In this armature add your first bone and call it “pelvis” (we are recreating the ue4 skeleton so name all the bones the same) (you can make new IK’s later after making the new rig, and if you know how to use the twist bones you can keep them but not necessary) Step 2: Delete all the mannequin’s IK and TWIST bones. I like to keep him for reference which I will talk about later, so I just move to another layer for now. Step 1: delete, hide, or move the mannequin mesh to another layer. So what I will do now is teach you the super easy trick to recreating an easy to use blender version of this skeleton that can be retargeted perfectly when you re-import it into unreal.

Export the ue4 mannequin as an FBX from your 3rd person (or animation starter kit) I will also show you how to rig a character to the skeleton, even if it is in a different pose, or has different proportions.įirst things first. So many people, like me, just want to use the actual skeleton, instead of trying to retarget everything. Why? Well if you have used retargeting before, you may find that even if you match the bones pretty close and retarget to the humanoid rig, the animations wont always be perfect after retarget, and sometimes you get horrible results especially if your character is in the wrong pose or has different proportions. In this tutorial I will show you how to create an exact replica of unreal’s ue4 mannequin for use in blender, to rig your own characters to. I am Also assuming you know how to retarget skeletons in unreal so they can share animations.) (this is an advanced tutorial, I am assuming at this point you know how to use blender, and are familiar with the scaling issues and how to fix them for ue4 so you dont have messed up physics assets or giant/tiny sockets for weapons. I dont know how and dont care to learn ATM. If someone wants to make a youtube version of this go for it.

I cant believe I didn’t think of this earlier. I tried the idea and it worked perfectly.

Eventually though, the answer just appeared in my head. Trying to use the UE4 mannequin in blender made me smash several keyboards with my head, and I know I’m not the only one.

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