Marvelous Designer 2024.0: MD LiveSync

[@melissa.m.conway]

Now that I've had a chance to learn how LiveSync works, I must say this is a game changer. For anyone looking for a step-by-step tutorial, I've just uploaded one to my channel. THANK YOU CLO/MD!

[@howiseedatworld]

After creating linked animation sequence, we get only body without head and shoes, so after clicking on live sync we get error that head and shoes missing. Any quick solutions without combining that all in one mesh?

[@Djonsing]

5:56 *I have a custom metahuman created using the "Mesh to Metahuman" plugin and the body is imported into Marvelous Designer as if it were double, one slightly taller, do you know how to solve this problem?*

[@Igo_666]

Any solution? Currently having the same issue.

[@Djonsing]

@@Igo_666 No, I still haven't solved the problem, I export the animated character from UE using the old method - through "Blender" in the "ABC" format

[@melissa.m.conway]

Thanks for this; it works as advertised and was almost worth the wait! However…LiveSync requires Directx 11 for use with lumen and can only use Directx 12 if rendering with the path tracer? Are there plans to address this significant limitation, and if so, can you give us a timeframe? tx

[@Marvelousdesigner]

Hi, thanks for leaving a comment : ) We're aware of this issue, and we will work on the improvements for that. Thank you again.

[@JonCG]

When would be the plug in available for Unreal 5.4 it seems 5.3 is currently supported.

[@EdwardT-pb1ps]

Hi, so what is the workflow after exporting the metahuman into MD, once the design/fitting work in MD is done, how do you import the clothes back into Unreal for real time play or sequencer use cases? Why stop your tutorial after exporting from Unreal, what does that achieve?

[@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018]

its directx12 not an issue anymore?

[@STAMILVANAN-vp1us]

can you make start to finish tutorial for beginner to learn for MD expert and work file like that can you make please

[@ayybsee1979]

why doesnt the garment animation match the metahuman when you bring it back into unreal? can you show the full workflow? it doesnt make sense to just stop the video after exporting. can you show the proper way of importing the garment back into unreal? im having issues with the exported garment from marvelous doesnt have any animation in ue5 but the same file have animation in blender

[@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018]

@@ayybsee1979 yo have to import it from live sinc in unreal and export the garment from this panel in geometry cache format. Chek some reference of alembic . Abc format so you understand how geometric caches are used in unreal. Usualy you call them in the sequencer and there you can control when the animation start and end. The trick here is to make the unreal body animation and the garment geometry cache run at the same time and the same position from the secuencer of unreal.

[@unreal_enginemail]

i enable in unreal engine but no more option for live sync ?? how to solve

[@ryanjstever]

Once we get all the clothing we need into Unreal can we not turn off live link etc.. and simply turn directx back on?

[@melissa.m.conway]

My current workaround is to make a dedicated project with Directx 11 for use with LiveSync, and then migrate the CLO/MD clothing to my Directx 12 project.

[@ryanjstever]

@@melissa.m.conway Nice, thanks for confirming.

[@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018]

@@melissa.m.conway i do the same. I have one unreal file thats called marvelosunrealproyect

[@pinareris]

Having crash issue when clicking Live sync, any recommendation? Tried both x11 and x12. Worked only once but the at least 10 tries either Unreal freezes or crashes.. :/ working on 5.3 Unreal

[@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018]

@@pinareris try making smaller animation. Thta procses that you describe consumes a lot of ram , i seen my computer using 45 gigs of ram of my 48. For one specific garment snimation that was more tjan 3000 frames i had to exported in segments luckly only two of 1500. Try to do that im almost shure it fix your issues. In beeen two days trying to understand what was going until i opened the task manager and see my ram sueding hard

[@RichardRiegel]

Hi.. Is it possible to export Metahuman with custom size? Due to complicated Garment Cloth I need to increase size of the MH. There's some export options in the CloSet liveSync TAB, but when I changed Transform scale, there's no export size changing.

[@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018]

Did you find solution?

[@RichardRiegel]

@@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018 nope. Only export fbx by old way then changing size in import menu…, which is not comfortable.

[@cuentaaspire1]

Looks like the avatar imported into MD doesn't match 100% the original body from UE, so when you import the garment back into UE it has clipping issues in multiple parts of the body, just tested this with a generic metahuman with the simplest setup and it still happens, any idea what is going on?

[@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018]

@@cuentaaspire1 i had the same problem , the solution took me a while to fix it. You have yo check if the skeleton and meshes in the animation panel before exportin theme to MD are correct, some times unreal pick a sample not correct. I even folmow tutorials thata overpassed the same mistake without fixin and after secon check been able to see they use the animations with deform body. Be shure the skeleton its tje correct . The first week trying this i had deform metahuman with long head and its realy anoying. Didnt find solution online only after many aptemps found tje issue

[@cuentaaspire1]

@@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018 Where exactly do you mean to check that? when I create the linked anim seq, I always check and the preview mesh is the correct one, but on the export, the mesh doesnt even match that preview, its like a bug inside UE or something

[@raphieljoeroeja9406]

@@cuentaaspire1 been having the same issue. i also kept checking the export settings to make sure and everything seems like it should be working but no luck. my exported garment animations also stay behind during run cycles. as if its skeleton is making smaller steps. and that seems like a retargetting issue to me but idk. if anyone finds a solution, please let us know 😁

[@Sheva2471]

@@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018 just had a stroke trying to read your english

[@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018]

@@Sheva2471 xd

[@dolgrentaps]

hi thanks for your tuto, only once I change shoe model, unreal crash do you have a solution?

[@sebastiansuarezpuntonet2018]

@@dolgrentaps be shure in animation panel you export to md the shoes are the same that you are changing

[@STAMILVANAN-vp1us]

thanks for your videos

[@mahmoudtaher9884]

finaly thx so