Modular armor equip system - any tips how to?

[wielkiczarnyafgan]

Hi!
I’ve been working on modular armor equip system ( where every armour element is a separate skeletal mesh )
Got some trouble trying to force my armour part ( robe - skeletal mesh ) to follow the animation of my character. Any tips how ?

Got it working by the following method:

http://s5.ifotos.pl/img/118964979_sprqhsn.jpg

but…

there are some weird effects going on, meshes overlay each other in a weird manner:

The way I am doing it right now is that I rig the character mesh with mixamo, then I import the character mesh without the cloth into UE4 ( I delete it first inside 3ds max ). The next step I do is: I reimport the full setup to 3ds max ( full setup is: character mesh + cloth ) and then I delete the character mesh and leave the only cloth together with the skeleton. Finally I import the cloth + skeleton inside the UE4 and choose to use the existing character’s skeleton in the import options.

I’ve been struggling with this for almost a week now, can someone help ?
Thanks in advance

[Shinjinhu]

if your character use same skeletal that your armor what you need is set master pose

i hope that pictures help you.

[wielkiczarnyafgan]

Thanks, the info on the pictures is very limited, but i’ll do the investigation in that direction

[wielkiczarnyafgan]

Hi!
I did some investigations and I am only partially satissfied:

Here are my observations:

I can attach the armour part using simpler method by dragging the armor part skeletal mesh inside the thirdpersoncharacter blueprint ( and then by assigning the same animation as for character ) but the armor stays attached to player instantly, but in this case animates properly.

In second case - when I want to attach the armor to the skeleton slot and activate it by clicking R button. Then I try to script “set master pose” so I need to add reference to my armor mesh thirdpersoncharacter BP ], and then I literally cannot ( I can only add reference when the armor mesh is already dragged to the components list in the left top corner )…

[wielkiczarnyafgan]

With this method the animation works fine

, but in case when I try to attach te armor to skeleton slot - the cloth animation looks to be not synhced with the body animation.

[wielkiczarnyafgan]

When I use the script like this:

I end with this:

[Shinjinhu]

what i did on my project was created in my character blueprint a blank skeletal mesh, so i create a blueprint to attach the item on the mesh that i set blank.

[Shinjinhu]

how can you see in yellow i set the blank skeletal mesh and set master pose

that was the item that i created to attach to my character. what i do was create a variable skeletal mesh and set, you can see in green arrow

and sorry for my bad english

[wielkiczarnyafgan]

No hay problema por el idioma! Ahora todo funciona como quiero! Muchas gracias por la ayuda!!!

Here’s how it now looks like:

And here’s the full construct:

[AndrewSchmitt]

Thank you both so much for sharing! I had no idea where to start but your dialogue taught me what to do. I now successfully put pants on my ugly clay player