A massive thanks to you and Blenderboi for this update. I've been using GRT with Godot 4 over the last couple of months and it has been a massive help so far. I was actually not updating to Blender 3.6 because I wasn't sure if this addon would still work, but now we've got this new update that looks great! Keep up the good work!😁
Man your tool/addon was like a huge motivator for me to get into blender and learning animation for videogames, right now as a hobby but if i manage to get a career out of this i will come back and donate you
Really great tool! I am unsure where to leave feedback or requests, so i'm sorry if this is the wrong place. I noticed when pushing to NLA, it doesn't put the name of the action in the NLA track leading to naming conventions like "NlaTrack.001" etc, if there is a future update, do you think you could make it so it inputs the actions name in the NlaTrack section like it normally does when you push to NLA?
I cant find the root bone, is there a way to know which one it is since my original rig has it and can be controlled its just i cant find which one its converted into, i need this for Godot
I have an issue with the root bone. When I animate the large controller on the ground, and import the animation .fbx in unreal the root bone does not move. How can I animate the root bone with this addon ?
The addon is not meant for animation, just for rigging your character with a standard Unreal skeleton. That said, you can animate the Armature in Object mode and the object level animation should become root motion when exported. That is just FYI. Since it is not officially supported it is not something that I can provide a lot of information on.
So I have everything set up and my rig is working correctly, I baked my Idle and Walk to test it, I’m working off a slightly modified Rigify setup. Baking to NLA works great, but when I use the export to Unreal tool, I used the other guide to port the animations over with it. But I don’t see any animations at all. I’m not sure what I am doing wrong? I’m gonna go through the guides again step by step, but I figured I’d ask just incase it was obvious.
hello! i am new in rigging, and all my characters have similar bone hierarchy and bone names, except for some names that are equipment slots. in unity, the generic rig works the best for all characters except for the shared animations that deforms the characters and makes the characters stretched or compact. I tried using humanoid rig but there are alot of warnings but still works fine. I want to keep using generic rig since it works perfectly. Can those animations be fixed to work on all characters without changing to humanoid and maintaining the original rig?
Does game rig tools create a root bone to be sent to unreal? I'm thinking of using root motion in unreal and am worried that I can't find a root bone anywhere in my generated game rig.
This is a very peculiar Blender + UE workflow quirk: the Armature *Object* in Blender becomes the root bone in UE. That is why you want to name the armature object that you send to UE "root".
I tired it before with Cascadeur and it's perfect :) If you would like to use the control rig to change animations from Cascadeur you still need to retarget the imported animation to the control rig.
@@AronNemeth95 Thanks for your reply. I was thinking of generating the game rig of Rigify with the addon and take it to Cascadeur to animate it (Animate the body with Cascadeur and Face with Blender) So that won't pose an issue ?
Thank you so much for the tool, you're the boss. Does Game Rig tools support shape keys? I've successfully baked the actions to my game rig but the keys in the control rig of the original rig where not transferred over. I'm using drivers to change the value of the shape key.
I re-did the bones in the new rig, switched the drivers to the new bones and copy pasted the baked animation keyframes into them. That solved it. I think if I had created them before baking the animation into the game rig I probably wouldn't have to do all of this.
Hey, glad you solved it. This is something that is not integrated yet and I recognize that it is a weakness of this workflow and of the addon. Basically shapekeys are driven by the control rig and they stay so after the rig extraction. And since we export the game rig, the shapekeyss stay behind. If the shapes are driven by the DEF bones then you could edit the drivers to that the they are driven by the bones in the Game rig. But if the drivers depend on MCH or control bones, it becomes a bit more complex. There is an external addon written by someone else which attempts to solve this issue but I haven't given it a proper try yet. gitlab.com/x190/bake_sk_drivers
Great add-on. Thank you so much for providing it. Does it support generating the game ready rig with a root bone for root motion? Mine has no root bone, and the hierarchy is kinda weird. I could try adding one, but I'm scared I'll break everything.
You can extract the root bone, you just have to set the correct extraction settings (exporting the Deforming bones only is the default but there are other options). Root motion workflows for a specific engine are not supported so you have to implement it yourself.
@@CGDive What do you mean root motion workflows are not supported? If i bake an animation which has keyframes on a rigify root bone will they be baked to the root bone on the game rig?
Ok I answered my own question. I can indeed extract the root bone, but animation baking no longer works then, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of the add on. I guess that's what you mean when you say root motion workflows are not supported.
