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Everyone who has ever worked with Metahumans and ever tried to retarget animations to metahumans, would know how much of a pain the entire process is. And this feature, really is a blessing from God. Thanks for making the video. I will down 5.4 right now and will give it a go.

that preview is sooooo useful!!! no more corrupted skeletons with failing merging bones

What about importing a mixamo character and re-targeting UE5 Skeleton Animations to the mixamo Character in 5.4? Has that got any easier?

This is awesome. If you could do a video on motion matching, that would be great.

What i dont understand is why UE5 doesn't have an auto rigging system? the technology has been around for many many years.. if mixamo can just take a standard mesh and rig it based on a few dots placed.. then why cant UE5 do this?

I would not sleep on that "Use source path" option, which can be seen at 7:09... one of the pain in the axe I had with previous versions was the fact we were forced to select the original path manually. That new option there is already an underrated feature. What I hope now is that that option allows to retarget animations sets where the animations are organized in different folders per type {walk, run, jump, crouch and so on} and when importing them, as ready assets or as .fbx files, I was always forced to reorganize them myself, which was insane specially when the animation sets include hundreds of different animations. If that feature helps doing that it's truly a huge news for me, a massive improvement to my workflow. I saw another few features including the overwrite the source animations option you didn't mention in the video and that's another huge step in retargeting. I have only one complain about UE5.4... feet IK are still not set up to adapt to slopes and other irregular surfaces by default and that's a real nightmare I really hoped they finally fixed. I'd love to see a tutorial about how to set it up on our own, hoping it isn't something I still have to struggle with, because I really need that sorted out so I can fix the issue and forget about it once and for all. that been said... I just can't wait for those 500+ animations you mentioned in the previous videos about UE5.4 new features!

Once again, epic overstated the function of one of their new features. Yes, you can retarget very easily.However, if you're doing ik retargeting, you still have to do a lot of manual tweaks per animation set. Eg crouching, jumping, pistol, rifle, sword, etc. Annoying but not too bad

It would be perfect if it were that easy, everything works perfectly in the menus, but when you send it to the code it gives errors, I'm having errors in the arms for example.

So many great changes in 5.4. Especially in the animation updates. Thanks for the quick tutorial, and really excited that you're remastering the survival series. Thanks again !

If Unreal 6 isn't about Make a game with 1 click button, I ain't dying bro!

Finally!

cool, But how can you use the Mixamo Mesh as your third person player character? Any tutorial for that? or link to an existing one? thx a bunch and keep rocking

How can you use the Mixamo mesh as the ThirdPerson Game Character? Meaning, how can you exchange the default Mannequin and use your Mixamo Character as the ThirdPerson Player Character? I can't find any tutorial on that. Thank you so much for your help, keep rocking.

I want to know retargeting, I click the video, I jump to the point that matters: 3:46

We would have created epic so that the engine supports all Das 3d models. So that they can also be easily thrown in and the animations can be reassigned.

Thank you so damn much!

This feels huge...

when i choose retarget mesh it says something about a duplicate and retarget animation

Would love a good video on how to get rid of the clothing clipping on the body mesh.

very very very nice bro . safe my time by 1000x

Excellent tutorial! I wish this came out when I first learned unreal engine. This is a huge time saver.

Bro already on the 5.4 tutorials must be from the future 😂

It's not a dance...it's like capoeira! A hug from Brazil!!! thanks for the video!

Thanks so much for this, will you be doing a motion animation tutorial, is it going to replace state trees? Thanks

Thank you for showing how simple this is... for so many months I had issues trying to animate models from Synty Studios in UE5, and it just kept breaking or acting weird. I HATE working with animations. This? I got a Synty Studios character dancing on the first try. It just works. My headache is gone. This is game changing for me. I was almost in tears with how happy I was that this worked so easily lol The only setting I had to change was the anim tick option for it to work (setting to always tick pose and refresh bones).

There are a million tutorials on retargeting an animation whether it is 300 steps or the simple 100 steps...However, I would love a tutorial on importing several animations to a character and then assigning either keyboard button triggers to each of the animations o reassigning Xbox controller buttons to separate buttons. Would pay for a tutorial, from scratch importing a metahuman into a level, importing Mixamo animations ( or others), assigning them to the character and then controlling them individually as explained above. Adding live face link for live face lip syncing would also be good.

3:08 the reason it brought in the animation is because you clicked 'import all' instead of 'import'

the Daz retargeting needs work. Doesn't seem to work with G9. G8 is about 85% there.

Hi, do you happen to have any tips or fixes for weird/distorted metahuman hands and fingers after retargeting animation? Thanks!

Quick question I had many issues with root targeting back with previous versions is it fixed wit 5.4?

Thank you for the good video. By the way, can't I use retargeting animation and metahuman control rig at the same time in the sequence? Animation does not work when retargeting animation and control rig are in the same sequence!

Hi thank you so much for the video!! But I wonder why metahuman don't have skeletal mesh? Thank you

I have a question. When I create a model using Blender, what kind of bone structure should I use?

