Character Creator 4 to UnrealEngine 5

[@WerewolvenGames]

dude. buddy. friend. thank you. after struggling the last 3-4 days with Daz to Unreal plugin, CC4 was solved (thanks to your vid) in 14:24 minutes....... feeling euphoric, it works like a damn charm.

[@Jobutsu]

What is the problem with DAZ ?

[@PiercesOccasionalVictories]

Unreal Engine 5 AND Reallusion workflow tutorials?! You’ve just got yourself a new subscriber lol. It’s so hard to find good content on these two workflows (mostly because people don’t by Reallusion for it’s expense, but the product is amazing) and I use both products for cinematics extensively. Keep up the good work!!

[@Jobutsu]

I intend to do alot more.

[@gonoshift]

Totally agree, came here on the comments to write just that! Great content, keep up with It!

[@gonoshift]

@@Jobutsu I think that a video showing how to make a simple animation for games from scratch in CC4 (like a jump, or a basic swing attack), importing It in UE5 and eventually modify It back in CC4 to simulate the usual iterations required to reach the end result could be absolutely invaluable!

[@Jobutsu]

Game dev is not really my thing. But I will be doing animations (CC4/iClone)

[@PiercesOccasionalVictories]

@@Jobutsu that’s all I’m looking for tbh

[@aviel200]

in one word, wow. You explain so detailed and matter-of-factly!

[@ourdividemx]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOUR VIDEO HELPED ME SO MUCH!!

[@krinodagamer6313]

Reallusion has came a long way

[@AldonH1]

Great tutorial as always. Only one thing I had to do differently on the animation section. Uncheck default sample rate and set the value to 0. Otherwise my animation import would fail because in CC4 I set the fps to 24.

[@griffithpictures]

Thanks!

[@Jobutsu]

Happy to help !

[@emileravenet]

u r on the bleeding edge mate :) love to watch u work

[@hitmangamesyndicate5970]

Cheers for that mate... I will for sure be following you... trying to get all of the lessons I can with CC4 and Iclone 8... more project based than anything... and this has been most helpful

[@castor_radiatus]

Thank you for this great and relaxed tutorial! :)

[@nu-beings]

The best tutorial I've seen on this subject on the internet! Fantastic job! Thank you so much!

[@mmartin6732]

Hey Buddy. You have changed my life. Thank you for this information. It set me on the right track.

[@TheAF01]

Another great tutorial 👍 Thanks for making these, it will make life easier for many many folks, me included! ;)

[@JDusala]

Very helpful tutorial! Thank you

[@poochyboi]

this is invaluable information! i hope you do more CC4/iClone8 and UE5 tutorials!

[@Jobutsu]

That username is amazing.

[@poochyboi]

@@Jobutsu almost as amazing as your tutes!

[@MoneyShifted]

i have a walk animation and its not working at 13:10 part it plays in the bp tab but not in the sequencer scene.

[@Jobutsu]

Have you tried to play/simulate the scene ?

[@MoneyShifted]

@@Jobutsu yes

[@MoneyShifted]

@@Jobutsu for some reason i had to reload unreal

[@ModelWhatYouSee]

Anyone know if you can import your own custom assets and use this....say if you wanted custom clothes or whatever. Would love to know!

[@TheBobo203]

I think there were tutorials on reallusion's youtube about importing daz characters and clothes. But daz clothes are made in third-party software like Marvelous Designer. So yes, go check)

[@Jobutsu]

I have been trying out importing hair and clothes etc. The automatic weight painting does a fantastic job and can be easily modified with the tools included.

[@timpong2393]

finally useful case for me, THXX!

[@Itsme-wt2gu]

In which video do you used insta lod system in cc4

[@Jobutsu]

Because I do not use characters for games, I rarely require it. So did not make a video on it.

[@Itsme-wt2gu]

@@Jobutsu ok

[@dmw4176]

If you want the character to walk and talk and the same time for example, would I have to build all of the animations in iclone first? Or does unreal have a way to blend the animations and add into your scene?

