CC4D Tools: Character Creator 4 to Cinema 4D - Manual Animation Retargeting

[@midlet]

Just purchased, and omg what a life saver you are! Looking forward to future developments!

[@guckmyman]

Awesome dude! Thanks so much! Just purchased the tool and it works perfectly :)

[@AnabranAnimations]

Very involved manual process compared to the Blender pipeline tool from Reallusion But still ,even at this point, you have taken mocap retargeting in C4D further than Maxon has ever done particularly without everything requiring a mixamo skeleton to work. hoping. to see the process more automated soon but keep it going!!

[@sharonpalkowetz]

100% AGREED!

[@sharonpalkowetz]

Ask and i shall Receive! Thank you!!

[@VEKUMA]

Can this work with Move Ai mocap? Tried and failed...

[@CC4DTools]

Hi there, yes it can work with data from move.ai easily following the process in the video above. The bone extraction in the character definition manager even works almost out of the box. here is a quick basic test with animation data from move.ai: drive.google.com/file/d/1kkqjGuppSurVUXw8ssO60fR6sscUAj11/view?usp=sharing

[@VEKUMA]

YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!!!!!!!!!@@CC4DTools

[@stan55ish]

Thanks for tutorial.

[@Rimbaure]

Awesome, thanks.

[@sharonpalkowetz]

What if First Frame in bind pose is greyed out in CC4 on export to FBX?? Thanks!

[@CC4DTools]

Hi if 'first frame in bind pose' is greyed out when you want to export animation from CC4 than you probably exporting your animation on a character with the type 'humanoid'. you could reset the character to its bindpose in cinema via the 'reset bind pose' button on one of the characters weight tags (the same way as in the mixamo workflow). If that doesnt work as expected try exporting the animation on a CC3+ character. for the retargeting the character type is not important as only the animation data gets transfered on to your actuall character. I hope this helps! let me know if you have any trouble

[@sharonpalkowetz]

@@CC4DTools Thanks for responding. Ok i figured it out. IT was an ActorCore actor....so an ActorBUILD character. I didn't realize the difference but i get it now the difference between actorbuild (humainoid) and cc3+ characters. I am learning! thank you!!!

[@michaelchen1565]

just bought it! Btw Is there a way to combine multiple animations? thanks!

[@phuctran4797]

any luck on this buddy? :)

[@no_sl303p]

Is there a way to do this with facial animation?

[@CC4DTools]

Not yet but it will be with the next update of the tools

[@samporter1564]

🤤 'Promo sm'

[@gokhanelmac]

We need tutorial movements such as speaking, lips and tongue sticking out

[@CC4DTools]

Hi if you mean tutorials on importing facial animation / lip sync from iclone to the cc4d rig: thats not implemented yet but on the top of the list. if you mean tutorials / guides about the functionality of the facial controls: blkmsk.gitbook.io/cc4d-tools-manual/face-rig-overview

[@gokhanelmac]

thank you @@CC4DTools

[@gokhanelmac]

@@CC4DTools but there are short Overview videos...There is no step by step construction, I guess we couldn't find it.

[@CC4DTools]

@@gokhanelmac Hi what 'step by step' construction/tutorial do you mean?

[@CHACHILLIE]

I’m not sure if there is an automated way but have you tried to create the correlating blendshapes in C4D, then use xpresso to set driver (original data) to driven (custom model) Naming them identically you should be able to make a script to batch it.

[@Rimbaure]

Awesome, thanks.