Excellent video, I was on the edge before with Auto Rig Pro (I thought it was only for rigging a mesh, I didn't look into it much), but after seeing these great animation retargetting tools I'm definitely going to be using this from now on! Thank you so much for making this hour long video, I'd say it must have been a pain to edit this long of a video. You're doing a great service to the Blender animation community with your tutorials and guides, I always search for you on TH-cam if I need info on Blender animation, top quality as usual. Keep up the great work 👍.
Nice, glad to have pushed you over the edge :P And thanks for acknowledging my work on this 1-hour long monster. This one in particular was tough. I am not even sure why, I just kept making mistakes and having to re-record stuff :)
Thanks alot sir. Your tutorials are so detailed you hardly skip a thing..... I keep coming back to them anytime am stuck.... Am requesting you do a detailed tutorial on mocap cleaning especially the shaky feet
Thank you lad, you really helped me out! I have been trying for several days to properly move an animation from Cascadeur to Blender. Turns out IK re-targeting is the way!
Super nice man..thanks alot... its VERY important to state however.. if you;re doing IK Remaps... take note that the IK Poles will (I dare say) Always will be Pole Parent 0 which is parented to the c_traj or c_pos... this can be problematic later on... especially if you plan to mix motions :(... I learned this the hard way... so for me.. i ALMOST ALWAYS after retarget.. delete all Pole keys and switch to pole parent 1 and then I manually adjust the poles to match the source rig as best as possible.. its tedious.. but works.... and yes I tried the Auto Pole.. which sometimes works.. but for me at least more often than not.. it not get me the results I need.
Did you manage to get an answer from the developer about the A pose vs T-pose? it seems the best solution is not to set the motion capture to A-pose but rather the rest pose of the rigged character to T-POSE so it conforms to all future mocap. Not sure if I missed any amendments to this video. Thank you for all your work, Todor. Truly. You are a hero.
You did miss an important update video ;) Not only did I get an answer but the dev updated the addon besed on my feedback. Now you can update the rest-pose non-distructively! th-cam.com/video/OBNjB_WS7yM/w-d-xo.html
@@CGDivejust watched it. amazing ! This fix + voxel heat addon blows the Maya pipeline for quick rigging and retargetjng out of the water. Thanks so much for all your hard work in educating us.
This Video helped me a lot. I solved many problems i was facing with retargeting my recorded mocap data. The tip with deleting every arms and legbones from the retarget list and only leaving the hand IK was very useful. Before i always struggled with motion bugs when retargeting to IK. I am looking forward to your video(s) about cleaning up mocap data, i tried some things myself with deleting and smooting keyframes and animation layering with the NLA Editor but the results are still glitchy sometimes and it's hard to do, so i am curious about your solutions. Your Mocap playlist is a great resource for the Blender community! :)
Great tutorial. I still have issues with the target rig floating above the ground. Scaling makes it a bit better but still. Source animation doesn't have that motion but it target rig goes above and under the ground when doing squad animation
Playing with the scale and using IK retargeting are the main solutions I know of. At some point some issues are unavoidable so you have to go in an fix the retargeted animation.
Great. With the ik retargeting, I will stick to auto rig pro in the future. But there are not many systematic tutorials on autorigpro. maybe you could make a video series?
If this the redefine really works for you when using mixamo animations and the mixamo skeleton looks all wonky, when importing the mixamo armature, in the import tab select armature -> automatic bone orientation
Thanks for the great tutorial video! I learned a lot from your Rigify series. I bought and tried Autorig pro this time, and it feels like a very convenient and intuitive tool. Can I expect more Autorig pro tutorials in the future?
When I "Build Bone List" all bones appear, but there is no hips or c_root bone in the list that I can set as root. I see the bone in the outliner, but not in the build bones list. Any help?
great guide! was wondering what if the model has no proper rest pose? how do i make a precise T pose from it? I've tried rotation resetting of bones and it has never worked for me
If you don’t help him to record the teaching, I can’t understand the teaching recorded by the author, and I won’t use it when I buy it. I have read his teaching several times and read the document many times. Later, I tried to ask him directly. I can understand it now. It feels like the teaching is like a promotional video, not real teaching. thank you
Yeah, a lot of his videos are without voice. It's unfortunate but a good addon developer is not necessarily a good video producer... I find the written Documentation quite good tho. www.lucky3d.fr/auto-rig-pro/doc/
Hi, I used ARPro in an animation project and I had lots of troubles as I tried to use my usual animation workflow in which I often create custom bone constraints and animation bakes to let characters and props interact together with IK chains. The problems arise as ARPro doesn't accept visual keyframes and doesn't bake animation correctly, while Rigify reacts perfectly in theese situations. Did anyone experience similar troubles and found an effective way to deal with them? Thanks for any clue, regards.
I am not sure I understand the problem fully so I can't comment. Not accepting visual keyframes is definitely strange. Auto-Rig Pro uses the built-in bone system so it should work... However, the addon developer is quite easy to talk to and he takes user input seriously. Try asking him about the problems you are experiencing and he may offer a solution.
I got lost at the rest pose. I did what you said but the arms we not doing what it suppose to do. I tried several but it never went into a a pose, one hand was in front straight and one in back straight. Any solution would help.
Thanks for all the details. 1) 14:00 can you tell me about Mixamo lacking a Root bone, thus when its Hip bone shifts, it shifts the leg bones, and thus the feet are uneven at the ground - one foot goes thru? And how to fix that on our Main rig? Ive read talk about this issue, but never seen a video or it explained how to use ARP to add an actual Root bone (also used by UE4). Ty 2) And can you say how to fix: When I retarget from Mixamo anim, my Rig is 2 units above the ground. If I GZ -2, my rig moves down, but then jumps back when I press play. How do I perma shift my Anim/rig? Or how do I correct retargeting from Mixamo, to retarget correctly? Ty
Hey. 1) the top-level root bone has nothing to do with the retarget root mentioned at 14:00. Having such a root will not help you fix shaky legs. The best way to stabilize the legs is to retarget to the IK controls which is covered in the video. That alone will make the legs more stable and then you can use the NLA and/or tweak the motion curves to stabilize them even more 2) This can also be done in the NLA or by tweaking the motion curves. But ARP has its own solution. Watch 1:03:49 Interactive tweaks. I have a series about the NLA. In the future, I'll make videos specifically about cleaning up retargeted motion. But it will take some time. th-cam.com/play/PLdcL5aF8ZcJvaLgirnTuH8-4Ro5Ou-YsZ.html
@@CGDive 2) Yayyy 1:03:49 Interactive tweaks. Ty, it was what I was looking for (The -Z adjust). Sorry for asking things you had in the vid - but I watched 3 vids that day and lost where I had seen it. 3) 1:08:47 Wow. This was very helpful and thanks for the diagram. 1) Ok ill try for a running animation: Interactive tweaks. Didnt work. For half of the anim, I want to move Left thigh -z = 2 - so [knee lower > foot] touches ground. But at the end of the anim, as the foot moves back and the toe bends - the toe goes below ground (bad anim from Mixamo - was not made even). So how do I move the thigh bone back up on only 5 selected frames? I de-selected all gold frames, then selected 5, and did the Z change, but it changed all frames, when all were not selected??? Or what is the IK method to just move the foot or thigh down for 5 frames, then up 5 frames? (I thought my rig was already in IK mode - but going to pose > moving just the foot box - idk how to apply changes to only specific frames.)