[@Jobutsu]

I would personally build animations in iClone but it is possible to use just UE.

[@dmw4176]

Thanks!

[@accretiongames]

Hi , what about the material section inside the import window ?

[@Jobutsu]

I leave at default and let the plugin do its work.

[@Stonefieldmedia]

Great video and very helpful.

[@CanalDojogames]

Let me ask you: on CC4 can i make animation or i need the iclone for it?

[@Jobutsu]

Iclone

[@thejaycut1664]

Is the hair not flopping down during render due to the animation layer?

[@Jobutsu]

Cloth sim is off.

[@thejaycut1664]

@Jobutsu You should do a video on rendering out and getting the hair looking that good as well! 😎

[@Jobutsu]

I am just getting back into the flow and then I will do that.

[@alexpurkhalo711]

Am I right to say that the shown approach is helpful in creating some sort of video presentation?

[@peacekeeper6799]

Hi Could you help plz How to import facial animation only to ue5, while the body animation is from mixamo and link them to the same mesh for a cutseen??

[@Jobutsu]

That is not something that is possible to answer in a KZbin comment. It requires many different skills and a knowledge of what each stage requires. I will think about how I could deliver a tutorial on it, if I can, i will.

[@peacekeeper6799]

@@Jobutsu Much appreciated Am about to participate in a games competition and this is the only case that I haven't found a tutorial for on youtube

[@ytabhigan]

Followed this great tutorial for my custom CC4 character, however upon import the visual quality of the character's body and clothes is significantly lower. Also tried texture quality of 4K but same results. Can you help me?

[@glenncogan8109]

Great Tutorial, thanks so much.

[@blacklord3212]

can I use the skeleton as epic skeleton or is it different ?

[@cvcwebsolutions]

Please do an updated vid on this - especially with clone if possible!,,😊

[@Justin_Contreras_Crehalen]

wondering what I did wrong it imported my character but none of the textures transferred over. it is just all black

[@heresmynovel331]

Hi there I can't export my character at all, why is that?? BTW I have a trial version of cc4 Could this be the reason???

[@Jobutsu]

I would guess yes.

[@Mayasadventures123]

So can this be imported into unreal engine with voiceover or do you do that separately and unreal engine?

[@Jobutsu]

It can be imported with audio but I personally like to work in post with audio. I never had much luck, in engine. There are those in the industry that have no problems doing it in engine though.

[@animaticmediaUSA]

We tried exporting the Camila CC4 character using LiveLink and the hair looked terrible. Is there a difference with hair and cloth physics between Live link and a standard export and import? Appreciate any guidance

[@Jobutsu]

There is something wrong with hair transfered either way. The hair/cloth is disabled in the video for that reason.

[@laviathenbaker6614]

Do you have any information on how to get character creator 4 characters to work on ALS (Advance locomotion system) in Unreal Engine 5? This current processes does not work correctly for that.

[@Jobutsu]

No, ALS is not something I would use in virtual production etc.

[@laviathenbaker6614]

@@Jobutsu I understand. Thanks for responding

[@jamesharryson5343]

Hello sir. I really loved your tut. Can u please tell me weather we can send several motions to unreal or not. I'd love much. thanks 🙏

[@Jobutsu]

I do not understand the question.

[@jamesharryson5343]

@@Jobutsu how to send multiple motions from cc4 to unreal engine?

[@张家鹏-k9b]

hi, first your video is helping me a lot and i really love everything with this autosetup thing, but i met a problem when i try to test facial motion in ue5 like 'jaw open'(the mouth is still closed while the jaw is really opened so the face is weired) and several other action connected with teeth, may i ask have you met this problem too? thank you

[@Jobutsu]

I have not seen this problem.

