Is there any easy way to make animation working on mixamo skeleton?

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  1. I’ve tried every possible way like - matching the bones and retargeters, creating a new rig and stuff like this but in the end when I tried to retarget the current animation, it won’t play on my mixamo skeleton. It just will freeze the animation and that’s all. I am trying to use animation packs from the marketplace and make them work for my mixamo character.

I am not even talking about transferring the IK from the UE5 default BP to my custom… Only want to fix the animations right now

I am attaching a short video of my problem:

Thank you!

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Hey @Moonriderx123!

From what I can see there are a few issues.

  1. The Mixamo animations are meant for the UE4 skeleton and not the IK system.
  2. When retargeting your skeleton, you are using Manny, and not the UE4 skeleton.

If you want the animations to work for the IK rig, you need to either recreate the animations for the IK system or use a plugin like Mixamo Animation Retargeting 2, or retry setting your character up with the IK system and tell us what happens. Here is a non-Epic affiliated video on how to set them up:

Mixamo to UE5 : the ULTIMATE Guide

I hope the above points you in the right direction!

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Hey :slight_smile: Thank you very much for the guidance. I’ll try that asap. Just to clarify - I am trying to make animations from Unreal Marketplace to work on a mixamo skeleton, I am not using mixamo animations. :slight_smile:

Just to clarify this in case I did not express myself correctly.