@@kenalpha3 Sorry, your questions are a bit too basic, we are getting into tutoring zone and I don't have the time for that :D To tweak 5 frames you can use the curve editor or the NLA. I already shared my playlist above. If you don't know how IK works this could help th-cam.com/video/vKgH5zXIYmM/w-d-xo.html
Hi there, thanks for all the AR-P content! Question: how do I transfer actions/animations from one character to another when both are using Auto Rig Pro?
If the rigs are compatible (e.g. both use the default human rig), you can simply apply the same action to both and it will work. Or you could use retargeting.
Hello! I follow all the steps as is, and when I hit Re-target it does the move but puts my arms back and crossed... Why is this happening? I also fail to define the link of the root of the armature.
I get this error: The rotation of the source armature is not frozen. The X, Y, or Z values are different from 1, which can cause problems in some cases. Freeze it first? This will affect the transformation values of the animation, but keep it the same visually.
Regarding the crossed arms: the target and source rig most likely have different rest poses. Watch 16:25 . "I also fail to define the link of the root of the armature." Why? :D "Freeze it first? error" I've seen it but I am not sure. Do you have the latest version of the addon? I think this error was removed but I could be wrong. Anyway, it's best to ask the addon dev about that.
This really is a great reference and documentation on the addon. I am using an A-pose, and changing the rest-pose accordingly as mentioned in the video, however in "mixamo Pistol walking" the fingers and wrist are not properly following the source. Any tips to do it? I have tried to match all the arm bones upto fingers. But still no luck.
When I put it on the ankle, don't allow me to put it on the knee length limit. I don't understand English so I don't understand do you have a solution in the video? Please help me
thanks for this awesome video! quick question: I'm having issues with the pole targets of the legs. Most of the time they're fine, but sometimes they move to the back of the leg, causing the leg to twist. How can I fix this? Thanks so much in advance!
@@CGDive sorry, i should have clarified. i'm talking about retargeting. i think it's an IK problem. when I tried the technique of your video section "IK retargeting - Auto rig pro direct" it was even worse. If you have any idea, let me know! And thanks
Ty, I got my workflow fixed 90%. Can you direct me to a vid or tell me how to setup IK fingers > retargeted to Mixamo rig > and the fingers curl correctly to the Mixamo fingers (which do not have IK bones)? I am confused because step 6: 1) I selected Rig generated by ARP > Object mode > 2) N panel > ARP panel > Edit Reference Bones > 3) Selected L hand bone > Limb Options > I checked IK fingers > ok. 4) Match to rig. 5) Then in ARP: REMAP > I found the Index fingers in the list box (under Re-target button). 6) What do I put for Mixamorig:LeftHandIndex1, 2, & 3? I have sets [c_index1_ik.l, c_index2_ik.l, & c_index3_ik.l], and [c_index_ik2.l (a fingertip sphere), c_index_ik.l, & c_index_pole.l] i) I tried setting this but it failed: LeftHandIndex1 = c_index1_ik.l, Index2 = c_index2_ik.l, Index3 = c_index3_ik.l. Poles? ii) And I tried setting this but failed: Index1 = blank?, Index2 = c_index_ik2.l - set c_index_pole.l, Index3 (fingertip bone) = c_index_ik.l - do I use the same pole or only 1 bone uses a pole? 7) (I want to use IK fingers on a Mixamo retarget of an Idle pose, to make easier finger corrections. My hand is going into the thigh. And manually rekeying fingers took too long. So I want to move the IK finger tip just on the thigh surface, and key that anim change. Thank you.) 8) I want to do this [ watch?v=e-g10ntbiJM ], but in ARP terms. I dont know what ARP does to setup local finger rotation etc, when I do Step 3 above.
Let me clarify something. What do you mean by IK fingers? Because what you showed in 8) is not IK fingers. ARP can bend the whole finger by scaling the first finger control.
@@CGDive Thank you. So I would like #3 real IK fingers, as the main question/setup > Rigged/Matched to the Mixamo animation. And while searching I found #8 (which would also help me animate). Is it possible to setup both with ARP? (He shows #8, but Id rather use an ARP setup so that I dont mess up any of ARPs controls. I looked at the Bone Constraint Properties tab > after doing step 3, but dont understand which IK bones to set for # 6 or 8.) Thank you. (And perhaps an idea for a future vid 🙂: IK fingers vs #8 control, and when to use each. Or more important, if it is possible to have IK controls and #8 setup on the same Rig.)
Hi, thanks for this tutorial. I got an error when choose Voxelized as binding engine. When I click Bind, I got a pop up "More than 75 000 polygon to bind". When I click OK in the pop up message, I got an error message binding error. My system is i7 13th gen, GPU RTX 4070T1. May I know why?
Hi. I am not sure if it is clear but I am not the addon developer, I just make tutorials about it. :) So I can't help with errors. You may have to ask the developer :) The problem seems obvious enough tho. Your mesh is very high poly and the binding algorithms probably runs out of memory. You could try Heat Maps. When you switch to it, you will see an Optimize High Res check box. Try to enable it and bind that way.
You demonstrated how to retarget to Rigify (FK). Will you show us how to retarget to Rigify (IK) as well? What's the difference between FK and IK? I usually just press Shift+ A-> Armature-> Human (Meta-rig). Then I go to Object Data Properties-> Generate rig. So is that IK or FK?
If you don't have a good understanding of IK/FK please watch this first th-cam.com/video/vKgH5zXIYmM/w-d-xo.html Retargeting to Rigify IK is the same as for Auto-Rig Pro but you may want to switch the IK to pole target (also explained in the video link about)
i don't know how my comment get removed my question was when I set source armature before setting one statement came IN front of me written ''your source is not freeze, freeze the armature'' in result every thing worked perfactly except for legs...feet are not moving
I replied already. Check if you have the latest version of Auto-Rig Pro. I think the "freeze" message no longer shows in new versions. If the legs aren't moving, it probably means that they are not properly mapped.
This looks like a beautiful plugin. Can it do VR hands? Say... if I had a model (gloves) and want to swap out the UE4 VR Hands for the gloves. Can this do that?
I haven't considered this. Go to the product page blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro and you should see a button that says Ask a Question. This will allow you to ask the addon developer himself!
hello sir its a great video, i've seen your other rigify videos which helped me a lot it will be very helpful if you please tell me a way to change height and weight of an avatar on just one rig.
I am actually not sure what you want to achieve. You could scale some controllers to make the character thicker/taller/shorter but I am not sure if that will work well. It is not a trivial task.
@@CGDive sorry sir for such a late reply, i just want to know about a controller in rigify that can change weight of avatar proportionately..can i do that?
