Control Rig for a Camera. This doable?

[ThinVeil]

I want to create a 3 control camera rig using control rig for the cine camera. I have tried this in both 4.27 and 5.03. Any thoughts on how to get this to work?

I have created my rig.

I made a blue print with a cine camera and applied the control rig to it.
I even tried mapping the control like it says to do in the document.

But I the controls won’t move the camera.

[ThinVeil]

So I got this working some what.

I can pop the control rig into the sequencer and match the transforms and attach a camera to it. Works great like that.

For some reason when I combine all this into a Blue print the controls don’t move the camera. I did manage to get this to work in 4.27 but not 5 for some reason.

If anyone knows why feel free to chime in please

[behram_patel]

I’m not sure the tools have evolved that far.
Have a look at this recent video.
Episode 6 rigging

You could create the above rig that affects a single bone. Add that control rig to a BP and attach a cine cam to the bone socket of the Control rig.

Your suggestion of adding the CR to the sequencer and then parenting a cam is also a good one but that’s the kind of fragmented workflow we’re both trying to avoid adopting.

CR is still evolving so hopefully the BP & timeline integration will get better citizenship over time.

Cheers,
b

[ThinVeil]

Oh wow, I forgot I asked this question, so rarely someone responds to me. I did get this to work in UE5.0; I haven’t used it since, so it might be buggy now.

However, for anyone that stumbles upon this thread I will post everything you will need to make it.

For the BP_Camera

Skeletal Mesh is just a cube imported as a skeletal mesh

The Control Rig

Just put the Camera Blue Print in the sequencer and animate the controls

This should get anyone started now.

[behram_patel]

Thanks a bunch.
Yes, the UE forums have always been lonely.
If even a fraction of all the mega grant money went to people helping resolve problems here, the community would have been richer. Figuratively and literally.

Cheers,
b