*retarget

Will you do a video for 5.1? I broke my game trying to bring in my metahuman. it says skeltalmesh has been depracated, use component/meshasset/getskinned instead. I've come from a few years of Unity thought I'd try UE5 but omg both are bad when it comes to having billions of deprecated stuff going from old to newer versions, my poor brain lol.

​@@tinman3000 The error log tells you its replacement, replace SkeletalMesh reference in the blueprints with the one it lists in the error

@@magicimaginations The error log tells you its replacement, replace SkeletalMesh reference in the blueprints with the one it lists in the error

Still crashes

for me no

Thanks man, yeah the process is pretty hard for a "relative" simple task. As it uses the same skeletal mesh etc

Probably because Metahuman it's a modular system and he doesn't collapse the model when exported. It's great if you wanna have the same modularity into the game, like changing clothes or hair/beard without much hassles, it simply require some bp variables and branches instead of a scripted c++ or such system. Just speculating though, i still have to put my hands on, and i'm curious to see if there's a "overall quality" settings to make less realistic characters.

Sure, is incredible complicated regarding is the same developer doing the same stuff. But thanks for the video, is well done!

The problem is all about bones. Metahuman and the Unreal mannequins do not have the same skeleton. Rigging, meshes, and weight painting is more complicated then you would think, but still all necessary. Part of retargetting is doing the weight painting for you. I think.

It's positively fucked in the head how difficult this is.

Thank you so much!! I really appreciate it!! 😄

Thank you!! I really appreciate it!! I always try to make my tutorials as simple to understand and easy to follow to help all game devs out there. Thanks for watching!!

haha thank you so much!! I really appreciate it, I always try to make my tutorials easy-to-follow 😄

Thank you man!! I really appreciate it!! I always try to make my tutorials easy-to-follow, and explain everything, so thanks again! Good luck on your journey 😀

@@GorkaGames Thank you bro! Wish you the best too!

Thank you, im glad I could help!!

your welcome!! Im glad I could help!

i cant find the animation root i control rig.please help

Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful!

Yeah! It is crazy all the tools that it has to make our games better and easier

thanks!!!! I really appreciate it!!

Right now this is one of the simplest and easiest ways to do it without any sort of retargeting

Welcome to game development 😂

Thank you for watching!!

my pleasure!

Thank you!!

Im glad you found it helpful!! Thank you!

thank you for watching!!!

Thank you!! Yeah good tip! I actually didnt think about it

Can you explain how to do it?

Fellow noob here, would also love an explanation

@@Fabi_1987 Figured it out! Just go into the blueprint for your character and open the construction script. Add a Set Master Pose Component node. For the New Master Bone Component, drag and drop your main Mesh that everything else is attached to. Then for the Target, attach the face, torso, feet, and legs. The rest of the face features are already attached to the face and should be fine. Hope this helps!

damn... why I didn't read this comment... I spent all day to get this solution on my own...

Thanks man!! Oh great info!! They definitely fill up all my disk in 2 mins 🤣

yeah the clothing penetration is something that is happening when you combine full animations with a metahuman, and you could just increse the torso`s scale slightly to hide the effect. However the right way can be to custom mesh paint the inside shoulder. Because using a physics collision could cause lots of artifacts if its not done properly, but give it a go!

same question

thanks! yeah absolutely I can make a tutorial on that. The thing is that with Metahumans is always tricky to add clothing layers on top, but it is achiavable of course!

@@GorkaGames would love to see that as well

thank you, I`m glad it helped! In 5.1 does it crashes?

@@GorkaGames it crashes at 2:28 for me when i´m using 5.1

@@GorkaGames yeah every time we assign skeleton it crashes ..

@@marmak256 New update UE5.1.1 Solve the this

Great!! Im glad that I could help you!!

@@GorkaGames I have a problem, after I created package project and play it, the hair is not present. My character went bald.

@@gr4j0m3r Haha, it probably is an issue about the loss in the player`s grooms, so the hair doesn't appear. Thios usually happens when you don have the Grooms plugin installed, so make sure you have it installed.

thank you!! 😄 haha

you're welcome!! 😀

@@GorkaGames btw, I was wondering you might made little mistake at 5:53? the upper part of the character's arm seems penetrated the shirt because you chose 'ABP_quinn' for anim class which is female class. I'm still beginner so I might be mistaken too lol but I hope it helps. Thanks again.

@@user-g1park you are actually right, however I have just tested it by changing the "Anim Class BP" to Manny (which is the male Mannequin) and this glitch still occurs. What I think is that the skeleton of the default mannequin might not suit well the specific metahuman that I chose. But a thing that you can do if this also happens to you is to increse slightly the "Torso" scale to hide this, but maybe with a diferent Metahuman this will not happen.. If I do find more info on this I will tell you. If you have any more questions please ask me!! 😀

@@GorkaGames Wow that's very detailed feedback! Thanks the info and keep up the good work!

