Edit Animations Using Control Rig | Unreal Engine Tutorial

Hello guys welcome back to another video! Today I want to show you how you can edit animations inside of Unreal Engine, using Control Rig! You can follow this tutorial in Unreal Engine 4 or 5, as long as you enable the control rig plugin, or add the marketplace control rig character to your project! Let me know if you have any questions in the comments down below!
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - 00:40 - Intro
00:41 - 2:30 - Project Setup
2:40 - 6:09 - Edit the Animation
6:30 - 6:57 - Bake the Animation

[@RobinDale50]

I have been needing THIS tut for a long time! Thank you, more please on this!

[@Phoenix_VR]

Adding vehicle animations

[@wardredd6394]

Glad you are back at it you are A great part of the UE community

[@frankbaker5174]

Dude, this was so valuable and so hard to find!! Thank you.

[@floydconfere8441]

Very informative and also clean instructions, good job man

[@CP-Mohammed]

on of the best videos about control rig !😎😎

[@peblezQ]

Thanks (: These tutorials are helpful!

[@Smudgeurfudgemuffin]

Awesome! I am going to use this a lot :)

[@Kougs]

Very valuable info, Thank you!

[@metushelach8]

Thanks ! Just what I needed !

[@ChrixB]

that is very helpful, thanks for sharing that!

[@WhiteNorthStar1]

very very useful, thank you! :)

[@visualdistortionvfx3859]

ooh man you saved my lifee,, thank youuuuu

[@6FingerGames]

Thank you! you save my time !!!

[@TawpeeBoyshuck]

Great video!

[@guillermofleitaspulido]

Hi! Thanks a lot for your tutorial, I needed it.

[@SuperVillianStudios]

Where you able to do this in UE 5.1? When I bake the animation the rig goes back to the normal pose

[@guillermofleitaspulido]

​@@SuperVillianStudios I didnt have any problem, it worked for me in 5.1 and 5.2 😅

[@davidakopyan9175]

maybe the best vid on youtube!

[@joshnevel1504]

Thank you

[@D0RASIMA]

YOU ARE MY HERO....damn I love you.

[@coder-c6961]

this was helpful but do you need to manually rig the model? Like if I have another human skelton do I have to manually rig it or does control rig automatically does it for me?

[@tuna1867]

This is a great tutorial, thank you! But I have a question: how can I add the weapon mesh to adjust the hand placement during the animation?

[@lmbits1047]

Would you happen to know how to modify the root bone rotation and animation so it does the same thing but pointing to a different axis. I am trying to create some root motion 8-directions rolling out of one animation but it seems when activating root motion the root always points forward. If I use use first frame as pose it does this correctly in 4.26 but it seems it is broken in UE5. Any idea?

[@RDD87z]

wonder if its possible to Animate the charactes inside unreal, using the VR controllers, moving bones and being in a 3d space view, would help a lot at least will speed up the POSING process.

[@VandalMediaV]

I want to do this backwards if possible? I've already made animations with the control rig but now I want to add an animation on top.

[@majid_artv]

Cool❤️❤️❤️🌹

[@lz4090]

Nice, this is a great tutorial. Would you happen to know how to fix a bone transform (head, neck_01) so that true fps setup would where the camera is attached to head would not have headbob that is affected by the animations during locomotion? Or should I just remove the transform of the head and neck_01 on the locomotion animations so that it will be sort of linear-stable at least that would make the bone stable and the attached camera not affected by movement of the character?

[@SmartPoly]

make the skeletal mesh component a child of the camera component (like the fps template)

[@mikaznavodya9300]

Thanks

[@SuperVillianStudios]

Hey whenever I try to bake the animation the skeleton reverts back to the normal pose and the animation doesnt play, any ideas where I went wrong? Im using UE5.1 btw

[@toxicaf6173]

how do i get this functioning in a ue5 project? i tried, it didnt work but when i open it as a new ue5 project there is no control rig.

[@alekjwrgnwekfgn]

is there an updated version of this? I don't have 4.26 anymore

[@longwick1417]

Does anyone know how to paste animation in reverse, similar to blenders ctrl + shift + v

[@eddiej.l.christian6754]

How do I add a preview object such as a rifle?

[@TheironkageGG]

So im trying to make a spiderman game for myself and i wanna know if this works for absolutely any type of animations like combat, running, walking things like that

[@Cazaq]

Lol. Dude, just make something easier. 500 people worked on Spiderman. And yes, it will work on anything.

[@TheironkageGG]

@@Cazaq its what i want to do but thanks

[@ahmedsaleh4640]

is it possible if i could make animations by this or it would be harder than in blender and other programs

[@SmartPoly]

yep. I think easier than blender. I have animated first person animations with it

[@aquato33]

This is so weird, I litetally do not have the option to "bake to control rig" in 5.4. How is that possible?

[@voyaging07]

why doesnt the UE5 control rig have ik on everything like this control rig? I only have ik controls for the feet. Is there a way to make it so there's full ik when adjusting? I have the plugin activated.

[@SmartPoly]

yes look at my most recent video that I have uploaded

[@voyaging07]

@@SmartPoly Nice!

