Animation retargetting between shooter game and first person template

[Selene3T]

Hello,

I am using UE 4.15 and trying to retarget 1st person animations from shooter game to the 1st person template however I have not been successful in getting the retargeting to work correctly.

1. Migrated the 1st person mesh and skeleton from the 1st person template (SK_Mannequin_Arms) to the shooter game.
2. Setup the humanoid rig for both (the shooter game 1st person skeleton already comes with humanoid rig setup and bone mapping). SK_Mannequin_Arms has the default epic skeleton bone mapping.
3. Modified the SK_Mannequin_Arms skeleton (1st person template) to have “Skeleton” for animation retargeting options for all bones except the following which are setup as “animation”; (Root, Pelvis, ik_foot_root (including left and right), ik_hand_root (hand_gun, left and right). The shooter game template by default has “animation” for retargeting options.
4. Retargeted the “FPP_LauncherAIM” animation. The result looks like below; I tried retargeting with the “animation starter pack” skeleton as well, you can see the spine bones are twisted in the attached images;

Wondering if anyone has retargeted the shooter game animations successfully?

[Superwig (Superwig2)]

Any update on this? Would like to get this working

[anonymous_user_60d28c1b]

This seem to happend because the Shooter Game skeleton is built a little different from the normal mannequin one. The first one has 2 spine bones while the mannequin one has 3. To fix this go to the retarget manager for the Shooter Game skeleton and set “spine_03” to “b_spine1”.

I also have the guy in a T-pose to match my retarget skeleton, though it should still work with a A-pose.
Seems to look fine to my eyes atleast.