@@mattseaton5832 No that's not what I meant. I just meant that you have to know what you root bone needs to perform in Blender and then how to set it up in your engine. But the animation baking should work. Please email me, I will try to help.
@@CGDive Well I started again from scratch and it worked this time. Kinda confused. Sometimes I hit mute and unmute and I can't tell if it's doing anything. And when I play the baked animation, the control rig still moves along with the animation. Not sure why that is. But I exported it to godot and it works so all good.
@@CGDive thank you very much Can you tell me if the controls of this control rig works inside unreal? Because i rigged on rigify and maked some custom controls but after import to unreal they don't do a thing, only the main structure (spine,arms etc)
@@sunny99179 Blender Control rigs and Unreal control rigs are not compatible. Until someone creates a script that translates blender constraints, drivers, etc to Unreal blueprints you can't export control rigs. Watch this series to get a feel for what you can and cannot export from blender to game engines: th-cam.com/play/PLdcL5aF8ZcJvCyqWeCBYVGKbQgrQngen3.html
Thank you for update. I really appreciate GameRig Tools, it has made my workflow so much better and more efficient. How about for blender files that used the previous version? Is it safe to uninstall old version then install v 2.2.0? Or should I keep using previous version for blender files where I have already baked several animations to the game rig, and only use v 2.2.0 for new blender files? (I have already upgraded Blender itself to 3.6)
The safe option would be to use 2.2.0 with new files ... but old files should still work with the new addon version. You may have to set the Control rig and Game rig in the new interface but that's about it. I may be missing something tho so be careful and do not overwrite your old files.
They are different type of tools, If you already use AutoRig Pro, I don't think you need Game Rig Tools Game Rig Tools are made for Generic Manual Rig Workflow, and in additionally work decently well with rigify
@@CGDive sorry let me ask again, can i make a full rig (with control rig) in blender from scratch without using rigify, and then use this addon to create a game rig? or is this addon only works for blender rigify rig?
You can choose not make any changes to the original rig. But if you already used the default options and you want to go back, then no, there is no automated way to do that.
En blender market se niegan a darte el reembolso es una mala experiencia decepcionado de esto piensen antes de comprar porque después no hay marcha atras
1. I don't speak Spanish 2. Not true, Blender Market gives refunds rather easily. I think they have 30 days money back guarantee. You can also contact the creator and ask them for a refund. I will always give you your money back if you are not happy with your purchase.
I am not sure if I understand the question... Many people don't know how to correctly update to a new version so I showed how to do it. Hope this helps.
@@CGDive you have some versions tools for blender 2.8 2.9 3.0 3.4 3.6 . I'm using blender 3.0 but when i'm trying to understanding how to rigging with tool help i failed when tried copy step by step your tutorials. So i tried all your versions for 3.0 blender, then install 3.6 blender to tried again all your versions on it. Still not working and blow my mind like ^&#$%@&$%*@! with tool and versions. It's better if you have beginner tut video for each version, i think so.
![[Blender] THE FUNDAMENTALS of Exporting Rigged characters to Unreal, Unity, or ANY GameEngine](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1Xm1h700uhk/mqdefault.jpg)
A massive thanks to you and Blenderboi for this update. I've been using GRT with Godot 4 over the last couple of months and it has been a massive help so far. I was actually not updating to Blender 3.6 because I wasn't sure if this addon would still work, but now we've got this new update that looks great! Keep up the good work!😁
Man your tool/addon was like a huge motivator for me to get into blender and learning animation for videogames, right now as a hobby but if i manage to get a career out of this i will come back and donate you
Wow, that's awesome! No worries about donations. Keep it up!
What was amazing got even more marvellous! Thanks Blender Boy and Todor for the such a tool! We salute you!
Thank you both for making blender better to work with for gamedev
appreciate you so much for this
You're so welcome!
God bless you! Thanks a lot for your great work!
That's awesome !! Thank you so much 😊
No problem 😊
Really great tool! I am unsure where to leave feedback or requests, so i'm sorry if this is the wrong place.
I noticed when pushing to NLA, it doesn't put the name of the action in the NLA track leading to naming conventions like "NlaTrack.001" etc, if there is a future update, do you think you could make it so it inputs the actions name in the NlaTrack section like it normally does when you push to NLA?
I cant find the root bone, is there a way to know which one it is since my original rig has it and can be controlled its just i cant find which one its converted into, i need this for Godot
Thank you so much its life saver 💚💚
Glad it helped!
This is incredible...
Amazing job ❤
I have an issue with the root bone. When I animate the large controller on the ground, and import the animation .fbx in unreal the root bone does not move. How can I animate the root bone with this addon ?
