3ds Max character rigging import

Development Character & Animation
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Hi folks,

Are we required to use CAT in 3ds to create and import our rigs, or can we just go ahead and create a custom bone structure and link our geo to it?

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As far as I know you can use custom rigs. Make a quick test one just to be sure. Something like a cylinder rigged to a bone. Nothing too difficult

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Yes, you can use CAT or Biped to drive a custom bone hierarchy that can later be exported.

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Does it have to be CAT or Biped? Its seems folks have been having issues with CAT and UE4 - also my custom character is not a biped.

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No, it does not. You can create any bone hierarchy you need. In the past, we would create our own custom hierarchy and constrain it to Biped or a CAT rig. That way you could use their rig tools/interface, but still have any custom bone hierarchy you’d need.

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Hmm… I’m trying to import my bones and UE4 is telling me that it can’t find a bone hierarchy.
Any ideas?

EDIT: Cracked it! So I just had to disable a couple of settings in the UE4 import dialogue and now its in engine!

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perhaps state what settings you had to disable for others to learn from

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I just had to disable the rigid mesh option and enable the mesh bones option.

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thanks bud… sometimes its handy to know what someone did to make something work. Helps everyone out instead of having to guess.

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So are you using Biped with a Mesh on it rigged etc and animations baked and then export…?
ive been attempting this targeting tutorial using CAT and biped and then after its done its targeting etc it exports then crashes…
For the love of god will UE4 ever give a working 3dsmax RIG file that we can at least attempt to work with???..
if i export anything beside there stuff i get root issues on import…
I JUST WANTED A CROUCH ANIMATION… AND NOT ONE WITH him HOLDING a GUN (or lack of)…

Cant believe my UNI didn’t pay fees for unity and now im stuck with the Death of UE4…
and yes it went FREE cause it was DYING…
GET it together i want to give back to community IE animations and stuff…
BUT HOW if the PIPELINE tutorials DONT exist or for VERSION that are not used anymore…
everything still for PRE 4.8V

Walk before we FLY UE4… Lets try to CRAWL.

Ps sorry but im upset and looking for answer requires me to write in forums then something is wrong…
Thanks for ANYTHING the community or UE4 can offer me…
ALSO don’t mention grammar or spelling… Your not a English teacher and if you are its too late for me to be saved…

Thanks for those who have helped beyond the point of Search GOOGLE…

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Easy, big fella.