Tips from the ground.....Importing Characters with Animation
This month is "challenge month" starting with the Pug Forest Challenge by Jonathan Winbush and EJ Hassenfratz • Learn Unreal Engine 5 Challenge! (Win Epic... . I also started working on Clinton Jones' challege as well • Moving Meditations 3D Community Challenge! .
My goal is to pass along to you all what I learn working on these challenges.
In this video I discuss bringing characters into Unreal Engine with one of the specified animations for Clinton's challenge. I tried the way that was specified and was successful although I probably did an extra retarget.
I then saw Clinton's example of bringing Mixamo characters into C4d a while back and decided to try it and also see if it would go into Unreal Engine. There were some challenges...Using the full C4d import was a mess and Alembic didn't work at all.
Fbx worked but there were a few glitches...in particular the animation coming in on the wrong plane as C4d uses the Y axis for vertical and UE uses the Z axis. But it did come in and is working in UE5 in a sample project.
Finally this is the tutorial for the Blender Method: • 28 | Tutorial | Importing Pure Animation i...
This is the Tutorial on bringing Mixamo in • C4D QuickTip | Add ANY 3D Character to ANY...