@@user-g1park Thanks, I will!

what>? how did you make it work... I dont see the settings he uses in this tutorial

Thank you man!! I really appreciate it! Yeah so because the metahuman is built from different body parts, the t-shirt could be clipping around sometimes. A good fix is to increase slightly the characters t-shirt, so that it stops clipping through, however it can be challenging to end up with a good result. So another way to avoid the shoulders clipping through is by mesh painting the inner skin of the character (but it isnt the most ideal one). And lastly is by changing the animations so that the arms are more separate from the Metahumans body. So yeah I will be doing a tutorial soon about changing his animations! Thanks a lot!

@@GorkaGames how to fix clipping arms through the t-shirt: Open Skeletal Mesh and change "Post process anim blueprint" to "ABP Quinn".

@@Dante190884 Almost there, the tshirt's arms are working correctly but not the neck

thank you!!

You're welcome man!! Yeah, the Full Body IK is a thing that you always have to be aware of when retargeting characters

Yeah! It is still pretty tricky to implement it, I hope that soon Epic will make the integration easier.

Yeah you can migrate the Metahuman and blueprint folders into other projects, by just right clicking on the folders, goign into asset actions, click on migrate, select ok with all the dependencies, and just navigate into your new project`s content folder. 😄

@@GorkaGames got it! Thank you so much 🙏🙏

I disabled the post-process blueprint in the torso and mesh, which seemed to have fixed the problem. Occasional clipping but nothing like the original. Thanks, @RevolutionMusic! Check this box -> Disable Post Process Blueprint(Above Anim Class)

thank you!!

Thank you for watching! Yeah, they should make the integration easier..

Thanks!!

thank you!!

I currently use 5.1, but this video was published some months ago..

thanks, there are 2 ways to do it: 1) To place separate armour pieces into each bone, like a helmet to the head etc. (this can be buggy if the armour is too complex) 2) To replace the body with another model, and then just paste the Metahuman head into that mesh (a lot of people us this option, but it can take more time..)

legend, had the same problem...tried just scaling torso but it was not enough, doing the head location change solved it

I'm a newbie, and after watching this video I had the same problem but I did find a fix! If you transform the "y" location of the face from "0" to "-1" and change the scale of the torso's 'y' value to between 1.05-1.09, it will resolve this. This makes the head lower ever so slightly, while slightly increasing the hoodie's size. I found I had to mess with the scale and location for awhile, but this seems to work for me perfectly, and it does not change the overall appearance of the MetaHuman! Hope this helps!!

Yeah UE5 is a huge software that has many layers everywhere. Yeah, I also hope that in the future they make easier the integration from the Metahuman to the Mannequin, but let's see, thanks for watching!

​@@GorkaGames Hey, I actually went through these steps earlier and got it working really well thanks for the tutorial! I had some inconsistencies with the tut - my character was basically floating in a T-pose whereas yours had the arms moving initially once you added med_unw_body - the ABP Quinn C animation class wasn't selected on mine for some reason. Also I guess more explanation on that last part where we edit the control rig of the mannequin would be cool - that bit was like entering the matrix and I am just happy it worked lol. There's one thing I'm having issues with - under a rectangle light with distance field shadows selected, only my characters hair is casting shadows! Any idea what it is about the hair which works, while the body / legs etc aren't casting a shadow? And one thing I'm curious about... if I want to add footsteps etc to the walking and running animations - it shows the mannequin mesh and not my metahuman - is it easy to fix that so I can watch my character in these animations instead?

in which version are you?

thank you for watching!!!

@@GorkaGames Thank you for the amazing content, very easy to follow and understand!!!

Thank you man!! Yeah so its not working because we deactivated it because if not the character would "ski" through the floor as he doesnt have it set up correclt. So you will have to create a new control rig, and asign the new IK points into the end of the foot.

@@GorkaGames thank you so much for this

Hey, thank you!! Yeah so unfortunately right now the Metahuman sometimes clips through its own clothing. So there are some fixing options that we can try. Firstly you could try to replace the animations with some that have more "broad" shoulder postures, or, you could make the clothing slightly bigger than its own body, so that the clipping will not go through the whole clothing. So yeah, rn we have to deal with this, but thanks for watching my tutorial!!

@@GorkaGames I think I got it! I was using the "nrw" mesh insted of the "unw" one, now it works as well as can be expected haha! Also, I was wondering if you know about anything in relation to using the metahumans "pre-made" expression in animating? I have been struggling to find any content about that other then LiveLink videos

I mean the face expressions!

@@lucamanfroi9111 Lets go!! Im gald you could manage to fix the issue!! Yeah so about Metahuman facial expression I have a simple introductory tutorial about how to make them manually inside the editor: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/na2hnbCZ0J6Veac.html But if it is not enough for you I could do a more detailed one 😀

@@lucamanfroi9111 What do you mean? I have also that problem but i have only nrw meshes....

Make sure that you have scrolled down on the panel, it might be hidden

Everything you see in the video is what I did. Make sure that you are using the same ABP that you edited for the model in its BP, let me know if it still doesnt work!

yeah, so in the new UE 5.1 they have touched something when you assign a skeleton into a mesh and it crashes, hopefully they will launch a quick patch to fix it. and about the error, what error do you get?