Little tip: if you left click on the already existing chain and click "mirror chain", it will automatically create new chains with the opposite side of the skeleton :)
p.s. I found a workaround for mine crashing was to select the body (mine being m_tal_nrw_body_preview) in the the preview mesh of the maximo retargeter before exporting animations. Mine kept crashing on export. But all working great now! Thanks again
Thank you so much for figuring out what causes that crash, that frustrated me for several hours last weekend trying to narrow down the cause. Never thought to try checking if it was a specific set of bones.
Thanks for video. The best way to set MH_IKRig in T_Pose is to set "Target Actor Offset" in 0, change "Target Actor Scale" to fit the figure and arrange bones using TOP, RIGHT, FRONT etc views. After arranging you should set initial values of Offset and Scale. Also I discover another bug. When I try to retarget bunch of animations as described at 52:30 program is crushed. But when I retarget animation one by one everything is ok.
Regarding the CRASH when trying to export the animations - try this workaround: 1. Record the Mixamo animation from within retargeter. 2. Save it as a new file. 3. Export retarget with the newly saved animation. Credit for this fix: @woyame1 Found it in comments down bellow in a reply. Posting it as a new comment so people can find it with search without opening individual comments threads. Thanks for the tutorial also : )
Sadly there is no anything like mixamo. Because mixamo is outdated old poor quality shit today and looking extreme horrible ( especially in comparison with superior quality of METAHUMANS)
This is so frustrating. Unreal and nvidia driver interface is probably the culprit, but the selected chain doesn't highlight in the IK rigs in 5.2. Any ideas why?
Hi! Super cool tutorial,thx so much! i have just a problem,which appears to be a bug: it all work till i try to export the animations to the metahuman,when i do this,everytime the software crashes,does it happen to anyone else? I have a decent enough pc,with an i712thgen,16GB Ram and 3070 8GB,my Unreal version in 5.0.3, i don't think it's something related to the machine but anyway,i can't tell if it's the software. thx in advance to anyone who can help!
Praise the Lord! First tutorial on the subject that worked! Somethings have changed in UE in the meantime, but found ways to make it work. It changes a lot, so tutorials are hard to find as current. Thanks for sharing!
One thing I have noticed that made it a little easier in the retargeter is to A) alter the Target Actor Scale to match the height scale of the mannequin (e.g. my character is a short female, so I upped her scale to 1.2). B) change the Target Actor Offset to 0.0. This will place your target directly on the manny. This way you can ensure the legs and arms are aligned correctly. Maybe even the fingers, too. When done, just reset the offset to 175 or so and your scale back to 1.0. :)
I tried to follow this tutorial, but when I try to create the new retargeter and chose the rig I created, I give it a name, double click the retargeter to edit it, but the right side pane is basically empty, I cannot chose source/target anything, its just all blank, tried saving the project and restarting UE5, didn't help, any ideas what I could be doing wrong? edit: never mind, looking at the tab layout I see I had "Details" tab missing for some reason, Window>Details fixed the problem I had! :D
I did it in UE5.1 😋 thanks so much. Now I can use any animation from mixamo.. the tutorial was in such a detail that anyone can follow easily. There are few UI changes done in UE 5.1 but all I easily find and do it myself.. and if I can do this, who is big noob in UE, than anyone can do it.. 😅
Amazing tutorial. Fyi, if you have constant crashing when retargeting animations, go back into the MH rig and unlink all the metacarpals for each finger (there are two for each finger), then reset the pose for MH rig in the retargeter. And don’t pose the fingers, I repeat, DO NOT pose the fingers. Once I followed these steps, I was back on track.
Hmm. Everything works perfectly...except that the shoulders are hunched in leaving him with a long neck. I've double, tripled, quadruple checked everything and I don't see a fault anywhere. I've meticulously gone through every chain and everything is a match. I started to mess around with where the chains end around the neck area to see if this changed anything. So here I am..lost. :(
Hey! I watched a lot tutors and your is my last hope. So i want to ask before starting - does you method works with short type ob MH body? I have tried a lot of different methods. So I almost give up, cuz all tutors works only with Tall MH bode. Thank you!
Great video thank you! Just one question: is there anyway to reuse the MH IK retargeting setup so that I don't have to redo all the chain creation for a different style of MH rig? in other words, can I reuse the setup of the m_med_nrw for the f_med_unw? Saving me from having to recreate all the same chains again!
Yes in newer versions of the engine, you would just choose the preview mesh in the IKRig and IKRetargeter (target). You can do it without doing that but in my experience it never seems to work correctly.
I don't understand why is there necesary so many manual steps by selecting bones. I'm curious that nobody already did plugin for that that autote it. I would even expected that the MetaHuman will be fully ready after import since it is directly from Unreal Team.
thank you... but I have a weird problem.. the metahuman lost a part of the body, that surrounding the neck so now I see the full body up to the shoulders and then a hole and there the neck with the head floating !!! I have UE 5.0.1 and used a custom Metahuman. Please help ! :)
FYI you did this incorrectly. You need to create an EXTRA chain for the neck bones. or else the lower neck on the target Metahuman will not move correctly. you need to create a new chain "neck" containing the 1 neck bone in the Mixamo IK RIG and containing the 2 neck bones on the target Metahuman IK RIG
hi Please I have problem; in 43:00 I cant create new pose i dont krow how i edit the pose!! the 5.1.1 its not like your version ? ❤ thanks for this explication ❤
Is there no way to just open Unreal 5 and open my meta human and start moving joints around to make animations? I HAVE to get a maximo animation to make it work? I want to animate my character to grab another as a human shield and hold them as a hostage. I feel like UE5 overcomplicates something like this with all of it's blueprint non-sense.
You could create your own animation with Control Rig and Sequencer and bake to animation. Or take an existing animation, bake it to a Control Rig in sequencer, modify it and bake the animation.
I really liked your presentation, but the result of the animation leaves a lot to be desired. In the walking animation, the legs are flying apart and the pelvis is unnaturally rotated. Nevertheless, I appreciate your work, and thank you. I wish there was such a normal download preset, in which everything would be set clearly.
Agreed. I only ever present the basics because,I am not an animator, I do not have much time and I think it is important for people to take those basics and then do the work themselves.
So, I am trying for a couple of days now to finish this tutorial but keep getting errors. Right now, whenever I retarget, I get an error and UE is closing,unable to actually save the retargeted animations
Dude. I can se. How about when you want to retarget a near similar poze. offset the postion of the MH body over the mixamo body and so its way easyer to find the exact positon
This is most ungodly, super boring, extremally lengthy - simply worst way to retarget anything! I better buy some third party tool and retarget there, than spend hours on this shit.
If i did this for all my Mixamo animations, and seperately for my Actorcore animations. Could i then use them on multiple Metahumans or only the one i used for translation?
Absolutely amazing tutorial man! You're the first person I've found that's actually shown how to work Mixamo animations onto MetaHumans with the new IKRig/Retargeter system so shout out to you! You've more than earned my sub. Is there anyway to pair a facial animation with a Mixamo animation, like let's say someone is talking but with hand movements? Definitely will be staying tuned to the channel for future content.
Thanks for the tut! When i get to around 43:00 and attempt to pose the MH_IKRig into T-pose, I cannot move any of the bones. Clicking and moving the rotation gizmo does nothing as if all of them are frozen in place. Am i missing a setting? Thank you
I attended an after school drama class as a child. Only once and I fell off the stage and landed on my organ. A nurse with one eye had to sew it back up. That was far more dramatic.
finally a tutorial that actually worked. I have been struggling with doing any animations. Thanks alot! Made a custom metahuman with mesh to metahuman. and I cant believe it doesnt have atleast an ilde pose. It just sits there in a T-pose looking boring. It was alot of work to set this up.. but worth it. You said that you can use the blue print for other projects. how do yo do that?
Thank you so much for making this tutorial! Seriously this is one of the best ones out there on this topic. You took a very convoluted process and made it easily digestible. 👏👏👏
Hi, I had a few issues with a number of your tutorials and even though they are in the most, very very good tutorials, I have invested an awful lot of time trying to perfect them, I have unfortunately had to just walk away from them. You have quite a few tutorials on your channel, and I find it quite confusing actually nailing down which one to get stuck into. Now I have decided to have a go at one particular tutorial of yours and that is the … [UE5] Mixamo to MetaHumans - New Way in UE5 (IK Retargeter) which is quite a lengthy tutorial at 55:51, please can you tell me, is this the most updated tutorial about this subject, that you have, and if I spend, what I would imagine would be quite a bit of time learning it and getting my head around it, this is the best tutorial on the subject you currently have. Many Many Thanks
There is something to learn in every tutorial on TH-cam, whichever channel it is on. My advice, don't bother, if you find it confusing. Buy a plugin to do it for you, search Mixamo Animation Retargeting 2, on the Epic marketplace. I have never tried it but it seems to do what you want.
At the time, people were wrapping their heads around a complete change in the retargeting system. The IK Retargeting system has evolved a lot since this was made, so it would have been wasted time.
Hi Jobutsu, I'm now using two different metahumans on my scene. is it possible to apply the mixamo animations to my second MH using the same IKRetargeter? Or do I need to create a new one? Thanks
You do not need to create multiple retargeting assets. If your metahuman is a different size, you may need to duplicate your Metahuman IKRig and reset the pose and Skeletal Mesh.
Am I missing something that needs to be enabled? When I right click and add an IK rig, I don't get the pop-up asking me to choose a skeletal mesh. I can assign it in the rig window itself, so it's not that big of a deal, I'm just curious why the disparity 🤔
![[UE5] Animation Montages - My thoughts (IK Retargeter)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jiHS2E4O2SQ/mqdefault.jpg)
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Fun fact, the heavy breathing in this video is FREE for Subscribers.
LOLOL GOLD
Haha! Is there a paid for update to get extra heavy?
TH-cam keeps asking me to add Memberships.
Subscribers could pay me monthly to listen to me breath, I suppose.
@@Jobutsu Could we also pay you for the 'Kawaii Physics' folder on your desktop?
You can pay me if you want to :)
Or you can have it for free:-
github.com/jobutsu/KawaiiPhysics
Little tip: if you left click on the already existing chain and click "mirror chain", it will automatically create new chains with the opposite side of the skeleton :)
Only 490 subscribers. Please, continue. You are the best Unreal Engine TH-cam channel for now !!!
Thanks !
There are literally no words to describe how much I want to thank you. This was so incredibly useful
p.s. I found a workaround for mine crashing was to select the body (mine being m_tal_nrw_body_preview) in the the preview mesh of the maximo retargeter before exporting animations. Mine kept crashing on export. But all working great now! Thanks again
The soothing music and you took your time. Your articulate. I watch a lot of tutorials and this is one of the best. Thanks
oh wow just wow..Epic should pay or hire you for this kind of tutorial.Kudos
AWESOME! You saved my project! I wouldn't have been able to animate my character without you 💝
Thank you so much for figuring out what causes that crash, that frustrated me for several hours last weekend trying to narrow down the cause. Never thought to try checking if it was a specific set of bones.
I think I like figuring out ways around the bugs, more than I like using the engine :)
@@Jobutsu This is still crashing for me on UE5. I just tested one with no fingers mapped and it works like that.
I have a feeling that it may be related to Metacarpal bones.
Thanks for video.
The best way to set MH_IKRig in T_Pose is to set "Target Actor Offset" in 0, change "Target Actor Scale" to fit the figure and arrange bones using TOP, RIGHT, FRONT etc views.
After arranging you should set initial values of Offset and Scale.
Also I discover another bug. When I try to retarget bunch of animations as described at 52:30 program is crushed. But when I retarget animation one by one everything is ok.
Thanks !
Excellent and thanks.
Regarding the CRASH when trying to export the animations - try this workaround: 1. Record the Mixamo animation from within retargeter. 2. Save it as a new file. 3. Export retarget with the newly saved animation. Credit for this fix: @woyame1
Found it in comments down bellow in a reply. Posting it as a new comment so people can find it with search without opening individual comments threads.
Thanks for the tutorial also : )
DO NOT DO THE DO THE FINGER'S BONES!!
(I wasn't planning to!!)
I think you're overdoing the retargetting work, there's a way to map all bones automatically...
There are multiple ways of doing this.
Sadly there is no anything like mixamo. Because mixamo is outdated old poor quality shit today and looking extreme horrible ( especially in comparison with superior quality of METAHUMANS)
Finally Problem Solved! Thanks!!!
Thank you so much! Thank you so much!
You really very good person
This is so frustrating. Unreal and nvidia driver interface is probably the culprit, but the selected chain doesn't highlight in the IK rigs in 5.2. Any ideas why?
Hi! Super cool tutorial,thx so much! i have just a problem,which appears to be a bug: it all work till i try to export the animations to the metahuman,when i do this,everytime the software crashes,does it happen to anyone else? I have a decent enough pc,with an i712thgen,16GB Ram and 3070 8GB,my Unreal version in 5.0.3, i don't think it's something related to the machine but anyway,i can't tell if it's the software. thx in advance to anyone who can help!
Awesome, but my first try on the retargeting rig caused the Boxer character i created to have his shoulders up like he didn't have a neck :)
Bro you hare my HERO!!! THANKS A LOT!!
Thank you so much this tutorial was very helpful!
Thank you very much for your great tutorial !!!! 👌
Unreal crashes when when I tray to retarget animations, both ways not working. What can it be, everything else works great up until this point.
Praise the Lord! First tutorial on the subject that worked! Somethings have changed in UE in the meantime, but found ways to make it work. It changes a lot, so tutorials are hard to find as current. Thanks for sharing!
when i export my animations it crashes on me (i am using unreal engine 5.0.3)
yea need to reinstal the ue 4.27 to retarget de animations with hands movement, in 5 i don't have hands movement and i need the hands movment
Everything works well, however, I'm not able to see the animation in the "Anim To Play" drop down menu (the last step)
Did anybody had the same issue?
Is "Body" selected when you try it ?
@@Jobutsu Fixed, thanks. I was using "m_med_nrw_body" instead of "m_med_nrw_bod-preview"
Thank you so much! The best IK reatrgeting video!
One thing I have noticed that made it a little easier in the retargeter is to A) alter the Target Actor Scale to match the height scale of the mannequin (e.g. my character is a short female, so I upped her scale to 1.2). B) change the Target Actor Offset to 0.0. This will place your target directly on the manny. This way you can ensure the legs and arms are aligned correctly. Maybe even the fingers, too. When done, just reset the offset to 175 or so and your scale back to 1.0. :)
Nice Retargeting dude thank you
Very good tutorial, congratulations! One question, will I have to do these same steps for each metahuman that I create? thank
No, you can use resulting animations on any Metahuman usually.
Great tutorial ! Bone per bone also fixes my issue with DAZ twist bones (curved arms and legs) , thanx so much ! 👍
It was working with Daz characters that started me using this slightly different method.
Thanks a million, God bless you bro
Your are doing clear and neat... This is how a tutorial shoulb be... But the final meta rig look likes flooting
agreed, the result is not good.
I tried to follow this tutorial, but when I try to create the new retargeter and chose the rig I created, I give it a name, double click the retargeter to edit it, but the right side pane is basically empty, I cannot chose source/target anything, its just all blank, tried saving the project and restarting UE5, didn't help, any ideas what I could be doing wrong?
edit: never mind, looking at the tab layout I see I had "Details" tab missing for some reason, Window>Details fixed the problem I had! :D
this video is so good, very helpful
I did it in UE5.1 😋 thanks so much. Now I can use any animation from mixamo.. the tutorial was in such a detail that anyone can follow easily.
There are few UI changes done in UE 5.1 but all I easily find and do it myself.. and if I can do this, who is big noob in UE, than anyone can do it.. 😅
Thank bro ! i love your tutorial
Amazing tutorial.
Fyi, if you have constant crashing when retargeting animations, go back into the MH rig and unlink all the metacarpals for each finger (there are two for each finger), then reset the pose for MH rig in the retargeter. And don’t pose the fingers, I repeat, DO NOT pose the fingers. Once I followed these steps, I was back on track.
New version coming soon.
Hmm. Everything works perfectly...except that the shoulders are hunched in leaving him with a long neck. I've double, tripled, quadruple checked everything and I don't see a fault anywhere. I've meticulously gone through every chain and everything is a match. I started to mess around with where the chains end around the neck area to see if this changed anything. So here I am..lost. :(
Try disabling the fullbody IK to see if it makes a difference.
27:43 nvm this just to keep trck
Hey! I watched a lot tutors and your is my last hope. So i want to ask before starting - does you method works with short type ob MH body? I have tried a lot of different methods. So I almost give up, cuz all tutors works only with Tall MH bode. Thank you!
I do intend to do a tutorial about that in the future
Do you have to retarget every Metahuman character you want to put into UE5 and use mixamo animations?
If they are different sizes, I do.
Great video thank you! Just one question: is there anyway to reuse the MH IK retargeting setup so that I don't have to redo all the chain creation for a different style of MH rig? in other words, can I reuse the setup of the m_med_nrw for the f_med_unw? Saving me from having to recreate all the same chains again!
Yes in newer versions of the engine, you would just choose the preview mesh in the IKRig and IKRetargeter (target).
You can do it without doing that but in my experience it never seems to work correctly.
I don't understand why is there necesary so many manual steps by selecting bones. I'm curious that nobody already did plugin for that that autote it.
I would even expected that the MetaHuman will be fully ready after import since it is directly from Unreal Team.
Metahumans come with an IKRig now.
thank you... but I have a weird problem.. the metahuman lost a part of the body, that surrounding the neck so now I see the full body up to the shoulders and then a hole and there the neck with the head floating !!! I have UE 5.0.1 and used a custom Metahuman. Please help ! :)
i have not seen this problem before.
FYI you did this incorrectly. You need to create an EXTRA chain for the neck bones. or else the lower neck on the target Metahuman will not move correctly. you need to create a new chain "neck" containing the 1 neck bone in the Mixamo IK RIG and containing the 2 neck bones on the target Metahuman IK RIG
Agreed
thank you for great tutorial
hi
Please I have problem; in 43:00 I cant create new pose
i dont krow how i edit the pose!!
the 5.1.1
its not like your version ?
❤ thanks for this explication ❤
They completely changed the layout of the UI.
1. Top left corner select "Target"
2. Select "Edit Mode"
Thank you for the tutorial
Great tutorial, thanks!
Is there no way to just open Unreal 5 and open my meta human and start moving joints around to make animations? I HAVE to get a maximo animation to make it work? I want to animate my character to grab another as a human shield and hold them as a hostage. I feel like UE5 overcomplicates something like this with all of it's blueprint non-sense.
You could create your own animation with Control Rig and Sequencer and bake to animation.
Or take an existing animation, bake it to a Control Rig in sequencer, modify it and bake the animation.
I really liked your presentation, but the result of the animation leaves a lot to be desired. In the walking animation, the legs are flying apart and the pelvis is unnaturally rotated.
Nevertheless, I appreciate your work, and thank you. I wish there was such a normal download preset, in which everything would be set clearly.
Agreed. I only ever present the basics because,I am not an animator, I do not have much time and I think it is important for people to take those basics and then do the work themselves.
UE5.01 still crashes when exporting animations, is it still the fingers?
I have no idea because it has not happened to me in a long time.
In the Mixamo IKRig and IKRetargeter, try reseting the pose and try export again.
Thanks for the great video but I always crash after retarget animation I dont know why? Please help.
It is UE5 bug. I will post a new video soon.
Hey, question after applying the animation to the body. When the body moves about head stay still - what can be a cause? Thanks
I think some things have changed with Metahumans.
So, I am trying for a couple of days now to finish this tutorial but keep getting errors. Right now, whenever I retarget, I get an error and UE is closing,unable to actually save the retargeted animations
It is a UE5 bug
Fantastic tutorial thank you! Question: for facial, do you add a second live link for the facial anims if captured separately?
It is not something that i have done in this context.
thank you soo much this was so good!
I'm using Unreal 5.02 and still crashes when I move the fingers
You are not alone.
You got a subscribe from me purely for saying "skellington". 😂
You can tell a lot about a person by what they notice.
You seem like you get to the bones of a subject.
Great and useful video but I have to say it’s Skeleton not Skelington. You don’t watch telelingvision do ya?
plural skellingtons
Dude. I can se. How about when you want to retarget a near similar poze. offset the postion of the MH body over the mixamo body and so its way easyer to find the exact positon
Do what works best for you.
Why not use "Face mesh"?
Is it possible to activate the facial expressions of the character?
I do not understand the question
Goooo you are grateful
love the background music !
Yes, it helps me relax.
This is most ungodly, super boring, extremally lengthy - simply worst way to retarget anything! I better buy some third party tool and retarget there, than spend hours on this shit.
Stop wasting time and buy the plugin.
If i did this for all my Mixamo animations, and seperately for my Actorcore animations. Could i then use them on multiple Metahumans or only the one i used for translation?
Not 100% but yes.
I really like your tutorials explaining everything in detail, simply with soft music. it's really perfect. thanks again
Thanks so muchhhh!!!
Anyone who's crashing on export, just reset the "target actor offset" and "bone draw size" settings in the retargeter.
Did that. Still crashes. Was hopeful there for a moment!
what is preview 2, unreal is crashing while I
exporting the animation.
I have no answer for this problem.
i need to say thanks.. u r the best
Appreciate this!
I get these weird finger warping and the arms are rotated beyond the mixamo animation. Unsure how to fix this issue...
I do have another tutorial that includes FullBodyIK, you may be able to adapt it to a MetaHuman:- th-cam.com/video/JXBGw-6PpCE/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely amazing tutorial man! You're the first person I've found that's actually shown how to work Mixamo animations onto MetaHumans with the new IKRig/Retargeter system so shout out to you! You've more than earned my sub.
Is there anyway to pair a facial animation with a Mixamo animation, like let's say someone is talking but with hand movements? Definitely will be staying tuned to the channel for future content.
Thanks ! Yes you can combine body and face animations in sequencer and then create a single combined animation from there.
@@Jobutsu I would be super interested in a tutorial on this! Your channel is very helpful 😊
Thanks for the tut! When i get to around 43:00 and attempt to pose the MH_IKRig into T-pose, I cannot move any of the bones. Clicking and moving the rotation gizmo does nothing as if all of them are frozen in place. Am i missing a setting? Thank you
I don't know.
you should in edit pose mode to do this.. in latest ver of UE it shows at left corner above listed bones
This was great! Thanks
THX,it help me a lot!!!
good job、thanks a lot~
Jesus christ man!! That was dramatic! Thanks for the tip tho!
I attended an after school drama class as a child.
Only once and I fell off the stage and landed on my organ. A nurse with one eye had to sew it back up.
That was far more dramatic.
43:48 i can't able rotate clavicle bone. kindly fix my error
It is difficult for me to understand the problem with no reference.
useful! Thanks
finally a tutorial that actually worked. I have been struggling with doing any animations. Thanks alot! Made a custom metahuman with mesh to metahuman. and I cant believe it doesnt have atleast an ilde pose. It just sits there in a T-pose looking boring. It was alot of work to set this up.. but worth it. You said that you can use the blue print for other projects. how do yo do that?
Great Tutorial, right speed, understandable english for me (German based) and works as expected *ThumbsUp
Thank you so much for making this tutorial! Seriously this is one of the best ones out there on this topic. You took a very convoluted process and made it easily digestible. 👏👏👏
Thank you so much, excellent tutorial!
Glad it was helpful!
A good one!
I just tried and i get an issue with 5.0.1, any of you have that issue ?
issue ?
YAY!!!
thank you bro how we can import face animation from iclone to metahumen
Soon, tutorial come.
10000000 thanks man! Great job. Your animation retargeting tutorial are the best! Subscribed!
Hi, I had a few issues with a number of your tutorials and even though they are in the most, very very good tutorials, I have invested an awful lot of time trying to perfect them, I have unfortunately had to just walk away from them. You have quite a few tutorials on your channel, and I find it quite confusing actually nailing down which one to get stuck into. Now I have decided to have a go at one particular tutorial of yours and that is the …
[UE5] Mixamo to MetaHumans - New Way in UE5 (IK Retargeter) which is quite a lengthy tutorial at 55:51, please can you tell me, is this the most updated tutorial about this subject, that you have, and if I spend, what I would imagine would be quite a bit of time learning it and getting my head around it, this is the best tutorial on the subject you currently have.
Many Many Thanks
There is something to learn in every tutorial on TH-cam, whichever channel it is on.
My advice, don't bother, if you find it confusing.
Buy a plugin to do it for you, search Mixamo Animation Retargeting 2, on the Epic marketplace.
I have never tried it but it seems to do what you want.
What the music in the background?
I have no sound at the moment however, I can say the tracks are sourced and licensed via Artlist/Epidemic Sound
good tutorial
fantastic overview, but this unfortunately skips the POWER of it being an IK retarget.
At the time, people were wrapping their heads around a complete change in the retargeting system.
The IK Retargeting system has evolved a lot since this was made, so it would have been wasted time.
@@Jobutsu makes sense. Don't get me wrong I quite enjoy your content, but it was worth mentioning
Hi Jobutsu,
I'm now using two different metahumans on my scene.
is it possible to apply the mixamo animations to my second MH using the same IKRetargeter? Or do I need to create a new one?
Thanks
You do not need to create multiple retargeting assets. If your metahuman is a different size, you may need to duplicate your Metahuman IKRig and reset the pose and Skeletal Mesh.
@@Jobutsu Thanks for you reply. I'll try that!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Am I missing something that needs to be enabled? When I right click and add an IK rig, I don't get the pop-up asking me to choose a skeletal mesh. I can assign it in the rig window itself, so it's not that big of a deal, I'm just curious why the disparity 🤔
This is an old tutorial, it is possible the functionality changed.
@@Jobutsu seems so. Either way, great tutorial! It really helped me out!
thank u man