Free Character Auto Rigger Unreal Engine 5

In this video I will be teaching you how to use Reallusion's new Free Character Auto Rigger for Unreal Engine 5
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[@AnthonyPyper]

I couldn’t get a Daz 3D character to load is there a way to lower the poly count in daz3d?

[@SodaPartyNetwork]

Major game changer, bro! Just curious, if I make a ps1 graphic style character can I import it into Reallusion? If so, how would I got about that? Thanks, great video!

[@borrowedtruths6955]

It doesn't seem to work with iClone 7.93

[@milalolli]

Ohhhh I am sooo going to try this, I have lots of characters but never had time or the experience to rig them 🤓 this is changing today! Thanks for the video 💎

[@Netsurai]

Auto Rig Pro vs AccuRIG ? I work with ARP to be able to use the UE Rig already integrated in ARP for some of my human 3d figures. Which tool is much more "accurate" at auto rigging human figures? I don't know! We will see. I try AccRIG this WE and have Fun!

[@IstyManame]

Honestly, i can't believe how much developer space is... developing, right in front of our eyes. I'm working with basically everything in digital creation space, and not that long ago i seriously had to schedule time just for finding and testing out different software. I feel like really soon there would be no such thing as "production standart", because this space grows so fast, it's likely that a bunch of new, made by motivated developers software would form a better workflow than a couple products from a big companies. Can't even imagine how much easier it would be to create something digitally in 10 years. This is the reason metaverse will be a thing. Because there will be no barriers between a human imagination and a ready-for-use creations, it's insane. Hope i'll be ready for it

[@frankcastle2309]

just discovered this after searching up for rigging, amazing stuff really helpful you can have non-symmetrical rigging in a free software its perfect

[@commanderskullySHepherdson]

Wow this is awesome, thanks for bringing this to our attention!

[@legacylee]

bruh this is so clutch, i literally just rigged a character using the mixamo workflow and man this would have made life so much easier. thanks J! this is dope!

[@Jsfilmz]

yw bro

[@davidedemurodominijanni9889]

A Life-Saver. As simple as that. Thanks for the amazing news, J!

[@Jsfilmz]

YW mate!0

[@ablaouimehdi]

Thanx bro this is cool and time saver i will add it in my workflow for sure

[@TerceSecreTGames]

you are the real man bro! this is a game changer!

[@leonaraya2149]

Totally agree! This kind of software it's very helpful for those, like me that find dificult to make the rigging. Nice content as allways. 👍👍👍

[@Jsfilmz]

riggin succcksss bro ahhah

[@jayminshah1853]

thank you so much for cerating this kind of videos it helps us a lot keep it up bro....may god bless you

[@TheCaretaker123]

Man this is insane thank you for this!

[@Jsfilmz]

You bet!

[@harmandhdhd5552]

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

[@Jsfilmz]

heck yea man ill update it soon

[@scorn_77]

Amazing, I hate rigging, this will become a major part of my pipeline

[@prosota8083]

Quality Content, thanks for the heads up!

[@yugij0319]

This is awesome. I am going back and doing a lot of re-work on my game, "Defend Your Buttress". I had used Mixamo, and their auto-rigging/animation were kind of a garbled mess. Hopefully I will have better luck with this. This time around though, I am doing my own animations. I just need the auto-rigging.

[@rekware9320]

Cheers for the info. Subbed.

[@byronkinnear5458]

this is awsomness thanks for the info

[@danigarciagiron]

Super useful tool, thanks for the info!

[@Jsfilmz]

yw!

[@tommydell9191]

Awesome coverage of an awesome tool

[@Jsfilmz]

yea its frickin crazy good man

[@vforvistian]

Thank you so much!

[@fatihdorttepe2160]

very thanks for Auto rigger video

[@MatthewRumble]

7:11 oh my gosh look at that cyberpunk environment

[@victorfone1552]

TNice tutorials was very helpful thankyou.

