rig a character for unreal engine 5 to use it for retargetting and all the animations of Mannequin

[@Jaycoder]

one of the only people to do a proper tut, without additional addons or paid addons > guys watch this man if u need help iv watched like 30-40 different videos on building skeletons and porting to ue4 this is one of the best.

[@jeremiahevans2583]

You should have all the views bro! I watched so many videos and was getting really confused.. I then woke up got a cup of coffee and found you. First try I got it working and fully understood what you meant! Very good teacher!! :D

[@anything_x]

And he is the most sympathic & empathic person of all the ue5 tutors! I like him the most. Of course his tuts are super understandable and I like the tempo too.

[@navidumardaraz7163]

This is genius, I never thought to import the Ue5 mannequin. Pure genius.

[@Shadowpaw67]

I made this Kobold character as a personal project and then gave him to Anim Challenge so people could use it for free so it's wild to see how far he's traveled!

[@DadSwagGaming]

i second what jaycoder said. definitly one of thee best explanations and speed is on point.

[@IDeVaToX]

Studying my masters at UNI, i know nothing about character rigging, this helped a lot thanks appreciated ;)

[@Shikigami6]

I cannot thank you enough. Perfect level of detail and your energy is amazing!

[@RogerHazelwood]

this is exactly what i need for months! thank you!

[@thomastran1163]

Best Unreal teacher, thank you ! 👍

[@unrealmagic1]

You are most welcome my friend Thomas 🤘

[@amitLeshem1]

very helpful guide for blender to unreal. answered so many questions.

[@A.P.0000]

In sincerely thank you for the detailed explanation. This is exactly what i needed right now.

[@Wolvesmoto]

you sir are best unreal teacher thank you!

[@Jacked3DPrinting]

Thanks for this! Very helpful, saved me a lot of time.

[@unrealmagic1]

Thank you for being here

[@DreamTitanGames]

I haven't finished the video yet but just wanted to say thank you

[@peacefusion]

this is a really important video because other programs have their own skeleton base.

[@NameOninternet]

This video was fun and informative all the way through. Thank you.

[@RalphOpinion]

do you have anything on how to import from blender to unreal? I always get errors and cant move my animation.

[@dorondavid4698]

Not sure how much coffee you drank before you made the video but thanks! Very informative!

[@yetirenders]

If anyone else is having problems with the symmetry tool at 22:36 , you have to name the bones with an ending of "_L" or "_R" for it to work properly

[@headlesschiken]

Can't you just use the original unreal engine skeletal mesh to re-rig it with your custom mesh with all it's bones?

[@andyengine2661]

This is fantastic and exactly what I needed 👌 .... thanks you so much for uploading 🙂

[@andyengine2661]

@@unrealmagic1 Your tutorials are brilliant. I haven't done anything with Unreal Engine since I Unreal Engine 2 due to my old PC being to slow for the newer versions and your tutorials are really helping me get the buzz back for making content for UE5 now I have a new PC 👍 If Epic would only get back to working on Unreal Tournament I'd be in mod making heaven 😀

[@arsalino1116]

Damet Garm, mersi. Kolli azat chiz yad migiram.

[@airkidproductions2848]

thanks buddy, cool video, smooth style, easy rigging for ue4

[@unrealmagic1]

I'm just using mannequin ue4 because it is faster . Ue5 is not about mannequin . Is all about the tools and I wanted to show you the tools . Mannequin ue5 for beginner is confusing so it was better to use m ue4 . I'll create a video for mue5 as well you will see that it is the same steps

[@airkidproductions2848]

@@unrealmagic1 would be dope, i mean even when you have a workflow to ue4 its not that ik retargeting works properly. you can do a child of a child from blender mixamo retarget 2 to ue5 or auto rig in blender to ue4 or ue5, the foot often dont work. also with akkurig to ue4, or mesh to metahuman and back, ik retarget in one step, thats easy ahd fast. but rig it right in blender, every characterform, sculpted over little bit in blender, is sooo fine. so would like to see how you would do custom rig (ik) in blender to ue5 manny (epic ue5 skeleton)

[@skribler6916]

Could just copy the bones from the manny and rig auto rig the new character or you’ll miss steps along the way

[@s.p-phantom9733]

موفق باشی برادر 😉

[@Tittle_Leej]

This video is much appreciated! You're super good at explaining and made this very easy, thank you!