I have an issue where the retargeting isnt lining up properly, most notably the arms are off by about 30 degrees. It's retargeting mixamo animations so should be pretty straight forward, but as it is I need to add corrective layers and rebake for each animation im retargeting.....
Great video! Would it be possible to great a comprehensive video like what you did with Rigify in creating a rig i.e., added extra limbs? I am trying to add toes bones but cannot work out how to do it.
When i retarget animations my feet be spinning idk what that is, but everything thing else is good it's just the feet. Edit I fixed it! I had to delete all of the toes since the toes was all weighted in the shoes i had no need for them and the spinning stopped. Everything is good now
Have you still not heard anything about retargetting multiple animations after changing the source rigs rest post? That a problem I was just running into, although not a huge issue, just need to change the targets pose to a T pose.
Please make video on how I could make a control Rig of any Armature as I found difficulties to give fine touch to the motion after imported from iClone in Blender.
Control rig from any Armature? I don't know of such a tool/workflow. Something that comes close is Rig on the Fly. Or maybe Quick Rig from the creator of Auto-Rig Pro blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro-quick-rig
If the rigs have the same bone/control names, and more or less the same proportions, then you don't need to retarget. You can simply apply the action that you created with your first rig to the second one. It can be done in the Action Editor.
Hi. First of all, thanks a lot for your tutorial series, it helps a lot with character's animation. I am having some issues with Mixamo IK arms IK legs Mapping Presets as it does not completely results in the same animation, but seems to result in several changes in rotation of bones. Any idea of what can I be doing wrong? Any bugs in the addon latest versions? Thanks a lot in advance
Some Mixamo characters have different bone orientations. Try using either a character you ran through the rigging process yourself or the e.g. the Ninja character.
the voxel binding algorithm kept twisting my arms in a strange way 3000 quads (any pointers of what might cause this it's hard to know what settings to tweak.?) when you are adjusting the bones on your model you mention it looks fairly good - what were you looking for to make the evaluation? (so I know what to look for etc)
Hello, did you figure out how to use footrol? There is a ctrl behind the heel but it's not bending the fingers and it's frustrating if you have to animate 2 ctrl for one thing. Thanks in advance.
I tried following for re-targeting a Retargeting to Rigify (FK) section. All my animations are on a Riggify rig. Im not sure if this tutorial was for that. Im getting a few issues when Re-Targeting. Like it gets really messed up and doesn't map to any of the several animation, it also comes out in a odd position. Do you have a specific tutorial on this?
My character's eyes are separate and he will have antennae on his head. My character is one piece. But the eyes and antennae are separate, I want these objects to follow the bone. Is there a tutorial with a method for this?
In my System autorig pro is generating IK for legs but FK for arms . and if i change from FK to IK by tool bar it is not working . how to generate ik for arm by default
You should be able to rig two characters in the same scene. Please discuss your glitch with the addon creator (not me). In the meantime you could rig each character in a separate scene and then append or link into your animation scene. This is a good practice in general.
i followed the tutorial for the rigify rig and the retargeting works fine but when i try to move the foot after retargeting the whole leg stretches and the IK doesn't seem to work. is there a fix for that?
Thanks for the amazing tutorial as always. I've been wondering if there is any way to retarget the Scale of the bones with ARP, since the constraints seem to only be created for rotation and (optionally) location. Are you aware of any method that doesn't involve adding the Copy Scale constraints manually?
Hi. I don't think so. Retargeting deals with rotation and location. You can probably set up a simple Copy Scale but it will depend on what you are trying to do :)
@@CGDive Thanks for the response, just adding Copy Scale constraints does the job, so I guess it's scripting time. Makes me wonder why it's not an option, seems like the most straight-forward transformation to retarget, maybe because it's not commonly found in human animation, which is the standard use case. It may be worth suggesting it for future versions of ARP though.
@@ilcane8785 yeah, exactly. Retargeting is generally meant to transfer mocap data to a cg character. And having scaling in a mocap animation doesn't make much sense :)
Retargeting between the same rig is not necessary. Just apply the same action. I may try to help further if you share more details using proper grammar that I can understand.
@@CGDive firstly, I didn't even think you would reply:) you are such a nice guy. I learned a lot from your videos and from your course on gumroad. I have a specific problem yes. I am rigging and animating quadrupeds for unreal engine. My animations has to be both in place and root motion. I have no problem at forward cycle animations so far. But when I try to turn my character for example 90 or 180 degree, i noticed that the feets that are at contact position on the ground are behaving weird. It is because they inherit new locations from the root bone rotation as a child of constraint and i cannot track and learn that weird change of position so that i can stick them on the ground. Now i tried a lot of things. Disabeling the influence of constraint modifier works for root motion animation but then i can't use it as in place animation or make it cyclic as long as i want for furter use in blender for example creating cinematic anim sequences with nla. And funny thing is, in unreal engine or in blender i am playing that exported animation and deleting keys for root motion and it is correctly playin in place. I think that is because blender apply visual keying when baking for export. İ know i write a lot and i can use visual keying but that doesnt seem to work for some reason. ın short, i just want to know that how can i apply (the action that I exported from blender) to my rigged blend file and use it? That would save a lot time for my work. Thank you again. 🙏
Hey, thanks for the awesome tutorial! :) I followed the steps from 45:30 onwards to enable IK for the feet and hands. Unfortunately, after the re-target, the arms and legs are completely stiff. Additionally, even though I try to move the hands and feet using IK, they only rotate instead. The only difference I noticed during the process is that although I have arm/leg poles in the list, my rig doesn't display them like in the video (the small spheres). Do you have any ideas what the problem could be?
@@CGDive Do you mean by sliding the IK-FK switch slider from 1 to 0 for hands and feet? When I do that, the FK bones disappear and the IK bones appear, but the IK bones don't move at all throughout the entire animation. It seems like they are locked in place.
@@CGDive I found and fixed the problem. I accidentally used c_hand_fk instead of c_hand_ik, which is why the poles disappeared. Thank you so much!! Your channel has already helped me so much, so I just bought your GRT on Gumroad for the suggested price :)
I have a Rigify Rig from Human Generator and a Rig From Mixamo. For the sake of my life i cant get a proper Bone list! Shouldn't that be completely automatic?
No, ARP only creates the list fully automatically for it's own rigs. For Rigify you have to set it up yourself. Then save a preset (e.g. Rigify-Mixamo) and you will be able to reuse it as often as you need.
Hmmm... you can, but what's the point of Auto-Rig Pro then? If you want to export to game engines then Auto-Rig Pro has dedicated export tools that you can use. You can also use our Game Rig Tools addon to get a pure deform rig that is controlled by the control rig (so the best of both worlds, in a way) th-cam.com/video/iZBx1I7vmQ0/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the great video! My character is more cartoony than usual (still very humanoid), but it keeps generating the skeleton facing the wrong direction (hands/feet are flipped). Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this? Or if there is an way to just rotate/mirror the hands and feet properly that would be great. Thanks!
