Connecting Maya to Unreal with Live Link | GDC 2018 | Unreal Engine

[@efwfew]

How do you export your character from maya to unreal ? what do you select ? only the geometry? what fbx settings do you use ? I either get a ton of error when importing, or no error but it's not the correct geo :/

[@ЛениградРоссия]

I have the same question, have you found a solution? can you advise me? (thank you). We tried in many ways, but here, as I understand it, we need a plugin, the likeness was told in the video.

[@chelseab9041]

@@ЛениградРоссия did you find a fix? I have the same question xD

[@gutspraygore]

Just did a whole bunch of testing with this and I gotta say. My mind is blown. I'm literally animating in Maya and I'm using the engine as an extra viewport. A fully rendered REAL TIME viewport (go immersive mode)! I've been working in film vfx for 20 years and this has been a fantasy of mine for a LONG time. Guys, this is very exciting stuff. Thanks.

[@jorgeyepezlazo8773]

which computer do you have?

[@gutspraygore]

@@jorgeyepezlazo8773 Core I7 7700k 32G RAM Geforce 1080TI

[@BrosAnimation]

how to download plugin for maya

[@parkercoleman8078]

I love you Unreal Engine, But for the love of god next time you say "The build info is in the documentation" PLEASE just explain how to install it, I just spent 3 hours trying to get this damn thing to work on Maya 2019 and wasted my night, finally got it installed but jesus that was a pain. DO NOT follow the link in the documentation, download from the unreal app store and then the plugin will be in your Engine folder of your unreal folder. I know he said this in the video but I had not yet downloaded the plugin from the store, did not see it there and went on a tirade to find in the online documentation where I got abunch of codes that I am absolutely clueless on how to use

[@willhenniker1631]

Fancy throwing me a rope because i cannot install this to save my life

[@IamVRan]

Oh man, this is a nightmare! I can't F%$# install the Maya plug-in, I can't even find the stupid mll and py files, WTF???

[@bombum1487]

The doc show all, just you are stupid!

[@argmax11]

Any more documentation on porting it to 3dsMax? The docs page is awful and almost has no information

[@virtual_intel]

Insanely useful well once I upgrade my UE4 skills as well as PC hardware software powers.

[@SK-hj1xh]

when i click camera sync my camera in maya is rotated relative to the camera in ue engine by 90 degrees in x-axis/ How to fix this?

[@vishaldeel2545]

Me to

[@shushuqian5550]

me tooooooooo

[@watchmeanimateYT]

Very impressive tech demo!

[@noahstudio3717]

Message Bus Source list is completely empty? Please help....

[@한부용-q5h]

Can i setting differnt pc motionbuilder network. Example motionbuilder network to ue4 different pc

[@kilver4861]

Hi I see in your video you have a fully rigged character from paragon. i am currently working on a animation of my own and i would like to use a rig from paragon or the market from unreal but I just cant figure out how to transport the rig from unreal to maya. Maybe its impossible but i read that people worked on the animation so i was just wondering if anyone can help me with this. Thanks in advance

[@Stubbs2501]

does it work with Maya LT?

[@migi847]

Can we use Live link to render out scenes from a cartoon series we are making ? for example, we have a shot with two characters, in a forest, so the forest is created in Unreal engine, we have the characters imported into Unreal engine and blueprint actors created from them, now the problem is , if the two characters are dancing in the animation we have done in maya, and the maya camera just goes around them 360, how do we bring this into unreal and set them up in the forest we created, if we drag the characters in to the viewport the actual world space will it match, then how does the camera match ? can live link solved these problems ?

[@carlhdz8201]

What is the purpose of this? i followed all the steps, link between both apps.. but how to transfer the character from maya to unreal?

[@terrablader]

Will a 3dsMax version be possible?

[@freekfps]

Using UE 4.24 Live Link Message Bus Source is empty. I've disable Firewall and Antivirus and still not visible.

