When re-targeting, just create chain for all the left side first (except head, neck spine), select all left limbs, right click and select Mirror Chain, the editor will automatically chain all the right side limbs...hope this helps! 😉

@jayfox601

10 ай бұрын

Hero comment 😊

Instead of rotating the joints into position, there is an anim sequence you can use to move your target character into the T Pose. It's much faster and easier. Use the 'create' option, choose 'import from animation sequence' and search for the animation called 'MM_T_Pose' and it's included in the third person content pack

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Quite handy if you have the T pose already! If not, the long way is good to know too (for those reading, you can also save your handmade T pose and use later as commenter here suggests!) Thx for adding the tip!

@kennetherhabor5543

Жыл бұрын

Nice tip to know. Didn't know there was a T-pose that comes with the third person pack.

@mathewisikhuemen9913

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for tip!!

@frankyfantasticmedia9718

10 ай бұрын

Worked like a charm!

I just have to say that your videos are, by far, the best ones on Unreal I've come across. Not only their usefulness but their pacing and focus on not making Unreal unnecessarily hard. Lots of Swedish thanks!

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks! We proudly have our Dala horse in the dining room too 😀

@operators-game

Жыл бұрын

Want to give the same shout-out from another part of Sweden. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for this. I really appreciated the fact that you went through everything in real time, and explained the functionality you were demonstrating. Subscribed.

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

top tier instruction... my new fave channel. straight to the points but keeping it fun and easy to follow along. million thanks to u king

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

Thank you for this video. I was already on the verge of giving up trying to learn animations since it always becomes jumbled up. Thanks again, subscribed.

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! Have fun animating!

You have a soothing yet entertaining voice and personality for tutorials my guy! Thanks for putting these out. Just subbed 😎

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Aww, thanks!!

Amazing, this helped so much! Really appreciate your teaching style. :)

This was a really really awsome video. Thank you so much ! I understand a little bit more Skeletons, animations and of course retargeting !

Thanks for your videos! Cool, clean and easy as always!

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Man i've been trying to retarget (new to unreal) a animation for holding a gun for the last 5 days. Nothing really worked. Read documentation, watched tutorials, dug into it by myself, but your Video was really helpful. The arms and fingers were always off, but i got it done with your help. Thanks man

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

That’s great!

Thank you for all of your videos!

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Exactly what i needed, thanks

Thanks for the wonderful tutorial.

Fantastic video. Great information.

Good and helpful video!

There were some things you did that made me itch all over while watching this video, like not saving till almost the end. Lol. I was genuinely scared especially seeing how UE5 crashes like no man's business. Overall, the tutorial was simple and clear. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha, yeah, that’s one of my worst habits… not saving… glad you found the info useful!

Very helpful video

Dude I would pay good money for this sort of video courses! Amazing stuff

@3dJC

10 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

would definitely like to know more about goals and weights and how they improve retargeting

Bro thanks so much!😁

@3dJC

Ай бұрын

You're welcome! 5.4 has some new tricks too, I’ll need to make an update eventually for that too…

Great video. Any tips on preventing feet sliding? Scale source to target or vice versa?

thank you very much sir

thank you so much, great video! Is there a particular reason why we used the UE mannequin as the "middle man" between the mixamo IK rig to the Metahuman one? Rather than duplicating the retargeter and swapping out the target, could we have just retargeted straight to the metahuman?

How do you add the retargeted animation to an existing third person character blueprint?

Cool

Is there a way to migrate a retargeted metahuman to a new project WITH the imported animations? A test project worked fine, but the migrate utility did not bring the animations along with the metahuman. Looks like you need to redo the retargeting in every new project.

como es que no llegué aqui antes? tremendo!

@3dJC

7 ай бұрын

mejor tarde que nunca :)

I have a strange issue, when I go to the retargeter the entire left panel is missing. Where can I find it? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks for this! The one issue I have is that after leaving Edit pose mode my MH skeleton knees are slightly bent so my MH walks in a slightly crouched position. Any suggestions to correct welcome!

@Bobh153

10 ай бұрын

Same for me. Mixamo run animations appear ok, but for walking, looking, bowing etc. where the figure should be erect, it is crouched. It appears in the sequencer the base animation can be corrected, but it would be better if it just worked. Have rechecked ikrig and ikretargeter and they appear to follow your instructions.

Thank you for all your amazing tutorials! Can I use this same method to retarget animations to characters made in Reallusion's Character Creator 4?

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Yeah you should totally be able to mix and match characters.

Thanks for the tutorial! Mostly it works great, however when using root motion the animations break. There must be something with the root bone. Is there a way to fix it and if so can you make a tutorial about it? Thank you in advance!

i came here to try and figure out how to fix a problem with the retargeting animation not being proper, went to my chains and removed most of them and just simply left spine head left arm right arm left leg and right leg chains, all things are 100% proper on my retargeting animation now, so all i really needed to add was the ones i mentioned on the target ik rig, looks good in retargeter but not after retargeting animation

Hi good peeps. A technique I discovered to speed up your process. Instead of aligning and rotating joints, make sure you're on the source and click on the create button. When there select "export pose asset". Save it where you'd like. Now go to the target and click on create. From there you can load the pose asset you just exported. It should perfectly align. Hope that helps.

are you planning on making a video on how to make facial movements with audio? so the character is talking? I want to make films with UR5 but I don't see really any videos on how to do so.

