Achieving FF Agni Philosophy Hair in UE4

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It goes both ways not only just for cinematic sequences but can be used for gameplay motions as well, so if you really want to get the anims as well as they could be, you will be relying on keyframe animation for every motion clip of your animation. For instance character jumps and lands, those two animation clips already coming in from Max/Maya will not only have the body motions but also jump and land animations for the hair, which is also keyframed. Same with walk loop, run etc… This gets you to rely less on unpredictable and most of the time bad looking realtime sims on hair or even cloth (but thats another topic) and to rely more on hand animation and pre-bake motions for these parts. This process is no doubt the most time consuming and would require more experience and solid workflow, but for polished games with good hero characters and naratives/combat this would be in my opinion the best approach that would produce from a visual/art side the best looking results.

Thanks this is great!

Just to know that even if UE4 doesnt have the tools, its flexible enough that it can use tools fro Maya and achieve the same effect.

The only thing I wonder about is how does everything scale and calibrate correctly?

Cause I know transferring a model from ZBrush to Maya its way too small,

But thats just a small problem…compared to how motion capture calibrates into Maya and then how that keyframe animation calibrates into UE4?

Like If i know in the scene the guy is sitting at a table.
In mocap would i just sit him at any table?

and then how does that work in Maya cus the asset is in UE4

And then when it goes into UE4 will everything calibrate correcltly like the model wont be sitting above or inside the model of the chair, etc.