I have UE 5.4 but in 2:48 the import is disabled and only enabled when I choose skeleton . What skeleton should I choose ?

you didn't show how to actually use those animations in the sequencer. When I click on body (+) to add animation, and press play in the sequencer it doesn't work.

Thank you som uch for all of your amazing work! I've started learning Unreal and your guides have been incredible.

And again you said a lot and nothing comes of it because you forgot to show the most important thing. How the character runs and moves around the game plan instead of a dummy... do you know how important it is for beginners who know nothing

lmao. My animations got retargeted upside down from Lyra to Synty skeleton.

Can you do the new cloth system please

I dont know how to ask this question so ill explain a little: I am working on a scene where i have a band; I have one Metahuman with a guitar animation working.... Now when i add in a new metahuman and apply a Saxophone animation it somehow uses the same skeleton as the Guitar metahuman, they are seperate characters I'm not sure how to fix this or how to look up this problem.

Hey, is there an ETA on the Multiplayer first person shooter course? I'd love to buy it!

guess i downloaded the wrong everything. cause its not working.

Anyone else getting an engine crash when you click on export the animation ? If so how to fix ?

Does it actually deal with IK animations? Struggled with fixing animations that had any root movement but didn’t have an IK track

Slt, mais t'es français frérot ! Je compte acheter ta formation Multiplayer 5.4. Dommage de ne pas donner accès à ton discord ! A demain, quand j'y aurais accès !

This is really awesome...The only question I have now is if this will cause any issues with root bone. Mixamo anims doesn't have root bone but UE Skeletons do... so... I'm wondering if that's gonna be an issue.

Works bad with daz animations😶

Is there any documentation which rig type will be natively supported by AutoRetargeting? Mixamo and Reallusion iClone are supported but I saw Blender Rifigy MetaRig is not supported. Why? Probably Blender Auto Rig Pro type is supported . Let me check it out. Then it will be clear that only game engine rig type is supported.

woooww that is BIG!

Just what I was looking for, thank you!

How retarget a animation blueprint in Unreal 5.4?

Can we retaget a mixamo animation to a a skeleton that was riged in reullion

thank you this help me so much i am new to ue5 or just ue in general=

how to retarget a mixamo animation to a custom rig?

Does anyone know how to do animation without mixamo and no one is showing animation blending in 5.4, is it that difficult

any reason why the retargeted animation crashes when i try to open it

FBX (Mixamo) tutorial starts at 3:50

Does anyone find the retargetted animations much slower than the Mixamo orginals? I picked the UE5 Quinn Simple as Target

The big question on everyone's mind.... "Did They fix the steam net drivers"???? I freaking hope so.....

Dude I literally followed your Unreal Engine 5.2 retargeting tutorial las week, minute by minute learning the whole process and practicing it . . . and then you go and drop this?! lol dammit!

is this version out yet im confused?

If anyone has crash issues importing fbx skeletal meshes. Go import then choose fbx skeleton explicitly as a file import type. This reduces crashes for some reason. Choose fbx animations the same way.

How to download 5.4?

AWSOME, EASY, thanks so much I adapted some combat anims easy to my Paragon character!!!

FINALLY!!!

Looks cool but its all not worked. Too many errors: 1. not see my character in Retarget window - its invisible if i select my character 2. i anyway export anim, but its export not worked animation

can these retargeted animations be used for making game locomotion, do the root motions allow for that, I tried it yesterday and for some reason root motion wasn't working for me.

When do we get the free epic animation pack?

thx!

Literally was looking for this today! I’ll be subscribing to your Patreon

I would like to see next: How to create assets within the game, the player, how to export it outside of the game, or whatever is as close to this process as possible

Was waiting for this after the update video, will you be covering Nanite Tesselation and motion matching as well?

could you do a remake of that paragon bellica character retarget with this new system?

I still can't get root motion montages to work on metahumans.

Does this node also work for realtime retargeting ?

Thank you for the magnificent explanation 👋

one click = 9 minutes

where did you get version 5.4? I just launched epic games and there is a maximum version of 5.3.2

Bro I just played Uncharted 4 and the animation is too amazing the procedural animation in the game where the player touches the wall while walking is incredible. So can you please make a tutorial for doing the same in unreal engine.

CC4 and Iclone are on that list? Hell yes! Thank God!

I tell you this will help a great deal cause I have the most trouble with animations right now.

Are there any stored animations inside unreal so i dont have to get one from mixamo? I dont know where i red this was true that they included a bunch of them in this version

life couldn't be easier!

This makes the whole process so much easier

Thank you

Great

Wondering if I can make some test projects here and then export to 5.3

Mind blowing!

Great video

Is it possible to do an auto-retarget and then upload ik_rig and ik_retarget to version 5.1?

Isn't 5.4 releasing next month? Did you get early access?

You still have a nasal voice, take care.

Lmao I thought this would come so much earlier, I avoided learning the long chain cause I knew this would happen, i finally caved and now this drops