animation of my Metahuman is working. Does someone know how to solve it?

@Bushib

2 жыл бұрын

I have the same problem any solutions?

@techno2776

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bushib No:(

@Bushib

2 жыл бұрын

i think i found the solution i think i did something wrong cause when i made another project with ALSV4 and followed every step now it worked, hope it will work for you 2

@techno2776

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bushib Thank you!

@MyloTheAverageSniper

2 жыл бұрын

For anyone else who has this issue. When you get to 18:40. When you paste that section of code, if you copied and pasted the 'Event Begin Play' node, you have 2 choice, follow the tutorial way and link it up to event tick and do once instead of begin play, or if you want to / accidentally used beginplay, make sure you right click begin play and add 'call parent function' Then link it up so it goes Event Begin Play > Parent: Begin Play > The Code. This means that it will call the parents begin play (ALS_Base_Character), and then do the code you ask it to, instead of it only doing the code you ask. Without calling the parent, you basically overwrite the begin play and it won't setup everything and you end up not being able to move and loads more issues.

I tryed to follow what you did, all the stuff works, but have one issue with the hair, my female character is bald, and hair only appear when i move backwards or hold RMB when the camera is close to the character, so problem is that hair is visible only when the camera is close to character, can you help me to fix this issue? P.S i surfed the google, and looks like it's LOD problem that the hair i have is visible only at lod0 and 1 , there is any solution i can do?

@OutcastDevSchool

3 жыл бұрын

Use the LOD sync component to force it to go no further than LOD1

@reallygoodgames1172

3 жыл бұрын

You maybe need to think about using a different hair groom for your character also, many of the grooms dont have full LODs yet, there is a warning in the Metahuman creator if you choose a hairstyle without LODs . setting LOD sync to 1 is a good temporary solution but you dont want your metahuman staying at LOD 1 when they are far away in a cut scene etc.

@loganankarberg2296

3 жыл бұрын

Hey I figured out how to solve this. Locate the groom asset for your hair in your metahumans folder, open it, go to the LODs panel on the left, and go to the very bottom. Change the LOD selection type from CPU to GPU. That's it! Your LODs don't have to be forced to 0.

@betraid

3 жыл бұрын

@@loganankarberg2296 That's works, nice solution m8, just checked it out, and it works perfecty, thank you:)

@leviathangamesdev1938

2 жыл бұрын

@@loganankarberg2296 crashed when I tried this

Hey i am having an issue with lod while walking the hair is disappearing

@FlowPoly

2 жыл бұрын

I have this issue, beard an everything but hair disappears, did you manage to find a fix?

@sameervakil4386

2 жыл бұрын

@@FlowPoly kzread.info/dash/bejne/d6Kmq4-QZse7lc4.html might help you

@sameervakil4386

2 жыл бұрын

@@FlowPoly just go to lod sync in viewport and ser force lod to 0 from -1

Love this tutorial. Really helped a lot. I have one issue - i got through the entire tutorial, and the only issue i have is the left foot keeps tapping. I've re-watched the footIK section, tried everything i can think of, and yet the foot just keeps tapping. Only the left foot too, so it's very strange.

@loganankarberg2296

3 жыл бұрын

Help with this?

@sameervakil4386

3 жыл бұрын

Have you found any solution for this ??

@wanderingzanzey2126

3 жыл бұрын

@@sameervakil4386 Yes, go to "Window" then "Developer Tools" and find "Log" and "out put log". In there you will find the events happening in the game and the error with the leg. For me, the logs ended up telling me that i had a virtual bone incorrrectly parented and it was being called every tick.

@zarakilian

3 жыл бұрын

@@wanderingzanzey2126 Could you elaborate on which virtual bone was incorrectly parented and where? Mine is doing exact same thing with left foot tapping but my out put log is not showing any event errors?

@zarakilian

3 жыл бұрын

Ok nvm XD ... I found my issue, it was the part where we searched for "ik_foot" and had to type in the "VB" prefix. I was typing in VB_ instead of a space in the IKFoot Bone names. I removed the underscore and put space in and voila.

