UE4 for filmmaking purpose - need some clarification

[Novarek]

@cyaoeu;738589

I think the python scripting is for more import/export type stuff. But the control rig feature will eventually handle any rig (with other bone orientations) from what I know, however it’s not really clear when that will come.

It was suposed to be updated for the 4.17, but delayed to the 4.18 if I remember.

@cyaoeu;738589

Meanwhile you can experiment with animating in Blender (or some other software) and adding IK functionality to the anim blueprint if needed. It’s not really realtime animation in the engine but by reimporting animations you should be able to iterate pretty quickly anyway.

If I can keep this solution as my last resort…
I have a bad tendency to need to modify and experiment new thing right in the middle of my animation sequence workflow, it could be a fast edit of the scene, new camera angle, etc… and so the need to fast edit the animation as well in order to fit the change of the scene / camera, the kind of thing which was making SFM so great for animation and filmmaking and that I hope to find again in the future on the UE4

@cyaoeu;738589

There’s also the Allright Rig although I haven’t tested that myself.

From what I saw, Allright Rig still need to rely on the default EPIC skeleton to work properly (and so to have at least a custom model where the bone retargeting work properly at the first place), which brings a big question for me, or a continue to port and adapt my asset from SFM to the UE4 (making them PBR) without touching their rig and waiting the update of the control rig, or I also re-rig to the default Epic skeleton my asset, in both case I have a lot of porting / retexturing to do anyway.