METAHUMAN Basic control rig UNREAL 5.2 (how to get started in animation) easy quick guide 

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That’s great to hear :) thank you. Yea it works exactly the same in unreal. I’ll be doing a tutorial on that but may take a bit of time. :)

Hey big man:) how are you:) Nice one yes hopefully coming soon:) There alot of tutorials I wanna do with metahumans:) have a great weekend my friend:)

Hey mate :) yes you can use any animations on any other rig. You just need to retarget them. I got tutorials on both but ue 5.4 is a breeze. Check out my build this now series first vid. As far as blender and ue go. The rotation. In ue 5.4 you can set that gizmo to work like blender or Maya. Forgot what it’s called but look up gizmo for animation settings in ue 5.4 . I’ll do a quick tutorial on this but you can find it fast:) hope this helps :)

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😊 thank you. Yeah I get distracted alot. ha Thanks for the kind words mate:) Nice to have you here.

Hey mate. No but it’s in the pipeline to do:) hopefully not to long :)

Hey glad it helped. Yes they don't show until you open the sequencer and click on the face rig or body rig. Open the arrows on them once and see the rig and highlight it in the sequencer and you'll see the rigs again:)

@@imagineeverything OK, I didn't have any animation at that time.. so I had to delete the character from the sequencer and import again. Then the rig was visible. Now after I got some keyframes I followed what you said and somehow the rig appeared. It is soooo not user friendly software. I think even Epic games when they advertised some animator positions wrote: need to be able to animate in Maya and export the animation to Unreal. This tells a lot about animation capabilities of Unreal engine. Thanks! I think I'll do my anim in maya and export to unreal.

Ha actually animation in ue. 5 is pretty good. I’m also a maya animator but lately using more and more unreal:) give it a go and get used to it. Ue has become really powerful:) ok have fun and a good night mate :)

So you have a level sequencer ? And you added the metahuman.? Did you follow the steps one for one. When the metahuman in in sequencer when you open it up in sequencer do you see the words face rig and body rig ? Let me know and we can try work it out

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THats awesome to hear mate:) Im trying to do the same with mine but she sais my art is dumb and ugly😆. So it makes me happy that I can help yours:) Its a great life if she gets into it at such an early stage. All the best and shout if you have any questions:)

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Hey mate :) so actually animating the human can be quick. Meaning if you have automatic keyframing you just need to move using ik and you can be fast. However yes animation takes time. There are a few good mocap suites out there for home . I use the Rokoko suite. It’s cheap and pretty damn good and does full body including hands and face gear . Around 4-5 k which is alot but cheap for what it does. Then there is the xsence for around 20k which is alot more accurate but damn . The price :) there a few hack ones you can create for home but it will take the know how and work to put it all together and work. I recommend the Rokoko as it’s quick to setup, gives decent result with a bit of cleanup and does not break bank:) hope this helps . And yea you can use it for metahuman or any other program to:)

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Danke :) im glad it helped . Thanks for the message mate:)

Right click in your content browser . Under cinematic you’ll see level sequencer. Make on and drag into your scene :)

Thank you mate. Glad it helped. Odd mine shows up. Perhaps a glitch in your project. Try deleting the metahuman from the scene and staging it back in and then I to the sequencer . Let me know :)

@@imagineeverything Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, it didn't work by deleting the MH and adding it back. Are you using version 5.3 by chance?

Yes I am. Hmmm maybe a bad install of metahumans. So in sequencer you click on the face right right. Must say face rig. You need to open the arrow once or twice

@@imagineeverything Yep, it seems to be the project itself. I started a new Project and migrated the MH over to it, and it works fine... weird. Thanks again for your quick replies! You rock.

That’s awesome:) yeah unreal can mess up a lot sometimes:) have a great one and thanks :)

That is awesome to hear:) Thank you mate and glad it helped:)

Yo thanks man:) much appreciated mate. A Star Wars short eh. Nice . I’m more into my horror n stuff but love seeing some of these Star Wars shorts people do. If you ever have something let me know. I’d love to see it buddy:) good luck and keep us updated :)

Hey:) ok so if you see those and you click on them you still don’t see anything ?

Also if you expand them do you see all the names for the controls? A huge list under the rig controls

@@imagineeverything I see all the names for the controls. I think the problem is I imported and retargeted an animation from Mixamo, and now I have to bake the animation to a save file. I don't know how to do this.

@@BriefHistoryofWorld Ahhhh ok yes. In order to have this on your rig you will need to right click the animation in the sequencer and choose to bake the animation file to keys for control rig. Ill be doing a tutorial on this soonish:) Re targeting then adding it back into the control rig as keys and being able to go from there. So if you cant wait then search for Baking out motion capture to keys for control rig:) you can only use one at a time. Wither Control rig or animation files but you can convert either to the other:) hope this helps mate:)

@@imagineeverything Thanks. I'll let you know how it works.

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​@@imagineeverything Oh wow, I'm getting good at this 😄 I'm from London but I live in California. We have a lot of SA's in London.

@@tahnaiyarussell Yeah alot of us moved there. I lived in Brighton for 10 years. Loved it. Nice so your an English American now:) You Say ALLO LUV with an American accent HAHA. Nice:) I do Miss the UK though.

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Are you moving them via the rig ? Or just moving the metahuman around. Only works through the rig

​@@imagineeverythingit wasn't that, I've already solved this problem, anyway, thank you for responding to comments, success in your work 😁

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Yeeess but not really. Ive been meaning to get out a tutorial on just that. Animating a meta human from scratch... Ill have one out hopefully in the near future:) Dont give up. Animation is such an art. Study the human in the meantime and we will cover this:) Push boundaries and don't give up. Ill show a nice way of also using free mocap and adjusting it the way you want it.

Whoa you watched it that far into it:) Thank you:) I feel the motivation already from you:) have a great night mate.

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