The addon is not meant for animation, just for rigging your character with a standard Unreal skeleton.
That said, you can animate the Armature in Object mode and the object level animation should become root motion when exported. That is just FYI. Since it is not officially supported it is not something that I can provide a lot of information on.
I own Autorig pro, what is the advantage of using game rig tools over ARPS native exporter for Unity & UE ?
If ARP's exporter works well (which it should), then there is no need to use GRT.
@@CGDive Thanks mate We Appreciate your knowledge.👍👍👍
GRT is for generic/rigify workflow, ARP native exporter would work better for ARP rig as they are tailored made for ARP
@@CGDive Every Time I exportr ARP rig to UE5 , it does not work, How can I use the GRT for UE5 as I need to make custom animations
Hello, does this also bake the facial animation created with rigify? Or how does it work with facial animation?
It bakes anything. The trick is to set it up correctly before baking. When you get the addon, you'll also find tutorials. Watch them :)
Hello i want to generate rig when i made armature, but button is greyed out, how to fix it?
You have to set the Control rig field (as shown in the video)
So I have everything set up and my rig is working correctly, I baked my Idle and Walk to test it, I’m working off a slightly modified Rigify setup. Baking to NLA works great, but when I use the export to Unreal tool, I used the other guide to port the animations over with it. But I don’t see any animations at all. I’m not sure what I am doing wrong? I’m gonna go through the guides again step by step, but I figured I’d ask just incase it was obvious.
I can't say for sure, sorry. Full transparency: since it's not related to our addon, I am no giving a lot of thought :)
hello! i am new in rigging, and all my characters have similar bone hierarchy and bone names, except for some names that are equipment slots. in unity, the generic rig works the best for all characters except for the shared animations that deforms the characters and makes the characters stretched or compact. I tried using humanoid rig but there are alot of warnings but still works fine. I want to keep using generic rig since it works perfectly. Can those animations be fixed to work on all characters without changing to humanoid and maintaining the original rig?
Can u make new video on how to use this latest update to create all this bone things to unreal (i mean from a to z )❤
This is an update to GRT Core. GRT Unreal has not been updated, it works as before.
Aaaah i see
Thanks for clarifying
Hello, I want from that armature generate rigify, but option is disabled, why?
You have to set the Control rig field (as shown in the video)
Does game rig tools create a root bone to be sent to unreal? I'm thinking of using root motion in unreal and am worried that I can't find a root bone anywhere in my generated game rig.
This is a very peculiar Blender + UE workflow quirk: the Armature *Object* in Blender becomes the root bone in UE. That is why you want to name the armature object that you send to UE "root".
@@CGDiveAha that's good to know, thank you Todor. I'll reply later to report how it goes for the sake of others with the same issue.
Rigify hierarchy Fix 🤩🤩
YES!
does that mean i can just use rigify to rig my character ?
@@AlGny2 yea
Thank you so much, just wanted to ask does this work nice with Cascadeur ?
I tired it before with Cascadeur and it's perfect :) If you would like to use the control rig to change animations from Cascadeur you still need to retarget the imported animation to the control rig.
@@AronNemeth95 Thanks for your reply. I was thinking of generating the game rig of Rigify with the addon and take it to Cascadeur to animate it (Animate the body with Cascadeur and Face with Blender) So that won't pose an issue ?
It could be useful for exchanging rigs with Cascadeur but currently there I haven't tested a sepecific wokflow.
Thank you so much for the tool, you're the boss. Does Game Rig tools support shape keys? I've successfully baked the actions to my game rig but the keys in the control rig of the original rig where not transferred over. I'm using drivers to change the value of the shape key.
I re-did the bones in the new rig, switched the drivers to the new bones and copy pasted the baked animation keyframes into them. That solved it. I think if I had created them before baking the animation into the game rig I probably wouldn't have to do all of this.
Hey, glad you solved it. This is something that is not integrated yet and I recognize that it is a weakness of this workflow and of the addon. Basically shapekeys are driven by the control rig and they stay so after the rig extraction. And since we export the game rig, the shapekeyss stay behind.
If the shapes are driven by the DEF bones then you could edit the drivers to that the they are driven by the bones in the Game rig. But if the drivers depend on MCH or control bones, it becomes a bit more complex.
There is an external addon written by someone else which attempts to solve this issue but I haven't given it a proper try yet.
gitlab.com/x190/bake_sk_drivers
Great add-on. Thank you so much for providing it. Does it support generating the game ready rig with a root bone for root motion? Mine has no root bone, and the hierarchy is kinda weird. I could try adding one, but I'm scared I'll break everything.