I've been using Human Generator (HG) to create some very nice Avatars. Ideally I would like to retarget these with Mixamo rigs. The default HG rig is in A-pose. Therefore I had to make it adopt a T-pose, bake the textures, apply the rig modifier, delete it and then rig the empty shell as you describe in the video. This all looks OK in Cycles, (albeit with dodgy eyes in Eevee). I was hoping that giving rigs a T-pose in HG would save me all this nonsense. Sadly when I retargeted as you described from 10:01 onwards I got the same result as if I'd stuck with the default A pose in HG. I noticed that although HG allowed me to have a T-pose, the resting position was still in A-pose. Is that the core of the problem?
There is only one rest pose and you see it when you switch your rig to Rest Pose. It sounds like you POSED your character in T-pose. Anyway, Auto-Rig Pro was updated and the problem with A-pose was solved. I covered it here: th-cam.com/video/OBNjB_WS7yM/w-d-xo.html
hellow i don;t know if you reply me or not but if you do you will save someone's life and time plzz my question is when i do that remap, it shows me a text 'source armature not initialized, freeze it first below' can you plz tell me why this is happening in end result after doing all it works perfectly except for legs whole body moves except legs plz tell me what to do plz
Please don't spam!!! Yes, I reply to everyone but I also have to work, sleep etc. Do you have the newest version of ARP? I think the necessity to "freeze" was removed in newer versions. Also the legs may not be mapped correctly, you should check that.
I cant retarget the fingers in auto rig pro perfectly. In whole video you ignored the fingers. Can u explain the retargeting of fingers. I am using CC3(actorcore) and Mixamo in Auto rig pro.
Retargeting the fingers should be the same as retargeting the rest of the body, only somewhat annoying because you have to set up like 30 bone pairs (argh). What exactly is the problem. You can email me your work files if you like me to take a look (solution not guaranteed ;o)
@@CGDive I tried rigging using auto rig pro sure the body was rigged but the parented objects weren’t binded to body or rig they just stayed in place, also the matter of vertices still sorta moving out of place when I pose character.
@@AKno47372 I am not sure if you understand how weighting works in Blender. Here is my playlist on the topic th-cam.com/play/PLdcL5aF8ZcJsFEdlMJ7To0Iu9s-XCFV3W.html In the last video I talk about how to weigh complex, overlapping meshes but don't skip ahead. Learn the basics!
I have a problem, when I use the rig on a character, then if I have a second model and I make a new rig in the same scene, the first model stops being rigged and loses the animations, is there an option that allows me to do more than one rig in the same scene?
Thanks for making this video. I am having an issue retargeting a mocap made in plask, applied to a rigged character in blender(ARP rig). Once I click retarget the mocap armature is fine but my target model breaks apart. Do you know why this would happen? Appreciate any help, Thanks.
I am not sure what "very complex" means. If you shared a blend file I would take a look. Generally, you shouldn't expect any miracles from retargeting, especially e.g. if the armatures are quite different. Some clean up will be necessary and Auto-Rig Pro has tools for that.
Can Auto-Rig Pro convert a previously made models rig? I have one with a deprecated rigify rig that can't be updated automatically and is FK only, I'd like to give it IK without having to remake it all over again.
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At last, the biggest video of the entire series landed for a lot of ARPro. Great info!! Thank you for sharing.
I SPENT 13 HOURS TROUBLESHOOTING UNTIL I FOUND THIS. A MILLION THANK YOUS YOU ARE AMAZING
NICE!
Excellent video, I was on the edge before with Auto Rig Pro (I thought it was only for rigging a mesh, I didn't look into it much), but after seeing these great animation retargetting tools I'm definitely going to be using this from now on! Thank you so much for making this hour long video, I'd say it must have been a pain to edit this long of a video. You're doing a great service to the Blender animation community with your tutorials and guides, I always search for you on TH-cam if I need info on Blender animation, top quality as usual. Keep up the great work 👍.
Nice, glad to have pushed you over the edge :P
And thanks for acknowledging my work on this 1-hour long monster. This one in particular was tough. I am not even sure why, I just kept making mistakes and having to re-record stuff :)
The documentation in action as a digestible format, love it! Thank you 👍🎊🥳
Thanks alot sir. Your tutorials are so detailed you hardly skip a thing..... I keep coming back to them anytime am stuck.... Am requesting you do a detailed tutorial on mocap cleaning especially the shaky feet
Yeah, I want to cover mocap clean up, just haven't had the time...
What an incredible video.
I think it was the first time that I really learned how to use ARP.
That's the best tool explanation video I've ever seen. Thank you very much! You are saving my day 💯
Glad it helped!
Thank you lad, you really helped me out!
I have been trying for several days to properly move an animation from Cascadeur to Blender. Turns out IK re-targeting is the way!
This is the first video I've found on this topic that has been clear and practical thank you so much :)
Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic video. Thank you very much for providing such valuable info for free!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Interesting tool and a very good explanation, as usual. Thank you!
Thousand thanks for your huge work. Its helps a lot!
Happy to help!
Super nice man..thanks alot... its VERY important to state however.. if you;re doing IK Remaps... take note that the IK Poles will (I dare say) Always will be Pole Parent 0 which is parented to the c_traj or c_pos... this can be problematic later on... especially if you plan to mix motions :(... I learned this the hard way... so for me.. i ALMOST ALWAYS after retarget.. delete all Pole keys and switch to pole parent 1 and then I manually adjust the poles to match the source rig as best as possible.. its tedious.. but works.... and yes I tried the Auto Pole.. which sometimes works.. but for me at least more often than not.. it not get me the results I need.
Interesting observation. I'll test it. Thanks for sharing 🙏
it is definitely worth the 40.00 it paint weights so perfectly! it is amazing!
Perfect video to explain all this complicated stuff really comprehensively! Thank so much!
Thanks! Also watch the new video I just released for a nice update in auto rig pro. :)
Did you manage to get an answer from the developer about the A pose vs T-pose? it seems the best solution is not to set the motion capture to A-pose but rather the rest pose of the rigged character to T-POSE so it conforms to all future mocap. Not sure if I missed any amendments to this video. Thank you for all your work, Todor. Truly. You are a hero.
You did miss an important update video ;)
Not only did I get an answer but the dev updated the addon besed on my feedback. Now you can update the rest-pose non-distructively!
th-cam.com/video/OBNjB_WS7yM/w-d-xo.html
@@CGDivejust watched it. amazing ! This fix + voxel heat addon blows the Maya pipeline for quick rigging and retargetjng out of the water. Thanks so much for all your hard work in educating us.
A much needed tutorial! Thank you so much for taking the time.
As always, your tutorial is top notch. Thank you.
I am super grateful, I have already learned and applied a lot!
Nice. Really happy you're applying what you learned.
Massive thanks! 🙏 Saved for reference. 🤔🍷🎩🎩🎩
Your vids are a lifesaver
Dude, thank you so much!!
Glad I could help!
This Video helped me a lot. I solved many problems i was facing with retargeting my recorded mocap data. The tip with deleting every arms and legbones
from the retarget list and only leaving the hand IK was very useful. Before i always struggled with motion bugs when retargeting to IK.
