Makehuman --> FBX --> UE4

benicourt · February 13, 2015, 9:36am

Hello,
Someone has already import Makehuman model directly into UE4 (without using Blender) ? Is it possible to have a T-pose with UE4 ?
My problem is about retargeting: i think everything is correctly retargeted, but when i want to “retarget animation blueprint”, it seems that my skeleton is not a compatible skeleton…
How to verify that a skeleton is compatible with another ? if i force, my character have a big head and don’t use animations at all…
Thanks in advance,
Greg

VladimirMejia · February 15, 2015, 9:39pm

Check this new MakeHuman feature

http://www.makehuman.org/blog/new_rigging_library.html

And share the results please.

benicourt · February 16, 2015, 6:17am

Oh great, a big thank ! I’ll test it today !

benicourt · February 16, 2015, 9:57am

Yeahh!! It’s good - we only have to make a correct “T-Pose” and retargeting, but everything is functionnal. Thanks again.

VladimirMejia · February 16, 2015, 3:56pm

May you share your work flow? can you use the free animation pack with a model imported from makehuman?

benicourt · February 17, 2015, 6:18am

I d’ont know really what to share: export FBX (not binary) - import - make T-Pose manually with UE4, retarget skel, retarget anim blueprint “ThirdPersonAnimBP” and it’s ok. Yes, every animation is functionnal, but only with 4.7 (not the free animation pack for that moment - but you can export it in 4.7 from 4.6)

Barti1 · February 19, 2015, 4:13pm

I tried exporting my model from Makehuman directly to UE4.
I ended up with this. Any advice?

anonymous_user_51f6c1e5 · February 24, 2015, 12:09am

Uncheck “Binary FBX” in MakeHuman Export.

Edit:

Anyone Managed to get the Animation Starter Pack working with the new MakeHuman “Uengine” Skeletal? I tried it know several times and for me it doesn’t work (via Retargeting)

arbopa · March 10, 2015, 6:15am

Bumpity bump?

arbopa · March 10, 2015, 7:00am

Anyplace to learn how to do this from ‘make tpose manually’ and on? LOL.

I have makehuman character in, and can change the pose in editor for skeleton… but even when saved, it seems to go back to default and not save tpose.

arbopa · March 10, 2015, 7:10am

Gave it a shot, retargeted animation, it showed tpose in little box… but this is what I get…

Geodav · March 10, 2015, 5:43pm

just tried it myself,

set to T-pose
choose uengine rig/skeleton
untick the fbx binary box
import as new skeleton
re-target anims as show in Animation Retargeting (Different Skeletons) | Unreal Engine Documentation

not great but does work

main issues caused by the bone rotation of the MH rig. once you have retargeted the anims you can fix some of the issues like the collar bone and head/neck position

Cinebeast · March 11, 2015, 1:45am

I’m also interested in using Makehuman to create some models, but I have no idea how to get them into Unreal, and I’m having trouble following the posts here. Does anyone have a tutorial for this somewhere? I’m pretty blind right now.

arbopa · March 11, 2015, 1:45am

Yeah, I went back and did this… seems to not have all the twisted stuff… but I did not do the ‘differeing skeletons’, just picked animations and retargeted to the new character.

So so much more to learn.

Geodav · March 11, 2015, 4:43pm

not sure whats the plan is with the MH team, i’ve no idea why they call it the Uengine rig as it doesn’t fit the ue4 skeleton, maybe if you get in touch with them they might sort it out

@cinebeast basically what i just posted should be enough to get you going, unless you’ve never used either programs , if so let me know and i’ll do a quick run through for you

Cinebeast · March 11, 2015, 6:43pm

Thanks, @Geodav. I just picked up Makehuman a couple days ago, so I’m very inexperienced with it. I’ve managed to import some models into Blender, but when I go to import said model into Unreal it always gets a bit bungled. The skeleton is incompatible with the default animations, sometimes the textures don’t come through, etc.

I’m also interested in attaching some animations to the model in Blender using MakeWalk, but I haven’t figured that one out yet either. Any help you could offer would be totally welcome.

Geodav · March 11, 2015, 9:08pm

ok the basic MH-Blender-UE4 stuff you can check here Blender_UE4 - YouTube
i’ll do a straight MH-UE4 tomorrow and upload it

anonymous_user_1f088d82 · March 12, 2015, 3:29am

export makehuman without a skeleton > auto-rig with mixamo > download with ue4 epics skeleton > import into ue4 . pretty sure ive done it this way. i apologise for shortness of description. pain in the *** typing on my phone lol

Geodav · March 12, 2015, 5:53pm

ok video is up for anyone to have a look at UE4 MakeHuman 472 a - YouTube

arbopa · March 14, 2015, 5:57pm

So the MH unreal skeleton is not a match for the default unreal skeleton? Ugh.