Mesh completely distorted when assigning animation

[Harry_Florencio]

@cyaoeu;659526

What do you mean by “works”? It won’t crash the engine or anything but if rotations are different between the rigs then the animation will look bad because rotations are not really retargeted. The video you linked showed rigs with very similar rotations. However if you’ve got something different it won’t look as good. You can try to match the poses by changing the base pose but if you don’t match them completely you’ll end up with different looking animations.

An easy example is a character with a T-pose and another one with an A-pose. Even if they have the exact same bone names and hierarchy if you try to retarget animations from one to the other without changing the base pose you’ll end up with something that looks… not great. I think this is what Neutronux was talking about.

Basically every character is supposed to be imported in T-Pose or A-Pose (humanoids especially). Either of them will likely result in usable animations. And you can very easily change the Bind Pose inside Persona. So… it works. Or it was supposed to work, but I don’t know what’s the case with me and Taces.