You can extract the root bone, you just have to set the correct extraction settings (exporting the Deforming bones only is the default but there are other options). Root motion workflows for a specific engine are not supported so you have to implement it yourself.
@@CGDive What do you mean root motion workflows are not supported? If i bake an animation which has keyframes on a rigify root bone will they be baked to the root bone on the game rig?
Ok I answered my own question. I can indeed extract the root bone, but animation baking no longer works then, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of the add on. I guess that's what you mean when you say root motion workflows are not supported.
@@mattseaton5832 No that's not what I meant. I just meant that you have to know what you root bone needs to perform in Blender and then how to set it up in your engine. But the animation baking should work. Please email me, I will try to help.
@@CGDive Well I started again from scratch and it worked this time. Kinda confused. Sometimes I hit mute and unmute and I can't tell if it's doing anything. And when I play the baked animation, the control rig still moves along with the animation. Not sure why that is. But I exported it to godot and it works so all good.
So i need to first rig with rigify or i can start rigging with this add on? Thank you🎉
Right, first Rigify or a custom rig. Then use this addon to extract a game rig.
@@CGDive thank you very much
Can you tell me if the controls of this control rig works inside unreal? Because i rigged on rigify and maked some custom controls but after import to unreal they don't do a thing, only the main structure (spine,arms etc)
@@sunny99179 Blender Control rigs and Unreal control rigs are not compatible. Until someone creates a script that translates blender constraints, drivers, etc to Unreal blueprints you can't export control rigs.
Watch this series to get a feel for what you can and cannot export from blender to game engines:
th-cam.com/play/PLdcL5aF8ZcJvCyqWeCBYVGKbQgrQngen3.html
Thank you for update. I really appreciate GameRig Tools, it has made my workflow so much better and more efficient. How about for blender files that used the previous version? Is it safe to uninstall old version then install v 2.2.0? Or should I keep using previous version for blender files where I have already baked several animations to the game rig, and only use v 2.2.0 for new blender files? (I have already upgraded Blender itself to 3.6)
The safe option would be to use 2.2.0 with new files ... but old files should still work with the new addon version. You may have to set the Control rig and Game rig in the new interface but that's about it. I may be missing something tho so be careful and do not overwrite your old files.
@@CGDive Thanks -- makes sense, I'll back up everything before trying it out
Love U , man! thanks
You're welcome!
How is this compared to autorig pro?
They are different :)
They are different type of tools, If you already use AutoRig Pro, I don't think you need Game Rig Tools
Game Rig Tools are made for Generic Manual Rig Workflow, and in additionally work decently well with rigify
How does it work with rigify facerig?
When you get the addon, you will find tutorial videos and you can learn how to deal with a face rig there.
can i make my own rig with control rig and then extract it to game rig with this addon?
With UE Control Rig? To be honest, I am not sure what workflow you envision so I can't say for sure.
@@CGDive sorry let me ask again, can i make a full rig (with control rig) in blender from scratch without using rigify, and then use this addon to create a game rig?
or is this addon only works for blender rigify rig?
@@rikkasummer2784 yes, the addon works with any rig, not just Rigify :)
Can I restore the original rig?
You can choose not make any changes to the original rig. But if you already used the default options and you want to go back, then no, there is no automated way to do that.
🎉
En blender market se niegan a darte el reembolso es una mala experiencia decepcionado de esto piensen antes de comprar porque después no hay marcha atras
1. I don't speak Spanish
2. Not true, Blender Market gives refunds rather easily. I think they have 30 days money back guarantee. You can also contact the creator and ask them for a refund. I will always give you your money back if you are not happy with your purchase.
we need watching to learning how to using all old version tool if want to known how to using this version ??
I am not sure if I understand the question...
Many people don't know how to correctly update to a new version so I showed how to do it. Hope this helps.
@@CGDive you have some versions tools for blender 2.8 2.9 3.0 3.4 3.6 . I'm using blender 3.0 but when i'm trying to understanding how to rigging with tool help
i failed when tried copy step by step your tutorials.
So i tried all your versions for 3.0 blender, then install 3.6 blender to tried again all your versions on it.
Still not working and blow my mind like ^&#$%@&$%*@! with tool and versions.
It's better if you have beginner tut video for each version, i think so.
thumb down for pay this
You don’t have to pay this so thumbs should be up 👍🏻
@@CGDive yeah? I see only 15$ for download and not free.
On Gumroad you can get it for free.