[@jbach]

Thanks for this. Very useful. I can successfully import and animate regular characters using your tutorial. However, any character with wrinkles I cannot animate. Part of the problem seems to be that on FBX import even with separate mesh and motion there is already an animation sequence and a animation blueprint associated with the wrinkle expression. Then after importing the actual character animation I have 2 animation sequences! I've tried using both in my Animation Track but neither work. Any help or feedback appreciated!

[@Jobutsu]

[guess] During export there is an option "First Frame in Bind-Pose" uncheck it. That should resolve your dual animation asset problem.

[@IndianCitizen04]

How to remove crazy wind effects in Hair ( Long Hair particularly ) during Render through Movie Render Que ( It is not present in Preview Mode) ?

[@Jobutsu]

I found a work around and change motion blur to 1 and set warm up frames to 100

[@IndianCitizen04]

@@Jobutsu Thank you. I'll try.

[@Restart-Gaming]

Few question BTW great video can I import my own ue5 character and ue5 clothes to use this software to fit the clothes to my character? My character has own animation so do i still need Iclone?

[@Jobutsu]

You need to use character creator characters to use clothing/weight painting on them. If you have your own animations, iClone can be used to tweak or modify them.

[@fifawrldcup22222]

Hello sir, how we can remove the creator charactor 4 watermark from the videos?

[@Jobutsu]

Pay for it ✔

[@27kmaster]

have you noticed any bugs when importing cc4 characters into ue5 and choosing a skeleton already inside ue5 for them it causes the model to import without materials

[@Jobutsu]

Yes. I always create a skeleton for the import and then delete it, replacing with a common/shared CC4 Skeleton.

[@restoretheworld5700]

thanks,helpful to beginner, Can u make a tutorial about the hair and clothe physics realtime in ue5?

[@Jobutsu]

Yes, there were some problems with cloth simulation when I made this tutorial, I need to look into why that was first.

[@jamesgtmoore]

Are any body morphs exported from CC4 or are they still omitting all of them?

[@Jobutsu]

Baked ?

[@jamesgtmoore]

@@Jobutsu Non-baked, so I mean morph targets, just like those facial morph targets you showed us in Unreal. By baked morphs I presume you mean the body has been morphed/reshaped in CC4 and then when an FBX is exported, the mesh within the FBX file is a permanent shape that can't be further changed without the use of CC4 or Blender or Maya etc. The body is unchangeable within Unreal right? Only the face can be changed in Unreal?

[@Jobutsu]

In that case, still no morph exports.

[@jamesgtmoore]

@@Jobutsu Thanks for the info

[@elvismorellidigitalvisuala6211]

Great Workflow! Just a question, did u remove alembic From hairs? Looks static in the result but they move in preview animation Window

[@Jobutsu]

There was a problem with cloth simulation inside unreal, To avoid confusion and to save me hours, I disabled cloth sim and I left it out of this tutorial.

[@elvismorellidigitalvisuala6211]

@@Jobutsu yeah i have the same issue with hairs... looks like fu**ed up, cant understand why...

[@Jobutsu]

When I get a few hours spare, I will find a solution.

[@elvismorellidigitalvisuala6211]

@@Jobutsu sounds great!

[@FPChris]

I need CC4 to export to the UE5 skeleton. I think it's exports UE4 and even that isn't 100% compatible.

[@Jobutsu]

I use Blender/Maya to fix the skeleton. You can always use IKRetrageting to retarget your animations.

[@FPChris]

@@Jobutsu yeah. Retargeting isn’t fun lol. I’m hoping to to eliminate a step.

[@RiZRoC]

Is there going to be a update for 5.3 plugin 🙏

[@Jobutsu]

I hope soon.

[@yaschan99]

Hi, Love the tutorial as always. Edit: Nevermind below , the anim fbx import went through after waiting precisely 31 minutes. Wonder though why it takes so long. It seems like the current UE5 crashes when importing the animation .FBX from CC4. It gets stuck at 80% and I have waited around 30 minutes for it. I have tried to export the animations as separate FBX from CC4. I am choosing the only skeleton in the import settings which is the CC skeleton. Maybe for some reason this just takes longer than half an hour. Need to wait and see.

