INSTANTLY Rig Characters for UE5 Mannequin 

STRAIGHT TO THE POINT IN THE FIRST 5 SECONDS AND ONLY 5 MINS, BRAVO!!!!

Awesome! I tried UEFY2 before (which is surely powerfull and usefull if you want to rig anything, also non-human characters) but with this addon i could get my custon character into UE5 in minutes. Thanks for sharing 😇

this tutorial worked 100% i appreciate you, also i just wanted to put this out there, its recommended to erase the weights on the ik parts on the skeleton cause those stretch out when play shooting animations or ragdoll

Thank you, you saved my life (a bit dramatic but literally been through so much trying to get it work)

Thank you so much. I spent hours trying to find a solution to this. I opened the UE5 skeleton in Blender and was just like "What am I looking at here?". I was also looking around for plugins like the one that you used and they were like $40-70.

Wow, great help dude. Thanks.

This was by far the easiest tutorial to follow & explained really well - thank you! While v1.1.2 of the addon doesn't work the same as the video for Blender 4.0, it's no biggie - you can manually move the missing tweak joints into place when adjusting the deform armature and it'll work just the same

if you have Bone Heat Weighting problems select the mesh > edit mode > merge vertices > by distance > 0.001

I think this is the most easy to follow tutorial and also the importing character was so well shown I looked up other tutorials and it didn't work 😅

great video! thanks for the simple concise instructions

THIS IS AMAZING!! thank you sooo much this helped me a lot with my character!

This helped so much ty.

Ty man great video concise

Thank you Harry

Awesome, worked perfectly. The only part that didn't (august 2023) was that I had to manually assign the unreal armature in the modifier, as I couldn't seem to get the 'switch parent rig' or whatever to work. I read through lots of comments here and almost all of them are just general rigging and mesh issues - the information in this video and the addon work perfectly.

Awesome tut, thanks you! :)

Thanks, worked perfect!

Thank you!

Thank you very much

What a fkn amazing tutorial!

holy shiaaat mate I was always looking for something like this

Thanks!

whoever is struggling and getting some bugs with this method I don't know why but the "Rig name matters" it has to be the default "root" what the addon offers "root_2" doesn't work ect it has to be "root" for Unreal to recognise the rig with default skeleton

very useful

thank you so much, its still working! (19.03.24) (UE5.3.2)

hello, i had a 2 problems with this tutorial i was hoping you could help me with. When i move the legs dont follow the animation but instead flap around the sides of the body. and the other problem would be that the character is very small (ant sized) until i move where it goes back to being large again and when i jump he becomes super large

Hi, I found a lot of name clash errors. something like : "found name clash, node "ik_foot_l" was renamed to "ik_foot_l1" how do i fix this? thanks!

can it work without the fingers... basically with a fingerless stickman?

for anyone having problems, this fixed everything for me: MAKE SURE UR ROOT IS NAMED root and not root.01 or root.02

you know how to fix mesh broken when i moving ?

hi bro, i´ve just dowloaded the addon and can´t move the joints of the current pluggin version, maybe i should use another blender version for it to work?

super helpful thanks man!

Hey man, I seem to have a same problem you had in this demo, with the characters shoulders really high. How would you go around fixing that?

there is any way to add Unreal 5 (Quinn) on game rig tools?

Hello, have you been able to use Blender 4 Rigify to UE5? Have you tried to create a UE5 Control Rig with IK legs and a reverse foot in UE5?

Thanks a lot for this Mate. But im running into a Problem in Unreal where its able to detect all my Bones or something like that and when I imported the Character, it was in its T Position and none of its body parts are moving. Please can you help with this?

I can’t find “Joint Tweak” I’m literally crying I’m on week 2 of rigging to unreal

It didn't work for me when I tried adding the Add-on instead of adding the whole thing it made me open the file. am I doing something wrong?

Thank you so much for this tutorial! The rig works fine in Blender, however when I try to export it into Unreal I keep getting the message: Failed to merge bones. I have tried multiple times now and done the rigging over and over but still, the same message. Does anyone know what this could be and how to fix it? Many thanks.

