Hey everyone,
I debugged the widget and discovered a few things:
- Only actors in the Master (root) sequence are supported. If you have a hierarchy of sequences, and currently have a subsequence open (called subscenes in 4.x), the widget won’t find the MetaHumans in your subsequence.
- In 5.1 (perhaps earlier), the code was updated and the Actor list no longer shows actor names, even in the master/root sequence. However, if you select the control rig of a MetaHuman in the master/root sequence before clicking the bone selection buttons, it appears to work.
I wanted this to work with my workflow, which includes using many master sequences, each with many “shot” subsequences.
I had a previous version of the MH_CR_Picker from a 4.2x project (I think it was 4.26) and was able to fix it to work as expected. I attempted this fix with the 5.1 version of MH_CR_Picker but it did not work. Even so, my fixed version works fine with my 5.x MetaHumans.
I can’t guarantee these steps will work since I am not sure the exact version of Metahuman Creator my original 4.2x was from, but this worked for me:
- From a 4.26 (or 4.27) project, copy the Content\MetaHumans\Common\Common\Utilities into a custom folder in your current project (something like Content\MH_CR_Picker_Fixed).
- Open the MH_CR_Picker Editor Utility Widget found in this folder
- Switch to the “Graph” view (via the button in the upper-right of the screen)
- Find (Ctrl+F) all instances of “Get Current Level Sequence”
- Double-click each instance in the search result and:
- Replace the “Get Current Level Sequence” node with a “Get Focused Level Sequence” node (drag off the white pin from the node before it, type “Get Focused Level Sequence”, click it, then drag each output pin from your new node into the respecting input node of the “Get Bindings” node - you can then delete the “Get Current Sequence” node)
Save and compile, then right-click your fixed Editor Utility Widget in the content browser and run it.
Now opening a master or subsequence, clicking the “refresh” button (under “Actor” in the widget) then selecting the drop-down should show a list of MetaHumans in your sequence that have Control Rigs (it won’t show MetaHumans that don’t have Control Rigs).
This works for me in the master/root sequence and in my subsequences.
Hope this helps someone!
Cheers,
D