Blender to Game Engines, Character Workflow Series (INTRO)

[@MrSubsonicc]

May you live for an eternity...THANK YOUU! This is amazing :D

[@AlOn556]

This channel continues to be a treat for 3D artists! I'm so glad you're making this series. As someone who's now struggling himself to find a job in the 3D art and game field I can't support you just yet - but once I can afford it I'd be 100% sure to support this amazing content you're putting out!

[@CGDive]

Thanks a bunch, man! Really appreciate it and I hope you find a great job!

[@syedsaifuddin1413]

Really excited for this series...Bring it down as quickly as possible

[@CGDive]

Thanks man, more UE4 videos coming soon!

[@activemotionpictures]

Talking about positive impact in 2021! Fantastic!!

[@CGDive]

Thanks mate! :)

[@GaneshKumarganny4uall]

Please keep making tutorials. You surely understand the pain of beginners with a lot of ambition.

[@darkdroide]

i just start learning UE4, thank you for this video, I'm looking forward to this series

[@CGDive]

Doing my best to make it a good one! :)

[@ambitiousgamestudio4661]

Exactly as I want, thanks todor for making this series.

[@CGDive]

You got it, man!

[@pawpotsRS]

I always wanted to make all the pipelines native to their own DCC rather than always rely on a 3rd party where in the future you don't know if they will continue to support it or not, It's just me you can still use 3rd party addon and I like the approach of CGDive very informative and straight to the point. Easy to follow too. Thank you so much.

[@4115steve]

This is great. You are a great artist and teacher. I look forward to combining blender and unity using your tutorials thank you for taking the time to make these videos

[@uwaiswaiswais]

This is just what I was looking for! Just starting to make games with my blender models. looking forward to your wisdom!

[@CGDive]

Great. It will take a while to develop the whole course. I hope you stick around and let me know if there are problems you like me to cover.

[@nv7287]

Just wonderful! I already really enjoyed the rigify course!

[@CGDive]

I am happy to hear that. More to come :)

[@danielhadad4911]

Thanks for putting so much work into this. It'll be awesome!

[@CGDive]

Thanks for watching, Daniel!

[@stillalive7456]

Man... That sounds COMPLETELY UNBELIVIABLE!!! I did not see any other of your videos yet, but Im already prepared myself to spend the whole night learning, because that is EXACTLY what I was trying to figure out for SO LOOONG Instant subscribe and like Lets go further maaan

[@CGDive]

Ha, awesome! Hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you need help along the way.

[@StriderWolf]

I absolutely love your videos, and theyre some of the most helpful ones around. I would support your patreon if it werent for covid leaving me without a steady income, but I will definitely be buying your gumroad videos, as I have before with the rigify course. keep up the great work dude.

[@CGDive]

Thanks for the support, man! I fully understand. The covid situation affected me as well. It was thanks to people like you who bought the Rigify course that I made it through 2020!

[@jordanlapointe4690]

This is such a valuable resource. Your work on this is hugely appreciated!

[@soldatderschoenheit903]

best presentation i have ever seen

[@nierautomata9654]

Thanks Todor! Just purchased ARigify to put an end on my agony of importing my fbx files to ue4 only to find out the animations are not what I am expecting.

[@CGDive]

I am going to make a video on working with Arigify. But for now you should email the creator and explain the problem. He'll help you out. Feel free to email me more details and scene file tho. That could help me figure out what kind of problems people face with the addon and I can include that in my videos.

[@nierautomata9654]

@@CGDive oops sorry that is not what I meant I mean ARigify works fine unlike before when I do not have it I am having problems with my animation in ue4 but now with ARigify it does the job perfectly.

[@CGDive]

@@nierautomata9654 Ah now I get it! Great to hear that it's working well. Confirms my experience so far as well.

[@sirtimf]

Hi Todor. An in depth look into the NLA + game engines would be very useful. Thanks.

[@CGDive]

I'll work on it! :)

[@CosmicComputer]

@@CGDive this would be awesome, NLA is so intimidating for some reason :/

[@CGDive]

@@CosmicComputer And that reason is that the NLA is a bit of a mess :)

[@renatolins9812]

AMAZING and necessary content... please make tons of stuff around that, smart people will always be thankful and support it as well!! keep this up man... AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

[@CGDive]

Thanks, man! A bunch of videos have been released since this one. More on the way. All vids are in this playlist kzbin.info/aero/PLdcL5aF8ZcJvCyqWeCBYVGKbQgrQngen3

[@renatolins9812]

@@CGDive Nice, thanks!!

[@dylanking000archive]

really excited for this. thanks so much

[@CGDive]

It's already here by the way: kzbin.info/aero/PLdcL5aF8ZcJvCyqWeCBYVGKbQgrQngen3

[@forrestgump2114]

This is going to be phenomenal, thank you and god bless you, I really hope it’ll generate the the amount of money that worth your time and efforts and more, looking forward to it.. good luck.

[@CGDive]

Thank you! I am optimistic about this project. :)

[@aldermusic4933]

Great tutorials man! Just working on a game characters, your tutorials helped me a lot! Keep working, we appreciate it!

[@CGDive]

Thank you! More tutorials on building game-ready rigs coming this month :)

[@alexeypetrov8394]

YOU ARE MY HERO! THANK U SOOO MUcH!!

[@davidmccabe1544]

Your videos are amazing, so easy to understand and follow. I hope you are able to keep making awesome content. Thanks for everything you've done.

[@CGDive]

Thank you, David. Things are looking good. It's all thanks to people like you who watch the videos and take the time to comment etc. Appreciate it :)

[@concernedcitizen9101]

You have promised me exactly what I need. If this works out and I am finally able to bridge this gap I will give something back. Maybe I'll donate to your patreon or smth because god damn this is hard for me. Thank you in advance!