[@jesperthrone]

Hello sir i wanna ask how to get maya live link 2018.mll file? Thank you

[@PrabhuRPR]

Same here, I couldn't find a place where I could get the files for 2018. Official UE4 Github doesn't have mll files either

[@TheFalconking]

Everything works, but I can only move the camera. the character is not moving at all. I followed every step carefully. what can be wrong ?

[@MrSiasman]

Does live link work on top of an FBX export into Unreal?

[@CarloMercadoJudgementProject]

hello I have a question, can we synchronize live link with squencer, so the timeline on motion builder o maya can control de timeline on squencer.

[@drvic5498]

maya 2018.3 try load MayaLiveLink2018.mll and got msg error // Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/scripts/others/pluginWin.mel line 909: The specified procedure could not be found. (MayaLiveLinkPlugin2018) // Never work!! any solution??

[@hiepvo7609]

I got the same problem. Did you resolve it ?

[@jakedamus111]

Would you recommend this over Alembic imports? Or can you use both techniques together?

[@lofi_foryou]

when iam importing the plugin it shows the error "Cannot find procedure "MayaLiveLinkRefreshConnectionUI". not even finding solution for this online.

[@mikaelborhzka7627]

When I export a paragon character with cloth physics to maya I can see the bones but not the mesh. If I delete cloth physics in UE it works but I want to keep them. Anyone has a clue?

[@unknown-hj4gh]

Everything work fine for me make sure your Joint is attached together & also i didnt really need the remap name. Thank you for this tool i will use it with harmony!

[@metkic94]

Can you rig and animate model in unreal or do you have to do it in 3D program before import ?

[@bigdamnhero2297]

Bloody hell EPIC, the folder is missing .mll file and you don't suppose you guys should inform that to us.

[@shinobirigger6487]

This demo is cool and all, but it avoids going over linking blendshapes/morph targets. That is the real challenge

[@tengerzander7921]

wow. I wonder what kind of pc I need for doing this at the same time. it sure look amazing

[@MGSBigBoss77]

Anything with 8 to 16 gigs of RAM processing power if you want the normal PC/Mac that can handle these conventional operations. While anything extremely powerful with up to 120 or more dual layered overclocked motherboards that have been custom built to handle vast amounts of processing capabilities, if you wanted to truly show off. And set your system up with "render farms" companies, to help fully render your work outside your own PC/Mac setups etc. Ask around or those on the Unreal Engine channel themselves, i'm sure they have way better advice than myself? Wish you all the best man. Thumbs up!

[@AkashAkash-sp7kc]

64gb ram with i9 10th gen and rtx 3090 and 2tb ssd

[@ZenStudioOficial]

A need this for 3dsmax 😢

[@devilyitan]

How do you stream Blendshapes?

[@yungjiehuang]

I wonder this too

[@fr3dreis]

Hi, I was able to make the unreal Maya Link successfully. However, it updates in real time only the bones. Is the plugin capable of updating the blendshapes in real time? It would be interesting for the facial mocap.

[@zhoudongyu0225]

I have the same problem.Did you solve it?

[@zekikartal5436]

Fred Reis hi did you solve the issue? I have the same problem and its so annoying

[@fr3dreis]

Without blendshapes yet. I'm waiting for motionbuilder live link too.

[@zekikartal5436]

Fred Reis Oh by the way I did manage to get something work as I want it to in UE4. Its kind of a workaround but, I can control and tweak blendshapes realtime in live link like joint data. I'll explain it via mail if you'd like :)

[@fr3dreis]

Nice Zeki. Can you share your test/idea? [e-mail] Tks!

[@trovr]

what about blender? on unreal plans?

[@Cyn_Kac]

I'm working with Maya 2019 and unreal 4.23.1 and so far everything is fine till I get to the bus source part and nothing is popping up in the list. Has anyone had this problem too and if so did you solve it and if so again how would I go about solving it?

[@kraangwav]

Having the same issue

[@ProphetGamesrus]

Why you forgotten 3d studio max, lots of users use it.

[@mattb9774]

Maya is a lot easier to work with with then max, assuming it either cannot be done or maya is easier so they are doing it first before doing max.

