Let's Build the RPG! - 47 – Metahuman Randomized Procedural Facial Animations
In this episode we set up randomized procedural automatic facial animations for our Metahuman character via the Custom Controls available on the Metahuman Face Animation Blueprint Anim Graph. I go over how the custom controls work on the Metahuman face animation blueprint, and then I go step by step through setting up random face idle animations, face animations when taking damage, and face animations for attacking / using offensive abilities.
00:00 Intro
00:23 Today's Goals and Key Concepts
01:41 Setting up automatic randomized procedural blinking on Metahuman face
09:26 IMPORTANT: Overview of Metahuman Face Animation Blueprint
15:36 Finishing the automatic random blinking setup
18:03 Randomized procedural idle face animations
38:59 Procedural face animations when taking damage and being in a damaged state
52:00 Procedural face animations when using abilities
1:01:30 Conclusion and Preview of Next Episode
Link to the spreadsheet that contains links to all assets used in this series (up to episode 47):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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Direct References
There's surprisingly little documentation on this currently (from what I've seen) and I had to figure most of this out myself.
General References
Retargeting Animations to a MetaHuman at Runtime:
https://docs.metahuman.unrealengine.c...
Retargeting Animations to a Metahuman:
https://docs.metahuman.unrealengine.c...