Add Any Character... Literally (GASP 5.4)

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This is a quick and easy way to add any character or just simply change the player character in the new motion matching game animation sample project. We also take a look at how to add our own custom mesh to traverse. You can use this method on pretty much any mesh that uses the UE4/5 skeleton.
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[@GabrielGratton]

YOU ARE GOATED. No one else has a tutorial like this on KZbin. Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much! Used a character directly from Mixamo and it worked flawlessly.

[@funkyguy0]

This worked flawlessly thank you. I used a mixamo character straight from mixamo and followed these steps.

[@Clydiie]

@funkyguy0 glad it worked bro

[@jogo-e-arte]

Incredibly easy to understand, I was gonna read documentation for this. Do more

[@alraffa5090]

LOL, I already knew how to bring in a character into GAS but you taught me a simple technique to create those traveral walls and ledges. Cant believe I did not think to do it that way, thanks man !

[@major-skull-gaming]

exactly what i was looking for lol! nice job on this even i was able to follow it :)

[@lordeross4870]

You just taught me so much more than what the title says lol thank you.

[@Imagineminded]

simple and clear

[@-GDP-]

Good tut, just having issues with rescaling

[@GankrGS]

Hey Bro! Would you be able to explain the process with modular pieces? I tried adding them as a child to the mesh and then setting leader pose with all the attached pieces, but it wasn't able to load. Great content btw!

[@Animeliqite]

i assume the bone names have to be the same with the original mesh, otherwise you'll have to manually assign each bones to the retargeter. this is one problem i had with ue5 while trying to retarget all the uefn mannequin animations to my custom base model.

[@xtraregular4200]

Can you do this again but with a character like drongo? I cant get his weapons off his feet

[@mohamedalmala]

THANKS KING.

[@hypnoticatrance]

Nice tutorial, but please make it a bit less fast, so we can follow the workflow a bit better.

[@hippocks146]

You know there's a function on KZbin that allows you to speed up our slow down the playback speed right? Just click/press the cog...

[@WestinsWorldStudio]

This helped resolve morphing issues I was having with my CC4 character, but the character is stuck in the A pose without animations. I noticed right away at the 2:32 mark when the TwinBlast character has an idle anim, but my character has no anim. A common error message I got when playing around was pointing to the SET IKRetarger node in the ABP_GenericRetarget BP. Any suggestions?

[@NEWARTSTUDiOS]

Can You show how to move this to my own project, where I have only my character with these animations?

[@hushedxmusic]

Been trying to figure this out for MONTHS. Cant find an answer and everything ive tried doesnt work..

[@Dota2BestArchive]

why don't you use this same process and set the default pawn as your character which you will create with this method? IF you want to transfer everything you need to setup its own animation BP and make databases , schemas and chooser tables for your character. It is a lengthy process and may not work efficiently as well if everything does not go well.

[@hippocks146]

It's been three weeks, so I hope you've got it figured out, but if not. I think you want to get ALS into your project. 'create' a new project with ALS. Once it's loaded right click on the 'advancedlocomotion' folder in your content folder and click merge. Select YOUR project and that's it. Close Unreal and open up your project. If you need further help just holla, I frequent KZbin too often for UE5 content.

[@sadekinborno4079]

Bro how do we play with this character now in our own project? How do we switch the characters in our project after importing GASP?

[@MrColono]

thanks bro

[@DavidDhwane]

How can we customize paragon characters, for example adding Beard on the face?

[@MickaelSchaack]

it work the same for my meta human ?.

[@Alex-Chupa12]

Hi, it would be great to see a tutorial about Aim Offset!

[@Clydiie]

I'll have a look

[@warriorblood]

My comment could be out of ignorance. But I vehemently believe that re-targeting in UE5 is too convoluted.. hope they implement a better way to do this for this EXTREMELY common need in UE.

[@alraffa5090]

retargeting is easier then even in 5.4 there are several tutorials out there how to do this.

[@xXxShankersxXx]

@@alraffa5090 i think the point they where making is its still too complex for something thats basically a copy/paste job extended

[@VividMind-40of60]

Thanks.. your video is just what I needed. Could you do an animation retargeting in 5.4

[@Clydiie]

It's pretty simple and I kind of showed it in this video

[@MasterPiffy]

Been done 1000 times by other people as well just go look

[@Clydiie]

@MasterPiffy yeah also it would really be like a 10-second video

[@BlueDream71071]

you should show how to do this for floating sword gasp i really wanna change skeleton but dont wanna break everything as gasp is weird and new to me

[@Clydiie]

it shouldnt break anything bro

[@Trenchcoat-cb9ph]

@Clydiie how do i do this with a character with a different skeleton?

[@razorbl21]

damn, i didnt even have the error bruv. works fine. for now XD lets see how i can break the software :D

[@Clydiie]

@razorbl21 I would been surprised if you did get errors lol

[@razorbl21]

@@Clydiie no errors shows up. its working fine XD time to add some more stuff XD

[@gaigelarock3970]

Followed step by step but when choosing the character, the mesh stays as the orange guy.....

[@habagun737]

And how to put custom mesh for NPC or Enemy??

[@m1k4n57]

When I do it, my character is lowered by 100cm in the retargeter and when playing the character is in the floor. Adjusting translation offset to X:0 Y:0 Z:100 "fixes" it but IK breaks ( it acts as if the player is higher up when crouching or grabbing a ledge ). What can I do?

[@Mae4Ever]

Does this applies to custom blender characters?

[@probuzzgaming]

But how would I add that in to another project once done inside this project? Cheers.

