Is retargeting broken ?

Summary

I’ve followed a tutorial for retargeting wildlife to the Fortnite wolf/boar skeleton mesh and it didn’t work so i thought I’m doing something wrong.
I contacted the author of the tutorial and he tested numerous previous rigs he had done and nothing is now working. I dont have the full knowledge of this system but he does and we both strongly believe its broken

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

World Building

Steps to Reproduce

I will post the link to the tutorial video.

Just follow that.

Expected Result

It should work like the tutorial video

Observed Result

The retargeted mesh never retargets so its like the mesh is just moving about and not making the limbs ect move

Platform(s)

pc

Link to the tutorial:

I will post a video of what it looks like when broken.

Vid of what’s happening

As you can see no limbs are moving

Im having the same exact same issue, retargeting is broken.

Please try clicking “Add Default Ops” before assigning the IK Rigs to your retargeter. In the latest version, the retargeter has been made modular and by default we don’t add any operations to it.

In light of this confusion, we may add default ops by default. But for now you must click the button to add them.

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what does this mean in regards to the tutorial ? this was the first time ive ever done it so not 100% familiar with the full system

When creating a retargeter asset. There is a button on the toolbar called “Add Default Ops”. Click that before you assign your source/target IK Rigs. Then it will transfer animation.

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ok ty i will try. Its abit confusing following a tutorial and it being outdated to epics current system but i understand stuff has to change.

@AtAshTag
One of our amazing QA members created a quick video discussing the recent changes to the retargeting systems in the UEFN updates.

Creators now need to add the correct Ops in the Retargeter for things to work.

  • Open their IK Retargeter asset
  • In the top, where you normally see Running Retarget and Asset Settings, they need to select Add Default Ops
  • Save

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. These new changes are being brought to the Documentation team, and those pages should be updated shortly.

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Thankyou to yourself and the team helping we all appreciate the epic team :slight_smile:

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Everything is working now, thank you Epic Team <3

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A fix for this has been submitted and will eventually make it’s way into UEFN. It makes the following changes:

  1. New IK Retarget assets now come with default Ops
  2. Swapping IK Rigs in a retargeter now throws a pop-up dialog asking if you want to update all the ops to use the new IK Rig.

So for common setups, you no longer have to edit the individual ops.

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FORT-928127 is ‘Closed’ as ‘Fixed’. The issue will be addressed in 5.7.