[@MR3DDev]

Finally something useful from Real Illusion

[@Jsfilmz]

iclones animation tools and hand gestures been life saver for me man

[@PeeP_Gainz]

With your skills and content deployment, all you need is where the crowd is. prime example, currently I've been working on a workflow with Stable diffusion(locally setup), unreal engine5, blender, and icon on hugging face. with the 4090 card you have (awesome by the way) create a video using that and 100k, three weeks easy. i seen channels do 30k subscribers joined in days.

[@zn3128]

YOU ARE A GOD... NO QUESTION ABOUT IT

[@pddlin]

Great!

[@Brand.on18]

sick!

[@shbarz6303]

excellent 👍

[@justahuman4862]

Nice environment

[@k3mpp1]

Still need the IK-rig with controls for full possibility to add over animations and blend however needed without changing the original anim

[@han_pritcher]

This looks really useful and effective. Would it work for a character with clothing as separate elements? In other words parts like gloves that lay over the arms but not welded to the main body?

[@Jsfilmz]

i would combine it with body

[@deadend720]

You're amazing bro

[@Jsfilmz]

hahahahha noicee

[@estrangeiroemtodaparte]

Definitely an improvement over mixamo's! :D

[@Jsfilmz]

frickin agreed its safe to say this is the final nail to mixamo's coffin. cant be #1 forever

[@JayLion-xp6ok]

awesome

[@BlueboyRene]

THIS LITTERALLY COULD NOT HAVE COME AT A BETTER TIME !!!!

[@GraveUypo]

it would have been better 10 years ago, but i'll take it

[@andres0805]

thanks for info amazing!

[@Jsfilmz]

No problem!

[@omar.moussa]

great video actually u have my respect bro but I think u forgot to show us the part where u had to export it before uploading it to the actor core, u cut straight to the file after being exported at first so i got a little bit lost cause it then failed to import the animation but thank u so much for making it super easy u really gave me high hopes for my future work man :)

[@Jsfilmz]

i didnt have to export from blender bro the downloaded file was good straight from sketchfab since it was all in one piece

[@supremebeme]

very nice workflow, far greater control than mixamo as well.

[@tkkd363]

greater control than mixamo, i think so.

[@RH3D]

you should do a "will it rig?" series and try various monsters with unusual appendages etc as this gets better

[@Jsfilmz]

hahah i am man just been busy with real job :(

[@Steven-vh6fg]

What a time to be alive

[@Jsfilmz]

aside for everything tryin to kill ue in USA and inflation yea tech wise its awesome

[@gu9838]

wow just came out too! free too

[@stkman5580]

They getting this thing where it's almost anyone can rig or animate, the thing i'm truly waiting for is if and when they figure out Water dynamics within unreal like splash's and ocean spray if you will like a boat on stormy waters and be able to render that within the engine, im betting maybe 5 years out they will, they're awesome, for now we have Houdini for that

[@rafl2627]

Hi Congratulations!!! One question, can I use mixamo animations? thanks my friend

[@ishtiakahmed26]

IT'S REALY WORKED THANKS LOL/

[@AzizSalokhiddinov]

good bro

[@GregCorson]

I have been digitizing some action figures and statues with photogrammetry. Unfortunately they are usually in some "dramatic" pose rather than an A or T pose. Something like the pose of the character on the splash page of your video. Arms and knees bent, head turned...etc. How well does this auto rigger work if the character isn't in an A or T pose to start? Or if the character doesn't have fingers? The Mixamo auto-rigger doesn't handle this so well! Thanks for covering this!

[@Jsfilmz]

im not sure yet ill have to test it out greg. nice seeing u here mate. hope all is well with you

[@surfacedfox]

According to their docs, you can do that, too!

[@bluegizmo1983]

That's awesome! Can it rig four legged animal characters as well or just human type characters?

[@Jsfilmz]

havent tried it

[@awesomebrother19]

What do want more? Me: I want to mix this with meta human head 😂.. Now I can

[@rayman1900]

This is very cool, does Accurig supports creatures meshes, like birds or quadrupled?

[@Jsfilmz]

u can adjust the number of fingers i think i havent tried creatures yet though

[@WildOxStudios]

My only complaint is the Skelton complexity for 3 bone hands etc there is a lot of cleanup after the fact

[@khallkhall7237]

Please please make a video about how to retarget from UE5 Manny to the Actorcore Rig. There's just nothing out there and your videos are so good.

[@Jsfilmz]

i dont understand. u want to retarget animations from a ue5 mannequin to an actore core? U have ue5 manny animations? check this out kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXLFd2B6at1_nbc

[@khallkhall7237]

@@Jsfilmz yeah I want to be able to retarget the animbp from Manny to my custom character. Will check out the video thank you.

[@khallkhall7237]

@@Jsfilmz Heh. Iclone8 is $600 + another $400 for CC4. Free trial means in a month I won't be able to add any more characters. Thanks for the suggestion, just doesn't work with the budget right now.

[@BaseRealityVR]

The thing That would REALLY sell this for me would be the ability to map bone name Profiles for UE5/UE4, Before exporting. SO I could Import the mesh and pick the original default manny skeleton without any retargeting . Testing this out, I feel the viewport lacks the option to view a wireframe overlay to really nail joint placement in denser loop areas on things like finger joints the all white chalk mat it not helpfull with that

[@Jsfilmz]

we can all dream mate we can all dream

[@ScottBarrettihq]

@@Jsfilmz can this work for a metahuman rig or would that require retargeting? I know the face is just a whole other can of worms, but for masked characters, this is very good. What about using it with move.ai animation?

[@dreambadger]

Did they fix this or did anyone come up with a tool?

[@renansantos1266]

Bold Move

[@DigitalOrigin360]

Amazing vid as always! Quick Question though do you know if the rig is compatible with the UE animations? I tried making to give the rig the UE skeleton when importing and later apply the animation in the sequencer but the rig doesn't move or do anything.

[@Jsfilmz]

made a video on this recently but its the iclone accurig not free one

[@DigitalOrigin360]

@@Jsfilmz ah thank you so much

[@souhaibbenchaker4824]

well can you use animations that aren't on actorcore ? do you have to retarget your animations to match the skeleton ?

[@shaikasif3356]

so sNice tutorialt like that

[@kwesikwaa]

offline version of mixamo rigger . damn good. thanks for sharing

[@Jsfilmz]

super

[@MrHollt]

Does it give you an actual Control rig to manipulate yourself?

[@yaschan99]

Pretty good. But what about CC4 characters? My CC4 character is already fully rigged. But can't seem to be able to figure out how to get actorcore animations work with them as the rig is different once again. To me the whole workflow seems to be designed to make everyone buy iClone.

[@KensireGames]

Thanks for the help bro but why do my textures seem see through when I import the fbx in unreal engine

[@VincenzoRavo]

very awesome, thanks for making this nice tutorial, is there a way to rename the bone names to be the same as the ue4/5 mannequin?

[@Jsfilmz]

not that i know of i wish :(

[@davidedemurodominijanni9889]

I was wondering the same. Converting ActorCore animations to UE5 mannequin went crazy for me... rigging drives me literally insane!

[@Jsfilmz]

@@davidedemurodominijanni9889 ill try it

[@spittingame4241]

Can you add a cat tail and bones to pose in high heels. And also, can you rig toe bones the same way you can rig the hand?

[@pashamlakshminivas]

Can I also use it for rigging vehicles. To use it for my game projects.

[@Kinos141]

Thank god for the Mixamo alternative, because screw Adobe!!

[@DanielM19999]

Is there a way to control/animate the rig in the sequencer editor?

[@noahbrewer2476]

Does the rig have the exact same rotations and transforms as the UE5 manaquin skeleton?

[@theworldsofhemlockthecat3175]

Very impressive, did you think is there a workflow for using mixamo animations, wich are nice and free, with a character rigged by accurig ? It could be extremly usefull for using custom characters in unreal engine 5.

[@Jsfilmz]

yea man this uses standard unreal skeleton

[@theworldsofhemlockthecat3175]

Thanks, I have rigged one of my custom characters with accurig (mixamo had failed to rig it) but when I export it in unreal 5, the names of the bones and their hierarchy seems to be totaly differents. And I don’t know how to retarget it, in some tutorial the retargeting is made by using the ”humanoid skeleton” option in the skeleton tree for matching the differents rigs each other. But I didn’t know how to do what. If on day you make a tutorial about it, I’ll be very interested ! (I apologies for my confusing english, I’m french).

[@Jsfilmz]

@@theworldsofhemlockthecat3175 got cha ill try to make something

[@kakarotsan3030]

There are some issues with this solution though. It doesn't rig eyes. It also strips off any morph targets (blend shapes) from the model.

[@BlackAladdin_]

I haven't tried this for ue but it sucks for Motionbuilder... for some reason the lower spine is all off after characterizing.

[@dasnico13]

Hi Sir, i am stuck on how to stream data live from perception neuron 3 to unreal with a custom character rigged and skinned with accurig. Do you have any tutorials on this?

[@Jsfilmz]

yea perception neuron 3's youtube channel have a tut

[@TheMaP142]

of stuff and am trying to learn it so I can make soft as quick as possible. I will buy it. If you’ve made money using soft soft and you

[@TheMicOnFireCuz]

Is this program of any use to characters with long hair, long clothes, and facial that needs rigging or skip?

[@lukewilliams7020]

This is awesome and all, but why the heck don’t reallusion ever make apps for the Mac. Mixamo will still be needed while there’s no mac version

[@UuU1001.]

I like mobile apple products but will never buy a Mac out of habit. Condolences.

[@IvoKlerk]

Yeah so lame.. Wish they made it a more modern web application like Mixamo instead otherwise..

[@onesocialunited]

Apple better be launching some sort of ecosystem around the forthcoming AR/VR glasses or they will become irrelevant in this fast changing market towards 3D world building.

[@IvoKlerk]

@@onesocialunited Isn’t Actorcore the one who’s dismissing mac users here?

[@ammonn9930]

characters with seperate armors should be modifyed afterwards in blender or maya ?

[@Jsfilmz]

yup

[@free3dnft485]

Wow

[@Restart-Gaming]

Can i also use characters I already have in ue5 the ones from the store?

[@Jsfilmz]

yea export it out of ue remove bones in blender

[@RahhmiPoofs]

Everybody talking about how this is better than Mixamo and yet it's literally the same thing but you get less access to animations (unless you pay money), this one is more likely to screw up fingers, shoulders, clavicle ~ automatically, Has an "export to... UE, Unity, Etc" but doesn't remap bones to exported native format... How is this "for unreal engine 5" (description) or in any way better than Mixamo?

[@racingsfun]

What more do we want? For it to be rigged to the default ue4 ue5 manniquin.

[@Jsfilmz]

not sure if they are allowed to do that mate. could be a TOS violation

[@virtualworx]

Exactly, that would blow my mind!

[@Instant_Nerf]

Would you have to export a meta human to fbx to be able to apply animation with this rig?

[@Jsfilmz]

no because iclone rigs retarget to metahumans well. Its actually what i used when i had xsens

[@razvanab]

Is it possible to use the exported rig from ActorCore AccuRIG in Unreal and use the unreal animations instead ?

[@Jsfilmz]

yes it retargets pretty easy its similar to retargeting iclone characters

[@tylerscott3192]

how did you get your textures to load up with it?

[@quantumneuralnetworking4765]

Will this also work on a quadruped character?

[@BKsssz]

Why does the GMS tNice tutorialng doesn't soft sa way like it did in the video?

[@tarekwayne9193]

what is the difference between this and the native control rig? forgive my ignorance, I am new at rigging!

[@samorahero690]

Is it possible to modify the facial bones on a blender, please explain

[@shapeshifterstudios884]

That's awesome. I wonder if it would also work for 4.27?

[@Jsfilmz]

yes

[@shapeshifterstudios884]

You have made my day. I figured it would, but... Still on the first cup of java. You're right. Rigging takes a special kind of focus.

[@wakyIIsr]

Does this rig the face? If it doesn't how you're going to achieve it?

[@activemotionpictures]

Part 2: How to offset the already imported (mocap) animation.