[@Jobutsu]

Try without hair and see if that speeds up the process. I noticed some issues on some character imports. If I catalogue the errors, I can pass them on to Reallusion.

[@yaschan99]

@@Jobutsu Thank you so much, very much appreciate it. It seems that now the import is faster although still takes 10 minutes. Could have been UE glitch.

[@B4iCQ]

When I got to this page there are no download links! What am I doing wrong?

[@Jobutsu]

I just checked and can confirm, no download link with the new version. Report it to Reallusion.

[@Deraeking]

I would love to see your CC4 ik rig video

[@Jobutsu]

I want to get it right.

[@TheAF01]

I'm also curious to see that one :)

[@ashrafabbadi5790]

Thank you so mush

[@thejaycut1664]

Been trying to resolve why my textures looked so bad for a year! Didn’t use a actor blueprint after import, 🤦🏻‍♂️ such a muppet 😅 I feel like this was a step missed out of every other tutorial video too!

[@Daniel-tx6hx]

Hi and thanks for the tutorial. Can you please do tutorial on the importation from DAZ to Blender to UE?

[@Jobutsu]

Using the diffeomorphic plugin for Blender ?

[@Daniel-tx6hx]

@@Jobutsu This is exactly the question, I have seen a lot of different guides on the subject and no one covers it from A to Z. I even managed to import it from DAZ to Blender, but when I import it from Blender to UE the character comes without Textures and looks like a ghost.

[@Jobutsu]

I understand. I will explore how to do it, when i have the time.

[@Daniel-tx6hx]

@@Jobutsu Much obliged, I really appreciate your work.

[@henryqprodllc]

Hi Jobutsu, very cool tutorial. Question though, when you set up your UE5 project, do you select games or do you select film?

[@Jobutsu]

I set Film because, I use unreal to make films.

[@shivangipriya4153]

Can you please the link for MHC_lightpreset. as I could not find it

[@Jobutsu]

Search "MetaHuman Lighting" on the Epic marketplace. it is free.

[@shivangipriya4153]

ok thank you.. Can you make a video how we set up please with my thank

[@Jobutsu]

1. Open the project, 2. goto "Maps" and choose a map. 3. Drag a metahuman into the scene.

[@shivangipriya4153]

Thank you from my heart

[@shivangipriya4153]

Could you please make a video explain install this asset pls with my thanks

[@egnogra]

thats great! its interesting to see how everyone has different workflows. is this pipeline to get the max quality possible lets say for cinematic characters?

[@Jobutsu]

Exactly that. That is why I did not use instaLOD while exporting.

[@egnogra]

@@Jobutsu awesome!!

[@bboyjmc]

Hi, very good tutorial by the way, I was wondering do you have to do a new rig for a character creator character or can you use the rig that we import them with, in order to animate them as i want to animate my character but I'm not sure if the rig they come with will work or if i have to rig them inside of unreal engine.

[@Jobutsu]

I do not understand the question ? By rig that is imported with them, do you mean skeleton ?

[@bboyjmc]

@@Jobutsu hi, yeah the skeleton looks a lot like a rig for animating so I wondered if its possible to just use it for animating , or if we still have to rig each area of the body?

[@christinepalejo7675]

Great Tutorial.by the way ,MHC_Lighting presets is working on UE5? because it Supported 4.26-4.27.

[@Jobutsu]

Yes, it seems to work. I use non RT version.

[@christinepalejo7675]

@@Jobutsu what do you mean non RT version?

[@Jobutsu]

Ray Tracing

[@wolfwirestudios]

Can you make a tutorial on how to properly setup CC3/4 character on to UE5 skeleton ? Like doing it using IK rigs, always tend to break/bend the mesh. It's very difficult.

[@Jobutsu]

Yes but first I must test the process to make sure it works every time.

[@wolfwirestudios]

@@Jobutsu Fair point.

