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

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@Aaron.Carlisle;685336

It sounds like you just need to position your joint movers in the correct position. You’re not changing the Z up functionality, you’re just wanting to face in a different direction. You could just take the root joint mover in the joint position setup and rotate it in the correct position? Would that work?

Another option, if that doesn’t work, is to use a post script at build time and in the post script, simply rotate the root control in the 90 degrees or 180 degrees as you please. You’d have rotation values, but it might not be the worst option depending on what you’re doing. Is this an Unreal project or are you working outside of Unreal for this?

Hey Aaron, thanks for your reply.

We are indeed working in an Unreal project.

I tried the first approach, but it did not really work, as the root joint mover is locked on the script. I also tried to rotate 90 degrees the root joint itself, once it has been created in the rig file. This also didnt work correctly (broke the mesh when exported)

I was writing a post script to add a layer to the root, rotate the character 90 degrees, export, and then remove the layer, but then we found the “Force Front X Axis” button, that, at least for now, works for us.
We are not happy that it adds values on rotation though, is there a way to remove the 90 and keep it to 0?

We were wondering if you guys are aware of the fact that in animation editor window, all the characters are facing +Y by default whereas the Unreal editor’s preference is +X. In addition to this, A.R.T builds the characters facing -Y. Could you somehow add the ability to select which axis the character should be constructed? We think that there are more people out there that will need this (as mentioned by )

Thanks