Change Skeleton Asset of Skeletal Mesh

anonymous_user_324eddb91 · July 20, 2015, 9:34pm

I’m trying to change skeleton from of mesh and then I get broken animation. All animation is in position T. How to do it correctly?

P.S: I added root bone to Adam from Mixamo and I want replace old skeleton, which does not have this bone.

Thanks.

anonymous_user_33800a51 · July 20, 2015, 10:31pm

Hi Elias,

I’ve assigned someone to look into this issue for you, and they’ll post here if they require any additional information. Thanks!

anonymous_user_bcdd396d · July 22, 2015, 8:15pm

Hi Elias,

If you are trying to use UE4 Skeleton and Animations with Mixamo character Adam, please follow instructions on following link:
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If this does not answer your question, please add more detailed information about what you are trying to do.

Thanks!

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anonymous_user_324eddb91 · July 22, 2015, 9:03pm

No, that’s not what I do. I downloaded Adam fbx from https://www.mixamo.com/store/. Import it to UE4. I do retarget for both. And I do Assign skeleton. illustration below.

anonymous_user_bcdd396d · July 23, 2015, 9:00pm

What are two skeleton names you are trying to retarget?

Old Adam Skeleton without root bone = “Adam_1_Skeleton”
New Adam Skeleton WITH root bone (added ) = “?”

anonymous_user_324eddb91 · July 24, 2015, 1:09am

“Adam_1_Skeleton” (from fbx) and “Adam_Skeleton” (from mixamo packs)

Here, I did not add a new bone. I did it for example. So you can easily repeat bug.

anonymous_user_bcdd396d · July 29, 2015, 8:37pm

Hi Elias,

You can retarget two different Mixamo skeletons following link I sent before. However there are some steps that might be confusing that I will try to make clear here.

In my example I retargeted Mixamo Adam to Mixamo Alpha skeletons. To do this you have to first retarget bones to a common humanoid rig as shown:

Adam to Humanoid rig:

Alpha to Humanoid rig:

Now select animation you want other skeleton to perform. In this case I want Alpha Skeletal mesh to perform Adam Jump animation:

Now choose Skeletal mesh you want to copy this animation to:

new animation of Adam Jumping will be copied to Alpha’s animation folder. Now Alpha is performing Adam’s Jump:

anonymous_user_324eddb91 · July 30, 2015, 7:36am

Thank you of course, but it was not a problem. I can retarget animation. Actually this is what I have done for my task. problem is that reassign skeleton is not working.

Again:

retarget animation - works
reassign skeleton - has bug

Maybe you want to say that this is not a bug but a feature.

anonymous_user_bcdd396d · July 31, 2015, 2:11pm

Hi Elias,

Sorry I misunderstood. To assign one skeleton (with no animations, for example) to another skeleton (with animations):

Right click on skeleton with no animations (or make a duplicate and continue)
Choose Assign Skeleton (like you did above)
Select new skeleton (with animations)
You will prompted to save new skeleton -save it
Now click on old skeleton (or duplicate)
Click on animation tab of old/duplicate skeleton and now all animations from skeleton you assigned are available for this skeletal mesh.

I tested these with Mannequin Skeletal (Silver Guty) mesh assinging man skeleton to access Animation Starter Pack with Silver guy.

Result: New Silver guy with assigned skeleton performs animations but arms and legs look pulled out of socket.

Resolution: Recursively Set Translation Retargeting Skeleton under advanced settings as shown:

anonymous_user_324eddb91 · August 1, 2015, 7:25am

Many thanks! I will try.