[@Jobutsu]

It is what i am doing today though. So it wont be long.

[@wolfwirestudios]

@@Jobutsu Thanks man. Love your work.

[@ThiagoLionheart]

Thank you very much.

[@furynotes]

My question is. Do you have iclone 8 installed? If not. I am impressed. Because I was thinking on just getting cc4 and doing the majority of my animations in a different program like UE5 or my preference blender.

[@Jobutsu]

I do have iClone installed but I am very new to it, like a child with a new toy. Facial animation within iClone is amazing.

[@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418]

Can anyone use Unreal Engine 5 or is it expensive?

[@Jobutsu]

Free and open source.

[@dreambadger]

This looks good. Did you have to do any retopology or anything? I'm looking at character creator, and I know I can use as base mesh and sculpt in blender to make monsters and things, which I guess would need retopo.

[@Jobutsu]

It is stock

[@dreambadger]

@@Jobutsu Thanks I got it working. It was easier than I expected.

[@OneManOnlyStudios]

I did EXACTLY the SAME things you did, my character is there, perfect, but animation is only the pose and blink eye (sorry my english) don't know if I did something wrong in the CC4 or maybe UE5. EDIT: I've just clicked over Additive Settings in animation and Set to Mesh Space and then the animations started normally. I think it's fixed but if you have more thoughts just tell me your channel is amazing!

[@Jobutsu]

Your English is good. I have not seen this problem.

[@OneManOnlyStudios]

@@Jobutsu it looks like after setting Additive to Mesh Space it breaks the Locomotion System AB

[@OneManOnlyStudios]

@@Jobutsu I just fixed completely, didn't set the option Animated Time while importing now it works perfectly

[@Jobutsu]

Thanks for the update.

[@Sky-hl8iw]

tq4this!

[@digitalwizard1608]

Hey man this is brilliant help, are you able to do one with say a metahuman using speech from iclone 8 back to unreal engine? I'm having issues with lips not looking very detailed. Basically, I've created Arnold Schwarzenegger and I want to make him talk, but at the moment I'm using live link and it doesn't look good, the lips look like a video game, I wanted to render out something where you can see all the micro-movements like in your video here.

[@Jobutsu]

This is a cc4 character. I am trying but because the metahuman does not have all those morph targets the cc4 character does, it is proving difficult.

[@digitalwizard1608]

@@Jobutsu Thanks for the reply man, yea im finding the same issue. I'll let you know if I figure something out.

[@williamminnaar6311]

Hello there - thank you for the great tut - A question please... I have been importing SO many characters this last week + animations - it take AGES lol! So, I see you imported the mesh and rig without animations - Then did the animations afterwards - Why, out of interest? I have many NPC characters, and my word it takes for ever to import them with motion and morphs LOL! So you think it better, and maybe faster - to import the model + rig first - then import the animation afterwards. Don't you have to re-target the skeletons so many times them for each character / NPC Thank you so much :)

[@Jobutsu]

I think I should be a quick tutorial for that :)

[@Jobutsu]

Here William, I made a tutorual for multiple characters:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6quloB3mshqj7s

[@FlyingLotus]

hey hey! can you make a video showing us how to use an iclone animated character's exported animations to retarget to an unreal marketplace character? I basically want to use iclone to do my animations and then replace the characters with higher quality assets in UE

[@Jobutsu]

UE5 or UE4 characters ?

[@FlyingLotus]

@@Jobutsu both tbh

[@Jobutsu]

Consider it done.

[@FlyingLotus]

@@Jobutsu you are the greatest. Also. That custom metahuman u made for ur apocalyptic “the hour before” thing was killlin. I want to make some stuff like that

[@Jobutsu]

I did scale that character right back, so that I could make a tutorial out of it. But I decided not to proceed just yet.

[@SkrekkLich]

Wished this was as easy using Unity

[@davy4842]

I hope the daz face morphs one is close

[@Jobutsu]

If enough people ask for it, it will be done.

