How To Replace The Mannequin With A Metahuman - Unreal Engine 5.7 Metahuman Animation Tutorial
How to animate your metahuman. In this Unreal Engine 5 metahuman animation tutorial, MizzoFrizzo will show you how to fix the warning/error, "IK retargeter bone chain, Root, was unable to be normalized. Chain too short", as well as, "Pin Bone retarget op refers to non-existant bone to pin, ik_foot_root/ik_foot_l/ik_foot_r", by adding the IK bones to your metahuman, retargeting the mannequins animations onto your metahuman, then replacing the mannequin with your metahuman as a fully-working third-person metahuman character. He'll also show you how to fix the landing animation to make sure your third-person metahuman character works perfectly.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:29 - Project brief and downloading a metahuman
2:24 - Common retargeting errors and warnings
4:32 - How to fix "IK retargeter bone chain, Root, was unable to be normalized. Chain too short"
6:46 - How to copy and add IK bones to your metahuman
9:30 - Retarget mannequin's animations onto your metahuman
10:43 - Set up your third-person metahuman character
19:14 - Demo and outro
14:50 - Create foot IK control rig for your metahuman
17:28 - Fix weird landing animation