[@probuzzgaming]

So I did manage to do just that and succeeded only once. I wasn't happy with the character so chose another character and merged and now it doesn't compile as it did the first time. Now when I did manage to do it the second time it does but without the animations 🤔

[@alraffa5090]

@@probuzzgaming You need to make sure that the project you are merging this into has all of the required plug-ins for motion matching turned on. Did you do that ?

[@jackcampbellable]

@@probuzzgamingwhen I try adding it to a new project and a new character it crashes my game every time I try a vault/play a anim montage. Did you have the same issues?

[@MegaBizMan]

@@jackcampbellable Im currently trying to figure this out

[@TimBorggrenDenmark]

The character is floating over the mesh... how to fix that because that is not working for me

[@bleakpayne]

1:04 I can't retarget it with my metahuman, how do I fix this

[@random_dude-m69]

Pls, I need help, how to do it with a custom metahuman? I've tried everything but the metahuman it's not it's intire, u know? There are just limbs and head models.

[@lilposi]

the hands dont grab the ledge properly how can i fix that

[@guanbowen5863]

Hi,bro,nobody has metioned about that,and I ran into the same problem,haha,nobody cares about the deatials，I figured that out, open the retargeter which was generated ,and make sure to check the "IK" box, it was at the top of retargeter panel

[@adeysh6354]

How about you make a video of how to create a character from the scratch? Because this video is a bit advanced for people like me. I hope yoi see my comment, thanks a lot tho.

[@Clydiie]

lmao if you think this is hard just wait until you try make a character from scratch - just letting you know this is one of the easiest things to do in gasp

[@adeysh6354]

@@Clydiie I trust you, people like will provide the best tutorials ever.

[@habagun737]

Hello, is there any way to add custom mesh to npc character that is a child of CBP_SandboxCharacter or am I doomed?

[@papajohn9958]

my man🎉

[@redkalupt_hd8231]

you can make a tutorial on how to do the animation with a sword, for example, so the animation is then changed slightly so that it looks like he is carrying a sword 😅?

[@Clydiie]

I could potentially put the swords on the back of the character and make it so that with a button, you can bring the swords out and put them back on the back

[@redkalupt_hd8231]

@@Clydiie sounds difficult

[@Clydiie]

@redkalupt_hd8231 nah its simple

[@redkalupt_hd8231]

@@Clydiie could you maybe make a tutorial about this?😅

[@Clydiie]

@@redkalupt_hd8231 got you

[@vipercursos]

How do I set this character as default spawn?

[@Clydiie]

watch this video at 0:30 but basically just change it in the game mode kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJXJqoOno6idhtE

[@vipercursos]

@@Clydiie Very thx bro

[@vipercursos]

@@Clydiie Very thx bro

[@CTRLSWAY]

i followed this but it seems like only my characters legs work properly his upper body is still in a t pose, the retargeter said it was unable to find the root bone, amongst other bones

[@Clydiie]

idk what to say bro i haven't had any issues with this method and I've done it with multiple different characters... it might be that the character you are trying to use doesn't use the manny skeleton

[@CTRLSWAY]

@@Clydiie it doesn't it's my custom character, i shall try and rig it with the manny skeleton

[@Clydiie]

@CTRLsway I would suggest trying to rig with a character that already uses the skeleton like the paragon ones just to confirm it works for you... I'm pretty sure it will, but just to be on the safe side

[@SuperCinema4d]

I tried to run net mode play is 2 clients, but character control doesn't work, maybe you know why?

[@laurennewman9365]

The default GASP is not set up for replication, there are other projects people have altered that are though e.g. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6vOlXWud96VfMk

[@rishik-w8k]

I don't have the APB_generic_retarget T.T what do I do ?

[@Clydiie]

@rishik-w8k I need to revisit how this is done let me get back to you

[@antonkasianedberg2095]

You cant package this project into a game. it just crashing

[@Clydiie]

of course you can - seems like a engine issue on ur end - i just packaged my deadpool project which uses gasp and has been retargeted using this method

[@Kinos141]

Kind of a shame that parkour isn't purely coded parkour, and you need a BP to tell the character to hop and how to hop.

[@awcapproachwithcaution5655]

This destroyed my project, left my character stuck in t pose so i've had to restart. Don't Know why it didn't work though

[@Raphix_analog-x_WAKIKOU]

I am sorry for you 😢

[@BlueDream71071]

Same

[@hippocks146]

A hard lesson learned! Always always always duplicate whatever it is your about to muck about with. I hope it hasn't put you off, you can recover it. Just re-import the assets at a worst case scenario and you'll fix it.

[@awcapproachwithcaution5655]

@@hippocks146 luckily at that point there wasn't a lot to redo but it's all good I've since learned another way which caused no issues and I always back up my project now

[@JohnRiversOfficial]

lmao nice OS xD

[@rambosweat]

GAS is too opinionated on how I use my cameras to be honest. they need to make that more customizable.

[@ClassyCrustatio]

Good work around, but not ideal.

[@Clydiie]

dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/game-animation-sample-project-in-unreal-engine#importingyourowncharacter this is how its documented in the documentation? (although i do have a new version of this ive made a video for) but how would you do it?

[@shingAMarie]

Man I could not keep up with you..

[@Clydiie]

not keep up? lol you want me to go faster

[@shingAMarie]

@@Clydiie Sorry I MEANT, I wish I could keep up with you because you're going fast lol.🤣

[@Clydiie]

@@shingAMarie yeah i figured lol

[@Clydiie]

@shingAMarie idk if this one is gonna be any better but it is an update so 🤷 kzbin.info/www/bejne/joG2fKeVqLuNm80si=jV8Z1XJ09nWtcfJP hopefully it's easier to follow

[@shingAMarie]

@@Clydiie Thank you will check it out after work!

[@jarnine-d9n]

Silly Ai deleting my comments