Is there an Animation Re-targeting Rig like in Unity?

Remark: I hope mentioning a competing product in a question is okay here

I’m currently moving from Unity to UE4 and I’m extremely pleased so far. There’s something I’m missing is Unity’s Retargeting Rig feature that allows for automatic and manual bone mapping in order to apply a variety of stock animations to any humanoid skeleton (see Screenshot below).

Is something like this planned for UE4 or is it there and I’ve just missed it?

https://unity3d.com/profiles/unity3d/themes/unity/images/unity/animation/retargeting.jpg

there is retargeting but i have not used it

Current retargeting of animations only works if you have same bone names.

I had working toward something similar system but it’s not high priority for us yet. But we’re going to place this on proper roadmap so we can track it better.

Thanks,

–Lina,

Thanks Lina. Appreciate it.

Not sure what DCC/3D tools you’re using but I’ve written a batch retargeter script for 3dsmax which reads/retargets all BIP files onto a custom biped and exports each to separate FBX files. Unity’s retargeter only works with Mecanim (which we cannot use) so I wrote this script for retargeting large numbers of animations. If anyone’s interested I’ll upload it though if your using biped with UE4 you may already be using the same bone names across your rigs.

Does it work if your names are the same but then with less bones?

It should work. All it goes is to find the same bone, and map to new track.

Thanks,

–Lina,

Do you have this retargeting script available anywhere? I’d like to try it out for a bunch of Unity animations with different bone names.

Yeah sure. I’ve submitted the script to:

ScriptSpot Biped (.bip) Animation Batch Retargeting & FBX export | ScriptSpot (awaiting moderation as of 00:30am 4 July)

You can also download it directly from my site at http://pixeldamage.net/scripts/Pixeldamage-BatchRetargeter.mcr

Also made a video showing you how it works. Not used to making tutorial videos (sounds so dull when I hear it back lol) Pixeldamage's Batch Retargeter Script on Vimeo

If you like it please up vote me on here/ScripSpot :slight_smile:

Hopefully it’ll come in handy for you. It regularly saves me hours of work. So nice seeing the out folder fill up with fbx files without any input from me :slight_smile: