Incredibly Easy To Add Any Animation To Metahumans In Unreal Engine 5.4

[@SuperLongfield]

Wow! Short and simple, thanks for sharing

[@jaimepena2052]

You’re an absolute lifesaver! Thank you so much for your clear explanation-it truly saved me! 😅

[@annveligurskaya7015]

Thank you for this exellent tutorial! The only think is: I have the same situation like it is shown at 4:32-4:38 when only palms and legs are animated, but head and garment are not. Could you help me to understand,please, how to solve it, how to apply animation to garment as well in this case, like you made for the final result? I would be very appreciiated if you could explain this moment :)

[@ryanoconnor7957]

can you show us one which has the character's legs moving with IK?

[@MrPhotomorgana]

Thank you VERY much for this tutorial, this is exactly what I needed. The only thing I struggle with right now is how to use those applied animation in Sequencer? Could you please advise?

[@DmytroShcherbakPortfolio]

Select BP, add it to sequencer, click on plus icon near Body, and select Animation from the menu.

[@jaimepena2052]

Yeah, and you can also add additives by baking the animation to the control rig. This way you can apply any changes you want.

[@FPChris]

Download the Lyra project for 5.3 there’s a ton of animations.

[@brocscogmyre5592]

Epic games say there will be no need in 5.4 to leave it in order to achieve animation

[@alessandromarchese4213]

I am new to animation on UE. Can you direct me to a video to understand how to have a smooth transition between animations?

[@rodrigohostup]

Very good Simple and effective!! Congrats

[@nahuelrbisbano]

great video! is there a way to pause and resume animation while playing? so you can change camera angles.

[@ignisspiritus6392]

I got the idle animation to work. The only issue for me is when I hit play it switches to the default manniquin. Did I forget to do something I followed it as stated in the video. Like I said the Idiel animation worked perfectly but when i hit play I'm controlling the mannequin.

[@RictorScale]

This is great thank you!

[@FPChris]

Yeah the new retargeter is amazing.

[@burakdag4931]

How to make it work in the sequencer also?

[@SipAndCode7]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5fXc5WMaLVras0

[@yonghengshouhu]

Can various action resources in the UE mall be directly redirected to various characters in the mall using 5.4?

[@SipAndCode7]

It should be able to do so more less. Most skeletons have standard bone names. Best way is to give it a go. Hard to say without downloading the asset and checking thhe bone names.

[@twilightfilms9436]

I haven’t used Unreal for a while, but I remember there was a very simple way to import fbx animations from maximo and just drag and drop on the character without any retargeting. I don’t remember if ot was done on maximo or on Unreal, but it was super easy, easier than this new way……anyways, it was almost 2 years ago, so…..Thanks for the video, for the community Man, this keeps alive the dream that sharing is love! Typos by iOS…..

[@SipAndCode7]

Those must of been good times! I don't recall it being that easy :P

[@ryanoconnor7957]

I think that's miximo in unity3d

[@franconova8048]

Metahumans, and any Marketplace UE 5 characters are all Compatible Skeletons, meaning you don't need to do any retargetting process! It's 2 clicks on both skeletons to make them compatible and they can then use every animation of the other one

[@ryanoconnor7957]

can you please describe what the 2 clicks are because not only have I found that IK animations are not retargetable with 2 clicks, but also that face animations are completely non-existent in UE5 mannequins

[@anatolio8689]

Such a painful process before, so much better now

[@Sairawkerh]

Sure... 5.3 Retarget process is Horrible

[@anatolio8689]

@@Sairawkerh agreed

[@pinkpotatowithgarlic]

Amazing!

[@archieabong]

I have UE 5.4 and my import fbx diaglouge when I import mixamo is a bit different than yours and I kept getting an error when I import it.

[@SipAndCode7]

When you are importing from mixamo (if it's the first time for a certain character model) make sure to choose the "With Skin" option.

[@archieabong]

@@SipAndCode7 Yes thank you figured it out eventually

[@hytalegermany1095]

Thanks for the video! I just have one problem. I just tried to animate a meta human in sequencer. I downloaded a walking animation. The problem is that adding to this walking animation I want the meta human to turn his head to the left. I can do this with the control rig but once I add the control rig back in additionally to the animation clip the animation clip is ignored and meta human junmps back into t-pose. How to combine head movement (which is part of the body control rig) with the walking animation?

[@HammerBanger]

Do you know how to exchange the default ThirdPerson Mannequin with a Mixamo Character? So that your Mixamo Character will become the ThirdPerson Player Character?

[@SipAndCode7]

@LordYodel I do but unfortunately won't be able to explain in the comments. Will try to make a video on it.

[@HammerBanger]

@@SipAndCode7 would be dope, especially using the new 5.4 Preview version, which it seems, has a new retargeting feature.

[@hotsauce7124]

Hello, I cannot find my Metahuman in UE5.4 after I download them from Quixel. Where are the Metahuman Control Rigs located, after you import them from Quixel?

[@SipAndCode7]

Hi, After you download in Quixel, right next to the Download button there is an "add" button. Need to click that to add the downloaded metahuman to your current project. Once you do that there should be a Metahumans folder under content.

[@curioussoul5151]

Thank you so much

[@pranavarya2164]

how can i export animated metahumans without its environment only animated metahuman is needed

[@SipAndCode7]

Right click on the blueprint of the metahuman and I think it's asset actions and migrate. That way you can migrate it to another project if that is what you need.

[@pranavarya2164]

@@SipAndCode7 ok i will try

[@steinmov]

That isn't what many animators want. We want to be able to hand key a metahuman without being frustrated by too many things to do first. Make the animation setup in the engine user friendly.

[@atlanteum]

Then just drag your MetaHuman into a Level Sequence and start animating with the default Control Rig. What could be easier?

[@brocscogmyre5592]

I agree with you 100% we animators are being asked to do far to much before animation can commence

[@cwchris_]

Honestly insane new feature. I paid $50 like 2 months ago for the mixamo retargeter in the marketplace 🤣🤣🤣

[@weshootfilms]

But you didn't show how to use it inside of a sequence

[@SipAndCode7]

Hi, I have showed that in another video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5fXc5WMaLVras0

[@weshootfilms]

@@SipAndCode7 When i try to retarget in my own map it never works only if i use third person map why is that. I want to add metahumans inside of my project

[@QReviews412]

Thank You!

[@brandino55]

this doesnt work anymore. upon applying any animation it takes my character and turns it into a damn twizzler xD literally twists it all up

[@Jaggukajaadu]

Nice

[@brocscogmyre5592]

A major issue not being addressed by anyone is foot sliding while walking

[@cosmosiiienngames]

thanks bro

[@NesarKaviyan]

Thanks bro