How to morph a skeletal mesh in unreal engine

[@K_I_N_E_X]

Thanks this just saved me Cause i wanted to make the head really squished and i didn't want to mess with blender.

[@zeon3d755]

Could that be done on the skeleton directly?

[@andrewstrapp]

Hi there! How would I ago about doing this with one of my metahumans?

[@nixies78]

The practise is still the same. You need to plug the code into the animation blueprint. The difference we met a humans is the animation. Blueprint is split into two parts I believe. Therefore, you would need to do it in both.

[@andrewstrapp]

@@nixies78 It worked! Thank you. You are correct, you just have to go through two levels of compiling before it actually applies to the metahuman.

[@tech-saby]

Cool tip Edward..

[@TGADB]

How we can control it from the thrid person bp??

[@nixies78]

What you need to do is use a variable to control the scale. Then you need to update the variable from the ThirdPersonBP.

[@TGADB]

@@nixies78 a selfish request can u create a vid showing a ui slider to control these bone transformation? Like scaling head in runtime with slider im working on three game projts and having hard time as we are lacking team members. A small short video will be very helpful and I will remember your kind help I want to make a character slidrr where players vould chage shoulder length which is only possible through bone transformation .

[@topg2639]

Is there a way to morph all the bones at ones ie scale them all?

[@nixies78]

You could, but wow would this vary from scaling the whole model up?

[@topg2639]

@@nixies78 I want to create a growth system for my fish character, the issue is it has a physics animation thats causing the mesh to distort because it seems the armature isnt scaling with the mesh, I've tried the method shown in your video but simply increasing the scale of all bones by the same amount, but it doesnt increase them, some of them increase more than others and distort thats why I wondered if there is maybe another way to scale the bones at once.

[@nixies78]

@@topg2639 so in theory you only need to scale the parent bone, then all the bones below it would be relative scale to that bone. It is strange that the amerture is not scaling with the mesh. If I wanted to do this I would probably just alter the scale of the skeletal mesh in the blueprint. That way the whole thing would scale up at the same rate and I would not need to touch the animation blueprint.

[@topg2639]

@@nixies78 Thanks, yes I have tried the parent bone, it still distorts the mesh just like when I do as you stated just scale up the skeletal mesh in the blueprint, I have tried all methods and they work perfectly without the physical animation being enabled, the issue is just present when I enable the physical animation.

[@nixies78]

@@topg2639 weird. Hard to tell without looking at it to be honest. If you private message me the FBX with animations I try and have a go. However I warn you I'm crazy busy so not sure when I would be able to get back to you.