UE5 - IK Retargeter not properly positioning IK bones

[arkanos]

Hey everyone!

I have been struggling several days now trying to retarget the IK bones from a custom animation pack that uses the UE4 skeleton.

I am trying to retarget it to a custom character with the proper UE skeleton hierarchy + additional bones.

I have created both IK Rigs with goals and bone chains (taking the UE4 IK rig from Thirdperson template). So far so good. I can retarget all animations I want with IK Retargeter and the rest of bones work great.

However, IK bones are not correctly placed in the right location.

I’m using Globally Scaled option in the root bone and also have tried different settings in the IK bones (Gobally Scaled, Absolute) with no avail.

Did this happen to anyone? I’ve searched unreal forums without luck, most close thing I found with answers was related to virtual bones instead.

And this post whithout, unfortunately.

Problems with IK bones with UE4 -> UE5 retargeters provided in 3rd person example

I am converting my UE4 animations to the new UE5 skeleton (manny and quinn) using the UE4 UE5 IK retargeter provided with the default 3rd person empty project. Animations are converted to the new skeleton and look properly, however when showing the ik bones (ik_foot_root, ik_foot_l … , ik_hand etc) these are not at their correct position. I could attach an example animation or pose, but first I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this issue and how to notify the developers.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Leaving some more pictures:

[BlackN_pdg]

Facing the same issues. I just migrated my project from 4.27 to 5.1 and after a full week of trial and error, testing different options and watching pretty much all the video online, I never got my IK bones / Virtual Bones to work either … with pretty much the same unfortunate results…