When I open the skeleton part, I'm like 50 feet away from the skeleton and it won't let me get closer

@aitorllaneza7061

3 жыл бұрын

x2, have u found the solution?

@Hulkamazing

3 жыл бұрын

@@aitorllaneza7061 yeah.. But I think I'm why it did that, that little blue character thing, I don't have that, idk how to get it or use it.

@Hulkamazing

3 жыл бұрын

Um... Yeh, um... I didn't install the locomotion system before, dat's why...

Having issue where higher vault animations are not working

@leviathangamesdev1938

2 жыл бұрын

Fixed

my animations didn’t retarget properly. the idle has arms crossed through the body. I don’t know what is wrong.

@smudgybrown67

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Rupin, did you ever work out why?

@rupin4004

2 жыл бұрын

@@smudgybrown67 sorry man i didn't try to solve the issue because metahumans didn't actually fit my game's art style anyways, it is too realistic and im alone so I can't make such realistic graphics for the entire game. I hope you find a solution. All the best.

@smudgybrown67

2 жыл бұрын

@@rupin4004 Thank you for replying, Rudin. I sussed it, had the ALS Dude in an initial TPose and not the standard TPose. Hope your project is coming on well? You can always perform on other characters, btw.

Hello, Can you help me please. I did everything you told but when it gets to the part to setup face, hair , torso. For some reason the torso doesnt work . It looks like it has a skeleton for it self. How can I solve this .?

@OutcastDevSchool

3 жыл бұрын

MY Discord is Ethan C#2609, Send me some screenshots and/or project files. I'll take a look at it later today and see what I can do!

@JUANDIEGO885

3 жыл бұрын

did you solved? I have exactly the same problem!!

@DannyshRosli

3 жыл бұрын

@@OutcastDevSchool Hey ! Mine had that problem too, i change the animclass to my metahuman als blueprint, but only the hands and feets had any changes , the torso still in static pose

@OutcastDevSchool

3 жыл бұрын

Join the Outcast gamedev discord server, I'll see what I can do to help you both there. discord.gg/SufnTkC7eV

@DannyshRosli

3 жыл бұрын

@@OutcastDevSchool Done !

hey, i need help my animations arent working, th animation doesnt apply to the torso what do i do????

@souhaibbenchaker4824

2 жыл бұрын

Did you find any solution?

@nekoons

2 жыл бұрын

@@souhaibbenchaker4824 not yet

@souhaibbenchaker4824

2 жыл бұрын

@@nekoons just follow along and apply the the functions from Metahuman's construction scrip in ALS-metahuman construction script, enable master pose function should fix it.

@nekoons

2 жыл бұрын

@@souhaibbenchaker4824 i will check and see if it worked, thanks in advance

@souhaibbenchaker4824

2 жыл бұрын

@@nekoons that worked for me, before that I had to drag the torso, legs and feet skeletal meshes and plug them in set master pose in the construction script of als metahuman blueprint, but that I've followed along and it's working fine I don't need that anymore.

I got to the part where you fix the knees. but mine keeps to be wide open and didn't fix the feet tapping. What should I do teacher.?

@reallygoodgames1172

3 жыл бұрын

The part where he fixes the foot ik fixed the tapping for me. Maybe go over that part again and see what you missed

@ezekielhabegger

3 жыл бұрын

I've rewatched it a few times and am still having a foot tapping issue :/ any fixes?

@reallygoodgames1172

3 жыл бұрын

@@ezekielhabegger Look carefully at the bits where you replace "ik_foot_l" etc with with "VB ik_foot_l" for the bone names in the blueprint. You may have missed or misspelt one of these or misspelt the bone VB bone names when you were adding them. It's when I did that that the tapping stopped

@ezekielhabegger

3 жыл бұрын

@@reallygoodgames1172 I went back through that bit and just retyped everything manually and that fixed it, guess the system just needed to refresh or I had a typo somewhere. Thank you!

@sameervakil4386

3 жыл бұрын

Mine is still not fixed after re-watch any idea why ??

dude, my brain just cant with all this, for real, im trying to make a third person complex movement but its just imposible for me hahaha