How do I show skeleton bones in PIE?

Development Character & Animation
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I’m new to this animation stuff. I’m trying to rig a custom mesh with an existing skeleton, which then gets bound to Leap Motion.

I’ve gone through the process of retargeting a skeleton, but the fingers look really wonky.

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So, I think the bones in my retargetted skeleton don’t quite match the bones in my source skeleton, and I need to somehow line them up. Maybe that’s causing the problem?

As you can see from the screenshot, I also can’t tell which fingers are mangled. I’d like to toggle the “bone view” inside of PIE since that’s the only place I can view and test the Leap Motion bindings for correctness. I can turn on the wireframe view with F1; Is there a similar command for enabling bones?

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Open the console and type “showdebug bones” (without the quotes).

There is also “showdebug animation” if you want to debug an animation Blueprint, etc…

Cheers,
Michael Noland

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There is another way to see bones inside meshes. Go to game>open console> write “ShowFlag.Bones 1”

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This worked like a charm!
Thanks a lot!!!