[@unrealmagic1]

Glad you liked it. Thank you so much

[@vexan_twitch]

you didn't add a root bone though! where and how should you add a root bone?

[@unrealmagic1]

Watch my other videos as well please

[@mickeybowles9743]

When you had both models in the same Blender instance, would it be possible to do a Append copy of the armature set to the other model?

[@hotsauce7124]

Hello, do you have a video about Blender Shapekeys (Morph Target) for Facial expressions and corrective Shapekeys in UE5 Rig? For example, when I deform a shoulder in UE5 Rig, the Morph targets for the shoulder will provide a proper deformation.

[@medmel2160]

great video, thank you!

[@tbonepartyblimp205]

why didn't you use the UE mannequin unparent it from the Mannequin move bones to work then reparent to the new mesh? wouldn't that be easier? Also why get rid of the twist bones aren't those important?

[@AdamSweeney85]

You need the IK bones is you wish to do any Two bone IK, or FABIK in an animation blueprint...

[@eren_guneri]

Hey my model is huge when I export it to Unreal. How can I fix that without messing the scale in Unreal or Blender?

[@submutant5139]

very cool. Thank you for uploading

[@unrealmagic1]

You are most welcome

[@Dhieen]

the name of the bone is written at top left of the viewport (5:10)

[@DOLGOVUSER]

This tutor rocks, man! A question: why recreate rig, if you could just use exported UE .fbx rig with a few fixes?

[@unrealmagic1]

I want to show the logic

[@Andriy-e4b]

Hi! Is it possible to create a control rig for this skeleton?

[@nykato3569]

Does this work with me having one rig ruling multiple meshes or do I have to unite them

[@toddlask]

cool, this is interesting!

[@toddlask]

@@unrealmagic1 yeah i dont understand why good content doesnt get lots of views... i see that everywhere like cool movies.

[@andyengine2661]

@@unrealmagic1 I'll be promoting your KZbin page on Twitter etc whenever I see anyone asking for help ... Fantastic tutorials. I'd say the length of this tutorial is perfect for the topic that it's covering .. hopefully you will get many more views once Epic release the Fortnite Editor later this year👌

[@keinallias]

Firstly thank you very much for the tutorial, its very helpful. But I have a question, in unrealengine I cant see the all bones as white lines like yours. How can I show this?

[@stormrungaming]

at the end.. when you select the character AND the bones.. then assign a parent.. What if your character has multiple pieces?.. I just drew a box around all them and it selected the bones.. but when I press Alt P.. all I get is "remove parent". any advice?

[@stormrungaming]

this was a lot of work getting it this far. lol I'm sure the second time will be easier.

[@stormrungaming]

@@unrealmagic1 I got it.. was Ctrl.. not Alt. Now I'm on to making animations I guess. lol.. made one so far of just my character waving. do I need to make one for each movement? walking.. running.. ? or is there a way to use the maniquin settings? lol this is hard.

[@Tenchinu]

weird question... but would it be better to use this method to build your skeleton, or create it from scratch with AutoRig Pro? I have been having so much trouble trying to fix the weight paints with auto rig that I don't know if it's even worth the trouble. Of course, the thing is that I NEED to retarget animations to upload into Unreal. I love your tuts... but this is bringing my whole game-building journey to a sad halt :( any advice?

[@mg-se5ws]

i use autorigpro in blender export it to ue5 .then in maya i do the retargeting because its way easier and less complicated then export back the animation to ue5 .

[@mg-se5ws]

in maya you create the profile to match autorig pro so you only have to do it once .so it automaticly remap all the bones ready for retargeting for example i have a profile for mixamo autorig pro so i can automaticly match the retargeting and quicker without need to rename bones

[@unrealmagic1]

Auto rig is much better . I just wanted to show you how rigging is working on blender and unreal and what is their difference and generally understand it in deeper level . As starter using auto rig is confusing . Just do one manually and after that use auto rig always . I have bunch of videos about retargetting and animations you can watch them it is so fast

[@MrReactric]

Why did you copy paste ue manquen armagure to the your character and parent it? I.dont know what is.the reason of using.ue manq rig in blender. What is advantage for.us

[@TomCAT_Character_Art]

Thank you for the great video! Can I just import the ue-rig and move bones to match my character instead?

[@lauch8844]

amazing video but what about the head?

[@unrealmagic1]

What ever you want to do you can do with it

[@Romeo615Videos]

hey how can i get in contact with you? I have a client who wants some custom chars they did rigged and ready for mo cap in ue5

[@paulvincent2222]

why can't you just copy and paste the bones from the unreal mannequin to your 3D character after importing the unreal mannequin?

