How To Rig Models To The Unreal Engine Mannequin 

I had seriously just decided to look up how to do this, and then, as I enter my youtube front page, your video pops up. Fast, on point, and EXACTLY what I was going to look for. Just speechless

I've been beating my head against this for DAYS (weeks?) with all manner of different plug-ins and scripts, etc. and couldn't get the workflow working seamlessly until I watched this! I already owned ARP and only taken a cursory glance at it's export capabilities and then moved on (I had been using it for retargeting mocaps)... !?!?!?! That was my "derp" moment of the month! You are definitely my hero! :-) Thank you!

I've searched far and wide for a easy method for this, thank you!

this whole time i have been spending hours rigging manuelly. thank you.

Oh finally! found the perfect video i've been looking for so long. Thank you so much dude, i was stuck at this rig-on modeling for so long now.

This is crazy timing as I have been looking into this last night. Thanks for spending your time helping others.

I got a failed to merge bones even though I dit it all the same as you

Straight to the Point and Very Clear Step by Step Instructions! Dude You Legit Helped so Much ⚡️

Just discovered your channel a week ago and it's amazing. Are you planing a video about blocking attack/shielding and dodge rolling that would be quite awesome. Keep going the great work 👍👍👍

Keep uploading man❤️

oh man this looks so helpful! thanks a lot

thanks! great tutorial. Really helped on my school project.

Why your videos always serve me on my own project 😂😂 Thank bro

very useful thanks!

Just as an update to this, and !! if you are still using UE4 !!, select UE4 Legacy and DO NOT select twist when exporting. I have spent close to 4 hours trying to figure out why every tutorial I followed, despite doing it to the tee, did not give me the same results.

this is simplest tutorial, best one yet, thanks ALOT Bro!

brilliant ! awesome fast clear... loved ! loading cheers from Rio

hello ! im french i like your tutorial you are the best !!

man sketchfab really has come in clutch with a lot in the past few years ngl

thanks for this!

The wierd thing is that i was looking for this two days ago, thanks!

Best addon i have bought 2 years ago, i don't have any problem or complicated procedures to get my character into UE5, it simply work flawlessly!

It's very beautiful

great tuto! susbcribed!

Thanks for sharing! I was thinking actually about importing the mannequin first to blender->ZBrush and edit it from there then take it back to blender which will make things even eaiser. Thanks for sharing :D

wowwwww dude U nailed in

Bro, can we add custom animations to this rig before importing to UE? and also for example we did a first pass of import of the character to UE , then import it to UE. But we realized we lack some animations, can we still use the rigify to animate again and export the added animations to UE? i want to buy this but im unsure if i handles what i need

I'm just looking for how to swap out the standard UE4 VR Hands with a custom hands. So many videos on building hand in blender, but none for using then in UE4 VR. UE4 hands do not have a bone in the wrist. Just in the fingers. How can you swap out the mesh for something you want?

Thanks!

Thank you ! wish I found this earlier. I just paid someone 30$ to rig my character to the ue4 mannequin :D

For everyone else tearing their hair out over the FAILED TO MERGE BONES issue, newer versions of the plugin have a checkbox under export settings for "UE4 Legacy". This will make sure it uses the exact number of bones the UE4 mannequin uses (assuming you're not trying to do this in 5). The issue's being caused by extra c_(joint name) bones that aren't being removed during the export process, if you still get the error just import it without applying it to an existing skeleton and you'll be able to directly compare the two.

I usually go from Apose mesh to AccuRig to Unreal if it’s humanoid.

I followed this instruction, but when I import the model in UE, it is tiny. How do I fix this :(?

THIS IS PURE GOLD! Do you think this works with a 3D scan of a body as well? Sick sick sick

You out here doing God's work Fam 😅 Thank you!

Great tutorial! But I'm not sure I understand the purpose of bringing the UE mannequin in the workflow? Is it only to check for size?

WOW!!

Hello, do I have to use only a spicific character from SketchFab? Because after importing the character has the "armature"(=skeleton?) and after deleting the armature the character lies on it's back. Do I have to import only characters from SketchFab without skeleton or something like this?

when i do match to rig it creates many more bones does anyone know how to fix this?

I can't seem to get this to work no matter what I do. I follow all of your steps, model moves with the rig in blender. Once it's exported (and I've selected everything identically to your setup, at least that shown on screen) once it gets into UE4, the skeletal mesh won't animate using the thirdperson animations

This looks great. Does this also work with the new UE5 Mannequins?

Honestly, this seems so much quicker than manually retargeting in Unreal. Any downsides?

I'm using UE 5.4.2 Editor. Followed the tutorial step by step and while importing with UE4 Mannequin skeleton selected I'm getting an error FAILED TO MERGE BONES. I click no for "regenerate the skeleton from this mesh" so that it doesn't ruin everything. After that I constantly get this error : This skeletal mesh asset has an incompatible Skeleton. Assign a compatible skeleton to this skeletal mesh asset. Even though the character BP is working fine, it's causing to crash the editor at various occasions. I don't know how to solve it. HELP!

I'm having some trouble with the new ue5. Any chance of a tutorial update?

Can you make Lazer effect

didnt work

is teh same process if I use mixamo as the animation? and the autorig pro for exporting process? I got the pro features!

Hi, can you make a video about how to make an online timer, for example, you quit the game and it still works?

one of my four eyelash meshes is not binding lol. The rest is. Any idea? xD

aplogies if this is a stupid question lol but would this also work with animals? ( want to use a stylized horse as opposed to the one im using in my game currently) thanks man! :) EDIT : Nvm just found the FAQ..there is a preset for horses :D

i dont know anything about blender, but when i click on export it says select armature. i just selected the mesh like you did

Lo hice y el personaje se ve horrible como se podría solucionar

Anyone else getting the error where you import it into unreal and it says something like "failed to merge bones?"

This is good for basic things, what about face setup?

thanks, the documentation looks very chaotic

No root motion ? just wondering.

Wait, you didn't retarget animations?

Do you need the full plugin or just the lite version?

for some reasion bring sketch fab models in to blender or unreal engine it wont eccept it

Man this does not work for unreal 5 my mesh just keeps deforming I have no idea what I am doing wrong. I buy all these add ons and it still doesn't work. Epic make this stuff way too hard.

the export option to Unreal in Blender is due to Autorig-pro? works with UE5 too?

it costs money now or did it always cost money?

For some reason this isn't working for me. I keep getting the FAILED TO MERGE message regarding the bones when importing to UE4

When heat vision tutorial video is coming?

when i do this my character is missing one spine bone

I still got the skeleton Problem

failed to merge bones in ue 5

Thumbs up for not showing the addon install process! 😆

Thank god I dont have to use UEFY anymore!!

i have that addon andmy character is crashed in ue .... thats why i hate a game develepment

What you if you want to use the character not in a video game but for cinematics in the Sequencer? How do you get the ARP control rig to transfer from Blender to Unreal?

so much work, just to replace a model ... I dont get it

good video but seriously filter the sub frequencies out of your mic man, you're causing earthquakes lol

You should show how to create a a open world map with levels and sub levels and level streaming

not free?

this tutorial was so good but the rig is paid :(

Paid Plugin :"(

For someone who is poor like me, mixamo's rigger is the way to go. Just download or export your character, upload it to mixamo then rig it there it's literally putting the circle in the mentioned bones and then continue, then after that, just use the mixamo to unreal plug in which is also free I guess.

What about if character have a tail or clothes with rigid and non-rigid parts?

COULD YOU MAKE A VIDEO FOR TAPPING A BUTTON TO SUDDENLY KILL THE ENEMY? LIKE THOSE STRESS FULL SITUATIONS IN GAMES?.

Damn looks fine! But does that also work for "Not UE4"Riggs from a UE4 game?