[@AerysBat]

Epic uses Maya for their internal game development pipeline, so that's what they develop their tools for first.

[@hamidthephysicist6376]

Nah you are the only here xD hhhhh ... But with Houdini would be better suggestion

[@drvic5498]

Maya best software for animation

[@gtrzdaddy]

Max is so 20th century. Sucks to program for it, and such a nightmare for tech artists. Please switch over to Maya.

[@ultimasmack]

Howd You Get The BlendShapes to work? Mine doesn't sync up with unreal.

[@hongjinguo1475]

I have the same problem.

[@mohamedtechno9587]

can i run maya & unrealengine on 6gb ram pentuim g2020

[@rahkriga]

The Unreal Documentation says the MEL command is "MayaLiveLinkU" and NOT "MayaLiveLinkUI" like you have shown us in this video. I could only get it working once I watched your video. Thank you! Maybe they could correct their documentation for others... docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Builds/4_19#new:livelinkpluginimprovements

[@EVHlivesforever]

Anybody come across a version with Maya 2019 support?

[@richstubbsanimation]

answers.unrealengine.com/questions/889157/livelink-plugin-for-maya-2019.html For anyone else struggling to find 2019 support!

[@GregorMima]

Maya. Maybe 3DSMAX. And. How about Cinema4D? Any comment?

[@metkic94]

3D max best for programing models , Maya - very good and easy with riging and animating objects + works well with any other autodesk program.

[@OrlandoPachacama]

Great... thank you...

[@ronydey2696]

Great

[@380886011]

cool

[@tennicktenstyl]

I really hope someone gives us a Blender live link plugin. I prefer Blender so much

[@AerysBat]

Blender requires plugins be open sourced and GPL licensed. It's not clear the Epic devs would want to release code with a license like that.

[@johnnyxue3097]

This is the scene from STARWARS JEDI FALLEN ORDER.

[@sevenfreem928]

so no need render time anymore.. actually this is what conventional software mus beware, like max, maya, blender,c4d. we are in a new world

[@_Thri]

This is too op

[@MGSBigBoss77]

With all this talk of lacking 3Ds Max, Autodesk or those asking for a Blender plugin. How's about asking for any kind of smoother connection between Unreal Engine 4 and Adobe After Effects? Or have people forgotten some of us out there use UE4 for their interests in films not just gaming. Folks have discuss this for several years now fully aware of the problematic difficulty they have with compatibility with one another? answers.unrealengine.com/questions/90986/adobe-after-effects-to-ue4-workflow.html forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/115386-using-after-effects-sfx-in-unreal-engine

[@petertremblay3725]

So again 3ds max is left behind i guess?

[@tennicktenstyl]

Hey, you are paying hundreds of dollars for the 3ds max license, hope you won't mind being left behind anyway

[@altairfoo1920]

Always like that... even Autodesk left 3dsmax behind

[@techgo4431]

3ds max is obsolete

[@MGSBigBoss77]

*Same for Blender* Blender ain't getting left behind, it might require a later patch update but Unreal Engine isn't leaving Blender out at all. Can't see'em leaving it out since its previous worked so well with Blender currently and others like; 3ds Max and Autodesk. Be real patient these things will merely receive updates down the road is all.

[@MGSBigBoss77]

*3ds max is obsolete* ^Windows XP for example; is way more obsolete if you're talking about age. And you'll be quite surprised how many businesses or homes say they still use Windows XP or Vista for crying out loud. 3ds Max isn't Obsolete, and people love older 'retro' stuff more and more these days.

[@williammccoll5563]

I think Blender or Hexagon 2.5 those are the ones I use.

[@faceplantstudios5106]

Didn't realize Keegan Michael Key was working for Epic now

[@theunsettledmonk9656]

dont tell half steps. rubbush

[@proplayer682]

Messy!!!

[@blakeXYZ]

Howd You Get The BlendShapes to work? Mine doesn't sync up with unreal.

[@sinnealex4759]

does morph target support in this live link?

[@amartrivedi6390]

in unreal i am not getting maya live link in - Source - mesaage bus source , please guide