I am looking forward to your video(s) about cleaning up mocap data, i tried some things myself with deleting and smooting keyframes and animation layering with the
NLA Editor but the results are still glitchy sometimes and it's hard to do, so i am curious about your solutions. Your Mocap playlist is a great resource for the Blender community! :)
Very good Tutorial. Thank you.
Very complete, thank you !
Greetings from Bulgaria! Awesome tutorial as always!
I was wondering if you plan to make a series on Auto-Rig Pro.
Привет. Поздрави и на теб.
Планирам. :) Но не съм сигурен кога ще стане.
VERY GOOD!! make more videos like this please, and also as you mentioned cleaning animation
Cleaning, yeah. Well do. Any other ideas or requests?
Great tutorial. I still have issues with the target rig floating above the ground. Scaling makes it a bit better but still. Source animation doesn't have that motion but it target rig goes above and under the ground when doing squad animation
Playing with the scale and using IK retargeting are the main solutions I know of.
At some point some issues are unavoidable so you have to go in an fix the retargeted animation.
Great. With the ik retargeting, I will stick to auto rig pro in the future.
But there are not many systematic tutorials on autorigpro. maybe you could make a video series?
I am considering it. It's a great tool with some unique features. It would be interesting to explore its workflows.
Here is tutorial, I made over a year ago, hope it's helpful. th-cam.com/video/rBpE-K2dh8k/w-d-xo.html
@@thorndavid1660 Looks interesting, thanks for sharing!
@@CGDive you're welcome! It was a joy to make and I am a big fan of your work, thank you so much.
you're amazing!
If this the redefine really works for you when using mixamo animations and the mixamo skeleton looks all wonky, when importing the mixamo armature, in the import tab select armature -> automatic bone orientation
*thanks man, really helped*
mostly this part 43:58
Thanks for the great tutorial video! I learned a lot from your Rigify series. I bought and tried Autorig pro this time, and it feels like a very convenient and intuitive tool. Can I expect more Autorig pro tutorials in the future?
Yes, you can. I have a series of videos about Auto-Rig Pro in mind but we'll see when I can get around to it :)
Very helpful, thank you!
Thanks again, excellent video
Thank you so much
awesome!
When I "Build Bone List" all bones appear, but there is no hips or c_root bone in the list that I can set as root. I see the bone in the outliner, but not in the build bones list. Any help?
You're amazing man
great guide! was wondering what if the model has no proper rest pose? how do i make a precise T pose from it? I've tried rotation resetting of bones and it has never worked for me
Yeah, that's an important problem. Honestly, I don't have a great solution yet but I will figure it our and share a solution on the channel.
Thank you amazing tutorial!
Greate video! Thanks man.
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Wow Veeeery nice Thanks Drive
If you don’t help him to record the teaching, I can’t understand the teaching recorded by the author, and I won’t use it when I buy it. I have read his teaching several times and read the document many times. Later, I tried to ask him directly. I can understand it now. It feels like the teaching is like a promotional video, not real teaching. thank you
Yeah, a lot of his videos are without voice. It's unfortunate but a good addon developer is not necessarily a good video producer... I find the written Documentation quite good tho.
www.lucky3d.fr/auto-rig-pro/doc/
Hi, I used ARPro in an animation project and I had lots of troubles as I tried to use my usual animation workflow in which I often create custom bone constraints and animation bakes to let characters and props interact together with IK chains. The problems arise as ARPro doesn't accept visual keyframes and doesn't bake animation correctly, while Rigify reacts perfectly in theese situations. Did anyone experience similar troubles and found an effective way to deal with them? Thanks for any clue, regards.
I am not sure I understand the problem fully so I can't comment. Not accepting visual keyframes is definitely strange. Auto-Rig Pro uses the built-in bone system so it should work... However, the addon developer is quite easy to talk to and he takes user input seriously. Try asking him about the problems you are experiencing and he may offer a solution.
I got lost at the rest pose. I did what you said but the arms we not doing what it suppose to do. I tried several but it never went into a a pose, one hand was in front straight and one in back straight. Any solution would help.
Thanks for all the details. 1) 14:00 can you tell me about Mixamo lacking a Root bone, thus when its Hip bone shifts, it shifts the leg bones, and thus the feet are uneven at the ground - one foot goes thru? And how to fix that on our Main rig?
Ive read talk about this issue, but never seen a video or it explained how to use ARP to add an actual Root bone (also used by UE4). Ty
2) And can you say how to fix: When I retarget from Mixamo anim, my Rig is 2 units above the ground. If I GZ -2, my rig moves down, but then jumps back when I press play.
How do I perma shift my Anim/rig? Or how do I correct retargeting from Mixamo, to retarget correctly? Ty
Hey.
1) the top-level root bone has nothing to do with the retarget root mentioned at 14:00. Having such a root will not help you fix shaky legs. The best way to stabilize the legs is to retarget to the IK controls which is covered in the video. That alone will make the legs more stable and then you can use the NLA and/or tweak the motion curves to stabilize them even more
2) This can also be done in the NLA or by tweaking the motion curves. But ARP has its own solution. Watch 1:03:49 Interactive tweaks.
I have a series about the NLA. In the future, I'll make videos specifically about cleaning up retargeted motion. But it will take some time.
th-cam.com/play/PLdcL5aF8ZcJvaLgirnTuH8-4Ro5Ou-YsZ.html
@@CGDive 2) Yayyy 1:03:49 Interactive tweaks. Ty, it was what I was looking for (The -Z adjust).
Sorry for asking things you had in the vid - but I watched 3 vids that day and lost where I had seen it.
3) 1:08:47 Wow. This was very helpful and thanks for the diagram.
1) Ok ill try for a running animation: Interactive tweaks. Didnt work. For half of the anim, I want to move Left thigh -z = 2 - so [knee lower > foot] touches ground.
But at the end of the anim, as the foot moves back and the toe bends - the toe goes below ground (bad anim from Mixamo - was not made even).
So how do I move the thigh bone back up on only 5 selected frames?
I de-selected all gold frames, then selected 5, and did the Z change, but it changed all frames, when all were not selected???
Or what is the IK method to just move the foot or thigh down for 5 frames, then up 5 frames?
(I thought my rig was already in IK mode - but going to pose > moving just the foot box - idk how to apply changes to only specific frames.)
@@kenalpha3 Sorry, your questions are a bit too basic, we are getting into tutoring zone and I don't have the time for that :D
To tweak 5 frames you can use the curve editor or the NLA. I already shared my playlist above.
If you don't know how IK works this could help
th-cam.com/video/vKgH5zXIYmM/w-d-xo.html
Hi there, thanks for all the AR-P content! Question: how do I transfer actions/animations from one character to another when both are using Auto Rig Pro?
If the rigs are compatible (e.g. both use the default human rig), you can simply apply the same action to both and it will work. Or you could use retargeting.
Hello! I follow all the steps as is, and when I hit Re-target it does the move but puts my arms back and crossed... Why is this happening? I also fail to define the link of the root of the armature.
I get this error: The rotation of the source armature is not frozen. The X, Y, or Z values are different from 1, which can cause problems in some cases. Freeze it first? This will affect the transformation values of the animation, but keep it the same visually.