[@CGDive]

Enjoy! No pressure to donate but if you want to get some of my stuff, check out academy.cgdive.com/courses I will be sunsetting patreon and possibly other stores and my courses will be mainly on the Academy site.

[@AWHMBMI]

Thank you ♥🔥

[@nobody-ti]

Thank you so much

[@hbirtt]

I've already said this in the comments for other videos but, yes. Exactly as you describe, there is a gap in information. Not that all of the information isn't out there, because it is, but it's just so scattered that it's very difficult to put together. There's also the Unreal Engine gap that you're covering. Again, there's a good bit out there, but not nearly what there is for Unity. I think I have said thank you under about 5 videos at this point, but Thank You.

[@CGDive]

Thanks for all the thank yous :) Seeing that people appreciate this stuff is motivating me to keep going.

[@kloa4219]

If arigify is giving trouble, apply location, scale, and rotation to the metarig. It breaks when you try to apply properties or modifiers

[@CGDive]

I am going to make a video on working with Arigify. For now the best thing you could do is email the creator and explain the problem. He'll help you out. Generally you shouldn't be using the metarig with Arigify so it sounds like you're doing something not quite right.

[@CGDive]

Feel free to email me more details and scene file tho. That could help me figure out what kind of problems people face with the addon and I can include that in my videos.

[@kloa4219]

@@CGDive thanks! I got it fixed through trial and error

[@CGDive]

@@kloa4219 NICE! :)

[@akumatensei5466]

Not all heroes wear capes!

[@SuperMontana2008]

are you going to show rigging cloth, belts and armour?

[@CGDive]

It's definitely on my list. Although it's not a top priority since it's kinda outside of this series.

[@binyaminbass]

Saying hello from the end of 2021. I hope you are pleased with how this project turned out. I am looking forward to going through it. First question: is this course relevent if I want to use Unreal for cinematics, but not for games.

[@CGDive]

Hey Binyamin. We managed to cover a lot in 2021. There are still a few areas that I need to work on but we'll just keep going in 2022 :) As for your question: I'd say yes. Working only with cinematics is a bit more forgiving but I would still rather know what I am doing than hope for the best.

[@archangel3561]

listen buddy, I need you to know: I love you, you are doing gods work here, but your videos absolutely make me want to fall asleep. thankfully I found all it takes to fix this is to play lofi music on another tab. could you please consider adding some royalty free music to your videos in the future?

[@CGDive]

haha best comment ever. I probably won't add music for various reasons. Mainly, it would add complexity to my video editing which I try to avoid. And then other people would say, WTF is up with the music?! No thanks :P So you are on your own with the music, sorry :) Oh, try speeding up the video (1.5x ~ 2.5x). I can't watch tutorials at normal speed, especially not my tuts.

[@99JasonKim]

nice

[@LeslieLeigh-ok5cm]

I eventually used this workflow: 1. Modelling 2. Create armature and skin that for the mesh, the armature should contain engine-favouring bone hierarchy. 3. Use the armature as "metatig" and feed it to rigify, which then generated the "controll rig" 4. Foreach bone in metarig, add a copy transform constraint to them, the constraint is configured to copy transform from control rig's bone "DEF-xx". I wrote a script for this. 5. When exporting, bake the control rig's action and store the result as a new action and link to the metarig（deforming bone） Do you have suggestions on this workflow?

[@CGDive]

Sounds good. If you script works well, then rock on. We also created our own addon for this in case you need it kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4ulqWR_bNugh5I

[@ponchovii]

HERE BE DRAGONS HAHAHAHA holy shit, great stuff man

[@CGDive]

hehe, glad you find the tut useful :)

[@limarest761]

You cannot imagine just how much time I've spent trying to import fbx characters made in Maya\Max from Unity to Blender to then find that it is impossible to reimport it back while keeping the same structure for animations to work and not blow up. Can this course help me with that?

[@CGDive]

My guess is that it should work with the workflows I'll present. I hope you have some patience until we get to that part of the course.

[@vacantly]

Had great results so far with your help. I'm curious, will you be covering twist bones/humanoid rig in unity? The rigify rig functions with them, but in the unity humanoid system it discards rotation data on "inbetween" bones that ruins, for example, the shoulders. I'm investigating my own solutions now such as applying rotation constraints in unity, but just thought I'd ask if it will be covered! Just subbed on patreon by the way, your stuff is worth it for sure!

[@CGDive]

Thanks a lot for subscribing on Patreon! As for twist bones, I just had a job where I needed to do just that. And I'll share a video about that in the near future. My solution is to keep using two rigs and tweak the upper arm. Basically, the last bone on the upper arm has to become the first one in the upper-arm chain and all twist-bones become its' children. It's quite unintuitive. :D Let me know if you need help.

[@vacantly]

@@CGDive I think I get the idea but I'm having trouble imagining it ha ha. Do you have a screenshot of the bone setup?

[@CGDive]

@@vacantly Sorry for the late reply. It will be difficult to explain here. Ping me on Patreon or Discord and I'll try to explain how it can be done :)

[@vacantly]

@@CGDive no problem! I sent a message on patreon. thank you!!

[@tiraniks1158]

I will comment on every video, for support channel.

[@CGDive]

Thanks so much! 🙂

[@soumysahu]

face rig for faces , random eyeblink in ue5

[@CGDive]

I'm randomly eyeblinkinking right now... What do you mean?

[@soumysahu]

@@CGDive i saw this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKeuea2lorN2fMk

[@arunachalpradesh399]

why dont you join udemy your course is veyr good. you can earn double amount

[@CGDive]

I was thinking of joining Udemy. It just takes time to start selling at a new marketplace. What do you mean by double amount? Double to what?