Animation and Rigging Tools: FAQ, Known Issues and Feature Roadmap

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Thanks for the links. So jiggle/leaf joints and ncloth can be used to bake into the animation and apex cloth for real time animations in the engine? Those links help a bit thanks but do you know of any more in depth tutorials? also how is the best way to rig armour? things like shoulder pads and belts etc? I’m going to add belts and maybe a bags with shoulder pads and stuff to the character.

Hey there!

So on Paragon, we extensively add leaf and chain modules to all the characters for secondary. For armor, I would add leaf modules, and use the anim dynamics node in UE4 to simulate them.
For cloth, we use Apex. To make Apex performant, we use physical meshes (sim meshes that are lower res) to simulate, and the graphical mesh (the original mesh) matches what the physical mesh is doing.

Cloth tutorial I quickly smashed together:

Our stream on anim dynamics:

https://.com/watch?v=5h5CvZEBBWo