[@unrealdevop]

4:48 in UE5 they seemed to have either removed the option to bake to control rig or moved it somewhere. Would you maybe do another video on this but in UE5?

[@pppparanoidddd]

It's still there, open the animation and at the top of your screen is a edit in sequencer button, click that and go to bake to control rig

[@unrealdevop]

@@pppparanoidddd Yeah I figured it out. You can also right click the skeletal mesh on your timeline to get too it.

[@MindOfBoomBoom]

this appears to be non-destructive to the skeleton, it doesnt change anything as far as other animations either, only the animation you wanted to edit. so the steps would be, Create the control rig, edit your animation, export animation, delete the control rig if you arent working on any more edits? just making sure because i am pretty far in with my project, i only need to make two custom animations. do i understand this correctly?

[@kenalpha3]

Did you find a confirmation? And "Create the control rig, edit your animation" - Do we really need to make a Sequencer to edit the mesh? We cant use the Animation window?? (Ive not used Sequencer, so it's foreign to me; and I have your question too, of when it's safe to delete it, do we need to hide it so the player cant see in a normal level view?)

[@MindOfBoomBoom]

@@kenalpha3 you only use the Control Rig to make the animation, then use the Sequencer to record and save an animation script. after that script is created, you dont need the control rig again. does that help? its been a while since i did this.

[@kenalpha3]

@@MindOfBoomBoom yes, ty. This vid also has "Control Rig," but used as a node in the AnimBP. [watch?v=vDBokIaxLM0?t=32] Do you know how he setup the extra pins (to setup hit stop effect)? My Node only has Alpha pin. Many asked, hopefully you know.

[@MindOfBoomBoom]

@@kenalpha3 It looks like he is animating in a Sequence to make an animation script. some programs let you transfer animations from one Skeleton to another as long as they are based on similar skeletons. However, you can also do these things thru blueprints. its been a while since i've played with UE5, but i did use a plug in called mixamo animation retargeting to move scripts from one skeleton to another.

[@brad4games]

Can i edit 2 animations in the same time cuz they will be interacting?

[@Hereford1642]

Yes you can. The example map that comes with the control rig download project shows exactly this with 2 characters in the same scene.

[@prodev4012]

I tried editing some run animations with this method but the legs keep snapping and shaking like its not really smooth like the original animation. Is there any way to fix this?

[@JDMcarXcar]

Did you fixed it?

[@prodev4012]

@@JDMcarXcar Nope. Seems like people aren't really using control rig seriously or they would have noticed it. It's trash

[@Hereford1642]

@@prodev4012 You need to disable the snap to grid for translation and rotation in the top right corner of the viewport or else you cannot get accurate placement. It is perfectly possible and not hard to produce decent results. There are also advanced methods of moving things around not covered by this (very good) introductory video. It is tiresome to hear people trash software when they have so little knowledge themselves.

[@PixelGamerDev]

I have exactly the same problem. Did anyone figure out why this is happening? @JackHodges This problem has nothing to do with viewport snapping being turned on or off, you should read the question mor carefully.

[@Hereford1642]

@@PixelGamerDev Well I manage to make perfectly smooth edits of animations but you don't seem to be interested in what I might have to say so good luck.

[@cheemayt1530]

I can't see any control rig (in ue5.1 )

[@garrytalaroc]

Is this a better animation tool than Blender or Maya? i just need answers.

[@Cazaq]

No.

[@kenalpha3]

Maybe - if the UE editor enforces strict axis that Z is always up, Y is always a certain way. Ive been using Blender for a year and the animation axis and keys are too confusing (Mixamo axis keep changing where Z is no longer up/down). I.e. in Blender, I have an anim that is 20 units from origin. So I wanted to move the root bone 20 units backwards on Y axis. So I go to Anim tab > select Root bone > hide every key channel except Y, and try to move the keys up/down in the graph, so the bone moves backwards. But in some animations the Y coordinate is determined by the X, Y, Z key coordinate???? (Meaning if I delete some Y keyframes, then the bone moves up/down on Z axis. So then I need to edit Z key frames too.) Wtf is that and why in Blender? It's these illogical things that make Blender annoying; then I dont even know what it is called, to search for answers.

[@definetlynotaunblockgenius4517]

nice, i am not sure if it w ill work for me, i will go test it, if it works ill give you a like! edit 1: i am on my way to try it out!

[@unrealenginetr]

How can I add a key? I pressed to "key" button but I can't seen anything change.

[@unrealenginetr]

I solve this, I wonder how can I attach a weapon with my skeleton with UE4?

[@JhonPitre]

I donwnloaded this but not show me to 'add" and basically to use it I have to start from zero another new proj

[@Hereford1642]

Find the file 'Mannequin_ControlRig'. Open it to edit and in Preview Scene Settings tab change the Preview mesh to 'none' and save. Now you can migrate the Mannequin_ControlRig file to wherever you want and then set it to the mesh in your project. It would be nice if Unreal explained things like this but I managed to work it out so there you are.

[@twichify]

First

[@Mike-rt2vp]

video a little quiet. great job.

[@Turbomorsh]

My rig is not on the baking list, how can I fix it?