[@dougwarner59]

I was wondering the same thing. Right now, I am more concerned seeing it work; so I will just use the imported skeletal mesh instead of spending time creating a new one from scratch.

[@Cronx2]

Subscribed! Also, why did you use UE4 mannequin instead of UE5 quinn/manny? Any reason?

[@Restart-Gaming]

I have a video idea for you grab a female model from CG traders to use in blender then to export to ue5 this site having problems myself with getting them to look right in blender and try to export to unreal with no luck.

[@shalomvalladares9315]

it's amazing . I have a doubt, if I add some bones like the tail of the character, would the armor be damaged for ue5?

[@vitaliikostiuk683]

How do you animate the tail?

[@sulivarace7138]

Really a pity that the automatic weight is so buggy, I spend as much time trying to solve the automatic weight bug as doing the rige, (bone weighting impossible). I have never found anything conclusive to correct this error.

[@rendcycle]

Thanks for the tutorial! What is the Pipeline add-on and where to get it?

[@unrealmagic1]

In description

[@rendcycle]

​@@unrealmagic1 I was able to find it through your other video about animation. Already tried the 'Send To Unreal' add-on and it still works so far. Thanks!

[@scritorr]

thank you!!

[@scritorr]

Want to know .... quickest way to add AR kit shape keys... is FACE IT addon WORTHIT for blender to do the above ?

[@SuperMontana2008]

Why didnt you use new UE5 manny?

[@unrealmagic1]

Because it is easier to explain it with this

[@lauch8844]

where are you from?

[@efsfsesegsgesg8775]

NICE

[@unrealmagic1]

Thank you so much

[@sdfizz]

BLess you this is just what i needed

[@Get_Boros]

I have a problem, my root bone location is not x0z0(9)y0, did you have any tips?

[@Crouton_6]

My actual mesh just stays stiff when I try to simulate physics and falls through the ground while the bones all clip through eachother, I made a custom robot to add to my game but idk how to link the bones to the mesh itself if that’s my issue

[@roystonmichaels6747]

Awesome, thank you!!!

[@MI-tb2ks]

When I set parent with automatic weights it scales up my model and rotates it so it lies horizontally. Any ideas what is wrong?

[@mikelshael3565]

Not applied rotation and scale could cause that.

[@MI-tb2ks]

@@mikelshael3565 I applied all transforms before parenting

[@tyraresgame]

Can have a tutorial like this but using Maya ?

[@naoseiplay5203]

i cant fuse bones if dragonn

[@djtc2093]

Bone heat weighting error...

[@BartolomeTV3]

I can't see the skeleton of my character in ue5

[@Katlex]

1. Why can't you pose your original skeleton into T-pose and then take skeleton and parent it to you character? 2.blender has its own skeleton, won't it work for UE? I'm not trying to say your way is bad, Im genuinely curious Thanks for video!

[@edeggg]

nice😜

[@joeanrachelmiller6529]

worked until i tried to add an animation. then it said root bone isnt root or something like that

[@unrealmagic1]

Make sure you change the name of armature to root . Watch my other videos about it please

[@joeanrachelmiller6529]

@@unrealmagic1 oh i did

[@thelastdev]

can we jump on a discord call?

[@thelastdev]

@@unrealmagic1 thanks, whats the #0000 after your discord name?

[@unrealmagic1]

9246

[@thelastdev]

@@unrealmagic1 thanks added

[@s.p-phantom9733]

Wow

[@philipbohmgahrem407]

Can i ask you something? Can i create extra bones and still retargeting? thank you, it helped me a lot saw others videos now, so sorry for asking hahahahaha it realy helped a lot

[@InnerspaceX]

its the old mannequinn not the unreal engine 5

[@CookinSoda]

can we download this rigg

[@mohamedbousnina6110]

at least put ur next vid on the screen dud it helps us a lot

[@alirezaarabsorkhi1810]

داداش هزارتا اموزش انگلیسی این موضوع رو داریم ، خوب شما فارسیشو درست میکردی دیگ

[@Epic-FX]

Bro 10 minutes into the video and you are just repeating over and over, just go to the point

[@Atomic-toons00]

rig a character for unreal engine 5 then he shows blender tutorial meeeeh

[@Zemtor]

It wont let be select the first bone and E wont make a new one!