Incredibly Easy To Add Any Animation To Metahumans In Unreal Engine 5.4

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It is now incredibly easy to add animations to your Metahumans in Unreal Engine. In Unreal Engine 5.4 they allow you to bring in any animation you find either in the marketplace or third party sources like Mixamo and you can retarget them to your metahumans with two clicks!! In this video we showcase how you can retarget animations from the UE 5 Mannequin and from Mixamo to your metahumans!
Unreal Engine 5.4 will be released later April and this the preview version. You can also download it and play around with it.

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@pinkpotatowithgarlic 20 күн бұрын

Amazing!

@rodrigohostup 29 күн бұрын

Very good Simple and effective!! Congrats

@anatolio8689 Ай бұрын

Such a painful process before, so much better now

@RictorScale 4 ай бұрын

This is great thank you!

@QReviews412 3 ай бұрын

Thank You!

@franconova8048 2 ай бұрын

Metahumans, and any Marketplace UE 5 characters are all Compatible Skeletons, meaning you don't need to do any retargetting process! It's 2 clicks on both skeletons to make them compatible and they can then use every animation of the other one

@cwchris_ 3 ай бұрын

Honestly insane new feature. I paid $50 like 2 months ago for the mixamo retargeter in the marketplace 🤣🤣🤣

@FPChris 3 ай бұрын

Yeah the new retargeter is amazing.

@cosmosiiienngames 3 ай бұрын

thanks bro

@twilightfilms9436 3 ай бұрын

I haven’t used Unreal for a while, but I remember there was a very simple way to import fbx animations from maximo and just drag and drop on the character without any retargeting. I don’t remember if ot was done on maximo or on Unreal, but it was super easy, easier than this new way……anyways, it was almost 2 years ago, so…..Thanks for the video, for the community Man, this keeps alive the dream that sharing is love! Typos by iOS…..

@SipAndCode7 3 ай бұрын

Those must of been good times! I don't recall it being that easy :P

@Jaggukajaadu 4 ай бұрын

Nice

@FPChris 3 ай бұрын

Download the Lyra project for 5.3 there’s a ton of animations.

@brocscogmyre5592 3 ай бұрын

Epic games say there will be no need in 5.4 to leave it in order to achieve animation

@annveligurskaya7015 29 күн бұрын

Thank you for this exellent tutorial! The only think is: I have the same situation like it is shown at 4:32-4:38 when only palms and legs are animated, but head and garment are not. Could you help me to understand,please, how to solve it, how to apply animation to garment as well in this case, like you made for the final result? I would be very appreciiated if you could explain this moment :)

@brocscogmyre5592 Ай бұрын

A major issue not being addressed by anyone is foot sliding while walking

@hytalegermany1095 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video! I just have one problem. I just tried to animate a meta human in sequencer. I downloaded a walking animation. The problem is that adding to this walking animation I want the meta human to turn his head to the left. I can do this with the control rig but once I add the control rig back in additionally to the animation clip the animation clip is ignored and meta human junmps back into t-pose. How to combine head movement (which is part of the body control rig) with the walking animation?

@ignisspiritus6392 Ай бұрын

I got the idle animation to work. The only issue for me is when I hit play it switches to the default manniquin. Did I forget to do something I followed it as stated in the video. Like I said the Idiel animation worked perfectly but when i hit play I'm controlling the mannequin.

@user-ev4ud5xs2j 3 ай бұрын

Can various action resources in the UE mall be directly redirected to various characters in the mall using 5.4?

@SipAndCode7 3 ай бұрын

It should be able to do so more less. Most skeletons have standard bone names. Best way is to give it a go. Hard to say without downloading the asset and checking thhe bone names.

@steinmov 3 ай бұрын

That isn't what many animators want. We want to be able to hand key a metahuman without being frustrated by too many things to do first. Make the animation setup in the engine user friendly.

@atlanteum 3 ай бұрын

Then just drag your MetaHuman into a Level Sequence and start animating with the default Control Rig. What could be easier?

@brocscogmyre5592 3 ай бұрын

I agree with you 100% we animators are being asked to do far to much before animation can commence

@hotsauce7124 4 ай бұрын

Hello, I cannot find my Metahuman in UE5.4 after I download them from Quixel. Where are the Metahuman Control Rigs located, after you import them from Quixel?

@SipAndCode7 4 ай бұрын

Hi, After you download in Quixel, right next to the Download button there is an "add" button. Need to click that to add the downloaded metahuman to your current project. Once you do that there should be a Metahumans folder under content.

@archieabong 4 ай бұрын

I have UE 5.4 and my import fbx diaglouge when I import mixamo is a bit different than yours and I kept getting an error when I import it.

@SipAndCode7 4 ай бұрын

When you are importing from mixamo (if it's the first time for a certain character model) make sure to choose the "With Skin" option.

@archieabong 4 ай бұрын

@@SipAndCode7 Yes thank you figured it out eventually

@LordYodel 3 ай бұрын

Do you know how to exchange the default ThirdPerson Mannequin with a Mixamo Character? So that your Mixamo Character will become the ThirdPerson Player Character?

@SipAndCode7 3 ай бұрын

@LordYodel I do but unfortunately won't be able to explain in the comments. Will try to make a video on it.

@LordYodel 3 ай бұрын

@@SipAndCode7 would be dope, especially using the new 5.4 Preview version, which it seems, has a new retargeting feature.

@pranavarya2164 2 ай бұрын

how can i export animated metahumans without its environment only animated metahuman is needed

@SipAndCode7 2 ай бұрын

Right click on the blueprint of the metahuman and I think it's asset actions and migrate. That way you can migrate it to another project if that is what you need.

@pranavarya2164 2 ай бұрын

@@SipAndCode7 ok i will try

@WeShootFilms 3 ай бұрын

But you didn't show how to use it inside of a sequence

@SipAndCode7 3 ай бұрын

Hi, I have showed that in another video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8ykdcWHmLacZJ8.html

@WeShootFilms 3 ай бұрын

@@SipAndCode7 When i try to retarget in my own map it never works only if i use third person map why is that. I want to add metahumans inside of my project