It's very easy. You open the script in the text editor in blender. Select the armature. Press the button that looks like a play button. The script is only for UE4 bones IIRC, so you will need to add the others if it's UE5. If it is an unrelated rig you can just change the bone names in the script itself and adjust the desired rotation values in it.
I'm thinking about practical uses of this. My characters are almost never naked, so I want to mostly get clothes that look realistic when they bend their arms and legs. Can this ML Deformer be used for that, or would it still require me to manually adjust the meshes in Blender for every pose to make it look good (which kinda beats the purpose) or are there already any presets for Alembic Cache for most often used clothes that can be used immediately?
for clothing you might be better off using chaos cloth (if the end goal is realism), but the same process will still work for clothes provided you have shapekeys driven by the bone rotations on the clothes.
github.com/Hunanbean/Blender-to-UE-ML-Deformer-Plugin-Random-Pose-Generator
Thanks for the video , I think I need a video on how to actually apply the script to my armature.
It's very easy. You open the script in the text editor in blender. Select the armature. Press the button that looks like a play button.
The script is only for UE4 bones IIRC, so you will need to add the others if it's UE5. If it is an unrelated rig you can just change the bone names in the script itself and adjust the desired rotation values in it.
@@AmorVim icic, thank you! yes I am UE5 skeleton, thanks I will give it a try :)
Awesome! Would this work with Houdini as well?
Probably, but I have no idea what you would need to do in Houdini to get the alembic cache or animations
I'm thinking about practical uses of this. My characters are almost never naked, so I want to mostly get clothes that look realistic when they bend their arms and legs. Can this ML Deformer be used for that, or would it still require me to manually adjust the meshes in Blender for every pose to make it look good (which kinda beats the purpose) or are there already any presets for Alembic Cache for most often used clothes that can be used immediately?
for clothing you might be better off using chaos cloth (if the end goal is realism), but the same process will still work for clothes provided you have shapekeys driven by the bone rotations on the clothes.