Tatools V2 is here! Major upgrades and Unreal 5 5 support!

[@EddyMendoza-pg3jt]

I've used Maya for over 25 years as an animator and I just started learning Unreal less than a year ago. Even though I haven't had a chance to use this wonderful tool, just from following your development on it and your animation endeavors on Discord, I know that this is exactly what I was missing to make the leap into animating in Unreal vs. using the Maya Live link, so thank you dearly for all the effort put in and as soon as I start using Tatools, I'll go into Paying or Donating User mode for sure. Happy holidays, can't wait to start animating with Tatools!

[@threepeatgames]

That sounds amazing... donations are appreciated, but it seems like your 25-years-of-experience-based feedback on potential improvements and needed features will be much more valuable! I can't wait to hear how it goes and what's missing/needed to improve tatools

[@vignettesinc.507]

Woo, you aboutta make a name for yourself here!

[@threepeatgames]

thanks!

[@alessandrasmota]

@@threepeatgames totally! u should make it easier to learn more about you, Epic should totally hire u! U would be a huge asset to their team!

[@alessandrosimoncelli6285]

This project is great and it will benefit Unreal animators a lot! Working selecting controls only via viewport seems crazy to me. If you appreciate I would like to leave you some feedback and ideas just because I feel this will be a prominent part of my workflow: - Selection groups can't be undone in a single command (selecting "all" button force me to a long serie of ctrl-Z when I change my mind) - I dream about a more flexible picker, editable without enter the blueprint graph, it can be handy to add specific control buttons or even build my picker for an entirely different rig (e.g. non bipedal). I'm thinking about animschool picker for Maya or other similar. I can't even imagine what technical limit Uneral poses to this developments, but I hope this will be useful. Anyway thank you for your effort, keep it up!

[@threepeatgames]

Thanks for the feedback: re: selection groups: you just click in the viewport (or the sequencer) to deselect them all. Sadly, selection events don't go into the undo stack as transactions. you could alternatively just select one of the controls with left click, which would also clear out the rest of the selection. re: flexible picker: I might make a quadruped picker at some point and definitely plan to support one-click control rig rigs, but more flexible than that and really it's just easier to duplicate the widget blueprint and go to it. If someone has a good concept for that and wants to contribute to tatools, I'm all for that though! I'm also currently working on the Tatoolbar, which is an animbot-esque horizontal mini-widget with all the functionality except for the picker itself... keep the feedback coming!

[@post1440]

Love the Tatools. Very cool that you added weapon controls. I had to previously modify the CR for it

[@threepeatgames]

thanks! yeah, I don’t know how to do all the forward and backward solve stuff so I had to pay someone to do it…. opens up a lot more advanced animating, that’s for sure

[@motionforgecg]

This plugin is super useful for animation - many thanks for setting this up and providing this. If possible if you could do a quick overview of how to use the 'attach' controller that would be great!

[@threepeatgames]

thanks! re: attach bone: will do!

[@motionforgecg]

@@threepeatgames Thanks!

[@_infectedfury]

Nice update, still have to get around to trying these tools out, will speed up my work a lot.

[@threepeatgames]

@@_infectedfury v1 is on fab now, v2 update with 5.5 support is in the queue for approval now

[@thomasjkhuntington]

Oooh! Excited to give it a spin

[@thomasjkhuntington]

Thanks for the hard work!!!

[@threepeatgames]

you got it! let me know if you have any ideas for improvement!

[@thomasjkhuntington]

@@threepeatgames Just started using it in 5.5 and its smooth as butter :) My only idea, is that it would be cool to have an option to display a second smaller widjet in the window? I do a lot of animations of pilots in cockpits and have to fiddle around finding the widget, but Tatools is saving my life!

[@threepeatgames]

@@thomasjkhuntington awesome idea! would you just want a horizontal row of buttons? I'll figure out how to make a second widget for that!

[@thomasjkhuntington]

@@threepeatgames that could work!

[@sophiesskoczek]

I would love a full tutorial using the new weapons controller! I’ve been trying to make a gun reload anim, and I’ve been struggling with the base rig.

[@threepeatgames]

it will be done :)

[@sophiesskoczek]

@@threepeatgames Awesome! Thank you so much for your resources! They are so insanely helpful!!! Love your work! In terms of parenting the gun to the wrist controller, how would I do that in ue5? I am trying to use the attach bone from your plug-in, but I do not think I am using it right. Usully in maya I just add a parent constraint. But when it comes to UE I am lost in the UI.

[@insanestudios9643]

nice

[@吴大伟-r5x]

Make Impossible to Possible for animation Beginner,It save my game,Thank you for your kindness.

[@threepeatgames]

Glad I could help!

[@felixg2062]

I want a tutorial for a weapon or card flip

[@threepeatgames]

you got it

[@kazioo2]

So you animate the weapon bone like its the card instead of the actual card object and toggling constraints (which is, if I recall correctly, how Epic's animator was doing it in one of their streams)? I guess it may be a quicker method, but less flexible for some cases.

[@threepeatgames]

oh, I animate the card and then just parent constrain the weapon bone to the card, that’s the easiest way.

[@kazioo2]

@@threepeatgames Thanks. The reason I asked was the weapon_r suddenly getting stretched high up in 2:27, but I'm not experienced in Unreal animation, so it confused me.

[@arammurpg192]

It's great to hear about an update. When will V2 make it to Fab? Unreal 5.5.1 just came out and it seems to port everything from the older versions without any issues.

[@threepeatgames]

V2 is already on Fab with 5.4 and 5.5 support!

[@arammurpg192]

@@threepeatgames That's wonderful, keep up the great work.

[@alessandrasmota]

when I install 5.5 I can't get the plugins folder to show the plugin to activate it :( help

[@threepeatgames]

are you installing from fab or GitHub?

[@Anim-Antx]

Hey mate! I just found this on Fab and excited to try this in my workflow. When will 5.5 update be available on fab?

[@threepeatgames]

I tried pushing the update, but there's something broken on my seller page... I've submitted a support request that has been acknowledged and elevated so hopefully will know something soon

[@DragonWave2949]

Teach us senpai!!!

[@threepeatgames]

ha, thanks! had to look up senpai and after the standard definition, it took me to a really weird part of the internet.

[@Anim-Antx]

@@threepeatgames Be careful out there, it's dangerous to go alone.