New Metahuman Face and Body Detached when using control rig

[Moodypercy]

Nevermind. I thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNtzbxD0CF8&t=42s was onto something, provided you uncheck “Disable Post Process Blueprint,” but it doesn’t appear the head mesh will stay with the body if it’s walking around. Maybe there’s something I’m missing here about bone parenting.

[Chroman (Darko Subotin)]

Hello,

Maybe try this solution, see if it works.

Unreal Engine - Metahuman Detached Head Fix - Layered Blend Per Bone

I add the layered blend per node at the end of the post process animation blueprint for the face. I tested if the face rig still works, or if the rig breaks somehow, so far I have not seen issues.

If in sequencer, you have a control rig track and an animation track on the face, and if the animation won’t play even if the control rig is muted, try setting the force custom mode on the animation in sequencer.

[CapChimiChangas]

@dot.tominator

boat here. Facial animation from Voice2Face and then tried applying some default motion to the body from the Metahuman demo project (which eerily matches my spoken dialogue). Head is detached from the body. As soon as I switch Animation Mode, it temporarily “snaps” into place, but that is just an illusion - as soon as you play the sequence, it’s back.

I tried manually offsetting the head animation, but that just gets nasty when the body starts to move and the head stays put.

I feel like there must be a way to “lock” the head to a bone on the body, but can’t for the life of me figure out how.

This is “The Answer” and the most important reply in this thread, thank you.

[Moodypercy]

I think EMDO currently has the best solution to this:

Metahuman Animator - Combine Face and Body Animation (UE 5.3)

[twjohnsontsai]

I made changes in the blueprint for the face. However, when I tried to set the custom mode to use the animation blueprint option for the face, it reverted back to custom mode after pressing save."

[twjohnsontsai]

I made changes in the blueprint for the face. However, when I tried to set the custom mode to use the animation blueprint option for the face, it reverted back to custom mode after pressing save."