[@shaolinsnake9650]

I like how when they release a new CC the plugins you bought becomes useless....

[@Jobutsu]

1. It might not be what you want to hear but, use the previous version to get your work done. 2. Talk to them.

[@wilismatrix9847]

too bad we cannot just keep original material Ids when rigging with accur rig and won't use CC.

[@PLYATC]

is Character Creator free?

[@Jobutsu]

No

[@mysstea]

6:37 fbx import box settings

[@alexandercalhoun4912]

Great tutorial but....how the hell did you fix the hair?!

[@Jobutsu]

I did not fix it. I turned off cloth simulation, on the hair, for the tutorial.

[@alexandercalhoun4912]

@@Jobutsu I see but even when I turn off the sim, the hair still looks so bad. I wish there was a proper fix. Don’t get me wrong I do enjoy making alembic groom hair in unreal but would love to use all the hairstyles I’ve purchased via reallusion.

[@Jobutsu]

I want to spend more time with hair this year.

[@heirapparent4802]

@@alexandercalhoun4912 did you ever figure it out

[@JarppaGuru]

can it take face mesh and make it to metahuman. yes in hard way. why not make metahuman more setting so can actually make more than one morph between asian/caucasian LOL when we actually can move mesh and not just morph

[@Jobutsu]

You can take cc4 face mesh and use it to create a MetaHuman. Then attach Metahuman head to cc4 body.

[@Deraeking]

@@Jobutsu could you please do a tutorial on how to do this workflow?

[@Jobutsu]

Guess what I was doing today ;) kzbin.infoUgkxmRxLFjiF5mmISiUhow6Fp0EQq2wyzXyP

[@thewatcherisblind5510]

In 2030, Sims 6 with wickedwhims will be fantastic.

[@Jobutsu]

In 2030, only the rich will have electricity and NVIDIA cards will be $22,000 for a an obsolete RTX 8050 . This is the highest point of the bell curve.

[@TheDrodder]

This was a fantastic tutorial overall. It was pretty brutal to gloss over the entire sequencer camera and character part though...I'll keep my nagging to minimum since this is a free vid lol.

[@Jobutsu]

Longer videos tend to loose the audience. The camera sequence is a whole tutorial in itself. I added it to my list of tutorials though.

[@amanda.collaud]

She looks like Mikhaila Peterson, JORDAN PETERSON´S daughter 😂

[@Jobutsu]

I see it too.

[@lesptitsoiseaux]

GPT4 + This + Robotics + Porn Industry = The end of the human race.

[@Jobutsu]

GPT4 + This + Robotics + human race = End of porn industry.

[@swinny_]

@@Jobutsu this response is too great

[@ANGEL-fg4hv]

Can't wait to spend $400 on character creator 😐🙃

[@Jobutsu]

I can't wait to pay three times that amount to the mechanic, who currently has my car in pieces, so I can drive to work and earn enough money to buy a $2250 graphics card that, I don't really need.

[@ANGEL-fg4hv]

@@Jobutsu aahhhhhh life ....

[@Jobutsu]

Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day

[@ANGEL-fg4hv]

@@Jobutsu question about character creator, can i use face tracking to make the character say what i want it to say ? Like if I'm trying to make an ad and use it to follow my lips and mouth ,eyes and motions?

[@Jobutsu]

They have plugins for iclone 8 for different types of motion capture. Also Acculips is included for lipsync.

[@reginaldarmah2381]

Character creator models look good in their native application but look ugly in unreal and unity.

[@RainMan52]

that's a lot fo lip bitting Made the tutorial... Hard to follow.

[@Jobutsu]

I had to watch it rendering in super slow mo.

[@Hazardteam]

So this was the "auto setup"... What a complicated sh't...

[@47r66]

Character Creator 4 is big Sh**t , expensive price , you need making clothing ? you pay ! you need change color hair ? you pay ! You need new morph ? you pay ! You need export your character ? you pay lool Realution is big comedy ...