Retargeting Mixamo In-Place Animation To Epic Skeleton

[LordStuff]

@LordStuff

So the way I got it to work without much work was:

• Export the mesh with skeleton from UE

• Import it in blender

  • Reparent the Root Bone

  • Delete the empty

  • Export Mesh and Armature only with -Z Forward Y up (didn’t check if other setups work)

• Upload to Mixamo

• Animate (only have to do steps 4 - 6 for further animations)

• Download animations without skin (no mesh necessary, smaller files), both Root Motion and In Place should work

• Import the animation in UE without mesh and select the skeleton you previously exported (don’t reimport the skeleton)

Steps 1-3 only have to be done once, so once you have the skeleton reparented, you should be able to use Mixamo without having to do extra work.

It seems to me this is not working anymore. My reparented armatures can’t be uploaded to mixamo and the animations generated with the unmodified armatures have the root bone problem (hips locked).

Did anyone find a way to get this to work?

Current workaround for me is using Terribilis’ Mixamo Converter: Mixamo Converter
and reparenting them from the Mannequin.