Regarding the crossed arms: the target and source rig most likely have different rest poses. Watch 16:25 .
"I also fail to define the link of the root of the armature."
Why? :D
"Freeze it first? error" I've seen it but I am not sure. Do you have the latest version of the addon? I think this error was removed but I could be wrong. Anyway, it's best to ask the addon dev about that.
@@CGDive Thanks, I was able to solve it in some specific animations. Thank you very much.
This really is a great reference and documentation on the addon. I am using an A-pose, and changing the rest-pose accordingly as mentioned in the video, however in "mixamo Pistol walking" the fingers and wrist are not properly following the source. Any tips to do it? I have tried to match all the arm bones upto fingers. But still no luck.
Sorry, no. At the very least I don't have a proper understanding of the problem to offer a suggestion :/
@@CGDive That's alright. You are my go to channel for blender rigging and ARP. You have been a lot of help! Thank you so very much for that! :)
@@satyakimandal6572 Sure :) 👍
When I put it on the ankle, don't allow me to put it on the knee length limit. I don't understand English so I don't understand do you have a solution in the video?
Please help me
thanks for this awesome video! quick question: I'm having issues with the pole targets of the legs. Most of the time they're fine, but sometimes they move to the back of the leg, causing the leg to twist. How can I fix this? Thanks so much in advance!
Hi. Are you talking about retargeting or general ARP work.
@@CGDive sorry, i should have clarified. i'm talking about retargeting. i think it's an IK problem. when I tried the technique of your video section "IK retargeting - Auto rig pro direct" it was even worse. If you have any idea, let me know! And thanks
Ty, I got my workflow fixed 90%. Can you direct me to a vid or tell me how to setup IK fingers > retargeted to Mixamo rig > and the fingers curl correctly to the Mixamo fingers (which do not have IK bones)?
I am confused because step 6:
1) I selected Rig generated by ARP > Object mode >
2) N panel > ARP panel > Edit Reference Bones >
3) Selected L hand bone > Limb Options > I checked IK fingers > ok.
4) Match to rig.
5) Then in ARP: REMAP > I found the Index fingers in the list box (under Re-target button).
6) What do I put for Mixamorig:LeftHandIndex1, 2, & 3?
I have sets [c_index1_ik.l, c_index2_ik.l, & c_index3_ik.l],
and [c_index_ik2.l (a fingertip sphere), c_index_ik.l, & c_index_pole.l]
i) I tried setting this but it failed:
LeftHandIndex1 = c_index1_ik.l, Index2 = c_index2_ik.l, Index3 = c_index3_ik.l. Poles?
ii) And I tried setting this but failed:
Index1 = blank?, Index2 = c_index_ik2.l - set c_index_pole.l, Index3 (fingertip bone) = c_index_ik.l - do I use the same pole or only 1 bone uses a pole?
7) (I want to use IK fingers on a Mixamo retarget of an Idle pose, to make easier finger corrections. My hand is going into the thigh. And manually rekeying fingers took too long. So I want to move the IK finger tip just on the thigh surface, and key that anim change. Thank you.)
8) I want to do this [ watch?v=e-g10ntbiJM ], but in ARP terms. I dont know what ARP does to setup local finger rotation etc, when I do Step 3 above.
Let me clarify something. What do you mean by IK fingers? Because what you showed in 8) is not IK fingers. ARP can bend the whole finger by scaling the first finger control.
@@CGDive Thank you. So I would like #3 real IK fingers, as the main question/setup > Rigged/Matched to the Mixamo animation.
And while searching I found #8 (which would also help me animate).
Is it possible to setup both with ARP? (He shows #8, but Id rather use an ARP setup so that I dont mess up any of ARPs controls. I looked at the Bone Constraint Properties tab > after doing step 3, but dont understand which IK bones to set for # 6 or 8.)
Thank you. (And perhaps an idea for a future vid 🙂: IK fingers vs #8 control, and when to use each. Or more important, if it is possible to have IK controls and #8 setup on the same Rig.)
Great❤
Hi, thanks for this tutorial. I got an error when choose Voxelized as binding engine. When I click Bind, I got a pop up "More than 75 000 polygon to bind". When I click OK in the pop up message, I got an error message binding error. My system is i7 13th gen, GPU RTX 4070T1. May I know why?
Hi. I am not sure if it is clear but I am not the addon developer, I just make tutorials about it. :) So I can't help with errors. You may have to ask the developer :)
The problem seems obvious enough tho. Your mesh is very high poly and the binding algorithms probably runs out of memory.
You could try Heat Maps. When you switch to it, you will see an Optimize High Res check box. Try to enable it and bind that way.
@@CGDive Thanks.
You demonstrated how to retarget to Rigify (FK). Will you show us how to retarget to Rigify (IK) as well? What's the difference between FK and IK? I usually just press Shift+ A-> Armature-> Human (Meta-rig). Then I go to Object Data Properties-> Generate rig. So is that IK or FK?
If you don't have a good understanding of IK/FK please watch this first
th-cam.com/video/vKgH5zXIYmM/w-d-xo.html
Retargeting to Rigify IK is the same as for Auto-Rig Pro but you may want to switch the IK to pole target (also explained in the video link about)
@CGDIve, did the creator fixed this issue, when changing rest pose from T pose to A pose, other Arm animations still left crooked?
Can you do a tutorial on the ”interactive tweak” tool? 🙂 Great video btw!
Did you watch 1:03:49 ?
@@CGDive Oh! I missed it. Cheers
i don't know how my comment get removed
my question was when I set source armature before setting one statement came IN front of me written ''your source is not freeze, freeze the armature'' in result every thing worked perfactly except for legs...feet are not moving
I replied already.
Check if you have the latest version of Auto-Rig Pro. I think the "freeze" message no longer shows in new versions.
If the legs aren't moving, it probably means that they are not properly mapped.
Wow this video is "GOD sent" I really appreciate the hours and effort put into to this video....very helpful indeed...GOD bless!!!!.....
Great, glad you liked it! :)
This looks like a beautiful plugin.
Can it do VR hands?
Say... if I had a model (gloves) and want to swap out the UE4 VR Hands for the gloves. Can this do that?
I haven't considered this. Go to the product page
blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro
and you should see a button that says Ask a Question. This will allow you to ask the addon developer himself!
hello sir its a great video, i've seen your other rigify videos which helped me a lot it will be very helpful if you please tell me a way to change height and weight of an avatar on just one rig.
I am actually not sure what you want to achieve. You could scale some controllers to make the character thicker/taller/shorter but I am not sure if that will work well. It is not a trivial task.
@@CGDive sorry sir for such a late reply, i just want to know about a controller in rigify that can change weight of avatar proportionately..can i do that?
I have an issue where the retargeting isnt lining up properly, most notably the arms are off by about 30 degrees. It's retargeting mixamo animations so should be pretty straight forward, but as it is I need to add corrective layers and rebake for each animation im retargeting.....
This is most likely because of the difference in rest pose. It's explained in the video :)
Great video! Would it be possible to great a comprehensive video like what you did with Rigify in creating a rig i.e., added extra limbs? I am trying to add toes bones but cannot work out how to do it.
Yes... "Rig anything with Auto-Rig Pro" has been requested a lot and it's definitely on my list. But I can't say when I'll work on it.
When i retarget animations my feet be spinning idk what that is, but everything thing else is good it's just the feet. Edit I fixed it! I had to delete all of the toes since the toes was all weighted in the shoes i had no need for them and the spinning stopped. Everything is good now
Have you still not heard anything about retargetting multiple animations after changing the source rigs rest post? That a problem I was just running into, although not a huge issue, just need to change the targets pose to a T pose.
I have heard :)
th-cam.com/video/c_kQvuNrG0o/w-d-xo.html
Actually this is the one related to your question. But the other video also shows nice new features :) th-cam.com/video/OBNjB_WS7yM/w-d-xo.html
@@CGDive TYSM!!
Please make video on how I could make a control Rig of any Armature as I found difficulties to give fine touch to the motion after imported from iClone in Blender.
Control rig from any Armature? I don't know of such a tool/workflow.
Something that comes close is Rig on the Fly.
Or maybe Quick Rig from the creator of Auto-Rig Pro
blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro-quick-rig
Thank you for another great tutorial. But - is it possible to make animation on Autorig_Pro rig, and retarget it to another Autorig_Pro rig?
If the rigs have the same bone/control names, and more or less the same proportions, then you don't need to retarget. You can simply apply the action that you created with your first rig to the second one. It can be done in the Action Editor.
@@CGDive thanks! But what if they have different proportions? (A woman and a man, a fat and a thin person).
Hi. First of all, thanks a lot for your tutorial series, it helps a lot with character's animation. I am having some issues with Mixamo IK arms IK legs Mapping Presets as it does not completely results in the same animation, but seems to result in several changes in rotation of bones. Any idea of what can I be doing wrong? Any bugs in the addon latest versions? Thanks a lot in advance
Some Mixamo characters have different bone orientations. Try using either a character you ran through the rigging process yourself or the e.g. the Ninja character.
the voxel binding algorithm kept twisting my arms in a strange way 3000 quads
(any pointers of what might cause this it's hard to know what settings to tweak.?)
when you are adjusting the bones on your model you mention it looks fairly good -
what were you looking for to make the evaluation? (so I know what to look for etc)
This is a fairly simple example so I just look at it and go: hmmm not bad :P
With complex stuff you'd have to look at photo references etc.
May I ask if it is possible to provide a tutorial on redirecting the Rigimap plugin？
Hi. I don't personally use Rigimap although it looks nice. And I am not sure what you mean by "redirecting".
@@CGDive Retargeting, that's the word, sorry。Okay, regarding the tutorial, thank you for your reply
Hello, did you figure out how to use footrol? There is a ctrl behind the heel but it's not bending the fingers and it's frustrating if you have to animate 2 ctrl for one thing. Thanks in advance.
This tutorial about retargeting. For general Auto-Rig Pro questions, please ask the addon dev.
I tried following for re-targeting a Retargeting to Rigify (FK) section. All my animations are on a Riggify rig. Im not sure if this tutorial was for that. Im getting a few issues when Re-Targeting. Like it gets really messed up and doesn't map to any of the several animation, it also comes out in a odd position. Do you have a specific tutorial on this?
Sorry, your question is a bit of a riddle. :D
I am not sure what the problem or situation is.
My character's eyes are separate and he will have antennae on his head. My character is one piece. But the eyes and antennae are separate, I want these objects to follow the bone. Is there a tutorial with a method for this?
so how is the parent
In my System autorig pro is generating IK for legs but FK for arms . and if i change from FK to IK by tool bar it is not working . how to generate ik for arm by default
No idea about the circumstances. I showed how to switch IK/FK for legs and arms 4:55 . And retargeting to IK is handheld around 38:10
When I use AUTO RIG PRO for two characters, a glitch occurs on each character. Does this mean that you can put bone control on one character?
You should be able to rig two characters in the same scene. Please discuss your glitch with the addon creator (not me). In the meantime you could rig each character in a separate scene and then append or link into your animation scene. This is a good practice in general.
cuando presiono Go y hace el proceso siempre aparecen 4 rigs en mi modelo y todos fuera de lugar, saben por que me sucede esto?
Entonces? :D
i followed the tutorial for the rigify rig and the retargeting works fine but when i try to move the foot after retargeting the whole leg stretches and the IK doesn't seem to work. is there a fix for that?
i figured it out. for some reason IK stretch was on 1 so iput it down to 0
Good to know you figured it out!
Thanks for the amazing tutorial as always.
I've been wondering if there is any way to retarget the Scale of the bones with ARP, since the constraints seem to only be created for rotation and (optionally) location.
Are you aware of any method that doesn't involve adding the Copy Scale constraints manually?
Hi. I don't think so. Retargeting deals with rotation and location. You can probably set up a simple Copy Scale but it will depend on what you are trying to do :)
@@CGDive Thanks for the response, just adding Copy Scale constraints does the job, so I guess it's scripting time.
Makes me wonder why it's not an option, seems like the most straight-forward transformation to retarget, maybe because it's not commonly found in human animation, which is the standard use case.
It may be worth suggesting it for future versions of ARP though.
@@ilcane8785 yeah, exactly. Retargeting is generally meant to transfer mocap data to a cg character. And having scaling in a mocap animation doesn't make much sense :)
Can you Please make a video about combining mixamo animations using ARP?
Using ARP? ARP doesn't have any tools for combining animations. You could do it the NLA and that is independent of ARP.
I cant do remapping between the same rigs rigged with autorig pro cant transfer a single action from fbx. dont know why. how to do that pls answer?
Retargeting between the same rig is not necessary. Just apply the same action.
I may try to help further if you share more details using proper grammar that I can understand.
@@CGDive firstly, I didn't even think you would reply:) you are such a nice guy. I learned a lot from your videos and from your course on gumroad.
I have a specific problem yes. I am rigging and animating quadrupeds for unreal engine. My animations has to be both in place and root motion. I have no problem at forward cycle animations so far. But when I try to turn my character for example 90 or 180 degree, i noticed that the feets that are at contact position on the ground are behaving weird. It is because they inherit new locations from the root bone rotation as a child of constraint and i cannot track and learn that weird change of position so that i can stick them on the ground.
Now i tried a lot of things. Disabeling the influence of constraint modifier works for root motion animation but then i can't use it as in place animation or make it cyclic as long as i want for furter use in blender for example creating cinematic anim sequences with nla. And funny thing is, in unreal engine or in blender i am playing that exported animation and deleting keys for root motion and it is correctly playin in place. I think that is because blender apply visual keying when baking for export. İ know i write a lot and i can use visual keying but that doesnt seem to work for some reason.
ın short, i just want to know that how can i apply (the action that I exported from blender) to my rigged blend file and use it? That would save a lot time for my work. Thank you again. 🙏
Hey, thanks for the awesome tutorial! :) I followed the steps from 45:30 onwards to enable IK for the feet and hands. Unfortunately, after the re-target, the arms and legs are completely stiff. Additionally, even though I try to move the hands and feet using IK, they only rotate instead.
The only difference I noticed during the process is that although I have arm/leg poles in the list, my rig doesn't display them like in the video (the small spheres).
Do you have any ideas what the problem could be?
Sounds like you want to be in IK mode but you are actually in FK. Try switching to IK again.
@@CGDive Do you mean by sliding the IK-FK switch slider from 1 to 0 for hands and feet? When I do that, the FK bones disappear and the IK bones appear, but the IK bones don't move at all throughout the entire animation. It seems like they are locked in place.
@@CGDive I found and fixed the problem. I accidentally used c_hand_fk instead of c_hand_ik, which is why the poles disappeared. Thank you so much!! Your channel has already helped me so much, so I just bought your GRT on Gumroad for the suggested price :)
@@anbagames thanks for your support!
I have a Rigify Rig from Human Generator and a Rig From Mixamo. For the sake of my life i cant get a proper Bone list! Shouldn't that be completely automatic?
No, ARP only creates the list fully automatically for it's own rigs. For Rigify you have to set it up yourself. Then save a preset (e.g. Rigify-Mixamo) and you will be able to reuse it as often as you need.
Are we able to bind skeleton to rig without controllers, so that we have just the armature binded and nothing else?
Hmmm... you can, but what's the point of Auto-Rig Pro then? If you want to export to game engines then Auto-Rig Pro has dedicated export tools that you can use.
You can also use our Game Rig Tools addon to get a pure deform rig that is controlled by the control rig (so the best of both worlds, in a way)
th-cam.com/video/iZBx1I7vmQ0/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the great video! My character is more cartoony than usual (still very humanoid), but it keeps generating the skeleton facing the wrong direction (hands/feet are flipped). Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this? Or if there is an way to just rotate/mirror the hands and feet properly that would be great. Thanks!
It sounds like a difference in the rest pose but I could be wrong. Did you change the rest pose as shown from 16:22?
@@CGDive Fixed it, you're the best! Thanks again.
I've been using Human Generator (HG) to create some very nice Avatars. Ideally I would like to retarget these with Mixamo rigs. The default HG rig is in A-pose. Therefore I had to make it adopt a T-pose, bake the textures, apply the rig modifier, delete it and then rig the empty shell as you describe in the video. This all looks OK in Cycles, (albeit with dodgy eyes in Eevee). I was hoping that giving rigs a T-pose in HG would save me all this nonsense. Sadly when I retargeted as you described from 10:01 onwards I got the same result as if I'd stuck with the default A pose in HG. I noticed that although HG allowed me to have a T-pose, the resting position was still in A-pose. Is that the core of the problem?
There is only one rest pose and you see it when you switch your rig to Rest Pose. It sounds like you POSED your character in T-pose.
Anyway, Auto-Rig Pro was updated and the problem with A-pose was solved. I covered it here:
th-cam.com/video/OBNjB_WS7yM/w-d-xo.html
hellow i don;t know if you reply me or not but if you do you will save someone's life and time plzz
my question is
when i do that remap, it shows me a text 'source armature not initialized, freeze it first below' can you plz tell me why this is happening
in end result after doing all it works perfectly except for legs whole body moves except legs
plz tell me what to do plz
Please don't spam!!! Yes, I reply to everyone but I also have to work, sleep etc.
Do you have the newest version of ARP? I think the necessity to "freeze" was removed in newer versions.
Also the legs may not be mapped correctly, you should check that.
Please help when I try to retargeting the rig with a mixamo mocap the entire body deforms
Your help request needs more details. "Deforms" doesn't tell us anything about the problem.
I cant retarget the fingers in auto rig pro perfectly. In whole video you ignored the fingers. Can u explain the retargeting of fingers. I am using CC3(actorcore) and Mixamo in Auto rig pro.
Retargeting the fingers should be the same as retargeting the rest of the body, only somewhat annoying because you have to set up like 30 bone pairs (argh). What exactly is the problem. You can email me your work files if you like me to take a look (solution not guaranteed ;o)
whenever you have extra mesh like nails,socks, hair, etc..do they need to be conjoined with the body before rigging?
Separate meshes can be joined into one object or stay separate. It's a matter of personal taste and workflow.
@@CGDive I tried rigging using auto rig pro sure the body was rigged but the parented objects weren’t binded to body or rig they just stayed in place, also the matter of vertices still sorta moving out of place when I pose character.
@@AKno47372 I am not sure if you understand how weighting works in Blender. Here is my playlist on the topic
th-cam.com/play/PLdcL5aF8ZcJsFEdlMJ7To0Iu9s-XCFV3W.html
In the last video I talk about how to weigh complex, overlapping meshes but don't skip ahead. Learn the basics!
Does anyone know why the model I put as a target lies down when I press the Re-Target button?
Could be because of the rest pose of your source rig. Or it may have unapplied scale.
I have a problem, when I use the rig on a character, then if I have a second model and I make a new rig in the same scene, the first model stops being rigged and loses the animations, is there an option that allows me to do more than one rig in the same scene?
If you are making the second rig using Smart, uncheck "Overwrite existing rig" before clicking the Go! button :)
@@CGDive thanks that helps a lot thanks
Thanks for making this video. I am having an issue retargeting a mocap made in plask, applied to a rigged character in blender(ARP rig). Once I click retarget the mocap armature is fine but my target model breaks apart. Do you know why this would happen? Appreciate any help, Thanks.
Not sure. You can try asking on our Discord with images
discord.gg/YFH5HUv
When it comes to ARP, you can also ask the dev.
bpy_struct: item.attr = val: ARP_OT_retarget.frame_start expected an int type does anybody knows why this error keeps happening?
Please refer errors and bugs to the addon developer :)
I find "Mixamo IK" retargeting does not give accurate results if the mixamo action is very complex. Have you met similar problem?
I am not sure what "very complex" means. If you shared a blend file I would take a look. Generally, you shouldn't expect any miracles from retargeting, especially e.g. if the armatures are quite different. Some clean up will be necessary and Auto-Rig Pro has tools for that.
at 45:27 how did you bring up undo history with a hotkey? I'm only able to add it to my quick favorites.
It used to be ctrl+alt+z but they removed it in recent version of Blender. I wasn't happy. :)
Now you can go to Edit > Undo History > ...
Hi CGDive! Is there way to ik retarget fingers to rigify? or its better to do it manually? can you please give any clue on how to retarget fingers.
FK Fingers are simple to retarget, just set up the pairs. IK, I have not done yet.
@@CGDive Yeah Thank You. I also thought about retargeting to fk fingers is the solution. am so stupid)
Can Auto-Rig Pro convert a previously made models rig? I have one with a deprecated rigify rig that can't be updated automatically and is FK only, I'd like to give it IK without having to remake it all over again.
There is another add-on by the same author called Quick Rig. It can convert DEF bones to an ARP like rig.
@@CGDive Sweet! Thank you!