Community Tutorial: L4 - How do you retarget live mocap animation data in Unreal Engine? Converting Animation Files

Are you using Unreal Engine 5 and looking to level up your animations using live and pre-recorded mocap data? With this comprehensive tutorial, I take you through the process in 4 lessons that will take you from zero to hero and be able to convert motion capture data from the source character to any new character with Unreals powerful retargeting tools.

Plus, learn how to use these same tools for converting existing animations bought from the marketplace or websites and get them ready for your character. We’ll also teach you how to set up and run a perception neuron mocap system using Axis Studio and Live Link, so you can create amazing animations like a pro! Don’t miss out on becoming an animation whizz.

In Lesson 4 you learn how to convert existing mocap data so we can animate a new character with data made for a different skeleton. We introduce the Level Sequencer and explain how to setup your character so that it can have the mocap data applied to it on the timeline.

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/49oE/l4-how-do-you-retarget-live-mocap-animation-data-in-unreal-engine-converting-animation-files