@3dJC

8 ай бұрын

I won’t have time myself anytime soon, but this is a great video, talking about face, mocap and animation from the recent animation fellowship that’s available for a limited time from the unreal engine education pages… kzread.info/dash/bejne/X66fx6-Fj9mcYLQ.htmlsi=02xZbpH_mWsCwdUh

How would you add an “Additive Control Rig” to the Metahuman to polish the Retargeter animation?

@3dJC

7 ай бұрын

ah just click on the + next to the CR track and choose "Additive", then you can make additive changes to the existing animation

i'm following all of the steps in the beginning, but when i got to select my Metahuman character, it only has the face part and not the whole body. how do i fix this? Thanks! Awesome videos!!

Nice tutorial! My fingers are all mixed up however, any got this issue?

So I know the new Control Rig thing is beyond insane, and just looking at it makes me wonder what they were thinking. Do you plan on releasing a tutorial on how to make that.... gigantic thing? lol

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Eventually… working thru it now!

@yearight1205

Жыл бұрын

@@3dJC Just curious, what are your thoughts on it? Do you think it has a future? or do you think they were being unrealistic in expecting people to make all that, and that people are just going to keep making the older one that's pretty straight forward?

thank you thank you thank you

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome - got that mouse working?

@certifiedvirtualboy

Жыл бұрын

@@3dJC overtime

@certifiedvirtualboy

Жыл бұрын

@@3dJC while I've got you. I'm in the sequencer and when I add my character to the timeline it only comes up with a face rig. No tab for animation. Any idea what's going on?

@certifiedvirtualboy

Жыл бұрын

I actually added it myself ty

The arms are working fine but in the Third Person Character the legs are not rlly going anywhere and the animation is in slow motion until it reaches max speed, 500.?

What an amazing video ! Thank you ! Is their a way that the MetaHuman head link to the mixamo animation?

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Not sure what you mean? The metahuman’s head should be following the same as the mixamo character animation…

Hello, am new to UE. And i already download and import the metahuman. But they dont seem to have an IK Rig by default. Been looking in the folder with no luck. The one i download seems to be consists of multiple skeletal mesh, like hands only, leg only, and body only. How do i join them

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

What’s the name of the character you downloaded?

@v-bri8563

Жыл бұрын

@@3dJC It was Bryan but i mix n match the face and the outfit as well. And i download it on medium quality. idk why, should i download original with out using MHC first?

Hello JC, amazing tutorial... Very insightful. I noticed the thumb of the metahuman was looking weird after retargeting. How can that be fixed please?

@3dJC

11 ай бұрын

Could be a slight rotation difference on the T pose, also make sure from the mixamo char you’re not using the last joint for the retargeting chain.

@mathewisikhuemen9913

11 ай бұрын

@@3dJC Thanks for the feedback, I'll give it a try. Please what do you mean by last joint. I'm not sure I understand please

Great tutorial. I got to the end, after exporting the animation sequence from the Manny to MH retargeter, and tried to add the animation to my MH body in sequencer, but, doesn't show up in the list of available animations. I know it's something I'm doing wrong, but can't figure out what. UE 5.3.2 if that makes a difference. Maybe this video only supports 5.2.

@3dJC

3 ай бұрын

hmmm... if you double-click the exported anims in the content browser, does it load and preview fine? Should be same for 5.2/5.3... if looked fine in the retargeting editor, I think it should work fine for the character... interesting...

@AndrewMcDonald

3 ай бұрын

@@3dJCYep, I tested the exported animation, works fine, but for some reason doesn’t show up in the list when I try to add an animation to my MH body in sequencer. I dunno, I followed your every step, but maybe I’ll go back and redo the targeting steps. Never know!

@AndrewMcDonald

3 ай бұрын

@@3dJC Went back over the retargeting to the MH IKrig, and resaved the animation. Now it works! No idea what I did differently. :P Thanks for the tutorial.

there’s no edit mode option when i’m trying to move the skeleton

@3dJC

6 ай бұрын

Ah what version of UE you using?

@Editzlol

6 ай бұрын

@@3dJC I managed to figure it out, the option wasn’t there, after restarting the program i was able to select the skeleton. Not sure why it suddenly worked but not complaining

Wait so do i have to repeat this process for every animation or no

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Not if you mean, say, you downloaded 20 anims from mixamo, you can export them in the IKRetargeter all at once (select as many as you want and press the button to copy them over to target…). You can also right click on the animation sequences in the content browser to kick off a retarget as well…

My fingers still look like crap. I have a really good match in my viewport. All rotations and look like they should align, but the fingers are still broken

@CloudStrife4

3 ай бұрын

same. Did you find a solution to fix the fingers?

@ryansaper

3 ай бұрын

No I couldn't find any solution@@CloudStrife4

Do you know how to retarget from any Paragon character to Metahuman ?

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

similar process should work, but may be different joint chains needed depending on character

Hm.. My mannequin's legs stay at it's place of origin whenever it walks so it glitches out and the legs stretch. Everything else is fine.. I don't understand Q.Q Edit: Well, I fixed the legs on the mannequin but now my metahuman just T-Poses instead of doing the animation.

For some reason, my mannequin is about as tall as the source rigs hip... how do I fix this? 😂 Does it matter?

@3dJC

11 ай бұрын

It shouldn’t matter, but if you want them the same size to be able to line up their skeleton, there is a scale parameter in the retargeter interface details tab.

hollly shit im staying in 4 SOOOO MUCH quicker and easier this bs of ik chaining in 5 is a joke

@3dJC

5 ай бұрын

You get used to it 😀

do you have discord?

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

No but I sometimes read/answer a few channels on Unreal Slackers discord…

Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial .. its the best and most clear ive seen by far . @immersyvstudios Here .. Thank you

@3dJC

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback!