That's true, I created a head morph in Blender, even though I did not change the face, I noticed that small face details were lost, such as lateral wrinkles around the mouth when smiling. It was subtle but noticeable only when playing facial animations before and after importing back into UE.
I just tested an FBX export and re-import with the Meta Human blender file that you shared (Vivian). All weight influences are preserved (up to 12 on some vertices). Am I missing something?
So I ran a quick test in Houdini and can at least confirm that there is no loss of joint influences or skin weight data when exporting from Houdini. The vertices that have 12 joints influencing them still have 12 joints influencing them when exporting from Houdini as an Fbx, and the skin weight values remain intact. Phew!
@@mrpdean Maya has a deformer called Delta Mush, which is incredibly useful for rigging. Its power lies in the ability to stack multiple instances of it and paint their values. You can achieve amazing results with this deformer. I'm curious to know if Houdini offers a similar functionality. While I'm aware that some people may have developed plugins for it, there's no guarantee they will work as seamlessly as the native deformer in Maya.
Hey my beloved teacher, i used to use your script to use humanIK in Maya with Metahumans, but never got this error : The skeleton definition is invalid and cannot be locked. Wondering if Metahuman change something or is it me? Thanks for any help!
@@Metarig after playing more i realised it comes already with 2 bad character definitions, (maybe thats why i was getting an error) so when i try your script still works. It creates a new character definition, you must just change it and delete the two wrong definitions. thanks man!
I haven't tested them yet, but I believe 3ds Max supports this feature. The question is, when importing an FBX file, does it get clamped like in Maya? The problem lies with the importer, but Blender doesn't have any control over the maximum influence anyway.
That's true, I created a head morph in Blender, even though I did not change the face, I noticed that small face details were lost, such as lateral wrinkles around the mouth when smiling. It was subtle but noticeable only when playing facial animations before and after importing back into UE.
We are so lucky to have you as a teacher 🙏🙏🙏 Thanks for sharing with us!
The thing is not happening to me using Blender 3.5. I tried importing and exporting fbx over and over again, and the data always get preserve.
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I just tested an FBX export and re-import with the Meta Human blender file that you shared (Vivian). All weight influences are preserved (up to 12 on some vertices). Am I missing something?
I exported the head from Maya and my blendshapes still don’t work.
Houdini's KineFx doesn't have any limits on the number of joints that can influence a vertex.
Please test it and see that when you export an FBX file and then import it again, the maximum influence remains the same or gets clamped.
@@Metarig Thanks. I will test it as that will be very annoying if that's true 😔
So I ran a quick test in Houdini and can at least confirm that there is no loss of joint influences or skin weight data when exporting from Houdini. The vertices that have 12 joints influencing them still have 12 joints influencing them when exporting from Houdini as an Fbx, and the skin weight values remain intact. Phew!
@@mrpdean Where did you get the 12 joints? Is it from a MetaHuman? We need to know if it gets clamped when imported into Houdini, similar to Maya.
@@mrpdean Maya has a deformer called Delta Mush, which is incredibly useful for rigging. Its power lies in the ability to stack multiple instances of it and paint their values. You can achieve amazing results with this deformer. I'm curious to know if Houdini offers a similar functionality. While I'm aware that some people may have developed plugins for it, there's no guarantee they will work as seamlessly as the native deformer in Maya.
Great content, thanks
Thanks for this. Just curious have you ever tried rendering a MH in Maya? with whichever renderer doesnt matter.
yes I used arnold and the result was good
Hey my beloved teacher, i used to use your script to use humanIK in Maya with Metahumans, but never got this error : The skeleton definition is invalid and cannot be locked. Wondering if Metahuman change something or is it me? Thanks for any help!
Oh i realise now, its happens just with the new male, from UE 5.0 and above or Maybe 5.1 and 5.2. Weird. :(
@@RonnieMirands ftry with a fresh metahuman right out of bridge bro
@@Metarig after playing more i realised it comes already with 2 bad character definitions, (maybe thats why i was getting an error) so when i try your script still works. It creates a new character definition, you must just change it and delete the two wrong definitions. thanks man!
what about 3ds max or c4d?
I haven't tested them yet, but I believe 3ds Max supports this feature. The question is, when importing an FBX file, does it get clamped like in Maya? The problem lies with the importer, but Blender doesn't have any control over the maximum influence anyway.
Have you tested using the maya fbx export tool?