Can't get Retarget to use customized Retarget Base Pose

Development Character & Animation
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Following this procedure on Retarget Manager:

This is my bind pose:

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This is my adjusted Retarget Base Pose (see the Hide Pose button in Retarget Manager?)

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This is how my Retarget dialog looks:

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This is how the “Pistol_Idle_Relaxed_Anim” retargets to my adjusted Retarget Base Pose:

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This is how it plays against the UE Mannequin:

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This is what I want it to retarget to (rotated the bones manually, can’t get this animation to save in this state even though it runs all day):

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What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

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I do this (set my advanced bone options like so, do some blatant skeleton adjustment, save ref pose):

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I retarget this (I see it in the preview on the right)

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I get this (wrong, but *incorrectly *wrong)

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No suggestions? Can I at least get “lol you’re an idiot” or something?

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lol ur an idit
get gud

(Flesh works with me. I’m just giving him proper feedback as requested.)