Is there a way to choose Root Bone for root motion

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I have a set of root motion animations that have a root bone that remains at the origin. I have used them successfully in Unity, by choosing a different root bone (One that moves with the character, the 2nd in the hierarchy). Is there a way to do this in Unreal, or do I need to re-export the animations, or at least the skeleton?

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Hi 3DMoss,

We do not support this currently. Root Motion has to come from the root bone. The reason for this is performance. There would be non trivial added cost to supporting a different bone in the Skeleton.

  1. I would be curious to hear what benefits you would get from such feature?
  2. If we offered an option to convert a non root bone root motion to a root bone root motion in editor, would that be a good solution?

Thanks,

-Laurent

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I think that solution would work, but I just fixed it in Max doing something similar, so it’s really no big deal. I can’t remember why the asset was made that way, it was done a while ago. Thanks!

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Glad you got it working!