[@Jsfilmz]

with iclone easy

[@michaellaviola6540]

What would make this even better is if it could be exported into Maya and come with an animatable control rig (inside of Maya) so poor people like me who don't have access to mocap tech could still animate to the character instead of a generic avatar and deal with retargeting.

[@Jsfilmz]

u can export it to maya broski also cant u just characterize it and bake it to a rig in maya? im not a maya expert but i used to be able to do that when maya decided to install on my pc lol

[@7_of_1]

Use a Maya HIK rig, or even advanced skeleton plug-in for Maya which is free, and has CC preset for import

[@NickRomick]

UE5 retargeting is pretty easy once you've done it a few times...

[@michaellaviola6540]

@@NickRomick UE5 retargeting is not precise though, especially if you need to have any kind of precise prop interaction (say for a cinematic, or even for gameplay animations) you're going to need to adjust the animation to the character, And that's when the skeletons are 100% compatible, for example if you try to Retarget a UE5 Skeleton anim to the UE4 one many things (even using the default settings made by EPIC) will be broken, especially fingers (this is due to different joint orientations and metacarpal joints) so yeah you can get it working but for any kind of very precise work, it's best to animate to the character.

[@michaellaviola6540]

@@7_of_1 Yeah but that involves animating with HIK and, well, I hate it lol Advanced Skeleton is decent-ish but has some very buggy features when it comes to Game-Engine animations, for example AS forces you to work in Y-Up instead of Z-Up (which is better when dealing with Unreal) but also there's some really bad issues with twist-joints and other stuff that goes on which makes it so that the animation looks 1-way in Maya but when you bring it to Unreal it's completely broken

[@alekseygrin5822]

Thanks for the guide. But I have a problem when importing a model, all textures become translucent. What could be the matter?

[@Jsfilmz]

u riggin invisible characters bro?

[@alekseygrin5822]

@@Jsfilmz No. I tried importing several different models and they all import with a similar effect.

[@lukewilliams7020]

I’m sorry I cannot watch this video unless keanu is hosting it 😂😉

[@Jsfilmz]

hahahaha

[@quantumneuralnetworking4765]

Does the final result work immediately and out of the box with Metahumans and their control rigs?

[@Jsfilmz]

i havent tried it i might

[@quantumneuralnetworking4765]

@@Jsfilmz please try ! Would be Great if it also worked on the face so we could highlight features on every custom mesh face and have it build us a custom METAHUMAN facial rig

[@MaxStudioCG2023]

i try accurig using chracter from sketchfab but when process is done the result mesh is white (having no skin just white) ..(tryed many char and same result) ..no colors no skin ... why might that bE?

[@thorhammer7153]

I wonder if it will stay free. I guess the only downside is working with another armature system. Otherwise its fantastic.

[@DirectionGaming]

🚫Spoiler ALERT : This is Another Mess. Like Mixamo... "This is not supported UE4 & UE5 Skeleton... Means it will not support UE4 & UE5 Skeleton Animations you have to find special animations for this or animate on own" Self Tested. I'm Custom Rigger. But this can be alternative to mixamo, only for autorigging. Mixamo is large library of animations also...

[@Jsfilmz]

yea actorcore has library also good mocapped ones lots of free ones i use as well

[@unw3ee]

Is there a way to rig it to unreal skeleton with AccuRIG? With AccuRIG skeleton there is no way to proper retarget unreal animations. For example, even in a hand here is a 5+ different bones in this skeleton, when Unreal Skeleton have 3 bones in an arm

[@kenalforque3445]

Cal Toe Productions It’s worth it

[@xXLeatherFace1]

Can you use this to rig characters for UE facia live link?

[@Restart-Gaming]

Just tried it out looks great but its only for none ue5 characters and it will not rig clothes. What's really odd for being ue5 is the top of the line game engine they fall flat when it comes to rigging clothes for said ue5 characters. Seen 100s of videos on cloth? Really how many people make flags. So this is great and you did a great video but next video can you add to you title you are also using blender. Can of hard to nail down when doing a youtube search on rigging clothes and finding you have to use third party software to help ue5.