UE5.4 REALTIME cinematic clothing sim! (Marvelous Designer transfer via USD) ***SEE PINNED COMMENT**

Unreal announced at GDC 2024 that UE5.4 will support CINEMATIC quality clothing simulation, direct from Marvelous Designer. I explain what that means and how you can do it!
Want more details? Check out my article about it:
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Or watch the Unreal Live Stream from GDC that covered this process:
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[@virtualfilmer]

Update March 21 2024, 345pm Los Angeles time: Just heard from Epic, and the full workflow won’t work in ue5.4 preview 1. We have to wait til the full 5.4 release :) only four weeks to go! USD import works (it will create a static mesh and import materials and textures) but your garment def won’t then appear in the cloth asset, that part is clearly disabled.

[@ryanisanart]

Where did you get the 4/20 date? It’s a Saturday but I feel like I saw the date somewhere else. Thx for vid!

[@Johanearldirector]

Thanks for clarifying. I was worried that the feature was only available in FNE. Can’t wait for this feature

[@Mr_Dee]

Such a gamechanger in the workflow! :)

[@virtualfilmer]

I know, right? It’s crazy!

[@rosuckmedia]

Hi Toby, Great Tutorial, Greetings Robert

[@Tenchinu]

gaddam this is so good!!!! subbing just in the hopes u might release a tutorial on this when 5.4 officially launches. That weight paint transfer ALONE is gold

[@virtualfilmer]

Another note: I say in the video that auto skinning node (transfer skin weights) is “new” but of course it’s not. I meant to say that it’s going to be improved in 5.4 from what it is in 5.3.

[@LFA_GM]

Looks like this new workflow doesn't require mesh retopology, is that correct? I look forward to test it. This is an incredible feature.

[@virtualfilmer]

That’s correct yes :)

[@productionlabs]

cloth accet is not visible in physics in unreal engine .. pls tell what I can do

[@ryanisanart]

any chance you've figured out the kinematic collider workflow yet? can't get anything out of it myself, altho the new USDimport stuff is great

[@virtualfilmer]

Yes! It’s explained in detail on the main docs page but you have to scroll wayyyy down :) dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/Mpze/unreal-engine-panel-cloth-editor-walkthrough-updates-5-4

[@ryanisanart]

@@virtualfilmer i followed that and created a graph i think is right but the terminal node keeps throwing errors

[@virtualfilmer]

@ryanisanart I’m diving deep into it on the weekend. Yes I have errors too, I am going to start again and try to figure out what is going on.

[@rcafilmproductions1640]

@@virtualfilmer hey I was wondering if you ended up figuring this out? The handful of tutorials out there right now are still using the capsules for collision.

[@virtualfilmer]

Check out the comments on the official documents - unfortunately it all doesnt work yet, but Epic knows (Tim has been reading the comments and has gone quiet so I assume they are trying to fix it)

[@joonagi5484]

Is MetaHuman currently 5.3 a facial live link on iclone?

[@virtualfilmer]

With 5.3, yes you can use Unreal LiveLink to connect iClone faces to metahumans. www.reallusion.com/iclone/live-link/unreal-engine/default.html

[@StyleMarshall]

Awesome Toby 👍

[@virtualfilmer]

Thanks so much bass!

[@odilkhanyakubov]

Is this mean I can simulate cloth inside UE without needed MD or Clo3D?

[@virtualfilmer]

Yep

[@lordmo3416]

I'm assuming collision will work if the model morphs like ml deformed meshez

[@virtualfilmer]

Oh interesting! Yes I would assume so. I guess it’s the “kinematic collider” that needs to morph as well though, right? I haven’t been able to get ML CLOTH / ML DEFORMER to work so far, have you? The steps involved are so vague lol

[@lordmo3416]

@@virtualfilmer Yea, there aren't much resources on how to get it done. The good news is, I understand what is to be done. The bad news is it's a very tedious process .

[@virtualfilmer]

Yes it looks incredibly tedious. Also I don’t have a spare computer to sit and grind through the training - which takes a v long time! :)

[@lordmo3416]

@@virtualfilmer tell me about it >D. thanks for all the digging into this MetaHuman stuff! Those ML tools sound like a beast to wrangle. Speaking of wrangling beasts, what's your new go-to workflow for getting those sweet iClone mocap expressions onto a MetaHuman?

[@virtualfilmer]

I have no idea at this moment lol. I’m trying to add all my workflows as guides to my website (virtualfilmer.com) for that reason - I have so many bits of software and so many workflows in my head that when I move away from them I instantly forget haha

[@SuperMontana2008]

this will work with any character? Epic is on fire at the moment

[@virtualfilmer]

Yes I think it works with any character. It’s very exciting :)

[@user-nc7iv1on6d]

Invalid input Lod0 ，why

[@virtualfilmer]

The “USDImport” node is not currently working. It requires a new version of Marvelous Deisgner that is not yet released. It will be released on April 20.

[@virtualfilmer]

If you delete the usd import node, you can currently use the “staticmeshimport” node, but it is very limited and buggy - it only supports the same things that UE5.3 supports.

[@user-nc7iv1on6d]

@@virtualfilmerThank you very much.

[@Davidxookas]

Let us know if it works for you, the same thing happens to me, I'll follow you if you make a complete tutorial, please

[@virtualfilmer]

I just heard from the bosses at Epic that it definitely won’t work until the full release. We only have four weeks to wait :)

[@Davidxookas]

muchas gracias te seguire necesito aprender de unreal @@virtualfilmer

[@faxin-studio]

when realease

[@virtualfilmer]

April 20

[@user-lg3jh8sj6u]

I understand how sora works and unreal engine works some what so why can’t both work with each other