Are Manny, Mannequin and Quinn all using the same skeleton SK_Mannequin? Because, when I click inside UE5 on that skeletal mesh asset that we imported, there are 5 buttons on the upper right part of editor, like Bones, Current Asset, Animation, ABP Manny, physics asset And when I click on the first button bones, it loads up SK_Mannequin and woman character, which I believe is because when importing I did not have option for SK_Manny I think and I selected SK_Mannequin on 4:35

Hi! This worked well the first time I used it, but when I went back and deleted a stray object that wasn't supposed to be exported and exported again with the same settings, now when I try to import the fbx into Unreal I get the error "Multiple roots are found in the bone hierarchy. We only support single root bone." From what I can tell, only one bone has the name "root" in the hierarchy in blender... Do you have any idea what could be wrong? Thank you for any guidance you can give on the matter!

I run into scaling problem and managed to "fix" it or found its quirks so in case anyone else have the same problem: After following the steps and switched the default character to the imported character, the idle model is 10 times bigger than it should be. When moving around, the model shrinks down to the correct size, and when jumping and "landing animation" is playing, it shrinks further down. This is what worked for me to "fix" it; Set your blender scale back to 1.0 (I have read to change them to 0.01 for cm conversation in another tutorial so I set it as such, but it doesn't seems to work with this bone), then scale the character to the correct height. Next, reset the UE Armature (There's a refresh button on the control below where you select UE5/ UE4 bones, next to Initiate Mannequin). Delete all existing armature (make sure the root is deleted as well), reinitiate the Armature. If the Armature is around the same height of your character (assuming your character is 1.78m tall) then the setup is correct. Follow the rest of the video and make sure all your mesh is attached to the "Root" armature right before you export

Bone constraints aren't appearing in blender, which means I can't move the joints in pose mode so I can't tweak the skeleton.

If you're missing a bunch of controls shown in the video make sure you're using the latest stable Blender version, not the alpha.

after the process how can i create a control rig in blender to make animations?

Is there any reason why the grey box that had the "body parts, joint tweak, fingers, fingers tweak" would be empty? I'm not able to tweak some joints or the finger and I'm not sure where to else to look.

I have an issue, once i am in game my models arms are all deformed and like spaghetti 😢 any idea why?

auto rig pro and voxel heat mapper ftw

So it recognizes as if the skeleton was from manequin right? Dont need to retarget ? Could you make controls on controlrig blueprint to this skeleton ? And maybe it doesnt work or break if plan to add more bones,right? I got metahuman and tried add bones, it breaks the rig and get all crazy 😅 Thank you

Can I rig multiple characters that have the same proportions

my character's body deform after importing to ue5. any solution

Hey Thomas! Blender pseudonoob here and I've watched this video about 100 times trying to get this to work, really unsure what I'm messing up here. :( When I parented the armature with autoweights after positioning all bones in the right position, my mesh distorts in weird ways, smashing wide and pushing around. One of the times I did somehow parent the armature correctly, but upon import, the arms are super distorted on an otherwise totally human mesh! Any kind of guidance here is so greatly appreciated, this is such a bottleneck for me. :(

Dude. This video needed to be like 3 times longer. "hot key, hot key. look now you can see the rig is working.." No I can't. I don't know what you pressed. I don't know how to move the rig. If I use the grab hot key the whole rig moves..

That's what I'm talking about Thomas 'f_cking' Potter!

the character was still static when I hit play. But I fix it with the help of this comment : "check the naming convention of your bones, specifically make sure that there is only one armature in your entire project file, and that it is named "root" not root.002 or anything like that, it's a small translation error in the plugin code that's easily remedied." Just rename the root layer in Blender as "root"

I can't parent them in blender "Bone Heat Weighting: failed to find solution for one or more bones "

how would you go about actually making your own animations with this rig though?

Hello, do you have an updated video on how to use the New Blender 4 Game Rig Tools? I cannot find the tab where to do the IK/FK switch.

My character ended up with a tall neck, longer limps and our of shapes. How to fix?

When I do my import and then set my mesh as the mesh for BP, My arms on my mesh come out all twisted, why is that?

Can you help? I always get the error "Failed to find solution for one or more bones" no matter what I try. No bones are disconnected because I've tried it without even changing the rig at all. I've even tried it with different meshes. What am I missing?

Sooooo could you use this rig to make an animation which could be used in unreal engine for the mannequin?

How to drag bone nodes

I see you can only choose Manny (the male), is it possible to have the female mannequin proportion instead?

hey man great vid. I just had one problem. When I imported the fbx into unreal, I could only see the insides of the mesh. Any idea where I went wrong?

My armatures ("deform" & "unreal") do not allow me to rotate it in Pose Mode, at any time, does anyone know why? I didn't touch anything at all, it's not in Rest Position or anything like that. Edit: I'm an idiot, I found how to solve it, I just needed to press "Apply Rig" after adjusting the Tweak armature

can you show how to actually make stuff move, scale, i’ve never used blender before.

hello idk why but the module window do not show up when i install it ( i checked if armature was true )

idk how to install and open the add on you glazed over that without showing

Great video! However, when importing the fbx to Unreal I get this message: FAILED TO MERGE BONES. Any idea?

When I try to import the fbx, is gives me a "failed to merge bones" error, with an option to regenerate the skeleton. If I do, unreal always crashes. I use UE5.1... Any ideas what I could try? Thnx in advance for any advice.

my character puts his arms up in the air when applying weights haha, how can i fix this

i cant rescale my static mesh. i CAN do it before initiating the mannequin. Usually i just like left on scale and drag from the feet circle thing. doesnt work now. what a PAIN.

Great tutorial! and subbed :) when I import my FBX to Unreal, I keep getting the error warning: "FAILED TO MERGE BONES. This could happen if significant hierarchical changes were made. Would you like to regenerate the skeleton from this mesh? ***WARNING THIS MAY INVALIDATE OR REQUIRE RECOMPRESSION OF ANIMATION DATA*** Any help with this would be hugely appreciated

Might be stupid question but does this work with 5.1 ? :)

When I rotate the neck bone in pose mode the head rotates but the hair and eyes are left behind, anyone know how to fix it?

Im doing something wrong, when i import my model its 100x the size its meant to be.

Thanks for the video, just a suggestions PLEASE turn down the music/turn up your narration because it got very difficult to hear what you were saying

When my character isn't moving I get sweet fuckall on the screen, and when I start moving (W) only the arms+torso and head move as they should, the legs flap around even if they're weight painted properly, then once I stop moving the character becomes 3 polygons large again.

I cant find game_rl in my downloaded add-on ?

I miss the old hair cut 😢

👍👍👍

Not working with blender 4.0 - panel doesn't show up.

Lol when i go to pose mode i cant move any bones

Hi everyone! I really enjoyed this video! I'd like to ask if anyone could tell me if, thanks to this add-on, I could retarget my custom skeleton to that of Unreal Engine 5 and then bake the animation and export it so that it can be used on Unreal directly with the UE5 skeleton? Thank you for your reply.

When I initiate the rig, the options for tweaking and the bodyparts etc. do not show up... How can I fix this?

Did you mean - "Rigging for UE5 Mannequin in Blender!"

wish he specified not to unzip the file... i had no idea until I figured it out from the download website!

how are you turning the rig green?

When I press “automatic weight paint” it does nothing? Why tf can I not figure this out

sorry buddy, do you know the reason for having weird twisting on my bones? it happens on the fingers, I try to correct the rotation of the bones but it seems to have no effect on the Unreal Engine Rig. that is a bit confusing.

why there are no body parts, joint tweak, ... in the addon

**Instantly** LOL!! 😂😂

Can this Plugin be used commercially?

Wait how come your character has color in UE5 and my is white?

From 0:55 to 1:05 he does 20 Things lightning fast like bro did you speed this up so noone can see the hidden magic or what?

What about the facial rig?

the mic is very low i couldnt hear you man

dude you speak so fast, i have adhd and i'm suffering trying to follow your instructions.

bro speed run a tutorial, slow down man